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Two fault-discipline residuals, both in the legacy provider, both about a
report that ships incomplete and still exits 0.

Fixes #386
Fixes #388

The shape both fixes land on

The project already reports attachment degradation in two places: the export
call site names the cause, and Summary.validate() names the symptom
it can see in the assembled model. These changes make logs work the same way
and make the legacy payload path actually reach its call site:

cause (export call site) symptom (validate())
attachment .payloadExportFailed .unresolvedAttachment
log .logExportFailed .unresolvedLog — new

#386 — a log that vanishes must not exit 0

ResultFile.exportLogs/exportLogsData already record .logExportFailed
(that landed in #443), and --json no longer swallows an empty report (#451).
What never landed is the issue's third ask: extend validate() to cover log
content
. Without it, a legacy actionResult.logRef that exists in the bundle
but fails to decode arrives as nil (LegacyResultReader.swift:49), Run.init
warns and sets logContent = .none, and the report ships log-less at exit 0.

Placement: validate(), not the read path. The issue asks for it there, and
it is the only place that can see this class of failure:

  • The motivating failure has no call site to record at. XCResultKit decodes
    actionResult.logRef tolerantly, so a broken reference and an absent one are
    the same nil by the time the reader sees them. Telling them apart would mean
    re-reading the raw invocation-record JSON, and XCResultKit keeps that internal
    (getRootJson is not public at the pinned 1.2.2).
  • A post-condition is backend-neutral by construction: one rule over the
    assembled model, rather than two providers that have to keep agreeing.
  • It is exactly the rationale already written into validate()'s doc comment
    for attachments — nested decode failures that call-site checks structurally
    cannot see.

The cardinal rule is respected. Run.logFailedToResolve mirrors
Attachment.failedToResolve: a run with no log reference at all is structural
absence and is never a fault; only a reference that existed and produced no
content is. Run now retains logReference for exactly that reason, the same
way Attachment retains payloadId.

Run.logFaultDescription names the run's destination rather than the reference,
because the reference is backend-internal (a CAS id on legacy, a --type
selector on modern) — so the symptom fault reads identically on both backends
for the same broken bundle, while only the cause fault differs.

#388 — the dead guards and the missing catch fault

XCResultFile.exportPayload(id:) returns its temp path unconditionally, so the
guard let savedURL = ... else fault branches at ResultFile.swift:79 and
:119 were unreachable and every real failure surfaced later as the moveItem
throw. Implemented the issue's preferred fix rather than deleting them:

  • The guard now also requires the exported file to exist and be non-empty
    (ResultFile.exportProducedPayload). The Optional stays in the condition
    because upstream's signature is URL?, but it is no longer the only thing
    being tested, so the branch is live. A failed export leaves nothing behind,
    and an attachment with no bytes carries no payload reference at all (validate() false-positives on attachments with no payloadRef #387), so
    an empty file is a failed export and not an empty payload.
  • exportPayloadData's catch now records .payloadExportFailed, matching its
    modern twin at ModernPayloadStore.swift:94. Before this, a genuine inline
    export failure recorded nothing at the call site.
  • exportPayloadData now removes the temp file it read. Unlike the linking
    export, which moves it into the bundle, this one only read it — so every
    inline export left a full copy at NSTemporaryDirectory()/<id>, tens of
    megabytes per run for screen recordings. ModernPayloadStore already cleans
    up for that reason. It also keeps the new check honest: nothing survives to
    satisfy it on a later, failed export of the same id.

The new check also gets the same belt-and-braces the move's catch already had:
if the payload is already sitting at its destination, another exporter of that
id produced it and ours producing nothing is not degradation. Without that,
tightening the guard would have turned #449 back into spurious faults under
concurrent exports of a shared payload ref.

Fault kind. The verification of these issues flagged that the issue's check
changes which kind an inline failure reports. It lands on .payloadExportFailed
at the call site, which is the semantically correct one: this is a payload that
could not be exported, not a model-level observation. .unresolvedAttachment
still fires from validate() for the same attachment, unchanged — cause and
symptom, exactly as the linking path has always behaved. The net effect is that
legacy inline now matches legacy linking and modern inline instead of being the
one path that reported only the symptom.

No README change: the exit-code table is kind-agnostic (0/1/3/64), which is the
condition the issue attached to its note.

Tests

LogFaultReportingTests (#386), new file:

  • testRunWithoutLogReferenceIsNotAResolutionFailure — the cardinal rule.
  • testRunWhoseLogCannotBeResolvedIsRecordedAsFault — a ParsedRun whose
    reference the (silent) stub provider cannot resolve. It asserts the collector
    is empty before validate(), so what it finds afterwards can only have come
    from the post-condition, not from a call site. Also asserts idempotency.
  • testRunWithAResolvableLogIsNotAFault — the over-firing guard.
  • testUnreadableLogExitsNonZeroIdenticallyOnBothBackends — end to end. Copies
    SanityResults.xcresult, deletes the CAS object its log reference names, and
    runs the CLI on both readers: each exits 3 and reports
    logExportFailed + unresolvedLog: log for run <device>, the symptom detail
    being byte-identical across backends. That also closes the coverage gap the
    verification of Extend fault reporting to log export and JSON output #386 called out — until now nothing asserted
    .logExportFailed on the modern backend at all.

PayloadExportFaultTests (#388), new file:

  • testInlinePayloadExportFailureIsRecordedAsFault — the regression the missing
    catch fault allowed: nil returned, nothing recorded.
  • testLinkingPayloadExportFailureIsRecordedOnce — one failed export stays one
    fault now that the guard fires before moveItem.
  • testExportedPayloadIsOnlyAcceptedWhenItHasBytes — pins the empty-file arm,
    which no reachable input produces.
  • testInlineExportDoesNotLeaveItsTempFileBehind — the stale-temp-file hazard.

Review round

Three CodeRabbit findings, all accepted:

  • exportProducedPayload(at:) requires a regular file. A directory reports a
    nonzero size of its own, so the size test alone would have passed one.
  • Both "the payload is already at the destination" fallbacks — the new one and
    the long-standing one in the move's catch — now use that predicate instead of
    a bare fileExists. An empty destination was being returned as a successful
    export, which is the same silent hole Dead code: XCResultFile.exportPayload never returns nil #388 is about: the attachment resolves
    to a URL, so validate() sees content and records nothing.
  • exportPayloadData registers its temp-file cleanup before the payload check,
    so a half-made file an unsuccessful export left behind is removed too. The
    nil-unwrap and the content check stay in one guard — splitting them to make
    room for the defer would restore the standalone dead branch this PR removes.
  • validate() dedups within a single pass as well as across calls, so one
    bundle passed twice yields one entry rather than two the reader cannot tell
    apart. That applies to attachments too; the attachment loop had the same
    snapshot-only behaviour before this PR.

Full suite green on both reader legs, DifferentialTests included: 138 tests,
0 failures on each.

…#386, fixes #388)

Two residuals in the legacy provider, both ending the same way: a report
missing part of itself, and exit 0.

The project already reports attachment degradation twice — the export call
site names the cause (`.payloadExportFailed`), `Summary.validate()` names the
symptom it can see in the assembled model (`.unresolvedAttachment`). These
changes give logs the same pair and make the legacy payload path actually
reach its call site.

#386 wanted `validate()` extended to cover log content, and that is where this
puts it, because it is the only place that can see the failure. A legacy
`actionResult.logRef` that exists in the bundle but fails to decode arrives as
`nil` (`LegacyResultReader.swift:49`), `Run.init` warns, sets
`logContent = .none`, and records nothing. XCResultKit decodes optional
children tolerantly, so a broken reference and an absent one are the same nil
by the time the reader sees them; telling them apart would mean re-reading the
raw invocation-record JSON, and `getRootJson` is not public at the pinned
1.2.2. A post-condition over the assembled model needs neither distinction and
is backend-neutral by construction — one rule, rather than two providers that
have to keep agreeing.

`Run` now keeps `logReference` for the same reason `Attachment` keeps
`payloadId`, and `Run.logFailedToResolve` mirrors `Attachment.failedToResolve`:
a run that never had a log reference is structural absence and is never a
fault; only a reference that existed and produced no content is. The new
`.unresolvedLog` detail names the run's destination rather than the reference,
because the reference is backend-internal — a CAS id on legacy, a `--type`
selector on modern — so the symptom reads identically on both backends for the
same broken bundle while only the cause differs. The README exit-code table is
kind-agnostic (0/1/3/64), which is the condition #386 attached to its note, so
it needs no change.

#388's `guard let savedURL = file.exportPayload(id:) else` branches were
unreachable: `XCResultFile.exportPayload(id:)` returns its temp path
unconditionally, since the `xcresulttool export` it wraps is
`@discardableResult` and its exit status is never inspected. Rather than
delete them, the guard now also requires the exported file to exist and be
non-empty. A failed export leaves nothing behind, and an attachment with no
bytes carries no payload reference at all (#387), so an empty file is a failed
export and not an empty payload. `exportPayloadData`'s catch records
`.payloadExportFailed` to match its modern twin
(`ModernPayloadStore.swift:94`) — that is the semantically correct kind at
this seam, a payload that could not be exported rather than a model-level
observation, and `.unresolvedAttachment` still fires from `validate()` for the
same attachment. Legacy inline now behaves like legacy linking and modern
inline instead of being the one path that reported only the symptom.

The tightened guard inherits the belt and braces the move's catch already had:
if the payload is sitting at its destination, another exporter of that id
produced it and ours producing nothing is not degradation. Without that,
tightening the check would have turned #449 back into spurious faults under
concurrent exports of a shared payload ref.

`exportPayloadData` also removes the temp file it read. Unlike the linking
export, which moves it into the bundle, this one only read it — so every
inline export left a full copy at `NSTemporaryDirectory()/<id>`, tens of
megabytes per run for screen recordings, which is the leak `ModernPayloadStore`
already cleans up after. It keeps the new check honest too.

Tests: the cardinal rule and its counterpart go through the injected
`Summary(parsedRuns:payloads:)` seam, where `StubPayloadProvider` fails
silently — so what `validate()` finds can only have come from the
post-condition. End to end, a copy of `SanityResults.xcresult` with its log
object deleted exits 3 on both readers with `logExportFailed` and a
byte-identical `unresolvedLog: log for run <device>`, which also closes the
gap where nothing asserted `.logExportFailed` on the modern backend at all.
`PayloadExportFaultTests` covers the two export call sites, the empty-file arm
no reachable input produces, and the temp-file cleanup.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The change adds unresolved run-log faults, extends summary validation, and validates legacy payload exports. It also adds fault-reporting and payload-export tests for missing, empty, unreadable, successful, and repeated-validation cases.

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Fault reporting and export validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Run log fault validation
Sources/XCTestHTMLReportCore/Classes/Helpers/FaultCollector.swift, Sources/XCTestHTMLReportCore/Classes/Models/Run.swift, Sources/XCTestHTMLReportCore/Classes/Models/Summary.swift, Tests/XCTestHTMLReportTests/FaultReportingTests.swift
Run retains its log reference and identifies unresolved referenced logs. Summary.validate() records deduplicated unresolvedLog faults. Tests cover absent, unresolved, resolvable, and unreadable logs across backends.
Legacy payload export validation
Sources/XCTestHTMLReportCore/Classes/ResultReading/Legacy/ResultFile.swift, Tests/XCTestHTMLReportTests/PayloadExportFaultTests.swift
Legacy exports require existing non-empty files. Export races, temporary-file cleanup, read failures, and payloadExportFailed reporting are covered by tests.

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

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to c3335

The legacy export path can still treat an empty existing destination as successful, allowing a missing payload to ship without the expected fault; repeated validation can also duplicate fault records, and failed exports may leave temporary files behind. These current-head correctness and cleanup issues should be fixed before merging.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant ResultBackend
  participant Run
  participant Summary
  participant FaultCollector
  ResultBackend->>Run: resolve run log
  Run-->>Summary: report unresolved log status
  Summary->>FaultCollector: record unresolvedLog
  FaultCollector-->>ResultBackend: return fault diagnostics
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  participant ResultFile
  participant XCResultFile
  participant Filesystem
  participant FaultCollector
  ResultFile->>XCResultFile: export payload
  XCResultFile-->>Filesystem: create payload file
  ResultFile->>Filesystem: verify non-empty file
  ResultFile->>FaultCollector: record payloadExportFailed on failure
  ResultFile-->>Filesystem: read and remove temporary file
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In `@Sources/XCTestHTMLReportCore/Classes/Models/Summary.swift`:
- Around line 239-266: Update the validation logic around flaggedAttachments and
flaggedLogs so both sets are mutable; before recording each unresolved
attachment or log fault, insert its detail into the corresponding set,
preserving deduplication within the current validate() pass.

In `@Sources/XCTestHTMLReportCore/Classes/ResultReading/Legacy/ResultFile.swift`:
- Around line 153-168: Move the temporary-file cleanup defer in the inline
payload export flow to immediately after unwrapping savedURL and before calling
exportProducedPayload(at:). Preserve the existing failure handling and
validation behavior while ensuring empty or invalid exported files are removed.
- Around line 59-66: Update exportProducedPayload(at:) to return true only for a
regular file with a nonzero size, rejecting directories and empty files. Apply
the same destination validation at the fallback checks around the reused
destination handling near lines 114 and 133, ensuring invalid destinations
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Three findings from review, all accepted.

`exportProducedPayload(at:)` now requires a regular file. A directory reports
a nonzero size of its own, so the size test alone would have passed one;
`exportPayload(id:)` only ever exports `ExportType.file`, so a directory at
that path is not a payload of ours.

Both "the payload is already at the destination" fallbacks in
`exportPayload(reference:fileName:)` — the new one on a failed export and the
long-standing one in the move's catch — now apply that same predicate instead
of a bare `fileExists`. An empty file at the destination was being returned as
a successful export, which is precisely the silent hole #388 is about: the
attachment resolves to a URL, so `validate()` sees content and records nothing.
The #449 race is unaffected, since the winner of that race leaves a complete
file behind.

`exportPayloadData` registers its temp-file cleanup before the payload check
rather than after, so a half-made file an unsuccessful export left behind is
removed too. The nil-unwrap and the content check stay in one guard: splitting
them to make room for the `defer` would restore the standalone dead branch
this PR exists to remove.

`Summary.validate()` now dedups within a single pass as well as across calls.
The sets are seeded from what is already recorded and grown as the pass
records, so one bundle passed twice yields one entry rather than two the
reader cannot tell apart. This applies to attachments as well as logs — the
attachment loop had the same snapshot-only behaviour before this PR.
`testTwoRunsLosingTheSameLogAreRecordedOnce` pins it, and
`testExportedPayloadIsOnlyAcceptedWhenItHasBytes` grows a directory case.

The #386 tests move to `LogFaultReportingTests` alongside the #388 ones,
which keeps `FaultReportingTests` inside SwiftLint's type-body limit and
leaves one file per issue.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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