fix(folio): stop spending the submit budget on taps the app refused

The window is an upper bound on the transactions an interval could hold, and
a bound inflated by taps that commit nothing is a bound the app can never
exceed: #78 read a rise of 15 transactions against 37 submits. TxnSubmit is
clickable(enabled = amount.isNotBlank()) and parseCents refuses anything its
regex misses, so a tap whose landing frame shows a refused amount cannot have
committed. Over four recorded android runs that is 19, 11, 25 and 25 of 35,
26, 42 and 42 submit taps.

A relaunch is excepted: a fresh process draws an empty field whatever was
submitted.
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@@ -249,16 +249,54 @@ export function acrossRelaunch(lastAction: ObservedAction | null): boolean {
// well have landed. Leaving it out is what convicted a healthy app:
// committedTransactionsExceedSubmits saw a transaction rise of one against a
// window of zero and called it a double submit.
//
// A submit the app must have refused does not count, for the mirror reason: it
// cannot have committed anything, so the bound it would raise is slack the app
// can hide a real double submit behind. See submitCouldCommit for what "must
// have refused" is allowed to mean.
export function countSubmitsInWindow(args: {
previousCount: number;
lastAction: ObservedAction | null;
amountText?: string;
fresh: boolean;
}): { reported: number; next: number } {
const { previousCount, lastAction, fresh } = args;
const reported = previousCount + (isTxnSubmitTap(lastAction) ? 1 : 0);
// A relaunch is the one thing that can put a form state on screen other than
// the one the tap read, so the field it draws proves nothing about it.
const refused = !acrossRelaunch(lastAction) && !submitCouldCommit(args.amountText);
const reported = previousCount + (isTxnSubmitTap(lastAction) && !refused ? 1 : 0);
return { reported, next: fresh ? 0 : reported };
}
// Could the app have committed anything for that submit? The amount field as
// the LANDING frame shows it is the form state the tap read: the tap changes
// nothing about it, and one action runs per step, so nothing else could have.
// Off the transaction screen there is no field to read, and undefined is
// unknown, which counts.
//
// False only where Folio's own code must have refused. parseCents takes
// `^\d+(\.\d{1,2})?$` with commas stripped and refuses everything else, and
// AddTransactionViewModel refuses a parsed zero on top of that. An empty field
// never even reaches the parser: TxnSubmit is
// clickable(enabled = amount.isNotBlank()), so the click does not fire.
//
// This is the difference between a bound and a useless one. The window is an
// upper bound on the transactions the interval could hold, and a bound inflated
// by taps that commit nothing is a bound the app can never exceed: the iOS run
// in #78 read a rise of 15 transactions against a window of 37 submits and had
// nothing to say. Measured over four recorded android runs, 19, 11, 25 and 25
// of 35, 26, 42 and 42 submit taps landed with the amount field empty.
//
// An amount too large for a Kotlin Long is refused by the app too, and still
// counts here: over-counting can only cost a detection, and the reading that
// would have to prove the overflow is a float that cannot hold the number.
export function submitCouldCommit(amountText: string | undefined): boolean {
if (amountText === undefined) return true;
const trimmed = amountText.trim().replace(/,/g, "");
if (!/^\d+(\.\d{1,2})?$/.test(trimmed)) return false;
return /[1-9]/.test(trimmed);
}
// Parses formatCents output like "$5.00", "-$1,234.56", "+$0.50" back to
// integer cents. Anything that is not a complete amount is null, not 0: a
// balance we could not read is unknown, and reading it as zero silently moves
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@@ -67,6 +67,96 @@ test("a second submit with no Home reading between them counts two", () => {
);
});
// The window is a budget: an upper bound on the transactions the interval could
// hold. A tap the app's own parser must have refused spends none of it, and on
// android it does not even reach the parser, because TxnSubmit is
// clickable(enabled = amount.isNotBlank()). Measured over four recorded android
// runs, 19, 11, 25 and 25 of 35, 26, 42 and 42 submit taps landed on the
// transaction screen with the amount field empty, so more than half the budget
// was being spent on taps that cannot commit anything.
test("a submit the app must have refused does not spend the window's budget", () => {
for (const amountText of ["", " ", "0", "0.00", "00", "5.", "abc"]) {
assert.deepEqual(
countSubmitsInWindow({
previousCount: 0,
lastAction: { kind: "Tap", on: submitOn },
amountText,
fresh: false,
}),
{ reported: 0, next: 0 },
`amount ${JSON.stringify(amountText)} was counted as a possible commit`,
);
}
});
// The field as the landing frame shows it, which is the form state the tap read:
// nothing between the two changes it. Anywhere but the transaction screen there
// is no field to read, and unknown has to count.
test("an amount that could commit, or that nobody could read, spends the budget", () => {
for (const amountText of ["5", "0.01", "1,000", "999999999999999999999", undefined]) {
assert.deepEqual(
countSubmitsInWindow({
previousCount: 0,
lastAction: { kind: "Tap", on: submitOn },
amountText,
fresh: false,
}),
{ reported: 1, next: 1 },
`amount ${JSON.stringify(amountText)} was dropped from the budget`,
);
}
});
// The one thing that can put a different form state on screen than the one the
// tap read: the runner restarting the app, which the tap survives and the typed
// amount does not. The field a fresh process draws is empty whatever was
// submitted, so it proves nothing and the submit keeps its place in the budget.
test("a submit across a relaunch spends the budget whatever the field shows", () => {
assert.deepEqual(
countSubmitsInWindow({
previousCount: 0,
lastAction: { kind: "Tap", on: submitOn, applied: true, relaunched: true },
amountText: "",
fresh: false,
}),
{ reported: 1, next: 1 },
);
});
// What the budget costs the counting invariant, in the shape of the iOS run in
// #78: a stretch of the walk that never went Home, most of it taps on a submit
// button with nothing typed into the form, and one double tap that committed
// twice. Counting the refused taps hands the app five transactions of slack it
// never used, and two rows against six actions is no violation.
test("refused submits used to hide a double submit behind their own budget", () => {
const frames = [
{ amountText: "", lastAction: { kind: "Tap", on: submitOn } },
{ amountText: "", lastAction: { kind: "Tap", on: submitOn } },
{ amountText: "", lastAction: { kind: "Tap", on: submitOn } },
{ amountText: "", lastAction: { kind: "Tap", on: submitOn } },
{ amountText: "", lastAction: { kind: "Tap", on: submitOn } },
{ amountText: undefined, lastAction: { kind: "DoubleTap", on: submitOn } },
];
let budget = 0;
for (const frame of frames) {
budget = countSubmitsInWindow({
previousCount: budget,
lastAction: frame.lastAction,
amountText: frame.amountText,
fresh: false,
}).next;
}
assert.equal(budget, 1);
assert.equal(
committedTransactionsExceedSubmits({
countsBefore: { Checking: 3 },
countsAfter: { Checking: 5 },
submitsInWindow: budget,
}),
true,
);
});
// The two traces the freshness rule exists to tell apart, driven step by step
// through the same pair of carriers the spec holds.
function run(steps: { route: string | null; totalText?: string; lastAction: unknown }[]) {