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The existing saveCurrentFile() API resolves its target based on UI tab focus and launches asynchronously, leading to desynchronization since it returns true before persistence actually occurs. This PR introduces a new file-targeted IdeEditorService.saveFile(File) API that resolves the editor strictly by file, suspends until the write completes, and accurately returns the true on-disk outcome.

Details

  • Added saveFile(file: File): Boolean to plugin-api/.../services/IdeServices.kt with a default implementation to maintain compilation compatibility for existing implementers.
  • Gated saveFile in IdeEditorServiceImpl using requireWrite() and ensureFileAccessible(file) without relying on writableCurrentFile().
  • Added the explicit override for saveFile in PluginManager.delegatingEditorProvider.
  • Updated EditorHandlerActivity to include a File-based save that awaits the real disk result and correctly reports an already-clean buffer as saved rather than a failed write.
  • Updated EditorProviderImpl.saveFile to handle main-thread considerations safely without freezing the UI.
  • Verified that :plugin-api:assemble, :plugin-manager:assemble, and :app:assembleV8Debug build successfully.

Before

Screen_Recording_20260824_161034_Code.on.the.Go.mp4

After

Screen_Recording_20260824_161341_Code.on.the.Go.mp4

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ADFA-5259
Parent ticket: ADFA-5215

Observation

saveCurrentFile() saves whichever tab has focus and returns true as soon as
the save is dispatched. A plugin editing an unfocused file therefore had to
steal focus first, and openFile() only posts the tab switch - so the save read
a stale tab index, persisted the user's other tab, and reported success.

saveFile(file) removes focus from the causal chain: it resolves the editor by
File, blocks until the write completes, and returns whether the bytes are on
disk. A clean buffer counts as saved - CodeEditorView.save() reports "nothing
to do" and "write failed" with the same false - and a completed write is
verified by byte length to catch truncation.

The permission check follows the file-targeted surface (requireWrite +
ensureFileAccessible) rather than writableCurrentFile, which inspects the
focused file. saveCurrentFile() stays as the "save what the user is looking
at" primitive.

Guards: the call rejects the main thread up front, since the save itself runs
there and blocking from it would deadlock until the timeout. setFilesSaving
now resets under NonCancellable so a timed-out save cannot leave the Save
action disabled for the session.

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@jatezzz jatezzz changed the title ADFA-5260 | feat: save edited file via saveFile instead of tab focus ADFA-5259 | feat: save edited file via saveFile instead of tab focus Aug 26, 2026
@jatezzz jatezzz changed the title ADFA-5259 | feat: save edited file via saveFile instead of tab focus ADFA-5260 | Add file-targeted IdeEditorService.saveFile(File) API Aug 26, 2026
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  • app/src/test/java/com/itsaky/androidide/activities/editor/OverlappingSaveFlagTest.kt
📝 Walkthrough
  • Added IdeEditorService.saveFile(File) to save a specified open file without changing tab focus.
  • Made file saving suspendable and await disk persistence.
  • Added concurrent-save tracking and reliable saving-state cleanup.
  • Preserved buffer edits when saving fails with SecurityException.
  • Added permission, accessibility, timeout, and disk-length checks.
  • Updated editor providers, plugin delegation, API metadata, and tests.
  • Risk: EditorProvider implementations must update saveFile to be suspend.
  • Risk: saveFile returns false when the file is unavailable, unauthorized, outside the allowed scope, or not persisted.
  • Risk: Concurrent saves depend on correct dispatcher behavior and shared saving-state tracking.

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The plugin editor service now provides a suspendable saveFile API that returns save status. The editor activity handles missing files, clean files, write failures, cancellation, and overlapping saves.

Changes

File Save Flow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Suspending save API contract
plugin-api/src/main/kotlin/..., plugin-api/api/plugin-api.api
IdeEditorService now defines suspendable saveFile(file: File): Boolean behavior and documents its result conditions.
Editor save implementation
app/src/main/java/.../EditorHandlerActivity.kt, app/src/main/java/.../EditorProviderImpl.kt, app/src/test/java/.../OverlappingSaveFlagTest.kt
The activity saves matching buffers, returns save status, preserves cancellation, and tracks concurrent saves. The provider resolves the activity and delegates the operation. The test covers overlapping save state.
Provider delegation wiring
plugin-manager/src/main/kotlin/...
The editor provider contract and delegating implementations now propagate suspendable saveFile calls.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to a49b6

The file-targeted save behavior is mergeable, with explicit follow-up recommended for a test failure path that could leave the test process running after an assertion failure; no production merge-blocking risk is identified.

Suggested reviewers: daniel-adfa, itsaky-adfa, dara-abijo-adfa, davidschachteradfa

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Plugin
  participant IdeEditorServiceImpl
  participant EditorProviderImpl
  participant EditorHandlerActivity
  participant Disk
  Plugin->>IdeEditorServiceImpl: saveFile(file)
  IdeEditorServiceImpl->>EditorProviderImpl: check access and saveFile(file)
  EditorProviderImpl->>EditorHandlerActivity: saveFileResult(file)
  EditorHandlerActivity->>Disk: write buffer
  Disk-->>EditorHandlerActivity: save result
  EditorHandlerActivity-->>Plugin: Boolean result
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A rabbit queued a save with care
A counter tracked each task in air
A clean file stayed safely bright
Failed writes returned false, just right
Cancellation hopped out of sight

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: adding a file-targeted IdeEditorService.saveFile(File) API.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the new file-targeted save API, its persistence behavior, implementation changes, and build verification.
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- Around line 1053-1063: Update performFileSave so each activeSaveCount
transition and its corresponding setFilesSaving update execute together in one
serialized Main-thread operation, preventing a queued false update from
overtaking a subsequent true update during overlapping saves. Preserve the
existing first-save/last-save semantics, and add a regression test covering
overlapping saves initiated off the Main thread.
- Around line 958-963: Update saveFile handling in EditorHandlerActivity around
getEditorForFile and saveResultInternal to catch expected SecurityException
authorization failures and return false, preserving successful saves and
existing early-return behavior. In
plugin-api/src/main/kotlin/com/itsaky/androidide/plugins/services/IdeServices.kt
lines 185-187, make no direct change; it documents the expected false result.

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@jatezzz jatezzz changed the title ADFA-5260 | Add file-targeted IdeEditorService.saveFile(File) API ADFA-5259 | Add file-targeted IdeEditorService.saveFile(File) API Aug 26, 2026
Move the count into the flag's main-thread section: off-main it decremented to zero and queued false, which landed after a main-thread save had set true inline.

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- Around line 69-82: Update the worker setup and cleanup in the overlapping save
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A failed assertion skipped the looper drain, parking the non-daemon worker on a main-thread hop that never ran. Wrap the body in try/finally, drain and bound the join there, and mark the worker daemon.

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Automated code review (xhigh). 13 findings, F01-F13, posted inline.

Likely real bugs: F01 (the fix is defeated by activity recreation), F02 (plugin saves of .gradle.kts/.xml skip sync and generateSources()), F04 (counter can latch the flag on permanently), F05 (double resolution can save the wrong buffer).

Also: F03 main-thread disk IO under StrictMode, F06 unbounded wait / ANR path, F07 stale tab index after the write, F08/F09 doc accuracy and the missing PLUGIN_API_CHANGELOG.md entry, F10-F13 test robustness, coverage gaps, and cleanups.

private val fileTimestamps = ConcurrentHashMap<String, Long>()

/** Number of saves in flight. Main-thread confined; see [beginFileSave]. */
private val activeSaveCount = AtomicInteger(0)

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F01 - activeSaveCount outlives the flag it guards

The counter is per-activity-instance, but the flag it guards (editorViewModel.areFilesSaving) lives in the retained EditorViewModel. EditorActivityKt's manifest configChanges (AndroidManifest.xml:101) covers only orientation|screenSize|screenLayout|smallestScreenSize|fontScale, so a dark-mode / locale / display-size change destroys and recreates the activity.

saveAllAsync runs its save under withContext(NonCancellable), so save A keeps running against the old instance (its counter is 1). The new instance starts save B: its fresh counter goes 0 -> 1 and sets areFilesSaving = true. Save A then finishes on the old instance, its counter goes 1 -> 0, and it writes areFilesSaving = false on the shared retained ViewModel while B is still writing. SaveFileAction re-enables mid-write - exactly the failure this PR was written to fix.

The counter needs to live in EditorViewModel, next to the flag it is paired with.

private val fileTimestamps = ConcurrentHashMap<String, Long>()

/** Number of saves in flight. Main-thread confined; see [beginFileSave]. */
private val activeSaveCount = AtomicInteger(0)

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F13 - AtomicInteger contradicts the KDoc one line above

The doc says "Main-thread confined; see [beginFileSave]", and both mutations now happen inside withContext(NonCancellable + Dispatchers.Main.immediate). Under that invariant the atomics buy nothing and actively obscure it.

A plain private var activeSaveCount = 0 with if (++activeSaveCount == 1) / if (--activeSaveCount == 0) states the confinement honestly and drops the java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger import. Leaving AtomicInteger in place invites a future maintainer to conclude the counter is safe to touch off-main - which is precisely the mistake commit a49b6a6 undid.

(If F01 is addressed by moving the counter into the ViewModel, decide the threading story there and document it once.)

* A clean buffer counts as saved: [CodeEditorView.save] reports "nothing to do" and
* "write failed" with the same `false`, so the two are separated here.
*
* Resolution and the write share one main-thread continuation, so a tab close cannot shift

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F07 - the atomicity claim does not survive the write

"Resolution and the write share one main-thread continuation, so a tab close cannot shift the index out from under the save" holds only up to the frag capture.

saveResultInternal then calls frag.save(), which suspends into readWriteContext, and afterwards runs withContext(Dispatchers.Main) { val tabPosition = getTabPositionForFileIndex(index); ... if (text.startsWith("*")) tab.text = text.substring(1) } using the index captured before the write.

Close a tab to the left of the saved file during a large write and the asterisk is stripped from the wrong tab, so a genuinely dirty buffer renders as clean. Re-resolve the tab from the file (or from frag) after the write rather than reusing index.

* Resolution and the write share one main-thread continuation, so a tab close cannot shift
* the index out from under the save.
*/
suspend fun saveFileResult(file: File): Boolean =

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F11 - the headline feature has no test

OverlappingSaveFlagTest calls beginFileSave/endFileSave directly and never touches saveFileResult, EditorProviderImpl.saveFile, or IdeEditorServiceImpl.saveFile.

Untested and non-obvious behaviors that would silently regress:

  • the clean-buffer-counts-as-saved branch returning true
  • the no-open-editor branch returning false
  • the catch (Exception) that turns a ContentReadWrite.writeTo throw into false
  • the CancellationException rethrow
  • EditorProviderImpl.saveFile's destroyed-activity false
  • IdeEditorServiceImpl.saveFile's requireWrite() / ensureFileAccessible() SecurityException contract

That last one is the highest-value gap: the plugin-facing KDoc explicitly advertises it ("Authorization failures throw SecurityException rather than returning false"), and a plugin-visible security guarantee with zero coverage is worth a test on its own. A plain JUnit test over IdeEditorServiceImpl with a stub EditorProvider covers it without Robolectric.

*/
suspend fun saveFileResult(file: File): Boolean =
try {
performFileSave {

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F12 - the flag is raised before there is any work to do

performFileSave calls beginFileSave() first; only then does the Main.immediate block discover getEditorForFile(file) == null (file not open) or a clean buffer, and return.

_filesSaving emits true then false with no save in between, so observers of areFilesSaving - and SaveFileAction's enabled state via invalidateOptionsMenu - churn for a no-op. A plugin polling saveFile on a closed file in a loop produces continuous flag flapping.

Resolve the editor first and enter performFileSave only once there is real work.

@VisibleForTesting
internal suspend fun endFileSave() {
withContext(NonCancellable + Dispatchers.Main.immediate) {
if (activeSaveCount.decrementAndGet() == 0) {

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F04 - the counter has no floor, so one unbalanced decrement latches the flag on forever

decrementAndGet() == 0 only fires on an exact match. If the count ever reaches -1 the equality never matches again, areFilesSaving stays true for the life of the ViewModel, and SaveFileAction is permanently disabled (enabled = context.areFilesModified() && !context.areFilesSaving()) - precisely the failure beginFileSave's own KDoc warns about.

This is newly reachable: endFileSave was widened from private to internal for the test, so anything in :app can now call it, and the new test already calls it directly.

The removed setFilesSaving(false) in the finally forced the flag down unconditionally and could not get stuck. Clamp it - activeSaveCount.updateAndGet { (it - 1).coerceAtLeast(0) }, or fire on <= 0.

* Saves [file]'s buffer whatever tab has focus, suspending until the bytes are on disk.
*
* Suspending rather than blocking is what makes this safe to call from the main thread:
* the write itself runs there, so a blocking bridge would deadlock against it.

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F08 - this KDoc is factually wrong about where the write runs

"the write itself runs there [on the main thread], so a blocking bridge would deadlock against it" - it does not. CodeEditorView.save() (CodeEditorView.kt:386) marshals text.writeTo(file, ...) into withContext(readWriteContext), and readWriteContext is newSingleThreadContext("CodeEditorView") (line 126), a dedicated worker thread.

The deadlock is real, but it comes from the Main.immediate resumption hop, not from the write executing on main. A maintainer who reads this and moves the write off main "to fix the deadlock" will change nothing and still ANR.

Note also that IdeServices.kt:185 makes the opposite claim ("the write is marshalled to the editor thread"). The two should agree; that one is the accurate half.

* Suspending rather than blocking is what makes this safe to call from the main thread:
* the write itself runs there, so a blocking bridge would deadlock against it.
*/
override suspend fun saveFile(file: File): Boolean {

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F06 - the only EditorProvider method with no bound on how long it waits

Every other method in this class goes through onMain { }, whose 5s CountDownLatch timeout is documented as "a deadlocked UI should not be able to take the IDE down with it". saveFile has no such bound.

If a plugin calls runBlocking { editorService.saveFile(f) } from the main thread, runBlocking installs a BlockingEventLoop that does not drain the Android Handler queue. CodeEditorView.save() hops to readWriteContext and resumes via Dispatchers.Main.immediate, whose isDispatchNeeded is true from that worker thread, so the resumption is Handler.post-ed and never runs. Hard ANR.

The KDoc's suggested withTimeout cannot rescue this either - its delay is scheduled on the same blocked event loop.

Either enforce the bound host-side (withTimeoutOrNull around saveFileResult) or state plainly in the plugin-facing KDoc that blocking bridges are unsupported.

}

/** Blocks until the worker's main-thread hop is sitting in the paused looper's queue. */
private fun awaitPostToMain(mainLooper: ShadowLooper) {

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F10 - awaitPostToMain synchronizes on the wrong condition

It only asserts that mainLooper.isIdle is false. Any message left in the paused queue by BaseApplication.onCreate or Robolectric.buildActivity satisfies that immediately - before runBlocking(Dispatchers.IO) { activity.endFileSave() } has reached its Handler.post.

The test then calls mainLooper.idle() (draining the unrelated message, not A's decrement) and blocks in ended.await(10_000). But the main thread is the only thing that can drain the worker's post, and it is sitting inside await() - so the worker never completes: 10s burned, then a failure with a misleading message.

It passes today only because the queue happens to be empty. Synchronize on the queue actually growing - snapshot ShadowLooper's queued-message count before spawning the worker and wait for an increase - rather than on mere non-idleness.

*
* Default-implemented (no-op) so adding it is a backward-compatible interface extension.
*/
suspend fun saveFile(file: File): Boolean = false

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F09 - new public plugin API with no PLUGIN_API_CHANGELOG.md entry

plugin-api/api/plugin-api.api is updated, but the changelog is not. docs/plugin-api.md's "Before you change the plugin API" checklist requires "[ ] Recorded here or in a changelog so plugin authors can find it", and CLAUDE.md: "When you change code, update the docs that describe it in the same change ... so a doc never outlives the API it documents."

PLUGIN_API_CHANGELOG.md exists specifically so an author can pick a correct plugin.min_ide_version, and it already carries entries of exactly this shape (IdeEditorService.showInlineSuggestion / dismissInlineSuggestion, line 144).

Without a YY.WW row for IdeEditorService.saveFile, an author has no way to know which IDE release first accepts the call - and will ship a plugin whose min_ide_version is too low, hitting the silent = false default here instead of a real save.

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