ADFA-4128 (3/11): quickbuild:protocol — the daemon wire format

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ADFA-4128

Part 3/11 of the stacked split of #1669 (requested by Akash). Base: feature/ADFA-4128-qb-02-plumbing. Stack overview + review mechanics: PR 1 (#1713). Terms are defined in quickbuild/README.md (lands in PR 1).

Lets the IDE side and the compile daemon talk to each other, and keeps the two from drifting apart as the feature changes.

flowchart TB
    core["IDE side: :quickbuild:core (PRs 5-8)<br/>writes requests, reads results"] -.-> proto
    subgraph proto["<b>This PR: :quickbuild:protocol (java-library, zero project deps)</b>"]
        types["Messaging formats for build requests, results, and diagnostics<br/><i>DaemonProtocol.kt</i>"]
        codec["Taxonomy for error types<br/><i>DaemonProtocol.kt</i>"]
        fix["testfixtures: OfflineGuard<br/><i>OfflineGuard.kt</i>"]
    end
    daemon["daemon side: :quickbuild:daemon (PR 9)<br/>reads requests, writes results"] -.-> proto
    classDef thisPrBox fill:#dbeafe,stroke:#93c5fd,color:#1e3a5f
    classDef inPr fill:#ffffff,stroke:#64748b,color:#000
    class proto thisPrBox
    class types,codec,fix inPr

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What to review

• DaemonProtocol.kt — the whole contract, and the only production file here. DaemonRequest and its five subtypes (Configure, Compile, Dex, Relink, Ping, Shutdown), DaemonResponse, Diagnostic, CompileStats, DexStats. Line-by-line.
• The DaemonOps / RequestKeys / ResponseKeys key tables are the drift surface. A key renamed on one side and not the other is a silent parse failure at runtime, not a compile error — check each key has exactly one definition and that both sides read it from here.
• ParseResult — a malformed line is a value, not an exception. Check a caller cannot confuse "unparseable" with "absent".
• OfflineGuard.kt (testFixtures) — scans production .class bytes for banned network APIs. It lives in this module only because every guarded module already depends on it; it has nothing to do with the wire format. Each module keeps its own guard test, since the allowed exceptions differ per module.
• build.gradle.kts / settings.gradle.kts — java-library with zero project dependencies. That zero is what lets both sides depend on it; adding a dependency here is a design change, not a tidy-up.

How this PR Was Tested

• Automated unit tests
• PR head 6af07a2ce4. :quickbuild:protocol:test ran at the stack tip 7715c40548 on 2026-09-25: 22 tests, 0 failures. Coverage 100.0% line (106/106) and 100.0% branch (28/28) in the same pass, over this PR's 1 of 1 source file, on REVIEW.md section 5's changed-lines non-UI basis.
• The tree configures and builds with PRs 1-3 applied, measured at this head on 2026-09-25. Every stage in the stack was checked the same way: :app:assembleV8Debug was run on each of the 11 branch heads in turn, and all 11 produced an APK. This head executed 1,209 of 1,738 tasks.

Restacked onto stage c263653bcf on 2026-09-24; head now 6af07a2ce4. Re-verified at the stack tip 7715c40548 on 2026-09-25, which contains this PR's commits and the roughly 6,970 lines of stage work the restack pulled in: spotlessCheck green (34 of 34 tasks executed, --rerun-tasks) and :app:assembleV8Debug green (254.1 MB APK). The A56 walk ran on 2026-09-24/25 at f6ef914653, that tip plus ADFA-4931's 12 commits: 25 of 25 cases, 24 pass, 0 fail, 1 blocked (T19, Compose — no project on the device configures offline, so Quick Build is never reached). The base is origin/stage's current head, so there is no stage drift. All six unit suites were run once at the stack tip 7715c40548 on 2026-09-25: :quickbuild:core 1,234, :quickbuild:daemon 234, :quickbuild:protocol 22, :quickbuild:runtime 307, :gradle-plugin 155 and :app 1,312 — 3,264 tests, 1 failure and 5 skips. The failure and one skip are :app's (PR 11 has the detail); the other four skips are :gradle-plugin's documented @Disabled cases.

Coverage (JaCoCo at the stack tip 7715c40548, single run, 2026-09-25):

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org.appdevforall.cotg.quickbuild.protocol	100.0%	100.0%
NON-UI TOTAL	100.0%	100.0%	106 lines, 28 branches

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• quickbuild/protocol/src/test/kotlin/org/appdevforall/cotg/quickbuild/protocol/DaemonProtocolTest.kt
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📝 Summary

• Added the :quickbuild:protocol library for IDE-to-daemon communication.
• Added wire formats for build requests, responses, diagnostics, and build statistics.
• Added compatibility rules for protocolVersion and version-skew handling.
• Added the OfflineGuard test fixture to detect banned network API references in production classes.
• Added unit tests for DTO defaults, parsing, serialization, response factories, and statistics.
• Risk: IDE and daemon implementations must preserve the documented wire-format and compatibility rules.
• Risk: OfflineGuard depends on class-file scanning and build-directory conventions.

Walkthrough

The PR adds the quickbuild:protocol module. It defines daemon request and response models, statistics serialization, parse results, wire-format documentation, unit tests, and an offline class-file scanning fixture.

Changes

Quick Build protocol

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Module setup and offline fixture settings.gradle.kts, quickbuild/protocol/build.gradle.kts, quickbuild/protocol/src/testFixtures/...	The build includes the protocol module, Kotlin and Java 17 support, test fixtures, JUnit, JaCoCo reporting, and OfflineGuard class-file scanning.
Daemon request and response contracts quickbuild/protocol/src/main/kotlin/.../DaemonProtocol.kt, quickbuild/protocol/README.md, quickbuild/protocol/src/test/kotlin/.../DaemonProtocolDtoTest.kt, quickbuild/protocol/src/test/kotlin/.../DaemonProtocolTest.kt	The protocol defines six request types, JSON field constants, diagnostics, responses, response factories, parse results, defaults, correlation IDs, and wire-format documentation.
Statistics serialization and compatibility quickbuild/protocol/src/main/kotlin/.../DaemonProtocol.kt, quickbuild/protocol/src/test/kotlin/.../DaemonProtocolDtoTest.kt, quickbuild/protocol/src/test/kotlin/.../DaemonProtocolTest.kt	CompileStats and DexStats serialize and restore numeric values. Missing statistic fields default to zero when other fields exist, while fully absent statistics remain unmeasured.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 6b35f

Daemon failures may reach IDE clients without an error diagnostic, preventing reliable error handling and display. This protocol-contract issue should be corrected before merge.

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Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 22.86% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 35 functions across 6 files. (1 skipped: …	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the protocol module, its purpose, key files, testing, dependencies, and relationship to the IDE and daemon.

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quickbuild/protocol/src/testFixtures/kotlin/org/appdevforall/cotg/quickbuild/testfixtures/OfflineGuard.kt (1)

52-62: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Document the public fixture contract.

productionClassFiles, scanForBannedReferences, and containsAscii are public functions with no KDoc. isProductionClassPath also has non-obvious variant filtering.

Add KDoc that defines the expected buildDir, included and excluded class layouts, byte-matching encoding, and violation result format.

As per coding guidelines: “Public classes, functions, and non-obvious logic get KDoc/Javadoc. Document the contract and the why.”

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In
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around lines 52 - 62, Add KDoc to the public functions productionClassFiles,
scanForBannedReferences, and containsAscii, plus the non-obvious
isProductionClassPath logic in OfflineGuard. Document the expected buildDir,
which class-file layouts are included or excluded, the encoding used for byte
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`@quickbuild/protocol/src/main/kotlin/org/appdevforall/cotg/quickbuild/protocol/DaemonProtocol.kt`:
- Around line 506-509: Update DaemonProtocol.failure to ensure every failed
DaemonResponse includes at least one ERROR diagnostic: normalize empty or
warnings-only diagnostics with a locationless ERROR, or reject them before
constructing the response. Preserve existing error diagnostics and add a
regression test covering warnings-only input.
- Around line 458-470: Update the DaemonResponse.values documentation to
describe flat scalar values plus the classesChanged string array, resolving the
JSON-scalar-only contradiction while preserving the array semantics. Apply the
same wording and semantics in
quickbuild/protocol/src/main/kotlin/org/appdevforall/cotg/quickbuild/protocol/DaemonProtocol.kt:458-470
and quickbuild/protocol/README.md:58-72; both sites require documentation
updates only.

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In
`@quickbuild/protocol/src/testFixtures/kotlin/org/appdevforall/cotg/quickbuild/testfixtures/OfflineGuard.kt`:
- Around line 52-62: Add KDoc to the public functions productionClassFiles,
scanForBannedReferences, and containsAscii, plus the non-obvious
isProductionClassPath logic in OfflineGuard. Document the expected buildDir,
which class-file layouts are included or excluded, the encoding used for byte
matching, and the format of reported violations, including the rationale where
relevant.

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