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What & why

plb_pin_<node> only ever vetoed moves the balancer had already proposed. Nothing
ever proposed a move towards a pin, so a guest that ended up on the wrong node just
stayed there

It gets worse on a drain. get_best_target_node() returns no target when none of
the pinned nodes are available, and on a drain the pinned node is the one being
emptied. So the guest stays put on a node that is about to reboot, the evacuation
logs "No available target node" and the maintenance task never finishes

Two parts, both opt-in per cluster on top of proxlb_tags_enabled

Reconciliation. get_pin_violations() compares where guests actually run
against their pins. reconcile_proxlb_pins() moves them back, but only if
proxlb_pins_auto_migrate is set. Report-only otherwise, and auto_migrate and
dry_run still win over it. Capped per cycle like the balancer caps itself, skips
local storage unless balance_local_disks is on, leaves plb_ignore and excluded
guests alone

Draining. In _evacuate_node the pin now ranks the targets instead of vetoing
them. Other pinned node first, off-pin only if none of them can take the guest,
and reconciliation brings it back later. proxlb_pins_strict gives you the old
veto back for pins that are real constraints, licensing, passthrough, local disks.
Every other caller behaves exactly as before

The two parts depend on each other. Draining is only allowed to place a guest off-pin because reconciliation is what moves it back once a pinned node frees up again. Merge the drain fix without reconciliation and an evacuated guest stays off-pin for good, nothing else in the tree returns it. Still strictly better than today, where it sits on the node while that one reboots, and proxlb_pins_strict covers anyone who wants the hard no instead

Fixes #

No UI at all

This is backend only. No toggle for either switch, nothing showing the violations,
nothing showing which guests a drain had to put off-pin. It all runs through the
API right now

From the browser console, logged into PegaProx:

// which cluster
fetch('/api/clusters', {credentials:'same-origin'})
  .then(r => r.json()).then(c => console.log(c.map(x => [x.id, x.name])))

// read-only: what is off its pin, plus pins naming a node this cluster does not have
fetch('/api/clusters/<id>/proxlb-pins/violations', {credentials:'same-origin'})
  .then(r => r.json()).then(console.log)

// turn the return migrations on, off by default and report-only
fetch('/api/clusters/<id>', {method:'PUT', credentials:'same-origin',
  headers:{'Content-Type':'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({proxlb_pins_auto_migrate: true})})
  .then(r => r.json()).then(console.log)

// or run one right now instead of waiting for the cycle. force overrides both
// switches, dry_run still wins
fetch('/api/clusters/<id>/proxlb-pins/reconcile', {method:'POST', credentials:'same-origin',
  headers:{'Content-Type':'application/json'}, body: JSON.stringify({force:true})})
  .then(r => r.json()).then(console.log)

proxlb_pins_strict goes through the same cluster PUT. The drain side has no
switch, it runs as soon as proxlb_tags_enabled is on

Scope

  • This PR does one thing. Unrelated changes (a security fix + a feature + a
    refactor) belong in separate PRs so each can be reviewed and reverted on its own.

How it was tested

Built the branch as a container and ran it against a live six-node PVE cluster,
three sites, Ceph, around 40 guests with real plb_pin_ tags on them

  • Five guests were picked up as off their pinned node over several cycles, each
    with the right set of pinned nodes. PVE node names here are mixed case and PVE
    lower-cases tag text, so the case-insensitive match gets hit too
  • Report-only default holds. With proxlb_pins_auto_migrate unset nothing moved
  • pytest: 1450 passed, 49 of them in tests/test_proxlb_pins.py. Those cover the
    drain paths (second pinned node preferred, off-pin fallback, strict mode,
    untagged guests unchanged) and the reconcile guards

Still open before this leaves draft: the drain itself on the real cluster. Put a
node with pinned guests into maintenance through PegaProx and check the two-pin
case and the off-pin fallback

Checklist

  • There's a linked issue and the approach was discussed — or this is a small, obvious fix.

  • The test suite passes locally, and I added/updated tests for this change.

  • It's scoped to the title and doesn't touch unrelated files.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

New Features

  • Added optional automatic migration and strict enforcement for ProxLB pin assignments.
  • Added visibility into pin violations and unresolved assignments, with reconciliation support.
  • Pin-aware balancing and maintenance evacuation now prioritize assigned nodes.
  • Maintenance results identify guests placed off their assigned node.
  • Added cluster configuration options for controlling pin behavior.

Bug Fixes

  • Improved handling of unavailable, excluded, or unsuitable pinned nodes.
  • Restricted pin details and reconciliation actions to authorized scopes.

Tests

  • Added coverage for pin enforcement, reconciliation, authorization, and maintenance behavior.

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Walkthrough

The change persists two ProxLB pin settings, adds pin violation and unresolved-pin reporting, reconciles pin drift, applies strict or preferred placement behavior, reports off-pin maintenance evacuations, integrates reconciliation into balancing, and adds scoped API routes.

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ProxLB pin enforcement

Layer / File(s) Summary
Persist ProxLB pin settings
pegaprox/core/db.py, pegaprox/core/config.py, pegaprox/models/tasks.py, pegaprox/api/clusters.py
The cluster schema, configuration persistence, model state, cluster responses, config export, and update routes support proxlb_pins_auto_migrate and proxlb_pins_strict.
Detect and reconcile pin drift
pegaprox/core/manager.py, tests/test_proxlb_pins.py
Pin handling records unresolved targets, reports violations, and reconciles eligible guests with migration limits, exclusions, cooldowns, storage checks, dry-run behavior, and deferred work.
Apply pins to placement and maintenance
pegaprox/core/manager.py, pegaprox/models/tasks.py, tests/test_proxlb_pins.py
Target selection and evacuation support strict or preferred pins. Maintenance tasks report guests evacuated off-pin, and balancing invokes reconciliation.
Expose pin status and reconciliation APIs
pegaprox/api/clusters.py, tests/test_proxlb_pins.py
The API reports violations and unresolved pins, filters scoped results, restricts reconciliation to unconfined callers, supports forced reconciliation, and writes audit entries.
Validate pin behavior
tests/test_proxlb_pins.py
Tests cover detection, reconciliation, placement, maintenance, capacity previews, API authorization, and scoped filtering.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant ClusterAPI
  participant PegaProxManager
  participant Proxmox
  participant AuditLog
  Client->>ClusterAPI: POST proxlb-pins/reconcile
  ClusterAPI->>PegaProxManager: reconcile_proxlb_pins(force)
  PegaProxManager->>Proxmox: migrate eligible drifted guests
  Proxmox-->>PegaProxManager: return migration results
  ClusterAPI->>AuditLog: write balance.pin_reconcile entry
  ClusterAPI-->>Client: return reconciliation response
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Malformed configuration or reconciliation requests can unexpectedly enable migrations, while partial restores can disable pin settings and repeated drift can trigger migration every cycle. These behaviors should be corrected before merge.

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pegaprox/core/manager.py (1)

15547-15549: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Skip the reconcile guest fetch when the pin feature is off.

reconcile_proxlb_pins() is called with vms=None, so it calls get_vm_resources() at Line 2324 before it knows whether any pin exists. get_vm_resources() performs an uncached /cluster/resources walk, which the surrounding code documents as the heaviest PVE query. Every balancing cycle now pays that call for every cluster, including clusters where proxlb_tags_enabled is off and the result is always empty.

Pass the short read-cache, or return early when the feature is disabled.

♻️ Proposed fix in `reconcile_proxlb_pins`
     def reconcile_proxlb_pins(self, vms=None, force=False):
+        if not getattr(self.config, 'proxlb_tags_enabled', False):
+            return {'violations': [], 'migrated': [], 'failed': [], 'deferred': [],
+                    'auto_migrate': False}
         if vms is None:
             try:
-                vms = self.get_vm_resources()
+                vms = self.get_vm_resources(max_age=5)
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In `@pegaprox/core/manager.py` around lines 15547 - 15549, Update the
reconcile_proxlb_pins flow to avoid calling the uncached get_vm_resources()
fetch when proxlb_tags_enabled is disabled; return an empty reconciliation
result early or pass the existing short read-cache, while preserving migrated
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tests/test_proxlb_pins.py (1)

492-493: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the forwarded force value for the non-admin tenant user.

This test posts an empty body and asserts only the status code. It does not prove that the route calls reconcile_proxlb_pins(force=False). A regression that honors force for role user would still pass. Add the call assertion, and add a case where a tenant user posts {'force': True} so the expected behavior for that role is pinned.

💚 Proposed assertion
-    _api_manager(api, reconcile_proxlb_pins=outcome)
+    mgr = _api_manager(api, reconcile_proxlb_pins=outcome)
     r = api.as_user(bob).post(RECONCILE_ROUTE, json={})
     assert r.status_code == 200, r.get_data(as_text=True)
+    mgr.reconcile_proxlb_pins.assert_called_once_with(force=False)

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In `@tests/test_proxlb_pins.py` around lines 492 - 493, Update the non-admin
tenant-user test around the RECONCILE_ROUTE request to assert that
reconcile_proxlb_pins is called with force=False, then add coverage for the same
user posting force=True and verify the forwarded value remains False.

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Inline comments:
In `@pegaprox/api/clusters.py`:
- Around line 2856-2857: Before the reconciliation call reconcile_proxlb_pins(),
replace the get_user_clusters() authorization check with the unconfined-tenant
guard require_unconfined(cluster_id), matching the /balance-now authorization
behavior and preventing pool-only callers from triggering cluster-wide
reconciliation.
- Line 2827: Update check_cluster_access() so cluster-wide violations and
unresolved guest records are not exposed to callers limited to individual VMs:
require unconfined cluster access or filter every per-VM result through
user_can_access_vm() before serialization, including the
mgr.get_pin_violations() output.
- Around line 1245-1246: Validate proxlb_pins_auto_migrate and
proxlb_pins_strict with type(value) is bool in both PUT and PATCH handlers
before setattr; reject non-boolean values rather than coercing with bool(...),
while preserving the existing allowlist and assignment flow for valid booleans.

In `@pegaprox/core/db.py`:
- Around line 3161-3162: Update the restore path around the ProxLB flag handling
in save_cluster so omitted proxlb_tags_enabled, proxlb_pins_auto_migrate, and
proxlb_pins_strict values fall back to the existing cluster settings, while
explicit False values remain authoritative.

In `@pegaprox/core/manager.py`:
- Around line 2405-2407: Update the migration loop around migrated_now and
migrate_vm so max_moves limits migration attempts, not successful migrations:
perform storage and eligibility checks before the cap gate, increment the
attempt counter whenever migrate_vm is invoked regardless of its return value,
and only append eligible over-limit guests to result['deferred']. Apply the same
behavior to the corresponding flow around the later migration block.
- Around line 2400-2404: Update the pin-reconciliation loop to check
self._vm_migration_cooldown for each VM before scheduling it back to its pin,
using the same 900-second expiration behavior as find_migration_candidate. Skip
recently migrated guests while preserving the existing excluded handling and
normal reconciliation for expired or absent cooldown entries.

In `@tests/test_proxlb_pins.py`:
- Around line 464-471: Extend test_admin_can_force_a_reconcile to accept the db
fixture and, after the successful forced reconcile request, query
balance.pin_reconcile to verify an audit row exists for user root and records
the request’s source IP.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@pegaprox/core/manager.py`:
- Around line 15547-15549: Update the reconcile_proxlb_pins flow to avoid
calling the uncached get_vm_resources() fetch when proxlb_tags_enabled is
disabled; return an empty reconciliation result early or pass the existing short
read-cache, while preserving migrated and other result handling for enabled pin
features.

In `@tests/test_proxlb_pins.py`:
- Around line 492-493: Update the non-admin tenant-user test around the
RECONCILE_ROUTE request to assert that reconcile_proxlb_pins is called with
force=False, then add coverage for the same user posting force=True and verify
the forwarded value remains False.

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Comment thread pegaprox/api/clusters.py
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'proxlb_pins_auto_migrate', # opt-in: migrate guests back onto their plb_pin_ node
'proxlb_pins_strict', # opt-in: a pin also vetoes a maintenance evacuation

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Validate both pin settings as booleans before assignment.

The PUT and PATCH handlers only check the allowlist and then call setattr; cluster.config is not admin-only because the tenant_admin role grants it. A JSON string "false" is therefore truthy: it can enable pin reconciliation or strict drain behavior, and save_config() persists it as 1, so reload restores True. Reject values unless type(value) is bool; do not use bool(...) as validation.

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In `@pegaprox/api/clusters.py` around lines 1245 - 1246, Validate
proxlb_pins_auto_migrate and proxlb_pins_strict with type(value) is bool in both
PUT and PATCH handlers before setattr; reject non-boolean values rather than
coercing with bool(...), while preserving the existing allowlist and assignment
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1 if data.get('proxlb_pins_auto_migrate', False) else 0,
1 if data.get('proxlb_pins_strict', False) else 0,

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve existing ProxLB flags during partial restores.

When a restore payload omits these keys, save_cluster uses False for proxlb_tags_enabled, proxlb_pins_auto_migrate, and proxlb_pins_strict. The restore path merges only secrets before saving an existing cluster, so an older or partial backup can silently disable these stored settings. Load the existing values when each key is absent, while preserving explicit False values.

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In `@pegaprox/core/db.py` around lines 3161 - 3162, Update the restore path around
the ProxLB flag handling in save_cluster so omitted proxlb_tags_enabled,
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if v['vmid'] in excluded:
self.logger.info(
f"[PROXLB] {v['name']} ({v['vmid']}) is off its pin but excluded from "
"balancing — leaving it alone")
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Honor the migration cooldown in pin reconciliation.

The loop writes self._vm_migration_cooldown[v['vmid']] at Line 2448 but never reads it. find_migration_candidate skips guests migrated within the last 900 seconds to prevent ping-pong. Pin reconciliation runs on every balancing cycle, so a guest that HA or an operator keeps moving off its pin is migrated back on each cycle with no backoff.

Add the same cooldown gate to the loop.

♻️ Proposed fix
             if v['vmid'] in excluded:
                 self.logger.info(
                     f"[PROXLB] {v['name']} ({v['vmid']}) is off its pin but excluded from "
                     "balancing — leaving it alone")
                 continue
+            _last = self._vm_migration_cooldown.get(v['vmid'])
+            if _last and (time.time() - _last) < 900:
+                self.logger.info(
+                    f"[PROXLB] {v['name']} ({v['vmid']}) is off its pin but was migrated "
+                    "recently — waiting out the cooldown")
+                result['deferred'].append(v)
+                continue
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if v['vmid'] in excluded:
self.logger.info(
f"[PROXLB] {v['name']} ({v['vmid']}) is off its pin but excluded from "
"balancing — leaving it alone")
continue
if v['vmid'] in excluded:
self.logger.info(
f"[PROXLB] {v['name']} ({v['vmid']}) is off its pin but excluded from "
"balancing — leaving it alone")
continue
_last = self._vm_migration_cooldown.get(v['vmid'])
if _last and (time.time() - _last) < 900:
self.logger.info(
f"[PROXLB] {v['name']} ({v['vmid']}) is off its pin but was migrated "
"recently — waiting out the cooldown")
result['deferred'].append(v)
continue
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pin-reconciliation loop to check self._vm_migration_cooldown for each VM before
scheduling it back to its pin, using the same 900-second expiration behavior as
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Checked both halves against Testing before reading your diff, and they hold.

The pin really is veto-only — get_best_target_node filters a candidate set someone else proposed, nothing ever proposes a move back toward a pin. And the drain case is nastier than a missing feature: exclude_nodes=[node_name] on an evacuation removes exactly the node the guest is pinned to, so the pin set goes empty, you get "No available target node", and the guest sits there while the node reboots under it. That's a data-availability bug, not a balancing nicety.

Thanks for targeting Testing and bringing tests — that's the two things external PRs usually get wrong here.

Not mine to merge: it's a thousand lines through the balancer core plus two new per-cluster switches, so Nico takes that call. Assigning to him. One thought while he looks: the drain ranking is arguably a bugfix and the reconciliation is a feature, and they'd be easier to reason about — and to ship at different speeds — apart.

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fine to split, just flagging the dependency before it happens. the drain only goes off pin because reconciliation is what brings the guest back once a pinned node frees up again, thats the whole justification for allowing it. ship the bugfix alone and an evacuated guest stays off pin forever, nothing else in the tree moves it home. still strictly better than today where it sits on the node while that one reboots, and proxlb_pins_strict is there for anyone whod rather have the hard no. just didnt want that tradeoff to surface after the fact

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Fair point, and I framed that split as cleaner than it is. If reconciliation is the only thing that ever moves a guest back toward its pin, then shipping the drain fix alone trades "stuck while the node reboots" for "off pin indefinitely" — better, but not the free win I made it sound like.

So treat the split as a thought, not a request. It's Nico's call on the whole thing anyway and it's sitting with him. Worth writing that tradeoff into the PR description though, so it isn't buried in a comment thread when he reads it.

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Heads up: this has gone conflicting since we last spoke. Not you - the security batch that landed on Testing this week touched clusters.py, vms.py, db.py and manager.py, which is four of the files you're carrying.

Worth a rebase whenever you get to it, otherwise it'll keep drifting. It's still with @MrMasterbay for the call on the feature itself, so no rush from my side - I just didn't want you finding out about the conflict the week after next.

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A plb_pin_<node> tag is a veto, not a placement. It removes a guest from the
candidate list of a migration the balancer has already proposed, and narrows
the target set of an evacuation — but nothing in a cycle ever proposes a move
*towards* a pin. A guest sitting on a node the tag forbids therefore stays
there: moved by hand in the PVE UI, failed over by HA, evacuated while the
pinned node was down, or simply tagged after the fact. Upstream confirms that
is intentional, so this adds a second, explicitly opt-in behaviour next to it
rather than changing what the tag means. With the new switch off — the
default — nothing about the current semantics changes.

- get_pin_violations() audits real placement against the pin set. A pin whose
  nodes are all unavailable reports as 'unavailable' rather than 'drift': the
  guest is elsewhere because there is nowhere else for it to be, and there is
  nothing to move it back to yet.

- reconcile_proxlb_pins() migrates those guests back, but only when the new
  per-cluster proxlb_pins_auto_migrate is set (or force=True from the API).
  Report-only is the default: enabling ProxLB tags is a statement about
  placement rules, not consent to move running workloads. dry_run and the
  cluster's own auto_migrate both still win. The target comes from
  get_best_target_node(vmid=...), so a returned guest can only ever land on a
  node the tag itself allows.

- plb_ignore on the same guest, a balancing exclusion and a stopped guest are
  all left alone, and a returned guest gets the usual migration cooldown so
  the next balance round doesn't pick it straight back up.

- GET/POST /api/clusters/<id>/proxlb-pins/{violations,reconcile}. The POST
  carries the same tenant gate as /balance-now (Aikido 469089250): it migrates
  guests cluster-wide, so reaching the cluster through a single VM-ACL or pool
  grant must not unlock it.

The pin's case-insensitive node match is unchanged and now has a test around
it — PVE lower-cases tag text, so plb_pin_pve-dmz-node01-th-a is the only
spelling available for a node actually called pve-dmz-node01-th-A.
…ing the drain

get_best_target_node() returned None when no pinned node was available — and
during a drain the pinned node IS the one being emptied. So the guest stayed put
on a node about to reboot and the maintenance task never finished

The drain now prefers the guest's other pinned nodes and goes off-pin only when
none can take it. reconciliation returns it once one is back. Every other caller
keeps the veto unchanged. proxlb_pins_strict (per cluster, off by default)
restores it for pins that are hard constraints

Found while testing this on a six-node cluster: an unresolvable pin was only a
debug line, reconciliation ignored local storage and asked PVE for a migration it
refuses on every cycle, and it had no per-cycle cap at all

Test: tests/test_proxlb_pins.py, 49 cases, full suite 1319 passed
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- Line 2904: Update the request handling before reconcile_proxlb_pins() to parse
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Comment thread pegaprox/api/clusters.py
if cluster_id not in cluster_managers:
return jsonify({'error': 'Cluster not found'}), 404
mgr = cluster_managers[cluster_id]
force = bool((request.json or {}).get('force', False))

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Parse and validate the optional JSON body.

If an authorized POST has no JSON content type, Flask 3.1 can return 415 at request.json. A truthy non-object payload can also fail at .get. For {"force":"false"}, bool() produces True, so reconcile_proxlb_pins() receives force=True and bypasses proxlb_pins_auto_migrate.

Do not use or {} in the correction. It would accept falsy non-object JSON such as [], false, or 0 as an empty object.

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-    force = bool((request.json or {}).get('force', False))
+    payload = request.get_json(silent=True)
+    if payload is None:
+        payload = {}
+    if not isinstance(payload, dict):
+        return jsonify({'error': 'Body must be an object'}), 400
+    force = payload.get('force', False)
+    if type(force) is not bool:
+        return jsonify({'error': 'force must be a boolean'}), 400
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force = bool((request.json or {}).get('force', False))
payload = request.get_json(silent=True)
if payload is None:
payload = {}
if not isinstance(payload, dict):
return jsonify({'error': 'Body must be an object'}), 400
force = payload.get('force', False)
if type(force) is not bool:
return jsonify({'error': 'force must be a boolean'}), 400
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In `@pegaprox/api/clusters.py` at line 2904, Update the request handling before
reconcile_proxlb_pins() to parse JSON silently, default only a missing body to
an empty object, and reject any non-dict payload with a 400 error. Validate the
optional force field as an actual boolean using strict type checking, returning
a 400 error for other values, then pass the validated boolean through without
coercion.

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