Guards that see what they missed: tokens for weight and fade, plain refusals, no dead texts, clip-aware layout rules by donislawdev · Pull Request #94 · donislawdev/ChronoMock

donislawdev · 2026-10-06T09:36:18Z

Four findings from verifying R4/19 and R4/21 (#93), each a guard or an instrument that said less than it seemed to. One commit per finding.

What changes

A weight, a face and a fade are tokens (4789f3d). Five FontWeight="SemiBold", two FontFamily="Segoe MDL2 Assets" and seven literal opacities sat in place beside a weight token nobody had to use. They now come from Values.xaml (OpacityDisabled, OpacityVeilHover/Pressed, OpacityVeilHoverQuiet/PressedQuiet, FontFamilyIcons, FontWeightHeading), and XamlLiteralGuard has five more rules: weight, family and opacity, in an attribute and in a setter. Zero opacity stays allowed, like a zero margin. No pixel moves: every render of the state sheet is byte for byte the same before and after, and the comparison itself was checked against a changed disabled opacity, which it caught.

A preset or a calendar that cannot be read is refused in the file's own words (49fa82b). Measured on every position serde reads (19 preset cases, 11 calendar cases): fourteen Rust types reached the author (expected struct PresetTextDto, untagged enum BaseDto, NameDto, RuleDto...) plus i64, u32, map, sequence and unit variant, expected newtype variant. Every DTO now carries #[serde(expecting)] (no new dependency), and calendar::json_refusal puts the place first and translates the rest:

bad preset JSON at line 7, column 67: invalid type: string "Start", expected a text in each
language - an object like {"en": "...", "pl": "..."} with en required

A test reads both files and refuses a DTO without its own words. Three more refused files in the test catalogue. CHANGELOG under Changed.

Every translation is reached by the window or the core (fe32be4). Nothing checked that a text that exists is used. The new test in wire_keys.rs holds every key of Strings.en.json to a road that can put it on the screen: a key the core emits, family.err.something from an engine refusal, a view's resource reference, a quoted C# literal outside comments, or one of four named build rules (calc.variant, calc.reading, calc.sig, calc.weekday) whose words come from the Rust that writes them and which count only while the C# builder is there. First run: seventeen dead texts, all left by the move to three phases (e0bbbae), each checked against the control that replaced it. Removed from both languages.

The layout rules know which way a viewer scrolls, and see a control cut in part (89071c0). One "some ancestor scrolls" flag excused content cut at the side of a column that scrolls down only, and the hard-clip rule saw only a control gone entirely - which is how the parameter row cut at the card's edge passed every rule. Each element now carries the axes of its nearest scroll viewer, that viewer's presenter is a hard clip in each axis it does not scroll, the off-surface and spill rules excuse only the scrolling axis, and PartlyPastAHardClip finds a control cut in part (one finding per control, not per template part). Complaints quote the element's words. ClipRuleTests checks the instrument on built trees, and the parameter rows are now held to the general rules on a filled calculator at its narrowest.

Found by the new guards, listed and not fixed here

"90 business day". The unit list leaves 78 px for its text and "business days" needs 85, so the final "s" disappears under the chevron and the window states a singular - in the builder and in the parameter row, at every window width. Listed in ParameterRowLayoutTests.KnownDefects, checked from both ends. It belongs to the amount and unit component, next.
target.missing. The recent-application list stopped marking a target whose file is gone in e0bbbae. RecentTarget.IsMissing is still computed and tested, and no view shows it. Listed in UNREACHED in wire_keys.rs until it is decided whether the marker comes back or the text and the property go.

Evidence

tools/gates.ps1 13/13 (test-rust 931 to 936, test-cs 829 to 838, ceilings unchanged).
39 reversal probes, all red in one pass: each new rule blinded, each literal put back, each DTO stripped of expecting, the refusal place moved back, a new orphan in both languages and one only mentioned in a comment, a build rule without its builder, one flag for both axes, a viewport without its clip, partial cut seen only whole, template parts as separate controls, the known defect fixed but still listed, a complaint without the element's words. Putting the pre-R4/19 parameter row back reddens the general rules on the real calculator (row 278 px in 268, unit list cut at the card's edge) - the defect they were blind to when it shipped.
Measured and dropped: a rewrite for "expected fewer elements in array" was unreachable (serde_json says "trailing characters" for an over-long list), so it is not there.
First runs that were wrong and why: the orphan guard named three live texts dead (.now sits in the core scan's file-name list for performance.now), so the window's scan has its own shape check. LayoutGuardTests hit the class coupling ceiling with the new canaries, so they live in ClipRuleTests. The window's own count of refused test-catalogue files (32) is a second consumer of the golden answer and moved to 35.

Not covered, said plainly

A design value written as a property element (<TextBlock.FontWeight>) is not scanned. There is none today.
A JSON syntax error keeps serde_json's own words ("expected value", "trailing characters"). They name no Rust type, and some are vague.
A NESTED object written as a list in field order ("moment": ["today", []]) is still read by position. The top level of a preset or calendar file is an object only since the review round, but wrapping every nested value would mean wrapping all of serde's access traits, for a shape nobody writes by accident. Measured: it loads.
The parameter row's general-rules test runs at the calculator's floor only. Sweeping the filled calculator and the session panel across window sizes is the next change.

Review round (`2aa5144`)

CodeRabbit: three inline comments, all three right on the point, all fixed in one commit and one push after the review. Each checked on the code before the change, and the two that could be measured in both directions were.

A positional preset list loads (preset.rs). Confirmed on the binary: nine values in field order loaded as a preset, and so did a nested moment written as a list. The likelier mistake was worse - a file holding a LIST of presets was read as one preset whose schema was the first object, and refused with "expected a string". Fixed at the top level for presets and calendars alike: calendar::from_object reads the top level through a small Deserializer adapter that answers a struct from an object only, so a list is refused as a list in the struct's own words. Taken further than the comment for the calendar half, and not as far for nesting (see Not covered above). Found while fixing: serde_json reports column 0 for a file refused on its first character, which now reads as column 1. Tests: the nine-value list and a list of presets are refused like [], a list of calendars too, and a nested empty list keeps the length path covered.
Commented-out references count as reached (wire_keys.rs). Right on all three counts: only whole comment lines were left out, so a key behind a trailing // or inside /* */ or a view's  kept a dead text alive, and a build rule counted while its builder was only a comment. Comments are now taken out first - strings kept whole, including addresses with //, verbatim strings with doubled quotes, raw strings, escaped quotes and a quote in a character literal - and the builder is looked for in the code. Measured in both directions: with the old scan an orphan behind a trailing comment passed, with the new one it is named. The comment asked for a test that disabling a builder exposes its keys: that is a reversal probe here (a builder replaced, and one left only in a comment, both redden the guard), not a test in the suite, because the suite reads the real files.
The date field is one control (LayoutProbe.cs). Right, and wider than the suggestion: the application has three inputs made of parts - the date field, the moment input and the search box - and all three are now one control to the partial-clip rule. A new canary cuts a date field at a viewport's edge and gets one finding, named DateInput.

Additional comments: nine, eight of them LGTM, and one CodeRabbit refuted itself (a Polish-only key is already caught by English_and_Polish_have_the_same_key_set).

After the round: tools/gates.ps1 13/13 (test-rust 937, test-cs 839), eight more reversal probes, all red (the nine-value list and the calendar list loading again, column 0, an orphan behind a view comment, a trailing comment and a block comment, a builder only in a comment, the date field as parts), and the whole set of 47 red in one pass after the round.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

Bug Fixes
- Improved error messages for unreadable calendar and preset files. Messages now show the JSON location first and describe the expected format in file-oriented terms.
- Updated affected command output to make clear which files were omitted when loading fails.
Documentation
- Updated the unreleased changelog with the affected commands and file-error details.

…rd knows them Five semibold weights, two icon faces and seven opacities were written in place beside a weight token nobody had to use. They now come from Values.xaml: OpacityDisabled, the primary action's veil (OpacityVeilHover, OpacityVeilPressed), the title-bar action's quieter one (OpacityVeilHoverQuiet, OpacityVeilPressedQuiet), FontFamilyIcons, and FontWeightHeading for every weight. XamlLiteralGuard gets five rules - font-weight, font-family and opacity, in an attribute and in a setter. A zero opacity stays allowed, like a zero margin: it is the resting state of a veil. The calendar glyph's allowance follows its line. The pixels do not move: every render of the state sheet is byte for byte the same before and after, and the comparison was checked against a changed disabled opacity, which it caught. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

…n the file's own words A value of the wrong JSON type was refused with the name of a Rust type - "expected struct PresetTextDto", "data did not match any variant of untagged enum BaseDto", "expected u32" - on the command line and in the window's list of files left out. Measured on every position serde reads: fourteen types of ours, plus i64, u32, map, sequence and "unit variant, expected newtype variant". Every DTO of a hand-written file now names what it expects (#[serde(expecting)], no new dependency), and calendar::json_refusal puts the place first, says list and object where serde says sequence and map, a whole number where it says i64, and a list where it complained about a length: bad preset JSON at line 7, column 67: invalid type: string "Start", expected a text in each language - an object like {"en": "...", "pl": "..."} with en required Calendars are in, for the same reason: they are the catalogue people outside the project write. A test reads both files and refuses a DTO without its own words. Three more refused files in the test catalogue hold the new wordings on the catalogue's path, and the window's count of them follows. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

The guards asked whether a key that is used has its text, and nothing asked whether a text that exists is used. So a text whose control was taken away stayed behind in both languages and went on being translated and reworded. wire_keys.rs now holds every key of Strings.en.json to one of the roads that can put it on the screen: a key the core emits, an engine refusal turned into family.err.something, a view's DynamicResource or StaticResource, a quoted literal in the application's or the protocol client's C# (comment lines left out), or one of four named rules by which the window builds a key from a word (calc.variant, calc.reading, calc.sig, calc.weekday). Each rule takes its words from the Rust that writes them and counts only while the C# that builds the key is still there. Its first run named seventeen texts nothing reaches, all left behind by the move to three phases, each checked against the control that replaced it. They are gone from both files. One more, target.missing, is not dead text but a marker the recent-application list stopped showing, and it is listed with that reason until it is decided. The window's scan takes the key shape without the file-name suffixes the core's scan needs, because .now is on that list for performance.now and action.now is a key. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

…a control cut in part The layout instrument had one flag for "some ancestor scrolls", and a scroll viewer was never a clip. So content cut at the side of a column that scrolls down only passed as content below the fold, and the hard-clip rule saw only a control gone entirely. The parameter row cut at the card's edge at the window's minimum width passed every rule for both reasons. Now each element carries the axes of its nearest scroll viewer, which replace the ones from further up, and that viewer's presenter is a hard clip in every axis it does not scroll. The off-surface and spill rules excuse only the axis that scrolls. A new rule finds a control the user acts on cut in part by an edge it cannot be scrolled past, one finding per control rather than one per template part. A complaint now quotes the words the element shows. ClipRuleTests checks the instrument on trees built to break each rule, and the parameter rows are now also held to the general rules, on a filled calculator at its narrowest. Putting the old row back reddens them on the cut unit list. They also found a defect nobody had seen: the unit list leaves 78 px for "business days", which needs 85, so the window reads "90 business day". It is listed with its reason until the amount and unit pair is reworked. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

coderabbitai · 2026-10-06T09:36:37Z

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Walkthrough

The pull request updates preset and calendar JSON diagnostics, GUI layout checks, localization-key reachability tests, and shared XAML visual resources. It also adjusts localization entries and adds tests and fixtures for these changes.

Changes

JSON file diagnostics

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Describe expected JSON shapes `crates/cli/src/calendar.rs`, `crates/cli/src/preset.rs`	Calendar and preset DTOs now provide file-oriented descriptions of expected JSON shapes.
Format parse refusals and verify diagnostics `crates/cli/src/calendar.rs`, `crates/cli/src/preset.rs`, `crates/cli/tests/data/preset-catalogue.json`, `crates/cli/tests/data/preset-catalogue/*`, `gui/ChronoMock.App.Tests/PresetCatalogueTests.cs`, `CHANGELOG.md`	Calendar and preset parse errors use a shared location-first formatter. Catalogue cases and fixtures cover malformed JSON shapes and updated location formats.

GUI layout checks

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Track axis scrolling and clipping `gui/ChronoMock.App.Tests/LaidOutElement.cs`, `gui/ChronoMock.App.Tests/LayoutProbe.cs`, `gui/ChronoMock.App.Tests/LayoutReport.cs`	The probe records scrolling by axis, clipping, and standalone controls. Layout reports include shortened element text when available.
Apply overflow and clipping rules `gui/ChronoMock.App.Tests/LayoutRules.cs`, `gui/ChronoMock.App.Tests/LayoutGuardTests.cs`, `gui/ChronoMock.App.Tests/SizeSweep.cs`	Layout checks report overflow on unscrolled axes and distinguish partial clipping from complete clipping. Inspection and size-sweep results include partial-clip findings.
Test clipping and scenario layouts `gui/ChronoMock.App.Tests/ClipRuleTests.cs`, `gui/ChronoMock.App.Tests/ParameterRowLayoutTests.cs`	New tests cover scroll direction, partial clipping, and calculator scenario layouts at minimum width.

Localization-key reachability

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Scan GUI localization key sources `crates/cli/tests/wire_keys.rs`	The scanner extracts keys from XAML and C# files and supports generated-key rules based on source words.
Check reached translation keys `crates/cli/tests/wire_keys.rs`, `gui/ChronoMock.App/Localization/Strings.en.json`, `gui/ChronoMock.App/Localization/Strings.pl.json`	A reachability test compares English translation keys with scanned keys and checks explicit exceptions. The English and Polish localization files remove the listed entries.

Shared XAML visual resources

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Define and use shared visual resources `gui/ChronoMock.App/Themes/Values.xaml`, `gui/ChronoMock.App/Themes/Controls.xaml`, `gui/ChronoMock.App/Controls/ClockTile.xaml`, `gui/ChronoMock.App/Views/AboutDialog.xaml`, `gui/ChronoMock.App/Views/MessageDialog.xaml`	Shared resources now provide icon fonts, heading weight, and opacity values used by controls and views.
Guard literal typography and opacity `gui/ChronoMock.App.Tests/XamlLiteralGuard.cs`, `gui/ChronoMock.App.Tests/LiteralGuardTests.cs`	The XAML guard detects literal font and opacity values in attributes and setters. Tests cover literals, resource references, and zero opacity.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Other

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 89071

The remaining issues affect layout diagnostics, preset shape validation, and translation-key checks. They are bounded, but should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 13 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Safe File Parsing	⚠️ Warning	The new `gui_files_under` in `crates/cli/tests/wire_keys.rs` recursively uses `Path::is_dir()` (line 508), which follows directory symlinks, then reads matching files with unbounded `std::fs::read_to_…	In `gui_files_under`, use `DirEntry::file_type()` and recurse only into real directories; skip symlinks, and ensure the scanned root is the intended canonical directory. Read matching files through a bounded reader, rejecting files over an …

✅ Passed checks (13 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Tests For Changed Behavior	✅ Passed	The non-UI runtime change is limited to preset and calendar JSON refusal formatting. The PR adds wrong-type coverage for both parsers, exact-message checks, and a test that requires every deserialized…
No Secrets Or Debug Leftovers	✅ Passed	No prohibited private agent or .env files appear in the PR file inventory. The added-line scan found no credential assignments, private URLs, emails, local absolute paths, host/IP literals, or debug-o…
No Hardcoded Ui Styling	✅ Passed	PASS. The PR changes shipped XAML only to replace literal weights, icon-font names, and opacity values with shared resources. The new literal values are defined once in `Themes/Values.xaml` as shared …
No Obvious Performance Problems	✅ Passed	No clear performance problem is introduced. The GUI runtime changes replace XAML literals with static resources. The new layout and translation scans are test code, and the layout test measures a smal…
Desktop Robustness	✅ Passed	The changed runtime code only adds Serde error descriptions for preset/calendar JSON and replaces XAML literals with shared resources. Parsing failures remain returned as errors; no new settings/data …
System Changes Are Reversible	✅ Passed	The changed files add JSON diagnostics, localization and layout tests, and XAML resource tokens. The diff does not add or change code for network filters, proxies, firewalls, system time, process hook…
Clear User-Facing Text	✅ Passed	The PR changes preset and calendar refusal text. `json_refusal` puts the JSON location first and replaces Rust type names with file-oriented wording, such as “expected a preset - an object with schema…
No Resource Leaks	✅ Passed	The PR adds no event subscriptions, timers, persistent caches, or unmanaged-resource use. The production changes are XAML resource references and JSON diagnostic formatting. New collections and file r…
Scope, Duplication And Docs	✅ Passed	The changed files match the four areas described in the PR: shared XAML design tokens and literal guards, clearer preset/calendar JSON refusals, translation reachability checks, and scroll-aware layou…
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title identifies the main changes: shared weight and opacity tokens, clearer JSON refusals, removal of unreachable text, and clip-aware layout rules. It is specific and within the length limit.

Full details: Safe File Parsing

Explanation

The new gui_files_under in crates/cli/tests/wire_keys.rs recursively uses Path::is_dir() (line 508), which follows directory symlinks, then reads matching files with unbounded std::fs::read_to_string() (lines 549 and 555). A symlink under a scanned GUI directory can make the test read outside that directory or loop through a symlink cycle. A very large matching file can also exhaust memory. The preset and calendar reads use an existing 4 MiB limit; the new risk is in this translation scan.

Resolution

In gui_files_under, use DirEntry::file_type() and recurse only into real directories; skip symlinks, and ensure the scanned root is the intended canonical directory. Read matching files through a bounded reader, rejecting files over an explicit size limit before loading them. This prevents symlink traversal and limits memory use.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @crates/cli/src/preset.rs:
- Line 1255: Update parse_preset to reject top-level JSON arrays before
deserializing into PresetDto, since Serde can deserialize a positional array
with all nine fields. Add a regression test using a nine-element array of valid
field values and assert parsing fails.

Review comments at @crates/cli/tests/wire_keys.rs:
- Line 529: Update the reachability scan so commented-out references do not
count as active: in crates/cli/tests/wire_keys.rs lines 529-529, strip XAML
comments before scanning resource references; at lines 556-557, ignore trailing
and block C# comments while preserving string contents; at lines 650-651,
require an active builder expression and verify that disabling it exposes its
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Review comments at @gui/ChronoMock.App.Tests/LayoutProbe.cs:
- Around line 206-209: Update IsControl to classify DateInput as a control
alongside the existing control types, so its template parts are treated as one
control for clip findings.

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CHANGELOG.md
crates/cli/src/calendar.rs
crates/cli/src/preset.rs
crates/cli/tests/data/preset-catalogue.json
crates/cli/tests/data/preset-catalogue/base-number.json
crates/cli/tests/data/preset-catalogue/preset-as-list.json
crates/cli/tests/data/preset-catalogue/step-bare-name.json
crates/cli/tests/wire_keys.rs
gui/ChronoMock.App.Tests/ClipRuleTests.cs
gui/ChronoMock.App.Tests/LaidOutElement.cs
gui/ChronoMock.App.Tests/LayoutGuardTests.cs
gui/ChronoMock.App.Tests/LayoutProbe.cs
gui/ChronoMock.App.Tests/LayoutReport.cs
gui/ChronoMock.App.Tests/LayoutRules.cs
gui/ChronoMock.App.Tests/LiteralGuardTests.cs
gui/ChronoMock.App.Tests/ParameterRowLayoutTests.cs
gui/ChronoMock.App.Tests/PresetCatalogueTests.cs
gui/ChronoMock.App.Tests/SizeSweep.cs
gui/ChronoMock.App.Tests/XamlLiteralGuard.cs
gui/ChronoMock.App/Controls/ClockTile.xaml
gui/ChronoMock.App/Localization/Strings.en.json
gui/ChronoMock.App/Localization/Strings.pl.json
gui/ChronoMock.App/Themes/Controls.xaml
gui/ChronoMock.App/Themes/Values.xaml
gui/ChronoMock.App/Views/AboutDialog.xaml
gui/ChronoMock.App/Views/MessageDialog.xaml

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