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jaap-jan 882f01c515 Type a path on the SFTP pane, and put a file right without deleting it
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Three things the file browser could not do. Somewhere to go had to be walked
to, a file that landed under the wrong name could only be removed and sent
again, and the listing went on showing the directory as it was before this
application put something in it.

◆ THE PATH IS A BOX NOW, not a TextBlock printing where the pane was. A
breadcrumb only reaches what is under the directory already listed, so crossing
a host's filesystem cost a click and a round trip a level, and a path somebody
already knew could not be entered at all. Enter goes; Escape puts back what the
pane is really showing.

What is typed may be absolute, relative to the directory showing, or start at
~ — the four shapes a shell takes, because somebody typing into a box is typing
what they would type into a shell. SftpPath.Resolve turns all of them into one
absolute path, and it resolves them here rather than handing a relative path to
the server: the server would resolve it against the session's own working
directory, which is not necessarily the directory the breadcrumb above the box
is showing. `..` is collapsed textually, which differs from cd through a
symbolic link; the alternative is a realpath round trip before anything lists.

The box holds its own value rather than RemotePath itself. Binding it straight
to the path would navigate on every keystroke — `/`, then `/v`, then `/va` — a
round trip and a failed listing per character. Every other way of moving writes
the real path back into it; a refused listing deliberately does not, because
the path that did not resolve is the one worth having in front of you.

◆ RENAME AND MOVE, and DELETE moves to join them. It had been sitting in the
pane header beside UP and REFRESH — two things that move the pane and one that
destroys a file, in one row — and the three that act on the selected row are
now together in a row of their own, under the name of the row they are about.

One SFTP rename underneath both new operations and two separate questions on
the screen, because the answer is a different kind of thing each time: a rename
takes a name and must not take a path, a move takes a directory and must not
take a name. One box asking for a destination path would be fewer controls and
a worse question — the two mistakes it invites are exactly the ones the split
makes impossible. Each form opens on the answer that changes nothing, so what
gets edited is the half somebody came to change.

Three refusals are made here, and they are the ones a server's message would
not explain: a separator in a name (no such file, about a directory nobody
meant to name), a destination equal to the source (success, and a file that did
not move), and a directory into itself (EINVAL, true and useless). Everything
else is the server's — a name already taken, a path that is not there, a mount
that cannot be crossed — and arrives in the status line in its own words.
Neither is painted in the deletion card's red: a rename is undone by renaming
back, and spending that red twice makes it stop meaning anything.

◆ THE LISTING REFRESHES ITSELF when a transfer lands in it. Both panes, since
an upload lands on the host and a download lands here and either leaves the
pane that is showing that directory a step behind. Only the directory actually
on screen: a queue moving a hundred files elsewhere must not be a round trip
per file for a listing nobody is looking at.

It waits rather than interrupting. Another operation running would have two
listings racing for one collection, and re-listing under an open question is
how the row somebody answered about stops being the row that gets acted on — so
the staleness is remembered and settled at the end of the operation or when the
question is dismissed. It says nothing either way: nobody asked for it, and the
status line at that moment is carrying the news about the transfer. The
selection survives, re-found by path, which is what makes an unasked-for
refresh safe to run under somebody's pointer at all.

◆ THE LAYOUT SUITE FOUND A REAL FAULT and the fix is where the height goes. The
rename form did not fit the 204 pixels the session shell's own sidebar leaves
this pane — MKDIR and the listing were pushed off the bottom. The form is
shorter now (the placeholder says what the box wants, so there is no field
label above it), and the item row and the breadcrumb step aside while any of
the three questions is up, which is what the phone head already did with its
own buttons.

Measuring also settled something the markup had been claiming and is not true:
at that width the listing collapses to nothing under any of the three cards,
the deletion card included, and has done since the sidebar arrived. So "the row
it is about is still on screen" is retired from the deletion card's remark, and
the full path each card carries is what identifies the row instead. Recorded
where it is drawn rather than left to be rediscovered.

TESTS. SftpPath.Resolve gets the four shapes, ~ with and without a home to
expand it to, a blank box, and climbing past the root. ShellFlowTests gets nine
against a session that records what it was asked to do — which path was
renamed, which directories were listed — rather than against the sentence this
code writes about itself: the path box absolute and relative, rename in place,
the separator refusal, a move by relative path, the no-op refusal, the three
questions displacing each other, and the three rules the automatic refresh
follows. The local half is in TransferQueueingTests, where a real folder
answers. Two new shapes are measured, and the deletion card's own measurement
moves to the connected state — the only state it can be asked in, and the
narrow one.

What the tests cannot reach is in docs/manual-checks.md as phase 2b: a real
server's cross-device and name-taken refusals, and a soft keyboard, which is
why the phone's path box has a GO button rather than trusting whatever the IME
decided to draw on its return key.
2026-08-21 12:05:33 +02:00
jaap-jan ebb88c8ae4 Give the phone both pickers, and settle who signs the APK
The files screen could browse a remote and delete on it, and that was all: there
is no browsable local filesystem on Android for a second pane to show, so the
gesture the desktop is built around — choose on the left, press the arrow — has
nothing to stand on. What replaces it is the platform's own two pickers. ADD
FILES is ACTION_OPEN_DOCUMENT, so a document is pointed at wherever it lives and
goes to the directory showing; SAVE FILE is ACTION_CREATE_DOCUMENT for the
selected row.

Both stage through the application's cache, and that copy is a requirement
rather than a shortcut. android-port.md predicted a picked document would be a
third IRemoteFileStore beside SFTP and S3; it cannot be. FileTransferQueue seeks,
because an upload resumes from the byte the last attempt reached, and a
content:// URI has no path behind it, no length worth trusting, no promised seek
and no grant that survives the document being edited underneath it. Copying
first costs one class in the head and nothing at all in the shared layers, where
the alternative was every resume rule rewritten around a stream that cannot
rewind. The copy is deleted when the transfer completes, kept while it is stopped
so RESUME still has something to read, and swept at the next launch — which is
the one moment emptying that directory is provably safe, since nothing has
queued anything yet.

Coming out had a decision going in did not: when to ask where it goes. The save
picker is raised before the transfer, so the download runs into the same staging
directory and hands its bytes to a callback the head supplied, held against the
transfer id so a RETRY still lands where the person pointed. Asking afterwards
would put the picker minutes from the button that caused it and, on a phone,
usually while the application is backgrounded and Android will not show one at
all. The cost is that the picker creates its file when it is dismissed, so a
download that then fails leaves an empty one there; that is said on the screen,
in the README and in the manual checks rather than left to be discovered. A
delivery that fails keeps the staged bytes for the sweep instead of throwing away
the one copy of something just fetched over somebody's network.

The foreground service counts transfers now, which is the half of it that
matters most here: a shell survives backgrounding because somebody is looking at
it, and an upload has to survive precisely when nobody is. Queued counts as
active, so putting five files in and locking the phone moves five files. The
seam was built for this and wired to () => 0 because nothing could fill the
queue.

Alongside it, ADR 0010 answers the second question android-port.md left open,
and it had to be answered before the first release rather than at upload time: a
new Play app must use App Bundles and therefore Play App Signing, and an
installed app can only be updated by a package signed with the same key, so the
first release picks an identity for good. The project holds the key, offline and
never in CI — the workflow's package step now says so where somebody would break
it — and a DodoSSH deployment never serves the client, because a download link on
your own server hands the binary that holds the plaintext to the party the whole
threat model is about.

The README's M1 gap note was stale in both halves and is replaced by what is
actually true: credentials have an editor and a REMEMBER tick, and the device key
registers into the TPM under a CNG policy that makes the consent dialog a
condition of using it. What is left is the floor rather than a gap — no TPM, or
no Windows, means the passphrase on every launch.
2026-08-04 10:07:16 +02:00
jaap-janandClaude Opus 5 ddf0dd6a2b Stop the transfer tests depending on which thread ran them first
Every test in TransferQueueingTests failed on the Linux runner with "The calling thread
cannot access this object because a different thread owns it", and none of them had
anything to do with the commits in that run. The class drained its rows through
Dispatcher.UIThread.RunJobs(). That dispatcher is process-wide and belongs to whichever
thread touched it first, and xunit runs each test class as its own parallel collection — so
the moment a runner scheduled another class onto that thread ahead of this one, all nine
died inside DispatcherOperation.Execute having asserted nothing about transfers at all. It
passes locally and fails on a machine that schedules differently, which is the whole of why
this took a CI run to find.

TransfersViewModel now takes the poster it marshals through, defaulting to
Dispatcher.UIThread.Post — the seam VaultViewModel's clipboard already is, for the same
reason: a view model that reaches a process-wide UI object directly makes every test of it
depend on a thread it does not choose. No head passes the parameter, so nothing about the
running application changes.

The test supplies a queue of its own and drains it, which is the same shape the dispatcher
gave it. A poster that ran the action inline was tried first and is wrong: the transfer
queue raises Changed from its pump thread as well as from the call that enqueued, so inline
execution has a background thread adding rows to an ObservableCollection while the test
reads it — it passed once and then failed a different test on the next run. Draining keeps
every mutation on the thread doing the asserting, which is the one thing the dispatcher was
providing that was worth keeping.

One test added for the property that broke: queueing is reachable from any thread and must
not care which. The class as a whole guards the seam — remove it and nothing drains, so
every assertion about a row fails.

Verified by reproducing the failure first: a throwaway probe that touched the dispatcher on
one thread and posted and drained on another produced exactly the CI message. Then six
consecutive Release runs of the app suite, all green, plus the layout suite, which builds a
TransfersViewModel of its own.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-01 21:43:21 +02:00
jaap-jan 2caedd93ff Merge branch 'main' into the Android head
Main grew the screens the host-management plan called for — hosts, pins, snippets, logs,
import, teams — plus the ObjectStore and Import projects behind two of them, and moved
WindowsDeviceKeyStore into the desktop head's Platform folder.

Five of those view models landed in a directory this branch had already moved, so they
join the rest in DodoSSH.Client.Shell: git spotted the rename and put them there, and the
namespaces followed. Shell picks up ObjectStore and Import as a result, which the Android
head then gets transitively and will use neither of at first — scoped storage means there
is no ~/.ssh/config to import, and file transfer is out of its first scope.

Desktop suites green at 155 and 64.
2026-07-31 21:03:22 +02:00
jaap-jan d07b336868 Free the terminal from the Hosts screen, and fill the room it left
The WebView sat inside the Hosts grid, so navigating to Files or the keychain
hid every open terminal and the strip that named them. A connection you had
opened was invisible from four of the five screens. The window now has two
surfaces rather than one: a nav rail that says which page you are on, and a
terminal strip that is always there and switches the whole content area to a
shell. Screen keeps meaning "which page" and never becomes a sixth kind of
page, which is why this is two properties instead of one enum with a terminal
member in it.

Every screen lives inside one wrapper panel that collapses when a terminal is
showing. That is not tidiness — the WebView hosts a Win32 child window that
composites above everything Avalonia draws, so a screen left visible over its
rectangle is a screen sliced in half, and this window has shipped that defect
once already. One decision point, IsTerminalShowing, and a nested panel rather
than five compound bindings nobody would remember to extend.

The focus choreography is the part no test in this repo can see. Every reveal
path now focuses in the same turn the WebView appeared, so all three of them
post at DispatcherPriority.Loaded and let the native control re-push its bounds
first. Going the other way had a real bug: the screen-changed branch called a
bare Focus() where it had to release the keyboard from the native child, so
switching from a terminal to Files silently ate the first keystrokes. Rare
before this commit and the primary gesture after it.

The tab strip grew a cross inside each tab, a plus that opens the quick-connect
palette, and middle-click close. Nested buttons are correct here: Avalonia
handles a left press on the cross and deliberately does not handle other
buttons, which is exactly what lets middle-click bubble up from the cross as
well as the tab. The test is PointerUpdateKind rather than
IsMiddleButtonPressed, because the latter reports button state and is also true
for a left press made while the middle button happens to be held. The handler
is on the tab and not the strip, so the background closes nothing by
construction. Plus opens the palette rather than a flyout, since a menu
dropping into the WebView's rectangle may or may not composite above a child
HWND and this repo does not make rendering claims it has not photographed.

Everything a user reads now says keychain. The wire, the database and the
cryptographic spec still say vault, deliberately: renaming those is a migration
and a protocol change for a word. That split is written down rather than left
to be rediscovered as an inconsistency.

Four things that were squeezed into the keychain's category rail, or into
nothing at all, now have screens. Pinned host keys get one, with fingerprints
never truncated and a filter that matches them, because comparing what you have
against what the operator published is the whole workflow; the approved date is
read out of the item's UUIDv7 rather than added as a column, and says so, since
it means first approval and not last use. Keys can be generated in the client,
which needed the openssh-key-v1 container written by hand — there is no BCL or
NSec helper, and the PKCS#8 route is unverified in the SSH library this uses.
The armour carries no passphrase: encrypting it needs bcrypt_pbkdf, which is
Blowfish with a swizzle, in a project whose crypto is otherwise entirely
libsodium, for a protection the key's own remarks argue is redundant inside a
vault. Generation fills the existing editor and stops, so SAVE stays the one
thing that writes. ~/.ssh/config can be imported behind a preview that is
ticked per row and writes nothing until the button; IdentityFile records the
path and imports the key material only on an explicit opt-in, because reading
somebody's private key into a vault is precisely the act this product exists to
make deliberate. Match blocks and ProxyJump are reported rather than obeyed —
one cannot be evaluated statically and the other has nothing behind it to route
with, and a preview that implied otherwise would be worse than one that admits
it.

Files can be dragged in all four directions that are honestly available. Remote
to Explorer does not ship and is not pretended to: the shell wants the bytes
during the drop, which needs a virtual file and a native COM data object,
outside what Avalonia offers. Note for the next person that Avalonia 12
replaced the drag model outright — DataObject and DataFormats are no-op stubs
and IDataObject is not in the reference assembly, so every tutorial written for
11 does not compile here.

Hosts can be grouped, flat and never nested. A parent id merged as a scalar
lets two offline clients each re-parent A under B and B under A, producing a
cycle inside an encrypted payload that no server can police and every reader
would have to detect for ever. Membership lives in that payload rather than in
the one plaintext concession ADR 0001 allows, whose test is that the relay
cannot function without it — nothing on the server reads a group, so what
plaintext would hand over is a clustering of the estate for nothing. The
plaintext column reserved for it is dropped, provably always null, and the
server now refuses a client that sends one; it was never populated, was copied
on apply, and was not cleared on delete, so a group id would have outlived the
host it described.

Snippets insert through xterm rather than through the pump, because xterm is
the only thing that knows whether the remote has bracketed paste on, and that
is what makes a shell treat embedded newlines as text instead of as execute.
The host process moves opaque bytes and never parses output, so it would have
to guess, and guessing wrong runs every line. Running is off by default and the
copy says the text goes into whatever is there — the terminal has no notion of
being at a prompt, and may be in vi or at a password prompt with echo off, so
the Enter the user presses themselves is the entire safety property.

Connections and keychain changes are recorded as synced encrypted items, which
is what makes them auditable by a team later and costs the server knowledge of
connection rate and timing from row counts alone. ADR 0001 already concedes it
cannot hide that class of metadata; the trade is now written into it rather
than left implicit. A connection entry is written once, at close, which is what
makes a synced log tractable: nothing to merge, one outbox row, no chance of
colliding with itself. Live sessions come from memory, not from the log. The
write is void by contract and posts to a bounded channel, because putting an
encrypt-and-write on the teardown path of every session is how closing the
application comes to take four seconds. A ticket opened before a lock still
closes afterwards, since a shell outlives the vault. The activity log hooks the
one generic repository every kind writes through, so it cannot miss a caller —
which is also why the log kinds themselves declare they are not audited, or the
first entry would write an entry about writing an entry. It records the names
of the fields that changed and never their values; a log with an old password
in it would be a plaintext credential store with no vault around it. Retention
is 90 days or 5,000 entries, whichever bites first, pruned on the sync loop
rather than on a second timer.

That log traffic then broke the status line, which is worth recording because
the fix is a shape and not a patch: background sync counted its own log rows as
pushed items, so the quiet rule stopped being quiet and every action's message
was overwritten a second later by a sync report. The report now separates log
rows from user items and the rule reads the latter.

S3 buckets appear as a remote in the file browser, behind the same interface an
SFTP session implements, so the queue and both panes did not have to learn what
they are talking to. Uploads go through a pipe, because the queue wants to
write and the SDK wants to read; memory is then bounded by the part size
instead of buffering a file to disk twice.

Finally, the Windows device key store moved out of the session project, which
was the one thing keeping it from being portable — everything else in it is
platform-neutral, and a Windows CNG dependency in the middle of the vault code
meant a second head could not reference it without dragging Windows along. The
seam that made the move free was already there. docs/android-port.md is the
audit behind that: what ports, what does not, in order of cost, the four
decisions taken, and an inventory of every screen and state the interface has
to carry, written so a design can be made from it directly.

dotnet build, dotnet test and dotnet format --verify-no-changes are all clean:
1240 tests at zero warnings, including the end-to-end suite against real
containers. The manual checks that headless Avalonia cannot make — the drag
from Explorer, a generated key against a real host, twelve tabs at the minimum
window width — are listed in docs/manual-checks.md and are still outstanding.
2026-07-31 20:30:05 +02:00