The behaviour a host implements so a pin this package cannot see still refuses a retirement.

ADR-0012 decision 1 names four things that pin a content hash. Three of them are rows in this package's own tables and it counts them itself. The fourth is everything else a host knows about: a pending timer, an address row, a queue entry - state held outside this package, in a package this one does not depend on and must not learn about. A pin source is how that state gets a vote.

The callback

pins/2 is handed a content hash and a context, and answers the source's own named counts as a map of atom to non-negative integer. The names are the source's to choose; they travel back to the caller under the source module's name, so a refusal says which source objected and what it was counting.

The context carries :execution_ids, the ids of the :active executions on that hash, which the retire call already holds. It is there because a source such as a timer queue knows executions and never knows content hashes: handing over the ids is what lets such a source answer without learning this package's key. A source that does know hashes can ignore the context entirely.

A source that cannot answer is a refusal, never a zero

A source may raise, and raising is the supported way to say "I could not answer". "The source could not answer" and "the source answered zero" are different facts, and collapsing them would retire a pinned chart, so collect/3 turns a raise into {:error, {module, reason}} and the host-facing retire door stops there rather than retiring on a count it never took. Returning anything that is not a map of atom to non-negative integer is the same kind of failure and gets the same answer.

This package ships no source

There is no implementation of this behaviour in lib/, and mix.exs gains no dependency for one. A host passes the list of source modules in at the retire call, and each module is one the host owns.

Two hosts

A durable timer queue, over an advertising chart that waits for a click after an impression:

defmodule MyApp.TimerPins do
  @behaviour StatifierPersistence.PinSource

  @impl true
  def pins(_content_hash, %{execution_ids: execution_ids}) do
    %{pending_timers: MyApp.Timers.count_scheduled_for(execution_ids)}
  end
end

An address table, over the same chart, where an impression id is the address an incoming click is routed to:

defmodule MyApp.AddressPins do
  @behaviour StatifierPersistence.PinSource

  @impl true
  def pins(content_hash, _context) do
    %{addresses: MyApp.Addresses.count_for_chart(content_hash)}
  end
end

Both modules are the host's. Neither is in this package, and this package names neither except as prose.