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fix(engine): validate model files and preserve repeated inputs - #1474
model.import checks the versions already emitted by model and web-tool writers before interpreting graphs or steps. It refuses unsupported content, unknown file/graph/node/connection/step fields, invalid parameter shapes, graphs that would discard nodes/connections, connections using unknown ports, multiple connections into single-valued ports, connections from inputs without layer names or with names ambiguous in derived steps, cyclic graphs, IDs needing trimming/truncation, and positions outside supported bounds. Files containing both a graph and steps are also refused. Refusal leaves the current project and undo/redo history intact and reports update or file-repair advice. Imported names that need trimming, shortening, replacement or disambiguation produce one notice.
The shared graph reader preserves repeated connections into multi-input ports, matching the existing step writer and runtime. Inputs such as merge.inputs: "A;A" survive import, save, rename and both named-model and explicit-graph export. Single-input duplicate cleanup and trust handling are unchanged.
Current writer output and unversioned legacy files remain supported, including step files with 1,001–2,000 steps. Graph conversion (including model.validate) refuses oversized models and invalid step references (including references to steps without layer outputs) before construction/layout instead of exporting a partial graph or replacing the current canvas. Original steps remain available to run or share as a web tool. File layouts, version numbers, model types and command parameters are unchanged.
Testing
cargo xtask ci: passed (workspace formatting, Clippy, native tests, isolated relay test and layer checks).
Four engine regressions cover text/base64/path refusal, unchanged session state/history, unknown-port, unassigned/ambiguous-input, single-input cardinality and loop refusal, default-name collisions, current/legacy writer round trips, repeated inputs through save/rename and both export routes, conversion/refused-reference errors without overwriting output, unknown/mixed file contents, and notices for changed names from current writer output.
A ModelBuilder regression checks that command, import and pending-open failures retain the previous canvas and original steps.
Standards and Spec reviews: concrete findings fixed; no remaining findings.
UI evidence
Before attempting the oversized model, and after refusal. The existing canvas stays open and the original large step model remains listed.
Before attempt
After refusal
" Padded " imports as "Padded" with a notice; the graph stays intact:
Related issue
Part of #1405 item 2: existing file compatibility and supported round trips.
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Bug Fixes
Failed or incompatible imports leave the current project unchanged.
Invalid model data is rejected before nodes or connections can be lost.
Repeated inputs in multi-input tools are preserved through import, export, and re-import.
Failed model openings show an error without replacing the current canvas.
Oversized or invalid exports fail without replacing existing files.
Improvements
Imports check file versions and content, and report unsupported or unreadable data. Supported files with or without a version marker remain importable.
Converting step-based models to graphs is limited to 1,000 steps and stops on invalid step references. Larger models can still run as steps or be shared as web tools.
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Walkthrough
Model imports now validate file versions and structure before interpreting graph or web-tool contents. Step-based models use bounded graph conversion. The changes preserve repeated connections on many-valued ports and include workflow tests and user-guide updates.
Changes: Model import and graph conversion
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Summary
File checks and graph conversion crates/engine/src/model.rs
The file checker validates versions, fields, structure, and import limits. Graph parsing retains repeated connections on many-valued ports. Step-to-graph conversion rejects inputs that exceed graph limits or contain invalid references.
Import and ModelBuilder handling crates/engine/src/cmd/sharing.rs, crates/engine/src/cmd/workflows.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/modelbuilder.rs
model.import checks parsed JSON before importing graph or steps. Graph workflows and ModelBuilder use checked conversion and report load errors. Web-tool exports use a shared version constant.
Workflow verification and import documentation crates/engine/tests/workflows.rs, docs/user-guide/analysis.md
Tests cover rejected imports, round trips, repeated merge inputs, and failed large-step loads. The guide describes import validation and graph limits.
sequenceDiagram
participant User
participant ImportCommand as model.import
participant FileChecker as check_file
participant ImportPath as graph or steps import
User->>ImportCommand: Submit model file
ImportCommand->>FileChecker: Check parsed JSON
FileChecker-->>ImportCommand: Return validation result
ImportCommand->>ImportPath: Import supported content
ImportPath-->>User: Return imported model
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Possibly related issues
opengeos/RustGIS#1405: The PR checks file compatibility before graph interpretation and rejects malformed or lossy imports, addressing the issue’s stated item 2.
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A rabbit checks each model file, Then bounds the paths that stretch a mile. Repeated inputs stay in line, While graphs pass checks before they shine. The canvas waits till loads succeed, And tests confirm each guarded deed.
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Nodes and connections can still vanish on import without a notice.check_file refuses only nodes that fail to deserialize. The import then calls graph_from_json (model.rs:417-456), which still drops silently:
nodes with an empty id after trim(), or a repeated id (model.rs:428-432);
edges that fail to deserialize, point at a missing node, have an empty toPort, or repeat an existing edge (model.rs:444-449).
Unknown node fields are also ignored, because ModelNode has no deny_unknown_fields. A hand-written or agent-written node with a typo such as "parms" imports with its parameters gone and no notice.
Example: a *.model.json with an edge that omits toPort imports with that connection missing. The tool then runs with its default input, or fails later with an unrelated error.
The PR says "malformed graph nodes are refused instead of silently disappearing", and AGENTS.md says a reader that drops data must say what, how much and where. Either refuse these cases in check_file, or report them through a notice, and add a regression test for each. Confidence: high that the drop happens (read from the code), medium on whether it is in scope for this slice.
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Reproduced the omitted nodes/connections and lost parameters through CLI import/save. Fixed in d4f1c85d: file import now refuses unknown node/connection fields, malformed parameter containers, and any node or connection the existing normalizer would discard. Refusal reports the omitted counts and leaves the project and undo/redo history unchanged. Expanded regressions cover text, base64 and path imports; native CI, WebAssembly and hooks passed. Direct graph commands keep their existing behavior.
Silent drops on the import path the PR hardens (inline on model.rs:709).check_file refuses only nodes that fail to deserialize. Nodes with an empty or repeated id, and edges with a missing toPort, a missing target or a repeated edge, are still dropped silently by graph_from_json. Unknown node fields are also ignored, so a typo like "parms" loses data with no notice. This contradicts the PR's "refused instead of silently disappearing" claim and AGENTS.md's "Never silent" rule. Confidence: high that the drop happens; medium on whether it belongs in this slice.
Security
None found. The new check runs before any state change, enforces MAX_NODES before walking nodes, and uses no indexing or unwraps in non-test code. Refused imports leave the project and history unchanged, and the UI drop path also goes through model.import.
Performance
Nodes are deserialized twice (once in check_file, once in graph_from_json). With the 2000-node cap this is negligible.
Quality
The MAX_NODES check and node parsing are duplicated between check_file and graph_from_json. Consider a single validation pass. Confidence: high.
The "Update RustGIS to import this model" advice also appears for a malformed hand-written node and for "version": null, where updating won't help. Confidence: medium.
The new regression test does not cover empty ids, repeated ids or bad edges. The direct model.new call with the branch node succeeds silently, and the test doesn't assert that. Confidence: high.
AGENTS.md
Compliant on crash safety, the wasm build and layering. The "Never silent" gap above is the only rule concern. docs/user-guide/analysis.md describes the refusal accurately, but it also implies all unreadable nodes are refused, which is not yet true.
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Earlier concerns left alone: 0. There are no prior review threads.
I could not check git history, so I cannot confirm that no released build wrote a different version marker (for example "1.0"). If one did, its files are now refused. Confidence: low; the PR states that only current and unversioned files are affected.
Change size
Compared with main (merge base 5f79ae2 to PR head 8b66486).
The rejection table has no integer 1 on a graph file and no "1.0.0" string on a steps file. check_file rejects both forms today. A future change that accepts either swapped form would still pass this test. Adding one row for each form makes each envelope type test its own version representation.
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Review comment at @crates/engine/tests/workflows.rs around lines 33 - 39:
Add rejection cases to the test table in check_file’s workflow tests for an
integer version on a graph file and a "1.0.0" string version on a steps file;
assert both return the existing unsupported-version error.
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Review comments at @crates/engine/src/model.rs:
- Around line 708-710: Update check_file to normalize each successfully
deserialized ModelNode ID exactly as graph_from_json does, trimming whitespace
and limiting it to 100 characters. Reject the file if a normalized ID is empty
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The reproduced import losses are fixed in d4f1c85d, with details in the inline reply. The direct model.new regression asserts success through unwrap. Writer history on main shows graph version 1.0.0 since 71ed0645 and web-tool version 1 since c32009b6; no alternate marker appeared in that history. The single-pass refactor and generic update-message wording are left for the release quality pass.
The blank/repeated-ID loss is fixed in d4f1c85d and covered by the import regression. The suggested swapped-version rows cover behavior already implemented and are left for the release quality pass.
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This assertion pins a silent loss. The graph here has a kind: "branch" node, which graph_from_json drops (crates/engine/src/model.rs:428, the let Ok(mut node) ... else { continue } path) with no notice. The test only checks that model.new returns Ok, so the drop passes.
The PR leaves direct graph commands out of scope, which is reasonable for this change. AGENTS.md still says existing silent losses are bugs, so this test should not present the silent drop as expected behaviour. Either assert that a notice is raised, or leave this case out and track the direct-command sanitization as a follow-up.
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This checks that the file-only guard has not changed the direct command boundary; it does not assert that any node was dropped or that no notice was emitted. The existing silent-drop behavior of direct graph commands remains outside this PR. Clarifying or removing that assertion is left for the release quality pass.
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The earlier deferral is withdrawn. 4171071 removes the direct-command assertion that treated silent dropping of the unsupported branch node as expected behavior. File-import refusal remains covered. Native CI passed.
I read the diff, the surrounding model.rs graph code and the callers of model.import. I didn't run the tests, since I had no shell here, so the results below come from reading the code.
Bugs
None found. check_file rejects every case that graph_from_json would silently drop: blank or repeated node IDs, edges to missing nodes, edges with an empty toPort, and duplicate edges. The count comparison catches all of them. The one case the PR doesn't cover is direct graph commands, which it leaves out of scope on purpose. Confidence: high.
Security
None found. The new code is bounded by MAX_NODES and MAX_EDGES, runs before any session state changes, and has no unwrap or indexing in non-test code. Confidence: high.
Performance
check_file runs graph_from_json once, and model.new runs it again on the same graph. Node deserialization also happens twice. Every step is bounded by the limits, so the cost is small. Confidence: high that it's duplicated, low that it matters.
Quality
Inline comment posted at crates/engine/tests/workflows.rs:86. The "Direct graph commands" case asserts only that model.new succeeds. The branch node is silently dropped, and AGENTS.md treats existing silent losses as bugs, so the test pins behaviour the rules forbid. Confidence: high.
The node error at crates/engine/src/model.rs:719 drops the serde reason. A hand-broken node therefore gets "Update RustGIS", which is misleading advice. Confidence: medium.
The message at model.rs:744 reads "would discard 0 node(s) and 1 connection(s)" when only edges are lost. Confidence: high. Nit.
AGENTS.md
Trimmed or truncated node IDs (model.rs:429) and non-finite x/y values (model.rs:433) are changed without a notice. Both are edge cases, and the check doesn't report them. Confidence: low to medium.
Legacy unversioned files now fail on unknown node or edge keys. The PR tests legacy support only against the current writer's output. If older writers emitted extra keys, those files are now refused. I couldn't verify this without history. Confidence: low.
Prior reviews
I left 2 earlier concerns alone. Both are about silent node and edge drops, and the current code covers them. The first concern is still unresolved on the thread, so the thread can probably be closed.
Change size
Compared with the base branch (merge base 5f79ae2 to PR head d4f1c85).
The import guard has no new bug finding in this review. The direct-command assertion is answered inline. The duplicate parsing, serde-error advice and zero-count wording are left for the release quality pass. ID and coordinate normalization already exist in graph_from_json and are unchanged here; this slice refuses unsupported fields and omitted nodes/connections rather than redesigning graph normalization. For the legacy-field concern, ModelNodeKind, ModelNode and ModelEdge match the types introduced with the graph writer in 71ed0645, and the main-branch field history shows no removed graph-node or edge fields. The current and unversioned writer round trips pass.
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Unknown fields on steps and on the graph itself still import silently.check_file refuses unknown fields only on nodes and connections. A web tool (no graph) returns Ok right after the version check, so its steps are read later by serde_json::from_value::<ModelStep> in new_model. ModelStep (project.rs:527) has no deny_unknown_fields, so a step written by a newer RustGIS with an extra field, for example "when": …, imports with that field gone and no notice. The same applies to any key the graph object carries beyond nodes and edges: read_graph ignores it.
That is the same loss the PR's refusal covers for nodes, and AGENTS.md says a reader that drops data must say what, how much and where. A fix in the same shape as the node check would be ImportItem::<ModelStep> for each entry in steps, plus a check on the keys of graph other than nodes/edges, refusing with "Update RustGIS to import this model." and a count. Add a clean-input assertion that no notice is raised.
Confidence: medium-high that this is a gap; the code path is clear from reading.
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Reproduced both field losses through CLI import/save, plus an oversized step file silently becoming 2,000 steps. Fixed in e9fad955. The file guard refuses unknown graph keys and unknown or unreadable step fields, and checks the existing step limit before truncation. The regression covers text, base64 and path inputs with unchanged project/path/saved state/history; actual current and legacy writer round trips remain quiet. Full native CI (4,190 tests), WebAssembly and hooks passed.
None found in the changed code. The repeated-input path, the version gate, and the lost-node/connection counts agree with the writers (steps_to_graph only produces repeated edges into many-valued ports, so the round-trip tests hold by reading). Confidence: high.
Security
None. The new imported reads on model.new only make the reader stricter or change edge retention. The imported flag already gates file-touching trust, and model.new stays on the plugin NEVER list. Confidence: high.
Performance
check_file and new_model both normalize the same graph, and g.edges.contains is O(E) per edge. Bounded by MAX_NODES and MAX_EDGES, so this is minor. Confidence: high that it's harmless.
Quality
read_graph's doc comment ("Shares graph sanitization") reads awkwardly, and the imported parameter docs in workflows.rs:22,25 don't mention that it now keeps repeated edges. Left for the release quality pass.
Node x/y are clamped or reset to 0 when non-finite, and node ids are truncated to 100 chars, all without a notice. These are small but are silent approximations on the file path. Confidence: medium.
AGENTS.md
Never silent, steps and graph-level fields (inline comment posted at crates/engine/src/model.rs:716): a web tool's steps and any graph key beyond nodes/edges import without a notice when they come from a newer writer. Confidence: medium-high.
Nothing else found against the rules. Tests cover both lossy and clean inputs, the crash rules hold (no unwrap in non-test code), and the docs were updated.
Already raised and left alone (3): the direct-command silent-drop assertion at workflows.rs:86 (author replied, scope deferred); the earlier unknown-field and repeated-merge threads, which are outdated and fixed in d4f1c85; and the blank/repeated ID thread, which is resolved.
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Compared: the whole PR against main (merge base 5f79ae2 to PR head 0a9da8f).
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The repeated-input change reaches every direct graph command, not only file import.graph_from_json is the reader for model.new (workflows.rs:416), model.save (:519) and model_graph (:490), so a graph passed to any of them now keeps duplicate edges into many-valued ports. The PR description says direct graph commands keep their existing sanitization, and the reply on the earlier thread says "the ordinary graph parser keeps its existing deduplication" and cites a graph_from_import reader. No such function exists in this head (a grep of crates/ finds none), so that reply describes code that isn't here.
The behaviour may well be the right one (it matches how steps write A;A), but it is a change to the direct path that the description says doesn't happen and no test covers. Either say so in the description, or split an import-only reader out of graph_from_json so the direct commands keep their current behaviour.
Confidence: high on the mismatch, medium on whether it is harmful.
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The earlier description and import-only-reader reply described 0a9da8fe, not the current implementation. The PR description now reflects the shared-reader fix in e9fad955: repeated connections to a many-valued input are preserved for every caller. The existing steps writer emits these connections, and the validator/runtime already support them. Restricting this to import makes model.save and the UI’s explicit-graph export lose the repeated input again. The regression exercises import, save with rename, named export and explicit-graph export. Single-input duplicate cleanup and trust handling are unchanged. The save-path thread also confirms that the import-only recommendation is no longer needed: #1474 (comment).
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Re-raising this one, because the earlier reply defers it to the release quality pass and AGENTS.md doesn't allow that. The "Review comments" section puts silent data loss in the fix-in-PR group, and "Existing silent losses are bugs" is the testing rule. Here the branch node is dropped by graph_from_json with no notice, and the test passes on that drop.
Options: have the direct path report the drop through Session::notify and assert the notice, or remove the branch case from this test until the direct path is fixed. Asserting only Ok pins the loss.
Confidence: high that AGENTS.md classes this as a PR fix. The notice itself would need graph_from_json to return a drop count, which is a larger change.
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Removed the direct-command assertion in 4171071; it no longer pins dropping an unsupported branch node as expected behavior. The file-import regression still verifies refusal without mutation. Native CI passed.
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File import still changes node data without a notice.check_file now counts dropped nodes and connections, but graph_from_json (unchanged code, model.rs:430) trims and truncates every id to 100 characters, and clamps x/y to ±1e6 at lines 438–439. Neither is counted. A file with an isolated node whose id is 150 characters imports with a 100-character id and no warning. An edge that uses the long id is dropped and refused, but the refusal text says "empty or duplicate node IDs" and never mentions length.
AGENTS.md says a reader that approximates data must say so. Possible fix: in this node loop, refuse any node whose raw id differs from its normalized form, with a count. Positions can be reported the same way, or left as cosmetic if you decide they don't count as data.
Confidence: medium-high. I did not run it; this is from reading the code.
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Fixed in 4171071. Import now refuses IDs needing trimming/truncation and nonfinite/out-of-bounds canvas positions before the graph reader can change them. Regressions cover padded/long IDs and clamped/reset positions through text, base64 and file input with unchanged session state. My earlier normalization deferral was too broad and is withdrawn. Native CI, wasm and publication checks passed.
Medium: the repeated-input change in graph_from_json also applies to direct graph commands (model.new, model.save, model_graph). The PR says direct commands keep their existing sanitization, and the earlier reply cites a graph_from_import reader that does not exist in this head. Confidence: high on the mismatch, medium on harm. Posted inline at crates/engine/src/model.rs:450.
Medium: file import still silently truncates node ids to 100 characters and clamps x/y to ±1e6. check_file only counts dropped nodes and connections, so these changes are not reported. Confidence: medium-high, from reading the code only. Posted inline at crates/engine/src/model.rs:723.
Security
None found in the changed lines. Input is bounded by MAX_NODES/MAX_EDGES, there are no new unwrap/expect/panic calls in non-test code, and the new check runs before any state change.
Performance
None significant. repeated_input does an O(N) node lookup and an input_ports call per edge, and the bounds keep this small.
Quality
Re-raised: the direct-command silent drop pinned by workflows.rs:89. The earlier reply defers it to the release quality pass, but AGENTS.md treats silent data loss as a fix-in-PR bug. Confidence: high. Posted inline.
Nits, not posted inline: the refusal advice for duplicate connections into single-valued ports says "invalid connections" and never mentions duplicates. The graph_from_json doc comment has two paragraphs merged without a blank line. The new sharing.rs doc comment wording is loose. The "Update RustGIS" assertion in the refusal test only covers some message kinds.
AGENTS.md
Test-side unwrap calls are allowed by clippy.toml. The docs change matches the behaviour. The checks follow the "Never silent" rule for the refusal path, but the truncation and clamping above are unreported.
Prior threads: 5 left alone
Already addressed in the head code and not re-raised: model.rs:707 (step and graph-level unknown fields, now checked), model.rs:709 (dropped nodes and connections, fixed in d4f1c85), workflows.rs:416 (repeated inputs on save, outdated), model.rs:725 and model.rs:753 (both resolved).
Re-raised once: workflows.rs:89, for the reason above.
Checked and not a problem
Every desktop, CLI and tool entry point routes through model.import, so check_file is not bypassed.
Writers emit only keys the readers accept, so the unknown-field refusal does not reject RustGIS's own output.
Single-valued ports get one edge per step, so the steps writer cannot emit duplicates into them.
Two inline comments were not posted as first anchored. The model.rs:430 anchor was rejected because that line is not in the diff. I re-anchored the comment to model.rs:723, and its text still refers to line 430.
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The graph/step field losses, step truncation and repeated-input save/export loss are fixed in e9fad955, with details in the inline replies. Removing the import-only parser also removes the helper and imported-parameter wording concerns. Existing identifier and canvas-layout normalization remains; node collisions and broken connections are refused by the count checks. The single-pass parsing refactor and additional notices for existing normalization are left for the release quality pass.
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- Line 449: Restore shared duplicate-edge filtering in graph_from_json so direct
graph commands retain their existing sanitization. Move the many-valued-port
exception into a separate import reader and use that reader in the import
validation path, preserving multiplicity only for imports.
- Around line 756-757: Update the steps-count validation in check_file to reject
more than MAX_NODES / 2 steps, matching the capacity of steps_to_graph; report
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- Line 760: Update the steps validation in check_file after deserializing each
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4171071 refuses lossy ID/position normalization, rejects non-object step parameters, and removes the direct-command assertion that pinned dropping an unsupported branch. The earlier normalization/test deferrals are withdrawn. Oversized step-to-graph conversion now errors while retaining the original steps and current canvas. The shared-reader repeated-input behavior and corrected PR description are explained in the inline replies. Native CI, wasm and publication checks passed.
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Silent loss of invalid %n references in the graph conversion. When a step refers to %n with n outside the earlier steps (forward, %0, or past the end), this continue drops the connection, and the caller's params.remove(port.id) (steps_to_graph, line 375) then removes the value too. Opening or saving the model as a graph loses the reference with no notice. The run path already errors on it (workflows.rs:609: "uses %n, but step n made no output layer"), so the model is unusable as steps and the conversion should say so rather than rewrite it.
Suggested change, so the checked conversion refuses instead of skipping:
Suggested change
Some(n)if !(1..=index).contains(&n) => continue,
Some(n)if !(1..=index).contains(&n) => {
returnErr(format!("model step {} uses %{n}, which is not an earlier step. The original steps have not been changed.", index + 1));
}
Confidence: high that the reference is dropped (read from the code path); medium-high that it should be an error, since AGENTS.md says unusable results are errors. A test with a forward %n reference would pin this either way.
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Fixed in 9fc66b5. Checked graph conversion now rejects zero, self, forward and out-of-range numeric step references before the converter can remove their parameter value. Regressions import legacy step files using %0/%2, then verify failed graph export preserves the stored model and existing destination file. Native CI, wasm and publication checks passed.
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The discard prompt comes before the conversion check. When the canvas is dirty, open sets confirm and returns without calling load_saved. So for an oversized step model the user is asked "discard unsaved changes?", accepts, and only then gets the "graph conversion supports at most 1000" notice, with the canvas left as it was. Nothing is lost, but the prompt promises something the code then refuses.
Suggest running checked_steps_to_graph (or a shared helper) before setting confirm, so the refusal shows up immediately and the prompt only appears for a model that can be opened.
Confidence: medium (UX rather than data loss). Quality point; can wait for the release quality pass if the maintainers prefer.
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Left for the release quality pass. This affects prompt timing; failed conversion leaves the current canvas and original stored model intact, including after accepting the discard prompt. The existing ModelBuilder regression covers that path.
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Top-level keys beyond graph/steps import silently. The unknown-field refusal covers node, connection and graph-object keys, but not the file's own top-level keys. A model file with graph and steps both present imports the graph and ignores steps. A future top-level key (for example a description) is dropped without a notice. Current writers emit only $schema, version, name, graph (or format, version, name, steps, parameters), so this only bites a file from a newer writer. The version check is meant to catch that, so I rate this low confidence.
Possible fix: refuse a file that has both graph and steps, and refuse top-level keys outside each format's known set, with the same "Update RustGIS to import this model." wording.
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Fixed in 9fc66b5. File import now refuses an envelope containing both graph and steps, and unknown top-level fields outside the keys emitted by each current writer. The refusal regression covers graph/web-tool unknown fields and mixed payloads through text, base64 and file input with unchanged session state. Current and unversioned actual writer output still round-trips. Native CI and wasm passed.
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Major · Reject loops during import. Otherwise, web-tool export silently drops every… · model.rs:829-836
crates/engine/src/model.rs:829-836 Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win
Reject loops during import. Otherwise, web-tool export silently drops every step.
A graph file that contains a loop passes check_file. The check covers node and edge shape, IDs, positions, normalization loss, and connection ports. It does not call topological_order. new_model then stores graph_to_steps(&g), which returns an empty list for a loop. The imported model keeps its graph, but its steps are empty.
The web-tool export in share.webTool reads m.steps and does not check for this case. It writes a tool with "steps": [] and returns success. The loop is not reported.
Refuse loops during import, as the run path already does.
Suggested fix
if lost_nodes > 0 || lost_edges > 0 {
return Err(format!(
"this model would discard {lost_nodes} node(s) and {lost_edges} connection(s). Fix empty or duplicate node IDs and invalid connections before importing it."
));
}
+ if topological_order(&normalized).is_none() {+ return Err("this model contains a loop. Remove the loop before importing it.".into());+ }
let by_id: HashMap<&str, &ModelNode> = normalized.nodes.iter().map(|n| (n.id.as_str(), n)).collect();
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Add cycle validation to the import check after graph normalization and before
constructing the model, using the existing topological-order check from the run
path; reject graphs with no valid topological order so imports cannot retain a
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- Around line 829-836: Add cycle validation to the import check after graph
normalization and before constructing the model, using the existing
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Fixed the cyclic-import and nameless-import collision findings in 3af35df. Loops are refused before model creation instead of leaving empty derived steps. An unnamed file that becomes Tool 2 now produces a counted name-change notice, while the unchanged Tool default stays quiet.
Both failures were reproduced in the existing import regressions. The fixes pass those regressions, native CI, wasm and publication hooks; targeted Standards and Spec reviews found no issues.
The duplicate normalization work, converter refactor and previously discussed prompt timing remain for the release quality pass.
let lost_edges = edges.len().saturating_sub(normalized.edges.len());
if lost_nodes > 0 || lost_edges > 0 {
return Err(format!(
"this model would discard {lost_nodes} node(s) and {lost_edges} connection(s). Fix empty or duplicate node IDs and invalid connections before importing it."
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Refusal wording doesn't name exact duplicate connections. A file with two identical connections into a single-input port (for example in on an output node) used to import, because graph_from_json deduplicated it. It is now refused by the lost_edges count, but this message only mentions node IDs and "invalid connections", so the user is told to fix the wrong thing. The editor never writes such duplicates (connect is a no-op for an existing edge), so this only hits hand-written or older files. Whether to refuse them or accept them with a notice is a policy choice. The wording is a quality point, so it can wait for the release quality pass if the maintainers prefer, but the current text points at the wrong cause.
Confidence: high that the message is misleading; medium that refusing exact duplicates is the desired behaviour.
Suggested change
"this model would discard {lost_nodes} node(s) and {lost_edges} connection(s). Fix empty or duplicate node IDs and invalid connections before importing it."
"this model would discard {lost_nodes} node(s) and {lost_edges} connection(s): empty or duplicate node IDs, repeated connections into a single-input port, or invalid connections. Fix them before importing it."
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The refusal is intentional: an imported file is rejected before the graph reader can discard connections. This includes duplicate connections into a single-input port; repeated connections into many-valued ports remain supported. The existing refusal regression covers that distinction.
Naming exact duplicate connections in the diagnostic is a wording improvement, left for the release quality pass.
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Repeated connections are now kept for every graph caller, so a file can multiply data at run time. Up to MAX_EDGES (4000) identical connections into one many-valued port now survive graph_from_json. A Merge fed the same layer 4000 times would multiply its features when run, and nothing caps the repeat count. The steps form ("A;A;…") already allowed this with no cap, so it's not new capability. It's a new file form of an existing one.
Confidence: low on impact, since I did not check the merge tool's own input limits. This is a note for the author, not a request to change the design. A per-port repeat cap, or a notice when a port repeats a source more than a handful of times, would close it.
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Repeated inputs preserve the existing step semantics: the writer already turns merge.inputs: "A;A" into two connections. Deduplicating those connections changes the saved workflow. The regression verifies preservation through import, save, rename and both export paths.
Graphs retain the existing 4,000-connection limit. Merge uses checked feature-count accumulation and fallible allocation, and already reports its output feature count and input-layer count in ToolResult::messages (crates/analysis/src/merge.rs). A new per-port repeat cap would change supported workflow semantics, so I am leaving that design change outside this compatibility fix.
Refusal wording for duplicate connections is misleading (crates/engine/src/model.rs:834). Identical connections into a single-input port used to import silently after deduplication. They are now refused, but the message only names node IDs and "invalid connections". Confidence: high that the message is misleading; medium that refusing is the right policy. Inline comment posted.
Nothing else new found. I traced checked_steps_to_graph against steps_to_graph: the node count (one input per lowercased layer name plus one per step), the reference rules, and the non-many splitting all match, and steps_to_graph has no other unchecked callers outside tests. The ModelBuilder open path keeps the canvas on refusal, since forget_old_project only resets when the project changes.
Security
Repeated connections into many-valued ports are kept for every graph caller, so a file can ask for the same layer up to 4000 times into one merge. Confidence: low on impact, since I did not check the merge tool's limits. The steps form already allowed "A;A;…" without a cap, so this is not new capability. Inline comment posted at crates/engine/src/model.rs:509.
Performance
No new concerns. The new checks are linear or bounded by the existing node and edge caps.
Quality
Suggested only, not posted, because it is a wording point: model.validate now returns the conversion error for models over 1,000 steps or with bad references, where it previously reported problems. docs/user-guide/analysis.md does not mention this. Confidence: medium.
AGENTS.md
The PR description links screenshots to Mavrick-F/rustgis-assets on raw.githubusercontent.com. AGENTS.md says images live in opengeos/rustgis-assets and are served from assets.rustgis.app. Confidence: high. This is in the PR body, so it is not an inline comment.
Code rules checked and met: no unwrap or expect in non-test code, the new file-import paths go through Session::notify, the new modelbuilder strings use i18n::fmt, and the engine uses plain English notices as the existing code does. Round-trip shapes match the serde structs, including fromPort and toPort.
Already raised, left alone: 20 earlier threads reviewed. Most are fixed in code and I did not re-raise them. Two remain open and were answered by the author or deferred, so I did not re-raise them: the discard prompt appearing before the conversion check (deferred to the quality pass), and the refusal of connections into tools not installed here (author's reasoned reply).
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Minor · Reject duplicate connections to single-valued ports during file validation. · model.rs:829-845
crates/engine/src/model.rs:829-845 Minor · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win
Reject duplicate connections to single-valued ports during file validation.
check_file accepts multiple edges into a port with many: false. graph_to_steps does not drop an edge. It joins both sources with ;. The exported web-tool steps cannot reconstruct those connections because single-valued ports do not split that delimiter.
Count incoming edges by destination port in check_file and reject the second edge when the port is not many-valued.
Suggested fix
let by_id: HashMap<&str, &ModelNode> = normalized.nodes.iter().map(|n| (n.id.as_str(), n)).collect();
+ let mut incoming: HashMap<(&str, &str), usize> = HashMap::new();
for (index, edge) in normalized.edges.iter().enumerate() {
let from_known = by_id.get(edge.from.as_str()).is_some_and(|n| output_ports(n).iter().any(|p| p.id == edge.from_port));
let to_known = by_id.get(edge.to.as_str()).is_some_and(|n| input_ports(n).iter().any(|p| p.id == edge.to_port));
if !from_known || !to_known {
return Err(format!(
"model connection {} refers to an unsupported port. Update RustGIS or fix the connection before importing this model.",
index + 1
));
}
+ let count = incoming.entry((edge.to.as_str(), edge.to_port.as_str())).or_insert(0);+ *count += 1;+ if *count > 1 && !input_ports(by_id[edge.to.as_str()]).iter().any(|p| p.id == edge.to_port && p.many) {+ return Err(format!(+ "model connection {} duplicates a single-valued input port. Fix the connection before importing this model.",+ index + 1+ ));+ }
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Review comment at @crates/engine/src/model.rs around lines 829 - 845:
Update check_file’s edge validation to count incoming connections per
destination node and input port, and reject a second connection when that input
port is not many-valued. Preserve the existing unsupported-port validation and
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The duplicate single-input connection refusal is intentional and already covered by the import regression. The graph is refused before its connections can disappear. More precise diagnostic wording and the optional model.validate documentation clarification are left for the release quality pass.
Repeated many-valued inputs preserve existing step semantics. Merge already reports feature and input-layer counts, with checked count accumulation and fallible allocation. Adding a new repeat cap would change supported workflows, so it is outside this compatibility fix.
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Fixed in 6fc29eb. The import checker now uses the destination port's existing many flag and rejects a second incoming connection to a single-valued port before creating the model. The error identifies the connection and asks to keep one connection to that port.
The regression reproduced successful import of two distinct input layers feeding buffer.input, then verifies refusal through text, base64 and path imports with project and undo/redo history unchanged. The existing A;A actual-writer regression still verifies that repeated many-valued inputs survive import, save, rename and both export paths. Native CI, wasm and publication hooks passed; targeted Standards and Spec reviews found no issues.
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A connection from an input with no layer is accepted on import, then silently dropped from the steps.
check_file checks each connection's ports but never checks the layer of an input node that feeds it. validate flags such an input as missing-layer, yet import accepts the file. new_model then calls graph_to_steps, and its filter_map (model.rs around line 461, ModelNodeKind::Input => up.layer.clone()) returns None for that source. The connection disappears from the derived steps, and the port falls back to its default or stays unset. share.webTool exports m.steps, so the shared web tool loses the input with no notice. The graph copy keeps the edge, which is why the loss is quiet.
Example: an input node with no layer, wired to a Buffer's input port, imports with no warning. The web tool then runs Buffer with no input.
AGENTS.md says a reader that drops data must refuse it or say so, and this PR's own description claims graphs that would lose connections are refused. This path isn't covered. Suggested fix: refuse a connection whose source is an input with a missing or blank layer, with the connection index, before graph_to_steps runs. Add a regression that imports such a file through text, base64 and path, and checks that the session is unchanged.
Confidence: medium-high. I read this from the code paths and did not run it.
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Fixed in c84266c. Import now refuses a connection from an input with a missing or blank layer name, using the validator's existing definition of an unassigned input. The indexed error asks to choose a layer before importing. This happens before model creation and step derivation.
The regression reproduced a successful import of the missing-layer case, then checks missing and blank names through text, base64 and path imports with the project and undo/redo history unchanged. Supported writer round trips, including named layers absent from the current project and repeated A;A inputs, remain quiet. Unconnected placeholders are unaffected. Native CI, wasm and publication hooks passed; targeted Standards and Spec reviews found no issues.
Medium-high confidence: a connection from an input node with no layer is accepted on import, then silently dropped from the derived steps. share.webTool then exports the web tool without that input. Posted inline at crates/engine/src/model.rs:839.
Security
None found. The new checks only read values and return errors. No new file access, command execution or secret handling.
Performance
None worth raising. Import parses the graph twice (check_file and then new_model), which is wasteful but bounded by the existing limits.
Quality
Left for the release quality pass, as earlier threads already requested: refusal wording for duplicate connections, and the "Update RustGIS" wording for malformed nodes, which also fires when a field is simply missing.
AGENTS.md
No violations found in the changed lines. Non-test code has no unwrap/expect, the UI strings use i18n::fmt, and each new refusal or notice has a clean-input counterpart test.
Prior review threads
I left 13 earlier concerns alone because the PR has already addressed them or the author's reply holds: unknown step and graph fields, shared versus import-only reader for repeated inputs, file-import node drops, the 1001–2000-step conversion, the cyclic-import silent empty steps, unknown-port connections, non-object step params, the missing-name notice, i18n for the missing-model message, and the test that pinned silent dropping. The unresolved threads on the discard prompt order and uninstalled-tool refusal are quality or policy points that the author has answered.
Not raised
Pre-existing, outside this diff: graph_to_steps skips output nodes, so a result name is lost when a graph is converted to steps and shared as a web tool.
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Compared with main (merge base 5f79ae2 to PR head 6fc29eb). Sizes are file sizes in bytes, not line counts.
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The ;/%n port parsing is now written twice, once here and once in steps_to_graph (lines 353–356). Both must agree on what a reference is, what is skipped, and how inputs are keyed. Right now they do. If one changes, checked_steps_to_graph can accept a step that steps_to_graph then drops silently, which reintroduces the loss this PR is closing. A small shared helper that yields the parts for a port and their step references would keep the two paths in step.
Confidence: medium-high that the duplication is a drift risk. Quality point, not a current bug.
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The two parsers agree today. Consolidating them is left for the release quality pass; this batch keeps their current syntax and adds the demonstrated import-name refusal.
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model.validate now returns an error instead of a problem list for step models that can't become a graph.model_graph now calls checked_steps_to_graph for steps models, so model.validate (its handler at line 29 is unchanged, but it goes through this function) fails with the conversion message for a model over 1,000 steps, one with a forward or invalid %n, or one with non-object params. Before, the same model returned {"ok": ..., "problems": [...]}, and for over 1,000 steps it was validated against a silently truncated graph. The error beats the silent path, but this command's contract is to report problems, and the PR's docs don't mention validate. Suggest mapping the conversion error to one problem entry (for example code not-a-graph) in the validate command so the response shape stays the same, and noting the change in the docs.
Confidence: medium (behaviour change, not data loss).
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Reproduced with the CLI: model.validate returns the checked-conversion error for 1,001 steps or a forward reference, while the original steps remain intact. The command is already fallible for malformed graph input or a missing named model; {ok, problems} is the result after a graph can be obtained. Keeping the conversion failure avoids reporting on a truncated graph. The guide now explicitly includes model.validate among graph conversions that can fail. Mapping conversion failures to a structured problem entry is left for the release quality pass.
model.validate now fails with a conversion error for step models that can't become a graph, instead of returning {ok, problems}. This covers models over 1,000 steps, forward or invalid %n references, and non-object params. Before, over-limit models were validated against a silently truncated graph. Posted inline at crates/engine/src/cmd/workflows.rs:498. Confidence: medium (behaviour change, not data loss).
Security
No findings. The new code has no unwrap, expect, panic, unsafe, or direct indexing in non-test code. Hostile input is handled with get/iter, and sizes are bounded by MAX_NODES/MAX_EDGES. No new dependencies (base64 was already in the engine crate).
Performance
No findings. Per-edge input_ports calls and the double parse (check_file then new_model) are negligible at the 4,000-edge cap.
Quality
The ;/%n port parsing now exists twice, in checked_steps_to_graph and steps_to_graph. Both agree today, but if one changes the no-silent-loss guarantee can drift. Posted inline at crates/engine/src/model.rs:402. Confidence: medium-high that it's a drift risk. Not a current bug.
Nits, grouped here rather than inline: check_file is about 150 lines and could split into graph and steps checks. checked_steps_to_graph rebuilds a ModelNode in the reference closure just to call output_ports. Both are for the release quality pass.
AGENTS.md
Compliant on what I checked. The ModelBuilder messages use i18n::fmt. The engine's new refusal strings are English, which matches the engine's existing convention (it has no tl! or i18n calls at all). Tests cover refusal and clean input. The docs are updated. Before/after screenshots are in the PR body.
Prior review threads
23 threads already exist. I left all of them alone. Most are answered by fixes in the PR, and the open ones are design disagreements (repeated inputs, unavailable tools) or quality-pass items. My two new inline comments don't repeat any of them.
Change size
Compared: the whole PR against main (merge base 5f79ae2 to PR head c84266c).
The validation behavior is reproduced and documented: #1474 (comment). Parser consolidation is deferred here: #1474 (comment). The suggested graph/step checker split and closure simplification are also left for the release quality pass.
@Mavrick-F I’ll resume automatic reviews. Thanks for reporting the input-layer name ambiguity fix, the refusal and supported round-trip regressions, and the passing checks.
Learnings used
Learnt from: deniial00
Repo: opengeos/RustGIS PR: 1215
File: :0-0
Timestamp: 2026-11-01T17:51:35.449Z
Learning: Within repository "opengeos/RustGIS": When reviewing pull requests in opengeos/RustGIS, treat automated review findings as advisory rather than mandatory merge requirements. Prioritize real bugs. If a contributor gives a reasoned explanation for declining a minor or low-value suggestion, acknowledge that decision without insisting on the change. Leave merge requirements to the maintainers.
Learnt from: CR
Repo: opengeos/RustGIS PR: 0
File: AGENTS.md:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-11-03T15:05:42.977Z
Learning: Source excerpt:
# RustGIS — instructions for agents
## Never silent
- A reader, writer, tool or command that drops, truncates or approximates data says what, how
much and where: Z values dropped, field names cut, a CRS assumed, features skipped.
- Report through `Session::notify` (app, CLI, Python `take_notices`) or `ToolResult::messages`,
one notice per kind with a count; `eprintln!` alone doesn't count. Unusable results are errors.
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Non-model JSON now gets "Update RustGIS" advice instead of "not a RustGIS model". A file with neither graph nor steps (for example a GeoJSON FeatureCollection) fails the top-level field check here, so model.import returns "model file has unsupported fields. Update RustGIS to import this model." Before this PR the same file got "not a RustGIS model or web tool (no graph or steps)", which is the accurate message. No test pins either wording, so this is not caught.
Suggested fix: refuse the no-graph/no-steps case before the field check, so the original message comes back:
Suggested change
let fields:&[&str] =
if graph.is_none() && v.get("steps").is_none(){
returnErr("not a RustGIS model or web tool (no graph or steps)".into());
}
let fields:&[&str] =
Confidence: high on the behaviour (read from the code path); low impact, since it only affects the wrong file being chosen.
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Reproduced with a GeoJSON FeatureCollection: import refuses it before model creation, but the update advice is misleading. Restoring the more specific wrong-file diagnostic is left for the release quality pass.
Low severity, posted inline on crates/engine/src/model.rs:779: a file with neither graph nor steps, such as GeoJSON, now gets "model file has unsupported fields. Update RustGIS to import this model." The old "not a RustGIS model or web tool" message was more accurate. No test pins either wording. Confidence: high on the behaviour, low on impact.
No other new correctness bugs found. I checked the node and edge accounting between checked_steps_to_graph and steps_to_graph, the %n and layer-name round trips, the flattened ImportItem unknown-field checks, the name-change notice (model.new returns {"model": …}), the ModelBuilder open routes, and the forget_old_project interaction. All are consistent with the tests.
Security
None found. The new error strings echo no file content, and the import paths are unchanged.
Performance
Nothing significant. graph_from_json is O(E²) in its duplicate check, and it now runs twice per import (once in check_file, once in model.new). With the 2000-node and 4000-edge caps this is acceptable. Confidence: medium.
Quality (left for the release quality pass)
The ;/%n port parsing is still written twice, in steps_to_graph and checked_steps_to_graph. Already raised, not repeated.
check_file is about 130 lines in one function. It could be split by node, edge and step checks.
AGENTS.md
Compliant. Engine messages are English literals, which matches engine convention, and the ModelBuilder messages use i18n::fmt. Notices are one per kind with a count. No unwrap, expect or panic appears in non-test code, and the new tests cover clean and lossy input.
Earlier threads
I left about 20 earlier threads alone. Most are resolved or answered, and I checked the code behind the author's fixes (e9fad955, 4171071f, 9fc66b54, 3af35df7, c84266c5, d4f1c85d, cd15d039). Still unanswered and not repeated: the model.validate behaviour change at workflows.rs:498, and the quality points at model.rs:402 and modelbuilder.rs:322.
Change size
Compared: the whole PR against main (merge base 5f79ae2 to PR head ff2f874).
The wrong-file diagnostic wording and the suggested parser/checker refactors are left for the release quality pass. The model.validate conversion behavior was reproduced and explained in #1474 (comment), and the current guide explicitly documents it.
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Summary
model.importchecks the versions already emitted by model and web-tool writers before interpreting graphs or steps. It refuses unsupported content, unknown file/graph/node/connection/step fields, invalid parameter shapes, graphs that would discard nodes/connections, connections using unknown ports, multiple connections into single-valued ports, connections from inputs without layer names or with names ambiguous in derived steps, cyclic graphs, IDs needing trimming/truncation, and positions outside supported bounds. Files containing both a graph and steps are also refused. Refusal leaves the current project and undo/redo history intact and reports update or file-repair advice. Imported names that need trimming, shortening, replacement or disambiguation produce one notice.The shared graph reader preserves repeated connections into multi-input ports, matching the existing step writer and runtime. Inputs such as
merge.inputs: "A;A"survive import, save, rename and both named-model and explicit-graph export. Single-input duplicate cleanup and trust handling are unchanged.Current writer output and unversioned legacy files remain supported, including step files with 1,001–2,000 steps. Graph conversion (including
model.validate) refuses oversized models and invalid step references (including references to steps without layer outputs) before construction/layout instead of exporting a partial graph or replacing the current canvas. Original steps remain available to run or share as a web tool. File layouts, version numbers, model types and command parameters are unchanged.Testing
cargo xtask ci: passed (workspace formatting, Clippy, native tests, isolated relay test and layer checks).cargo build --locked --target wasm32-unknown-unknown -p rustgis-web: passed.UI evidence
Before attempting the oversized model, and after refusal. The existing canvas stays open and the original large step model remains listed.
" Padded "imports as"Padded"with a notice; the graph stays intact:Related issue
Part of #1405 item 2: existing file compatibility and supported round trips.
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