diet-guard/app
Krzysztof kuhy Rudnicki 38d66a8492 Make PC sync event-driven; retire the 15-min timer
The periodic diet-guard-sync.timer paid a network round-trip every ~15 min to
approximate the two moments the shared log actually changes on this device.
Sync now fires on those events instead:

* before a lock -- already present in _cli_gate._should_lock, which pulls only
  when a lock is otherwise due, so a phone-logged meal clears the lock and a
  not-due tick never touches the network;
* after a meal is logged here -- new _sync_events.publish_after_log, wired into
  all three write paths (_cli_log, _cli_gate, _mcp). This is what stops the
  PHONE nagging for a slot already logged on the PC, the mirror image of the
  rule that keeps the phone's own tick unconditional.

The gate's publish sits in cmd_gate AFTER MealGate.run() returns, never in the
unlock handler: that runs on the Tk thread with the window still up, so a
hanging network call would keep the user locked in behind a successful log. It
also covers the "Synced from another device" unlock, which hooking log_meal
would miss.

Accepted trade: a PC that is on but neither logging nor locking no longer
pulls, so an inbound phone edit lands at the next log or lock rather than
within 15 min. Bounded by slot spacing -- an unlogged day raises a lock.

install.sh now disables and removes the installed timer (guarded, since a fresh
machine has no such unit and `disable` would abort under `set -euo pipefail`);
the .service stays for manual one-off ticks.

Every test that logs a meal would otherwise reach the network through the new
call sites, so conftest patches publish_after_log at each of the three call
sites -- not on _sync_events, so test_sync_events still exercises the real
helper. Suite stays at ~8s, which is the actual leak detector.

Two files had to be split to commit at all, since file-length passes filenames
and both were already over the 250-line cap:
  _cli.py 466 -> 207, + _cli_args.py, _cli_init.py, _cli_log.py
  _mcp.py 370 -> 194, + _mcp_server.py (singleton + annotations), _mcp_read.py
Their conftest/test patch targets moved in the same commit; a stale target
redirects nothing and fails open.

Verified: 701 python tests at 100% branch coverage, 555 flutter tests,
`python -m diet_guard sync` -> 402 entries/exit 0, `gate --check` -> exit 0,
all five MCP tools still register, live ~/.local/share/diet_guard byte-identical.
Over-cap files: 44 -> 42.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RA9ynjqXPnexRQnR5oAuCC
2026-08-15 19:21:30 +02:00
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.agents/skills Fix pre-existing CI failures (deps, lint, whitespace) 2026-07-10 23:55:56 +02:00
android Build and publish a signed APK on every push to main 2026-08-04 20:55:14 +02:00
assets/icon app: warm-tint the shared palette, fix Snack chip + on-fill contrast 2026-07-21 21:16:26 +02:00
bin Finish the three sync bugs: gate, SIGKILL flag, and silent catches 2026-08-09 22:28:18 +02:00
desktop app: package the desktop app as the web build, and delete the Linux embedder 2026-07-20 16:32:24 +02:00
lib Split wrapper_server and sync_merge into siblings 2026-08-15 16:42:27 +02:00
test Automate CLAUDE.md's structural rules, then cut it to 189 lines 2026-08-15 16:39:57 +02:00
web app: run the companion app's desktop target as a web build 2026-07-20 16:31:32 +02:00
.gitignore Add Flutter companion app skeleton with local meal logging 2026-06-22 18:22:42 +02:00
.metadata app: run the companion app's desktop target as a web build 2026-07-20 16:31:32 +02:00
analysis_options.yaml Persist the CI-mirror's analyzer excludes and dependency upgrades 2026-08-14 16:13:46 +02:00
install_arch.sh app: package the desktop app as the web build, and delete the Linux embedder 2026-07-20 16:32:24 +02:00
pubspec.lock app: use the shared github_device_auth package 2026-08-15 16:15:24 +02:00
pubspec.yaml Make PC sync event-driven; retire the 15-min timer 2026-08-15 19:21:30 +02:00
README.md Gate the companion app in the push hook, and document it properly 2026-07-20 17:01:40 +02:00
run.sh app: package the desktop app as the web build, and delete the Linux embedder 2026-07-20 16:32:24 +02:00
skills-lock.json Add Flutter/Dart agent skills and AI rules for Claude Code 2026-06-22 22:53:06 +02:00

diet_guard_app

Companion app for diet_guard: log meals on the phone, and on the Linux desktop, sharing one food log through GitHub-backed sync.

Two targets, and only two

Target What it is
Android a normal Flutter app (flutter build apk)
Linux desktop the Flutter web build, served by a local wrapper and shown in a Chrome --app window

There is no linux/ directory. Flutter's GTK embedder manages ~20fps at 3840x2160 -- measured on a stock flutter create counter app, so it is the toolkit rather than this code -- where the same Dart rendered by Chrome sustains ~144fps (~/todo/docs/desktop-performance-findings.md). Running flutter create --platforms linux here would silently restore the slow path.

Commands

flutter test                     # the app's suite
flutter analyze
bash run.sh                      # build the web bundle and launch the desktop app
bash install_arch.sh             # build + install the pacman package and .desktop entry
flutter build apk --release      # the phone build
adb install -r build/app/outputs/flutter-apk/app-release.apk

Never adb uninstall or pm clear this package: both wipe the on-device log.

The desktop wrapper

bin/diet_guard_desktop.dart is the other half of the desktop app, because a browser cannot touch the filesystem. It:

  • serves the built web assets from build/web (or /opt/diet-guard-app/web once packaged);
  • keeps an on-disk copy of every document and photo under ~/.local/share/diet-guard-desktop/, which is what makes a wiped Chrome profile recoverable -- for photos it is the only copy, since they never sync;
  • holds the GitHub token (~/.config/diet_guard_app/sync_token, falling back to the PC gate's ~/.config/diet_guard/sync_token) and proxies api.github.com plus the device flow, whose endpoints send no CORS headers and so cannot be called from a page at all.

The port (8732) and the Chrome --user-data-dir must stay fixed. IndexedDB is keyed by origin and lives inside that profile, so changing either looks to the app like a device with no history.

Platform seams

dart:io does not fail a web compile; it becomes a stub that throws at runtime, so the symptom of a missed seam is a blank white window rather than a build error. Every platform edge is a conditional export -- document_store*, blob_store*, background_tasks*, notification_backend*, token_vault*, github_client_factory*, attached_image*. Branch on kIsWeb before any Platform.is…, which itself throws on web.

What the desktop genuinely loses, by design rather than omission:

  • Background reminders. A browser runs nothing once its window is closed, so the due-slot check runs in-page every 5 minutes while the window is open. On the PC the real backstop is diet-guard-gate.timer, which locks the screen.
  • Camera capture. The browser picker is a file input.
  • Photo sharing between devices -- unchanged: imagePath was always stripped before push.

Sync identity

Three devices push under diet-guard-sync/devices/: pc (the Python gate), phone, and desktop. Each must keep its own id -- two devices sharing one would overwrite each other's pushed log on every tick.