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clients: the server hands out five platforms, not "the Android client"
`client_dist.py` was written for one platform and everything structural in it was
already right — drop-in beats baked, the pair must describe one build, absence is
an ordinary answer, metadata public and bytes authenticated. This widens it to a
table rather than building beside it. Its own docstring made the argument years
before there was a second platform: a self-hoster should not need an account on
someone else's forge to get the app for their own notes.

Server side only. CI bakes nothing new until step 3 and the UI reads nothing new
until step 4, so this lands green and inert.

Five rows — android, linux-deb, linux-pacman, linux-appimage, windows — each
naming its artifact, sidecar and mimetype. Fixed filenames, version only in the
sidecar: a version-stamped name would force a glob, and a glob over a directory an
operator drops files into is how you serve the older of two builds, which is the
failure write-manifest.sh already carries a comment about.

THE ANDROID NAMES AND ROUTE DO NOT MOVE. The lane publishes those exact filenames,
clients in the field poll /api/client/android, and `android_client` stays on
/api/config beside the new `clients` map. Renaming them to match the pattern would
buy tidiness and strand every installed phone; retiring the key belongs to a later
change made when nothing polls it, not to the change introducing its replacement.
Fields were added, not moved — `ClientRelease` in core is a plain serde struct and
ignores what it does not know.

PRECEDENCE IS PER PLATFORM, which is the trap the table introduces. "First
directory holding anything wins" would mean dropping in an APK silently retracts
the four desktop downloads. Pinned by a test.

The AppImage needs a third file. It is the only bundle that replaces itself in
place, so the updater verifies a minisign signature before it does — and a bundle
that cannot be verified cannot be offered. A missing or empty `.sig` therefore
makes it absent rather than merely unsigned, and the signature travels WITH the
version so an updater can never pair one build's version with another's signature.

The tests parametrize over the table instead of testing Android and trusting the
rest. The bugs this module can have are not platform-specific, and a suite that
only exercised one platform is how the other four would ship untested.
2026-08-30 12:52:40 -04:00

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import json
from pathlib import Path
import pytest
from thoughtsync import client_dist
from thoughtsync.app import create_app
from thoughtsync.client_dist import (
APK_NAME,
BY_ID,
MANIFEST_NAME,
PLATFORMS,
advertisement,
android_release,
release,
releases,
)
from thoughtsync.config import Config
# DB-free, like the rest of this suite — the test lane runs no Postgres. That is
# why the advertisement is asserted through `advertisement()` rather than through
# `/api/config`: the route is a one-line merge of this dict into a payload whose
# other half needs a database, and testing it here tests the part that can be wrong.
#
# The routes below ARE exercised, because none opens a session: the metadata route
# only stats files, and the download's 401 is returned before any token lookup.
PAYLOAD = b"not really a client, but the server only ever stats it"
# Every test that is about the MECHANISM rather than about one platform runs
# against all of them. The bugs this module can have — a sidecar describing a
# different build, a half-finished copy shadowing a good one — are not
# platform-specific, and a suite that only ever exercised Android is how the other
# four would ship untested.
ALL_IDS = [p.id for p in PLATFORMS]
@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
def _empty_baked_client(tmp_path, monkeypatch):
"""Point the baked-in copy at an empty directory.
In a source checkout `src/thoughtsync/client/` does not exist, so these tests
would pass anyway — but only by accident of where they are run. A built image
has real clients there, and a test that silently depends on which tree it is in
is one that will eventually lie.
"""
monkeypatch.setattr(client_dist, "BAKED_ROOT", tmp_path / "baked")
yield
@pytest.fixture
def app():
return create_app()
def place(
platform_id: str = "android",
payload: bytes = PAYLOAD,
root: Path | None = None,
signature: str | None = "a signature",
**overrides,
) -> dict:
"""Put one platform's client + sidecar where the server looks.
Overrides corrupt the pair. `signature=None` withholds the `.sig` a signed
bundle needs, which is its own failure mode rather than a variant of the others.
"""
platform = BY_ID[platform_id]
root = root if root is not None else Path(Config.client_root())
root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
(root / platform.artifact).write_bytes(payload)
meta = {
"version_name": "2026.08.30.0307",
"version_code": 3503708,
"size": len(payload),
"sha256": "ab" * 32,
}
meta.update(overrides)
(root / platform.sidecar).write_text(json.dumps(meta), encoding="utf-8")
if platform.signed and signature is not None:
(root / platform.signature).write_text(signature, encoding="utf-8")
return meta
# --- the table ---------------------------------------------------------------
def test_every_platform_has_its_own_filenames():
"""Two platforms sharing an artifact or a sidecar name would overwrite each
other in the one directory they all live in — silently, and the survivor would
be whichever was copied last."""
artifacts = [p.artifact for p in PLATFORMS]
sidecars = [p.sidecar for p in PLATFORMS]
assert len(set(artifacts)) == len(artifacts)
assert len(set(sidecars)) == len(sidecars)
assert not set(artifacts) & set(sidecars)
def test_the_android_names_are_the_ones_already_published():
"""Pinned because renaming them is a tidy-up that strands every installed phone.
The Android lane publishes these exact names and CI bakes them in under them.
"""
assert APK_NAME == "thoughtsync.apk"
assert MANIFEST_NAME == "thoughtsync-android.json"
# --- absence is an ordinary answer -------------------------------------------
@pytest.mark.parametrize("platform_id", ALL_IDS)
def test_an_absent_client_is_no_client(platform_id):
assert release(platform_id) is None
def test_a_server_holding_nothing_advertises_no_keys_at_all():
"""The KEYS are missing, not null.
A client testing for one then gets an unambiguous answer rather than having to
tell "this server has no client" apart from "this server predates the feature".
"""
assert releases() == {}
assert advertisement() == {}
@pytest.mark.parametrize("platform_id", ALL_IDS)
def test_a_sidecar_describing_a_different_build_counts_as_no_client(platform_id):
"""The likeliest real corruption: a new artifact copied over an old sidecar.
Serving one build while advertising another is worse than serving none — the
client would compare versions against a promise the bytes do not keep.
"""
place(platform_id, size=999_999)
assert release(platform_id) is None
@pytest.mark.parametrize("platform_id", ALL_IDS)
def test_an_unreadable_sidecar_counts_as_no_client(platform_id):
place(platform_id)
sidecar = Path(Config.client_root()) / BY_ID[platform_id].sidecar
sidecar.write_text("{ this is not json", encoding="utf-8")
assert release(platform_id) is None
@pytest.mark.parametrize("platform_id", ALL_IDS)
def test_a_sidecar_missing_a_field_counts_as_no_client(platform_id):
platform = BY_ID[platform_id]
root = Path(Config.client_root())
root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
(root / platform.artifact).write_bytes(PAYLOAD)
(root / platform.sidecar).write_text(json.dumps({"version_name": "x"}), encoding="utf-8")
assert release(platform_id) is None
@pytest.mark.parametrize("platform_id", ALL_IDS)
def test_a_sidecar_with_no_artifact_beside_it_counts_as_no_client(platform_id):
platform = BY_ID[platform_id]
root = Path(Config.client_root())
root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
(root / platform.sidecar).write_text(
json.dumps({"version_name": "x", "version_code": 1, "size": 1, "sha256": ""}),
encoding="utf-8",
)
assert release(platform_id) is None
def test_an_unknown_platform_is_not_a_client():
assert release("blackberry") is None
# --- what a present client reports -------------------------------------------
@pytest.mark.parametrize("platform_id", ALL_IDS)
def test_a_present_client_reports_what_a_comparator_reads(platform_id):
place(platform_id)
found = release(platform_id)
assert found["version"] == "2026.08.30.0307"
# The integer is what decides "is this newer", not the name — a name is a string
# and sorts like one.
assert found["version_code"] == 3503708
assert found["size"] == len(PAYLOAD)
assert found["platform"] == platform_id
# A PATH, not an absolute URL: the client joins it to the base it is already
# linked to, so a server cannot redirect the download elsewhere.
assert found["url"] == f"/api/client/{platform_id}/download"
assert not found["url"].startswith("http")
def test_the_android_payload_still_carries_every_field_it_used_to():
"""Phones in the field parse this. Fields may be ADDED — `ClientRelease` in
core/src/sync/client.rs is a plain serde struct and ignores what it does not
know — but none of these may move or change meaning."""
place("android")
found = android_release()
for key in ("version", "version_code", "size", "sha256", "url"):
assert key in found, key
assert found["url"] == "/api/client/android/download"
# --- the signed bundle -------------------------------------------------------
def test_the_appimage_publishes_its_signature_with_its_version():
"""One request returns both, so an updater cannot pair a version with a
signature belonging to a different build."""
place("linux-appimage", signature="minisign output here")
assert release("linux-appimage")["signature"] == "minisign output here"
def test_an_appimage_without_a_signature_is_absent_rather_than_unsigned():
"""It is the only bundle that replaces itself in place, and an update the app
cannot verify is one it will refuse. Offering it unverifiable would turn a
missing file into a failed install on the user's machine."""
place("linux-appimage", signature=None)
assert release("linux-appimage") is None
def test_an_empty_signature_file_is_not_a_signature():
"""A truncated copy leaves a zero-byte file, which reads as present."""
place("linux-appimage", signature=" \n")
assert release("linux-appimage") is None
def test_only_the_appimage_carries_a_signature():
"""A package-manager install cannot replace itself in place, so nothing verifies
one and claiming a signature would imply an update path that does not exist."""
for platform_id in ALL_IDS:
place(platform_id)
found = releases()
assert "signature" in found["linux-appimage"]
for platform_id in ALL_IDS:
if platform_id != "linux-appimage":
assert "signature" not in found[platform_id], platform_id
# --- the set, and precedence within it ---------------------------------------
def test_a_platform_the_server_lacks_is_simply_not_in_the_set():
"""Not null, not an error — a server holding some clients and not others is the
ordinary state, and the UI hides what is absent."""
place("android")
place("windows")
found = releases()
assert set(found) == {"android", "windows"}
def test_the_baked_in_copy_is_used_when_nothing_was_dropped_in():
"""The ordinary case for a self-hoster who just pulled the image."""
place("android", root=client_dist.BAKED_ROOT, version_code=300)
assert android_release()["version_code"] == 300
def test_a_dropped_in_build_beats_the_one_the_image_shipped():
"""Someone who deliberately put a build on the volume wants that build."""
place("android", root=client_dist.BAKED_ROOT, version_code=300)
place("android", version_code=99)
# Lower version and all — precedence is about intent, not about newness. An
# operator pinning an older client is doing it on purpose.
assert android_release()["version_code"] == 99
def test_precedence_is_decided_per_platform_not_for_the_whole_set():
"""THE trap this table introduces. Dropping in one client must not retract the
other four — "first directory holding anything wins" would mean overriding the
APK silently takes the desktop downloads offline."""
for platform_id in ALL_IDS:
place(platform_id, root=client_dist.BAKED_ROOT, version_code=300)
place("android", version_code=99)
found = releases()
assert found["android"]["version_code"] == 99
assert found["linux-deb"]["version_code"] == 300
assert set(found) == set(ALL_IDS)
def test_a_broken_drop_in_does_not_shadow_the_baked_copy():
"""A half-finished copy onto the volume must not take the app offline.
This is the failure the copy-order advice in docs/android-distribution.md is
about, and the server should ride it out rather than go dark.
"""
place("android", root=client_dist.BAKED_ROOT, version_code=300)
place("android", size=999_999) # sidecar describing a different build
assert android_release()["version_code"] == 300
# --- the advertisement -------------------------------------------------------
def test_the_advertisement_carries_the_whole_table():
place("linux-deb")
assert set(advertisement()["clients"]) == {"linux-deb"}
def test_the_advertisement_still_carries_the_key_phones_already_read():
"""Not deprecated in the change that introduces its replacement. An installed
Android client reads `android_client`, and one duplicated dict is what it costs
to not strand it."""
place("android")
data = advertisement()
assert data["android_client"] == data["clients"]["android"]
def test_no_android_client_means_no_android_key_even_when_others_are_present():
place("windows")
data = advertisement()
assert "android_client" not in data
assert set(data["clients"]) == {"windows"}
# --- routes ------------------------------------------------------------------
@pytest.mark.parametrize("platform_id", ALL_IDS)
async def test_metadata_endpoint_is_public_so_an_updater_can_ask_cheaply(app, platform_id):
place(platform_id)
resp = await app.test_client().get(f"/api/client/{platform_id}")
assert resp.status_code == 200
assert (await resp.get_json())["version_code"] == 3503708
@pytest.mark.parametrize("platform_id", ALL_IDS)
async def test_metadata_404s_rather_than_describing_a_client_that_is_not_there(app, platform_id):
resp = await app.test_client().get(f"/api/client/{platform_id}")
assert resp.status_code == 404
async def test_an_unknown_platform_404s_like_an_absent_one(app):
"""Same answer to the caller either way, and telling them apart would only tell
an unauthenticated stranger which platforms this build of the server knows."""
resp = await app.test_client().get("/api/client/blackberry")
assert resp.status_code == 404
async def test_the_index_returns_everything_in_one_request(app):
place("android")
place("linux-appimage")
resp = await app.test_client().get("/api/client")
assert resp.status_code == 200
assert set((await resp.get_json())["clients"]) == {"android", "linux-appimage"}
async def test_the_index_is_an_empty_set_rather_than_a_404(app):
"""A server with no clients has an answer; it is just an empty one. 404 here
would make the UI treat "nothing to offer" as a broken endpoint."""
resp = await app.test_client().get("/api/client")
assert resp.status_code == 200
assert (await resp.get_json())["clients"] == {}
@pytest.mark.parametrize("platform_id", ALL_IDS)
async def test_the_bytes_need_authentication_even_though_the_version_does_not(app, platform_id):
"""Anyone who can reach the port may ask what version exists; only an account or
a linked device may pull the payload."""
place(platform_id)
resp = await app.test_client().get(f"/api/client/{platform_id}/download")
assert resp.status_code == 401