preset: the smallest legal file of every format, and an empty one where that is legal by donislawdev · Pull Request #120 · donislawdev/TestingFilesGenerator

donislawdev · 2026-09-22T12:57:45Z

A second preset, and the machinery the next six will be built on.

What it does

tfg generate --preset empty-and-minimal produces the smallest legal file of
every format this build has, plus a file of nought bytes for every format that
has a legal empty form. 26 files, 32 214 B - twenty-four paths through
somebody's reader for the price of thirty-two kilobytes.

$ tfg preset show empty-and-minimal
26 targets, 26 files, 32 214 B total, formats avif, bmp, csv, docx, ...

$ tfg generate --preset empty-and-minimal --out ./out
26 files in 26 targets, 32 214 B total
$ tfg verify ./out/manifest.json
... 26 files checked

Two groups, because two different answers are honest:

group	expectation	why
`minimal`	`accept`	the file is valid, so turning it away is a defect. This is the positive control of the whole set
`empty`	`unspecified` + `size_zero`	an empty file is legal and what to do with it is the reader's policy. `MF5` and untouchable rule 5

txt and md appear twice on purpose: their smallest legal file is nought
bytes, so one entry each would either drop two formats out of the positive
control or hand two empty files an expectation nobody can back. A second file of
one byte costs two bytes.

--formats png,jpg,gif narrows the set, all on its own means every format.

Why the shared machinery came first

sizeboundaries.go was 11 675 B and half of it was a list parser, a character
check and a YAML writer - all three about to be copied into a second preset,
with five more named in the queue. So commaList and plan.source were
extracted and size-boundaries moved onto them.

That took the last hand-written YAML out of the tree. The class of defect
fuzzing found on 2026-08-05, where 1\rB reached the document raw, is now
impossible by construction, because the marshaller does the quoting.

D11: measured, not reasoned

A binary built from origin/main in a separate worktree, against this branch,
same commands:

28 files across six configurations - txt, pdf, png, zip, docx, two seeds,
label on and off - byte-identical.
tfg preset eject size-boundaries →
2733cf63db40465fb97e26790d668d65ea01f5e94927a44ddf0869399beee2bb, the same
sum recorded on 2026-09-08, although the text generator under it was replaced.

The comparison script first reported "identical, 0 files compared" when both
binaries refused - green honestly and about nothing. It got a floor on the
expected file count before any verdict was believed.

Three defects found on the way

A duplicate differing only in case passed the list check and surfaced as
target id minimal_png is used twice - a refusal about an id nobody typed.
The shared parser normalises before it compares now, because being the same is
a property of the value rather than of the typing.
A composed recipe used flat sequences, so a target pasted in from the
documentation landed at a different indent and the file stopped parsing -
which defeats the "edit it, commit it" the ejected header promises. Caught by
an existing guard, not by reading.
preset show said "format" in front of twenty-four of them, because until
now that line had only ever seen one.

Guards

Six new, all proven by mutation (10 entries, 10 caught). One of them was NOT CAUGHT first time and the reason is worth keeping: the mutation turned a name
into a bare number and the guard used "007", which bareNumber refuses on its
own account - so the entry found its pattern, compiled, and proved nothing. It
asserts "123" as well now.

What this does not touch

O232 - the joint-limit refusal prints the request and the limit as the same
number. Recorded, not fixed: it is in internal/format, a layer this PR does
not touch at all.
Ceilings. The crowding gate went red at 52 functions against a cap of 51 and
the answer was to split a function, not to raise the number.

A user-visible change worth naming

The Presets screen now opens on empty-and-minimal, because the window lands on
the first id in order. That moved nine window guards at once, none of which said
why - they name their preset now. Whether the screen should open on a declared
preset rather than the first one alphabetically is a separate question.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

New Features
- Added the empty-and-minimal preset for generating the smallest valid files across selected formats.
- Supports comma-separated format selection and an all option, with clear handling for empty-file support.
- Preset results now report expected outcomes, file counts, sizes, and relevant notes.
Improvements
- Recipe output formatting is more consistent, including indentation and numeric value handling.
- Format labels now use singular or plural wording appropriately.
- Updated preset screens and localized descriptions to reflect the new workflow.

empty-and-minimal is the second preset. It asks the registry for the smallest size each format will actually take and produces one file at exactly that size, plus a file of nought bytes for every format that has a legal empty form. 26 files, 32 214 B, which checks twenty-four paths through somebody's reader for the price of thirty-two kilobytes. Two groups rather than one, because two different answers are honest. A valid file should be accepted, so `minimal` expects accept and is the positive control of the whole set. A file of nought bytes is legal and what to do with it is the reader's policy, so `empty` expects unspecified with size_zero - MF5 and untouchable rule 5. txt and md appear twice, and that is a decision. Their smallest legal file IS nought bytes, so one entry each would either drop two formats out of the positive control or hand two empty files an expectation nobody can back. A second file of one byte costs two bytes. Why the shared machinery came first. sizeboundaries.go was 11 675 B and half of it was a list parser, a character check and a YAML writer - all three about to be copied into a second preset, with five more named in the queue. A problem that comes back is a missing primitive. So commaList and plan.source were extracted, and size-boundaries moved onto them, which took the last hand-written YAML out of the tree: the class of defect fuzzing found on 2026-08-05, where "1\rB" reached the document raw, is now impossible by construction because the marshaller quotes. Measured, not reasoned: a binary built from origin/main in a separate worktree and this one produce byte-identical files across six configurations - txt, pdf, png, zip and docx, two seeds, label on and off, 28 files compared. `tfg preset eject size-boundaries` gives 2733cf63db40465fb97e26790d668d65ea01f5e94927a44ddf0869399beee2bb, the same sum recorded on 2026-09-08, although the whole text generator underneath it was replaced. D11 holds. Three defects found on the way and fixed here. A duplicate differing only in case passed the list check and surfaced as "target id is used twice", a refusal about an id nobody typed - the shared parser now normalises before it compares, because being the same is a property of the value rather than of the typing. A composed recipe used the marshaller's flat sequences, so a target pasted in from the documents landed at a different indent and the file stopped parsing, which defeats the "edit it, commit it" the ejected header promises. And the budget line in `preset show` said "format" in front of twenty-four of them, because until now it had only ever seen one. Nine window guards went red at once, none of them saying why: the preset screen opens on the first id in order and empty-and-minimal sorts before size-boundaries, so every guard reaching for the field called Limit found nothing there. They name their preset now. One of the nine did not go red at all - it took the whole test binary down with a nil dereference, because a helper passed on a typed nil that is not nil as an interface, and the panic named whichever test happened to be running. Also here, both found by gates rather than by reading: a doc comment left standing above the wrong declaration, and two numbers in docs that a test already prints, red since #119 because that guard only runs locally. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

The mutation turning a name into a bare number left the guard green on 2026-09-22 - NOT CAUGHT, and the entry had found its pattern and compiled. The reason was in the value: bareNumber refuses a leading zero on its own account, so applying it to "007" changed nothing at all. "123" is the spelling that moves, and it is asserted now beside "007", which stays because the two failures are different. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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The change adds the empty-and-minimal preset, standardizes generated recipe formatting, refactors size-boundaries generation, and updates CLI, GUI, guard tests, screen fixtures, and documentation.

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Preset and recipe generation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Recipe serialization and shared plan building `internal/recipe/compose.go`, `internal/preset/build.go`, `internal/core/humanise.go`, `internal/cli/presetcmd.go`	Recipe YAML now uses consistent sequence indentation. Canonical non-negative integers remain bare numbers, while identifiers and non-canonical values remain text. Shared helpers validate comma-separated values and serialize preset plans.
Empty-and-minimal preset `internal/preset/emptyandminimal.go`, `internal/preset/preset.go`, `internal/preset/expansion.go`	The new preset resolves named formats or `all`, generates minimum-size and permitted zero-byte files, assigns expectations, and reports empty-file conditions.
Size-boundaries integration `internal/preset/sizeboundaries.go`	The preset uses shared list validation and plan serialization for spread values, boundary targets, and rejected targets.
Guard coverage and UI fixtures `internal/guard/`, `internal/guard/testdata/screens/`, `web/content/*`, `CHANGELOG.md`	Tests cover preset selection, minimal-set invariants, CLI/window parity, and recipe formatting. Screen fixtures and localized descriptions cover the new preset and layout.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~30 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant PresetWindow
  participant EmptyAndMinimal
  participant FormatRegistry
  participant RecipeCompose
  PresetWindow->>EmptyAndMinimal: select formats
  EmptyAndMinimal->>FormatRegistry: resolve formats and minimum sizes
  FormatRegistry-->>EmptyAndMinimal: registry format data
  EmptyAndMinimal->>RecipeCompose: submit generated target drafts
  RecipeCompose-->>PresetWindow: return composed recipe

Suggested labels: enhancement, bug, ui

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to bde70

Equivalent format selections can produce different generated recipes and manifest hashes solely from argument order. Canonicalize selection order and strengthen the invariant guard before merging.

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❌ Failed checks (3 warnings)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Tests For Changed Behavior	⚠️ Warning	The PR adds tests for the new preset, recipe composition, and size-boundary behavior. However, it also changes non-UI CLI runtime output in `internal/cli/presetcmd.go` and adds `core.Noun` in `interna…	Add tests for `preset show` human-readable output with one format and multiple formats. Assert that the output uses `format` for one item and `formats` for multiple items. Also add direct coverage for `core.Noun` with `n == 1` and another c…
No Obvious Performance Problems	⚠️ Warning	The new `empty-and-minimal` preset performs heavy generator planning on the UI thread. `internal/preset/emptyandminimal.go` calls `SmallestAccepted` once per selected format while laying out the set; …	Keep format minimum-size results in a cache or precomputed table shared by layout and note generation. Populate the cache before UI interaction, or compute it on a worker and defer preset readiness until it completes. Do not call `SmallestA…
Scope, Duplication And Docs	⚠️ Warning	The PR adds the `empty-and-minimal` preset and the `--formats` behavior, but `README.md` is unchanged. It still states that only `size-boundaries` ships and that the preset catalogue has one entry. Th…	Update `README.md` in the Presets section and project status section. Document `empty-and-minimal`, `--formats` and `all`, its minimal/empty expectations, and replace the stale claims that only one preset exists. Keep the README synchronize…

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Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly describes the main user-facing change: adding the smallest legal file for every format and an empty file where supported. It is specific, release-note ready, and within the length li…
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No Secrets Or Debug Leftovers	✅ Passed	PASS: The PR adds no CLAUDE.md, CLAUDE.local.md, AGENTS.md, .claude/, or .env files. Added-content scans found no credentials, tokens, private URLs, emails, hostnames, IPs, or user-specific absolute p…
No Hardcoded Ui Styling	✅ Passed	The pull request does not change production GUI code. The authoritative diff has no changes under `internal/gui` or `cmd/tfg-gui`. The changed Fyne references are guard-test interactions such as selec…
Desktop Robustness	✅ Passed	No desktop robustness issue is introduced. The changed runtime files only parse preset values, build in-memory recipe bytes, and marshal YAML; they add no working-directory asset loads, file writes, n…
Safe File Parsing	✅ Passed	No unsafe file parsing or export was introduced. The changed production code only serializes controlled recipe values with `yaml.MarshalWithOptions` in `internal/recipe/compose.go`; it rejects control…
System Changes Are Reversible	✅ Passed	The check is not applicable. The authoritative diff adds preset validation, recipe YAML composition, generated test targets, UI guard updates, and documentation. The changed production files import on…
Clear User-Facing Text	✅ Passed	The PR adds user-facing preset, parameter, note, documentation, and validation text. The new `Formats` field has a descriptive detail and uses the existing tooltip-backed `DetailButton` path. Its choo…
No Resource Leaks	✅ Passed	No resource leak is introduced. Changed production code only builds transient slices, strings, YAML, and registry lookups; it adds no files, streams, timers, handlers, goroutines, processes, caches, o…

Full details: Tests For Changed Behavior

Explanation

The PR adds tests for the new preset, recipe composition, and size-boundary behavior. However, it also changes non-UI CLI runtime output in internal/cli/presetcmd.go and adds core.Noun in internal/core/humanise.go. The changed tests do not assert the human-readable format versus formats output, and no test directly covers Noun. Existing preset command tests validate JSON budgets, exit codes, and generated files, but not this changed text.

Resolution

Add tests for preset show human-readable output with one format and multiple formats. Assert that the output uses format for one item and formats for multiple items. Also add direct coverage for core.Noun with n == 1 and another count.

Full details: No Obvious Performance Problems

Explanation

The new empty-and-minimal preset performs heavy generator planning on the UI thread. internal/preset/emptyandminimal.go calls SmallestAccepted once per selected format while laying out the set; SmallestAccepted can call Generator.Plan up to 64 times. The new preset becomes the first preset selected by NewPreset because preset IDs are sorted. The GUI calls preset.Expand synchronously from runner.refreshLine and runner.recheck, including during field-change callbacks. The repository documents that PNG, JPG, and GIF planning can take seconds because they encode images. Therefore opening the preset screen or editing its field can block the UI.

Resolution

Keep format minimum-size results in a cache or precomputed table shared by layout and note generation. Populate the cache before UI interaction, or compute it on a worker and defer preset readiness until it completes. Do not call SmallestAccepted or Generator.Plan from Preset.settle, refreshLine, or synchronous field-change callbacks.

Full details: Scope, Duplication And Docs

Explanation

The PR adds the empty-and-minimal preset and the --formats behavior, but README.md is unchanged. It still states that only size-boundaries ships and that the preset catalogue has one entry. The PR updates CHANGELOG.md and generated web docs, but the repository README remains inaccurate for this user-facing CLI change. The shared parser and recipe composer are reused through the existing preset, format registry, and recipe layers; no duplicated implementation or unrelated significant scope was found.

Resolution

Update README.md in the Presets section and project status section. Document empty-and-minimal, --formats and all, its minimal/empty expectations, and replace the stale claims that only one preset exists. Keep the README synchronized with the generated web documentation.

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In `@internal/guard/minimalset_test.go`:
- Around line 59-60: Update the guard assertions in the minimal-set test to
verify that len(doc.Targets) equals len(format.IDs()) plus len(canBeEmpty),
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