feat(client-identity): report build number and release channel to the server - #226
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… server The apps already sent X-Silo-Client and X-Silo-Client-Version on every API request, so the server could name the app but not the build. CI already computed a real build number in release.yml, but consumed it purely as arithmetic into versionCode — it never reached Gradle as its own value, so nothing on the device could report it. Threads the build number through as a first-class value: a validated siloBuildNumber Gradle provider (-PsiloBuildNumber, then SILO_BUILD_NUMBER, defaulting to "0") emits BuildConfig.BUILD_NUMBER in both app modules, and release.yml now passes it. The env block in the APK build step is appended to rather than restructured, because TvFireTvRcFeedbackOwnershipTest asserts its literal SILO_DISPLAY_VERSION line. Sends X-Silo-Client-Build and X-Silo-Client-Channel from the existing single header choke point, plus app_build/app_channel on the v3 playback context and the Cast prepare request. The build number is deliberately not derived from versionCode: that is the form-factor-doubled release code (base*2 phone, base*2+1 TV), not this counter, and reversing the formula would be fragile. A build CI never stamped reports as absent rather than as build 0 — the server treats the value as an opaque string, so a placeholder would surface verbatim as "(build 0)" in admin Activity, and channel=dev already carries that meaning. normalizedClientBuildNumber is the single place that knows it, reused by all three carriers and the About row. Also normalizes two device-login platform spellings to "android-tv": RemotePlaybackIdentityManager sent "android_tv", which the web frontend's classifyPlatform bucketed as mobile. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughRelease and Gradle configuration now resolve build numbers and release channels. Android and Android TV propagate this identity through device metadata, playback contexts, diagnostics, and version displays. TV platform identifiers now use ChangesClient metadata propagation
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Mergeability Score: 🟡 Moderate · up to The change adds build number and channel metadata across headers, playback, diagnostics, and UI, but two merge-readiness risks remain: the conformance fixtures may validate an unshipped channel value, and unstamped diagnostics may publish a sentinel build instead of omitting it. These can make contract tests unrepresentative and client-build reporting inconsistent, so owner follow-up is needed before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant BuildWorkflow
participant Gradle
participant AndroidApp
participant PlaybackCapabilityDetector
participant CastPlaybackPreparer
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BuildWorkflow->>Gradle: pass build number and release channel
Gradle->>AndroidApp: generate BuildConfig values
AndroidApp->>PlaybackCapabilityDetector: inject SiloClientBuildIdentity
PlaybackCapabilityDetector->>Server: send playback context metadata
AndroidApp->>CastPlaybackPreparer: pass buildIdentity
CastPlaybackPreparer->>Server: send Chromecast playback metadata
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- Around line 284-291: Add a configured app-channel BuildConfig field in both
app modules and propagate it through PlaybackCapabilityDetector,
AndroidDeviceMetadataProvider, every detectPlaybackContext call, the default
audiobook path, and CastPrepareRequest; use the configured value instead of
deriving the channel solely from debug status. Update
androidApp/.../MobileVideoPlaybackStarter.kt:209-216,
androidApp/.../PlayerViewModel.kt:1652-1659 and 2862-2875,
androidTvApp/.../TvVideoPlaybackStarter.kt:122-129, and the anchor
PlaybackCapabilityDetector.kt:284-291 accordingly, preserving existing behavior
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Review follow-up on the build-number reporting. Depth. The build number and channel were threaded through five playback call sites, so the one shared caller that cannot see BuildConfig — the audiobook player — reported neither, leaving audio sessions exactly as indistinguishable as before. Both facts now cross into android-shared once as a DI-provided SiloClientBuildIdentity, which the metadata provider, the capability detector, the Cast request and the diagnostics environment all resolve. The five video call sites revert to their original form; the audiobook one is fixed without being touched. Channel. Play bundles and sideload APKs are both assembled from the release build type, so `if (BuildConfig.DEBUG)` reported "release" for both and the field said nothing. It is now BuildConfig.RELEASE_CHANNEL, set per build type off the existing isBuildingBundle signal: bundle -> release, assemble -> sideload, debug -> dev. Verified against generated sources. app_build. Diagnostics already sent that field holding the versionCode, so one install reported two different builds under one name. It now sends the same counter, matching silo-apple's CFBundleVersion on all three carriers. Platform. The TV had a third device-login spelling, "Android TV", on the LAN companion-pairing path, which classifyPlatform buckets as mobile. Also: conformance fixtures now carry app_build/app_channel with tests pinning the encoded key names and the omit-when-unstamped rule, since the round-trip check alone would not catch a name mismatch; build number bounded to 0..999 as release.yml and the Fastfile do; the About row label is one shared helper in the "1.0.0 (5)" form the server and Play both render; unread DISPLAY_VERSION dropped from androidApp. ./gradlew :androidApp:assembleDebug :androidTvApp:assembleDebug test PASS Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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For prerelease tags such as v1.2.3-rc.1 and v1.2.3-rc.2, the inspected release.yml setup defaults both builds to 1 and passes the suffix-stripped 1.2.3 as version_name; this newly wired value therefore makes both installations explicitly report the identical identity 1.2.3 / build 1 / sideload in headers and playback contexts. Preserve the prerelease suffix in the reported version or derive a distinct build number so separate prerelease artifacts remain attributable.
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Valid — fixed in 583fa15. A -rc.N tag with no +N resolved to build 1, so v1.2.3-rc.1 and -rc.2 reported an identical identity. The counter now comes from the prerelease suffix (-rc.2 is build 2), canonicalized so -rc.02 and +02 agree, with a numberless suffix still meaning build 1. Verified by executing the workflow's own setup block: v1.2.3→1, +2→2, -rc.1→1, -rc.2→2, -rc.10→10, -beta→1; -rc.1000 and +0 rejected by the existing bound; play_publish still false for every prerelease.
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Reopening this: I withdrew the fix I described above. Deriving the counter from -rc.N is folded into the versionCode, so it made a sideloaded v1.2.3-rc.2 outrank the official v1.2.3 and block that upgrade on-device, and it still did not separate -rc.2 from +2. Reverted in 4809a95.
Your first suggestion is the sound one — preserve the prerelease suffix in the reported version, which has no effect on install ordering. I have not done it unilaterally because it changes app_version semantics for suffixed tags, which the server companion PR consumes, so it is the release owner's call. Flagged for a decision; the limitation is documented in the PR meanwhile.
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…distinct Two review findings on the channel and build number. Channel. Deriving it from the invoked task labelled every bundle "release", but the Fastfile uploads to internal/alpha/beta/production, so a beta tester and a production user reported the same thing — the attribution the field exists to provide. It is now an explicit siloReleaseChannel property that the Fastfile fills with the track it is actually uploading to, validated against Play's vocabulary plus sideload/dev so a typo cannot reach the server as a header. The sideload APK job states its channel outright; a hand-built artifact defaults to sideload, which is what it is. Prerelease identity. A -rc.N tag with no +N suffix resolved to build 1, so v1.2.3-rc.1 and v1.2.3-rc.2 both reported version 1.2.3 / build 1 and stayed indistinguishable — precisely what the build number was added to fix. The counter now comes from the suffix (-rc.2 is build 2), canonicalized so -rc.02 and +02 agree, with a numberless suffix still meaning build 1. Verified by executing the workflow's own setup block over each tag form: v1.2.3 -> 1, v1.2.3+2 -> 2, -rc.1 -> 1, -rc.2 -> 2, -rc.10 -> 10, -rc.02 -> 2, -beta -> 1; -rc.1000 and +0 rejected by the existing bound; play_publish still false for every prerelease. Channel verified against generated sources: debug -> dev, assembleRelease -> sideload, -PsiloReleaseChannel=beta -> beta, nightly -> rejected. ./gradlew :androidApp:assembleDebug :androidTvApp:assembleDebug test PASS scripts/test-release-workflow.sh, test-check-build-supply-chain.sh, check-build-supply-chain.sh PASS Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The new trailing-number parsing still maps distinct accepted tags such as v1.2.3-alpha.1 and v1.2.3-rc.1 to build 1; because both APKs also receive version_name=1.2.3 and channel sideload, their headers, diagnostics, and playback contexts remain indistinguishable. This is fresh evidence after the earlier comment because the added fix distinguishes successive rc.N tags but not different prerelease series sharing the same trailing number; preserve the suffix in the reported version or allocate a unique build counter across all prereleases of the marketing version.
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This reviewed 583fa15; the -rc.N parsing it refers to was reverted in 4809a95 after Bugbot showed it was a net regression — folding the suffix into the counter also folds it into the versionCode, which made a sideloaded v1.2.3-rc.2 outrank the official v1.2.3 and block that upgrade on-device.
Your underlying point stands and is now recorded as a known limitation rather than half-fixed: -alpha.1 and -rc.1 — and -rc.1/-rc.2 — report an identical version/build/channel triple. Your first suggested remedy is the right one, since the reported version has no effect on install ordering, unlike the counter. I have not applied it unilaterally because it changes app_version semantics for suffixed tags, which the server companion PR consumes, so it is the release owner's call; flagged in the PR for a decision.
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androidApp/build.gradle.kts#L17-L20: RenameSILO_RELEASE_CHANNELStosiloReleaseChannels.androidTvApp/build.gradle.kts#L11-L13: RenameSILO_RELEASE_CHANNELStosiloReleaseChannels.android-shared/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/common/network/ClientBuildIdentity.kt#L3-L4: RenameUNSET_BUILD_NUMBERtounsetBuildNumber.As per coding guidelines: use
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- Around line 326-337: The diagnostics build handling around
androidExitReportEnvironment must not emit the unstamped "0" sentinel as
app_build. Use reportedBuildNumber, make the build fields nullable, permit
absent app_build in DiagnosticsValidation and the schema, and configure
serialization to omit null fields; apply the same behavior to hosted
installation registration. Add coverage for both stamped and unstamped builds.
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- Around line 379-394: Use the configured channel value "production"
consistently in PlaybackProtocolV3ConformanceTest.kt lines 379-394 and replace
"release" with "production" in replan_request.json lines 71-72 and
start_request.json lines 57-58, updating both serialization expectations and
fixture data.
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In `@androidApp/build.gradle.kts`:
- Around line 17-20: Rename SILO_RELEASE_CHANNELS to siloReleaseChannels in
androidApp/build.gradle.kts lines 17-20 and androidTvApp/build.gradle.kts lines
11-13, updating all references in each file. Rename UNSET_BUILD_NUMBER to
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Reverts the -rc.N -> build mapping from 583fa15. Bugbot was right and the change was a net regression. The counter is folded into the versionCode, so mapping -rc.2 to build 2 gave the sideloaded prerelease code base+2 while the official v1.2.3 gets base+1. Android refuses the lower code, so a QA device on rc.2 could no longer take the official release of the same version — an upgrade path that worked before, when both resolved to base+1 and installed as a reinstall. It did not even buy what it was meant to: -rc.2 and +2 resolve to the same counter, so those two artifacts still reported an identical version/build/channel triple. Confirmed by executing the workflow's setup block before and after: with the mapping, v1.2.3-rc.2 -> 110203002 against v1.2.3 -> 110203001; after the revert both are 110203001 and every tag form matches main's behaviour. Prerelease artifacts stay distinguishable by their tag and GitHub release but not by reported identity. Fixing that properly means carrying the prerelease suffix in the reported version rather than the counter, which changes app_version semantics for suffixed tags and is a call for the release owner, not a second unilateral guess at the versioning scheme. ./gradlew :androidApp:assembleDebug :androidTvApp:assembleDebug test PASS release-workflow / supply-chain self-tests PASS Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ulary The v3 golden fixtures asserted app_channel "release", which stopped being a value any artifact can emit when the channel became the Play track. Both request fixtures and the conformance assertions now use "production", so the corpus matches what a real build reports. Also renames siloReleaseChannels in both build scripts to match the camelCase every other val in those files uses. ./gradlew :androidApp:assembleDebug :androidTvApp:assembleDebug test PASS Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Server companion: Silo-Server/silo-server#631 · Scope: Silo-Server/silo-server#630
Problem
The apps already sent
X-Silo-ClientandX-Silo-Client-Versionon every API request, so the server could name the app but not the build — two builds of the same marketing version were indistinguishable on the admin Activity page.The build number already existed in CI.
.github/workflows/release.ymlcomputessetup.outputs.build_numberfrom the dispatch input or a+Ntag suffix, validates it, and then consumes it purely as arithmetic intoversionCode. It never reached Gradle as its own value, so nothing on the device could report it.Changes
Gradle. A validated
siloBuildNumberprovider in both app modules (-PsiloBuildNumber→SILO_BUILD_NUMBER→"0"), mirroring the existingsiloVersionNamepattern, emittingBuildConfig.BUILD_NUMBER. Bounded to the same 0..999 windowrelease.ymland the Fastfile enforce, so a hand-run build cannot stamp a counter the release scheme could never produce.Channel.
BuildConfig.RELEASE_CHANNEL, stated by the release pipeline rather than inferred. Deriving it fromBuildConfig.DEBUGreportsreleasefor every non-debug artifact, which carries nothing the server could not already infer; deriving it from the invoked task separates Play from sideload but still labels every trackrelease, so a beta tester and a production user look identical. The Fastfile passes the track it is actually uploading to, validated against Play's own vocabulary plus the two non-Play routes, so a typo cannot reach the server as a header value:RELEASE_CHANNELbundleReleasevia Fastlaneinternal/alpha/beta/productionassembleRelease(sideload APK job)sideloadsideload(on no track)assembleDebug(local)devOne source of truth. The build number and the channel are the two facts only an app module's
BuildConfigknows. They cross intoandroid-sharedexactly once, as a DI-providedSiloClientBuildIdentity, and every collaborator that reports client identity resolves it rather than deriving its own answer:AndroidDeviceMetadataProvider→X-Silo-Client-Build/X-Silo-Client-Channel, via the existingattachSiloDeviceMetadataHeaderschoke point, so all four call sites inherit themPlaybackCapabilityDetector→app_build/app_channelon the v3 client contextCastPlaybackPreparer→ the Cast prepare requestBecause the detector holds the identity, all six
detectPlaybackContextcallers report the build — including the shared audiobook player, which cannot see either app'sBuildConfigand would otherwise have been left reporting nothing. No call site passes the build or channel explicitly.Not derived from
versionCode. That is the form-factor-doubled release code (base*2phone,base*2+1TV) produced bybase = 100_000_000 + (major*10000 + minor*100 + patch)*1000 + build. Reversing it to recover the counter would be fragile, so the counter is passed in explicitly.app_buildmeans one thing now. The diagnostics path already sent anapp_buildto this same server holding the AndroidversionCode, so after the first draft one install would have reported100310116to hosted diagnostics and5on the playback and header paths — an admin correlating a crash report to an Activity session by build would have joined on values that can never match. Diagnostics now sends the same counter. This matches silo-apple, whereCFBundleVersionfeeds the header, the playback context and diagnostics alike. The diagnostics manifest requires a non-empty string, so an unstamped build keeps the literal"0"on that one carrier.Unstamped builds report the build as absent, not as
0. The server treats the value as an opaque string by contract, so a placeholder would surface verbatim as(0)in admin Activity — andchannel = devalready carries that meaning, so nothing is lost.Drive-by fix. The TV sent three different device-login platform spellings:
"android_tv"(RemotePlaybackIdentityManager),"androidtv"(TvLoginViewModel), and"Android TV"(PairingDeviceIdentity, the LAN companion-pairing path). The web frontend'sclassifyPlatformbuckets anything but"android-tv"as mobile. All three now match the header spelling. Confirmed first that nothing server-side matches on the old spellings.Build-number semantics
Deliberately a per-marketing-version counter, not a global sequence: monotonic within a version, with global monotonicity carried by
versionCode, which is what Play actually enforces. Displaying version and build together is therefore unambiguous. The rendered form is1.0.0 (5)— what Play, TestFlight and the server's ownAdminDiagnosticspage all use — from a singleclientVersionLabelhelper shared by the phone and TV About rows so the two cannot drift.Making "build N" globally monotonic would mean rewriting the scheme in
release.ymland its mirrored copy in the Fastfile, re-checking the 1..999 bound and the1_049_999_999Gradle cap — not worth it.Verification
TvFireTvRcFeedbackOwnershipTestverified green, since this PR edits the workflow text it asserts. The env block in the APK build step is appended to, not restructured, because that test asserts its literalSILO_DISPLAY_VERSIONline.BuildConfigvalues confirmed by reading the generated source, not inferred:BUILD_NUMBERRELEASE_CHANNEL"0""dev"-PsiloBuildNumber=7,assembleRelease"7""sideload"-PsiloBuildNumber=7 -PsiloReleaseChannel=beta"7""beta"Validation confirmed by invocation:
abc→ must be an integer;-3and1000→ must be between 0 and 999;999and0→ accepted;-PsiloReleaseChannel=nightly→ must be one of internal/alpha/beta/production/sideload/dev.The tag → version/build derivation is unchanged from main and was verified by executing the workflow's own setup block over each tag form:
version_nameversionCodebaseplay_publishv1.2.3v1.2.3+2v1.2.3-rc.1v1.2.3-rc.2An earlier revision of this PR derived the counter from the prerelease suffix (
-rc.2→ build 2) so two prerelease artifacts would report distinct identities. That was reverted: the counter is folded into theversionCode, so it gave the sideloadedv1.2.3-rc.2code110203002against the officialv1.2.3's110203001, and Android refuses the lower code — a QA device on rc.2 could no longer take the official release of the same version, an upgrade that works today because both resolve to110203001. It also did not achieve its aim, since-rc.2and+2resolve to the same counter and stayed indistinguishable.scripts/test-release-workflow.sh,test-check-build-supply-chain.shandcheck-build-supply-chain.shall pass.Wire behaviour is pinned by tests rather than asserted in prose. The v3 golden request fixtures now carry
app_build/app_channel, with one test asserting the encoded key names directly and one asserting an unstamped build is omitted from the body rather than sent as an explicit null or a literal"0". The round-trip check alone would not have caught a name mismatch with the server companion PR, because it only verifies the fixture → re-encoded direction.Coverage was checked by grep rather than assumed: every path that reports client identity resolves the shared
SiloClientBuildIdentity, and the two starters'recoveryStartParams?.clientPlaybackContextfallback is itself a previously-normalized product of the same detector.Risks
channel = devwith no build value. Intended.v1.2.3-rc.1,v1.2.3-rc.2) report an identical version/build/channel triple, because a prerelease suffix does not feed the build counter. They remain distinguishable by their tag and GitHub release, but not by what the client reports. Fixing it properly means carrying the prerelease suffix in the reported version — which has no effect on install ordering, unlike the counter — but that changesapp_versionsemantics for suffixed tags, which the server companion PR consumes. Flagged for a release-owner decision rather than guessed at.app_buildfrom the versionCode to the build counter. This is the point — the two carriers disagreed — but it does mean diagnostics rows written before this build and after it carry different kinds of value under that field.MediaAuthSessionsegment requests still carry no client headers; session identity is established at playback start on the API path.siloBuildNumberprovider is duplicated across the two app build files, assiloVersionName/siloVersionCodealready are. De-duplicating means introducing a convention-plugin module and moving the pre-existing blocks into it — a build-structure change outside this PR, which would touch the release path it depends on. The 0..999 bound was applied to both copies.AI Disclosure
app_buildhad been given a second, conflicting meaning against the diagnostics path already shipping that field; the channel could only ever bedevorrelease, so a sideloaded APK was indistinguishable from a Play install; the build number was threaded through five call sites rather than injected, leaving the shared audiobook player unable to report it at all; a third TV platform spelling was left un-normalized on the companion-pairing path, so the drive-by fix did not actually close the mis-classification it targeted; and the golden conformance fixtures had not been updated, so a wire-name mismatch with the server would have passed CI silently. Theapp_buildand label-format questions were settled by reading silo-apple and silo-server rather than by choosing. Automated reviewers then raised three more. Two were confirmed and fixed: the channel still collapsed every Play track to one value, and a third TV platform spelling survived on the companion-pairing path. The third — prerelease tags reporting an identical version/build pair — was attempted, then reverted when Bugbot showed the fix was a net regression: it blocked the sideload→official upgrade on-device and did not separate-rc.2from+2anyway. It is recorded as a known limitation above rather than carrying a worse fix.Note
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