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Real-time collaboration: authoritative server, client and presence behind a flag - #3613
Real-time collaboration for .xlsx: several people edit one workbook, see each other's
selection and active cell, and the server keeps the authoritative state, the undo history and
the committed file. The feature is behind the Cargo feature collab (off by default) and a
runtime URL/token; without them the single-user behaviour is unchanged.
Design
Authoritative server: the server applies normalised commands to one engine Session per
document, assigns the version, deduplicates by opId and broadcasts the result.
Merge vs structural: ordinary edits are previewed locally and corrected by the server's
delta; address-shifting edits (insert/delete rows, sheet rename/move, tables) are
exclusive, wait for the head version and bump an epoch that clients must catch up with.
Values are authoritative: after every operation the server sends the changed cells,
including the dependent formulas it recalculated, dynamic-array spill cells included. A
client re-runs the confirmed command through Session::apply_remote and patches only the
cached values with Session::apply_values — volatile functions, Python and
precision-as-displayed cannot diverge.
Per-user undo: the room keeps up to 200 reversible steps per participant; undo is a new
operation that restores value, formula and style only while the cells still hold what that
step left, otherwise it refuses with conflict and the client resyncs.
Reconnect: hello.lastVersion below the head makes the server catch the connection up —
journal tail when it covers the version, otherwise a chunked snapshot of the authoritative
workbook — and only then does it re-enter the live broadcast.
Persistence: one directory per file (base.xlsx, keys.json, seen.json, journal.jsonl, meta.json). Snapshots use the real writer, so everything the reader/writer
round-trips (custom XML, OLE, form controls, printer settings) survives; restart replays the
journal and verifies the version. A snapshot runs at open, every 500 operations, every _SNAPSHOT_SECS seconds and at shutdown. A takeover continues the stored document rather than
the possibly stale bytes the cabinet offers.
Observability: /metrics exposes the op → applied latency histogram (1 ms – 1 s
buckets), reconnect rate (resumes_total), catch-up split (catchups_total vs resync_snapshots_total), journal operations and bytes, base bytes and the time of the last
snapshot. The counters carry no cell values, names or tokens.
Auth: the cabinet's JWT travels in the first WebSocket message only (never in the URL),
its signature is checked before any claim is trusted; the role is re-read from the token.
UI: a trait in ui-egui (Collab) keeps the network out of the single-user build; the
desktop app links crates/collab-client behind the feature and draws other participants'
selections, the participant list and the sync state in the status bar. Viewers are refused
locally and by the server.
cargo test -p gridcraft-collab-server — 19 unit, 7 socket, 5 persistence, 5 acceptance
(two clients, viewer, bad token, lease/takeover, reconnect tail and snapshot, restart,
dynamic array, 10 000-cell range, commit that opens in LibreOffice, periodic snapshot,
latency and reconnect counters).
cargo test -p gridcraft-collab-client — 5 (two replicas converge on cells and formulas,
structural edit on both, viewer refused, per-user undo and redo).
cargo clippy --all-targets -D warnings, cargo fmt --check, cargo xtask layers
(20 crates) are clean. cargo test -p gridcraft-engine --lib is part of the run.
Desktop: build with --features collab, set GRIDCRAFT_COLLAB_URL, GRIDCRAFT_COLLAB_TOKEN,
optionally GRIDCRAFT_COLLAB_NAME.
Not in this change
The cabinet's server-to-server commit callback (the HTTP commit endpoint is here; the
outgoing call is integration work).
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New Features
Added real-time collaboration for desktop and browser sessions, including shared editing, presence indicators, participant and connection status, and viewer read-only access.
Added server-managed sessions with authentication, reconnect and catch-up, undo and redo, snapshots, and recovery after restarts.
Added session commits to publish workbooks, with conflict handling and retry support.
Collaboration is optional and remains disabled by default.
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Added guides covering collaboration setup, server configuration, architecture, and protocol decisions.
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This PR adds a collaboration stack for GridCraft. It introduces shared protocol and room logic, a collaboration server with storage and commit callbacks, native and browser clients, UI and host-bridge integration, tests, and collaboration design and operations documentation.
Changes: Real-time collaboration
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Workspace and collaboration foundations Cargo.toml, crates/collab/*, crates/engine/..., crates/model/..., crates/calc/..., AGENTS.md
Adds the shared collaboration protocol, roles, presence, room state, undo/redo, structural image transport, sheet keys, and gateway APIs. Engine and model layers add remote-apply, restoration, workbook metadata, preserved-content serialization, and changed-cell tracking used by collaboration flows.
Server routes, sessions, storage, and commit flow apps/gridcraft-collab-server/*, apps/gridcraft-collab-server/tests/*
Adds the collaboration server binary, configuration, JWT verification, lease handling, HTTP and WebSocket endpoints, metrics, logging, persistent session storage, snapshot and replay logic, and optional cabinet publication during commit. Tests cover transport, persistence, restart, cabinet callbacks, acceptance flows, and logging output.
Adds the native WebSocket client, link state, synchronized workbook replica, reconnect and snapshot handling, and desktop feature-flag wiring. UI command dispatch can route shared commands through collaboration state, and desktop presence and sync status are surfaced to the app.
Completes desktop UI integration for shared edits, host commit callbacks, and presence painting in grid panes and status UI. Test coverage validates dispatch, replica behavior, snapshots, rollback, reconnect, structural undo/redo, multi-window presence, and large image handling.
Browser client and host bridge integration crates/collab-web/*, apps/gridcraft-web/src/*, apps/gridcraft-web/Cargo.toml
Adds the browser collaboration client, browser WebSocket transport, host session state, and host bridge event delivery. The web shell now processes host session and commit events, can renew tokens for the same room, publishes collaboration state and presence to the host bridge, and wires host-triggered commit callbacks into SheetApp.
Documentation and layer metadata docs/collab/*, docs/architecture.md, xtask/src/layers.rs
Adds collaboration RFC, client and server documentation, option analysis, repository study notes, architecture entries, and layer metadata for the new crates and server app.
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Protocol on top of ADR 0001-0010: normalized command envelope, server
authoritative delta, session keys, structural queue, snapshots with the
preserved blob, commit through write_xlsx, presence, per-user undo, tests
and delivery plan.
Session::apply_remote runs another participant's command with the engine's
own enabled, protection, array and recalculation rules, but adds no journal
entry, undo step or recording.
DocState.last_changed keeps the cells a command changed and the formulas
recalculation evaluated, because their displayed values change without
their content changing; Session::take_changed hands the list to a front end
that publishes the authoritative delta.
crates/collab is the protocol layer of docs/collab/rfc.md: the ClientOp
envelope, sheet keys that follow SheetUid across renames and moves with
tombstones for deleted sheets, the allowlist with its merge/structural
class, the authoritative cell delta built from Session::take_changed, and
an in-process Room that assigns versions, deduplicates by opId and bumps
epoch on structural edits.
Eight tests over real sessions: delta content, dependent formulas,
idempotent resends, stale structural, epoch, forbidden commands, the
allowlist, and tombstones.
The Hub owns one Room and one Session per document, the participants with
their role from the JWT, and ephemeral presence. A viewer is refused before
an operation reaches the engine; commit writes the authoritative workbook
with write_xlsx. No socket yet: every branch is testable in process.
Adds three tests: a viewer cannot write, an editor's operation and presence
reach the other participant, and commit produces a zip package.
- epoch: state that ARCHITECTURE.md §2.2 names it a PDF field and that this
RFC generalises it to any positional-address app (for chair to record);
- delta size: chunk large deltas as applied{more:true} for one opId, cap the
whole delta at 32 MiB and answer too-large beyond;
- undo: say explicitly that it never rolls back another participant's edits.
Claims::validate checks the cabinet's session token against what this server
serves (audience, app, file, session, exp) and returns the role; the signature
stays the transport's job. Gateway::connect joins the participant and builds
the welcome message with sheet keys and version, and Gateway::handle carries
ops, presence, ping, leave and the v1 resync answer without any socket.
Four tests: welcome content, refused tokens, a viewer's op rejected by the
loop, and presence/ping round trips.
`gridcraft:session` now carries session_id, ws_url, the JWT and the role into
the browser build before any socket is dialled. `gridcraft-collab-web` drives
the same transport-free state machine as the desktop (`Synced` now talks to a
`Link`): the page's `WebSocket` pushes frames into a per-frame queue, the link
keeps unconfirmed ops for the resend after reconnect, and schema/version
catch-up matches the native client. `session-state` is posted on status or
participant changes and `presence` at 10 Hz; `gridcraft:commit` asks the cabinet
to commit (Save in a live session), and `gridcraft:committed` shows its version
and etag. Without a session message the web build stays single-user.
The host messages (`session`, `session-state`, `presence`, `commit`,
`committed`) are on `feat/collab-session-messages` in craft-libs, not in
`storytold/main`; ADR-0016 §3 pins copoka/craft-libs revision
7666e2b100d8cf12998f9b57d3b036964cc3189c for craft-web-host and craft-web-api
(manifest and Cargo.lock), the same revision wordcraft uses. No other
craft-libs crate moves and no CI file changes.
Evidence: cargo check -p gridcraft-web --target wasm32-unknown-unknown,
trunk build (0.22.1, dist/web), clippy -D warnings for the new crates (native
and wasm32), collab-web 5 tests including two web replicas converging on a
room's authoritative frames, gridcraft-web 11 tests, collab-client converge 5
green, xtask layers OK (21 crates).
STATUS records the browser path (crates/collab-web, the Link split in
collab-client, host messages, the craft-libs revision from ADR-0016 §3) with
the wasm32 check, trunk build, test counts and the headless two-replica run;
the "browser transport" gap and the RFC §13 host-contract question are updated.
client.md gains the browser/host-bridge section and the current test commands.
A row insert or delete moves every address below it and a sheet insert or
delete changes the set of sheets, so a structural step cannot be reversed
from a cell delta. The room keeps the whole sheets before and after such a
step and undo/redo restores them in one operation: applied.images carries
the sheets, Session::restore_sheets replaces the workbook's sheets and
recalculates, sheet keys follow the restored runtime identities and the
epoch grows because addresses moved.
The reversal is refused with conflict while any operation came after the
step, so a later edit is never overwritten. Applied without images is
unchanged. Two clients converge on the restored rows and on a deleted sheet
that comes back with its cells.
A row or sheet insert/delete is reversed from whole-sheet images, and the room
refused an image over 8 MiB as `too_large`. The image now travels in parts of
its serialised form (ADR-0013): `applied{more:true}` frames with
`imagePart{seq,total,data}`, 512 KiB before base64 so a frame stays under the
1 MiB wire limit.
The parts repeat the opId, version, epoch and sheet map; the server queues the
whole sequence for the peers before it awaits a socket write, so another
operation cannot land between two parts. A replica buffers the parts and
applies the operation only after `more:false`; a missing part, a foreign frame
in the middle or a disconnect leaves the document and its version untouched and
asks for a catch-up from the version before the first part. The transport
advances the shared version only on the last part.
Tests: the splitter over a 9 MiB image, the room's undo no longer refusing the
old bound, a two-replica run against a real server with an image over 8 MiB
(undo and redo), and a fake link that breaks the sequence mid-image.
An undo or redo takes a version like any other operation, but it was not
written to the room's journal: a client that reconnected between an undo and
the next snapshot was told it was caught up while the undone cell was still
in its replica, and a restart dropped the step the base did not cover.
The journal entry now says what produced the version: an operation, replayed
through the room, or an undo/redo, replayed from the answer it produced. That
answer already carries every cell or sheet the operation put back, so the
volume does not need the undo history (ADR-0010 §6); `Room::replay_reversal`
restores the effect and takes the counters from the entry, refusing a gap.
Replay also stops trusting `meta.version` for the head: after a crash it sits
at the base while the journal is ahead, and the check used to drop the session
instead of replaying it. A restarted room starts with empty undo stacks, since
a replay cannot rebuild a step a later undo took away.
Tests: two replicas, a peer that reconnects after a cell undo and after a
structural undo, a redo that follows; server persistence, an undo in the tail
of a compacted base survives a restart without a flush, a snapshot after an
undo keeps it in the base.
…d status
The journal entry now says whether a version came from a client operation or
from an undo/redo, and a restart replays a reversal from its answer. The
acceptance matrix gains the reconnect and restart evidence, the known gaps no
longer claim the undo falls outside the journal, and the new section records
what was measured.
A structural undo/redo restored whole sheets but not the workbook-level
state that moves with them: deleting a sheet drops or rescopes its defined
names, and a sheet's `preserved` blobs (form controls, OLE objects, query
tables) never reached a peer or the journal because `Sheet::preserved` is
skipped in the sheet JSON.
The step image now carries `WorkbookMeta` (defined names, structure
protection, its password hash) beside the sheets and each `SheetImage`
carries the sheet's kept parts. `Applied.book` and `Step::before_book` /
`after_book` hold the boundary state; a row or sheet undo/redo restores
sheets and metadata in one `Session::restore_structural` call, which
validates the image before touching the document. Chunked images put the
whole `{book, images}` payload into `imagePart` parts (ADR-0013), so the
extra state is neither repeated per part nor able to overflow a frame.
Tests: room undo/redo and journal replay restore names and kept parts; a
foreign edit after the step still refuses as `conflict` with the document
untouched; two replicas see the same names after delete/undo/redo and the
same structure protection; a server restart replays the journaled undo
into a committed file that opens with the name and its sheet scope.
The parts carry `{book, images}`, not only the sheets: a test with a 2 MiB
cell, a `preserved` part on the sheet and a workbook-level name and
protection checks that both replicas apply the name, the protection and the
kept part only when the last part is in.
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Major · Keep a safe reconnect cursor during catch-up · client.rs:121-130
crates/collab-client/src/client.rs:121-130 Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Heavy lift
Keep a safe reconnect cursor during catch-up
If the socket drops after a welcome with a nonzero head but before catch-up arrives, the reconnect hello advertises that head. The server can then skip the missing operations or snapshot, leaving the workbook out of sync. Track a reconnect cursor separately from the welcome head and account for queued catch-up events.
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Review comment at @crates/collab-client/src/client.rs around lines 121 - 130:
Update the State initialization using welcome so the reconnect cursor is tracked
separately from the welcome head; do not advertise the nonzero welcome head
until catch-up has been applied. Account for queued catch-up events when
advancing that cursor, ensuring reconnect resumes from the last safely applied
position and cannot skip missing operations or a snapshot.
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Review comments at @apps/gridcraft-collab-server/src/ws.rs:
- Around line 237-243: Update the catch-up flow around `doc.journal_after(sent)`
to detect when the journal is empty but the current head is greater than `sent`,
and return a distinct `CatchUp` outcome that requests a base instead of
registering the connection. Read and compare the head in the same critical
section, reuse it for `CatchUp::Registered`, and handle the new outcome in
`resync` by requesting a base; preserve registration for the `u64::MAX` path in
`reject_resync`.
- Line 179: The want_base condition in resync must also send the workbook to a
fresh version-zero joiner when a seeded room has edits but its base remains at
version zero; update the condition to recognize that state. Preserve pending
edits on reconnect, and add a test that joins a seeded room after an operation
while verifying the fresh joiner receives the workbook.
Review comments at @crates/collab-client/src/synced.rs:
- Around line 381-385: Preserve previews made while a snapshot is in transit:
when Event::Snapshot replaces the document, retain pending entries and mark them
unpreviewed rather than clearing them. In apply_here, skip apply_remote only
when the matching Pending entry is still previewed, so operations whose previews
were removed by swap_document are fully replayed when applied.
Review comments at @docs/collab/rfc.md:
- Line 103: Update the cell example in the RFC to represent its value using the
serialized Value shape emitted by delta_for, rather than a bare number; keep the
example consistent with the Number representation defined by Value.
- Around line 109-110: Update the result invariant in the RFC to document the
structural undo/redo exception: `Room::reverse_sheets` may return neither
`command` nor `delta` when the restored state is provided in `images` and
`book`. Preserve the existing requirement for other results.
Review comments at @docs/collab/STATUS.md:
- Line 16: Update the workflow status wording around `f51237ea` to say the
workflows will be created after the push, keeping it consistent with the status
elsewhere in the document that the commit has not been pushed.
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Outside diff comments:
Review comments at @crates/collab-client/src/client.rs:
- Around line 121-130: Update the State initialization using welcome so the
reconnect cursor is tracked separately from the welcome head; do not advertise
the nonzero welcome head until catch-up has been applied. Account for queued
catch-up events when advancing that cursor, ensuring reconnect resumes from the
last safely applied position and cannot skip missing operations or a snapshot.
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apps/gridcraft-collab-server/src/lib.rs
apps/gridcraft-collab-server/src/store.rs
apps/gridcraft-collab-server/src/ws.rs
apps/gridcraft-collab-server/tests/persistence.rs
apps/gridcraft-collab-server/tests/ws.rs
apps/gridcraft-web/src/web.rs
crates/collab-client/src/synced.rs
crates/collab-client/tests/rollback.rs
crates/collab-web/src/lib.rs
crates/collab/src/gateway.rs
crates/collab/src/ops.rs
crates/collab/src/tests.rs
crates/engine/src/lib.rs
crates/ui-egui/src/collab.rs
docs/collab/STATUS.md
docs/collab/rfc.md
docs/collab/server.md
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Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Heavy lift
Keep previews made while the requested snapshot is in transit.
This branch now sends ClientMessage::Snapshot during normal editing. The user can make preview C before the snapshot arrives. The server handles messages from one socket in order, so it runs the Snapshot request (inside pump → resync) before C. The workbook it sends does not contain C.
When the snapshot arrives, the Event::Snapshot handler does two things:
swap_document removes C's preview.
pending.clear() forgets C.
Then applied for C arrives. apply_here sees mine && previewed_here(...) and skips apply_remote. It only patches values through apply_values. If C set a formula or a style, this replica keeps a constant value. Every other replica and the room hold the formula, and nothing on this replica detects the difference.
Choose the replay from the state the replica holds, not from the operation-id prefix alone. For example:
Mark every pending entry previewed = false when a snapshot replaces the document, instead of clearing them.
In apply_here, skip apply_remote only when the matching Pending entry is still previewed.
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Review comment at @crates/collab-client/src/synced.rs around lines 381 - 385:
Preserve previews made while a snapshot is in transit: when Event::Snapshot
replaces the document, retain pending entries and mark them unpreviewed rather
than clearing them. In apply_here, skip apply_remote only when the matching
Pending entry is still previewed, so operations whose previews were removed by
swap_document are fully replayed when applied.
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Valid and the most damaging of the six — fixed in 8e76f729.
Event::Snapshot no longer clears pending: every entry stays and is marked previewed = false. apply_here treats an operation as this replica's own only when its pending entry is still previewed, so a preview C sent before the snapshot request went out is replayed through apply_remote when its applied arrives — the formula, the array/dynamic flags and the style land, and the delta afterwards patches the authoritative value. An operation the transport never queued here has no preview to lose and keeps the old behaviour (the collab-web test that drives a synthetic w1-0 without executing it still passes).
Test: a_preview_made_while_the_workbook_was_in_transit_is_replayed in crates/collab-client/tests/rollback.rs — the preview is =1+1, the snapshot does not contain it, the delta carries only {"t":"Number","v":2.0}, and the assertion is on input_text() (the formula) after the answer.
This commit also carries the other three code findings of this review, including the outside-diff reconnect cursor on client.rs. 8e76f729 is local until the branch is pushed.
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@copoka Thanks for the fix and regression test. Since 8e76f729 is still local, please push it so I can verify the change. The finding remains open until then.
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Addendum, since the above replies went out: the reconnect-cursor rule of this review also had a second half in the browser transport — crates/collab-web/src/link.rs took state.version.max(welcome.version) on welcome, the same defect. It now moves the cursor only on applied/snapshot/resynced, with a_welcome_does_not_move_the_reconnect_cursor in collab-web (applies one operation, then feeds a welcome at version 9; the cursor stays at 1).
The full slice is four commits on top of 8208607f — 8e76f729 (code and tests), 437f19ee and 942e0007 (§21 of STATUS.md), and adc4dcd1 (the browser transport, its test, the §21 counts). All local; pushing the branch is still the human step.
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Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win
Show the serialized cell value.
The server sends {"t":"Number","v":45.0}, not 45. A client built from this example will misread authoritative values. Update the example to match Value in crates/core/src/value.rs and delta_for in crates/collab/src/delta.rs. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Review comment at @docs/collab/rfc.md at line 103:
Update the cell example in the RFC to represent its value using the serialized
Value shape emitted by delta_for, rather than a bare number; keep the example
consistent with the Number representation defined by Value.
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Fixed in 8e76f729. The example now shows the serialized Value — {"t":"Number","v":45.0} — because delta_for serializes Value with #[serde(tag = "t", content = "v")]; the mapping for text, bool, error and empty is written next to it, and so is the note that unset Applied fields are omitted rather than sent as null (skip_serializing_if), which the old "sheets":null,"images":null line also got wrong.
While checking the block against crates/collab/src/delta.rs I corrected objectsDeleted/objectsCreated to objects_deleted/objects_created, which is what SheetDelta actually serializes.
A version-zero joiner of a seeded room now always takes the workbook, even
when the journal already holds edits; an empty journal tail below the head
counts as trimmed and sends the base instead of resyncing past the missing
operations; the reconnect cursor starts at the version the replica holds,
not the head the welcome reports, and a welcome no longer moves it; a preview
made while a requested workbook was in transit is replayed as a command rather
than patched with its values; the RFC shows the serialized cell value and the
structural-undo exception to the delta rule. Trivial legacy spelling in the
status page corrected.
Tests: seeded-room join with edits, trimmed-journal decision, reconnect
cursor on welcome, replay of an in-transit preview.
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§21 records the verdict on each of the seven findings, the tests that cover
them, the host gates on 8e76f72, and the state of the push. §20.3 says what
became of its 'local' wording: the 20:1xZ push published f51237e and
8208607. The header names the current PR head and the new local slice.
The page's link took state.version.max(welcome.version), so a socket that
dropped before the catch-up advertised the room's head as the replica's
position — the same defect the native client had (CodeRabbit 5848894080,
client.rs:121). The browser transport now only moves the cursor on applied,
snapshot and resynced, with a unit test that applies one operation and feeds
a welcome at version 9. §21 counts the extra test and the extra commit.
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Major · A snapshot buffer survives a dropped socket and mixes chunks from different… · link.rs:169-186
crates/collab-web/src/link.rs:169-186 Major · Stability & Availability · Quick win
A snapshot buffer survives a dropped socket and mixes chunks from different snapshots.
This code is outside the changed lines, but the cursor rule in the changed Welcome comment depends on it. The cursor moves when a snapshot completes.
self.snapshot is not cleared when the socket closes or on Welcome. The native client avoids this because session_once creates a fresh snapshot for each connection.
Consider a socket that drops after some chunks of a snapshot. The next connection sends a new snapshot. get_or_insert_with keeps the old buffer, so the old version, epoch and chunk count apply to the new chunks:
If the new snapshot has fewer chunks, old chunks beyond the new total can stay in the buffer. The assembled bytes can include stale data, and open_bytes in Synced can fail without a visible notice.
If the new snapshot has more chunks, chunks with seq above the old length are dropped. The buffer never completes.
If the totals match, the event reports the old version and epoch.
Also, total comes from the wire and sizes the vec! without an upper bound.
Discard the buffer when a chunk does not match it. Clear it on Welcome and on socket close. Bound total.
🐛 Proposed fix
ServerMessage::Snapshot { version, epoch, total, seq, bytes, mode: _ } => {
let Ok(chunk) = base64::engine::general_purpose::STANDARD.decode(bytes) else { return };
+ if self.snapshot.as_ref().is_some_and(|b| b.version != version || b.epoch != epoch || b.chunks.len() != total as usize) {+ self.snapshot = None;+ }+ if total == 0 || total > MAX_SNAPSHOT_CHUNKS {+ return;+ }
let buffer = self.snapshot.get_or_insert_with(|| Snapshot { version, epoch, chunks: vec![None; total as usize] });
Also set self.snapshot = None; in the Welcome arm and in the socket::Incoming::Closed arm. Define MAX_SNAPSHOT_CHUNKS from the server's size limit.
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Review comment at @crates/collab-web/src/link.rs around lines 169 - 186:
Update the Snapshot message handling to discard an existing buffer when incoming chunks have different snapshot metadata or chunk count, and reject zero or oversized totals using the established server size limit. Clear self.snapshot when handling Welcome and socket::Incoming::Closed so chunks cannot carry across connections.
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- Around line 558-565: Track the workbook’s applied-version cursor in Synced and
advance it when snapshots or tails establish covered versions. Before replaying
an applied frame, skip its document changes when its version is at or below that
cursor, while still clearing any matching pending acknowledgement; continue
applying newer operations. Use the existing version-ordering mechanism and
preserve the pending-acknowledgement handling around the applied path.
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- Around line 169-186: Update the Snapshot message handling to discard an
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count, and reject zero or oversized totals using the established server size
limit. Clear self.snapshot when handling Welcome and socket::Incoming::Closed so
chunks cannot carry across connections.
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crates/collab-client/tests/rollback.rs
crates/collab-web/src/lib.rs
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Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win
Supported by static analysis
Script executed:
#!/bin/bash# 1. Does the server answer a deduplicated op with the original Applied?
rg -n -C4 'seen|dedup|duplicate' crates/collab/src/room.rs crates/collab/src/gateway.rs | head -80
# 2. Is the connection outbox (rx) drained or replaced during resync/unregister?
rg -n -C3 'rx\b|unregister|conns\.remove' apps/gridcraft-collab-server/src/ws.rs | head -80
# 3. Any version guard before applying an Applied in Synced?
rg -n -C3 'applied\.version|\.version' crates/collab-client/src/synced.rs | head -80
cat -n crates/collab-client/src/client.rs | sed -n '1,175p;195,285p;310,405p'
cat -n crates/collab-client/src/link.rs | sed -n '1,240p'
cat -n crates/collab-client/src/synced.rs | sed -n '225,345p;650,710p'
cat -n apps/gridcraft-collab-server/src/ws.rs | sed -n '260,310p;321,355p;365,525p'
cat -n crates/collab/src/gateway.rs | sed -n '175,230p'
rg -n -F -e 'impl Link for' -e 'ServerMessage::Applied' -e 'ServerMessage::Snapshot' -- crates/collab-client apps crates/ui-egui
Repository: storytold/gridcraft
Length of output: 48856
Skip operations already covered by the replica.
After a snapshot, a resent operation can receive its original Applied. Synced then replays it even if the snapshot includes a later edit to the same cell. Queued broadcast frames can also arrive after the snapshot or tail that covers them. Either path can leave the replica different from the room.
Track the workbook’s applied-version cursor in Synced and skip document changes from frames at or below it. Still clear pending acknowledgements, and apply operations newer than the snapshot.
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Track the workbook’s applied-version cursor in Synced and advance it when snapshots or tails establish covered versions. Before replaying an applied frame, skip its document changes when its version is at or below that cursor, while still clearing any matching pending acknowledgement; continue applying newer operations. Use the existing version-ordering mechanism and preserve the pending-acknowledgement handling around the applied path.
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Valid — both findings, and they are the same mistake in two places: a copy of the document that is not the document.
An answer the snapshot already covers (synced.rs:565). The room answers a resent operation out of its dedup window with the original applied, and the handshake resync writes the snapshot straight to the socket while frames can still be queued for the connection's outbox, so a frame at or below the snapshot's version can land after it. Synced applied every Event::Applied, so the command ran a second time on the new document. It now keeps document_version — seeded from the link, moved by applied, snapshot and resynced — and an answer at or below it changes nothing in the document: the ack still leaves the resend queue, the step still goes into this person's undo stack (the document does hold it), and no Event::Applied is handed to the caller, so a status line does not move backwards. Test: an_answer_at_or_below_the_snapshot_changes_nothing in tests/document.rs — a snapshot at version 4 with A1 = 99, the deduplicated answer at version 3 with A1 = 7 (no cell change, no event), then an operation at version 5 (lands). The fixture in the_actor_and_the_window_come_from_the_server gave two operations the same version 1, which no server does; the second is version 2 now.
A snapshot buffer that outlives its connection (collab-web/src/link.rs:169). Confirmed: self.snapshot survived a dropped socket, a new welcome and a chunk of another snapshot, so the old version, epoch and chunk count applied to the new chunks, and total sized a vec! without a bound. Both transports now share Snapshot/snapshot_chunk in gridcraft-collab-client::link: a chunk carrying another version, epoch or chunk count starts a fresh buffer, total is refused at zero and above MAX_SNAPSHOT_CHUNKS = 1024 (RFC §4.1 caps a document at 512 MB; the server sends 768 KiB per chunk, 683 full chunks), and the browser link drops the buffer on Incoming::Closed and on welcome. Tests: a_snapshot_buffer_does_not_mix_two_catch_ups in collab-web (half a snapshot, a new welcome, the other half — no completion; a whole snapshot completes; a total of u32::MAX buffers nothing), plus chunks_of_two_snapshots_are_not_woven_together and a_total_off_the_wire_is_bounded in link.rs.
00b146df is local until the branch is pushed; the gates on it are fmt clean, clippy -D warnings clean on the five packages, 176 passed / 0 failed, and §22 of docs/collab/STATUS.md records the triage.
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@copoka Thanks for the detailed fix and regression test. Commit 00b146df is still local, so I can’t verify it on the PR yet. Please push the commit so the change can be reviewed.
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The server answers a resent operation out of its dedup window with the
original applied (room.rs), and a frame queued before a catch-up can land
after the snapshot that already contains it: the replica ran the command a
second time — a row inserted twice, a cell set back to what came before it.
Synced keeps the version of the document it holds (`applied`, `snapshot`
and `resynced` move it) and applies only the answers above it; a covered
answer still leaves the resend queue and still counts as this person's undo
step, and the caller is not told a change happened
(CodeRabbit 5851190259, synced.rs:565).
A chunked snapshot now belongs to one connection: the browser transport
drops its buffer when the socket closes and on a new welcome, and both
transports share one buffer type that starts a fresh one when a chunk
carries another version, epoch or chunk count and refuses a `total` that
cannot describe a document (bounded by RFC §4.1's 512 MB at 1024 chunks)
(CodeRabbit 5851190259, collab-web/src/link.rs:169).
Tests: `an_answer_at_or_below_the_snapshot_changes_nothing` (document.rs),
`a_snapshot_buffer_does_not_mix_two_catch_ups` (collab-web),
`chunks_of_two_snapshots_are_not_woven_together` and
`a_total_off_the_wire_is_bounded` (link.rs). The fixture in
`the_actor_and_the_window_come_from_the_server` gave two operations the same
version, which no server does; the second one is version 2.
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says why there is no CI run (the four workflows ended `action_required` with no
job). The old §21.3 becomes §21.4 and names the new review.
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Major · Initialize from the version applied to the document. · STATUS.md:116
docs/collab/STATUS.md:116 Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Heavy lift
Initialize from the version applied to the document.
In crates/collab-client/src/synced.rs, Synced::with_link reads the transport version after the background task may have advanced it. Queued Applied events can then be skipped, leaving the document behind the reported version.
Pass the document’s starting version to Synced instead. Preserve nonzero starting versions for reconnects.
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Review comment at @docs/collab/STATUS.md at line 116:
Update Synced::with_link to initialize its version from the version already applied to the document, rather than reading a transport version that may have advanced and caused queued Applied events to be skipped. Preserve nonzero starting versions when reconnecting.
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Review comments at @crates/collab-client/src/synced.rs:
- Line 398: Update the Event::Snapshot handling so an open_bytes failure sets a
notice and requests an authoritative workbook with ClientMessage::Snapshot,
matching the rejected-preview branch. In the swap_document error branch, also
request ClientMessage::Snapshot instead of resyncing from the already-advanced
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- Line 116: Update Synced::with_link to initialize its version from the version
already applied to the document, rather than reading a transport version that
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crates/collab-web/src/lib.rs
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Major · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Handle a snapshot that fails to open or swap: the replica diverges silently.
By the time this arm runs, the transport has already moved the link cursor (state.version) to the snapshot version. Two failure paths follow.
open_bytes(...) returns Err. The if let Ok(...) skips everything. The code sets no notice and sends no request. The document stays old. The next Event::Resynced then moves document_version to the head (Line 434). The replica now claims the head version and shows stale content. A later reconnect hello also reports the head, so no catch-up is sent.
swap_document returns Err. The code sends Resync { from: self.link.state().version }. That value is already the snapshot version, so the server can return an empty tail. The notice says "reconnecting", but the document is not restored.
Handle the open_bytes error. Set a notice. Request a fresh authoritative workbook with ClientMessage::Snapshot, as the rejected-preview branch does. Use the same message in the swap_document error branch instead of Resync from the current cursor.
Proposed fix for the `swap_document` branch
- self.notice = Some("the document of this session is gone; reconnecting".into());- self.link.send_message(ClientMessage::Resync { from: self.link.state().version });+ self.notice = Some("the document of this session is gone; reloading it from the session".into());+ self.link.send_message(ClientMessage::Snapshot);
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Update the Event::Snapshot handling so an open_bytes failure sets a notice and requests an authoritative workbook with ClientMessage::Snapshot, matching the rejected-preview branch. In the swap_document error branch, also request ClientMessage::Snapshot instead of resyncing from the already-advanced link cursor; preserve the existing successful snapshot flow.
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Both transports move their cursor onto a snapshot's version before the event
reaches Synced, and the arm installed the workbook only if `open_bytes` parsed
it and `swap_document` found the session's document open. On the first failure
the whole arm was skipped — no notice, no request — and the `resynced` that
closed the same catch-up moved `document_version` to the head anyway: the
replica showed old content under a new version, skipped every answer it still
needed, and a later reconnect reported the head, so no catch-up was sent. On
the second failure it sent `Resync` from the cursor the snapshot had already
moved, and the server answers that with an empty tail (CodeRabbit 5852406613,
`synced.rs:398`).
The install is now all-or-nothing: `document_version`, the sheet map and the
preview marks move only when the workbook replaced the document. A failure sets
a notice and asks for the whole workbook, then for a catch-up from the version
the document really holds, then stops with a notice naming the reopen
(`SNAPSHOT_ATTEMPTS`), so a workbook that never parses cannot pull full
documents in a loop. `resynced` no longer moves the version while a failure is
outstanding, and `Synced::document_version()` exposes what the document, not the
cursor, holds.
Tests: `a_snapshot_that_cannot_be_opened_claims_nothing_and_asks_again` and
`a_snapshot_for_a_workbook_that_was_closed_is_never_claimed` (document.rs);
both fail without the fix, on the finding's own symptoms.
…36Z review
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the branch, the four workflow runs `action_required` at 01:24:30Z and the
CodeRabbit check `success`. `bb5b3acf` changes only this page, so its code is
`00b146df`'s, gated on the host in §22.3; §22 no longer says that commit is
local.
§23 triages review `5852406613`: the snapshot whose bytes or swap failed
(crates/collab-client/src/synced.rs:398), confirmed and fixed in `7b42c82a`,
with its two tests and the host gate; and the finding outside the diff
(`Synced::with_link` reading the transport's version instead of the document's),
confirmed and left to its own slice because the fix changes the constructor of
both transports.
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Review comments at @crates/collab-client/src/synced.rs:
- Line 193: Update the recovery flow around swap_document and apply so a missing
shared document is terminal until the session is reopened: stop requesting
snapshots or journal tails after the shared workbook closes, and do not call
apply_here for an event unless enter_shared succeeds. Preserve the existing
behavior when the shared document is available.
- Line 216: Update the resync recovery path around ClientMessage::Resync so
repeated snapshot-installation failures never fall back to requesting a journal
tail that could advance document_version without removing the refused preview;
keep recovery dependent on an installed authoritative workbook, or stop and
require reopening after repeated failures.
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Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win
Stop recovery when the shared workbook is closed.
If the shared workbook is closed while another workbook remains active, swap_document fails. The first retry requests another snapshot. After that fails, Line 216 requests a journal tail. The server can return Applied events for that tail. apply then calls apply_here even though enter_shared returned None, so those edits can change the unrelated active workbook. Treat a missing shared document as terminal until the session is reopened, and do not apply an event when enter_shared fails. The closed-document test leaves no other workbook open, so it does not exercise this path. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Update the recovery flow around swap_document and apply so a missing shared document is terminal until the session is reopened: stop requesting snapshots or journal tails after the shared workbook closes, and do not call apply_here for an event unless enter_shared succeeds. Preserve the existing behavior when the shared document is available.
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Do not use a journal tail to repair a refused preview.
If an earlier preview is refused while a later preview is pending, Line 447 requests a snapshot because the refused edit never entered the journal. If two snapshots fail to install, this fallback requests a tail instead. Replaying that tail cannot remove the refused preview, yet subsequent Applied events can advance document_version. Keep this recovery path dependent on an installed authoritative workbook, or stop and require reopening after repeated installation failures. This reintroduces the previously reviewed refused-preview recovery concern under a new failure condition. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Review comment at @crates/collab-client/src/synced.rs at line 216:
Update the resync recovery path around ClientMessage::Resync so repeated snapshot-installation failures never fall back to requesting a journal tail that could advance document_version without removing the refused preview; keep recovery dependent on an installed authoritative workbook, or stop and require reopening after repeated failures.
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…ay out of the wrong file
Two findings of review 5855372513, both in the recovery slice of `synced.rs`.
`apply` ran the operation whatever `enter_shared` answered. When the session's
workbook is no longer open — the user closed it while another workbook stayed
in front — `enter_shared` returns `None`, and the command then ran on the active
document, a file the room never saw. The ladder of §23 made that reachable: its
second answer asks for a journal tail, and the tail comes back as `applied`. The
install now reports whether it wrote anything, and a missing shared document
sets a notice, leaves every document and the version as they were, and keeps
the event from the caller.
`snapshot_failed` answered a second failed install with `Resync` from the
version the document holds. For a replica that asked for the workbook because a
refused preview sits under a later one, a tail is no way back: the refused edit
never reached the journal, so the tail leaves it in the document while its
`applied` events move `document_version` on. `authoritative_only` marks that
state: workbooks only, and the attempt bound stops the requests.
Both tests fail on the previous code: the operation lands in the other
workbook, and the second answer is `[Snapshot, Snapshot, Resync { from: 0 }]`.
… the 07:38Z review
The header still called `bb5b3acf` the delivered head and `7b42c82a` and the page
above it local. The push of 07:26:44Z published both: the fork's branch, the PR's
`headRefOid` and this checkout are `915d994e`, 68 commits on `2c58c769`, 84
files, +17770/−34.
§24 records review `5855372513`: two Major findings on the §23 code, both
confirmed and fixed in the commit below this page, each with the test that fails
without the fix, and the gate the host ran. §23.5 no longer promises a push that
has happened.
…s are
The header still called `915d994e` the delivered head and `2a5f3e00` and the
page above it local. The push of 11:28:40Z published both: the fork's branch,
the PR's `headRefOid` and this checkout are `b9773627`, 70 commits on
`2c58c769`, 84 files, +17959/−34.
The four workflows that push created (`CI`, `House rules`, `Nix`, `SonarCloud`)
all ended `completed / action_required` with no job started, and the head's
rollup holds only CodeRabbit, `completed / skipped` — so §24.4's host run stays
the gate. §24.5 no longer promises a push that has happened.
A web session bound to the blank workbook the shell starts with: the host
opens its file before the room's copy lands, and `file.open` closes that
untouched blank workbook and adds the file. The session then held a document
that no longer existed, so every edit stayed local (OtherDocument) and the
snapshot install had nowhere to go — the app showed "the session's document
could not be loaded" while the room, presence and the participant list
worked.
While nothing has been shared yet (no version held, no operation in flight)
the session follows the workbook in front. Once it holds the room's copy the
rule does not apply: closing the joined workbook still ends the session for
this replica instead of moving it to another file.
…, and its gate
The delivered head is 5bcdf3c: the fork's branch, the PR's headRefOid and the
tree the host gate ran on. It carries the merge of origin/main (7320106) and one
code commit, "a session follows the workbook that replaces the blank start":
`bind` follows the workbook the host opens over the blank start while nothing has
been shared yet, with two tests, one of which fails on the old `bind`.
The page records the host gate: fmt clean, clippy -D warnings clean on the four
collab packages and on the workspace, 49 + 37 + 74 + 11 + 11 tests passed, the
wasm32 check clean, engine's lib suite green under umask 022 (the host's own 0002
fails one test of main's, §25.4.1), that the four runs the push created did not
execute and CodeRabbit skipped the head, and the boundary the new rule keeps.
…aboration
main moved 12 commits ahead while the branch waited: the workbook version went
to 0.19.1, and the engine grew scan-allowance limits for Advanced Filter,
Remove Duplicates, AutoFit and `data.circleInvalid`.
Conflicts, resolved as a union that keeps both sides:
- crates/engine/src/tests.rs — the branch's remote-apply tests and main's new
`circle_invalid_says_when_its_scan_allowance_ended_early` sat in the same
spot; both are kept, each with its own `#[test]` attribute.
- Cargo.lock — verbatim merge kept the four collaboration crates at the old
workspace version 0.16.0; they now carry 0.19.1 like every other member,
which `cargo metadata --locked` (the `pdf-deps` step) checks.
The delivered head is 42e2dbe: the fork's branch, the PR's headRefOid and
the tree the host gate ran on. It merges origin/main 572bec2 into the
branch; the merge's own diff over 576f586 is 51 files, +1402/-191, and its
two conflicts are resolved as a union (crates/engine/src/tests.rs keeps both
sides, Cargo.lock's four collaboration crates move from 0.16.0 to 0.19.1).
The page records the four runs the push created (43103512015, 43103512003,
43103512011, 43103512466: completed / action_required, no job started, so no
CI evidence), and the host gate on that head: i18n, fmt and clippy clean,
the collaboration suites 49 + 37 + 74 + 11, and gridcraft-engine at 961/1
under the host's umask 0002 (main's save test needs 022); the six skipped
steps ran separately under umask 022 and returned rc=0. §25 keeps the record
of 5bcdf3c and its gate; the header names the current head.
… runs
The page named 42e2dbe as the delivered head and said nothing had been
pushed since. The push of 2026-11-11T23:10:46Z published b46ed3c, a docs
commit whose only parent is 42e2dbe and whose only change is this file;
the fork's branch, the PR's headRefOid and the checkout are all b46ed3c,
rev-list fork...HEAD is 0 0, and the PR is 76 commits on 572bec2.
So the header now separates the delivered head (b46ed3c, docs-only) from
the code head (42e2dbe, the merge of origin/main and the tree the host
gate ran on). The four workflows of the 23:10Z push ended action_required
with zero jobs and CodeRabbit skipped the head at 23:10:48Z, so it has no
CI evidence of its own; the four runs of 21:29Z stay action_required on
42e2dbe and are named as the code head's. Section 26 follows: 26.2 the
runs on 42e2dbe, 26.4 the 23:10Z push and the runs of the delivered head,
26.5 what did not change. The statements are tied to the 01:20Z
measurement, and the commit that carries this correction is local, so the
delivered head stays b46ed3c until another push.
Head moved b46ed3c3 → dff6971a: one docs-only commit (docs/collab/STATUS.md, +98/−45) recording the 23:10Z push and the state of the code head's runs. No code, no constants, no protocol change; git merge-tree origin/main dff6971a is clean.
On this host the repository gate (cargo xtask ci) was already green for b46ed3c3; a docs-only delta does not need a new run.
The GitHub workflows for the new head are created but sit in action_required (first-time contributor approval), so mergeStateStatus stays UNSTABLE — that is the only reason this PR is not CLEAN.
…03:23Z, and the local merge 57c9e21
The header and §26 still called b46ed3c the delivered head. The PR head is dff6971
(one docs commit above it) and the PR has read CONFLICTING/DIRTY since 03:23:14Z,
because origin/main took the craft-libs file-format switch over crates/xlsx.
§27 records the push, the runs on dff6971, the two conflicts measured against both
f800472 and 6308fc9, the local merge 57c9e21 (33 main commits plus the merge, the
lockfile and web-pin resolutions), and the host gate on it: fmt and clippy clean,
3557 passed with the two host-font tests of §15 failing, engine 962/0 under umask 022,
doctest/assets/layers/wasm/parity/keytips and cargo metadata --locked all rc=0.
Every number is anchored to 06:40Z, so the next push makes it historical, not wrong.
…e cursor
`Synced::with_link` took `link.state().version` as the version of the document
it was building. That is the transport's cursor, not the document: the
connection task handles the catch-up as soon as `welcome` is in, and the caller
builds the replica afterwards, so the cursor is then the room's head while the
document in front is still the file the user opened. The queued catch-up
answered `applied` at versions the replica now believed it already held: every
one was skipped as stale, the window kept the pre-catch-up workbook, and no
version of it ever arrived. The browser path has the same seam — the host's
frame queue — and the same rule (CodeRabbit 5852406613, the finding outside the
diff of that review; `synced.rs:398`).
The starting version is now a value the caller passes, as `Config::last_version`
already is: `Synced::with_link` takes it, and both transports provide it —
`Client` remembers the version it dialed with and `Synced::new` reads it, so the
desktop path does not touch a cursor the task may have moved, and `Collab`
(connect and offline) hands it through the host bridge, where a browser window
starts on a blank workbook and therefore at 0.
Tests: `a_catch_up_queued_before_the_session_was_built_still_lands`
(document.rs, a link whose cursor is already at 3 with the three answers queued)
and `a_late_replica_starts_where_its_workbook_is_not_where_the_cursor_moved`
(converge.rs, a real server, the cursor waited up to the head before the replica
is built). Both fail without the fix: the queued answers never reach the
document.
The page still called dff6971 the delivered head, said the PR was dirty
and left the push to the owner. The push of 2026-11-12T13:27:33Z published
ce9f48d: the fork's branch, the PR's headRefOid and this checkout read it,
rev-list fork...HEAD is 0 0 with a clean tree. It is the docs-only commit
above the code head 4ae789c, which closes §23.2, and 4ae789c sits on the
merge 57c9e21 that took the conflict away.
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approval of those four runs, and the reply to comment 4532845977, which
can now name 4ae789c. The measurements of §27 and §28 stay as taken, at
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the previous header false. The header now names the PR, the two commands that
read its head (gh pr view 3613 --json headRefOid,..., git ls-remote fork
refs/heads/feature/realtime-collaboration) and the instant of the measurement;
the hash is what they returned then, not a property of the page.
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delivered head changes only this page over bfa13a4, whose code head is still
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+18761/-34, MERGEABLE/UNSTABLE with an empty reviewDecision; its four runs
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What this adds
Real-time collaboration for
.xlsx: several people edit one workbook, see each other'sselection and active cell, and the server keeps the authoritative state, the undo history and
the committed file. The feature is behind the Cargo feature
collab(off by default) and aruntime URL/token; without them the single-user behaviour is unchanged.
Design
Sessionperdocument, assigns the version, deduplicates by
opIdand broadcasts the result.delta; address-shifting edits (
insert/deleterows, sheet rename/move, tables) areexclusive, wait for the head version and bump an
epochthat clients must catch up with.including the dependent formulas it recalculated, dynamic-array spill cells included. A
client re-runs the confirmed command through
Session::apply_remoteand patches only thecached values with
Session::apply_values— volatile functions, Python andprecision-as-displayed cannot diverge.
undois a newoperation that restores value, formula and style only while the cells still hold what that
step left, otherwise it refuses with
conflictand the client resyncs.hello.lastVersionbelow the head makes the server catch the connection up —journal tail when it covers the version, otherwise a chunked snapshot of the authoritative
workbook — and only then does it re-enter the live broadcast.
base.xlsx,keys.json,seen.json,journal.jsonl,meta.json). Snapshots use the real writer, so everything the reader/writerround-trips (custom XML, OLE, form controls, printer settings) survives; restart replays the
journal and verifies the version. A snapshot runs at open, every 500 operations, every
_SNAPSHOT_SECSseconds and at shutdown. A takeover continues the stored document rather thanthe possibly stale bytes the cabinet offers.
/metricsexposes theop → appliedlatency histogram (1 ms – 1 sbuckets), reconnect rate (
resumes_total), catch-up split (catchups_totalvsresync_snapshots_total), journal operations and bytes, base bytes and the time of the lastsnapshot. The counters carry no cell values, names or tokens.
its signature is checked before any claim is trusted; the role is re-read from the token.
ui-egui(Collab) keeps the network out of the single-user build; thedesktop app links
crates/collab-clientbehind the feature and draws other participants'selections, the participant list and the sync state in the status bar. Viewers are refused
locally and by the server.
Where
crates/collab— envelope, allowlist, delta, room (versions, epoch, dedup, undo), hub,gateway.
crates/collab-client— WebSocket client, reconnect, optimistic preview/rollback, catch-up.apps/gridcraft-collab-server— HTTP session lifecycle, WS transport, JWT, lease, journal,snapshots, healthcheck, metrics.
crates/engine—apply_remote,apply_values,restore_cells, changed-cell reporting(spills included).
crates/ui-egui+apps/gridcraft— presence overlay, status bar, feature wiring.Tests
cargo test -p gridcraft-collab— 21 (envelope, allowlist, delta, dedup, epoch,undo/redo, conflicts).
cargo test -p gridcraft-collab-server— 19 unit, 7 socket, 5 persistence, 5 acceptance(two clients, viewer, bad token, lease/takeover, reconnect tail and snapshot, restart,
dynamic array, 10 000-cell range, commit that opens in LibreOffice, periodic snapshot,
latency and reconnect counters).
cargo test -p gridcraft-collab-client— 5 (two replicas converge on cells and formulas,structural edit on both, viewer refused, per-user undo and redo).
cargo clippy --all-targets -D warnings,cargo fmt --check,cargo xtask layers(20 crates) are clean.
cargo test -p gridcraft-engine --libis part of the run.Configuration
Server:
GRIDCRAFT_COLLAB_JWT_SECRETor_JWT_PEM(+_JWT_ALG),_SERVICE_TOKEN,_STORE; optional_ADDR,_PUBLIC_URL,_AUDIENCE,_LEASE_SECS,_HELLO_SECS,_MAX_PARTICIPANTS,_SNAPSHOT_OPS,_SNAPSHOT_SECS.Desktop: build with
--features collab, setGRIDCRAFT_COLLAB_URL,GRIDCRAFT_COLLAB_TOKEN,optionally
GRIDCRAFT_COLLAB_NAME.Not in this change
commitendpoint is here; theoutgoing call is integration work).
Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
Documentation