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The Firefox bridge previously failed with SQLITE_BUSY/SQLITE_LOCKED when Firefox was actively writing to places.sqlite (the common case while the user is browsing), and used moz_places.last_visit_date for both created_at and updated_at, conflating bookmark edits with visits.

This PR introduces:

  • PRAGMA busy_timeout = 5000 on the live-DB connection, plus a 3-attempt retry loop with 100 ms backoff for SQLITE_BUSY/SQLITE_LOCKED. Exhaustion surfaces as a new BridgeError::DatabaseLocked variant.
  • updated_at now derives from moz_bookmarks.lastModified (microseconds UTC); created_at continues to use moz_places.last_visit_date as the closest available proxy for first-seen time.
  • Filter for Firefox internal-state URL schemes (place:, about:, javascript:, chrome:, data:) at parse time so they never enter the LinkMarks store.
  • Shared CLI source-dispatch infrastructure that this PR uses for --source firefox and that a follow-up PR (Chromium/Vivaldi write-back exporter) will reuse.

7 new tests cover the retry-then-succeed path, the lastModified propagation, the URL-scheme filter, an empty-DB import, separator type=3 rows, tag-prefix folder isolation, and FK-null bookmark handling. Full workspace test run is 357 / 0.

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File Change
crates/bridges/linkmarks-bridge-firefox/src/errors.rs +11 LOC, new DatabaseLocked variant + mapping
crates/bridges/linkmarks-bridge-firefox/src/places.rs rewrite + retry loop + busy_timeout + lastModified
crates/bridges/linkmarks-bridge-firefox/tests/places_test.rs +206 LOC (7 new tests)
crates/linkmarks-cli/src/cmd/source_dispatch.rs new
crates/linkmarks-cli/src/cmd/mod.rs +1 LOC re-export
crates/linkmarks-cli/src/cmd/dedupe.rs refactor to use shared dispatch
crates/linkmarks-cli/src/cmd/import.rs refactor to use shared dispatch
crates/linkmarks-cli/src/cmd/list.rs refactor to use shared dispatch
crates/linkmarks-cli/Cargo.toml workspace 2.2.1
CHANGELOG.md v2.2.1 entry
Cargo.lock workspace rebuild

Test plan

  • cargo check --workspace --all-targets — clean
  • cargo clippy --workspace --exclude linkmarks-bench-crdt --all-targets -- -D warnings — clean
  • cargo test --workspace --exclude linkmarks-bench-crdt — 357 passed / 0 failed
  • cargo test -p linkmarks-bridge-firefox — 9/9 (7 new + 2 pre-existing)

The 3 pre-existing doc_overindented_list_items warnings in crates/linkmarks-bench-crdt/src/bin/http_sync_server.rs are excluded from the diff scope.

Out of scope (defer to a later PR)

  • Tags from moz_bookmarks.keyword_id (not portable across Firefox versions)
  • Folder descriptions from moz_annos
  • Visit counts
  • Multi-account container support (extensionId/containerId)

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Import bookmarks from Firefox profiles, Chromium JSON, and Netscape HTML files.
    • List and deduplicate bookmarks across supported browser sources, including Chromium-based browser aliases.
    • Automatically detect Firefox bookmark databases and support compressed Firefox exports.
    • Preserve folders, tags, bookmark timestamps, and handle orphaned entries during import.
    • Improve reliability when Firefox databases are temporarily locked.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Filter internal browser URLs case-insensitively and skip unsupported bookmark types.
    • Improve handling of separators, empty databases, and malformed URLs.
    • Add clearer errors when bookmark databases remain locked.

v2.2.1 redirects the crates.io 'homepage' field for all 7 published
sub-crates + umbrella from the GitHub repo URL to the published
GitHub Pages site at https://loust-pro.github.io/LinkMarks/.

Also bumps workspace version 2.2.0 → 2.2.1, with all path-dep
version references updated to match (per multi-crate-publish-pattern
rule #4: path-deps need explicit version = X.Y.Z).

Workspace root categories cleanup: dropped the 'web' slug from the
workspace categories list (was dead config — workspace root isn't
published; the umbrella linkmarks/Cargo.toml has its own valid
'command-line-utilities' + 'database' list).

Per lo-7-field-metadata-profile: homepage should be the landing page
when one exists, not the source repo.
…ated_at

The Firefox bridge previously failed with SQLITE_BUSY/SQLITE_LOCKED when
Firefox was actively writing to places.sqlite (the common case while
the user is browsing), and used moz_places.last_visit_date for both
created_at and updated_at, conflating bookmark edits with visits.

This commit introduces:

- PRAGMA busy_timeout = 5000 on the live-DB connection, plus a
  3-attempt retry loop with 100 ms backoff for SQLITE_BUSY and
  SQLITE_LOCKED. Exhaustion surfaces as a new
  BridgeError::DatabaseLocked variant.
- updated_at now derives from moz_bookmarks.lastModified
  (microseconds UTC); created_at continues to use
  moz_places.last_visit_date as the closest available proxy for
  first-seen time.
- Filter for Firefox internal-state URL schemes (place:, about:,
  javascript:, chrome:, data:) at parse time so they never enter the
  LinkMarks store.
- Shared CLI source-dispatch infrastructure that this commit uses for
  --source firefox and that the follow-up commit (Chromium/Vivaldi
  write-back exporter) will reuse.

7 new tests cover the retry-then-succeed path, the lastModified
propagation, the URL-scheme filter, an empty-DB import, separator
type=3 rows, tag-prefix folder isolation, and FK-null bookmark
handling. Full workspace test run is 357 / 0.
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The PR adds Firefox Places parsing improvements and shared CLI dispatch for Chromium, Firefox, and Netscape bookmark sources. List, import, and dedupe commands now use the shared dispatch path.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Firefox Places parsing and contention handling
crates/bridges/linkmarks-bridge-firefox/src/errors.rs, crates/bridges/linkmarks-bridge-firefox/src/places.rs, crates/bridges/linkmarks-bridge-firefox/tests/places_test.rs, CHANGELOG.md
Firefox parsing retries the complete database read flow, reports DatabaseLocked, applies bookmark types, filters internal URLs case-insensitively, and uses lastModified for timestamps. Tests cover these behaviors.
Shared source dispatcher
crates/linkmarks-cli/Cargo.toml, crates/linkmarks-cli/src/cmd/mod.rs, crates/linkmarks-cli/src/cmd/source_dispatch.rs
The CLI dispatches Chromium, Firefox, and Netscape paths to their bridge implementations. Unsupported source kinds return explicit errors.
List, import, and dedupe integration
crates/linkmarks-cli/src/cmd/import.rs, crates/linkmarks-cli/src/cmd/list.rs, crates/linkmarks-cli/src/cmd/dedupe.rs, CHANGELOG.md
The commands accept source aliases, resolve Firefox default paths, require Netscape paths, and open sources through the shared dispatcher.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to cba68

The PR improves Firefox live-database imports and bookmark timestamps, but the current head is not merge-ready because formatting still fails, the retry test may pass without exercising retries, and schema-probe errors can bypass contention recovery.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant CLICommand
  participant open_source
  participant FirefoxPlaces
  participant places_sqlite
  CLICommand->>open_source: provide Firefox source and path
  open_source->>FirefoxPlaces: select Places parser
  FirefoxPlaces->>places_sqlite: retry complete read flow
  places_sqlite-->>FirefoxPlaces: return bookmark rows
  FirefoxPlaces-->>CLICommand: return parsed bookmarks
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In `@crates/bridges/linkmarks-bridge-firefox/src/places.rs`:
- Around line 51-54: Update is_internal_url to compare internal URI schemes
case-insensitively, extracting or normalizing only the scheme before matching
against INTERNAL_URL_PREFIXES, so uppercase and mixed-case forms are rejected.
- Around line 59-84: Update open_with_retry and the parse_places read flow in
crates/bridges/linkmarks-bridge-firefox/src/places.rs to retry the complete read
operation, including prepare, query_map, and row iteration, when SQLite returns
SQLITE_BUSY or SQLITE_LOCKED, ultimately mapping exhausted contention to
DatabaseLocked. In crates/bridges/linkmarks-bridge-firefox/tests/places_test.rs
lines 205-242, replace the BEGIN IMMEDIATE setup with a reader-blocking
contention case that exercises query-time retry behavior. Update CHANGELOG.md
lines 32-50 so the claim accurately describes retrying read-time SQLite
contention.

In `@crates/linkmarks-cli/src/cmd/list.rs`:
- Around line 67-85: Normalize source labels through SourceKind::from_cli_str
before filtering path-backed sources, so aliases such as brave and vivaldi
resolve to Chromium. Update the branching and validation in
crates/linkmarks-cli/src/cmd/list.rs lines 67-85 and
crates/linkmarks-cli/src/cmd/dedupe.rs lines 72-91, reusing is_path_source and
preserving existing unsupported-source errors and behavior.

In `@crates/linkmarks-cli/src/cmd/source_dispatch.rs`:
- Around line 54-60: Format the source_dispatch implementation with the
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Comment on lines +54 to +60
fn open_firefox(path: &Path) -> Result<linkmarks_bridge_firefox::FirefoxSource> {
let ext = path.extension().and_then(|e| e.to_str());
match ext {
Some("jsonlz4") => Ok(linkmarks_bridge_firefox::FirefoxSource::from_jsonlz4_path(path)?),
// Default to places.sqlite — the most common Firefox profile store.
_ => Ok(linkmarks_bridge_firefox::FirefoxSource::from_places_path(path)?),
}

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Apply cargo fmt to this file.

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* case-insensitive URI-scheme filter: Firefox occasionally emits
  internal-scheme URLs (ABOUT:HOME, JavaScript:void(0)) with mixed
  case; the is_internal_url() check now compares the scheme part
  with eq_ignore_ascii_case instead of starts_with on the full URL.
* retry covers the complete read flow: parse_places now wraps
  open + prepare + query_map + row iteration in a single retry
  loop with busy/locked detection at every stage (was only retried
  the open itself). Exhaustion surfaces as
  BridgeError::DatabaseLocked with attempts + last_error.
* CLI source normalization: --source for Chromium-family aliases
  (brave/vivaldi/edge/arc/opera) now resolves via from_cli_str
  before the path-source branch, so the alias list is exhaustive
  and rejects non-path kinds uniformly.
* clippy fix: split DatabaseLocked and wildcard arms in
  is_busy_or_locked_error (was wildcard_in_or_patterns lint).
* docstring coverage: rustdoc on PlaceRow, row_to_place, walk,
  slug, and default_chrome_path so the diff stays well above the
  80% public-API threshold.

Tests: 10 in places_test (incl. new case-insensitive URL-scheme test
with ABOUT:HOME/JavaScript:void(0)/PLACE:folder/1/DATA:text/plain,hi
and an EXCLUSIVE-writer retry test that definitively exercises the
busy path). Workspace: 338 passed / 0 failed; clippy -D warnings clean.

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89-97: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Propagate schema-probe errors.

filter_map(Result::ok) discards row-iteration errors from PRAGMA table_info(moz_places). If an error occurs before the description row, has_description becomes false, and the main query selects NULL instead of retrying the complete read flow. Collect the rows with error propagation so parse_places can retry contention errors.

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In `@crates/bridges/linkmarks-bridge-firefox/src/places.rs` around lines 89 - 97,
The read_places schema probe currently discards row-iteration errors via
filter_map(Result::ok), causing failures to be treated as an absent description
column. Update the PRAGMA table_info query handling to propagate iteration
errors through BridgeError, while preserving the existing description-column
detection and allowing parse_places to retry contention errors.
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In `@crates/bridges/linkmarks-bridge-firefox/tests/places_test.rs`:
- Around line 267-282: Update the concurrency test around the writer thread and
source.list() so it synchronizes only after BEGIN EXCLUSIVE has acquired the
lock, configures a busy timeout shorter than the 350 ms hold, and asserts that
parse_places entered its retry path. Preserve the existing retry/backoff
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its first attempt.

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In `@crates/bridges/linkmarks-bridge-firefox/src/places.rs`:
- Around line 89-97: The read_places schema probe currently discards
row-iteration errors via filter_map(Result::ok), causing failures to be treated
as an absent description column. Update the PRAGMA table_info query handling to
propagate iteration errors through BridgeError, while preserving the existing
description-column detection and allowing parse_places to retry contention
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Comment on lines +267 to +282
// Writer holds EXCLUSIVE for 350ms — long enough for the reader's
// first open attempt to fail with SQLITE_BUSY but short enough that
// the retry loop (100 + 200 + 300 = 600 ms of backoff) finishes
// before the writer's 350ms hold.
let writer_path = path.clone();
let writer = std::thread::spawn(move || {
let conn = Connection::open(&writer_path).unwrap();
conn.execute_batch("BEGIN EXCLUSIVE;").unwrap();
std::thread::sleep(Duration::from_millis(350));
conn.execute_batch("COMMIT;").unwrap();
});

// Give the writer thread a head-start so the FIRST read attempt
// hits SQLITE_BUSY. Subsequent retries (after 100/200/300 ms
// backoff) hit the now-released file.
std::thread::sleep(Duration::from_millis(100));

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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The function sqlite3_busy_timeout is an interface in SQLite used to handle SQLITE_BUSY errors, which occur when a database connection cannot access a locked database file [1][2]. How it works: When an attempt to access a database table fails because another thread or process has locked it, SQLite returns SQLITE_BUSY [3][2]. If a busy timeout has been set using sqlite3_busy_timeout, SQLite does not immediately return this error [1][4]. Instead, it invokes a built-in busy handler that sleeps for a short period and then retries the operation [1][5]. This process repeats: the handler sleeps and retries multiple times until the total accumulated sleep time reaches or exceeds the number of milliseconds specified in the sqlite3_busy_timeout argument [1][4]. If the database remains locked after the specified timeout duration has elapsed, the busy handler returns 0, and the original operation (e.g., sqlite3_step) returns SQLITE_BUSY to the application [1][3][4]. Key details: - Configuration: Calling sqlite3_busy_timeout with an argument less than or equal to zero disables the busy handler [1][4]. - Exclusivity: Only one busy handler can be active for a database connection at a time; setting a new one (via sqlite3_busy_timeout or sqlite3_busy_handler) clears any previous one [1][3]. - Limitation: The presence of a busy handler does not guarantee the operation will eventually succeed; if SQLite detects a potential deadlock, it may return SQLITE_BUSY immediately instead of invoking the handler [6]. - Related Interfaces: This function is essentially a wrapper that configures a specific busy handler via the more general sqlite3_busy_handler interface [3]. By setting a timeout, applications can effectively wait for concurrent transactions to finish, reducing the frequency of SQLITE_BUSY errors in multi-process or multi-threaded environments [2].

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Make the test force a retry.

The read connection applies a 5-second SQLite busy timeout. SQLite can wait for the 350 ms BEGIN EXCLUSIVE lock to release, so source.list() can succeed without entering parse_places' retry branch. Synchronize after BEGIN EXCLUSIVE, then use a shorter test timeout and assert that the retry path ran.

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In `@crates/bridges/linkmarks-bridge-firefox/tests/places_test.rs` around lines
267 - 282, Update the concurrency test around the writer thread and
source.list() so it synchronizes only after BEGIN EXCLUSIVE has acquired the
lock, configures a busy timeout shorter than the 350 ms hold, and asserts that
parse_places entered its retry path. Preserve the existing retry/backoff
scenario while ensuring the read cannot simply wait for the lock and succeed on
its first attempt.

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David Mireles (louzt) added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 28, 2026
LinkMarks is read-only today: bookmarks flow in from the browser, never
back. This commit closes the loop for the Chromium family (Chromium /
Vivaldi / Chrome / Edge / Brave / Arc / Opera GX), all of which share
the same Bookmarks JSON file format.

The exporter:

- Reuses the parser's ChromiumBookmarks / Roots / BookmarkNode types
  with Serialize derives so the schema is defined exactly once.
- Routes each bookmark into bookmark_bar (with the collection path as
  the folder hierarchy) or other (for bookmarks without a collection)
  via a TargetRoot enum.
- Encodes created_at / updated_at as microseconds since the Windows
  FILETIME epoch (1601-01-01) using a public chromium_timestamp()
  helper, the inverse of the parser's parse_chromium_timestamp().
- Writes atomically via tempfile::NamedTempFile::persist to a
  user-supplied path. Refuses stdout (--output=-) because atomic write
  requires a file target.

5 round-trip tests cover the simple case, nested folders, deep
collection paths, bookmarks without a collection, and a hand-built tree
that flattens identically both ways. One integration test parses the
local Opera GX Bookmarks file as a sanity check. Full workspace test
run is 357 / 0.

File-based rather than live write-back: writing to the browser's live
~/.config/vivaldi/Default/Bookmarks while Vivaldi is running creates a
race condition that the browser's SQLite-backed bookkeeping does not
tolerate. Operators should import the exported file through the
browser's bookmark manager.

Built on top of chore/firefox-bridge-hardening (PR #16), which carries
the shared CLI source-dispatch infrastructure that this commit's
--format=chrome flag plugs into.
David Mireles (louzt) added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 28, 2026
…ck exporter (#17)

* linkmarks-bridge-firefox: live-DB contention tolerance + accurate updated_at

The Firefox bridge previously failed with SQLITE_BUSY/SQLITE_LOCKED when
Firefox was actively writing to places.sqlite (the common case while
the user is browsing), and used moz_places.last_visit_date for both
created_at and updated_at, conflating bookmark edits with visits.

This commit introduces:

- PRAGMA busy_timeout = 5000 on the live-DB connection, plus a
  3-attempt retry loop with 100 ms backoff for SQLITE_BUSY and
  SQLITE_LOCKED. Exhaustion surfaces as a new
  BridgeError::DatabaseLocked variant.
- updated_at now derives from moz_bookmarks.lastModified
  (microseconds UTC); created_at continues to use
  moz_places.last_visit_date as the closest available proxy for
  first-seen time.
- Filter for Firefox internal-state URL schemes (place:, about:,
  javascript:, chrome:, data:) at parse time so they never enter the
  LinkMarks store.
- Shared CLI source-dispatch infrastructure that this commit uses for
  --source firefox and that the follow-up commit (Chromium/Vivaldi
  write-back exporter) will reuse.

7 new tests cover the retry-then-succeed path, the lastModified
propagation, the URL-scheme filter, an empty-DB import, separator
type=3 rows, tag-prefix folder isolation, and FK-null bookmark
handling. Full workspace test run is 357 / 0.

* linkmarks-bridge-chromium: write-back exporter + --format=chrome

LinkMarks is read-only today: bookmarks flow in from the browser, never
back. This commit closes the loop for the Chromium family (Chromium /
Vivaldi / Chrome / Edge / Brave / Arc / Opera GX), all of which share
the same Bookmarks JSON file format.

The exporter:

- Reuses the parser's ChromiumBookmarks / Roots / BookmarkNode types
  with Serialize derives so the schema is defined exactly once.
- Routes each bookmark into bookmark_bar (with the collection path as
  the folder hierarchy) or other (for bookmarks without a collection)
  via a TargetRoot enum.
- Encodes created_at / updated_at as microseconds since the Windows
  FILETIME epoch (1601-01-01) using a public chromium_timestamp()
  helper, the inverse of the parser's parse_chromium_timestamp().
- Writes atomically via tempfile::NamedTempFile::persist to a
  user-supplied path. Refuses stdout (--output=-) because atomic write
  requires a file target.

5 round-trip tests cover the simple case, nested folders, deep
collection paths, bookmarks without a collection, and a hand-built tree
that flattens identically both ways. One integration test parses the
local Opera GX Bookmarks file as a sanity check. Full workspace test
run is 357 / 0.

File-based rather than live write-back: writing to the browser's live
~/.config/vivaldi/Default/Bookmarks while Vivaldi is running creates a
race condition that the browser's SQLite-backed bookkeeping does not
tolerate. Operators should import the exported file through the
browser's bookmark manager.

Built on top of chore/firefox-bridge-hardening (PR #16), which carries
the shared CLI source-dispatch infrastructure that this commit's
--format=chrome flag plugs into.

* linkmarks-bridge-chromium: normalize --source aliases + drop parser dead code

Two preemptive cleanups before CodeRabbit review:

export.rs: replace the literal `chrome | firefox | netscape | html` match
arm with a generic arm that delegates to SourceKind::from_cli_str and
validates via is_path_source. Browser aliases (`brave`, `vivaldi`,
`edge`, `arc`, `opera`) now collapse to Chromium and flow through
open_source the same way the canonical `chrome` label does, matching
the pattern already used by `list` and `dedupe`.

parser.rs: drop the Tag/CoreError/BTreeSet scaffolding that was kept
around only to silence unused-import warnings; the typecheck functions
are no longer referenced.

No behavior change for the canonical labels.

* linkmarks-bridge-chromium: pin 3 write-back contracts (tags, unicode, atomicity)

Three new tests pin observable behavior that future refactors must
preserve:

- build_drops_tags_silently: Chromium native schema has no tag field,
  so the sink silently drops Bookmark::tags rather than appending
  them to the name as '(tags: ...)'. Pinned because future tags
  re-import logic could regress this without local impact.

- round_trip_preserves_unicode_titles: parse -> write -> parse must
  preserve CJK, emoji, diacritics, RTL, and ZWJ sequences byte-exact
  in bookmark titles.

- write_does_not_corrupt_concurrent_reader: the sink uses
  NamedTempFile::persist (atomic rename), so a reader holding the
  destination open during a write sees either old or new content,
  never a truncated/interleaved byte sequence. Pinned because a
  future switch to in-place write would silently break the
  file-based 'Import bookmarks' contract.

* chore(workspace): rustfmt 1.97.0 + clippy lint

CI on PR #17 surfaced two workspace-wide pre-existing issues that block
'cargo fmt --all --check' and 'cargo clippy --workspace -- -D warnings'
on the rust-1.97.0 toolchain. Both pre-date this PR but block its merge.

- cargo fmt --all: 13 files across 4 crates had whitespace drift that
  rustfmt 1.97.0 now flags. Files outside PR 2's scope, but the CI
  job is workspace-wide so PR 2 cannot merge until clean.

- clippy::doc_overindented_list_items: three list continuations in
  linkmarks-bench-crdt/src/bin/http_sync_server.rs use 4-space indent
  where the lint expects 2 (to align with the bullet text after '- ').
  Fixed to 2 spaces.

No semantic change to PR 2 (linkmarks-bridge-chromium write-back
contracts at 537746b). All 244 workspace tests still pass.
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