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M10.7a: link/unlink a server — device auth + sync_state (task 2104)
The pairing step. Nothing else in the sync arc can move until this works.

sync/state.rs owns the link record in the sync_state row M10.4 already put
in the local schema. Two safety properties are the reason it isn't just
three setters:

- Linking a DIFFERENT server resets the change-feed cursor. A cursor is only
  meaningful against the server that issued it; carrying one across would
  silently skip every change on the new server below that watermark — data
  loss wearing the costume of a successful sync. Re-linking the SAME server
  (a token refresh) keeps it, so a routine re-auth doesn't force a full
  re-download.
- Unlink clears the cursor too, so a later link can't inherit a watermark
  from a server that never issued it.

An unparseable or absent cursor reads as 0 (full sync). That direction is
always safe: a redundant re-sync costs time, a too-high cursor costs notes.
Likewise a half-written row (server but no token) reports NOT linked.

state::Status deliberately has no device_token field — it crosses into the
webview, and a long-lived bearer token has no business reachable from page
scripts. A test asserts the token never appears in its serialization.

Token lives in the app-data SQLite file, not an OS keyring: the keyring
crate needs libsecret/DBus on Linux, which adds a C dependency to a binary
that has to cross-compile and fails outright on headless/minimal-WM setups —
the same class of environment assumption behind the black-window bug.

sync_link runs the M10.6 handshake FIRST and refuses an incompatible server
before any credential is sent. Two credential paths, because neither covers
everyone: device-login (a fresh install has no session to mint a token from)
and a pasted token (some users would rather not type a password into a
desktop app). A pasted token is verified against /api/auth/me before being
stored — auth.py's login_required accepts bearer — since an unverified paste
would turn a copy/paste slip into a failure surfacing at the next sync, far
from its cause.

The store lock is taken only after all network work: a std MutexGuard isn't
Send so it cannot cross an await, and holding the store for a round-trip
would freeze every note operation in the UI.

Unlink is LOCAL only — the token stays valid server-side until revoked under
Account -> Linked devices. A pasted token arrives without its device id, so
a reliable remote revoke isn't possible from here; the UI must say so rather
than imply a revoke that didn't happen. Follow-up filed.

No UI yet — that's M10.7e.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SreJkbxB4gx8pPsu8QbLPi
2026-07-25 23:35:51 -04:00
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ThoughtSync desktop (Tauri v2)

Local-first desktop client. The window loads the shared Vue 3 frontend from ../frontend; the Rust core (src-tauri) owns the on-device store and the opt-in sync engine (built out across the M10 milestone). Works fully offline; optionally syncs to a self-hosted ThoughtSync server.

Layout

desktop/
  src-tauri/
    Cargo.toml
    build.rs
    tauri.conf.json          # frontendDist -> ../../frontend/dist, devUrl :5173
    capabilities/default.json
    src/
      main.rs                # thin shim -> lib::run()
      lib.rs                 # tauri::Builder entry point

The Vue frontend is the sibling ../frontend package, shared with the web build. On desktop it is backed by a local data source via frontend/src/adapters/ (M10.3) instead of the server REST API. frontend and src-tauri are siblings, not nested, so the beforeDev/beforeBuild commands cd "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/frontend" to resolve regardless of the CLI's working directory.

Prerequisites

The toolchain (Rust + Node + WebKitGTK 4.1 + tauri-cli) is provided by the ci-tauri CI image. For local dev: install Rust + Node, cargo install tauri-cli, and the Tauri v2 Linux system deps — see CI-tauri/Dockerfile in the CI-runner repo for the exact apt list (libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev, libgtk-3-dev, librsvg2-dev, libayatana-appindicator3-dev, libxdo-dev, patchelf, ...).

Dev

cd desktop/src-tauri && cargo tauri dev

beforeDevCommand starts the Vite dev server (port 5173) in ../frontend.

Build (Linux)

cargo tauri icon "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/frontend/public/icon.svg"
cd desktop/src-tauri && cargo tauri build   # -> .deb + .AppImage

App icons are generated from the frontend's icon.svg via cargo tauri icon (not committed; CI does this before cargo tauri build). Bundle targets: deb, appimage (Linux-first; Windows/macOS later, no code changes expected).

Status

Scaffold (M10.2): boots the shared Vue UI in a native window. Until the local data adapter lands (M10.3 + M10.5) the app has no server configured, so it shows the login screen without a working backend — full offline functionality arrives with the local SQLite store (M10.4) + adapters/local.ts (M10.5).