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DocumentationDatabaseVersion holds exactly one row — the format version the database is, not a history of what it has been. The comments and the doc bullet merged in #1726 described an append-only log instead. That was my reading of ADFA-5220's INSERT-based update example, and it was wrong.

No longer just comments. That was true of the first commit; since then this PR changes the query (the row count now rides along with the version), adds a rows > 1 warning, and fixes the order of the NULL check — so the behavioural part deserves a real look rather than the "comments only" skim the original summary invited.

Verified on hardware: 12 instrumented tests pass on a Galaxy Note 20 Ultra, and the warning appears three times in logcat — once per multi-row case, including a file whose last row has a NULL major.

The query stays; its justification changes

resolveMajorVersion keeps ORDER BY rowid DESC LIMIT 1, now stated as a defence rather than a model. Nothing in the DDL enforces the one-row rule, so if a file ever turns up carrying several rows, this reads the one written last rather than whichever SQLite happens to return — and a downgrade still reads as a downgrade, where MAX(major) would report the highest version the file ever declared.

The two tests asserting last-row-wins across several inserted rows became one test saying what that ordering is for: majorVersionIsTheRowWrittenLast_whenADatabaseCarriesSeveral.

Writer side

OfflineDocumentationTools#29 now replaces the row instead of appending, and collapses a database that accumulated several back to one — so a file that broke the contract gets repaired the next time the pipeline touches it, rather than being read around forever.

Verified: :common:compileV8DebugAndroidTestKotlin and spotlessKotlinCheck pass.

Correcting what I first wrote here: root spotlessCheckalone passes. The failure I hit needs a compile task and spotlessCheck in the same invocation — spotlessJava then walks the gitignored tests/test-home that tooling-api-model:copyToTestDir writes into the source tree. Pre-existing and unrelated to this branch, but it masquerades as "my change broke Spotless": filed as ADFA-5244 with the one-line fix.

Schema-level enforcement of the one-row rule (an id … CHECK (id = 1) column, as CompressionDictionary already uses, or a trigger) is ADFA-5243 — deliberately not done here, since it changes the shipped DDL.

…nly log
DocumentationDatabaseVersion holds exactly one row -- the format version the
database *is*, not a history of what it has been. The comments and the doc
bullet described an append-only log, which was my reading of the ticket's
INSERT-based update example and is wrong.
resolveMajorVersion keeps ORDER BY rowid DESC, now stated as a defence rather
than a model: a file that breaks the one-row contract still reads
deterministically, and a downgrade still reads as a downgrade where MAX(major)
would report the highest version ever declared. The two tests that asserted
last-row-wins across several rows collapse into one that says what that ordering
is actually for.
The writer side is OfflineDocumentationTools#29.
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  • Correct DocumentationDatabaseVersion to store exactly one current database format version.
  • Replace existing rows during database population and collapse duplicate rows.
  • Resolve the latest row by changeTime DESC, rowid DESC.
  • Log warnings for duplicate rows and NULL major versions.
  • Return VERSION_UNKNOWN when all format metadata fields are blank.
  • Add JVM and instrumented tests for upgrades, downgrades, duplicate rows, NULL values, missing tables, and ordering.
  • Update documentation and test cursor stubs.
  • Verify with 12 instrumented tests, :common:compileV8DebugAndroidTestKotlin, and spotlessKotlinCheck.
  • Risk: Population modifies multi-row databases by retaining only the replacement row.
  • The root spotlessCheck remains affected by task-ordering interference tracked as ADFA-5244.
  • Schema enforcement remains deferred to ADFA-5243.
  • Instrumented tests are not currently wired into a running job.

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The resolver now reads the last-written database version row, warns about duplicate or NULL-major rows, and returns VERSION_UNKNOWN for empty version data. Tests cover version ordering, malformed rows, absent tables, row counts, and response content types. Documentation defines single-row replacement semantics.

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Database version row semantics

Layer / File(s)Summary
Resolver row selection and duplicate handling
common/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/utils/DatabaseVersionResolver.kt, docs/documentation-database.md
The resolver orders rows by descending changeTime and rowid, checks the row count, warns for duplicate rows and NULL majors, and uses SLF4J logging. Empty version data returns VERSION_UNKNOWN. Documentation describes replacement-based storage and duplicate handling.
Version resolution and web server validation
common/src/androidTest/java/com/itsaky/androidide/utils/DatabaseVersionResolverTest.kt, common/src/test/java/com/itsaky/androidide/utils/DatabaseVersionResolverBranchTest.kt, app/src/test/java/com/itsaky/androidide/localWebServer/WebServerTest.kt
Tests cover higher-version, downgrade, NULL-major, absent-table, ordering, row-count, and content-type behavior. The web server stub now returns the expected row count and checks charset handling for text responses.

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Merge Risk:⚪ Minimal · up to d3a88

The version table now follows a single-row write and repair model while retaining deterministic last-row selection for malformed files; no actionable merge-blocking correctness or production risk remains at the current head.

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Higher or lower, the result will show.
A NULL major marks unknown state,
Duplicate rows receive a warning note.
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The reader tolerates several rows on purpose -- ordering by rowid keeps the
answer deterministic -- but it did so silently, so a database built by something
that appended instead of replacing looked identical to a correct one. The count
now rides along with the version in the same query, and more than one row is
logged with the major actually used.
The doc bullet stated the one-row rule twice over nine lines; it now says it
once.
Verified: the query returns (last major, total count) against sqlite directly,
for one row, several rows, and none. The instrumented assertion for the
single-row path is added but not executed -- no device is attached at the moment.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…orst case
Review of this PR found that merging the two ordering tests deleted the only one
that distinguished "highest rowid" from "lowest major": every remaining
expectation happened to be the minimum major present, so MIN(major) would have
passed the whole suite while the test named for the row written last proved
nothing. Both directions are back -- the last row higher, and the last row a
downgrade.
The NULL check ran before the count was read, so a file that is both multi-row
and ends in a NULL major returned null with nothing logged: the most malformed
state there is, reported exactly like a database that has no version table. The
count is read first now, and there is a test, which needs a table created
without the shipped DDL's NOT NULL -- fitting, since this reader exists to
defend against files another producer wrote.
WebServerTest's cursor stub never answered getInt(1), so a relaxed mock returned
a row count of 0 -- a state the production code has just excluded by getting a
row back at all. It returns 1 now, so those tests exercise something reachable.
The doc claimed docdb-studio logs a warning for a multi-row file. It does not;
only this reader does. It also lost the reason highest-rowid beats MAX(major),
which is the fact that stops someone simplifying the query later. Both fixed.
Verified on device this time, not just compiled: 12 instrumented tests pass on a
Galaxy Note 20 Ultra, and the warning appears three times in logcat -- once per
multi-row case, the NULL-major one included.
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- Around line 116-123: Update the malformed-table fixture’s INSERT in
DatabaseVersionResolverTest to use ? placeholders with bound NULL, numeric, and
text parameters instead of embedded SQL literals, while keeping the CREATE TABLE
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In `@common/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/utils/DatabaseVersionResolver.kt`:
- Around line 112-116: In DatabaseVersionResolver, update the duplicate-row
warning to use the existing SLF4J logger instead of Log.w, replacing
interpolation of rows with a {} placeholder and passing rows as the logging
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This file was one of two in common/utils still using android.util.Log where ten
siblings use SLF4J, so the whole file moves rather than just the new warning --
a file mixing both would be worse than either. The duplicate-row warning takes a
{} placeholder with rows as an argument.
The malformed-table fixture built its INSERT by concatenating literals; the
values are bound now, like every other insert in this test.
Verified on device: 12 instrumented tests pass and the warning still reaches
logcat three times through the SLF4J binding.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Review follow-ups on the single-version-row reader.
ORDER BY rowid DESC picked "the row written last" only by accident:
rowid is not insertion order, and SQLite is free to reuse the rowid of
a deleted row. The table carries a changeTime column that records
exactly what the comment claims to want, so order by that and let rowid
break ties. On a downgrade -- major 3 written, then 2 -- the old
ordering could hand back 3 and attach the shared dictionary to content
that is plain brotli.
A NULL major now logs. It still reads as "no declared version", because
that is the answer the caller is built to handle, but it and a database
predating the table are no longer indistinguishable in the log: one is
an old file behaving correctly, the other is a malformed one silently
losing dictionary decoding.
formatVersion returned "" when changeTime, set and who were all blank,
which callers stored and displayed as a stamp. Return VERSION_UNKNOWN.
The existing tests are in common/src/androidTest, which no workflow
runs -- CI assembles :app:assembleV8DebugAndroidTest and runs two named
app classes. The branch logic now has JVM tests that execute. Four of
them pin behaviour that was already correct but unproven; the ordering
test fails against the previous query.
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Reviewed at xhigh. Three fixes pushed in b69e1d2; the rest is commentary.

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  1. ORDER BY rowid DESC was documented as "the row written last", but rowid is not insertion order and SQLite may reuse the rowid of a deleted row. The table already has a changeTime column recording exactly what the comment wants. Now ORDER BY changeTime DESC, rowid DESC. The case that matters is a downgrade — major 3 written, then 2 — where the old ordering could return 3 and attach the shared dictionary to plain-brotli content.
  2. A NULL major returned null, which is also the answer for a database predating the version table. The return value stays null (the caller is built for it), but it now logs, so a malformed file losing dictionary decoding is distinguishable from an old file behaving correctly.
  3. formatVersion returned "" when changeTime, set and who were all blank; callers stored and displayed that as a version stamp. Returns VERSION_UNKNOWN.

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The tests here are in common/src/androidTest, which nothing runs — CI assembles :app:assembleV8DebugAndroidTest and runs two named app classes on Test Lab, and connectedV8DebugAndroidTest does not work in this environment. The rows > 1 warning and the NULL-major path had no executed coverage. Added DatabaseVersionResolverBranchTest under common/src/test, which does run. Being straight about what it proves: four of the five tests pin behaviour that was already correct, so they pass against the pre-fix code too — they are regression pins for the untested branches. Only the ordering test fails against the old query.

The instrumented file is still the right home for a test against a real SQLite with two rows and out-of-order rowids. Worth adding when androidTest is wired into a job that runs.

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30-37: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Correct the duplicate-row rule in the KDoc.

Line 37 selects the greatest changeTime, then uses rowid only to break ties. Lines 85-87 state that the highest rowid wins. Document the changeTime DESC, rowid DESC rule so callers do not implement a different selection rule.

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In `@common/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/utils/DatabaseVersionResolver.kt`
around lines 30 - 37, Update the KDoc for DatabaseVersionResolver to state that
duplicate rows are resolved by selecting the greatest changeTime, with rowid
descending used only as the tie-breaker, and retain the rationale for this
ordering and duplicate-count reporting. Ensure it does not describe highest
rowid as the primary selection rule.

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In `@common/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/utils/DatabaseVersionResolver.kt`:
- Around line 30-37: Update the KDoc for DatabaseVersionResolver to state that
duplicate rows are resolved by selecting the greatest changeTime, with rowid
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