Investigated using the Nextcloud desktop client's Virtual Files as a
cache instead of talking to the server directly. Measured on this
machine (client 4.0.7): the configured folder holds 121,785 placeholders
against 10,267 materialised files, including 7,037 CR2 and 9,411 DNG.
Three findings, each independently disqualifying:
- Linux VFS is *suffix* mode. A dehydrated IMG.CR2 exists only as
IMG.CR2.nextcloud holding one byte; the real name is absent.
- Reading a placeholder does not hydrate it. dd of the first 256KB
returned 1 byte, the stub was unchanged, and the real name never
appeared. There is no FUSE layer — the stub is an inert marker.
- Even with hydration the granularity is wrong: VFS has two states,
1 byte or all bytes, and the preview tier needs a ~256KB prefix of
a 27MB file. That is ~100x what FR-NC-3 requires.
Recorded as ARCH §9.0. Coexistence is still supported: dr-types now
recognises *.nextcloud stubs, and the viewer lists them as "not
downloaded" rather than as corrupt files or not at all.
So the connector talks to the server directly, as D7 specified.
Implemented: Login Flow v2, PROPFIND with oc:fileid and nc:has-preview,
ETag pruning via a Depth:0 probe, range GET with local slicing when the
server ignores the header, conditional PUT, and /core/preview with
forceIcon=false. delta() returns Unsupported and says why.
Chunked upload v2 is not implemented yet — put() rejects bodies over
5MB explicitly rather than silently truncating.
Two bugs found by testing: my hand-computed epoch in a date test was a
day out (the parser was right), and quick-xml reaches EOF on truncated
input without erroring, so unbalanced elements needed an explicit check
— a half-parsed multistatus must not look like an empty directory.
83 tests passing.
Ports JellyTau's traceability tooling to Rust, carrying across the bug it
was repaired for. That gate divided a traced count by frozen literal
denominators; the requirements file outgrew them and it reported 158%
coverage, so it could never fail its own threshold.
Two rules, both enforced by the extractor's own tests:
- denominators parsed from docs/requirements.md at run time
- coverage is |traced ∩ defined| / |defined|, never a raw traced count
The gate additionally fails hard on a misconfigured run — zero
requirements parsed or zero files scanned — rather than reporting a
plausible 0%, and on any orphan tag naming a requirement that does not
exist.
Adapted for DarkRoom: IDs are FR-CAT-1 / NFR-P13 / FR-DEV-3a shapes
rather than JellyTau's fixed three digits, and decisions (D), spikes (S),
milestone items (M) and test ids remain taggable while being excluded
from the denominator — counting them inflated it by 25.
Also adds dr-sync: the RemoteBackend trait and capability model, so the
Nextcloud connector is one implementation rather than the only shape the
engine understands. No mature Nextcloud crate exists (reqwest_dav is too
thin), so the connector will be hand-rolled over reqwest per D7.
Gitea workflows follow the same style: containerised, commented with the
reasoning, desktop and Android on every push, plus a CI check that no
core/ crate depends on the UI toolkit (ARCH §6.5a).
Coverage today: 13.3% (19/143). 50 tests passing.
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