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Advances #493 and #473.

On Android, every dynamic app (Forms, Collectives, News, Tables, and others) showed "No verified native API" with a raw class name such as AppOwnedOpenApiContractKt. The reported nightlies contained a top-level regex with an unescaped } in AppOwnedOpenApiContract.kt. Desktop Java accepts it, but Android's ICU engine rejects it, so the class initializer failed. The first attempt threw ExceptionInInitializerError and every retry threw NoClassDefFoundError, which is why "Retry discovery" changed the message in #473. Commit e4fac17, already on main, replaced that regex. This PR removes the remaining ways exception text reaches the user and gives each fallback a clear explanation.

  • Contract acquisition failures are typed (Network, SourceUnavailable, VerificationFailed, InvalidRequest, RuntimeIncompatible, Unexpected). The new exception types extend the previous ones, so existing callers keep working. Cancellation during package verification propagates unchanged instead of becoming a verification failure.
  • Publishing the downloaded App Store catalog to the local cache is best effort: a read-only directory or full disk no longer fails the acquisition or reports the App Store as unreachable, and cancellation is still rethrown.
  • A new shared JVM boundary (JvmAppStoreContractAcquisition.kt) maps acquired contracts once for Android and desktop, replacing duplicated mapping in both services. It catches LinkageError, so class-load failures no longer escape to the app info screen. Cancellation and other errors still propagate.
  • Every fallback records a reason. The card's title, message and action come from that reason ("Check again" or "Try again"), and diagnostics contain only the failure kind, never exception messages or class names.
  • The repository's brace-regex check now also covers ui/src/androidMain and every androidApp/src/* source set except JVM unit tests (main, debug, release, directApk, androidTest), with self-test fixtures for each.
  • Build change: the ui Android target now depends on :contractAcquisition.
  • DYNAMIC_APP_DESCRIPTOR.md and PLATFORMS.md are updated.

Audit: all regex literals in Android-bound contract code were checked for ICU-incompatible syntax. The org.json, YAML, XML and java.nio APIs the module uses are available at minSdk 26. Nothing else was found.

On a fixed build, Tables 1.0.10 gets its contract from its app-owned openapi.json. News 28.7.0 has no OpenAPI file and gets verified read routes from its upstream routes and controllers. No endpoints were invented.

Verification

  • Every check relevant to the changed scope passes, or each unrun check is listed below with a reason
  • bash tools/check-repository.sh passes
  • New changes/unreleased/ fragments record the change
  • No credentials, private server data, machine-local paths, or generated output are included

Run on Windows with JDK 21:

  • :contractAcquisition:test: 91 tests pass, 5 skipped.
  • Focused :ui:desktopTest (DynamicContractFallbackDiscovery, JvmAppStoreContractAcquisition, DynamicNativeRuntime, DynamicDiscoveryDiagnostics, DynamicDiscoveryPersistence): 106 tests pass.
  • :androidApp:testDebugUnitTest :androidApp:compileDebugAndroidTestKotlin: pass.
  • Full :ui:desktopTest: 3780 tests, 1 failure in NoteEditorContentTest.shortEditorKeepsSaveVisibleAndDetailsPreserveDraftAndPreview. It does not touch changed code, passed in a later run on this branch, and passes on main; treated as a flake but not proven.
  • bash tools/check-kotlin-architecture.sh, bash tools/test-kotlin-architecture.sh, node tools/changelog-fragments.mjs validate: pass.

New tests: ContractAcquisitionFailureTest (12, including cancellation during verification and catalog cache write failures), JvmAppStoreContractAcquisitionTest (4), DynamicContractFallbackDiscoveryTest (6), and a new method in AppOwnedOpenApiAndroidInstrumentedTest that initializes every top-level class in the contract module on Android.

Not run: instrumented tests on an emulator or device (AppOwnedOpenApiAndroidInstrumentedTest, and PublicBudgetContractInstrumentedTest with -e publicBudgetProbe true), :androidApp:verifyReleaseLintGate (worth running because of the new dependency), :androidApp:assembleDebug, :ui:createDistributable.

Compatibility and risk

  • Not confirmed on a real Nextcloud 32 or 34 server that News, Tables, Forms and Collectives open with a fixed build.
  • The [Bug]: tables / news no verified native API #473 diagnosis is inferred from code and build timing; the reported screenshots were not compared.
  • PLATFORMS.md keeps its previous review date because the full inventory was not re-reviewed.

Visual changes

The fallback card copy changes per reason. Screenshots for phone, tablet and desktop are not yet captured.

Classify App Store contract acquisition failures in the contract module
and translate them once in shared JVM code for Android and desktop. A
runtime linkage failure, such as a static initializer the Android
regex engine rejects, now becomes a client-fault fallback instead of
escaping with a class name as its message.

Record a typed fallback reason on metadata-only discoveries and derive
the fallback card copy from it, so missing contracts, unconfirmed
versions, unreachable or unavailable App Store releases, rejected
packages, and unsupported contracts each explain what happened.

Extend the brace regex architecture check to Android-only source sets
and initialize every contract module facade in the Android
instrumented test.
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Return cancellation unchanged from the package verification wrapper so
the acquisition boundary still recognizes it as control flow.

Publish a downloaded App Store catalog to the local cache on a best
effort basis, matching verified-contract caching. A read-only cache
directory or a full disk no longer fails an acquisition that already
has the catalog, and is never reported as an unreachable App Store.
Discover androidApp source sets instead of listing only main, so debug,
release, directApk, and instrumented test sources are checked too. JVM
unit test sources stay excluded because they never run on ICU.
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A completed acquisition without a contract no longer collapses to null.
The contract module reports whether no release matches the installed
version, the linked source refused or rate limited the last exact-tag
fallback, or the inspected releases provide no usable contract. The
shared JVM boundary carries that reason to discovery, and the fallback
card derives its copy and action from it.
List the new catalog cache, trust verifier, and YAML parser facades in
the Android initializer test, and exercise the real catalog path with a
failing cache and YAML parsing on the Android runtime. A JVM unit test
loads every packaged facade and fails when one is missing from that
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).filterNot { candidate -> candidate.version == exactRelease?.version }
val releases = listOfNotNull(exactRelease) + compatibleReleases
if (releases.isEmpty()) return null
if (releases.isEmpty()) return ContractAcquisitionOutcome.Unavailable(ContractUnavailableReason.NoMatchingRelease)

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P2 Badge Distinguish malformed catalog entries from absent releases

When the App Store contains this app/release but omits a required field such as certificate, download, signature, or signatureDigest, parseReleases silently drops the entry and this branch reports NoMatchingRelease. The new UI then incorrectly states that the App Store lists no signed release, although the catalog was malformed or unsupported; return a typed malformed-source failure rather than conflating that case with genuine absence.

AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L294-L298

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}
val acquired = when (acquisition) {
is AppStoreContractAcquisition.Acquired -> acquisition.contract
is AppStoreContractAcquisition.Unavailable -> return sameOrigin.withUnavailable(acquisition.reason, contractAppId, coreVersion)

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P2 Badge Preserve server-probe failures in fallback reasons

When the same-origin OCS catalog/spec request fails with a network error or 5xx and the App Store package independently yields NoUsableContract, this maps only the App Store outcome and shows the permanent-sounding claim that neither source provides an API. The server probe was inconclusive, not absent, so its typed failure must participate in the fallback reason instead of being reduced to diagnostics that the notice ignores.

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