feat(trace): version each step and record its logs, exceptions and navigations

a step now carries trace_version, the platform log lines and uncaught errors behind state.logs and state.exceptions, the document-replacing navigations seen since the previous step, and observation_error naming why a device read produced no tree. version 0 is a step written before those fields existed, which is what separates a trace that cannot answer the question from a step that had nothing to report.
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{"extractor_changes":{"extractor_0":{"prev":null,"curr":0}},"hierarchy":{"elements":[{"resourceId":"HomeScreen","bounds":{"left":0,"top":0,"right":0,"bottom":0},"attrs":{"editable":"false","resource-id":"HomeScreen"}},{"resourceId":"next","clickable":true,"enabled":true,"bounds":{"left":40,"top":80,"right":240,"bottom":160},"attrs":{"bounds":"[40,80,240,160]","clickable":"true","editable":"false","enabled":"true","resource-id":"next"}}]},"next_action":{"kind":"Tap","selector":"id:next","resolved_bounds":{"x":40,"y":80,"width":200,"height":80},"tap_point":{"x":140,"y":120}},"residuals":{"balanceNonNegative":{"op":"true"}},"step":1,"timestamp":"0001-01-01T00:00:00Z"}
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@@ -13,14 +13,31 @@ import (
"github.com/priyanshujain/sanderling/internal/hierarchy"
)
// TraceVersion is stamped on every step this build writes. A step decoding to
// version 0 predates the fields introduced with version 1 (the tree's stored
// depths, per-step logs, per-step exceptions), which is what separates "this
// trace cannot answer the question" from "this step had nothing to report".
const TraceVersion = 1
type Step struct {
Index int `json:"step"`
Timestamp time.Time `json:"timestamp"`
Screen string `json:"screen,omitempty"`
Snapshots map[string]json.RawMessage `json:"snapshots,omitempty"`
Index int `json:"step"`
TraceVersion int `json:"trace_version,omitempty"`
Timestamp time.Time `json:"timestamp"`
Screen string `json:"screen,omitempty"`
Snapshots map[string]json.RawMessage `json:"snapshots,omitempty"`
// NextAction is the action chosen for the next iteration based on observing this step.
NextAction *Action `json:"next_action,omitempty"`
Exceptions []Exception `json:"exceptions,omitempty"`
NextAction *Action `json:"next_action,omitempty"`
// Logs are the platform log lines collected for this step, Exceptions the
// uncaught errors read at verification time: the error surface behind
// state.logs and state.exceptions, which the default properties read and
// an offline oracle has no other source for.
Logs []LogEntry `json:"logs,omitempty"`
Exceptions []Exception `json:"exceptions,omitempty"`
// Navigations are the document-replacing navigations seen since the
// previous step: the app reloaded, submitted a form, or changed route.
// Each one restarts the app's own runtime, so without them a reload and a
// generator repeating itself read the same way in a trace.
Navigations []Navigation `json:"navigations,omitempty"`
Violations []string `json:"violations,omitempty"`
Hierarchy *hierarchy.Tree `json:"hierarchy,omitempty"`
Residuals map[string]json.RawMessage `json:"residuals,omitempty"`
@@ -35,6 +52,11 @@ type Step struct {
// count of executed actions cannot be inflated by steps whose action the
// runner threw away. Empty when the action ran (or when none was chosen).
ActionSkipped string `json:"action_skipped,omitempty"`
// ObservationError names why this step's device read produced no tree,
// empty when a tree was read. A screen with no elements on it is a tree,
// so without this a step that observed nothing at all is indistinguishable
// from a step that observed an app showing nothing.
ObservationError string `json:"observation_error,omitempty"`
// SkippedVerification is set true exactly when the verifier was skipped
// for this step, so downstream tooling can tell a deliberately-skipped
// step from one that was verified and came back clean.
@@ -44,6 +66,12 @@ type Step struct {
Witnesses map[string]Witness `json:"witnesses,omitempty"`
}
// Navigation is one document-replacing navigation the run observed.
type Navigation struct {
URL string `json:"url"`
UnixMillis int64 `json:"unix_millis,omitempty"`
}
// Witness is the trace-side record of a property violation: why it fired, the
// two steps a deferred obligation spans, and the extractor values behind it.
type Witness struct {
@@ -114,6 +142,15 @@ type PointRecord struct {
Y int `json:"y"`
}
// LogEntry mirrors one platform log line the runner collected for this step,
// in the shape state.logs exposes to a spec.
type LogEntry struct {
UnixMillis int64 `json:"unix_millis,omitempty"`
Level string `json:"level,omitempty"`
Tag string `json:"tag,omitempty"`
Message string `json:"message,omitempty"`
}
type Exception struct {
Class string `json:"class"`
Message string `json:"message,omitempty"`
@@ -195,12 +232,15 @@ func (w *Writer) WriteMeta(meta Meta) error {
return os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(w.directory, "meta.json"), body, 0o644)
}
// WriteStep stamps the format version itself so no caller can write a step
// that cannot be told apart from one written before the format changed.
func (w *Writer) WriteStep(step Step) error {
w.mutex.Lock()
defer w.mutex.Unlock()
if w.file == nil {
return fmt.Errorf("trace: writer is closed")
}
step.TraceVersion = TraceVersion
return w.encoder.Encode(step)
}
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@@ -143,11 +143,6 @@ func TestWriteStep_HierarchyAndResidualsRoundTrip(t *testing.T) {
t.Errorf("residuals round-trip wrong: %s", got.Residuals["prop1"])
}
// Intentionally-lossy contract: Tree marshals only Elements (Root and
// Node.Children are json:"-"). The flat element list survives; tree
// structure does not. Lock both halves so a regression that drops the
// element list, or one that silently starts persisting structure the
// replay UI would then depend on, is caught.
if got.Hierarchy == nil {
t.Fatal("hierarchy dropped from trace")
}
@@ -157,8 +152,22 @@ func TestWriteStep_HierarchyAndResidualsRoundTrip(t *testing.T) {
if got.Hierarchy.Elements[1].Text != "hi" {
t.Errorf("element field lost: %+v", got.Hierarchy.Elements[1])
}
if got.Hierarchy.Root != nil {
t.Errorf("Root is json:\"-\" and must decode nil, got %+v", got.Hierarchy.Root)
if got.Hierarchy.Root == nil {
t.Fatal("tree structure not reconstructed from the stored form")
}
if got.Hierarchy.Root.ResourceID != "root" ||
len(got.Hierarchy.Root.Children) != 1 {
t.Fatalf("root rebuilt wrong: %+v", got.Hierarchy.Root.Element)
}
if resolved := got.Hierarchy.Find("id:child"); resolved == nil ||
resolved.Text != "hi" {
t.Errorf(
"selector resolves online but not against the decoded tree: %+v",
resolved,
)
}
if resolved := got.Hierarchy.Find("id:child"); resolved != got.Hierarchy.Elements[1] {
t.Error("decoded elements and the rebuilt nodes are different pointers")
}
}
@@ -493,3 +502,48 @@ func TestWriteMeta_OmitsArmMembershipWhenUnset(t *testing.T) {
}
}
}
// TestStepPredatingTheFormatIsDistinguishable is the backward-compatibility
// contract: the existing corpus must still load, and a step from it must be
// separable from one this build wrote with nothing to report, or "this trace
// predates the format" reads as "this step had no logs".
func TestStepPredatingTheFormatIsDistinguishable(t *testing.T) {
const stored = `{"step":3,"timestamp":"2026-06-10T21:22:07Z",` +
`"hierarchy":{"elements":[{"resourceId":"root"},{"resourceId":"child"}]}}`
var old Step
if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(stored), &old); err != nil {
t.Fatalf(
"a trace written before the format change no longer loads: %v",
err,
)
}
if old.TraceVersion != 0 {
t.Errorf(
"trace_version = %d, want 0 for a step that predates the field",
old.TraceVersion,
)
}
if len(old.Hierarchy.Elements) != 2 || old.Hierarchy.Root != nil {
t.Errorf("old hierarchy reinterpreted: elements=%d root=%v",
len(old.Hierarchy.Elements), old.Hierarchy.Root)
}
directory := t.TempDir()
writer, _ := NewWriter(directory)
defer writer.Close()
if err := writer.WriteStep(Step{Index: 3}); err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
body, _ := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(directory, "trace.jsonl"))
var fresh Step
if err := json.Unmarshal(body, &fresh); err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
if fresh.TraceVersion != TraceVersion {
t.Errorf("a step with nothing to report stamped version %d, want %d",
fresh.TraceVersion, TraceVersion)
}
if len(fresh.Logs) != 0 {
t.Errorf("logs = %v, want none", fresh.Logs)
}
}