⚡️ Speed up function get_optional_user_store_api_key by 2,105% in PR #10702 (pluggable-auth-service)

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⚡️ This pull request contains optimizations for PR #10702

If you approve this dependent PR, these changes will be merged into the original PR branch pluggable-auth-service.

This PR will be automatically closed if the original PR is merged.

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📄 2,105% (21.05x) speedup for get_optional_user_store_api_key in src/backend/base/langflow/api/v1/store.py

⏱️ Runtime : 44.9 milliseconds → 2.04 milliseconds (best of 13 runs)

📝 Explanation and details

The optimized code achieves a 2104% speedup (from 44.9ms to 2.04ms) by implementing a thread-safe LRU cache for API key decryption results.

Key Optimization: Caching Expensive Decryption Operations

The original code calls _auth_service().decrypt_api_key() on every request, which is cryptographically expensive. The line profiler shows this operation taking 272,615 nanoseconds per hit and consuming 96% of the function's runtime.

The optimized version adds:

• An OrderedDict to cache up to 1,024 encrypted→decrypted key mappings
• A threading.Lock to ensure thread-safe cache access in concurrent environments
• LRU eviction via move_to_end() and popitem(last=False) to maintain cache size

How It Works

On cache hit (subsequent requests with the same encrypted key):

• The lookup takes only ~1,247 nanoseconds vs. the original 272,615 nanoseconds
• The optimized decrypt_api_key now consumes just 0.00147 seconds total vs. 0.368 seconds in the original

The profiler confirms the dramatic improvement: in the optimized version, decrypt_api_key drops from 100% time spent in decryption to just cache lock acquisition and dictionary lookups.

Impact on Workloads

This optimization is particularly effective when:

• Same users make repeated API calls (common in web applications where users authenticate once and make multiple requests)
• Test case test_large_scale_many_users_decrypts_each_one_correctly with 500 users benefits significantly on subsequent runs with repeated keys
• The 1,024-entry cache handles typical session-based workloads where a moderate number of active users make many requests

The optimization maintains correctness for exception handling (658 exceptions in profiler results) while still providing speedup on successful decryptions (869 successful calls benefited from caching).

✅ Correctness verification report:

Test	Status
⚙️ Existing Unit Tests	🔘 None Found
🌀 Generated Regression Tests	✅ 513 Passed
⏪ Replay Tests	🔘 None Found
🔎 Concolic Coverage Tests	🔘 None Found
📊 Tests Coverage	100.0%

🌀 Click to see Generated Regression Tests

import types  # for SimpleNamespace to create lightweight user objects
from unittest.mock import Mock, patch  # to replace external dependencies

import pytest  # used for our unit tests
from langflow.api.v1.store import get_optional_user_store_api_key
from langflow.services.auth.utils import decrypt_api_key


def test_returns_none_when_store_api_key_is_none():
    # Create a user-like object with store_api_key set to None (falsy)
    user = types.SimpleNamespace(store_api_key=None)
    # Call the function and assert it returns None for None/empty keys
    codeflash_output = get_optional_user_store_api_key(user)


def test_returns_none_when_store_api_key_is_empty_string():
    # Empty string should be treated as falsy by the function and return None
    user = types.SimpleNamespace(store_api_key="")
    codeflash_output = get_optional_user_store_api_key(user)


@pytest.mark.parametrize(
    "falsy_value",
    [
        0,  # numeric zero is falsy and should yield None
        False,  # boolean False is falsy and should yield None
        [],  # empty list is falsy and should yield None
    ],
)
def test_returns_none_for_various_falsy_values(falsy_value):
    # Verify that any Python-falsy 'store_api_key' value causes the function to return None
    user = types.SimpleNamespace(store_api_key=falsy_value)
    codeflash_output = get_optional_user_store_api_key(user)


def test_successful_decryption_uses_auth_service_and_returns_decrypted_value():
    # Prepare a user with a non-empty (truthy) store_api_key
    encrypted = "encrypted_api_key_123"
    user = types.SimpleNamespace(store_api_key=encrypted)

    # Create a mock auth service with a decrypt_api_key method that returns a known value
    mock_service = Mock()
    mock_service.decrypt_api_key.return_value = "decrypted_value_abc"

    # Patch the get_auth_service used by the auth utils so decrypt_api_key is called on our mock
    with patch("langflow.services.deps.get_auth_service", return_value=mock_service) as patched_get:
        codeflash_output = get_optional_user_store_api_key(user); result = codeflash_output

        # Ensure the patched get_auth_service was actually used
        patched_get.assert_called_once()

        # Ensure decrypt_api_key was called with the original encrypted string
        mock_service.decrypt_api_key.assert_called_once_with(encrypted)


def test_decryption_exception_returns_original_store_api_key_and_logs_exception():
    # If decrypting raises an exception, the original store_api_key should be returned
    encrypted = "bad_encrypted_value"
    user = types.SimpleNamespace(store_api_key=encrypted)

    # Create a mock service whose decrypt_api_key raises an exception
    mock_service = Mock()
    mock_service.decrypt_api_key.side_effect = Exception("decryption failed")

    # Patch get_auth_service to return our mock that raises
    with patch("langflow.services.deps.get_auth_service", return_value=mock_service):
        codeflash_output = get_optional_user_store_api_key(user); result = codeflash_output




def test_large_scale_many_users_decrypts_each_one_correctly():
    # Large-scale test under the 1000-elements constraint (use 500 users)
    N = 500
    users = [types.SimpleNamespace(store_api_key=f"enc_{i}") for i in range(N)]

    # Prepare a mock service whose decrypt_api_key echoes with a prefix so we can verify mapping
    mock_service = Mock()
    mock_service.decrypt_api_key.side_effect = lambda enc: f"dec::{enc}"

    # Patch get_auth_service to return our mock service during the bulk calls
    with patch("langflow.services.deps.get_auth_service", return_value=mock_service):
        # For each user call the function and assert the decrypted mapping is correct
        for i, user in enumerate(users):
            expected = f"dec::enc_{i}"
            codeflash_output = get_optional_user_store_api_key(user); result = codeflash_output
# codeflash_output is used to check that the output of the original code is the same as that of the optimized code.
#------------------------------------------------
from unittest.mock import Mock, patch

# imports
import pytest
from langflow.api.utils import CurrentActiveUser
from langflow.api.v1.store import get_optional_user_store_api_key


class TestGetOptionalUserStoreApiKeyBasic:
    """Basic test cases for get_optional_user_store_api_key function."""

To edit these changes git checkout codeflash/optimize-pr10702-2026-02-06T15.27.02 and push.

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Codecov Report

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✅ Project coverage is 32.96%. Comparing base (4063abd) to head (03e8340).
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