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+package io.flamenet.messenger.app
+
+import io.flamenet.client.MessengerApi
+import io.flamenet.client.RelayClient
+import io.flamenet.e2e.DeviceIdentity
+import io.flamenet.e2e.Vault
+import javax.crypto.KeyGenerator
+import javax.crypto.SecretKey
+import kotlin.test.AfterTest
+import kotlin.test.BeforeTest
+import kotlin.test.Test
+import kotlin.test.assertEquals
+import kotlin.test.assertFalse
+import kotlin.test.assertTrue
+import okhttp3.mockwebserver.MockWebServer
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith
+import org.robolectric.RobolectricTestRunner
+import org.robolectric.annotation.Config
+
+/**
+ * An inbound edit changes the message it names (§6.15).
+ *
+ * 🔴 **Written to settle a claim, not to add coverage.** The published spec
+ * says Android *"cannot yet apply one, because its transcript does not record a
+ * `mid` for each line"*, and that both blocks replies and reactions too. The
+ * transcript does record a `mid` — `MessageReactionTest` folds a reaction onto
+ * a message by id — so the stated reason is already false.
+ *
+ * ⚠️ But relay#46's rule is the point: **do not flip a claim because the code
+ * looks present; flip it because a run proved it, and say which run.**
+ * `applyEdit` was implemented and wired with nothing exercising it, because
+ * `InboundControlTest` covers the codec and says in its own header that the
+ * app-side application needs a `Vault` and is out of scope there. This is that
+ * run.
+ */
+@RunWith(RobolectricTestRunner::class)
+@Config(sdk = [34])
+class InboundEditAppliedTest {
+
+    private lateinit var server: MockWebServer
+
+    @BeforeTest fun start() { server = MockWebServer().also { it.start() } }
+    @AfterTest fun stop() { server.shutdown() }
+
+    private class MapStorage : Vault.Storage {
+        private val records = mutableMapOf<String, ByteArray>()
+        override fun read(name: String) = records[name]
+        override fun write(name: String, bytes: ByteArray) { records[name] = bytes }
+        override fun delete(name: String) { records.remove(name) }
+        override fun names() = records.keys.toList()
+    }
+
+    private fun key(): SecretKey =
+        KeyGenerator.getInstance("AES").apply { init(256) }.generateKey()
+
+    private val me = 1L
+    private val them = 2L
+    private val thread = Vault.threadForUser(2L)
+
+    private fun session(): Session {
+        val identity = DeviceIdentity.create()
+        val vault = Vault(MapStorage(), key()).also { it.saveIdentity(identity) }
+        val base = server.url("/").toString()
+        return Session("alice", me, identity, vault,
+            RelayClient(base, "alice", "app pass word"),
+            MessengerApi(base, "alice", "app pass word"))
+    }
+
+    private fun Session.textOf(mid: String): String? =
+        history(thread).firstOrNull { it.id == mid }?.text
+
+    @Test
+    fun `an edit from the author rewrites the message it names`() {
+        val s = session()
+        s.record(thread, "frist post", mine = false, author = them, messageId = "m1")
+        s.record(thread, "untouched", mine = false, author = them, messageId = "m2")
+
+        assertTrue(s.applyEdit(thread, "m1", author = them, newText = "first post"))
+        assertEquals("first post", s.textOf("m1"), "the edit did not reach the transcript")
+        assertEquals("untouched", s.textOf("m2"), "an edit changed a message it did not name")
+    }
+
+    /** It survives a reload — the point is the transcript, not a live object. */
+    @Test
+    fun `the edit is persisted, not just applied in memory`() {
+        val s = session()
+        s.record(thread, "before", mine = false, author = them, messageId = "m1")
+        s.applyEdit(thread, "m1", author = them, newText = "after")
+        assertEquals("after", s.textOf("m1"))
+        assertTrue(s.history(thread).single().editedAt != null,
+            "the bubble has no way to show that it was edited")
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * 🔴 **An edit from anyone but the author is refused.** Without this, one
+     * contact could rewrite another's words in a transcript — which reads to
+     * the person as the sender having said something they never said.
+     */
+    @Test
+    fun `an edit from somebody who did not write it is refused`() {
+        val s = session()
+        s.record(thread, "theirs", mine = false, author = them, messageId = "m1")
+
+        assertFalse(s.applyEdit(thread, "m1", author = 99L, newText = "forged"))
+        assertEquals("theirs", s.textOf("m1"), "somebody else rewrote this message")
+    }
+
+    /** And nobody else may rewrite what THIS device sent. */
+    @Test
+    fun `an edit of our own message is refused when it claims another author`() {
+        val s = session()
+        s.record(thread, "mine", mine = true, author = me, messageId = "m1")
+
+        assertFalse(s.applyEdit(thread, "m1", author = them, newText = "forged"))
+        assertEquals("mine", s.textOf("m1"))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `an edit naming a message this device does not hold changes nothing`() {
+        val s = session()
+        s.record(thread, "only one", mine = false, author = them, messageId = "m1")
+        assertFalse(s.applyEdit(thread, "absent", author = them, newText = "x"))
+        assertEquals("only one", s.textOf("m1"))
+    }
+}