fix(database): give every SQLite connection a busy timeout

[jamesarich]

Hardens against the new-in-2.8.1 fatal android.database.SQLException — Error code: 5, message: database is locked (Crashlytics issue f07b68017560d861acf3a2ce72909c69, first seen on build 29321949).

Root cause, from field event logs. The crash timeline in the Crashlytics samples reads: withDb callback exceeded 30000ms; abandoned it and reopened the active DB → the abandoned connection (a slow MeshLog cleanup on a 1,600-node database) stays alive holding the write lock → the replacement pool's very next write — Room's own TriggerBasedInvalidationTracker.syncTriggers BEGIN — hits SQLITE_BUSY. The bundled driver's default busy timeout is zero, so the overlap fails instantly, and because it happens inside Room's internal coroutine there is nothing the app can catch: it's fatal.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• New BusyTimeoutSQLiteDriver (commonMain) wraps the bundled driver so every opened connection runs PRAGMA busy_timeout = 10000. Applied in all three platform DatabaseBuilders (Android, desktop/JVM, iOS) for both named and in-memory databases.
• 10s rationale: long enough to ride out the observed abandoned-writer overlap (slow cleanups and node-heavy transactions run 1–30s in the field), short enough that a truly stuck holder still surfaces as an error rather than an unbounded stall. Waiting happens on Room's I/O dispatcher, never the main thread.

Testing Performed

• appliesBusyTimeoutToEveryOpenedConnection: PRAGMA readback on a wrapped connection.
• waitsOutACompetingWriteLockInsteadOfFailingInstantly: reproduces the field failure shape — an unwrapped competitor fails instantly against a held BEGIN IMMEDIATE; the wrapped competitor outlasts a 200ms hold and commits.
• Full baseline green: spotlessApply spotlessCheck detekt assembleDebug test allTests kmpSmokeCompile (1,789 tests).

Notes for reviewers

• This is harm reduction for the overlap window, not a redesign of the wedge-recovery path. The stronger follow-ups — closing/interrupting the abandoned connection once its callback returns, and reducing wedges at the source — are tracked separately; the FTS desync fix (fix(database): rebuild the packet FTS index after the schema-52 table recreation #6808) removes what was likely the biggest wedge driver on 29321949 (poisoned statements retrying against a corrupt index).
• A >10s holder will still BUSY-crash via the invalidation tracker; the timeout narrows the window rather than closing it. If Room ever exposes a way to supervise tracker errors, that's the complete fix.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved database reliability when multiple operations compete for access.
  • Database writes now wait briefly for temporary locks instead of failing immediately.
  • Applied consistent lock handling across Android, iOS, and desktop platforms.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for connection timeout behavior and competing database writes.

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Walkthrough

The change adds a configurable SQLite busy-timeout driver and applies it to Android, iOS, and JVM Room database builders. JVM tests verify timeout configuration and competing-write behavior.

Changes

SQLite busy-timeout integration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Busy-timeout driver and validation core/database/src/commonMain/.../BusyTimeoutSQLiteDriver.kt, core/database/src/jvmTest/.../BusyTimeoutSQLiteDriverTest.kt	BusyTimeoutSQLiteDriver applies a 10-second default busy timeout to opened connections. JVM tests verify the setting and lock-wait behavior.
Platform database builder integration core/database/src/androidMain/.../DatabaseBuilder.kt, core/database/src/iosMain/.../DatabaseBuilder.kt, core/database/src/jvmMain/.../DatabaseBuilder.kt	File-backed and in-memory Room database builders wrap BundledSQLiteDriver with BusyTimeoutSQLiteDriver.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 17466

The PR adds a 10-second SQLite busy timeout, but a setup failure can leave an opened connection live, potentially leaking resources or retaining a database lock. The current tests also do not verify every opened connection, and invalid timeout values can disable the protection. Merge should wait for cleanup-on-failure and targeted validation.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant RoomDatabaseBuilder
  participant BusyTimeoutSQLiteDriver
  participant BundledSQLiteDriver
  participant SQLiteConnection
  RoomDatabaseBuilder->>BusyTimeoutSQLiteDriver: configure database driver
  BusyTimeoutSQLiteDriver->>BundledSQLiteDriver: open connection
  BundledSQLiteDriver-->>BusyTimeoutSQLiteDriver: return SQLiteConnection
  BusyTimeoutSQLiteDriver->>SQLiteConnection: apply busy_timeout

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🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 7 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Regression Coverage For Changed Behavior	⚠️ Warning	The JVM tests cover a directly wrapped driver, but no test proves the Android, iOS, or JVM Room builders retain the timeout during replacement recovery.	Add persistent named-DB integration tests that hold a write lock, trigger DatabaseManager timeout/reopen, and verify the replacement write waits on JVM, Android, and iOS; assert custom timeout values.

✅ Passed checks (7 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: applying a busy timeout to every SQLite connection.
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Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Sibling Call Sites And Presence Semantics	✅ Passed	The PR diff only changes database drivers/builders and tests; it introduces no NodeItem, sensor, RSSI/SNR, nullable, zero-guard, or physical-metric default changes.
Tests Prove The Path, Not The End State	✅ Passed	The two added tests verify PRAGMA application and lock-wait behavior; removing the wrapper makes them fail. They use real SQLite and avoid fake-store, size-only, and Unconfined-order assertions.
Moved Code Diffed Against Its Original	✅ Passed	The committed diff only replaces driver expressions and adds a new SQLiteDriver wrapper; no type or function is deleted or extracted, so no moved-code contract changed.

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Inline comments:
In
`@core/database/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/core/database/BusyTimeoutSQLiteDriver.kt`:
- Around line 35-38: Update the BusyTimeoutSQLiteDriver constructor to validate
that busyTimeoutMs is strictly positive, rejecting zero and negative values
while preserving the existing default and delegate behavior.
- Around line 39-40: Update BusyTimeoutSQLiteDriver.open so the connection
returned by delegate.open(fileName) is closed if execSQL configuring PRAGMA
busy_timeout throws, then rethrow the original setup error. Preserve the
successful connection path and existing busyTimeoutMs configuration.

In
`@core/database/src/jvmTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/core/database/BusyTimeoutSQLiteDriverTest.kt`:
- Around line 38-45: Update appliesBusyTimeoutToEveryOpenedConnection to open
two connections from the same BusyTimeoutSQLiteDriver and assert PRAGMA
busy_timeout equals DEFAULT_BUSY_TIMEOUT_MS for each connection before closing
them.

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• core/database/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/core/database/DatabaseBuilder.kt
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• core/database/src/iosMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/core/database/DatabaseBuilder.kt
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