send_media_group, send_animation and copy_messages paced themselves against both buckets; send_message and send_chat_action paced against neither. A dead-letter storm — or one error reply per failed item, plus the action refresh loop's repeated typing requests — could therefore burst past Telegram's per-bot30/s ceiling with only429s left to absorb it, exactly what the bot-wide bucket exists to prevent. Both now acquire one global token like their siblings (per-chat pacing for messages already happens at their call sites; chat actions are cheap and frequent, so only the global bucket applies to them).
Inline results were URL-only: Telegram fetches an inline result's URL itself
and cannot send site headers, so every pixiv item (and every locally encoded
ugoira/bsky MP4) was skipped and such a query answered empty. A post that is
already in the link cache now answers with InlineQueryResultCached* built
from its Telegram file ids — no fetch, no upload, and the hotlink-protected
case simply works. A degraded entry (file ids gone) falls back to URLs, and
there a video with no poster is skipped (Telegram would try to render the
mp4 as its own thumbnail).
The answer call moves onto MediaSender (answer_inline_query, mirroring the
other user-flow methods), which is what makes the path testable at all: the
two new tests drive the cache answer and the degraded/empty answer through
TestStores + MockSender, which recorded nothing about inline before.
The result builders are shared by both paths now (url_result/cached_result +
inline_kind), so the fetch path's behaviour is unchanged.
MediaItemPayload carried one String field with two meanings and a file_id
bool beside it to say which, in all three variants; every reader re-checked
the flag (input_file had a three-arm pattern just to find the file-id case).
MediaRef::Source/FileId says it once, and the readers now match on it —
local_media_paths, item_url, input_file and the download path each shrank to
the one branch they care about.
Fixes a real failure that the flag was hiding: send_animation built its
InputFile with input_file_for(media_url), which read a cached file id as a
local path and answered "local media file missing" — permanent. So the
second request for a single-gif post always failed (the third worked, from
the degraded entry). It now uses the payload's own input_file, and
a_cached_animation_sends_by_file_id fails without that line.
Wire shape: a queued row from before this change no longer parses, and the
queue already handles that shape (handle_task dead-letters it as an invalid
payload, and dead_letter_notify still names the post and drops the stale
cache entry).
Two thirds of media_sender.rs was cfg(test)-only scaffolding (MockSender and
the fake_api), which made the trait's own surface hard to find. The module
becomes media_sender/mod.rs (trait + the Bot impl, 260 lines) plus
media_sender/test_support.rs (445); the path
crate::media_sender::test_support is unchanged, so no caller moved.