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vdm/contracts/fixtures
samiandClaude Sonnet 5 6db304a0ae proto: widen error-on-paused for ADR 0013's auto-pause signal (1.3.0)
DAEMON's docs/adr/0013-task-state-machine-ownership.md needs a wire signal
for the difference between a paused task the daemon entered unilaterally
(auth_required, server_file_changed, disk_full) and one that was requested
(user, schedule, queue stop, admission reconcile) -- without it, DAEMON's §3
resume rule ("resume only when the reason matches the event that justifies
resuming") has nothing correctness-preserving to key on, and would have to
guess from timing. CORE has already accepted the ADR; this was the sole
remaining blocker per DAEMON's own status line on it.

No retype, no new field -- error was already TaskError | null on both
event.task.state and TaskSummary, exactly as DAEMON characterized the ask.
Only the *description* of when it is populated widens: previously "failed or
retry_wait", now also "paused, when the daemon entered it on its own
initiative". A deliberate pause still carries error: null. TaskError's own
top-level description gets the same widening, since it previously also said
"failed or retry_wait" and would otherwise contradict the field that embeds
it.

New fixture (event.task.state.auto-paused.json) exercises the case directly:
an auth_required pause with error populated, contrasted in its own
description against download.pause.json's error: null for a requested pause.
The existing event.task.state.json fixture's first assertion was stale
("error is present exactly when failed or retry_wait") and is corrected.

Minor bump, 1.2.0 -> 1.3.0: a description widening on an already-nullable,
already-optional field changes no JSON Schema shape, but it is a real
behavioral commitment change worth a version bump so downstream regenerates
and notices, per the same reasoning ADR 0010 applied to TaskErrorCode.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012fgjnqFCS5h5L7gZTZo3rV
2026-09-10 00:04:35 +04:00
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contracts/fixtures — golden request/response pairs

Every method has at least one success fixture. A method with no fixture is not done.

These files are replayed by tests/conformance/ against both the generated C++ and a live server, which is what lets four lanes build in parallel and still be compatible: green fixtures mean the C++ daemon and the TypeScript extension agree, without either having ever run against the other. tools/mockd also answers from them, so the GUI and extension are developed against the same bytes conformance asserts.

Layout

fixtures/
├── *.json          one success fixture per method
├── errors/         error cases: auth, transport, not-found, bad path, timeout
└── events/         one fixture per server-to-client notification

Shape

{
  "name": "download.add — start an ISO now, into the Programs category",
  "description": "Why this case is worth pinning.",
  "transport": "uds",          // optional: replay only on this transport
  "requires": "...",           // optional: a condition a plain server cannot produce
  "kind": "timeout",           // optional: the correct behaviour is *no reply*
  "request":  { "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 11, "method": "download.add", "params": { } },
  "response": { "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 11, "result": { } },
  "assertions": [ "things a runner or a reviewer should check" ]
}

An event fixture carries notification instead of request/response.

assertions are prose, for the human writing the implementation. The runners check the machine-checkable parts: schema validity, error codes, shape, and the timeout.

Placeholders

Some values cannot be pinned in a golden file. These stand in for them, and the runners treat them as "any value of the right shape":

Placeholder Means
$uuid any UUID
$isoDate any RFC 3339 date-time
$opaque a credential-shaped string (a token)
$any any value
$taskId, $taskId2 a task the runner creates during setup, and binds before replaying

$taskId exists so a fixture never depends on a task id that only happens to exist in a seeded mock. The same fixture then runs against an empty veloxd and a populated mockd.

Values are matched by shape, not by equality

A live daemon returns its own task ids and its own clock. Demanding byte-identical results would only teach the suite to lie, so the runners assert:

  • the payload passes the generated validator — this is the real cross-language check;
  • the key structure matches the golden file, with no extra and no missing fields;
  • error codes match exactly.

A null where the golden shows a value is accepted: the validator has already ruled on whether null is legal there, and a golden file shows one plausible value, not the only one.

requires: fixtures a mock cannot produce

Most error fixtures are intrinsic — a path outside the allowed roots, an out-of-range parameter, an unknown task id — and any correct server produces them from the request alone. Those are replayed everywhere.

Four are environmental: a 403 from an origin server, a full disk, a pairing lockout, a wedged daemon. They carry requires, are skipped by default, and are exercised where the condition can actually be arranged — run.sh starts a deliberately slow mockd to prove capture.offer fails open, and lane PKG/QA's tools/testserver covers the hostile-server cases in tests/integration/.

errors/capture.offer.timeout.json is the most important file in this directory. Its correct response is no response: past 750 ms the extension must abandon the offer and let Firefox download normally. A download manager that eats downloads when its daemon is down is worse than no download manager.