data-review

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name: data-review description: Audit the altium-cli codebase for data integrity issues: silent data corruption, dropped fields, overwritten values, raw byte passthrough, untyped parameter forwarding, and deserialization shortcuts. Activate when the user requests a data review, data integrity audit, or wants to verify that no data is silently lost or corrupted. Can target the full codebase, specific crates, or specific files. argument-hint: "Extra instructions"

altium-cli Data Integrity Review

Audit Rust source files for data integrity violations — places where file data could be silently lost, corrupted, overwritten, or passed through without proper deserialization.

For each violation found, report:

1. Rule violated (by name from the checklist)
2. File and line (e.g., crates/altium-format/src/schlib.rs:445)
3. What's wrong (what data is at risk and how)
4. How to fix (specific suggestion)

At the end, give a summary: total violations found, grouped by severity (CRITICAL / WARNING / INFO).

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Review Checklist

CRITICAL — Data Loss or Corruption

D1: No Silent Data Dropping

Every piece of data in an Altium file must be deserialized or produce an error. Look for:

• Sidecar entries skipped when index is out of bounds (e.g., if idx >= vec.len() { continue; })
• Match arms that silently discard variants: _ => {}, _ => Ok(()), _ => continue
• Loop iterations that continue past unrecognized data without erroring
• Records or fields read from the stream but never stored in a struct
• Data read into a variable that is never used (let _data = reader.read_...())

D2: No Raw Byte Passthrough for Structured Data

Structured data must be deserialized into typed fields, not stored as opaque blobs. Look for:

• Vec<u8> struct fields that hold data which has known structure (records, parameters, binary structs)
• Byte slices copied with .to_vec(), clone_from_slice(), copy_from_slice() and stored without parsing
• Data decompressed (e.g., zlib) but then stored as raw bytes instead of being parsed into records
• Exceptions: Embedded images (SchLibEmbeddedImage::data) and other genuinely opaque binary payloads (e.g., OLE thumbnails, bitmap data) are acceptable as Vec<u8>

D3: No Raw Parameter String Passthrough

Parameter values must be deserialized into concrete types, not stored as raw strings. Look for:

• Struct fields of type String that hold parameter values which should be parsed into domain types (coordinates, colors, booleans, enums, record types)
• ParameterCollection or IndexMap<String, String> stored in a struct field instead of being fully consumed
• Functions that return raw parameter strings to callers instead of parsed values
• Parameter values forwarded between functions as &str or String without type conversion
• Exception: Parameter values that genuinely ARE free-text strings in Altium (e.g., component descriptions, comments, designators) are fine as String

D4: No Deserialization Shortcuts via Default Values

Default values must not silently substitute for missing required data. Look for:

• .unwrap_or(0), .unwrap_or_default(), .unwrap_or(false) on data that should be required
• Default::default() used to fill struct fields that should come from the file
• Option::None used as a sentinel for "we didn't parse this" rather than "the file didn't have this"
• #[param(default = ...)] on fields that are always present in valid Altium files (defaults should only be used for truly optional fields)
• Distinguishing required vs optional: Check the Altium C#/.NET source or FileFormatConsts.cs to verify whether a field is genuinely optional or always present

D5: No Data Overwriting Without Detection

Data must not be silently overwritten. Look for:

• HashMap/IndexMap insertions that overwrite existing keys without checking (use entry() API or check for duplicates)
• Sidecar merge functions that overwrite fields without verifying the old value was a default/unset
• Multiple assignment to the same struct field from different sources without clear precedence rules
• Parameter keys parsed twice with different results (first-occurrence-wins rule violated)

WARNING — Incomplete Deserialization

D6: Exhaustion Checks Must Be Called

Every data source must be fully consumed. Look for:

• ParameterCollection created but assert_exhausted() not called after field extraction
• BinaryReader used but assert_exhausted() not called at end of parsing
• TrackedCfbDocument used but assert_all_consumed() not called before returning
• Block streams parsed but trailing blocks not checked
• Any code path that can return early (via ? or explicit return) before exhaustion checks run

D7: No Partial Record Deserialization

Every record type must deserialize ALL of its fields. Look for:

• FromParams implementations or #[derive(FromParams)] structs that are missing fields known to exist in the Altium format (cross-reference with FileFormatConsts.cs)
• Binary record readers that don't call assert_exhausted() — trailing bytes indicate missed fields
• Struct definitions with fewer fields than the corresponding Altium C# class
• TODO comments indicating fields that haven't been implemented yet

D8: No Lossy Type Conversions

Numeric and enum conversions must be checked. Look for:

• as i32, as u8, as u16 truncating casts without range validation
• .try_into().unwrap() — should use .try_into()? or .try_into().map_err(...)?
• Enum conversions from integers without exhaustive matching (what happens for unknown values?)
• Floating-point to integer conversions without rounding strategy documentation
• Coordinate conversions that lose precision (DXP fractional encoding is split across two parameters — both parts must be used)

D9: Block Format Must Be Preserved

The block framing layer (text vs binary mode) must be respected. Look for:

• Text-mode blocks (flag 0x00) being parsed as binary or vice versa
• Block boundaries ignored (reading across block boundaries as if it were a continuous stream)
• Block count or size mismatches between header declaration and actual data

INFO — Style and Robustness

D10: Sidecar Merge Ordering

Sidecar data must be merged in the correct order and into the correct records. Look for:

• Sidecar streams processed before the primary record stream (primary must be parsed first)
• Sidecar data merged into wrong record index (off-by-one errors in index mapping)
• Sidecar merge functions that don't validate the target record type matches expectations

D11: Encoding Boundary Discipline

Encoding conversions must happen exactly at parse/serialize boundaries. Look for:

• Encoding conversion in the middle of business logic (should only happen in readers/writers)
• Windows-1252 bytes stored in String without decoding
• UTF-16LE decoded without checking had_errors flag
• from_utf8_lossy() anywhere (always a violation — use strict from_utf8())
• Mixed encoding in a single data path (e.g., half-decoded parameters)

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How to Review

1. Determine scope

If the user specifies a scope, use it. Otherwise, audit all Rust source files in the parsing crates:

crates/altium-format/src/**/*.rs         (primary target — all parsing lives here)
crates/altium-format-derive/src/**/*.rs  (codegen — verify generated patterns are safe)
crates/altium-format-types/src/**/*.rs   (type definitions — verify completeness)
crates/autopcb-spec/src/**/*.rs          (spec DSL — verify no parsing shortcuts)

2. Scan systematically

Use Grep to find candidate violations, then Read to verify context. Key search patterns:

Rule	Grep patterns
D1	continue, _ => \{\}, _ => Ok\(\), let _ =, let _[a-z] in non-test .rs files
D2	Vec<u8> in struct definitions, .to_vec(), clone_from_slice, copy_from_slice
D3	String fields in record structs, IndexMap<String, ParameterCollection as struct field
D4	.unwrap_or(, .unwrap_or_default(), Default::default(), default = in #[param] attrs
D5	.insert( on maps without entry(), multiple assignments to same field
D6	ParameterCollection::from without nearby assert_exhausted, BinaryReader::new without nearby assert_exhausted, TrackedCfbDocument without assert_all_consumed
D7	TODO, FIXME, unimplemented, todo!() near record parsing; compare struct field count to C# source
D8	as i32, as u8, as u16, as u32, .try_into().unwrap()
D9	Block flag checks, INSTRUCTION_TEXT, INSTRUCTION_BINARY usage
D10	Sidecar merge function ordering in open() / loading pipelines
D11	from_utf8_lossy, WINDOWS_1252, UTF_16LE, had_errors

3. Reduce false positives with context

• Vec<u8> for genuinely opaque data (images, thumbnails) is acceptable — check if the data has known structure
• String for free-text fields (descriptions, comments, designators) is correct — check if the value should be a typed enum or coordinate instead
• .unwrap_or(0) for _FRAC fractional companion parameters is acceptable (absent frac means zero fraction)
• continue in loops may be legitimate control flow — check if data is being skipped
• as casts on values already known to be in range (e.g., after a bounds check) are fine
• Default::default() in tests and test fixtures is fine
• #[param(default = ...)] on fields documented as optional in Altium's format spec is fine

4. Cross-reference with Altium source

For D7 (partial deserialization), compare against the authoritative sources:

• AD26-dotnet/Altium.Sch.DataModel/Altium.Sch.DataModel.FileFormats/FileFormatConsts.cs — lists all known parameter keys per record type
• altium-format-types/src/constants/ — our mirrored constants (should match C# source)
• Delphi decompilations via ghidra-cli — for binary format structures

5. Report findings

Order: CRITICAL first, then WARNING, then INFO. Use this format:

## Findings

### CRITICAL

**D1: No Silent Data Dropping** — `crates/altium-format/src/schlib.rs:445`
Pin sidecar entry silently skipped when `pin_idx >= pins.len()`. If a sidecar references
a pin index that doesn't exist, this is a format error that should be reported, not ignored.
The sidecar data is lost.
**Fix**: Return `Err(AltiumFormatError::...)` instead of `continue`.

**D3: No Raw Parameter String Passthrough** — `crates/altium-format/src/foo.rs:78`
Field `location: String` stores a coordinate value as a raw string. This should be parsed
into a `Coord` type at deserialization time.
**Fix**: Change field type to `Coord` and parse via `remove_coord()`.

### WARNING

**D6: Exhaustion Checks Must Be Called** — `crates/altium-format/src/bar.rs:200`
`ParameterCollection` created at line 195 but `assert_exhausted()` never called. If the
file contains parameters we don't recognize, they'll be silently ignored.
**Fix**: Add `params.assert_exhausted()?;` after the last `remove_*()` call.

### INFO

(none)

## Summary

| Severity | Count |
|----------|-------|
| CRITICAL | 2 |
| WARNING  | 1 |
| INFO     | 0 |
| **Total** | **3** |

6. If no violations found

Explicitly state: "No data integrity violations found in the reviewed scope." and list which files were checked.

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