Fix twelve defects in the untested framework edge #8

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JMR-dev 63d53b0bb8 Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/feat/defect-fixes-base' into scratch/integrate-d2-d3 2026-08-22 20:58:32 -05:00
JMR-devandClaude Opus 5 c2e6344aad Let WorkManager keep sole ownership of the progress notification
`publishProgress` posted with `NotificationManager.notify(NOTIFICATION_ID, …)` directly, on the
very id WorkManager owns through `setForeground`, using a notification built `setOngoing(true)`.
Two posters for one id is a race about which of them wrote last, and on a Pixel 10 Pro XL it was
lost on attempt 3 of 12 while cancelling a `BEST`-tier job:

    attempt 3: terminal state = CANCELLED
    attempt 3: +300ms  active=0 id1001=false ongoing=null   <- WorkManager tore it down
    attempt 3: +700ms  active=1 id1001=true  ongoing=true   <- a progress tick put it back
    attempt 3: +5000ms active=1 id1001=true  ongoing=true

Still there ten minutes later, with no app process left in the world to withdraw it. The orphan's
record carried `flags=ONGOING_EVENT|ONLY_ALERT_ONCE` and **no `FOREGROUND_SERVICE`**, which is
what identifies the poster rather than merely suggesting one: WorkManager's own post goes out
with that flag and this one did not.

Whether the user could then swipe it away is deliberately not claimed here. An earlier reading
said "cannot dismiss", on the strength of `isClearable()` returning false — but that is false
purely because `FLAG_ONGOING_EVENT` is set, the record carries neither `FOREGROUND_SERVICE` nor
`NO_CLEAR`, and API 34+ lets an ongoing notification with no foreground service behind it be
swiped. The SystemUI test was impossible behind a secure lock screen and was never done. The
resurrection is what is reproduced, and it is what this fixes.

Progress now goes through `setForegroundAsync` — the non-suspending half of the same call
`doWork` already makes, which is the supported way to update a running worker's foreground
notification. That is not merely a different mechanism for the same post: it hands the id back to
its owner, so the notification WorkManager withdraws when the job ends is the same one the last
progress update wrote, and there is nothing left holding a second reference to it.

Two guards, and they are independent on purpose:

  - **`isStopped` short-circuits the whole function.** A tick arriving after the stop has nobody
    left to report to, so a stopped worker publishes nothing at all — the `setProgressAsync`
    included, which WorkManager refuses for finished work anyway.
  - **`setForegroundAsync` refuses on its own** for work whose state is already terminal. That
    closes the window between the `isStopped` check and the update reaching the task thread,
    which a check alone can only narrow.

The `~1/sec` throttle is unchanged, in effect and in reason: FFmpeg's statistics callback and
Media3's progress polling both fire several times a second, and pushing every one of them janks
the system UI. Routing them through WorkManager does not make them cheap, so the interval stays
exactly where it was. It is reordered into an early return rather than a nested `if`, which is
the only difference.

The initial `setForeground(...)` in `doWork` is untouched and stays a suspending call inside the
`try`. That placement is the whole of the previous commit on this file: a denied background
foreground-service start throws there, and `FailureOutcome` turns it into a retry rather than a
terminal failure. Converting it to `setForegroundAsync` for symmetry would have moved that
exception into an unobserved future and undone it silently.

The future `publishProgress` gets is not awaited — it is called from an engine callback, which is
not a coroutine, and a progress update is not worth blocking one for. Both of its failure modes
are benign, so a refusal is logged rather than propagated: dropping it entirely would make the
one that actually happens, a job finishing mid-update, invisible.

`ProgressNotificationTest` drives the real worker with a recording `ForegroundUpdater` — the same
seam `DeniedForegroundStartTest` uses — and asserts on both halves, because either alone passes
against something wrong. The positive half is that the update reached WorkManager on the id it
already holds, carrying `Notification.EXTRA_PROGRESS` of 42; a test that only checked nothing was
posted directly would pass just as well against a `publishProgress` that had been deleted. The
negative half is that Robolectric's notification manager holds nothing at all, asserted over the
whole manager rather than one id, so a renamed constant cannot make it pass by asking about a
notification nobody posts.

All three were red before the change: `one throttled progress update expected expected:<1> but
was:<0>` (nothing had reached WorkManager), `and must resurrect nothing expected:<0> but was:<1>`
(the device's resurrection, on the JVM), and `50 ticks inside one throttle window must not be 0
updates`. Each guard was then removed on its own to check the test that names it bites: without
`isStopped` the stopped worker publishes twice — `a stopped worker must publish nothing
expected:<1> but was:<2>` — and without the throttle fifty ticks become fifty updates.

`ConcatWorker` reports no progress at all and owns id 1002 by itself, so it has none of this and
none of it is added.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 20:55:25 -05:00
JMR-devandClaude Opus 5 b86df47c43 Tell an unknown input size apart from an empty file
`queryFile` started at `var size = 0L` and only moved off it when a provider answered the
`OpenableColumns.SIZE` column, which the platform documents providers *may* omit. So "this file
is empty" and "nobody would tell me how big it is" reached `OutputPublisher.hasSpaceFor` as the
same number, and `hasSpaceFor(0)` is not a space check -- it is "is there 128 MB free", which any
phone with a working camera passes.

The reachable value is not an inference. On a Pixel 10 Pro XL, `contentResolver.query` on a
`file://` URI returns null outright, so the cursor block never runs at all and the default
survives untouched: `queryFile gave displayName='input' sizeBytes=0`. Robolectric reproduces that
exactly -- null query, and a descriptor that reports 4321 bytes for the same file -- which is why
every test here is a JVM test rather than a device one.

`InputQuery` replaces the two copies of `queryFile`, which were byte for byte identical in
`ConversionViewModel` and `JoinViewModel`, so a fix to either would have been a fix to half the
app. It asks for the size twice: what the provider says, and then what the file itself says
through `openFileDescriptor(uri, "r").statSize`. The second needs no cooperation beyond the input
being openable, which a conversion is about to require anyway, and it is what answers the device
case above. Only when both decline is the answer null, and `InputFile.sizeBytes` is `Long?` so
that null cannot be spelled the same way as zero again.

**What an unknown size does was the decision, and it is deliberately not a refusal.**
`OutputPublisher.hasSpaceForUnknownSize()` produces the same number the defect produced by
accident -- with no size to reserve for, the headroom is all there is left to check -- and that is
worth saying plainly rather than dressing up. What changed is that it is now the answer to a
question that was asked. `hasSpaceFor` means "there is room for this many bytes" and nothing else
claims it.

Refusing was the obvious alternative and would have been worse than the bug: it turns "no
provider answered the SIZE column" into "this file cannot be converted", for a user who can do
nothing about either. A fixed floor was the other, and there is no honest number for it -- a
1 GB floor refuses a 10 MB conversion on a device with 500 MB free, which is the same failure in
a costume. `SpaceCheckTest` pins the choice from both sides: an unmeasurable input must not end
the job, and a full disk must still refuse it.

That second half is why the default answers *through* `hasSpaceFor`. `FakeFailures.FullDisk` in
the instrumented suite overrides `hasSpaceFor` and nothing else, so the delegation is the only
reason it still refuses an unknown-size job. Replacing the delegation with a bare `true` leaves
the full-disk test red with `expected:<Failure {error : Not enough free space to convert.}> but
was:<Failure {error : FFmpegKit failed to start on brand: robolectric...}>` -- the job sailed past
the guard and died at the engine instead.

Both workers get the same shape. The size arrives as input `Data`, which has no null, so the
absence of the key *is* the unknown -- `getLong(key, 0L)` was the other half of the conflation.
When it is absent the worker measures the input itself, which it can do because it holds the URI:
that covers a `request(...)` built by hand and work enqueued before the size became optional, and
it costs an ordinary job nothing because it runs only on the fallback. `ConversionWorker.request`
writes neither the `Data` entry nor the `JobTags.sizeBytes` tag for a size nobody knows, since a
tag reading `size-bytes:0` would come back through `Reattachment` as a confident claim that the
user's file is empty -- and `reattach()`'s `?: 0L` is gone for the same reason.

A join's total is `InputQuery.total`, which is null the moment a *single* input cannot be sized.
Summing the ones that answered was the competing reading and is rejected: a lower bound is
indistinguishable from a real total once it reaches the space check, so the guard would reserve
for half the job and pass. Reverting it to `sumOf { it ?: 0L }` records `[1111]` for a two-file
join whose second input nothing can measure.

Work already in the queue keeps the old conflation, and there is no fixing it. The previous
`request()` always wrote `putLong(KEY_SIZE_BYTES, sizeBytes)`, so a job enqueued before this
commit for a file nothing could size carries the key *present* and set to zero -- which reads
back as a declared size of zero and is trusted, exactly as before. Its `lmc.size-bytes:0` tag
reads back the same way, so `reattach()` shows such a card "0 B" rather than "Size unknown".
Nothing can separate that from a genuinely empty file after the fact, and a rule that treated a
declared zero as suspect would only rebuild the conflation facing the other way. WorkManager
keeps finished work for about a week, so this is a bounded window that clears itself; new work
never enters it.

`hasSpaceFor`'s KDoc claimed peak usage was "roughly input + output at once" while the arithmetic
reserved `input + 128 MB`. The arithmetic is what stays and the doc now says why: `bytes` is the
input's size standing in for the output's, generous for the ordinary conversion (which is asked
for precisely because it shrinks its input) and short for a re-encode to a bulkier codec; the
128 MB absorbs that error and the transient double copy while `publish` runs. Reserving
`input + output` outright would refuse jobs that fit. This is a pre-flight check that stops an
obviously impossible job from spending minutes finding out, not a guarantee -- a conversion that
runs out of space anyway still fails through its engine.

The measurement side of that line is untouched on purpose. `StorageManager.getAllocatableBytes`
is a separate entry with its own device evidence and its own `informational += "UsableSpace"` in
the lint block; this commit is about the number going *in*. `hasSpaceFor(bytes: Long)` keeps its
signature and stays open, so nothing overriding it had to change.

The file card says "Size unknown" rather than `0 B`. Handled at the call site rather than inside
`formatBytes`, because a formatter that invented a number would be the defect on screen; the card
already degrades in words for a file nothing could read.

Five of the seven new tests were red before a line of production code moved, with the numbers
they were about: `expected:<4321> but was:<0>` for a picked file, `expected null, but was:<0>` for
one nothing can measure, `expected:<[1111, 2222]> but was:<[0, 0]>` for the join picker, and
`expected:<[4321]> but was:<[0]>` and `expected:<[3333]> but was:<[0]>` for what the two workers
asked the space check. The tests assert on the *question* rather than the verdict, which matters:
one that only checked whether the job ran would have passed against the defect, since the defect
is that the guard is vacuous rather than that it refuses.

The remaining two needed the new call to exist first, so each was proved by mutation instead.
Answering the unknown with `hasSpaceFor(0L)` inline leaves `expected:<[]> but was:<[0]>` in both
workers; refusing it instead leaves `an unknown size must not end the job; got Failure {error :
Not enough free space to convert.}`. Making the worker always measure rather than trust a declared
size leaves `expected:<[9999]> but was:<[4321]>`.

`join()`'s own use of `InputQuery.total` is tested separately from the function, because
`StagingCleanupSupport` already records what that distinction costs: a tool can be provably right
while nothing calls it. `SucceedingWorkerFactory` now keeps the input `Data` of every request that
reaches a worker -- the only place it is legible, since `WorkInfo` hands back a job's tags and its
output and never the `Data` it was built with -- and the test reads the enqueued total off it.
Restoring `inputs.sumOf { it.sizeBytes ?: 0L }` leaves every other test in the change green and
this one red with `a total that could not be worked out must not be enqueued as a number`.

`ConversionViewModelProbeFailureTest` expected `InputFile(INPUT, "input", 0L)` for an authority no
provider serves. It expects `sizeBytes = null` now, which is the behaviour change stated where a
reader will meet it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 20:54:46 -05:00
Jason Ross 37bf884c02 Merge branch 'main' into feat/defect-fixes-base 2026-08-22 20:53:22 -05:00
JMR-dev 49535998b5 Merge branch 'fix/worker-durability-and-naming' into scratch/integrate-d2-d3 2026-08-22 20:18:29 -05:00
JMR-devandClaude Opus 5 159320dfa0 Name a finished file after the job that made it
Six places decided what a converted or joined file should be called, and not one of them asked
the job. `JoinViewModel` reported `JoinState.Saved("joined.mp4")` whatever the format;
`JoinScreen` opened `CreateDocument("video/mp4")` and launched it with `"joined.mp4"`. On the
convert side `save()` and `suggestedOutputName()` built the name from `_settings.value.spec`, and
the screen took the MIME type from the same place -- the picker as it stands *now*, which is not
the spec the job ran with.

All six are right today, and all six are right by accident. The join screen has no format picker,
so the three MP4 literals agree with `ConcatWorker.request`'s default. The conversion pickers are
drawn only in the `Ready` state, so the settings cannot move between enqueue and save. Neither
accident is load-bearing anywhere it is written down.

One of them has already stopped holding, quietly. A job picked up by `reattach()` ran with a spec
that was never in this ViewModel's settings, because those settings belong to a process that no
longer exists -- so a reattached MP3 conversion is offered `.mp4` and `video/mp4` today. The
previous commit made that path more reachable rather than less: `Reattachment` exists precisely
to find work this ViewModel did not start.

The fix is to ask the only thing that knows. The spec travels to the worker as input `Data` and
`WorkInfo` hands input `Data` back to nobody, so the worker is the single point at which the
input's name and the spec that ran are both in scope. Both workers now report the two derived
strings -- the name to suggest and the type to open the dialog with -- in their output `Data`,
and they ride on `ConversionState.Converted` and `JoinState.Joined` from there. `save()` reports
what it saved rather than recomputing it, and both screens read the name and the MIME type off
the state they already collect, remembering their `CreateDocument` contract against that type
instead of a literal. The MIME type is not cosmetic: some providers rewrite a document's
extension to match it, so an MP3 offered as `video/webm` can arrive with the wrong one.

`suggestedOutputName()` is deleted rather than repaired. With the answer on the state there is no
caller left for it, and an accessor recomputing the same string would only be a second place for
it to be wrong -- which is what it was.

`ConcatWorker` gains `DEFAULT_FORMAT` and `outputNameFor(format)`. Three copies of "MP4" is the
shape this entry is about, and the input-Data default, `request`'s parameter default and the
ViewModel's fallback for a job that predates this change are exactly three copies.

Work already in the queue carries neither string, and WorkManager keeps finished work for about a
week, so that is the ordinary case for a few days rather than a corner. Those fall back to the
old derivation, which is a guess -- but it is the same guess the app was already making, it is
confined to jobs enqueued before this commit, and for such a job there is genuinely nothing
better to hand. New work never reaches it. The join's fallback is not even a guess: the format
`ConcatWorker.request` has always defaulted to is the format such a job really used.

`reattach()`'s KDoc carried this as a known wart it was deliberately leaving alone. That
paragraph is now a description of the fix rather than of a defect.

Tested at both ends, since either alone would pass while the other was wrong.
`WorkerOutputNamingTest` runs the real worker on an MP3 job -- nothing like the default preset, so
a name built from the picker is visibly wrong rather than accidentally right -- and compares the
whole success `Result`, which is what makes a missing key fail rather than go unnoticed. The two
ViewModel tests drive a finished job and then move the picker, which is what a reattached job
amounts to from the ViewModel's point of view.

Restoring just the two name sources -- `save()`'s `outputNameFor(displayName, _settings.value.spec)`
and `JoinState.Saved("joined.mp4")` -- turns them red with
`expected:<holiday_converted.mp3> but was:<input_converted.webm>` and
`expected:<joined.mkv> but was:<joined.mp4>`. The convert side loses the extension *and* the name:
`_settings.value` had been moved to WebM, and the display name a reattached job cannot supply had
already fallen back to the placeholder.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 20:15:08 -05:00
JMR-devandClaude Opus 5 2a68f03134 Give every job a staging path of its own
`<cacheDir>/conversions/` is shared by the convert tab, the join tab and `ConcatEngine`, and
until now none of the three named a file that belonged to one job. A conversion derived its name
from the input's display name, so two `holiday.mp4` from different folders wrote the same file.
A join used the constant `joined.<ext>`, so any two joins of one format did. The list file was
the constant `concat_list.txt`, so any two joins at all did, and one of them would read the
other's input list.

The naming half is not a hypothesis. Two independent conversions on a Pixel each computed
`cache/conversions/input_converted.mp4`, the second silently overwrote the first, and a tag query
in a fresh process then returned **two SUCCEEDED `WorkInfo`s naming that one file** with one file
on disk. That is the collision reaching the point where it makes a *fix* ambiguous rather than
just a file: `Reattachment` can offer the bytes, because they are the user's either way, but it
cannot say which job produced them.

`StagingNames` keys the name on the WorkManager request id. That id is what stays still across a
retry -- `WorkerWrapper` builds `WorkerParameters` from the `WorkSpec` id and only increments
`runAttemptCount` -- which matters more here than uniqueness does, and matters more since the
previous commit made retries routine. A failed attempt deletes its staged file on the way out,
and that only collects the partial the *previous* attempt left when the name has not moved.

Opaque rather than sanitised, deliberately. The staged name is never shown to anyone: `save()`
recomputes a suggested name and the user picks the real one in the SAF dialog. So there was
nothing to lose by dropping the display name, and something to gain -- a provider-supplied
display name can contain a separator, be empty, or be four kilobytes long, and `File(stagingDir,
"../escape_converted.mp4")` resolves to a path outside staging. That was reachable before this
commit and is now unreachable by construction rather than by a sanitiser that has to be right
about every case. There is a test for exactly that name.

The extension stays, and is not decoration: `FFmpegConcatCommand` names no output muxer, so
FFmpeg infers it from the output path. A fully opaque name would quietly produce the wrong
container.

`ConcatEngine`'s list file is derived from the output it belongs to rather than taking another
parameter, so the two cannot drift apart, a directory listing shows which list belongs to which
join, and the sweep ages them together.

Three neighbouring comments claimed things that are no longer true, and are corrected rather than
left to mislead the next reader:

  - `Reattachment.Ambiguous` said it "resolves on its own once each job stages under a name of
    its own". It now does -- for work enqueued from here on. The case is **kept**, because the
    queue outlives the change: WorkManager holds finished work for about a week, and the jobs
    likeliest to be sitting in it when this code first runs are the ones named the old way.
    Behaviour is unchanged and `ReattachmentTest` is untouched.
  - `OutputPublisher.sweepStaging` justified its age rule partly on there being "no per-job
    namespacing". There is now, and the rule still stands on its own: per-job names stop two jobs
    from sharing a file, and say nothing about whether a file's job is still running, which is the
    question a sweep actually asks. Same for `StagingSweep` and the note in
    `LibreMediaConverterApp`.
  - Both ViewModels' `reattach()` explained aliasing as something nothing prevented. Narrowed to
    what is still true of work already in the queue.

`ConcatEngineTest` asks `StagingNames` for the list file's name instead of spelling out
`concat_list.txt`. That is the difference between a test and a tautology: a literal there would
have gone on passing after the rename while asserting that a file nothing creates does not exist.
The same trap was live in the two worker tests from the previous commits, whose staged-file
assertions computed a path of their own -- they now assert on the staging directory being empty,
which cannot go vacuous when a name moves.

`PerJobStagingTest` drives the real worker, because the naming function was never the part that
was wrong: what was wrong was which name the worker asked for. Two jobs converting one file must
leave two files; a second attempt at one job must not leave a second; and a display name that
climbs out of staging must not. The first and third fail before the change with "each job must
have staged its own file, found [input_converted.mp4] expected:<2> but was:<1>" and "the output
belongs in staging expected:<1> but was:<0>" -- the latter because the file had landed in
`cacheDir` instead.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 20:11:44 -05:00
JMR-devandClaude Opus 5 dcdcbfd3af Let a cancelled conversion stay cancelled
Both workers' outer `catch (e: Throwable)` caught `CancellationException` along with everything
else and answered it with a `Result`. `runMedia3OrFallBack` goes out of its way to rethrow
cancellation rather than fall back to software, and then the catch above it converted it anyway.
A coroutine that reports completion inside a scope which has already been cancelled is
structured concurrency's one rule broken, and it is the kind of break that stays quiet: nothing
downstream complains, and the next thing to hold a resource across that boundary is the thing
that finds out.

Nothing on screen disagreed today, which is why this is a low-severity entry rather than a bug
report. WorkManager cancels the worker's coroutine through `WorkerWrapper.interrupt`, which
cancels `workerJob` with a `WorkerStoppedException`; the surrounding `withContext(workerJob)`
then throws that whatever the worker returned, and `launch()` resolves it as `ResetWorkerStatus`.
The returned `Result` is read only when nothing stopped the worker at all. So the change is
about the shape of the code rather than about a symptom.

One behaviour does move, and it is worth naming rather than discovering later. A cancellation
that is *not* WorkManager stopping us -- FFmpegKit reporting `ReturnCode.isCancel`, which cancels
the continuation -- now leaves `doWork` as a cancellation, and `WorkerWrapper` resolves a
self-cancelled worker as `Resolution.Failed()` with no output data instead of the
`Result.failure(KEY_ERROR ...)` it used to build. Both ViewModels already fall back on blank
output data, deliberately and with a test, so the user sees "Conversion failed." either way. That
is also the honest answer: the only route to `isCancel` is a cancellation someone asked for.

The `staged.delete()` on that path is kept, and moved into the new branch rather than left to the
one below it. A cancelled attempt leaves a partial in staging, the next attempt starts `doWork()`
from the top rather than resuming it, and this catch holds the only handle to the file.

Reaching any of this from a JVM test needed one more thing: `doWork` called `MediaProbe.probe`
directly, and it was the last caller bypassing `ConversionDependencies.probe`. FFprobe's loader
throws a bare `java.lang.Error` with no native library present, so no unit test could reach a
single line below it. The seam's own KDoc says this is what it is for -- coverage of the branches
that only run when something goes wrong -- and the default is the same real probe, so the app and
the instrumented tests are unchanged.

`WorkerCancellationTest` drives the real worker through a real `WorkManager` to the software
engine, forced with `FORCE_SOFTWARE` because it is the one preference that decides without
consulting the input, so the test does not depend on a routing rule it is not about. The engine
stub writes bytes before it throws, which is what makes the delete assertion mean something: a
stub that only threw would let a missing `delete()` pass. Three cases -- cancellation propagates,
cancellation still deletes, and an ordinary failure is still answered with a `Result` carrying
its message, which is the half that would break if the rethrow were widened past cancellation.

Before the fix the first of those failed with "cancellation must leave doWork as cancellation,
not as a Result; got null" -- `runCatching` had nothing to report, because `doWork` had returned.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 20:11:44 -05:00
JMR-devandClaude Opus 5 5c27801c77 Retry work the system refused to start, instead of failing it terminally
`ConversionWorker`'s KDoc says the queue survives process death, and that is the app's stated
reason for choosing WorkManager at all. A Pixel 10 Pro XL says otherwise. An 18-minute
transcode was killed mid-write with `kill -9`; 119 seconds later, on a natural dispatch with
no `cmd jobscheduler run` anywhere in the session, WorkManager recovered it by itself and the
system refused it:

    WM-ForceStopRunnable: Found unfinished work, scheduling it.
    ActivityManager: Background started FGS: Disallowed [callingPackage:
       org.libremediaconverter; uidState: CEM; BFGS denied: true; code:DENIED]
    WM-WorkerWrapper: android.app.ForegroundServiceStartNotAllowedException
    WM-WorkerWrapper: Worker result FAILURE
    WM-Processor: Processor 3d1c9862 executed; reschedule = false

`Found unfinished work` is the clean process-death recovery path, not a force-stop. The job was
ordinary -- `Priority: 300 [DEFAULT]`, not expedited -- so there was no allowance it could have
carried. `HAS_FOREGROUND_EXEMPTION` was set on it and it was still denied; that flag governs the
runtime guarantee once a service is running, not permission to start one.

The cause is structural rather than subtle. `setForeground(...)` sat above `return try {`, so its
throw escaped `doWork()` without reaching `handleTimeoutIfNeeded`, `Result.retry()`, the
`workDataOf(KEY_ERROR ...)` or `staged.delete()`. Three separate costs, all measured on the
device: `reschedule = false`, so nothing ran again despite `run_attempt_count=2`; output `Data`
of `X'ABEF000100000000'`, a header with zero entries, so the screen said "Conversion failed."
with nothing to add; and 2 MB of a partial `long_input2_converted.mp4` left in staging.
`ConcatWorker` had the same shape.

So `setForeground` moves inside the `try` in both workers, and the staging handle is named just
above it -- `createStagingFile` only builds a path, nothing is written until an engine opens it,
so naming it early costs nothing and makes the catch total. `MediaProbe.probe` was outside the
`try` for the same reason and had the same problem; it is now inside too. On a retry the staged
name is unchanged, so the delete on the way out collects the partial the killed attempt left
behind rather than orphaning it.

What to return was the real decision. `Result.retry()`, because the denial is about *when* the
job ran and not about the job: the file is fine, the settings are fine, and the one thing that
grants an app permission to start a foreground service is being in the foreground, which the
user supplies by opening the app. But WorkManager never gives up on its own, so an unbounded
retry means a job nobody comes back for waking the device forever while the screen says "paused"
and never explains itself. `FailureOutcome` therefore bounds it at ten attempts, chosen against
the default backoff rather than as a round number: exponential from
`WorkRequest.DEFAULT_BACKOFF_DELAY_MILLIS` (30 s), doubling, clamped at `MAX_BACKOFF_MILLIS`
(5 h), which spans about 8 h 30 m before the eleventh attempt fails with a message the user can
act on. The counter is `runAttemptCount`, which counts every attempt and not only denied ones --
WorkManager exposes no other -- so a transcode already retried ten times by the six-hour budget
will fail on its first denial rather than getting ten of its own. That is accepted rather than
overlooked, and the timeout branch ignores the count entirely so the budget's own retries are
untouched.

The rule goes in `FailureOutcome` rather than beside it, which is what its KDoc asks for: isolate
a decision whose triggering condition cannot be provoked in a test. It now reads the stop reason
*and* the cause, with precedence stated rather than left to branch order -- once something has
stopped the worker, the exception it was holding describes that stop and not a reason of its own.
The match is on `ForegroundServiceStartNotAllowedException` exactly, never on its
`IllegalStateException` supertype: a muxer that was never started throws one of those too, and
matching the supertype would retry every ordinary failure for eight hours.

Expedited work is still not used, and this is not an argument for it. It maps to JobScheduler
expedited jobs with a short quota, which is the wrong shape for a multi-minute transcode; the
exemption it buys is for starting, and the quota it costs would be paid by every job.

Tested at both levels, because only one of them bites. `FailureOutcomeTest` gains six cases for
the rule -- retry at the bound, give up past it, an unrelated `IllegalStateException` that must
not be mistaken for a denial, a stop reason winning over the exception, and the budget timeout
ignoring the count. `DeniedForegroundStartTest` covers the wiring, which is where the defect
actually was: a `ForegroundUpdater` whose future completes exceptionally makes `setForeground`
throw exactly what the platform throws, because `WorkForegroundUpdater`'s own comment says it
propagates the exception to the caller and `ListenableFuture.await()` unwraps the
`ExecutionException` on the way. Moving `setForeground` back above the `try` turns all four of
those red with a bare `android.app.ForegroundServiceStartNotAllowedException`, which is the same
line the device logged.

Four comments claimed the old behaviour and are corrected with it. `ConversionState.Waiting`
said the budget had run out; `observe()`'s ENQUEUED branch said the budget was the likely cause,
where a denied restart is now the likelier of the two; and `Reattachment.choose` justified
excluding FAILED partly on interrupted workers coming back FAILED "rather than retried", which is
the sentence this commit falsifies. The exclusion stands on its own and says so now.

The bound's own KDoc says what giving up does *not* buy, too. `FOREGROUND_DENIED` reports through
a FAILED job and `Reattachment` excludes FAILED, so a user who was not watching at the eleventh
attempt meets an empty screen rather than the message. What the bound reliably buys is the end of
the retrying.

Both `Waiting` screens change their wording. The state is `ENQUEUED` with a run attempt behind
it, which cannot distinguish the two causes that now reach it, and the old copy named only the
six-hour budget -- which is now the less likely of the two. "Keeping the app open helps it along"
covers both, and for a denied start it is not filler but the actual remedy.

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2026-08-22 20:11:39 -05:00
JMR-dev 07933c80c5 Merge branch 'fix/native-boundary-guards' into scratch/integrate-d2-d3 2026-08-22 19:57:11 -05:00
JMR-devandClaude Opus 5 7db320018a Correct the JDK claim and decide the backup rules
D11's documentation and scaffold items, less the one row that belongs to
another change stream.

README's "Requires JDK 17+ (AGP 9 will not run on older)" was wrong twice
over, and `f496291` already corrected the same claim in CLAUDE.md. The floor
is not AGP's, and 17 is not what compiles anything: Gradle 9.7.1's own
`SupportedJavaVersions` carries MINIMUM_CLIENT_JAVA_VERSION = 8 and
MINIMUM_DAEMON_JAVA_VERSION = 17, and this repo then overrides the daemon
upward to 25 in gradle-daemon-jvm.properties. So the honest statement is
that the launcher floor is 8, the daemon is 25 whatever JAVA_HOME says, and
the app's bytecode is 25 -- which is what `./gradlew --version` shows on
this machine right now, launcher 21 against daemon 25.

The data_extraction_rules TODO is filled in rather than deleted, because
`android:allowBackup="true"` makes it a live question and the answer is not
"nothing to say". The app stores nothing of its own -- no settings, no
history -- so WorkManager's queue is the entire backup payload, and
restoring it is wrong rather than merely useless: every row names a
content:// grant and a cacheDir path that do not survive reaching another
device, and cacheDir is not backed up at all. Since `ec969c4` the ViewModel
queries WorkManager by tag on launch, so those rows would not sit inert
either -- a fresh install would come up reattached to a job the user never
ran on it. WorkManager declares no exclusion of its own, so nothing upstream
prevents it.

allowBackup stays true. The decision belongs in the rules file, where it is
per-file and legible to whoever adds real user data later, rather than in an
app-wide switch that would also turn off device-to-device transfer.

Each file is named instead of excluding the "database" domain in one line.
Lint's FullBackupContent detector skips an <exclude> that carries no path
without checking it, so the one-line spelling could have silently protected
nothing; the enumerated paths are ones the gate actually verifies, and they
are present in the built APK's compiled resource.

backup_rules.xml and android:fullBackupContent are deleted rather than
filled in. That attribute is only read on Android 11 and lower and minSdk is
33, so it could never have applied here -- an equally empty template that,
unlike the other one, had no live question behind it.

Not touched: OutputPublisher's hasSpaceFor KDoc, which the audit lists under
D11. That code belongs to a parked branch and another change stream.

The stale com/example/androidmediaconverter package directory needs no
commit: it is empty, and git has never tracked it because git cannot track
an empty directory. Removed from the working copy directly.

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2026-08-22 19:52:59 -05:00
JMR-devandClaude Opus 5 97fdc49f01 Guard the native boundary against what it actually throws
D14: picking a file died instead of reporting an unreadable one when
FFmpegKit's native library could not load. `probeWithFFprobe` guarded its
call with `catch (e: Exception)`, and `ConversionViewModel.onInputPicked`
guarded nothing, so the failure escaped a `viewModelScope.launch` -- which
has no handler, and on a device ends the process.

All three of the obvious narrow guards catch nothing, which is why this
needed reading the AAR rather than guessing. `NativeLoader.loadLibrary`
catches the `UnsatisfiedLinkError` that `System.loadLibrary` raises and
rethrows a *bare* `java.lang.Error` wrapping it, so `UnsatisfiedLinkError`
never escapes and the escaping type carries no information at all. Every
touch of the class after the first is a different type again --
`NoClassDefFoundError` -- so a guard written for the first shape lets the
second pick onwards crash, which is the harder half to notice. Both are in
the test output verbatim.

`catch (Throwable)` was the wrong answer for the reason the audit gave: it
would swallow a genuine `OutOfMemoryError` in a method that spawns a native
process, turning "this device is out of memory" into "this file looks
unreadable" and letting the app act on it. So the line is drawn by a named
predicate, `isNativeLoadFailure`, rather than by the catch clause -- every
class-loading shape is a `LinkageError`, and nothing that means the JVM is
failing is one. That disjointness is what makes the guard narrow.

This is consistent with the position `config/detekt/detekt.yml` already
takes for `TooGenericExceptionCaught`: the boundary's failure types are
undocumented, so guessing crashes the app on a file it could have reported.
One level up the opposite mistake is available too, and the predicate is
what lets both be avoided at once.

`TooGenericExceptionThrown` is relaxed for the test source sets only. A test
that reproduces a failed native load has to throw what the library throws,
and a tidier subclass would leave it passing against a defect it no longer
reproduces. Main source is untouched by that and throws nothing generic.

`ConversionDependencies.probe`'s KDoc is rewritten rather than left. It said
this hazard was "deliberately not fixed here ... its own commit, with its
own test", which this is -- leaving it would have replaced one true comment
with a false one, which is the same defect class as the D11 work.

Both halves are covered independently: reverting the `MediaProbe` catch
reds only the two `MediaProbeNativeLoadTest` cases, reverting the ViewModel
guard reds only the two injected-seam cases, and widening the ViewModel
guard to `Throwable` reds the OutOfMemoryError case -- so the narrowness is
pinned, not just the catch.

Audited the sibling boundaries named in the audit and left all three alone:
`FFmpegEngine` and `ConcatEngine` both construct and run under
`catch (e: Throwable)` in their workers, and `Media3Engine` has no native
loader of this kind and already routes failures through `runCatching`.

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2026-08-22 19:52:55 -05:00
JMR-dev a6baf41866 Merge branch 'fix/rotation-and-partial-publish' into scratch/integrate-d2-d3 2026-08-22 19:47:48 -05:00
JMR-devandClaude Opus 5 dbfc463c6d Delete the half-written destination instead of leaving it under the user's name
publish() streamed the staged file into the SAF destination with copyTo and had no
answer for a copy that failed partway. The destination volume filling up is the obvious
way in; a provider giving out mid-write is the other. Either way the bytes it had
managed stayed at the name the user picked, while the UI said "Could not save the file".
The user was left holding a truncated file they had just been told was never written,
and nothing in the app would ever tidy it up -- staging cleanup reaches
<cacheDir>/conversions and nowhere else, by design.

So a failed copy now deletes the document. The interesting part is not the delete, it is
what stops it, because removing a file the user already had would be a far worse defect
than the one being fixed.

  Only a document URI. DocumentsContract.deleteDocument is the only delete this code has
  any right to attempt and it is defined on document URIs, so isDocumentUri() gates it.
  That is not a formality: it asks the package manager whether anything answers
  ACTION_DOCUMENTS_PROVIDER for the authority, so a file:// path, a MediaStore item or a
  content URI from an ordinary provider all fall out here untouched.

  Only a destination that was empty when we started. The size is read BEFORE the stream
  is opened -- opening for write truncates, so afterwards the question can no longer be
  asked -- and the delete runs only when the answer was positively zero. Every
  destination that reaches publish() today comes from the SAF CreateDocument contract, so
  in practice it is a document this app created seconds earlier; but publish() cannot
  verify that from a Uri, and a provider that hands back an EXISTING document for a name
  the user re-picked would otherwise have its file deleted rather than merely truncated.
  Truncated is bad. Gone is worse, and it is the user's file either way.

  That guard fails towards doing nothing. A provider that does not report _size, a query
  that returns no row, a resolver call that throws -- all of them land in "not known to
  be empty", so the fix is conservative rather than universal: it will not clean up
  behind such a provider, and it will not delete anything of theirs either. The defect is
  closed for providers that answer a size query; ExternalStorageProvider backs its
  documents with real files, so a freshly created one reports 0, but that is reasoning
  about it rather than a run against it. Stated here rather than implied, because
  "fixed" would overclaim what was verified.

  The original failure is what the caller sees. Cleanup runs in its own runCatching and a
  throw from it is attached to the original exception as a suppressed one. deleteDocument
  reports failure two different ways -- false, or a rethrown RuntimeException -- and
  neither is worth failing the save over, because the save has already failed.
  ConversionViewModel.save() reports e.message, and "could not delete the half-written
  file" is not what to tell someone whose disk just filled up.

Two smaller decisions in the control flow. The whole `use` is guarded, not just copyTo:
a close() that throws while flushing IS the disk-full case and it arrives after copyTo
has returned successfully, so guarding only the copy would miss exactly the failure this
commit is about. The cost is that a file whose every byte reached the provider before a
failing flush is deleted too, which is the right way round -- a flush that failed means
the bytes are not durably there. And openOutputStream's own failure is deliberately
OUTSIDE the guard: nothing has been written at that point, so there is nothing of ours to
remove.

Nothing else in the class moves. hasSpaceFor, discardStaged and sweepStaging are
untouched, and so is save(): the staged file is still deliberately kept on a failed save,
for the reason its own comment gives -- it may be the only copy of an hour of
transcoding, and now the destination genuinely does not have it either.

Seven tests, JVM, Robolectric. The failure has to be injected, which is what shapes them:
Robolectric's ShadowContentResolver consults its registered-stream map before it reaches
any provider, so a test can hand out a stream that writes 512 bytes to a real file and
then throws "No space left on device" while a fake provider answers the size query and
the delete against that same file. The provider is registered twice under two authorities
and two component names, once with the ACTION_DOCUMENTS_PROVIDER intent filter and once
without, which is the only way to have a content URI that is not a document URI. The
delete is observed by the wire names DocumentsContract.deleteDocument actually sends --
"android:deleteDocument" and the "uri" extra -- because both constants are hidden from
the public SDK.

  fails partway leaves nothing        RED before the fix: expected the delete, got []
  close that fails while flushing     RED before: the file was still there
  cleanup that fails                  RED before: suppressed was []
  already held bytes is not deleted   green before the fix -- see below
  not a document is left alone        green before the fix -- see below
  cannot be opened at all             green before, and must stay so
  succeeds, every byte, no delete     green before, and must stay so

The last four are green against the unfixed code for a reason worth writing down: the old
publish() never deleted anything, so every guard passes trivially. They pin the guards
rather than the defect, and pinning is only worth something if the pin is real, so both
were reverted on their own:

  - dropping `if (destinationWasEmpty)` fails "a destination that already held bytes is
    not deleted" with "a document this app did not create must survive"
  - dropping the isDocumentUri() check fails "a destination that is not a document is
    left alone" with "deleteDocument has no business on a URI that is not a document
    expected:<[]> but was:<[content://...test.plain/document/holiday_plain.mp4]>"

Both were restored. 193 unit tests green.

UnopenableUriTest's unwritable-destination case (an authority with no provider behind it)
is unchanged and keeps passing by two independent routes: the size query on a dead
authority yields "not known to be empty", and the failure itself comes out of
openOutputStream, which sits outside the guard. It is an instrumented test and was
compile-verified here, not executed -- instrumented tests do not run on this host
(CLAUDE.md). Its JVM twin is in the list above.

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2026-08-22 19:45:17 -05:00
JMR-devandClaude Opus 5 ce4d0ff7d4 Keep the selected tab through the recreation targetSdk 37 guarantees
AppRoot held the selected tab in `remember`, which survives recomposition and nothing
else. MainActivity declares no configChanges, so every rotation and every resize
destroys and recreates the Activity, and the tab went back to Convert each time.

The KDoc directly above that line is the argument for why it matters: from targetSdk 37
Android ignores screenOrientation, resizableActivity and the aspect-ratio limits on any
display at least 600dp wide, and the Android 16 opt-out is gone, so the app is resized
and rotated whether or not it is ready. The shell was written for that case and then
lost its own state to it. Both ViewModels are Activity-scoped and come back intact, so
a conversion in flight was never at risk -- only the tab, which is what makes this
visibly wrong rather than merely stale.

rememberSaveable, with a Saver that writes the constant's NAME. Three ways to make an
enum saveable and the reasons for this one:

  - autoSaver already accepts it. An enum is Serializable, so plain
    `rememberSaveable { mutableStateOf(Destination.CONVERT) }` compiles, works, and
    passes the restoration test below unchanged. That is a reason to be explicit, not a
    reason not to be: nothing in the declaration says Destination has to stay
    Serializable, so the implicit route keeps working right up until someone makes it a
    value class or a sealed interface -- and then stops, silently, on a path only a
    rotation reaches.

  - The ordinal is a position, not an identity. Inserting a tab between Convert and Join
    would redefine every value already written down. A name only changes when someone
    renames a constant, which is an edit that shows up in a diff. It also reads as
    itself in a Bundle dump.

  - An unknown name restores to null, which rememberSaveable treats as "nothing saved"
    and falls back to Convert. That is exactly what a downgrade or a renamed constant
    leaves behind, and Convert is the right answer for it.

The test runs on the JVM, which took two changes to reach.

AppRoot and Destination are `internal` rather than `private` -- the unit test source set
is a friend of main, so this stays invisible outside the module -- and AppRoot takes its
`content` as a defaulted parameter instead of calling Content() directly. Nothing in the
app passes it. It is there because both screens resolve a ViewModel, which builds a
WorkManager and a media probe, and none of that has anything to do with which tab is
selected; the test hands in a tagged Box and drives the shell alone. Content() stays
private and is still what the app gets.

compose-ui-test-junit4 joins the JVM test source set. It was already in the catalog for
androidTest, it is inside the prerelease guard via its androidx. group, and its version
comes from the BOM, so this adds no new pinning argument. It is there because
createComposeRule() runs under Robolectric: a red test in androidTest is one nobody on
this host can execute (CLAUDE.md), which is not a loop anyone can work in.

ui-test-manifest is NOT repeated on that source set. It supplies the ComponentActivity
the rule launches, and the existing debugImplementation entry already puts it in the
merged manifest the unit tests build against -- checked by removing the line and
watching AppRootRestorationTest stay green, rather than assumed.

What the test does and does not prove. StateRestorationTester's
emulateSavedInstanceStateRestore() disposes the composition and rebuilds it, so anything
held only by `remember` is gone -- that is what makes it bite. It saves into an in-memory
map rather than parcelling through a Bundle, so it cannot tell a name from an ordinal
from autoSaver. The saved representation is pinned separately by three pure-JVM tests
over the Saver itself, which is where the choice above is actually held down.

Verified by writing it red first, against the restructured AppRoot with `remember` still
in place: all three restoration tests failed at the post-restore assertion with
"Expected exactly '1' node but could not find any node that satisfies:
(TestTag = 'content:JOIN')", while every assertion before the restore -- including the
bar's own selected state -- passed. Six new tests, 186 green in all.

Not addressed here, and deliberately: MainActivity still declares no configChanges, and
should not. Handling the configuration change is not the same as keeping one enum, and
Compose's saved-state machinery is the mechanism the platform intends for it.

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2026-08-22 19:45:13 -05:00
JMR-dev 308333cb49 Merge commit '8bc2a33' into scratch/integrate-d2-d3 2026-08-22 19:09:09 -05:00
JMR-devandClaude Opus 5 8bc2a337d0 Merge the staging-cleanup fix, and pin the seam the two changes share
The two changes meet at one line. `pendingStaged` is recorded in the `SUCCEEDED` branch of
each ViewModel's `observe()` collector, and reattachment reaches `Converted`/`Joined`
through that same collector rather than by building the state itself -- so a job picked up
from a previous process arrives with its cleanup handle already set, and "Start over" on it
deletes the staged file exactly as it does for a conversion run in this process. Nothing had
to be added for that; it falls out of routing reattachment through `observe()`.

Which is precisely why it needed a test. The claim is structural -- one assignment, in one
function, that both changes assume -- and the conflict here was `JoinViewModel`, where the
cleanup change edits a collector body that the reattachment change had moved out of `join()`
into a private `observe()`. Resolving that by putting the assignment back in `join()` would
compile, pass every test either branch brought, and silently leak a full-size file on the one
path both changes were written for. `ReattachedCleanupTest` fails if it lands anywhere else.

Verified the way the cleanup commit verified its own wiring: deleting `pendingStaged = staged`
from `ConversionViewModel.observe()` fails "start over on a reattached conversion deletes the
staged file" alongside the two `ConversionViewModelCleanupTest` cases that share the line.
Restored, all 183 JVM tests pass.

The reattachment path also gains JVM coverage it could not have had before this merge, since
Robolectric and the `ConversionDependencies` seams arrived with it: a ViewModel constructed
after a job has already finished, with nothing left that observed it, now demonstrably reaches
`Converted` with the display name recovered from the job's tags -- on a machine where no
instrumented test can run.

Conflict resolution: both sides kept in `JoinViewModel`, with the cleanup handle declared
alongside the other fields and the reattachment `init` after them. Nothing else conflicted;
`ConversionViewModel` merged clean because the reattachment change touches the `CANCELLED` and
`FAILED` branches while the cleanup change touches `SUCCEEDED`. No build file, manifest or
`OutputPublisher` line in this merge is mine -- they arrive from the cleanup commit verbatim.

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2026-08-22 18:51:42 -05:00
JMR-dev eb37f9ebea Merge branch 'fix/reattach-unfinished-work' into scratch/integrate-d2-d3
# Conflicts:
#	app/src/main/java/org/libremediaconverter/join/JoinViewModel.kt
2026-08-22 18:45:03 -05:00
JMR-devandClaude Opus 5 ec969c41dc Reattach to conversions and joins the ViewModel did not start
The queue surviving process death is the stated reason this app uses WorkManager, and
the ViewModel was where that protection stopped. `activeWorkId` and `observer` are
plain fields, so a process reclaimed after a conversion finished came back to Idle
while the output sat in `cacheDir` with nothing in the UI able to reach it. The
realistic window is not a crash mid-transcode -- it is the job finishing, the user not
saving yet, and the process being reclaimed hours later as an ordinary background one.

Both ViewModels now query their own worker's class name on init and pick up what they
find. Nothing is persisted for it, and nothing needed to be: `WorkRequest.Builder`
seeds every request's tag set with `workerClass.name` (`tags = mutableSetOf(
workerClass.name)`, work-runtime 2.11.2), and R8 keeps those names through
work-runtime's own consumer rule, `-keepnames class * extends
androidx.work.ListenableWorker`. A UUID in a `SavedStateHandle` would have been both
more machinery and less: it cannot find work enqueued by a previous install.

What the query cannot return is the job's input. `WorkInfo` hands back id, state, tags,
progress, output and run-attempt count -- never the `Data` a request was enqueued with
-- so a ViewModel could see that a conversion existed and where its output went, but
not which file it was converting. The display name and size therefore ride on tags too,
which is the whole of the production change to the request builders. The picked `Uri`
deliberately does not: nothing in a reattached state reads it, and a `content://` grant
taken by a picker in a process that no longer exists is not something to hand back as
though it still worked.

The decision is a pure function on the JVM test stack, following `FailureOutcome`:
`Reattachment.choose` takes what WorkManager reported and answers which job, if any.
Cancelled work is excluded -- the user already said no. Failed work is excluded, which
matters more than it looks now that a device has shown an interrupted worker coming
back FAILED rather than retried, its restart's `setForeground` refused as a background
foreground-service start: nothing marks a failure as seen, so it would otherwise
reappear on every launch. A success whose staged file is gone is excluded, because a
Save button that fails on tap is worse than no button. Live work outranks a finished
result, since a running job holds a foreground notification and someone opening the app
while that notification is in the shade is looking for that conversion.

Where several jobs qualify, the newest staged file wins, and that is not a detail.
Losing a tie is not the same as waiting for the next launch: the tag query has no
`ORDER BY`, so its order is unspecified but stable, and an arbitrary winner would keep
winning every launch while the other result stayed unreachable for as long as its file
existed. It is reachable today -- dismiss one result with "Start over", which leaves its
file behind, then convert something else and do not save it. `WorkInfo` carries no
timestamp of any kind, but the edge is already stat'ing the file, so the file's own
mtime is the ordering. A clock that moves backwards makes it a heuristic; an order that
is unspecified and repeats itself is worse.

Aliases are the tie that does not resolve, and that case is not hypothetical. A tag
query on a device returned two SUCCEEDED jobs whose output paths were both
`.../conversions/input_converted.mp4`, with one file on disk -- the staging name is
derived from the input's display name, so a later job overwrites an earlier one's output
and both go on reporting it. Checking the file does not separate them, and neither does
its mtime, since they share it. So the two halves are separated instead. The file is
offered, because it is the user's file either way and losing it is the defect being
fixed; the label is not, because saying which job produced it would be a guess.
`Reattachment.Ambiguous` says so and the card falls back to a neutral name rather than
borrowing the other job's. Aliases whose tags are identical -- the ordinary case, the
same file converted twice -- stay attributed, since nothing turns on which wrote it.

Age is not filtered on, and cannot be: WorkManager keeps finished work about a week and
prunes on its own schedule, so a query in a fresh process routinely returns jobs from
earlier sessions. Whether the staged file is still there is the only signal separating a
result still worth offering from one already dealt with, which is why that check carries
the weight.

Two smaller behaviours fall out of reattaching rather than starting:

  - A reattached job that is cancelled lands on Idle rather than Ready. Ready would put
    a Convert button over an input URI that belongs to a dead process. `observe()` takes
    the cancelled destination as a defaulted parameter, so a job started here is
    unchanged.

  - A FAILED job's message falls back when blank, not only when absent. A worker killed
    before it can report leaves no output data at all, and an exception's message can be
    the empty string; both used to reach the screen as a failure with nothing said.

Deliberately not fixed here, each being its own change: the save dialog's suggested name
and MIME still come from the current picker rather than from the job that ran, so a
reattached job in a non-default format is offered the default extension; a result
dismissed with "Start over" still keeps its staged file, so it can be offered again next
launch -- the file check closes that for free once the file is deleted; and
`setForeground` still sits outside `doWork`'s try, so its throw bypasses the retry
decision entirely.

Tested where it can be. 28 JVM tests cover the choice and the tag round trip, including
the ordering, the aliasing rules and a display name that looks like another tag. The
reattachment itself is instrumented: a ViewModel constructed against the real
WorkManager is the next launch, with no memory of the work. `WorkManagerTestInitHelper`
is deliberately not used -- its `setDelegate` replaces the singleton for the whole
process, which would quietly turn `ConversionWorkerTest` into a synchronous test double
depending on class order.

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2026-08-22 18:43:10 -05:00
JMR-devandClaude Opus 5 cfd705af05 Delete staged output the user never saved, instead of waiting for the OS
Every conversion writes a full-size file into <cacheDir>/conversions/. save()
published it and deleted it, but reset() -- what the "Start over" button on the
Converted and Joined states calls -- dropped the File reference and left the file
behind. Converting something and deciding not to save it is an ordinary path
through the UI, so it leaked a full-size copy every time. cacheDir is evictable,
so this was never unbounded growth; it was the app relying on the OS to clean up
after it, and on a device under no storage pressure "eventually" means never.

OutputPublisher.clearStaging() was written for exactly this and called from
nowhere. It is NOT wired up here -- it is deleted. It emptied the directory
unconditionally, and the convert tab, the join tab and ConcatEngine's
concat_list.txt all share that directory with no per-job namespacing (D8), so a
blanket delete could take a file out from under a running job. Two narrower
methods replace it:

  discardStaged(file)  one file, guarded. The handle reaches the ViewModel as a
                       path string in WorkInfo.outputData and becomes a File with
                       nothing checking where it points, so this compares the
                       CANONICAL parent against the staging dir -- the naive
                       string comparison accepts conversions/../elsewhere.

  sweepStaging(now)    age-based, for orphans no ViewModel is left to clean up.

The cleanup handle is a ViewModel field, not something read back out of the state
machine, because the state machine cannot answer it on the path that needs it
most: a failed save lands on Failed(message), which carries no file reference at
all. On that path the file is deliberately kept -- it may be the only copy of an
hour of transcoding and the destination did not receive it, so deleting to tidy a
cache directory would destroy the work. It stays collectable by a later reset()
or by the sweep.

The sweep runs once per process from a new Application subclass, off the main
thread. The reason it cannot race a live job is the grace period, not ordering:
WorkManager initialises through androidx.startup's InitializationProvider, a
ContentProvider, so it is already up before onCreate() and can be resuming a
worker in this same process while the sweep runs. StagingSweep only collects a
file nothing has written to for 24 hours. Outputs are written continuously and
keep their own mtime fresh; concat_list.txt is the one file written once and then
only read, and a WorkManager attempt is capped by the six-hour foreground-service
budget with retries restarting doWork() from the top, so no attempt can hold a
file still for a day. sweepStaging() also re-reads each timestamp immediately
before deleting, closing the window between listing the directory and acting on
the list -- unlinking an inode a running job still holds open would end with the
job reporting success for a path that no longer exists.

The rule itself is a pure function over (name, lastModifiedMs) pairs and a clock.
Timestamps are values rather than Files so the tests measure the arithmetic --
the grace boundary, and a clock that moved backwards -- rather than the
filesystem's mtime granularity.

Tests cover the tool AND the wiring, because the wiring is where the defect was.
A pure rule test and a Robolectric test of OutputPublisher both stay green when
the discardStaged call is deleted from reset(), which would have made the number
read as coverage of a bug that was still there. So both ViewModels are driven --
through a real WorkManager, to Converted/Joined -- and then asserted on the
filesystem: Start over deletes the staged file; a successful save leaves nothing
to delete twice; a failed save keeps the file and a later reset collects it, which
pins the argued decision above rather than leaving it as a comment. Verified by
deleting the discardStaged line from both reset() methods: 4 of the 6 fail with
"reset() should have discarded exactly the staged file expected:<[...]> but
was:<[]>", and the two save-path tests correctly stay green.

Three things made that reachable, all reusing what was already here:

  - Both ViewModels now resolve their publisher through ConversionDependencies,
    like the workers already did. They were the only place bypassing the seam.
  - MediaProbe joins that seam too. It spawns FFprobe, and FFmpegKit's loader
    throws a bare java.lang.Error when the native library is absent -- which its
    own `catch (e: Exception)` cannot catch, so every JVM test died on the file
    pick. Instrumented tests are unaffected and still get the real probe.

    That error path is a LATENT PRODUCTION HAZARD, recorded in the KDoc and
    deliberately not fixed here: onInputPicked does not catch it either, so a
    missing .so would surface as an uncaught error rather than the "could not read
    this file" the code was written to give. It cannot fire on a device that ships
    the libraries, so widening MediaProbe's catch to Throwable would change the
    pick path on the strength of a condition no user meets. Its own commit.
  - reset()'s cleanup dispatcher is a constructor parameter defaulting to
    Dispatchers.IO, which makes the delete assertable and states the ordering --
    Idle is published synchronously, the delete is dispatched -- as a decision
    rather than an accident. @JvmOverloads keeps the single-argument constructor
    that viewModel()'s AndroidViewModelFactory looks up reflectively.

androidx-work-testing was already in the catalog and already inside the prerelease
guard via its androidx. group, so it needed no new pinning argument.

Robolectric is added for the one assertion no pure function can make: that the
file is really gone from a real cacheDir. It is PINNED at 4.16.1 and belongs with
ktlint/detekt/jacoco rather than the floating libraries. The prerelease guard in
app/build.gradle.kts only covers androidx., junit and com.arthenica, so
org.robolectric is unguarded and a "4.+" would resolve to 4.17-beta-3; beyond
that, a bump changes which android-all jar the tests execute against, which is the
same "a tool moved under a diff that cannot explain it" failure the linters are
pinned for.

Two things Robolectric needed. testOptions did not exist in this module at all;
it now sets isIncludeAndroidResources so the merged manifest and resource table
reach the JVM tests, and grants --enable-native-access, which Java 25 otherwise
warns about four times per run when Robolectric's native runtime calls
System.load(). And robolectric.properties pins sdk=36: Robolectric defaults to the
manifest's targetSdk of 37, there is no android-all jar for 37, and the class
fails to initialise before any test body runs. 36 is where CI's emulator matrix
already stops, so this does not widen the gap -- API 37 was already a manual check
on the Pixel 10 Pro XL before each release.

Known and left alone: a conversion that fails inside the worker never reaches
Converted, so pendingStaged is never set and any partial output relies on the
sweep alone. reset()'s delete is also fire-and-forget on viewModelScope, so it is
cancelled if the Activity finishes first. The sweep is the backstop for both.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 18:40:29 -05:00