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feat(data): publish a layer's edits back to its Shapefile (#1385) - #1958
Second step of #1385: source.publish writes a layer's edits back over the Shapefile it was read from. Fix one parcel's owner, publish, and parcels.shp holds the fix. Before this, the only way was Export Features to a new name and swapping the files in by hand.
A Shapefile can't change one row in place, so the whole file is written again. A rewrite is only safe when nothing but the edits changes, so publish proves that before it touches the file. If it can't, it refuses, says why, and writes nothing:
The file is as it was read. The parts are compared with the record feat(data): remember the file a layer was read from and say when they differ #1753 keeps. A change made since would be overwritten, so publish refuses. The file must also read as the layer was read (its rows digest matches). Otherwise rows that weren't edited could be written as an older read held them.
The file, read and written again, is the same file. The shapes are compared record by record, and the .dbf as its bytes, not as decoded values. Whatever a round trip would lose shows here: Z/M values, records without a shape, multipatches, text with leading spaces (a read trims them), memo columns, characters the code page can't decode.
The layer, written and read back, is the layer. This catches what the edits can't fit: a field name over 10 bytes, a feature without a shape, characters the file's code page lacks (written as &#NNN; otherwise), anything cropped.
The new parts are then written beside the old ones, synced, and read back against the bytes meant. The record of the file is checked once more, then the parts are renamed into place with the .shp last. Backup names are reserved with exclusive creation so an existing recovery file is preserved. If any rename fails, the old parts go back, and a part that can't be restored is named rather than left under a temporary name. Exports now use the same staging and swap, factored out as stage_shapefile and place_shapefile. Staged parts take the existing file permissions through their open handles before content is written.
Rollback requires the process to keep running. A crash or power loss between part renames can leave a mixed or incomplete Shapefile. The user guide now recommends an independent backup and explains manual recovery: preserve the directory and hidden temporary parts, then restore a complete consistent set from the backup. Temporary files can contain old or staged new parts and are not a crash-safe backup.
An exclusive, nonblocking OS lock serializes RustGIS publishers for the same source. The empty .filename.shp.rustgis-lock sidecar stays for reuse; the guard explicitly unlocks before closing its handle, so inherited or duplicated descriptors cannot prolong a finished publisher’s lock. Process exit also releases the OS lock. This covers the source checks through all renames and rollback. Other programs do not participate in this locking protocol.
What the file keeps:
its code page: text is written in the .cpg's or language driver's encoding, and the .dbf keeps its language driver byte and its .cpg;
each column's width, decimals and type, F included, where the values still fit; a column that cannot hold an edited value gets a suitable width/decimal layout, with a notice naming the old and new forms; removed or renamed fields also produce a column-removal notice;
its .prj bytes, unless the layer was read in another system, in which case a notice says the .prj changed;
the exact coordinates of every unedited shape, so a projected file's untouched shapes stay the same to the bit. Only edited shapes are projected back from longitude/latitude.
.shp.xml and other sidecars RustGIS doesn't write. .qix, .sbn and .sbx are removed, as export already does.
Afterwards the layer adopts the rows as the file reads them, keeping feature ids and field aliases (an empty text reads as no value, whole-number columns read as integers, and date-time fields read as ISO 8601 text; Double-to-Integer and DateTime-to-Text changes produce notices). Its existing sync record describes those rows and the written files, so source.syncState reads inSync. No saved-project field or format version is added. The row digest is computed before replacement so Cancel after a successful publish cannot leave an outdated record. The project has a change to save. Undo and redo now carry each layer's record forward, as undo doesn't change the file: undoing an edit made before a publish shows the layer as edited.
source.publish runs as a background export on the desktop (Command Search › Publish to Source), with progress and Cancel, and is in the cancel test's list. It is also available from the CLI and Python. A layer with no edits writes nothing.
A reader fix it needed (now also on main):dbase reads a dBase F column into an f32, so 123456.12345678 read as 123456.125 with no notice. F columns are now read as N; both hold the number as text. Without this, publish would refuse every file with a precise F column, or a project read before the fix would write the loss back (the digest check now refuses that case).
Not in this PR:
GeoJSON (PR 3) is refused for now.
Layer-state inspection is available through Source File State in Command Search. A persistent Layers-pane badge is outside this PR.
Publish keeps no copy of the old file once it succeeds. Every check runs before the first rename, the layer still holds the edits, and undo plus publish restores an earlier state. A .bak set beside every Shapefile seemed like clutter. If you'd rather have one, it's a small addition.
Testing
rustgis-data: all 1,194 lib tests pass (11 ignored), including the new publish tests. They cover:
an edit written back with the columns and .prj kept, and no temporary files left;
a changed file or concurrent publisher refused and left alone;
Windows-1252 kept, and a character it lacks refused;
a read loss (leading space) and numeric overflow marker refused;
occupied staging and backup names preserved, including symlinks, with rollback, cleanup and retry;
an F column keeping its digits and its type;
widened columns and date-time fields written as text with their notices;
retained wide decimal columns when whole-valued doubles read as integers;
a Double field becoming Integer after edits to whole values, with one notice and a clean repeat without a notice;
polygon grouping and projection round-off notices;
a stale read refused;
uppercase and mixed-case stale spatial indexes removed after a geometry edit;
uncounted DBF records refused with all source parts unchanged;
explicit lock release while a duplicate descriptor remains open, without releasing a later publisher’s lock;
an unconverted source shape refused before it can be assigned to a new geometry-less feature, with every source part unchanged;
UTM and State Plane (feet) files: an attribute edit leaves every shape identical to the bit, and a moved vertex changes only its own shape.
a changed file refused with its bytes left as they were;
GeoJSON refused;
normalization of empty text after publish while retaining aliases;
failed scripts retaining committed file records, including removed layers;
undo/redo after a successful script publishes and then removes its layer;
Cancel arriving after the real final .shp replacement still leaves the new sync record.
The export permission-owner regression commits a real publish, revokes its owner before delivery, and verifies that format notices remain visible while the finalizer and sync-record update stay blocked.
long_commands_stop_when_cancelled_while_they_run, hostile_params_never_panic and the undo tests pass.
cargo clippy -D warnings on data, engine and ui-egui; cargo check --target wasm32-unknown-unknown -p rustgis-engine with -D warnings.
Added “Publish to Source” for writing edits from a Shapefile-loaded layer back to its source. Successful publishing updates the layer’s sync state; unchanged layers are not rewritten.
Compatible Shapefile formatting and encoding are retained, with fields adjusted when values require it. Unchanged geometries in projected files retain their original coordinates.
Bug Fixes
Publishing refuses to overwrite changed source files or write edits that cannot be represented.
Undo and redo preserve sync state for matching layers.
Failed publishing restores replaced files when possible; recovery errors identify the backup location.
DBF floating-point field handling is limited to valid column declarations.
Documentation
Added user guide coverage for publishing, its limitations, and supported entry points.
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source.publish writes an in-memory layer read from a Shapefile back over
that file, after proving nothing but the edits changes: the file is as it
was read and reads as the layer was read, the file read and written again
is byte-for-byte the same table and the same shapes, and the layer written
reads back as the layer. The new parts are staged beside the old, checked,
and swapped in with the .shp last, rolling back on failure.
The rewrite keeps the file's code page and language driver, column widths,
decimals and F types where values fit, its .prj and .cpg, and the exact
coordinates of every unedited shape. It runs as a background export with
progress and Cancel; undo and redo keep each layer's sync record.
Also reads dBase F columns as f64: dbase parsed them into an f32.
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Walkthrough
This change adds publication for edits to Shapefile-backed layers. It adds DBF parsing and style-preserving export, validates rewritten data, and stages Shapefile parts for replacement. The source.publish command connects publication to desktop routing, project state, and sync handling.
Changes: Shapefile publishing
Layer / File(s)
Summary
DBF parsing and styled export crates/data/src/dbf.rs, crates/data/src/io.rs, crates/data/src/sync.rs
DBF parsing exposes raw table metadata. Styled exports retain compatible encoding and column properties, truncate text by encoded-byte length, and report widened columns. Shapefile parts are staged and placed with rollback support. File sync records can use written bytes, and row digests ignore field aliases.
Publication and round-trip validation crates/data/src/publish.rs, crates/data/src/lib.rs
The publisher checks source state and rewritten shapes and DBF data, stages validated output, and returns read-back data and a file sync record. Tests cover refusal conditions, DBF fidelity, encoding, and projected geometry. The publish module is unavailable on wasm32.
The command is registered and routed through desktop export handling. Publication updates a matching layer’s saved sync state. Undo, redo, and rollback preserve applicable sync records. Command metadata, tests, and the user guide cover publication behavior.
sequenceDiagram
participant Desktop
participant publish_work
participant shapefile
participant ShapefileParts
participant Layer
Desktop->>publish_work: dispatch source.publish
publish_work->>shapefile: publish edited dataset and saved sync record
shapefile->>ShapefileParts: check, stage, validate, and place parts
shapefile-->>publish_work: return read-back dataset and sync record
publish_work->>Layer: update sync state when the live record still matches
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Publishing edits to a Shapefile now stages, verifies and swaps the files in with rollback, and the earlier review concerns appear addressed. Two narrow edge cases remain. A spatial index held open by another program can be left behind without a warning in the app. Widening a very high-precision numeric column can shorten the text of unedited decimals beyond double precision, though the widening is reported. Both are safe to follow up on after merge.
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The title "feat(data): publish a layer's edits back to its Shapefile (#1385)" names the main change: the new source.publish command writes a layer's edits back over its source Shapefile. It follows the conventional-commit style and is specific enough for a teammate scanning history. The PR number in the title refers to the tracking issue, which does not affect the match.
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The description is thorough and follows the template's main sections. It has a detailed Summary explaining what source.publish does and why, a Testing section listing commands and test coverage, and a UI evidence section with a screenshot, which fits the template since the change adds a Command Search entry. The Related issue section is filled in with 'Part of #1385 (PR 2 of 3)'. The description is long and includes some scope notes (GeoJSON deferred, layer badge deferred). The template asks for a 'No visible UI change' line when there is none; this PR does add a visible command, so the screenshot is the right choice. The only structural nit is that the Related issue line references a parent issue but does not use the template's 'Closes'/'Part of' form exactly; it does use 'Part of', which is acceptable.
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Crash path (Bug, high confidence).usize::clamp(min, max) panics when min > max. Here min is was.len, a raw byte from the file's .dbf header, and max is 254. A column of length 255 (which the header byte allows) with an edited text value longer than 255 bytes reaches this line and panics. run_under catches the panic, but AGENTS.md treats it as a crash to fix with a regression test, and no test covers it. Suggested fix:
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Fixed in 9203f1b: the width is now the longest value capped at 254 (.min(254)), so a 255-byte column can't reach clamp. A longer value is then cut, which the read-back check refuses. Regression test: a_full_width_text_column_with_a_longer_value_is_written_at_254.
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Notice misdescribes the change (Bug, medium confidence). A numeric column whose values need more decimals than the file's column (for example N(30,2) with a value of 1.23456) falls through to (new, true). That replaces it with N(24, dbf_decimals): the width can go down from 30 to 24, and the decimals change. The publish notice still says the field was "given wider columns than the file had". Consider naming the change instead, for example "'ACRES' N(30,2) rewritten as N(24,5)", so the notice matches what was written.
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Fixed in 9203f1b: a number's new column is never narrower than the file's (len.max(was.len)), and the notice now names each change with its old and new form, e.g. 'OWNER' C(5) to C(24), instead of saying "wider".
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Progress total gets reset (Quality, high confidence).project_features calls progress::begin(features.len()) on every call. Here it is called once per feature with a one-element slice, so each call resets the progress total to 1. The write that follows then counts past that total, and the progress bar overshoots for projected layers. The step-2 writer at line 159 also ticks progress before progress::begin at line 172, so its counts land on the byte total left by the hashing. Suggested fix: collect the features that need projecting and call crate::io::project_each(&mut to_project, &t, c, false) once, which exists for this case and does not reset the total.
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Fixed in 9203f1b: edited shapes are projected with project_each(.., false), which looks at Cancel without resetting the total, and step 2's write now starts its own count (progress::begin).
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Possible silent loss (Quality, low confidence). Records marked deleted (*) are skipped here, so same_table never compares them. The rewrite then drops them from the .dbf with no notice, unless the shape-count check in same_shapes refuses the file first. I could not confirm how the shapefile crate pairs deleted records with their shapes, so I can't say which of those happens. Please check that a file with a soft-deleted row is refused with a message that names the deleted rows, or that the publish notes them. AGENTS.md requires a notice for dropped records.
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Fixed in 9203f1b: raw_table counts records marked deleted, and publish refuses such a file, saying how many, since writing it again would remove them (shapes and all). Test: a_file_with_deleted_records_is_refused.
The PR publishes a layer's edits back over its Shapefile. It refuses the write unless a lossless round trip is proven, and it stages and swaps the files with rollback. I read the full diff and the surrounding code. I checked the record's sidecar list, the undo/redo wiring, the dispatch and Then types, and the reader's CRS handling. Those checks found no problem, so the concerns below stand on what I could verify.
Bugs
io.rs:3320: longest.clamp(usize::from(was.len), 254) panics when a file's column length byte is 255 and an edited text value is over 255 bytes, because clamp panics when min > max. run_under catches it, but it is still a crash path with no regression test. High confidence. Inline suggestion posted.
io.rs:3322: a numeric column that needs more decimals is replaced by N(24, d). That can make it narrower than the file's column, but the notice says "wider". Medium confidence. Inline comment posted.
Security
None found. Paths are fixed-extension, the record check is hash-based, and the network-share guard is kept.
Performance
publish.rs:259: project_features is called once per feature, and each call resets the progress total. The writer at publish.rs:159 also ticks before progress::begin. Progress overshoots for projected layers. High confidence on the mechanism, low impact. Inline comment posted.
Each publish makes about five full passes over the file. This is documented in the doc comment, so I'm not raising it.
Quality
dbf.rs:254: deleted (*) records are skipped and never compared. Low confidence. I could not confirm whether the shape-count check refuses such a file or whether they are dropped without a notice. Inline comment posted.
AGENTS.md
The crash path above needs a regression test, per the "every crash fix gets a regression test" rule.
Each new background path is in IN_BACKGROUND and in the cancel test's list, and the UI routes through exportjob.
Notices use Session::notify/warn and published.notes, and there are both lossy and clean tests.
Cancel is checked in the long loops (hashing, the writer). The comparison helpers and in_file run without a check, which the doc comment mostly covers.
Nothing is in a wasm path that breaks the build, as far as I could read.
I left nothing unraised from earlier discussion, since there are no prior review threads on this PR.
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Compared with main (merge base 015c446 to PR head 401709d), the whole PR.
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Minor · Apply the styled text limit in the file's code page, not UTF-8 bytes. · io.rs:3380
crates/data/src/io.rs:3380 Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Apply the styled text limit in the file's code page, not UTF-8 bytes.
For a styled export, kept_column keeps a text column when each value fits its width in the file's code page (io.rs:3296-3315). The value is then cut with cut(&v.to_string(), 254) at io.rs:3380. cut limits UTF-8 bytes (io.rs:2585-2592), not the bytes the file stores.
For example, 200 é characters take 400 UTF-8 bytes and 200 Windows-1252 bytes. The cut reduces the value to 127 characters, or 254 UTF-8 bytes. That value fits a C(254) column, but the write does not match the source column's capacity.
The export does not report this cut. The publish read-back comparison in publish.rs:187-188 finds the changed value and refuses the edit.
Measure the 254-byte limit after encoding with the table's code page, as kept_column does. Cut the text only at a character boundary. The same byte-based expression exists at the merge base (io.rs:3252). It can differ from the stored length whenever the table code page is not UTF-8.
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The styled-export text truncation in the FieldValue::Character conversion limits UTF-8 bytes rather than bytes in the table’s code page. Update this conversion to measure the 254-byte limit using the same code-page encoding basis as kept_column, and truncate only at a character boundary; preserve the existing null handling.
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Review comments at @crates/data/src/io.rs:
- Line 634: Update the staging write in stage_shapefile to apply the existing
part’s permissions before writing its content, matching atomic_write_at’s
permission-preserving behavior and avoiding following symlinks. Keep write_new
unchanged for other callers; ensure new parts without an existing target retain
the current default-permission behavior.
Review comments at @crates/data/src/publish.rs:
- Line 232: Add an exclusive cross-process file lock beside the Shapefile in the
publish flow, acquiring it before the final source check associated with
unchanged and holding it through place_shapefile. Release the lock after
placement returns so concurrent publishers serialize and the existing
changed-source check can reject stale input.
- Line 138: In the publish flow that builds DbfStyle, encoding_notes records
when encoding falls back to UTF-8 instead of the source code page. Before
writing or publishing, detect that fallback and refuse publication with a clear
error; cover both LDID and unsupported .cpg fallbacks, without rejecting
unrelated notes.
- Around line 384-385: Update cell() so N and F values are compared using
normalized decimal text or an exact decimal representation rather than f64,
preserving distinctions between values that f64 rounds to the same number. Keep
the existing handling for nonnumeric cells and ensure same_table detects changes
to wide or fractional numeric values.
Review comments at @crates/engine/src/cmd/publish.rs:
- Line 82: Update publish_work and the shapefile publish result so the saved
Synced.rows digest is computed from the written file read back using the same
path as the existing check, rather than from the in-memory dataset; preserve the
existing digest comparison behavior.
Review comments at @crates/ui-egui/src/lib.rs:
- Line 2469: Update the source.publish route around exportjob::start to report
start failures through command_failed, capturing the session notice mark before
starting; preserve the original result returned by exportjob::start.
- Line 2469: Register source.publish in plan_write as a watched write, using the
publishing layer’s source path as the watched key and the publishing layer as
the writer. This lets the existing stale_for and wrote handling preserve other
layers’ stale state while acknowledging the publish result against the
publishing layer’s baseline.
Review comments at @docs/user-guide/index.md:
- Around line 419-420: Update the replacement and rollback description near the
shapefile sidecar discussion to clarify that rollback may fail: when restoring a
backup fails, `place_shapefile` leaves the old part under a temporary name and
reports its location. Explain that users should use that reported location to
recover the old part, rather than promising every old part is restored.
- Line 421: Update the spatial-index removal guidance in the user guide to
describe removal as best-effort, and add a step telling users to check for
remaining .qix, .sbn, and .sbx files after publishing. Keep the change limited
to documenting the behavior of place_shapefile.
- Around line 422-424: Clarify the precision rules in the documentation near the
RustGIS coordinate-conversion description: state that unedited shapes retain
their file coordinates exactly, and that only edited shapes are projected and
read back, subject to the existing movement tolerance and refusal behavior.
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Review comments at @crates/data/src/io.rs:
- Line 3380: The styled-export text truncation in the FieldValue::Character
conversion limits UTF-8 bytes rather than bytes in the table’s code page. Update
this conversion to measure the 254-byte limit using the same code-page encoding
basis as kept_column, and truncate only at a character boundary; preserve the
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…hanges
A text column 255 bytes wide (the most a .dbf allows) with a longer value
crashed in clamp; it now gets the 254 bytes written. A column that couldn't
hold its values is named with its old and new form ('ACRES' N(10,2) to
N(24,9)), as a number's column may change decimals rather than widen, and
never gets narrower than the file's. A file with records marked deleted is
refused, as writing it again would drop them. Projecting edited shapes no
longer resets the progress total.
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…t reads
A number is compared as the decimal its text says, not as an f64, so a
value past 2^53 that a read rounds is refused rather than written back
rounded. The record a publish leaves holds the digest of the file as it
reads (Synced.read, saved only when it differs from the layer's), so a file
that holds the layer as a Shapefile can (an empty text as no value) publishes
again. A code page RustGIS reads as UTF-8 for want of a decoder is refused.
Staged parts take the old parts' permissions before any content is written,
and text is cut to 254 bytes in the file's code page. A refused start says
so in the desktop app.
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On the outside-diff finding (io.rs, the text cut): fixed in 71e5138. A table written in a file's code page now cuts text with cut_encoded, which measures the 254 bytes in that code page and cuts at a character boundary. 300 é in Windows-1252 keep 254 characters, not 127. Exports without a style still cut UTF-8, which is their encoding. Test: text_is_cut_to_its_code_page_bytes.
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Silent column removal (Bug, medium-high confidence).shapefile_parts_styled writes only the layer's ds.fields. If the user deleted (edit.deleteField) or renamed a field, the file's column for it is dropped on publish. Nothing in this path checks the file's columns against the layer's: step 2 compares only the rewrite of the file as read, and step 3 compares the layer with its read-back. So a column is removed with no notice, which breaks the "Never silent" rule, and the user docs say the file keeps its columns. There is also no test for deleting or renaming a field before publish.
Suggested fix: compare the original table.columns names with ds.fields before writing. For each file column the layer no longer has, push a note such as 'pop_est' N(24,15) removed from the file: no field of the layer has its name, and add a test that deletes a field, publishes, and checks the note.
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Publish now compares the source column names with the columns retained by the edited layer and emits one notice counting and naming removed columns, including renames. The regression removes UNITS, verifies the notice, and checks that the written table has the remaining two columns. Clean publishing still emits no loss notice.
Fixed in f84669bb. Validation: 1,130 data tests, the engine publish regression, native Clippy and the engine WebAssembly check passed; full fork CI passed before this head was pushed.
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Saved-file version (AGENTS.md, saved files; medium confidence).read is a new field in the project's saved record. docs/maintaining.md says a format's version goes up when an older reader would lose information on resave. An older RustGIS has no read field, so it loads the record, drops read, and saves the project again. FORMAT in crates/engine/src/project.rs:58 is still 1.
Either bump FORMAT, or say in the PR that the record is unreleased (#1753 has not shipped). If it has shipped, the bump is required. The consequence is that publish refuses instead of writing, so this is not data loss, but the rule still applies.
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Removed the additional read field rather than extending the saved-project format. The layer adopts the validated read-back values after a publish, preserving feature ids; its original rows field then describes both the layer and the source. No project-format change or FORMAT bump is needed. The engine regression covers normalization of empty text to the file's null representation and the resulting inSync state.
Fixed in f84669bb. Validation: 1,130 data tests, the engine publish regression, native Clippy and the engine WebAssembly check passed; full fork CI passed before this head was pushed.
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Cancel doc is incomplete (AGENTS.md, Never hold the window; low-medium confidence). The doc comment says reading into memory and back are the only single steps without a check. But same_shapes, same_table and same_rows each make a full pass over the file or layer, and none of them calls progress::check or step. On a large Shapefile, Cancel can wait through all of that comparison. Either add a check per record in those loops, or name them in this doc comment as steps without one.
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The function documentation now names the full shape/table/row comparison passes as steps that finish before Cancel is seen. The geometry-reuse loop also checks Cancel for every feature. Cancellation before placement preserves the old file; a new regression verifies that cancellation arriving after the final replacement still completes the sync record.
Fixed in f84669bb. Validation: 1,130 data tests, the engine publish regression, native Clippy and the engine WebAssembly check passed; full fork CI passed before this head was pushed.
I reviewed the PR head against the diff, the staged prior threads, and the surrounding source. I couldn't compile or run tests in this environment, so the findings below come from reading the code.
Bugs
Deleting or renaming a layer field, then publishing, silently removes that column from the file. Nothing compares the file's columns with the layer's, and no test covers it. Medium-high confidence. Inline at crates/data/src/publish.rs:188.
Security
No new issues found. Publish writes only to a local .shp that passes the record and hash checks, and it cannot create files.
Performance
Original::parts() clones the whole .shp and .dbf on each call (publish.rs:95-103), and the parts are cloned again for the read-back. Peak memory can reach several times the file size for a 256 MiB file. Low-medium confidence. Fix: have the reader borrow the bytes instead of taking them by value.
Quality
The shapefile() doc comment omits that same_shapes, same_table and same_rows run full passes without a Cancel check. Low-medium confidence. Inline at crates/data/src/publish.rs:119.
RawTable's doc says raw_table returns None when records don't fit the file, but the code only takes count chunks and never checks the body length. A short file is caught later by the reader. Low confidence; nit.
AGENTS.md
The new saved Synced.read field is not covered by a FORMAT bump (crates/engine/src/project.rs:58 is still 1). An older RustGIS drops the field on resave. Medium confidence. Inline at crates/data/src/sync.rs:40.
Prior threads
Ten of the 13 earlier threads are addressed in this head. I checked each against the code or the docs.
Three concerns are still open and I left them alone: the cross-process lock between the final source check and placement (publish.rs), the silent let _ = removal of spatial indexes (the docs were updated but the code was not), and the disk-watch arm for source.publish.
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GitHub Pages takes a minute or two to publish a new commit. Newer commits from the fork aren't published until a maintainer adds the preview label (once per commit).
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Bug (medium, high confidence in the mechanism): publishing to a symlinked Shapefile replaces the link and leaves its target stale.
source_lock canonicalizes path, so the lock sits beside the real file. But Original::read and FileSync follow the link, while place_shapefile (publish.rs:308) renames over path itself. io.rs:681 does rename(target, &bak), which moves the symlink, not the file it points to. Then remove_file(bak) deletes the link, and the new regular file takes its name. The file the link names keeps the old bytes, and publish still reports success with the layer as inSync.
Suggested guard, before the lock. It also covers the sidecars because they are refused when path is a link:
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let _lock = source_lock(path)?;
if std::fs::symlink_metadata(path).is_ok_and(|m| m.file_type().is_symlink()){
returnErr(refused(path,"it is a symbolic link, and writing it would replace the link rather than the file it names"));
}
let _lock = source_lock(path)?;
A sibling .dbf or .prj that is a link would be replaced the same way, so the check should look at each part. A regression test should publish to a linked .shp and check that the link is refused and its target is unchanged.
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Fixed in a23b146. Publishing now refuses a symlink in any source part (.shp, .shx, .dbf, .prj or any .cpg spelling), initially and again before placement. The regression reproduced success on the old code and now checks that each linked part is refused with its link, target bytes and source fingerprint unchanged. Validation: 1,132 data tests passed (11 ignored), all-target data Clippy, wasm with warnings denied, and the full fork CI gate.
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Performance (low): full copies of the file stay alive through placement.
again (the step-2 rewrite of the whole .shp, .shx and .dbf) is bound for the rest of shapefile(), though it is only used for the two checks in step 2. The step-3 parts are then cloned again into back (publish.rs:232) before targets (publish.rs:285) takes the bytes. On a 256 MiB .shp, the memory held while placing is the original, again, the staged bytes, and the datasets as_read, raw and read_back.
Dropping again once the table check passes would remove one full copy. Taking parts by value into back, instead of cloning from it, would remove another.
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The extra buffer lifetimes are a useful memory optimization. I am leaving this for the release quality pass; this batch fixes the demonstrated link-replacement and shared-lock failures.
Publishing to a symlinked .shp replaces the link and leaves its target stale, then reports success.place_shapefile renames over the link path, while the lock and the reads follow the link. Confidence: high on the mechanism, medium on how often it matters. Posted inline at crates/data/src/publish.rs:156, with a guard suggestion.
Security
None found. source.publish declares roles(&[]) and Effect::Files, the same as the existing file-writing exports. The path comes from the project, but a write also requires the file's exact hashes and row digest, which a crafted project can't supply without the victim's file bytes.
Performance
Full copies of the file stay alive through placement (low). again (the step-2 rewrite) lives to the end of shapefile(), and back clones parts. Posted inline at crates/data/src/publish.rs:211.
Quality (left for the release quality pass; no inline comments posted)
publish.rs is ~980 lines and shapefile() runs ~150 lines across three checks, staging and placement. It could be split.
Three long unwrapped lines in docs/user-guide/index.md (around lines 422, 433 and 443) break the file's wrap width.
AGENTS.md
Checked against the Never crash, Never silent, Never hold the window and Never break wasm rules. No unwrap/expect/indexing in non-test code. Notices cover the dropped columns, widened fields, .prj changes and deleted records. Background registration and the cancel-test lists are updated. rustix is already a dependency and rust-version is 1.90, so try_lock is fine. write_new_with has no other callers. Nothing found.
Prior reviews
I left 21 earlier concerns alone. All but the lock thread were answered and fixed in code.
The lock thread (publish.rs:302) still has the author's reply "leaving this out of this PR". The head now includes a persistent .name.rustgis-lock sidecar, so that reply is stale. The race it describes is covered for RustGIS publishers only, which the docs say.
Checked and cleared
keep_synced in undo/redo is sound: undo never changes the file, so the record should follow the file.
The of_written record handles the .CPG spelling correctly.
Feature ids come from reader order, so the raw-coordinate lookup in in_file matches.
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Silent column type change (Bug, medium-high confidence). When the layer's field kind differs from the file's column of that name, this arm returns the new column with no notice. The reachable case is edit.convertField (text to date or date-time): the file's C(n) column is written as D(8) and nothing says so. The conversion's own notice covers nulled rows, not the file's column changing type. AGENTS.md requires a notice for an approximated or changed column. Suggested fix: name the change, as the width notice does.
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_ => return(new,None),
_ => return(new,Some(format!("'{}' {kept} to {new}", dbf_notice_name(&field.name)))),
A test should convert a text column to a date in a layer read from a C column, publish, and expect one notice naming the old and new column.
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Fixed in e99726f. Changing a field to another physical column type now reports the old and new types through the existing column-change notice. The regression reproduced publishing OWNER from C(10) to D(8) with no notice, then passed with exactly one notice naming that change. Validation: 1,134 data tests passed (11 ignored), the engine publication/log/undo regression and assistant discovery regression passed, all-target Clippy and WebAssembly checks passed, and full fork CI passed.
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Non-ASCII column names are compared as different bytes (Bug, low confidence, about 35%).style.columns holds each column's name as raw bytes in the file's code page, while the layer's field name is a UTF-8 String (dbf_names keeps non-ASCII). For a name such as Señor in a Windows-1252 .dbf, c.name == name.as_bytes() never matches. The column then loses its kept width and decimals with no notice, and the removed-column check in publish.rs (gone, around line 295) reports the column as left out although it is still written under its name. This depends on whether the dbase writer accepts non-ASCII names at all. If it rejects them, publish refuses instead, and the refusal message is worth checking. Either way, a test with a non-ASCII name in a non-UTF-8 file would settle it. The comparison should use the name decoded in the file's code page.
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Reproduced with a Windows-1252 DBF column named Señor. The dbase FieldName accepts the name, but its header writer emits UTF-8 name bytes. The step-2 raw-table fidelity check already refuses that rewrite with “its columns would change” before placement. The regression in e99726f verifies the decoded field name, refusal, unchanged DBF bytes and unchanged source fingerprint. Validation: 1,134 data tests passed (11 ignored), the engine publication/log/undo regression and assistant discovery regression passed, all-target Clippy and WebAssembly checks passed, and full fork CI passed.
C::new("source.syncState", "Source File State", "Data › Data Source", sync_state).roles(&[]).effects(crate::policy::Effects::NONE.with(crate::policy::Effect::Files)).view().params(
r#"{"layer"?: "name|id (default: the active layer): one read whole from a Shapefile or .geojson file"} — whether it has edits its file lacks ("edited"), the file changed since it was read ("sourceChanged"), both ("both") or neither ("inSync"), and which of the file's parts changed"#,
),
C::new("source.publish", "Publish to Source", "Data › Data Source", |s, p| super::exports::write_here(s, p, "source.publish")).roles(&[]).effects(crate::policy::Effects::NONE.with(crate::policy::Effect::Files)).view().params(
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.view() contradicts what publish does (Quality/Correctness, medium-low confidence, about 50%)..view() sets mutates = false, documented as "Doesn't change the project (no undo snapshot, not dirtying)". Publish does change the project: it rewrites the layer's rows and fields and its sync record, and marks the project unsaved. mutates also feeds three things: the policy's Edits effect (policy/effects.rs), the project log (project_log.rs), and the assistant's changesProject flag. So publish is missing from the project log and reports as not changing the project. Removing .view() would take an undo snapshot that restores the pre-publish file record, which the PR's undo design avoids. If the no-undo behavior is intended, the other two effects should be handled explicitly, and the doc comment should say why .view() is used here.
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Fixed in e99726f. Publishing declares Edits explicitly while retaining its automatic-snapshot suppression. CommandSpec::changes_project reports either an automatic edit transaction or an explicit Edits effect; the session log and assistant changesProject metadata now use that contract. The command documentation explains the external commit and undo behavior. Regressions check a logged publish, unchanged undo depth, and assistant discovery reporting publish as a project change while syncState remains read-only. Validation: 1,134 data tests passed (11 ignored), the engine publication/log/undo regression and assistant discovery regression passed, all-target Clippy and WebAssembly checks passed, and full fork CI passed.
I read the full diff, the staged metadata, and the 21 prior review threads. I checked the source for the new behaviour (undo/redo ordering, sidecar tracking in sync::parts, dbf_number's 2^53 guard, the reader's date handling, and edit.convertField). Three findings are new and posted inline. The other threads are addressed in the current head and I left them alone; none is re-raised here.
Bugs
Silent column type change on publish (medium-high confidence). When a layer field's kind differs from the file's column, kept_column returns the new column with no notice. edit.convertField (text to date) reaches this. The file's C(n) becomes D(8) silently. Inline comment on crates/data/src/io.rs:3384 with a suggested fix.
Non-ASCII column names compared as different bytes (low confidence, about 35%). The file's raw code-page bytes are compared with a UTF-8 name, so kept widths are lost and the removed-column notice can fire falsely. It depends on whether the dbase writer accepts non-ASCII names at all. Inline comment on crates/data/src/io.rs:3360.
Security
No new findings. The lock file, symlink refusal and permission handling all check out.
Performance
No new findings. The memory-copy concern is already deferred by the maintainer to the quality pass.
Quality
.view() on source.publish (medium-low confidence, about 50%). .view() means "doesn't change the project", but publish rewrites layer rows and the sync record. mutates also drives the Edits effect, the project log and the assistant's changesProject flag. Inline comment on crates/engine/src/cmd/publish.rs:12.
AGENTS.md
Checked the no-unwrap rule, the layering, wasm gating, the cancel-test list and the undo handling. No violations found beyond the silent-change item above, which is a "Never silent" rule breach.
Prior threads: 21 threads were reviewed. None was re-raised.
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The silent Double-to-Integer change is fixed and answered inline: publishing now reports the affected fields, and the regression covers the change and a clean repeat. Current head 3bdcd35e also merges main, reusing its shared floating-point reader helper and keeping its non-finite-number notices. Full fork CI passed, following 1,189 passing data tests and the engine publishing, Clippy and wasm checks.
The comparison wording and geometry-index allocation remain for the release quality pass, as answered in their inline threads.
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Major · Prevent replacement of an existing backup pathname. · io.rs:681
crates/data/src/io.rs:681 Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win
Prevent replacement of an existing backup pathname.
temp_beside generates a pathname but does not reserve it. If that pathname already exists, this rename can overwrite it on Unix. A previous crash followed by PID reuse can leave such a file, including a recovery backup.
Reserve an unused backup pathname with exclusive creation, or use a no-replace rename. On collision, preserve the existing file and roll back the current placement. Add coverage for collisions during backup creation, not only staging.
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Review comment at @crates/data/src/io.rs at line 681:
Update the backup rename around std::fs::rename so an existing backup pathname is never replaced: reserve an unused pathname with exclusive creation or use a no-replace rename. On collision, preserve the existing file and roll back the current placement; add coverage for collisions during backup creation, not just staging.
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- Line 681: Update the backup rename around std::fs::rename so an existing
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Never silent (bug, ~55% confidence). The file is written before the completion runs. If check_continuation then refuses (write_here in cmd/exports.rs:69, or export_land at :289), said() never runs. So this publish's notes are dropped: left-out columns, column and type changes, the .prj change, projection round-off. The then closure is skipped too, so the layer keeps its old record and reads sourceChanged. The only message is completion_refused, which says "Exported {path}", the wrong verb for a publish.
Suggested fix: when the completion is refused after a publish, notify wrote.notes before returning the error, and word the refusal as "Published … but the layer's record wasn't updated; add the file again to compare it".
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Reproduced and fixed in 49b1f04d. Both synchronous and background publication retain the committed write's notices in the completion-refusal diagnostic. It says Published, explains that the layer record was not updated, and asks the user to add the file again to compare it. The authority checks still block the finalizer; reporting the completed write does not update the revoked layer.
The existing permission-owner regression now performs a real publish that widens a column, revokes the owner after the file is committed, and checks the notices, completed disk write and unchanged sync record. It failed before the fix and passes now, together with the generic export ownership cases. Native tests, Clippy, wasm, hooks and full fork CI pass.
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Never silent (low confidence, ~30%).cell() maps a numeric cell that is all * (a value too wide for its column) to Cell::Empty. A rewrite that leaves it blank then passes same_table with no notice. I could not confirm from here whether the dbase reader turns such a cell into no value, which would make this reachable, or returns an error, which would refuse the publish. If it is reachable, either refuse a file with * cells or add a notice naming the column and count. A test with an overflow cell in an unedited column would settle it.
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Confirmed: the reader returns no value for an all-asterisk numeric cell, and the old comparison allowed it to become blank. Fixed in 49b1f04d: the raw overflow marker now differs from an empty cell, so publication refuses the rewrite before placement.
The regression puts an overflow marker in an unedited column and edits another field. It previously published successfully; now it reports the differing record/column and leaves every source part unchanged. All 1,190 data tests (11 ignored), the engine checks, Clippy, wasm, hooks and full fork CI pass.
A publish whose completion is refused after the file is written drops its notices (left-out columns, type and width changes, .prj change, projection round-off). The layer's sync record is also not updated, so it reads sourceChanged, and the message says "Exported" for a publish. Confidence about 55%. Inline comment posted at crates/engine/src/cmd/publish.rs:111.
Security
Nothing new. The world-writable empty lock sidecar (0666) is the intended cross-account tradeoff already discussed in the threads.
Performance
Nothing new beyond the open threads: the geometry index keyed by JSON, the full copies of the file held during placement, and the per-field scan in kept_column.
Quality
cell() treats an all-* numeric cell as empty, so an unrelated publish could rewrite an overflow marker as blank with no notice. Confidence about 30%, because I could not confirm how the dbase reader handles those cells. Inline comment posted at crates/data/src/publish.rs:561.
AGENTS.md
No unwrap, expect, indexing or unsafe in non-test code that I could find. The publish module is cfg-gated off wasm. Background registration and the cancel-test list are updated. Nothing else found.
I checked the diff, the staged metadata, the surrounding sync, exports and undo code, and the new tests. I left 34 earlier review concerns alone because they were already raised, and I did not re-raise any of them.
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The backup-name collision is reproduced and fixed in 49b1f04d. Placement exclusively creates the backup reservation before moving an old part; an occupied name causes rollback and is preserved. The handle is closed before renaming, including on Windows, and a reservation owned by this run is removed if its rename fails.
The existing public-writer collision regression now covers backup creation as well as staging, at each part, with regular files and live/dangling symlinks on Unix. It checks the original parts, the occupied entry and its target, cleanup and successful retry. The pre-fix backup case failed; all cases now pass. All 1,190 data tests, both engine publication/permission scenarios, Clippy, wasm, hooks and full fork CI pass.
Both new findings are reproduced and fixed in 49b1f04d, with details in the inline replies. Refused completion now reports the committed publication's format notices while keeping its finalizer blocked. An unedited numeric overflow marker now prevents a rewrite that would erase it. The same batch also reserves backup names exclusively and extends the existing collision regression.
All 1,190 data tests (11 ignored), the actual engine publication and permission-owner scenarios, Clippy, wasm, hooks and full fork CI pass. The source-lock contention seen in the first local suite did not recur in its focused check, the unchanged suite retry or full fork CI.
if matched.is_some_and(|(_, ambiguous)| *ambiguous) {
return Err(DataError::Format("several source shapes read as the same geometry but have different native coordinates; their correspondence is ambiguous, so nothing was written".into()));
}
let held = matched.and_then(|&(i, _)| raw.get(i));
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Bug (low-medium confidence, about 50%): a feature with no geometry can be written with a shape it never had.
A layer feature with geometry: None keys to "null". Any read feature whose geometry is None keys the same way, and so does a read feature whose shape failed the CRS conversion in read_shapefile_parts (ok.then_some(out) in io.rs). Such a read feature has raw[i] holding its native shape. So when the file has exactly one unconverted shape, a new or cleared geometry-less feature matches it here, held is Some, and row.geometry takes that native shape. project_each is skipped, so left_out stays 0 and the write goes ahead. The read-back still gives None, so same_rows passes and the file gains an extra copy of the shape with no notice. With two or more unconverted shapes that differ, the ambiguity check refuses instead.
I haven't run this. The reasoning comes from reading in_file and the reader.
Suggested direction: only reuse a native shape when the layer feature has a geometry (matched.filter(|_| f.geometry.is_some())). For a geometry-less feature whose match carries a native shape, refuse with a message naming the unconverted shape, so the publish fails loudly rather than writing it. A test should cover one unconverted shape plus one feature added with no geometry, expecting a refusal and unchanged bytes.
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Reproduced and fixed in 4a35e978. Before building the correspondence index, publication now refuses a source shape that exists in native coordinates but failed conversion to longitude/latitude. Missing geometry cannot identify which native shape belongs to a feature. The error names the source record and asks the user to check its projection and add the file again; nothing is placed.
The regression writes a projected Shapefile with exactly one unconverted point and one valid point, reads it, then adds a geometry-less feature. It previously published successfully; now it refuses and verifies that every source part is unchanged. All 1,191 data tests (11 ignored), the engine publishing test, Clippy, wasm, hooks and full fork CI pass.
A feature with no geometry can be written with a shape it never had. in_file in crates/data/src/publish.rs matches geometry-less features to read features that were also geometry-less because their shape failed CRS conversion, so the native shape is written back. Read-back still gives None, so the check passes. Needs exactly one unconverted shape plus a geometry-less feature. Confidence: low-medium (~50%). Posted inline at publish.rs:412.
Security
No new findings beyond the threads already on the PR. The sidecar lock is world-writable (0666) by design; the author answered this, so I left it alone.
Performance
No new findings. The memory-copy and geometry-index concerns were already raised.
Quality
Nits, not posted inline: the sync.rs digest doc comment has an overlong line, and one user-guide paragraph wraps oddly. Per the release-quality-pass rule, these can wait.
AGENTS.md
Checked: no unwrap/expect in non-test code, Cancel is checked in the long loops with the no-check steps named in doc comments, the cancel-test list is updated, wasm gating looks right, and rustix is a unix-only dependency already in crates/data/Cargo.toml.
Empty text becoming no value on publish is not announced. The export path already treats it the same way, so I did not raise it.
Already raised: I left alone 44 earlier review threads. None needed a new comment: the fixed ones are verified in the code, and the open ones were answered or are design choices.
Not verified: I did not compile or run the tests. Everything above comes from reading the diff and the surrounding source.
Change size
Compared with the base branch (merge base 11812ab to PR head 49b1f04).
The geometry-less correspondence bug is reproduced and fixed in 4a35e978, with details in the inline reply. Publication refuses unconverted native source shapes before matching, so a new or cleared geometry-less feature cannot acquire one. The real Shapefile regression checks refusal and unchanged source files; all 1,191 data tests, the engine publishing test, Clippy, wasm, hooks and full fork CI pass.
The digest-comment and user-guide wrapping nits remain for the release quality pass.
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Stale index can survive publish (Bug, low confidence, about 35%). The loop removes only the lowercase qix, sbn and sbx. A set whose index is spelled .SBN (or .SBX, .QIX) next to a lowercase .shp keeps that index after the rewrite, while the user guide says these indexes are removed. Readers that prefer the index can then answer spatial queries from the old geometry. The .shx, .prj and .dbf reads in Original::read are lowercase-only for the same reason. The .cpg already handles every spelling (CPG_SPELLINGS), so the index and .shx should probably follow it. A test with an uppercase .SBN beside a lowercase .shp would settle it.
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Reproduced and fixed in f3c12cc6. Placement now removes all ASCII case variants of .qix, .sbn and .sbx. The regression edits actual geometry and publishes with lowercase, uppercase and mixed-case indexes beside the source; it failed before the fix and now verifies their removal. Companion discovery still follows the existing reader contract; this change addresses stale indexes after a successful rewrite.
All 1,194 data tests (11 ignored), the engine publication regression, Clippy, wasm, hooks and full fork CI pass.
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Records past the header count are dropped without a notice (Never silent, low confidence, about 20%).take(count) ignores whole records after the header's record count. same_table compares only the counted records, so a rewrite that doesn't carry them passes step 2. The .shp check catches the case where those rows have shapes, since the shape counts differ. A row with no shape gets through silently. The end-of-file byte 0x1A is the only normal extra byte, so publish could refuse when more than one record_len of bytes lies past count * record_len, saying how many records are unaccounted for.
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Reproduced and fixed in f3c12cc6. The raw-table check now refuses any bytes beyond the declared records except the optional single EOF marker. It therefore refuses uncounted records before replacement rather than dropping them. The regression appends a complete DBF record without changing the declared count or Shapefile, edits an attribute and publishes. It previously succeeded; now it reports the malformed record layout and verifies every source part is unchanged.
All 1,194 data tests (11 ignored), the engine publication regression, Clippy, wasm, hooks and full fork CI pass.
I read the full diff, the prior review threads and the surrounding code. I found no confirmed bugs. Two low-confidence findings are posted inline. Most of the earlier concerns were already addressed in follow-up commits.
Bugs
Stale spatial index can survive a publish when its spelling is uppercase (.SBN, .SBX, .QIX). place_shapefile removes only lowercase names, though the user guide says these are removed. Confidence about 35%. Inline at crates/data/src/io.rs:722.
Security
No new issues. The lock sidecar is created with mode 0666 by design; an earlier thread accepted that trade-off.
Performance
No new issues. The earlier notes on memory copies, the geometry index and kept_column's double scan are still open and deferred to the release quality pass.
Quality
Nothing new to add beyond the items above.
Never silent
Records past the header's record count are dropped on rewrite without a notice. This is reachable only when those rows have no shape in the .shp, so it is rare. Confidence about 20%. Inline at crates/data/src/dbf.rs:253.
AGENTS.md
Checked: no unwrap/expect/panic in non-test code of the new publish module. The as i32 cast on the lock flags is the only cast in new non-test code. The long-command list includes source.publish, and the background path goes through exports::IN_BACKGROUND. Undo/redo record carry-forward and the changes_project() contract match the stated design.
Already raised, left alone: 45 threads exist on this PR. I did not repost any of them. The unconverted-shape thread (publish.rs:419) is still open with no author reply, but the refusal at publish.rs:401 appears to address it. The author should consider resolving it.
Change size
Compared with the base branch: the whole PR, merge base 11812ab to head 4a35e97.
Both findings were reproduced and fixed in f3c12cc6, with details in the inline replies: case variants of obsolete spatial indexes are removed, and unaccounted DBF tail bytes cause publication to refuse before writing.
Validation also exposed a lock-lifetime bug: a duplicated descriptor could keep a finished publisher’s lock alive. The guard now explicitly unlocks on drop, following the existing Shapefile-cache pattern. A deterministic regression checks that release works while a duplicate remains open, and that closing the old duplicate cannot release a subsequent publisher’s lock.
All 1,194 data tests (11 ignored), the engine publication regression, Clippy, wasm, hooks and full fork CI pass.
The earlier unconverted-shape finding already has an author reply.
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Quality (low confidence, about 35%): a failed backup removal after a successful publish is silent. Once every part has landed, let _ = std::fs::remove_file(bak) ignores the error and place_shapefile returns Ok(()). If the removal fails, a hidden copy of the old parts stays beside the source, and the publish reports success with no notice. The user guide (docs/user-guide/index.md, the crash-recovery paragraph) says hidden .tmp parts are left only after an interruption, so that text is wrong for this case too.
Suggested direction: collect the backups that couldn't be removed and have the caller add a notice naming them (for example, "the old parts are kept as ... and can be deleted"), or update the guide to say that a removal failure leaves them. A test that makes one backup unremovable would pin it.
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Left for the release quality pass: reporting a retained old-part copy would make cleanup failures clearer. This loop runs only after every new part has landed, so failure to remove an old backup leaves the published source intact and retains the old copy. The guide describes recovery after an interruption; it does not state that interruptions are the only reason temporary files can remain. Explicitly documenting cleanup failures would still improve it.
I read the whole diff (about 2,500 added lines), the 14 changed files, and the existing review threads (about 35). Most of the substantive concerns in the existing threads are fixed in the current head. I checked the code paths behind several of them directly, including the undo, redo and rollback ordering in lib.rs, the symlink and lock paths, the cancel mapping, and the UNREVIEWED default. I did not run the tests or the build; I only read the code.
Bugs
None new that I could confirm. I looked at a possible undo/rollback problem: keep_synced carries the current file record onto a layer whose rows come from an older snapshot. It would matter only if an undoable command re-read a whole-read layer's file. layer.reloadData refuses such layers (reload_input needs a linked or GeoPackage source), so it isn't reachable for publishable layers. Confidence that it is safe: high.
Security
Nothing new. The lock-mode and sidecar trade-offs and the record-trust question are already discussed in the threads, and the author's answers hold.
Performance
Nothing new beyond the existing threads (the geometry-key index, the full-file copies, the eager new_column computation).
Quality
Posted inline on crates/data/src/io.rs:719 (confidence about 35%): the result of removing the old-part backups after a successful placement is ignored. A hidden copy of the old file can stay beside the source with no notice, and the user guide wrongly says such files remain only after an interruption.
Left for the release quality pass, as nits and not posted: ragged line wrapping in the docs/user-guide/index.md publish section; a sync.rs doc comment that runs past the wrap width; the shapefile() doc comment, which now undercounts the reads (there are three, not two).
AGENTS.md
Checked and consistent: no unwrap/expect in non-test code; the publish module is gated off the web target and rustix is already a data dependency; source.publish is added to IN_BACKGROUND and to the cancel test's list; the UI routes it through exportjob; the new user-guide section is present. Nothing new to raise.
Already raised (left alone): 33 concerns in the existing threads that are still applicable or were answered (for example the lock permissions, the record-trust question, the geometry index, the full-file copies, the cell() doc wording, the crash window, the GeoJSON refusal, the mutates consumers). I did not re-post any of them.
Change size
Compared with the base branch: the whole PR against main (merge base 11812ab to PR head f3c12cc).
The backup-cleanup reporting suggestion is left for the release quality pass, with the placement behavior explained inline. All new parts have landed before that cleanup loop; failure to delete an old copy does not invalidate the published source. The wrapping and read-count documentation nits are also left for the release quality pass. No further source change is needed for this review batch.
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Summary
Second step of #1385:
source.publishwrites a layer's edits back over the Shapefile it was read from. Fix one parcel's owner, publish, andparcels.shpholds the fix. Before this, the only way was Export Features to a new name and swapping the files in by hand.A Shapefile can't change one row in place, so the whole file is written again. A rewrite is only safe when nothing but the edits changes, so publish proves that before it touches the file. If it can't, it refuses, says why, and writes nothing:
.dbfas its bytes, not as decoded values. Whatever a round trip would lose shows here: Z/M values, records without a shape, multipatches, text with leading spaces (a read trims them), memo columns, characters the code page can't decode.&#NNN;otherwise), anything cropped.The new parts are then written beside the old ones, synced, and read back against the bytes meant. The record of the file is checked once more, then the parts are renamed into place with the
.shplast. Backup names are reserved with exclusive creation so an existing recovery file is preserved. If any rename fails, the old parts go back, and a part that can't be restored is named rather than left under a temporary name. Exports now use the same staging and swap, factored out asstage_shapefileandplace_shapefile. Staged parts take the existing file permissions through their open handles before content is written.Rollback requires the process to keep running. A crash or power loss between part renames can leave a mixed or incomplete Shapefile. The user guide now recommends an independent backup and explains manual recovery: preserve the directory and hidden temporary parts, then restore a complete consistent set from the backup. Temporary files can contain old or staged new parts and are not a crash-safe backup.
An exclusive, nonblocking OS lock serializes RustGIS publishers for the same source. The empty
.filename.shp.rustgis-locksidecar stays for reuse; the guard explicitly unlocks before closing its handle, so inherited or duplicated descriptors cannot prolong a finished publisher’s lock. Process exit also releases the OS lock. This covers the source checks through all renames and rollback. Other programs do not participate in this locking protocol.What the file keeps:
.cpg's or language driver's encoding, and the.dbfkeeps its language driver byte and its.cpg;Fincluded, where the values still fit; a column that cannot hold an edited value gets a suitable width/decimal layout, with a notice naming the old and new forms; removed or renamed fields also produce a column-removal notice;.prjbytes, unless the layer was read in another system, in which case a notice says the.prjchanged;.shp.xmland other sidecars RustGIS doesn't write..qix,.sbnand.sbxare removed, as export already does.Afterwards the layer adopts the rows as the file reads them, keeping feature ids and field aliases (an empty text reads as no value, whole-number columns read as integers, and date-time fields read as ISO 8601 text; Double-to-Integer and DateTime-to-Text changes produce notices). Its existing sync record describes those rows and the written files, so
source.syncStatereadsinSync. No saved-project field or format version is added. The row digest is computed before replacement so Cancel after a successful publish cannot leave an outdated record. The project has a change to save. Undo and redo now carry each layer's record forward, as undo doesn't change the file: undoing an edit made before a publish shows the layer asedited.source.publishruns as a background export on the desktop (Command Search › Publish to Source), with progress and Cancel, and is in the cancel test's list. It is also available from the CLI and Python. A layer with no edits writes nothing.A reader fix it needed (now also on main):
dbasereads a dBaseFcolumn into anf32, so123456.12345678read as123456.125with no notice.Fcolumns are now read asN; both hold the number as text. Without this, publish would refuse every file with a preciseFcolumn, or a project read before the fix would write the loss back (the digest check now refuses that case).Not in this PR:
.bakset beside every Shapefile seemed like clutter. If you'd rather have one, it's a small addition.Testing
rustgis-data: all 1,194 lib tests pass (11 ignored), including the newpublishtests. They cover:.prjkept, and no temporary files left;Fcolumn keeping its digits and its type;rustgis-engine:a_layer_publishes_its_edits_to_its_shapefilecovers:inSync;.shpreplacement still leaves the new sync record.The export permission-owner regression commits a real publish, revokes its owner before delivery, and verifies that format notices remain visible while the finalizer and sync-record update stay blocked.
long_commands_stop_when_cancelled_while_they_run,hostile_params_never_panicand the undo tests pass.cargo clippy -D warningson data, engine and ui-egui;cargo check --target wasm32-unknown-unknown -p rustgis-enginewith-D warnings.Full gate: fork CI on this head.
UI evidence
Publish to Source is available in Command Search:
Related issue
Part of #1385 (PR 2 of 3).
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