feat(ib): act on the server's client_expiration deadline - #1314
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`<ib><client_expiration t=...>` is the server naming the date it expects
to stop accepting the running client build. It was the one `<ib>` child
whatspec documents a parser for that this client had no case for, so it
fell through to `warn!("Unhandled ib child")` and was dropped.
The deadline is now recorded on the device, stamped with the build it was
issued against, and announced as `Event::ClientExpirationChanged`. It is
notice, not an instruction: the client keeps connecting until the server
refuses it, and whether to ship a newer build or alert an operator is the
consumer's call.
`ServerClientExpiration::decide` mirrors WA Web's
`handleServerClientExpiration`. A deadline only ever moves closer, so a
stale retransmit cannot hand the build an extension, and whatever the
server answers the recorded date is at least three days out so a client
told it expires now still has a window to be replaced. Because the
comparison is against the stored (already floored) value, a repeated
abrupt deadline re-floors against the new now and a dated one settles;
both behaviours are pinned by tests.
Also names `priority_offline_complete`, which WA Web parses into its
info-bulletin union and then has no dispatch case for, so it stops
reading as a gap in the warn log.
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WalkthroughThe change adds build-scoped client expiration state. Typed IB handlers parse and validate expiration stanzas. SQLite stores the state, device commands apply updates, and events report changes or withdrawals. ChangesClient expiration
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The client-expiration feature is otherwise mergeable, but a test helper still copies cached device state where borrowing is required; this is a bounded implementation concern with no supplied evidence of user-facing impact and should be fixed or explicitly accepted. Possibly related PRs
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participant IBHandler
participant ServerClientExpiration
participant DeviceCommand
participant Device
participant ClientExpirationChanged
IBHandler->>ServerClientExpiration: decide parsed deadline
ServerClientExpiration-->>IBHandler: Set, Clear, or Unchanged
IBHandler->>DeviceCommand: SetServerClientExpiration
DeviceCommand->>Device: assign expiration state
IBHandler->>ClientExpirationChanged: dispatch deadline change event
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| Filename | Overview |
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| src/handlers/ib.rs | Adds inline client-expiration parsing, persistence, and event dispatch with malformed-value and withdrawal handling. |
| wacore/src/store/device.rs | Adds the persisted expiration model and correctly scopes deadline comparisons to the running build. |
| wacore/src/store/commands.rs | Adds the structured device command used to keep mutable device state and cached snapshots coherent. |
| storages/sqlite-storage/src/sqlite_store.rs | Round-trips the optional expiration record through the SQLite device row as JSON. |
| storages/sqlite-storage/migrations/2026-08-16-000000_add_client_expiration/up.sql | Adds the nullable device column required for durable client-expiration state. |
| wacore/src/types/events.rs | Adds the non-exhaustive typed expiration-change event and updates event-kind dispatch. |
Sequence Diagram
sequenceDiagram
participant WA as WhatsApp Server
participant IB as IB Handler
participant Device as Device Snapshot
participant Store as Persistence Manager
participant Bus as Event Bus
WA->>IB: client_expiration(t)
IB->>Device: Read deadline and build version
IB->>IB: Scope held deadline to running build
IB->>IB: Apply forward-only rule and notice floor
alt Deadline changed
IB->>Store: SetServerClientExpiration
IB->>Bus: ClientExpirationChanged
else Deadline unchanged
IB-->>WA: No state or event change
end
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In `@src/handlers/ib.rs`:
- Around line 282-289: The IB child dispatch in the relevant handler should use
a WireEnum-backed IbTag type instead of matching protocol tag string literals.
Define IbTag variants with their corresponding #[wire = ...] values, convert
child.tag.as_ref() via IbTag::try_from, and dispatch on the resulting enum while
preserving the existing handling for client_expiration and
priority_offline_complete.
- Around line 311-314: Update handle_client_expiration to convert the optional t
value with i64::try_from instead of a wrapping cast, returning before
ServerClientExpiration::decide when conversion exceeds i64::MAX. Preserve the
existing absent-t withdrawal behavior, and add an IB test covering
t=9223372036854775808.
In `@wacore/src/store/device.rs`:
- Around line 425-440: Update ClientExpirationUpdate::decide so the
existing-deadline comparison returns Unchanged only when
held.applies_to(version) is true and t is at least held.expires_at; otherwise
create the Set update for the current version. Add a regression test covering an
old-build deadline followed by a current-build deadline.
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| let decision = ServerClientExpiration::decide( | ||
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When resolve_and_update_version advances the advertised app version, the persisted expiration remains stamped with the previous version. Passing it to decide unconditionally means a later deadline for the new build is classified as Unchanged whenever it is later than the old build's deadline, so after the first retired build the client can silently discard expiration notices for subsequent builds. Treat a record whose applies_to(version) is false as absent, or clear it atomically when applying SetAppVersion.
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| async fn handle_client_expiration(client: &Arc<Client>, child: &wacore_binary::NodeRef<'_>) { | ||
| // WA Web parses this as `attrIntRange(node, "t", 0, undefined)`: a | ||
| // non-negative unix time with no upper bound. | ||
| let t = child.attrs().optional_u64("t").map(|t| t as i64); |
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When a client_expiration stanza contains t but the value is malformed, optional_u64 records a parse error and returns None; this path then treats that result exactly like an omitted attribute, clearing any valid stored deadline and emitting a withdrawal event. WA Web's documented attrIntRange parse rejects an invalid value rather than interpreting it as an absent optional attribute, so check attribute presence and abort handling on parse failure while reserving None for a genuinely missing t.
AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L5-L5
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…ble t Three defects in the client_expiration handling. `decide` compared against a held deadline without checking which build it was issued for, so an upgrade silenced the new build: the previous build's nearer date read as "sooner than the new one" and rejected the only notice that applied. `held_for` now treats a record from another build as absent, at the one point every decision consults it. WA Web compares version-blind because its stored record is read back by a consumer that checks appVersion itself; here the record is what the comparison consults, so the scoping has to happen at the point of use. The withdrawal path scopes the same way: a leftover record is dropped, but silently, because this build never had a deadline to withdraw. `optional_u64` returns `None` both for an absent attribute and for one it cannot parse, and this path read `None` as a withdrawal -- so a malformed or out-of-range `t` would clear a deadline the server never retracted. Worse, a value past `i64::MAX` wrapped through `as i64` to a negative, which the minimum-notice floor then turned into a plausible-looking deadline. Presence is now read first, and the value parsed straight to `i64` so a non-numeric value and one past the maximum are rejected together; the sign check is WA Web's `min = 0`. The child dispatch matched tag string literals, which AGENTS.md asks parsers not to do. `InfoBulletinType` binds WA Web's frozen `INFO_TYPE` list, so a renamed tag is a one-attribute change rather than an arm that still compiles and never matches. Hand-written, because the tags exist only in WA Web's dispatcher: whatspec describes the tags a stanza arrives under, not the children inside one.
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All three findings were valid. Fixed in Cross-build suppression (Greptile P1, CodeRabbit 🟠, Codex P2)Correct, and it is the sharper kind of mistake: I added Scoped at a single point rather than inline in the comparison: pub fn held_for(current: Option<&Self>, version: (u32, u32, u32)) -> Option<&Self> {
current.filter(|held| held.applies_to(version))
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425-431: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winBorrow the expiration from the cached snapshot.
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server_client_expirationto return an owned value. Hold or return theArc<Device>snapshot and borrowserver_client_expiration.as_ref()at each assertion.As per coding guidelines, “read through
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In `@src/handlers/ib.rs`:
- Around line 425-431: Update stored_expiration to retain or return the
Arc<Device> from get_device_snapshot instead of cloning
server_client_expiration. At each assertion, borrow the field with as_ref()
while the snapshot remains alive, preserving access to the cached expiration
without creating an owned clone.
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AGENTS.md asks readers to hold the cached `Arc<Device>` and borrow its fields. The helper cloned the whole record to hand back a timestamp, so it now returns the timestamp and the one assertion that needs the record borrows it from a snapshot it holds.
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What
<ib><client_expiration t=…>is the server naming the date it expects to stop accepting the running client build. Nothing read it — it fell through towarn!("Unhandled ib child: <client_expiration>")and was dropped.How the gap was found
whatspec's
srvreqdocument lists exactly one<ib>parser, and it is this one:{ "tag": "ib", "module": "WASmaxInClientExpirationClientExpirationRequest", "shape": { "parserName": "parseClientExpirationRequest", "fields": [ { "name": "from", "type": "jid" }, { "name": "clientExpirationT", "wireName": "t", "type": "integer", "sourcePath": ["client_expiration"], "parserRequired": false } ] } }Cross-checked against WA Web's
<ib>dispatcher, whoseINFO_TYPEunion isdirty,edge_routing,offline,offline_preview,tos,thread_metadata,client_expiration,priority_offline_complete,recovery_nonce. We handle the first four andthread_metadata;client_expirationis the one with a real consequence.What it does
The deadline is recorded on the device, stamped with the build it was issued against, and announced as
Event::ClientExpirationChanged.It is notice, not an instruction. The client keeps connecting until the server actually refuses it — the stanza is about the build, not this connection — so whether to ship a newer version or page an operator is the consumer's call, not something this client should decide by disconnecting.
The decision rule
ServerClientExpiration::decidemirrors WA Web'shandleServerClientExpiration:Two rules, both load-bearing:
They interact in a way worth stating, because I got it wrong first and a test caught it: the comparison is against the stored value, which the floor may have already moved later than the
tthat produced it. So a repeated abrupt deadline is still sooner than the stored floor and gets re-floored against the new now — a server that keeps signalling expiry holds a rolling minimum notice rather than pinning one date. A dated deadline, by contrast, settles: once stored it is not sooner than itself. Both are pinned by tests.The record carries the build version because a deadline issued against one build says nothing about the next;
applies_tois how a consumer checks.Also
priority_offline_completeis now named as a recognized no-op. WA Web parses it into its info-bulletin union and then has nocasefor it in the dispatch switch, so it is a marker the client is expected to do nothing with — naming it stops it reading as a gap in the warn log.Not included, deliberately:
tos(notice ids) andrecovery_nonce(CTWA business access-token nonce,use_case547) are UI-surface concerns this library does not own, andedge_routing'sdns_domain, which would change handshake routing and deserves its own change.Storage
One nullable
TEXTcolumn holding the record as JSON, with a migration. A column per field buys nothing here — nothing queries or orders by a version triple. An undecodable value reads as "no deadline" rather than failing the whole device load; the next<ib>restates it.Tests
Twelve. Eight pure ones on the decision rule (first deadline, abrupt deadline floored, later deadline rejected, equal deadline rejected, sooner deadline accepted, abrupt repeat rolls forward, dated repeat settles, version scoping) and four on the stanza path (persisted and announced, unchanged deadline stays silent so a consumer alerting on this event doesn't fire every reconnect, missing
twithdraws, withdrawing something never held is silent).Verification
cargo fmt --allcargo test -p whatsapp-rust --lib— 1719 passed, 0 failedcargo test -p wacore --lib— 1463 passed, 0 failedcargo test -p whatsapp-rust-sqlite-storage --lib— 78 passed, 0 failedcargo clippy -p wacore -p whatsapp-rust -p whatsapp-rust-sqlite-storage --all-targets -- -D warnings— cleanEventKind::ClientExpirationChangedis appended, and the build-time tripwire now points at it as the last variant.Generated by Claude Code