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Private file sharing was broken end to end, in several independent ways that each looked like the others. Every one was found by testing against a gateway that rate limits and does not index every field — which turned out to be the honest environment, not a degraded one.

What a recipient saw

Symptom Cause
A keyless private link loaded as a normal public page, no key prompt the link never said the file was encrypted
Download produced a file the OS could not open nothing decrypted it; the ciphertext was written under the file's own name
Preview sat on "Loading file details…" forever it waited on metadata it did not need, through reads that could not time out
Preview said "could not load", download failed with JSNull is not a subtype of String one unindexed field broke the query that carries the cipher tags
"Couldn't check for other versions" while every other query worked the history walk gave up on the first page it could not use

The fixes

A private link now says it is private. file_share_cubit resolved a private file's cipher on a bounded, unawaited lookup and treated the link as complete when it failed — which it does on any rate-limited connection. c does two unrelated jobs, and only one was considered: beside iv it names the algorithm, but on its own it is the only thing telling a keyless recipient that a key is needed at all. Without it the page reads a private file as public.

The IV genuinely cannot be recovered offline — random per upload, only on the transaction, no cipher column in the local schema. The algorithm can be inferred from size, so the link now always declares a private file encrypted and leaves iv absent. The inference cannot cause a bad decrypt: everything that decrypts requires hasCipherDetails (c and iv), and this only runs when iv is missing. The sharer is also told, rather than handed a link that looks finished.

A download refuses to save what it cannot decrypt. With no key, and the file's own metadata never read, it asks the transaction what it is; a Cipher tag ends the download with a named failure and a dialog that says the file needs a key. Deliberately not on every public download — metadata that parsed is proof the file is public, because encrypted metadata does not parse.

One unindexed field no longer breaks the cipher path. A gateway answered a real TransactionDetails request with "anchor": null. The schema declares it String!, so Artemis fails deserialization for the whole query — and that query is where the preview and the download read Cipher/Cipher-IV. The four fields added in #2175 for the data item integrity check (which is off) now live on a separate TransactionDetailsWithSignature, so the cipher path selects nothing a gateway can break it with.

The preview no longer waits for what it does not need. It was gated on the file's own record returning, which a private file could wait on forever. It needs the data transaction, something to decide the type from, and the key — a v2 link carries all three. The drive id it appears to need is never read on this path: FsEntryPreviewCubit hands it to _getFileKey, which returns the key it was already given.

Every read that gates the page is bounded. Five getLatestFileEntityWithId call sites plus the metadata and owner lookups could hang forever, leaving the page on its placeholder with no way out. (Four found by CodeRabbit after the first was fixed.)

Version history no longer gives up early. The walk filtered each page to transactions carrying a valid ArFS version tag and break'd when that emptied a page. It reads HEIGHT_ASC, so the first page is the file's oldest transactions — the ones most likely to predate that tag. The newest-first query pages past them, which is why the two disagreed about the same file.

A transaction is fetched once, not once per caller. When a link lacks c/iv, the preview resolved them and then the download asked for the same transaction again — so previewing a file could make downloading it impossible on a rate-limited connection. getTransactionDetails now memoizes by id and hands back the in-flight future, so concurrent callers share one request. A miss is not cached. This completes the rule the link schema exists to serve: if the link carries it, no query; if not, one query for that one thing; and never the same query twice.

From a review of the whole link path

The encoder wrote names the reader discarded_encodeText truncates to 255 bytes, sanitizeName drops over 120 characters. A 150-character name was spent on the wire and thrown away. Now shortened to what the reader keeps, on a rune boundary.

The rule keeping file keys off servers was prose only. On the hash route everything after # stays in the browser; on the /share/{fileId} path route that query is sent, into access logs and Referer headers. Now the builder refuses to produce such a link at all — an assert would have been no guard in the one build where the leak would be real. Latent — that route is not live — but a trap set for whoever implements it.

Checked and found sound, recorded so nobody redoes it: the content-type table (64 entries, no duplicates, codes derived from the table rather than maintained beside it); base64url throughout, so the +-as-space trap cannot apply; a bounds-checked reader that latches truncation and never throws; and encoder output (~935 chars max) that cannot exceed the reader's 2048 limit.

Making the four paths agree

A pass over what this PR actually touches — preview and download, on the drive explorer and on the shared file page — found the refusal above had no counterpart beside it, and that the declaration meant to prevent the whole failure had a gap of its own.

The preview painted the ciphertext the download refused to save. The explorer decides privacy from the drive record; the shared file page decides it from whether a key arrived. So on the one link this PR is about — private, missing c — the page reads it as public and hands it to a preview that fetches the bytes and renders them: mojibake in a document, a decoder error in an image or a PDF, while the download beside it gives a clear "needs a key". Two answers to one question, and the preview is the one the recipient sees first. It now makes the same check on the same tag, running beside the preview rather than in front of it, so no public link pays a round trip before its first paint. The transaction is memoized, so the preview and the download share one request rather than making two.

c alone declares privacy — and the declaration skipped itself when only iv came back. The guard returned early if either value was present, so a transaction answering with an IV and no cipher produced a link carrying iv and nothing to say the file was encrypted. That is precisely the link the declaration exists to prevent, since the recipient's locked state keys off c alone. It now gates on c, and drops an IV with no cipher to be used with.

The one unbounded read in a PR about bounding reads. The encryption preflight had neither a timeout nor a cancellation check, and it sits between the recipient pressing Download and anything happening. The memo made it worse rather than better: an entry is only removed once its future settles, so a request that never settled would be handed to every later caller for the life of the service — and GraphQLRetry has no timeout of its own. Bounded at the source, where it covers every caller, and the preflight now returns when the download has already been cancelled.

The retry the dialog claimed to offer did not exist. retryCipherDetails was never called from anywhere, and the sharer was shown a message telling them to close the dialog and share the file again. It is now a Try again button, and nearly free — the memo answers instantly for a transaction whose lookup has since succeeded.

Both private image paths dereferenced a nullable file key. _getFileKey returns null whenever the drive key cannot be produced, and the resulting crash was swallowed by a caller that reported it as an ordinary unpreviewable image with nothing in the log. They also left the static preview notifier spinning when they bailed out, which shows up under the next image the page previews.

Verification

flutter analyze clean; 1435 passing / 4 skipped. New coverage for: the ciphertext refusal and its two negative cases, private image decryption from the link cipher (images take their own branch and deliver bytes through a notifier, so the existing video test did not establish it), the memo including concurrent callers and the not-cached miss, the gateway's real anchor: null response, and three encoder round trips. From the pass above: a link built from an IV with no cipher, a retry that succeeds after a failure, the preview painting before its check answers and retracting when it does, its three negative cases, cancellation during the preflight, and the refusal to put a key in a path route's query.

Note for reviewers: getTag is an extension over TransactionCommonMixin.tags, so stubbing getTag on a mock is never consulted — the new tests use a fake carrying real tags.

Known limits, not fixed here

  • A private download still needs one query for the IV when the link could not carry it. Irreducible without the gateway; the fix is the Goldsky fallback.
  • Links already shared without c cannot be repaired — the cipher is not in them. Recipients now get a clear "needs a key" message from the download and a retracted preview, rather than a corrupt file and rendered ciphertext, but those links still need re-sharing.
  • Storing cipher/IV locally at upload would make private sharing work offline-first and remove this class of problem. Schema change; worth its own ticket.

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  • New Features
    • Shared-file previews now verify encryption status and retract previews when encrypted content lacks an available key.
    • Downloads clearly identify encrypted files that require an access key and prevent unusable ciphertext from being saved.
    • Share links display recovery guidance when encryption details cannot be loaded, with a Try again option.
    • Link creation now safely handles oversized or unsafe file names and prevents accidental key exposure.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved reliability for transaction lookups, metadata resolution, pagination, and shared-file loading.

A file could report "couldn't check for other versions" while every
background query for the same file succeeded.

getAllFileEntitiesWithId filters each page to transactions carrying a
valid ArFS version tag, and when that filter emptied a page it broke out
of the walk. getLatestFileEntityWithId, given the same page, advances
the cursor and keeps going.

The sort order decides which one you notice. History reads HEIGHT_ASC,
so the first page it sees is the file's oldest transactions - the ones
most likely to predate the tag the filter requires. It stopped there,
discarded every later page, returned an empty list, and the caller reads
empty as failure. The freshness query reads HEIGHT_DESC and finds a
usable transaction immediately, which is why the two disagreed about the
same file.

Now it advances the cursor and continues, stopping only when the gateway
says there is no next page - the same rule the newest-first walk has
always used.

Also adds a test that a private *image* decrypts from the link's cipher.
The path is shared with video, which was already covered, but images
take their own branch on the share page and deliver bytes through a
notifier rather than a state, so "video works" did not establish it.

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The change bounds shared-file metadata reads, enables previews before metadata resolution, detects encrypted downloads without keys, reports incomplete private links, validates link payloads, separates Arweave transaction queries, adds transaction caching, and continues pagination after unsupported-only pages.

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Shared-file retrieval, preview, and download flow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Bound metadata reads and render early previews
lib/blocs/shared_file/shared_file_cubit.dart, lib/pages/shared_file/shared_file_ready_view.dart, lib/blocs/fs_entry_preview/fs_entry_preview_cubit.dart, test/pages/shared_file/*, test/blocs/fs_entry_preview/*, test/blocs/shared_file/shared_file_cubit_test.dart
Metadata reads use configured timeouts. The ready view renders previews from available link data before metadata resolves. Unconfirmed public files are checked for encryption before preview output continues.
Track and retry private-link cipher resolution
lib/blocs/file_share/*, lib/components/file_share_dialog.dart, lib/l10n/app_en.arb, test/blocs/file_share_cubit_test.dart
Cipher-detail failures are exposed in state, retryable through the cubit, and shown as incomplete-link feedback. Missing or orphaned cipher fields trigger privacy fallback.
Reject encrypted downloads without keys
lib/blocs/file_download/*, lib/components/file_download_dialog.dart, lib/download/download_exceptions.dart, lib/l10n/app_en.arb, test/blocs/shared_file_download_cubit_test.dart
Unconfirmed public downloads inspect transaction tags when no key is available. Encrypted files produce a non-retryable key-required result. Metadata lookup failures do not block downloads.
Normalize names and protect link keys
lib/utils/shared_file_link.dart, test/utils/shared_file_link_test.dart
Link encoding removes unsafe names, truncates names on rune boundaries, and rejects file keys in query parameters for share routes.

Arweave transaction queries and pagination

Layer / File(s) Summary
Separate cached transaction queries from signature queries
lib/services/arweave/arweave_service.dart, test/services/arweave/*
General transaction details use bounded caching and share concurrent requests. Signature-inclusive details use a separate query and generated return type. Tests cover caching and nullable gateway fields.
Continue pagination past unsupported transactions
lib/services/arweave/arweave_service.dart
getAllFileEntitiesWithId stops on empty pages and continues after nonempty pages with no supported ArFS transactions by using the raw page cursor.

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This PR improves private-link detection, preview behavior, and download handling, but keyless downloads can still save unusable ciphertext when metadata checks time out or fail, while retrying after cancellation may inherit stale cancellation or progress state. A few localized preview and revision-race issues also remain, so explicit owner follow-up is needed before merging.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant SharedFileReadyView
  participant FileDownloadDialog
  participant SharedFileDownloadCubit
  participant Arweave
  SharedFileReadyView->>FileDownloadDialog: Pass unconfirmed public status
  FileDownloadDialog->>SharedFileDownloadCubit: Start download
  SharedFileDownloadCubit->>Arweave: Fetch transaction tags when the key is absent
  Arweave-->>SharedFileDownloadCubit: Return Cipher tag or metadata error
  SharedFileDownloadCubit-->>FileDownloadDialog: Return encryptedWithoutKey or continue download
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A private file could sit on "Loading file details..." forever, never
previewing, while its bytes had already come back from the gateway.

The desktop pane showed the preview only once `detailsAreResolved` was
true - the file's own metadata having come back - and the phone column
gated on the same flag. That was wrong twice over.

Wrong because the preview does not need it. It needs a data transaction,
something to decide the type from, and, for a private file, the key; a
v2 link carries all three. The drive id it appears to need is never used
on this path: FsEntryPreviewCubit hands it to `_getFileKey`, which
returns the key it was already given before looking at it, and the drive
lookups that do read it are on the logged-in path a recipient never
takes.

Wrong because the flag can never arrive. The reads that set it were
unbounded, so a gateway that accepts a connection and then says nothing
leaves the page on its placeholder with no preview and no way out. A
private file walks more of those reads than a public one, which is why
it showed up there first.

- gate the preview on what it actually needs, not on metadata resolution
- bound the three background reads that gate the page: the newest-revision
  lookup, the shared revision's metadata transaction, and the owner probe
- the placeholder now means what it says: a link with no data transaction

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863-874: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Exercise the link-derived revision in this regression test.

This test sets detailsAreResolved: false, but fileRevision() still supplies a non-empty driveId, name, and content type, and the state has no payload. The production v2 path uses _revisionFromPayload, where driveId is empty and these values come from the link payload. A regression in that path could pass this test. Use a payload-backed state, or explicitly test an empty drive ID and payload-derived type.

Also applies to: 885-891

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In `@test/pages/shared_file/shared_file_page_test.dart` around lines 863 - 874,
Update the regression test around the unresolved-link preview to exercise the
payload-backed v2 revision path: make the state provide the link payload and
ensure fileRevision() does not supply non-empty driveId, name, or content type.
Preserve detailsAreResolved: false and verify the preview still renders using
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In `@lib/blocs/shared_file/shared_file_cubit.dart`:
- Around line 1038-1046: Update _checkFreshness so its getLatestFileEntityWithId
call is wrapped with the existing _bounded helper, using an appropriate
operation description consistent with the nearby bounded read. Preserve the
existing freshness and authorship verification behavior while ensuring the
request cannot remain pending indefinitely.

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In `@test/pages/shared_file/shared_file_page_test.dart`:
- Around line 863-874: Update the regression test around the unresolved-link
preview to exercise the payload-backed v2 revision path: make the state provide
the link payload and ensure fileRevision() does not supply non-empty driveId,
name, or content type. Preserve detailsAreResolved: false and verify the preview
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Comment thread lib/blocs/shared_file/shared_file_cubit.dart
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CodeRabbit caught that the previous commit bounded the freshness lookup
in _runBackgroundWork and left three siblings unbounded. All three gate
what the recipient sees, so each is the same hang with a different
entry point:

- submit(): decides whether the key they just typed was the right one
- _checkFreshness(): raises the "a newer version exists" offer
- _resolveTargetRevision(): decides what the page shows and downloads

Every getLatestFileEntityWithId call in this cubit now runs through
_bounded.

Also tightens the regression test for the ungated preview. It painted
from `fileRevision()`, which carries a drive id, so it would have passed
even if the preview still depended on one. It now paints what a v2 link
actually produces - `driveId: ''` - which is the case that fails if the
dependency ever comes back.

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…rtext PE-9212

Reported from the share page: a private file downloaded "fine" and
produced 75,139 bytes that Windows would not open. Nothing errored,
because nothing was wrong from the code's point of view - every step did
what it was told.

The link never said the file was encrypted. Decoding the reported link's
payload, the flags byte is 0x00, so the cipher code is 0: "no cipher".
From there everything follows.

  * `payload.cipher == null`, so the page never reaches the locked state
    and reads a private file as public
  * `fileKey == null`, so `FileEntity.fromTransaction` takes its
    plaintext branch and `utf8.decode` throws FormatException on
    encrypted JSON - the parse error in the report
  * `isPrivateFile` is false in `downloadFile`, so nothing decrypts and
    the ciphertext is written to disk under the file's own name

`file_share_cubit` resolves a private file's cipher on a bounded,
unawaited lookup, and its own comment called `c`/`iv` an optimization
that "only save the recipient one lookup". They are not. `c` is the only
thing that tells a recipient holding no key that the file is encrypted,
and the lookup fails on any connection the gateway rate limits - which
is exactly where this was found.

Three changes, at the three places it goes wrong:

- The sharer is told. A private file whose cipher could not be resolved
  now reports it instead of handing over a link that looks finished, and
  can ask again.
- The recipient refuses to save what it cannot decrypt. With no key, and
  the file's own metadata never read, the download asks the transaction
  what it is; a `Cipher` tag ends the download with a named failure and
  a dialog that says the file needs a key.
- That check is not on every public download. Metadata that parsed is
  proof the file is public, because encrypted metadata does not parse,
  so the lookup is only spent when nothing else has established it.

Test note: `getTag` is an extension over `TransactionCommonMixin.tags`,
so stubbing `getTag` on a mock is never consulted. The new tests use a
fake that carries real tags.

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In `@lib/blocs/file_download/shared_file_download_cubit.dart`:
- Around line 127-149: Update the encryption preflight in the shared-file
download flow around getTransactionDetails to use a bounded timeout while
preserving the existing fail-open handling for lookup failures and timeouts.
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Comment thread lib/blocs/file_download/shared_file_download_cubit.dart
Reported from the share page against two links for the same private
file - one with the key, one without. Neither prompted for a key, the
preview failed, and the download issued a TransactionDetails query and
then failed. Decoding both payloads: flags 0x00 on each, so cipher code
0, "not encrypted".

Every symptom is that one omission.

  * no key prompt: `_resolveFromPayload` reaches the locked state on
    `payload.cipher != null`, so without `c` a private file reads as
    public
  * preview fails: with no `c`/`iv` the preview falls back to
    `_getDataTx`, which is the query that cannot get through
  * download fails, and issues the query the link was supposed to make
    unnecessary, for the same reason

`c` does two unrelated jobs, and only one of them was being considered.
Beside `iv` it names the algorithm to decrypt with. On its own it is the
only thing that tells a recipient holding no key that a key is needed at
all - and the app was treating both as one optional optimization,
dropped together whenever the lookup failed. It fails on any connection
the gateway rate limits.

The IV cannot be recovered without the gateway: it is random per upload,
lives only on the transaction, and nothing local keeps it - there is no
cipher column in the schema. The algorithm can be inferred from size,
this uploader writing AES-GCM below maxSizeSupportedByGCMEncryption and
AES-CTR above it.

So the link now always declares a private file encrypted, inferring `c`
when the gateway will not supply it, and leaves `iv` absent. The
inference cannot cause a bad decrypt: everything that decrypts requires
`hasCipherDetails`, which is `c` *and* `iv`, and this only runs when
`iv` is missing. What it buys is the locked state, which is right
whatever the algorithm turns out to be.

Two tests asserted the old reasoning - that a link without cipher
details was still "usable" - and now assert what a link has to carry.

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Comment thread lib/blocs/file_share/file_share_cubit.dart Outdated
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Two findings from a review of the whole link path, generation through
loading.

The encoder wrote names the reader throws away. `_encodeText` truncates
to what one length byte can address - 255 *bytes* - while `sanitizeName`
drops anything over `maxNameLength` *characters* on the way back in, and
drops a name carrying control or direction characters outright. A 150
character name was therefore spent on the wire and then discarded, and
the recipient saw no name at all until the metadata resolved. Names are
now shortened to what the reader keeps, on a rune boundary, and one it
would reject for its characters is dropped at the encoder rather than
carried to be dropped later.

And the rule that keeps a file key off a server was written in prose
only. On the hash route everything after `#` stays in the browser, so a
key in the query is never sent anywhere; on the `/share/{fileId}` path
route that same query is sent to the host, into its access log, and out
again in the `Referer` of anything the page loads. The builder's comment
said so and nothing enforced it. Now an assert does, which fires in
every debug and test run - where such a call would be written.

The path route is not live yet, so this is a trap set for whoever
implements it rather than a leak today.

Checked and found sound, recorded so the next reader need not redo it:
the content type table has 64 entries, no duplicates, fits one byte, and
its code map is derived from the table by comprehension rather than
maintained beside it. Keys and ids are base64url via
`encodeBytesToBase64`, so the `+`-decoded-as-space trap cannot apply,
and the builder uses `Uri.encodeComponent` rather than
`encodeQueryComponent` for the same reason. The reader is bounds checked
throughout, latches truncation, and never throws. The maximum payload
the encoder can produce is about 935 characters against the reader's
2048 limit, so the two cannot disagree about a whole link.

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The page was asking the same question twice. When a link does not carry
`c`/`iv`, the preview resolves them with getTransactionDetails, and then
the download behind it resolves the same tags off the same transaction
with a second request. On a connection the gateway rate limits, the
second is the one that fails - so previewing a file could make
downloading it impossible.

A transaction is immutable. Its tags, owner and bundle are the same
answer every time, so a second request for one is never anything but a
second round trip.

getTransactionDetails now remembers what it has been told, keyed by
transaction id, and hands back the in-flight future rather than the
finished result - so two callers that arrive together share one request
instead of starting a second while the first is still running, which is
exactly what a preview and the download behind it do.

A miss is not remembered. A transaction that could not be read may be a
rate limit, a gateway that has not indexed it yet, or one that never
will, and the page retries those on purpose. Only an answer is kept, up
to 64 of them, oldest evicted - enough to stop one page repeating
itself, which is what this is for, and not a cache of the chain.

This completes the rule the link schema exists to serve: if the link
carries it, no query; if it does not, one query for that one thing; and
never the same query twice.

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…ad PE-9212

A gateway answered a real TransactionDetails request with:

    "signature": "<not-found>",
    "anchor": null,
    "recipient": "",

The schema declares `anchor` as `String!`, so Artemis fails
deserialization for the *whole* query rather than that one field. And
TransactionDetails is where the cipher path reads `Cipher` and
`Cipher-IV`: the preview to decrypt with, and the download for the same
two tags. So one field a gateway had no obligation to index took down
every private preview and every private download on it, surfacing as
`JSNull is not a subtype of String` nowhere near the cause.

The four fields were added in #2175 for the data item integrity check,
which is off. The comment on getTransactionDetails claimed a gateway
that does not index them answers with an empty string. Some answer with
null, which is the whole of this bug.

The query is split. TransactionDetails selects `...TransactionCommon`
and nothing else, so there is no field left in the cipher path for a
gateway to break it with. TransactionDetailsWithSignature carries the
four, and is only reached by a caller asking for verification - which
can be told it is unavailable, and which nothing in the app asks for
today.

- new SingleTransactionWithSignature.graphql, and SingleTransaction
  reverted to the fragment alone
- getTransactionDetails runs the lean query and keeps the memo; the
  signature variant runs its own and does not
- the query shape test follows the fields to their new query
- a test built from the gateway's actual response: the cipher query
  survives it, and the verifier query is shown to be the one that
  carries the risk

Codegen note: `build_runner --delete-conflicting-outputs` removed the
drift output and then drift_dev failed to rebuild it with the
`InterfaceElement` cast error, leaving 1024 analyzer errors that look
nothing like the cause. Recovered with flutter clean, pub get, ario_sdk
codegen, then the app - the order that works.

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@vilenarios vilenarios changed the title PE-9212: Version history gave up on the first page it could not use PE-9212: Private sharing — the link declares itself, the page stops hanging, and nothing is asked twice Aug 26, 2026
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A pass over the four paths this PR touches - preview and download, on the
drive explorer and on the shared file page - found the download's new
refusal had no counterpart beside it, and the declaration meant to prevent
the whole failure had a gap of its own.

- the shared file preview now makes the same encryption check the download
  makes, running beside the preview rather than in front of it so no public
  link pays a round trip before its first paint. A legacy link missing `c`
  now retracts the preview instead of painting ciphertext as the file
- `_declarePrivacyWithoutTheGateway` returned early on `c` *or* `iv`, so a
  transaction answering with an IV and no cipher produced a link that could
  not tell a keyless recipient the file was encrypted - precisely the link
  it exists to prevent, since the locked state keys off `c` alone
- the encryption preflight is bounded and returns on cancellation, and the
  memo is bounded at the source: an unsettled request could otherwise be
  handed to every later caller for the life of the service
- retryCipherDetails was dead code sitting behind a message that told the
  sharer to close and share again; it is now the Try again the dialog's own
  comment claimed to offer
- both private image paths dereferenced a nullable file key into a crash the
  caller swallowed, and left the static preview notifier spinning when they
  bailed out
- the file-key-in-the-query-of-a-path-route guard was an assert, which is no
  guard at all in the one build where that leak would be real

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Every one of these was ten seconds, which is under `GraphQLRetry`'s own
ladder: it sleeps about six seconds across its five attempts on the primary
endpoint - on top of the requests themselves - before it falls back to
Goldsky at all. A ten second budget therefore expired part way through the
primary and the fallback was never reached, so each of these failed open on
exactly the slow, rate limited connection it was written for.

- the download's encryption preflight goes to 15s, the same budget as the
  reads that gate the shared file page
- the preview's check loses its own deadline entirely and rides the
  service's backstop. Nothing waits on it, so a shorter budget bought no
  responsiveness - it only gave up early and left a preview of ciphertext on
  screen
- `_cipherDetailsTimeout` goes to 15s. Pre-existing, and the same flaw: it
  decides whether a shared link carries `c`/`iv` or merely declares the file
  encrypted
`showRevision`, `showLatestRevision` and `showSharedRevision` each emitted
the new target and then awaited `_fetchLicense`. The preview was never the
thing being held up - it swaps on the emit - but `_changeRevision` in
`shared_file_ready_view.dart` awaits these methods and keeps
`_isChangingRevision` set for as long as they run, and that flag is what
disables the version picker and the freshness banner.

So picking a version left those controls dead until a licence GraphQL round
trip came back, which on a rate limited connection is the whole retry ladder
before they wake up again.

The licence now folds itself in when it lands, the way the rest of the
background work on this page already does, and `_isStale` drops it if the
recipient has moved the target on in the meantime.

`_adoptResolvedRevision` keeps its `await`: it already runs inside
`_runBackgroundWork`, which nothing waits on.
… PE-9212

The preview's encryption check was gated on `!detailsAreResolved`, which is
true for *every* link at first paint - so it spent a GraphQL request on
behalf of every public shared file the page has ever shown, to catch a case
that only arises on links built before this branch. On a rate limited
connection that is a request taken from the ones that matter.

"Not resolved yet" was the wrong question. A public file's metadata parses -
encrypted metadata does not - so the metadata read that is *already in
flight* answers this for free, and only its failure means anything.

- `SharedFileLoadSuccess.detailsResolutionFailed` says the background
  resolution finished without reading the file's own record. It starts
  false, and only ever turns true once the read has actually been attempted
  and come back empty
- the preview takes that as its doubt, so a public file asks nothing at all
- the download keeps the stricter `!detailsAreResolved` test. It is the one
  that would put ciphertext on disk under the file's own name, and a
  recipient who presses Download before the metadata lands must still be
  protected. One query on an explicit action is a fair price; one query per
  page view was not

The rebuild trigger sits on a `KeyedSubtree` around the provider rather than
on the provider's own key, which stays keyed on the bytes it previews - that
key is what the page tests use to ask "is the preview mounted".

flutter analyze clean; 1437 passing / 4 skipped.
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The regression test for "a preview does not wait on the file's own metadata"
was constructed from a *resolved* revision: it carried a metadata transaction
id and its own content type, and the state had no payload at all. The path it
guards is `_revisionFromPayload`, where the drive id is empty, the metadata
transaction id is whatever the link named or nothing, and the name, size and
type all come from the link.

So a regression that made the preview depend on a metadata transaction id
would have passed it. It now mirrors what the resolver actually emits, which
is the only shape this test has any business asserting about.

Raised by CodeRabbit. Half of the finding was already stale - the revision had
been given an empty drive id - but the rest held.
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In `@lib/blocs/fs_entry_preview/fs_entry_preview_cubit.dart`:
- Around line 990-996: Guard the imagePreviewNotifier write in
_refuseIfEncrypted with isClosed, matching the existing protection in
_emitUnavailable, so a closed cubit cannot clear the shared notifier owned by
another live FsEntryPreviewCubit.
- Around line 760-779: Update the image preview flow after _decodePrivateData so
a null bytesToShow is treated as unavailable: return without publishing
ImagePreviewNotification or emitting FsEntryPreviewImage, matching the existing
_mediaUrl and _previewPdf behavior. Preserve the existing _refusedAsEncrypted
and isClosed checks.

In `@lib/blocs/shared_file/shared_file_cubit.dart`:
- Around line 415-426: The unawaited license fetch in _fetchLicense must be
guarded by the selected revision, not only _resolution. Pass a stable revision
identifier from the selection flow, and emit the license only when
current.revision still matches that identifier; add a test covering selections A
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Comment thread lib/blocs/fs_entry_preview/fs_entry_preview_cubit.dart
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_refusedAsEncrypted = true;

// The image path delivers bytes through a notifier rather than through
// state, so the latch on [emit] does not reach it.
imagePreviewNotifier.value = null;

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Do not clear the shared notifier after this cubit is closed.

imagePreviewNotifier is static and shared by every FsEntryPreviewCubit. _refuseIfEncrypted has no deadline of its own, as the doc comment states, so the lookup can complete long after this cubit closes. At that point Line 994 clears a notification that a different, live cubit published, and nothing republishes it. The later preview then shows no image.

_emitUnavailable already guards on isClosed. Apply the same guard to the notifier write.

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     _refusedAsEncrypted = true;
 
+    if (isClosed) {
+      return;
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     // state, so the latch on [emit] does not reach it.
     imagePreviewNotifier.value = null;
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_refusedAsEncrypted = true;
// The image path delivers bytes through a notifier rather than through
// state, so the latch on [emit] does not reach it.
imagePreviewNotifier.value = null;
_emitUnavailable();
_refusedAsEncrypted = true;
if (isClosed) {
return;
}
// The image path delivers bytes through a notifier rather than through
// state, so the latch on [emit] does not reach it.
imagePreviewNotifier.value = null;
_emitUnavailable();
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In `@lib/blocs/fs_entry_preview/fs_entry_preview_cubit.dart` around lines 990 -
996, Guard the imagePreviewNotifier write in _refuseIfEncrypted with isClosed,
matching the existing protection in _emitUnavailable, so a closed cubit cannot
clear the shared notifier owned by another live FsEntryPreviewCubit.

Comment thread lib/blocs/shared_file/shared_file_cubit.dart
**A licence can no longer land on a revision the recipient has left.** This
one is mine, and it is the cost of the change that unblocked version
selection. Selection used to hold the version controls until the licence came
back, which serialised these by accident; now that it does not, a recipient
can pick A then B while A is still in flight. `_isStale` cannot catch A
finishing last - `_resolution` marks a new *load*, a key being tried, and
picking a version is not one - so `_fetchLicense` now emits only while the
revision it was asked about is still the one on screen. The new test fails
without that check.

**A private image that will not decrypt says so.** `_decodePrivateData`
returns null on failure, and the share page path still published an
`ImagePreviewNotification` holding no bytes and emitted `FsEntryPreviewImage`
over it - a preview of an image with no image in it. `_previewPdf` and
`_mediaUrl` both refuse that shape, and the drive explorer path was given the
same rule earlier in this branch; this is the one place it was missed.

**A closed cubit no longer clears the shared notifier.**
`imagePreviewNotifier` is static and shared by every preview cubit, and the
encryption check deliberately has no deadline of its own, so it can land long
after its cubit is gone - blanking an image a different, live cubit had
published, with nothing to put it back. Guarded on `isClosed`, the way
`_emitUnavailable` already is.

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