From eda9f117c77c5399b6867a4ee8b4d5598004036f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Salazar <daniel.salazar@puter.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:21:24 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] fix: default timeout on user caches of 15 min (#2530)

---
 src/backend/src/helpers.js                      | 4 ++--
 src/backend/src/services/UserRedisCacheSpace.js | 8 ++++++--
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/src/helpers.js b/src/backend/src/helpers.js
index 8f1133413..5be84c80d 100644
--- a/src/backend/src/helpers.js
+++ b/src/backend/src/helpers.js
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ export async function get_user (options) {
  * @param {User} userID - the user entry to invalidate
  */
 export const invalidate_cached_user = async (user) => {
-    UserRedisCacheSpace.invalidateUser(user);
+    await UserRedisCacheSpace.invalidateUser(user);
 };
 
 /**
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ export const invalidate_cached_user = async (user) => {
  * @param {number} id - the id of the user to invalidate
  */
 export const invalidate_cached_user_by_id = async (id) => {
-    UserRedisCacheSpace.invalidateById(id);
+    await UserRedisCacheSpace.invalidateById(id);
 };
 
 export async function refresh_associations_cache () {
diff --git a/src/backend/src/services/UserRedisCacheSpace.js b/src/backend/src/services/UserRedisCacheSpace.js
index 1e6fe7763..c8866bc33 100644
--- a/src/backend/src/services/UserRedisCacheSpace.js
+++ b/src/backend/src/services/UserRedisCacheSpace.js
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ import { deleteRedisKeys } from '../clients/redis/deleteRedisKeys.js';
 
 const userKeyPrefix = 'users';
 const defaultUserIdProperties = ['username', 'uuid', 'email', 'id', 'referral_code'];
+const DEFAULT_USER_CACHE_TTL_SECONDS = 15 * 60;
 
 const safeParseJson = (value, fallback = null) => {
     if ( value === null || value === undefined ) return fallback;
@@ -51,7 +52,10 @@ const UserRedisCacheSpace = {
     },
     getByProperty: async (prop, value) => safeParseJson(await redisClient.get(userCacheKey(prop, value))),
     getById: async (id) => UserRedisCacheSpace.getByProperty('id', id),
-    setUser: async (user, { props = defaultUserIdProperties, ttlSeconds } = {}) => {
+    setUser: async (
+        user,
+        { props = defaultUserIdProperties, ttlSeconds = DEFAULT_USER_CACHE_TTL_SECONDS } = {},
+    ) => {
         if ( ! user ) return;
         const serialized = JSON.stringify(user);
         const writes = [];
@@ -72,7 +76,7 @@ const UserRedisCacheSpace = {
     invalidateById: async (id, props = defaultUserIdProperties) => {
         const user = await UserRedisCacheSpace.getById(id);
         if ( ! user ) return;
-        UserRedisCacheSpace.invalidateUser(user, props);
+        await UserRedisCacheSpace.invalidateUser(user, props);
     },
 };