// The clock-jump guard, and the wipe it caused on the mobile client. // // The bug being regressed here is not hypothetical: its reproduction on the mobile // side returned 0 envelopes from a 4-envelope store. The guard DETECTED the jump, // held the old floor for one cycle - and persisted the JUMPED floor. The next // chained cycle seconds later computed a floor within seconds of the persisted // one, so the guard passed, the movement was classified as a NARROW, and every // envelope below a floor a year in the future was evicted. Unrecoverable, because // `coveredFrom` then claims the range complete and `/changes` cannot re-deliver // pre-existing mail. import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'; import { adjustForWindow, CLOCK_JUMP_GUARD_MS, computeFloors, floorMovement, guardFloorAgainstClockJump, } from '../retention'; const DAY = 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000; const T0 = Date.parse('2026-08-05T12:00:00.000Z'); function iso(t: number): string { return new Date(t).toISOString(); } describe('computeFloors', () => { it('never lets the body window be wider than the envelope window', () => { // A body with no envelope is an orphan by construction, and the whole point of // two tiers is envelopes being a superset of bodies. const floors = computeFloors({ envelopeDays: 30, bodyDays: 365, maxBodyMB: 100 }, T0); expect(floors.bodyFrom).toBe(floors.envelopeFrom); }); it('turns the MB cap into bytes', () => { expect(computeFloors({ envelopeDays: 1, bodyDays: 1, maxBodyMB: 2 }, T0).maxBodyBytes) .toBe(2 * 1024 * 1024); }); }); describe('guardFloorAgainstClockJump', () => { it('adopts the computed floor when there is no history to compare against', () => { const g = guardFloorAgainstClockJump(iso(T0), undefined); expect(g.suppressed).toBe(false); expect(g.evictionAllowed).toBe(true); expect(g.envelopeFrom).toBe(iso(T0)); }); it('adopts an ordinary drift - a DST shift must not trip it', () => { const g = guardFloorAgainstClockJump(iso(T0 + 60 * 60 * 1000), iso(T0)); expect(g.suppressed).toBe(false); expect(g.evictionAllowed).toBe(true); }); it('suppresses a jump larger than the guard and refuses to authorise deletion', () => { const jumped = iso(T0 + 365 * DAY); const g = guardFloorAgainstClockJump(jumped, iso(T0)); expect(g.suppressed).toBe(true); expect(g.envelopeFrom).toBe(iso(T0)); // Suppressing the FLOOR is not the same as suppressing the DELETIONS the // floor authorises. Both the retention eviction and the reconcile sweep read // this bit. expect(g.evictionAllowed).toBe(false); expect(g.warning).toBeTruthy(); }); it('THE H2 REGRESSION: persists the floor it USED, not the one it rejected', () => { // This one assertion is the whole fix. Persisting the computed value here is // what legitimised the anomaly on the very next cycle. const jumped = iso(T0 + 365 * DAY); const g = guardFloorAgainstClockJump(jumped, iso(T0)); expect(g.nextLastWindowFloor).toBe(iso(T0)); expect(g.nextLastWindowFloor).not.toBe(jumped); }); it('THE H2 REGRESSION: stays suppressed across MANY chained cycles', () => { // The original bug only showed on the SECOND cycle, so a single-cycle test // passes against the broken code. Chaining is what reproduces it. const stored = iso(T0); let lastWindowFloor: string | undefined = stored; for (let cycle = 0; cycle < 20; cycle++) { // The clock is a year ahead and creeping forward a few seconds per cycle, // exactly as a chained sync would observe it. const computed = iso(T0 + 365 * DAY + cycle * 5_000); const g = guardFloorAgainstClockJump(computed, lastWindowFloor); expect(g.suppressed, `cycle ${cycle} must stay suppressed`).toBe(true); expect(g.evictionAllowed, `cycle ${cycle} must not authorise deletion`).toBe(false); expect(g.envelopeFrom, `cycle ${cycle} must keep the original floor`).toBe(stored); lastWindowFloor = g.nextLastWindowFloor; } // And after 20 cycles the remembered floor is still the trustworthy one, so // no later cycle can classify it as a narrow and evict everything. expect(lastWindowFloor).toBe(stored); expect(floorMovement(lastWindowFloor, stored)).toBe('unchanged'); expect(adjustForWindow(floorMovement(lastWindowFloor, stored), stored).evictBelow) .toBeUndefined(); }); it('suppresses a BACKWARD jump too', () => { const g = guardFloorAgainstClockJump(iso(T0 - 365 * DAY), iso(T0)); expect(g.suppressed).toBe(true); expect(g.evictionAllowed).toBe(false); }); it('treats an explicit retention change as INTENT and applies it, eviction included', () => { // The computed floor moves for two independent reasons - the clock changing // and the SETTING changing - and guarding a setting change is wrong. Without // this discriminator a Settings edit sits unapplied until something unrelated // moves the floor again. const widened = iso(T0 - 365 * DAY); const g = guardFloorAgainstClockJump(widened, iso(T0), { policyChanged: true }); expect(g.suppressed).toBe(false); expect(g.evictionAllowed).toBe(true); expect(g.envelopeFrom).toBe(widened); expect(g.nextLastWindowFloor).toBe(widened); }); it('a genuine user NARROW still evicts', () => { // The guard must not become a reason nothing is ever deleted. const narrowed = iso(T0 + 20 * 60 * 60 * 1000); const g = guardFloorAgainstClockJump(narrowed, iso(T0)); expect(g.evictionAllowed).toBe(true); expect(floorMovement(iso(T0), g.envelopeFrom)).toBe('narrowed'); expect(adjustForWindow('narrowed', g.envelopeFrom).evictBelow).toBe(narrowed); }); it('tolerates an unparseable stored floor without wedging', () => { const g = guardFloorAgainstClockJump(iso(T0), 'garbage'); // Date.parse('garbage') is NaN, so the delta is not finite: adopt rather than // suppress forever on a corrupt value. expect(g.suppressed).toBe(false); }); it('uses a threshold above a day so a leap second or NTP nudge is invisible', () => { expect(CLOCK_JUMP_GUARD_MS).toBeGreaterThan(DAY); }); }); describe('floorMovement / adjustForWindow', () => { it('a LATER floor keeps less mail and means evict', () => { expect(floorMovement(iso(T0), iso(T0 + DAY))).toBe('narrowed'); expect(adjustForWindow('narrowed', iso(T0 + DAY))).toEqual({ evictBelow: iso(T0 + DAY) }); }); it('an EARLIER floor means re-scan, NOT a resync', () => { // A widen moves the target back and re-enters coverage scanning. The cursors // are untouched - a widen is not a reason to rebuild. expect(floorMovement(iso(T0), iso(T0 - DAY))).toBe('widened'); expect(adjustForWindow('widened', iso(T0 - DAY))).toEqual({ rescanFrom: iso(T0 - DAY) }); }); it('does nothing without a previous floor', () => { expect(floorMovement(undefined, iso(T0))).toBe('unchanged'); expect(adjustForWindow('unchanged', iso(T0))).toEqual({}); }); });