`link-polyfill.ts` handled one provider. It now handles two through a registry,
one of which is not a polyfill, so both the filename and the `link:` verb said
something false — and a name that is short but wrong misleads more than an opaque
one would.
It becomes `overlay-local-checkout.ts`, which is the operation: it copy-overlays a
local package checkout into node_modules for development. "link" also implied a
symlink, which is precisely what the script exists NOT to do — its own header
spends a paragraph on why.
No behaviour changed: same registry, same copy, same `--once`, same watch loop,
same assertion. Both providers exercised afterwards, each reporting the singletons
it must preserve — one package for the data layer, two for the indexing package,
whose own checkout carries `file:` links and would otherwise smuggle in a second
verifier.
Seven references repaired by rewriting the sentence that carried them rather than
swapping a path, across the script, `package.json`, `.env.example` and four
doctrine leaves. No compatibility alias left behind: an old name kept "just in
case" would restore exactly the ambiguity being removed.
The contract requires the application to serve a wallet file and hand its URL
and password to the data layer. Until now the only source was a filesystem
path, which no container has: `*.ngw` is gitignored, `COPY . .` brings none, and
nothing mounts one -- so a deployed instance served 404 where the contract
expects bytes.
`FESTIPOD_SHARED_WALLET_FILE_BASE64` carries the file itself. It is 810 bytes,
and it is not a secret: by design the application hands it to every user who
opens the app, so provisioning persistent storage would be guarding something
public. One channel for both values, nothing to mount, and a new host needs only
its variables.
Precedence is deliberate and one-directional: the path always wins when set, and
an unreadable path does NOT fall through to the base64 form. A deployment sets
exactly one; both set is a leftover, not a fallback chain. Local development and
the test harness only ever set the path, so they are untouched.
A malformed value answers 500 and names the variable. Answering 404 would have
made "configured wrong" indistinguishable from "not configured at all" -- the
confusion this codebase has spent two days removing.
Proven by serving the same wallet from each source in turn and comparing:
identical size, identical sha256. The first attempt at that proof silently
exercised the path branch, because Bun auto-loads `.env` and the variable was
already there; the checksums matched for the wrong reason. Caught, cleared, and
measured again.
The data layer is now reached through one pulled, version-pinned engagement
(`.project/concepts/data-layer/contract_polyfill-surface.md`, @1ecf511e9d).
That copy is the only reference: the provider's sources are never opened, and
what the contract does not answer is a gap raised with it, never worked around
here.
Surface
- `@ng-eventually/sdk` -> `@ng-eventually/polyfill`, one entry point.
- `configure` loses `getSession`, `normalizeId`, `currentUser`; the session
belongs to the package and its own `init` captures it.
- Placement is named by scope alone -- a session is one user, so the app no
longer passes an identity it had no way to obtain. This removes a constant
that made every user collide on one owner's document.
- `init(...)` then `await ensureIdentity()`, in that order, as one sequence:
React runs child effects first, so the two calls sat in the wrong order and
the contract now makes that throw.
- `sessionId` relayed as `string | number`, `materialize` -> `read`.
A rejection means "unknown", never "absent"
Four places treated a caught error as an empty result. The worst wrote a
duplicate participation: an unknown count read as zero defeated the idempotence
guard of `joinEvent`. Also fixed: a per-document count, a silently dropped
notification shown optimistically anyway, and a failed listing that left the
owned-event set empty and disabled the materializer for the whole session.
Shared identity is not a Festipod notion
A browser context is one user. The per-scenario identity plant is deleted at
its source and its five sites; what stays is the deployment's wallet file,
which the contract requires an application to serve.
Documentation
The doctrine no longer describes how the data layer works underneath: five
leaves whose subject was internals are gone, a dozen more are re-founded on the
contract's own words, and two frozen arbitrations about a deleted screen were
removed rather than left to mislead a future session.
Test harness
It can sign in at last: cucumber runs under node, which does not load `.env`,
so the harness never received the wallet material and every scenario silently
fell back to an empty local mode. A failed sign-in is now loud on both sides.
The suite also releases what it opens and exits on its own -- runs were still
resident hours after reporting, holding a browser and two servers.
Known red: `@data` cannot be measured. The served wallet accumulates and
nothing resets it; moving the browser profile aside does not, since the data
lives in the wallet file, not the profile.
AccessGateScreen 3-branches (erreur config si pas de wallet partagé) ; renommage username→identifier de l'identité du wallet (registration, ngSession, hooks, steps auth) sans toucher UserProfile.username ; .env.example.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014GbGgNEHRejVKoREvFuDFg
Sylvain Duchesne