Merge branch 'feat/text-and-link-stories' into 'main'

Post a story that is only words, or a link

See merge request paulhitt/flamenet-messenger-android!22
This commit was merged in pull request #49.
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Paul Hitt
2026-09-02 21:43:56 +00:00
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@@ -619,3 +619,22 @@ runs BEFORE the rate-limit check on both, so a suppression window cannot make an
untimed conversation start reporting.
⚠️ **Last-notice times are in memory on both.** Persisting them would store who
screenshotted whom, on disk, to enforce a five-second window.
||||||| parent of 487cead (Post a story that is only words, or a link)
## Text and link stories (§6.21, ios#32)
A story may carry no attachment; the caption is then the whole story. Both
platforms encode, decode, store, render and post one.
🔴 **The decode sits BEFORE the attachment branch on both.** That branch
requires `att` for `kind: "story"`; a text story failing it falls through to
the ordinary-message path and appears as a chat bubble in the conversation that
never expires — both of the things §6.6 says a story must not be. Each engine
has a test named for exactly that.
🔴 **`ref` is nullable/optional rather than a sentinel**, so nothing can read a
blob id off a story that has no blob. Both platforms therefore need a `key` for
seen-marks and de-duplication: with no blob id, a text story is named by what
cannot repeat for one author — when it was posted and what it said.
⚠️ **Android's stored record omits `ref` entirely** rather than writing an
empty object; a reload would otherwise resurrect a blob that fails to fetch.
`expiresAt` folds the two cases so no caller has to know which kind it holds.
⚠️ A text story has no blob, so nothing dies at the server's retention purge.
Client-enforced expiry is the whole mechanism rather than a backstop to one,
and both composers say so instead of implying more.
@@ -2482,7 +2482,7 @@ fun ColumnScope.StoryStrip(
@Composable
private fun ColumnScope.StoryViewer(model: MessengerViewModel, story: Vault.Story) {
val remaining = remember(story.id) {
val seconds = story.ref.expires - System.currentTimeMillis() / 1000.0
val seconds = story.expiresAt - System.currentTimeMillis() / 1000.0
when {
seconds <= 0 -> "expired"
seconds < 3600 -> "${(seconds / 60).toInt()}m left"
@@ -2493,7 +2493,8 @@ private fun ColumnScope.StoryViewer(model: MessengerViewModel, story: Vault.Stor
modifier = Modifier.fillMaxWidth().padding(vertical = 8.dp).testTag("story-viewer"),
verticalArrangement = Arrangement.spacedBy(6.dp),
) {
AttachedImage(story.ref, model)
// §6.21 — a text story has no blob; the caption IS the story.
story.ref?.let { AttachedImage(it, model) }
if (story.caption.isNotBlank()) Text(story.caption)
Row(
modifier = Modifier.fillMaxWidth(),
@@ -1927,6 +1927,42 @@ class MessengerViewModel(app: Application) : AndroidViewModel(app) {
/** Whether this contact's stories are hidden on this device. */
fun isStoryMuted(authorId: Long): Boolean = session?.isStoryMuted(authorId) ?: false
/**
* Post a story that is only words (§6.21).
*
* ⚠️ No blob, so nothing is uploaded and nothing lands in the server's
* retention purge. The whole lifetime of a text story is the `exp` honest
* clients enforce — for a story with a picture that is a backstop to the
* blob dying anyway; here it is the only mechanism.
*/
fun postTextStory(caption: String, background: Int? = null,
audienceOverride: Session.StoryAudience? = null) =
viewModelScope.launch {
val current = session ?: return@launch
val body = caption.trim()
if (body.isEmpty()) return@launch
val contacts = signedIn()?.buddies?.map { it.userId }.orEmpty()
val recipients = (audienceOverride ?: current.storyAudience()).recipients(contacts)
if (recipients.isEmpty()) {
update {
it.copy(error = "Nobody is in your story audience, so this "
+ "would go to no one. Change who can see your stories on Account.")
}
return@launch
}
update { it.copy(busy = true, error = null) }
val done = withContext(Dispatchers.IO) {
runCatching {
current.postTextStory(
body, recipients, background,
lifetimeSeconds = MediaSettings(getApplication()).storyLifetimeSeconds)
}
}
done.onSuccess {
update { it.copy(busy = false, stories = current.stories()) }
}.onFailure { f -> update { it.copy(busy = false, error = describe(f)) } }
}
/** Change who may see this account's stories. */
fun setStoryAudience(audience: Session.StoryAudience) = viewModelScope.launch {
val current = session ?: return@launch
@@ -1041,6 +1041,58 @@ class Session(
runCatching { conversations.send(peerUserId, Content.screenshot(nowMillis / 1000)) }
}
/**
* Post a story that is only its caption (§6.21).
*
* ⚠️ No blob, so there is no upload and nothing for the server's retention
* purge to collect. The whole lifetime of a text story is the `exp` honest
* clients enforce.
*
* 🔴 The link preview is fetched by the CALLER and rides inside the
* ciphertext (§6.12). A card drawn by each viewer would tell the site the
* address of everyone who saw the story — for a story that is the whole
* audience, not one correspondent.
*/
fun postTextStory(
caption: String,
toUserIds: List<Long>,
background: Int? = null,
link: Content.LinkPreview? = null,
lifetimeSeconds: Double,
): Int {
val body = caption.trim()
require(body.isNotEmpty()) { "a text story with no words is not a story" }
val expires = System.currentTimeMillis() / 1000.0 + lifetimeSeconds
val plaintext = Content.textStory(body, expires, background, link)
var reached = 0
toUserIds.forEach { peer ->
if (runCatching { conversations.send(peer, plaintext) }
.getOrNull()?.reachedSomeone == true) reached++
}
if (reached > 0) {
val now = System.currentTimeMillis() / 1000.0
val at = System.currentTimeMillis()
vault.saveStories(
vault.loadStories() + Vault.Story(
// No blob, so no blob id. Named by what cannot repeat for
// one author, matching Story.key.
id = "txt-$userId-$at",
authorId = userId,
mine = true,
ref = null,
caption = body,
postedAt = at,
seen = true,
textExpiry = expires,
background = background,
link = link,
),
now,
)
}
return reached
}
/**
* Members of a group we are in, or null if the relay does not list it for
* us (audit H1). Cached for a short window: a poll pass can carry many
@@ -58,6 +58,9 @@ fun ColumnScope.StoriesFeed(
// Post from HERE too. The strip on Messages was the only way in, which
// means the tab named Stories could show them but not make one.
val context = androidx.compose.ui.platform.LocalContext.current
val writing = androidx.compose.runtime.saveable.rememberSaveable {
androidx.compose.runtime.mutableStateOf(false)
}
val pickStory = androidx.activity.compose.rememberLauncherForActivityResult(
androidx.activity.result.contract.ActivityResultContracts.GetContent()
) { uri ->
@@ -74,6 +77,14 @@ fun ColumnScope.StoriesFeed(
style = MaterialTheme.typography.headlineMedium,
modifier = Modifier.weight(1f),
)
// §6.21 — a sentence is often the whole thought, and needs no camera.
KitChip(
text = "Write",
selected = false,
onClick = { writing.value = true },
tag = "new-text-story",
)
Spacer(Modifier.size(Space.sm))
Icon(
KitIcon.Add,
contentDescription = "New story",
@@ -84,6 +95,46 @@ fun ColumnScope.StoriesFeed(
.testTag("new-story"),
)
}
if (writing.value) {
val draft = remember { androidx.compose.runtime.mutableStateOf("") }
androidx.compose.material3.AlertDialog(
onDismissRequest = { writing.value = false },
title = { Text("Write a story") },
text = {
Column {
androidx.compose.material3.OutlinedTextField(
value = draft.value,
onValueChange = { draft.value = it },
placeholder = { Text("Say something") },
modifier = Modifier.fillMaxWidth().testTag("text-story-field"),
)
Spacer(Modifier.height(Space.sm))
// ⚠️ Says who enforces it. A text story has no blob, so
// nothing dies at the server's retention purge — the
// client honouring `exp` is the whole of it.
Text(
"Disappears after your story lifetime. There is no photo to "
+ "delete, so this relies on their app honouring it.",
fontSize = 12.sp,
color = Palette.SecondaryText,
)
}
},
confirmButton = {
androidx.compose.material3.TextButton(
onClick = { model.postTextStory(draft.value); writing.value = false },
enabled = draft.value.isNotBlank(),
modifier = Modifier.testTag("text-story-post"),
) { Text("Post") }
},
dismissButton = {
androidx.compose.material3.TextButton(
onClick = { writing.value = false }) { Text("Cancel") }
},
)
}
Spacer(Modifier.height(Space.sm))
StoriesCards(model, phase)
@@ -106,9 +157,9 @@ private fun StoryCard(
?: if (story.mine) "You" else "user ${story.authorId}"
}
val remaining = remember(story.id) {
val seconds = story.ref.expires - System.currentTimeMillis() / 1000.0
val seconds = story.expiresAt - System.currentTimeMillis() / 1000.0
when {
story.ref.expires <= 0L -> "no expiry"
story.expiresAt <= 0L -> "no expiry"
seconds <= 0 -> "expired"
seconds < 3600 -> "${(seconds / 60).toInt()} min left"
else -> "${(seconds / 3600).toInt()} h left"
@@ -180,10 +231,15 @@ private fun StoryCard(
if (stream != null && streamHost != null &&
io.flamenet.e2e.StreamDisclosure.acceptable(stream)) {
StoryStreamGate(stream, streamHost)
} else if (story.ref.mime.startsWith("video/")) {
StoryVideoCard(story.ref, model)
} else {
StoryImage(story.ref, model)
// §6.21 — a text story has nothing to fetch. Skipped rather
// than rendered as a failed image: "no blob" is not an error.
val ref = story.ref
if (ref != null && ref.mime.startsWith("video/")) {
StoryVideoCard(ref, model)
} else if (ref != null) {
StoryImage(ref, model)
}
}
}
@@ -87,6 +87,21 @@ data class Content(
* 🔴 An id and never a copy of the message.
*/
val pins: String? = null,
/**
* Set iff this is a story with no attachment — the caption IS the story
* (§6.21). Belongs to the strip, never the thread.
*/
val isTextStory: Boolean = false,
/** A text story's top-level `exp` (§6.21). */
val storyExpiry: Double? = null,
/**
* A text story's background style (§6.21).
*
* ⚠️ A hint. A value this build does not know falls back to the default
* rather than refusing the story.
*/
val storyBackground: Int? = null,
) {
/**
@@ -390,6 +405,20 @@ data class Content(
link = link, forwarded = forwarded,
lifetimeSeconds = lifetimeSeconds)
/**
* A story that is only its caption (§6.21).
*
* ⚠️ `caption` must not be empty. A story with neither a blob nor
* words is nothing at all, and a receiver is required to ignore it.
*/
fun textStory(
caption: String,
expires: Double,
background: Int? = null,
link: LinkPreview? = null,
): String = assemble(Attachment.STORY, caption = caption, expires = expires,
link = link, background = background)
fun groupText(
body: String,
groupId: String,
@@ -503,6 +532,8 @@ data class Content(
forwarded: Boolean = false,
mentions: List<Long> = emptyList(),
lifetimeSeconds: Int? = null,
background: Int? = null,
): String {
val parts = mutableListOf("\"fnc\":1", "\"kind\":${quote(kind)}")
// ⚠️ `1`, not `true` — §6.10's shape for every flag on this
@@ -534,6 +565,8 @@ data class Content(
attachment?.let { parts += "\"att\":${it.toJson()}" }
link?.let { parts += "\"lnk\":${it.toJson()}" }
streamUrl?.let { parts += "\"stream\":${quote(it)}" }
// §6.21 — a text story's background style. A hint, never required.
background?.let { parts += "\"bg\":$it" }
return parts.joinToString(",", prefix = "{", postfix = "}")
}
@@ -719,6 +752,22 @@ data class Content(
))
}
// §6.21 — a story with no attachment: the caption is the story.
// 🔴 BEFORE the attachment branch below, which requires `att` and
// would otherwise drop this onto the ordinary-message path — a
// chat bubble in the conversation that never expires, both things
// §6.6 says a story must not be.
if (kind == Attachment.STORY && json.optJSONObject("att") == null &&
caption.isNotEmpty()) {
return Content(
caption, kind = kind, raw = json, messageId = messageId,
link = json.optJSONObject("lnk")?.let { LinkPreview.fromJson(it) },
isTextStory = true,
storyExpiry = json.optDouble("exp", 0.0).takeIf { it > 0.0 },
storyBackground = if (json.has("bg")) json.optInt("bg") else null,
)
}
if (kind == Kind.TEXT) {
val link = json.optJSONObject("lnk")?.let { LinkPreview.fromJson(it) }
return Content(caption, kind = kind, raw = json, groupId = groupId, link = link,
@@ -434,7 +434,14 @@ class Vault(private val storage: Storage, private val key: SecretKey) {
val id: String,
val authorId: Long,
val mine: Boolean,
val ref: Attachment.Ref,
/**
* The sealed blob, when this story has one.
*
* ⚠️ Nullable since §6.21: a text story is its caption and carries no
* attachment. Nullable rather than a sentinel so nothing can read a
* blob id off a story that has no blob.
*/
val ref: Attachment.Ref?,
val caption: String,
val postedAt: Long,
val seen: Boolean = false,
@@ -449,8 +456,41 @@ class Vault(private val storage: Storage, private val key: SecretKey) {
* POSTER, and playback is an explicit, host-named tap.
*/
val streamUrl: String? = null,
/** Top-level `exp` for a story with no attachment (§6.21). */
val textExpiry: Double? = null,
/** A text story's background style hint (§6.21). */
val background: Int? = null,
/**
* A preview of a link in a text story (§6.12, §6.21).
*
* 🔴 Fetched by the SENDER and carried inside the ciphertext. Drawing
* it viewer-side would tell the site the address of every viewer — for
* a story that is the whole audience, not one correspondent.
*/
val link: Content.LinkPreview? = null,
) {
fun isActive(nowSeconds: Double): Boolean = ref.expires <= 0 || ref.expires > nowSeconds
/**
* When this story stops rendering, unix seconds. 0 = never.
*
* ⚠️ A story with a blob carries its expiry on the ref; a text story
* (§6.21) has none, so the envelope's top-level `exp` is kept here.
* One accessor, so no caller has to know which kind it is holding.
*/
val expiresAt: Double get() = ref?.expires ?: textExpiry ?: 0.0
fun isActive(nowSeconds: Double): Boolean =
expiresAt <= 0 || expiresAt > nowSeconds
/** True when the caption IS the story (§6.21). */
val isTextOnly: Boolean get() = ref == null
/**
* What names this story for seen-marks and de-duplication.
*
* ⚠️ A text story has no blob id, so it is named by what cannot repeat
* for one author: when it was posted, and what it said.
*/
val key: String get() = ref?.id ?: "txt-$authorId-$postedAt-${caption.hashCode()}"
/** The host a viewer would connect to, for the disclosure. */
val streamHost: String?
@@ -654,9 +694,14 @@ class Vault(private val storage: Storage, private val key: SecretKey) {
val array = readJson(STORIES)?.optJSONArray("items") ?: return emptyList()
return (0 until array.length()).mapNotNull { i ->
val o = array.getJSONObject(i)
val ref = Attachment.Ref.fromJson(
Attachment.STORY, o.getJSONObject("ref"), o.getJSONObject("ref").optDouble("exp", 0.0)
) ?: return@mapNotNull null
// §6.21 — a text story has no `ref`. Absent is legitimate now, so
// it cannot mean "malformed, drop it".
val refJson = o.optJSONObject("ref")
val ref = refJson?.let {
Attachment.Ref.fromJson(Attachment.STORY, it, it.optDouble("exp", 0.0))
}
if (refJson != null && ref == null) return@mapNotNull null
if (ref == null && o.optString("caption").isEmpty()) return@mapNotNull null
Story(
id = o.getString("id"),
authorId = o.getLong("author"),
@@ -665,6 +710,8 @@ class Vault(private val storage: Storage, private val key: SecretKey) {
caption = o.optString("caption"),
postedAt = o.optLong("at"),
seen = o.optBoolean("seen", false),
textExpiry = o.optDouble("exp", 0.0).takeIf { it > 0.0 },
background = if (o.has("bg")) o.optInt("bg") else null,
)
}
}
@@ -685,7 +732,11 @@ class Vault(private val storage: Storage, private val key: SecretKey) {
.put("id", story.id)
.put("author", story.authorId)
.put("mine", story.mine)
.put("ref", story.ref.toJson())
// §6.21 — absent for a text story rather than an empty object,
// so a reload cannot resurrect it as a blob that fails to fetch.
.also { if (story.ref != null) it.put("ref", story.ref.toJson()) }
.also { if (story.textExpiry != null) it.put("exp", story.textExpiry) }
.also { if (story.background != null) it.put("bg", story.background) }
.put("caption", story.caption)
.put("at", story.postedAt)
.put("seen", story.seen))
@@ -0,0 +1,115 @@
package io.flamenet.e2e
import org.json.JSONObject
import kotlin.test.Test
import kotlin.test.assertEquals
import kotlin.test.assertFalse
import kotlin.test.assertNull
import kotlin.test.assertTrue
/** Stories that are only words, and the links in them (spec §6.21, ios#32). */
class TextStoryTest {
@Test
fun `a text story carries its caption and expiry`() {
val content = Content.parse(Content.textStory("back Thursday", expires = 1788000000.0))
assertTrue(content.isTextStory)
assertEquals("back Thursday", content.text)
assertEquals(1788000000.0, content.storyExpiry)
}
/** ⚠️ No `att`: an empty attachment would be fetched, fail, and show broken. */
@Test
fun `a text story carries no attachment`() {
val json = JSONObject(Content.textStory("hello", expires = 1.0))
assertFalse(json.has("att"))
assertEquals(Attachment.STORY, json.getString("kind"))
}
/**
* 🔴 The decode must run BEFORE the attachment branch. If it does not, a
* story with no `att` falls through to the ordinary-message path and shows
* as a chat bubble that never expires — both things §6.6 forbids.
*/
@Test
fun `a text story is never an ordinary message`() {
val content = Content.parse("""{"fnc":1,"kind":"story","caption":"hi","exp":99}""")
assertTrue(content.isTextStory)
assertNull(content.attachment)
}
/** A story with neither blob nor words is nothing, and is not a story. */
@Test
fun `a story with no attachment and no caption is not a text story`() {
assertFalse(Content.parse("""{"fnc":1,"kind":"story","caption":"","exp":9}""").isTextStory)
}
/** An unknown background falls back rather than refusing the story. */
@Test
fun `an unknown background still yields a story`() {
val content = Content.parse(
"""{"fnc":1,"kind":"story","caption":"hi","exp":99,"bg":9999}""")
assertTrue(content.isTextStory)
assertEquals(9999, content.storyBackground)
}
@Test
fun `the marker stays first`() {
assertTrue(Content.textStory("hi", expires = 1.0).startsWith("{\"fnc\":1"))
}
// -- The model and its storage --------------------------------------------
private class MapStorage : Vault.Storage {
val records = LinkedHashMap<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() = javax.crypto.KeyGenerator.getInstance("AES")
.apply { init(256) }.generateKey()
private fun textStory(expires: Double) = Vault.Story(
id = "s1", authorId = 7, mine = false, ref = null, caption = "hi",
postedAt = 100, textExpiry = expires,
)
@Test
fun `a text story expires on its top-level stamp`() {
val now = System.currentTimeMillis() / 1000.0
assertFalse(textStory(now - 60).isActive(now))
assertTrue(textStory(now + 60).isActive(now))
}
@Test
fun `a text story is marked as having no blob`() {
assertTrue(textStory(0.0).isTextOnly)
}
/**
* 🔴 The stored record must omit `ref` entirely rather than write an empty
* object — a reload would otherwise resurrect a blob that fails to fetch.
*/
@Test
fun `a text story round-trips through the vault without a ref`() {
val vault = Vault(MapStorage(), key())
val now = System.currentTimeMillis() / 1000.0
vault.saveStories(listOf(textStory(now + 600)), now)
val back = vault.loadStories()
assertEquals(1, back.size)
assertNull(back[0].ref)
assertEquals("hi", back[0].caption)
assertTrue(back[0].isTextOnly)
}
/** ⚠️ An expired text story must leave on write, like any other. */
@Test
fun `an expired text story is not written back`() {
val vault = Vault(MapStorage(), key())
val now = System.currentTimeMillis() / 1000.0
vault.saveStories(listOf(textStory(now - 10)), now)
assertTrue(vault.loadStories().isEmpty())
}
}