Read a room-share envelope past a brace in a chat line's text

changelog.d/2447-room-share-braces.fixed.md

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fixed a room-share envelope being dropped when a chat line's own text carried one unbalanced brace, which lost the sent line and the join history copied into a `join` envelope ([#2447](https://github.com/ThinkFlowLab/FlyBot/issues/2447)).

core/src/shared/room-share.js

@@ -257,9 +257,21 @@ export function parseRoomShare(text) {
   if (start < 0) return undefined
   let depth = 0
   let end = -1
+  // #2447: a brace inside a string literal is a message's own text, not structure. `encodeRoomShare`
+  // writes `text` with `JSON.stringify`, which leaves braces raw, so counting them dropped the whole
+  // envelope over one `{` in a chat line — the same scan the client's `envelopeTail` does (#855).
+  let inString = false
+  let escaped = false
   for (let i = start; i < raw.length; i += 1) {
     const ch = raw[i]
-    if (ch === '{') depth += 1
+    if (inString) {
+      if (escaped) escaped = false
+      else if (ch === '\\') escaped = true
+      else if (ch === '"') inString = false
+      continue
+    }
+    if (ch === '"') inString = true
+    else if (ch === '{') depth += 1
     else if (ch === '}') {
       depth -= 1
       if (depth === 0) { end = i; break }

core/test/room-share-braces.test.js

@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+// #2447: the brace scan that finds the end of a room-share envelope has to know when a brace is
+// part of a chat line's own text. One unbalanced `{` or `}` in a message used to end the scan in
+// the wrong place, JSON.parse then failed, and the whole envelope was dropped — a sent line never
+// arrived, and one brace in a copied line killed the join that carried it.
+import assert from 'node:assert/strict'
+import { test } from 'node:test'
+import { encodeRoomShare, parseRoomShare } from '../src/shared/room-share.js'
+
+const line = (text, extra = {}) => ({ op: 'line', roomId: 'r1', seq: 7, who: 'Alice', text, ...extra })
+
+test('a line whose text opens a brace is read back, not dropped', () => {
+  const parsed = parseRoomShare(encodeRoomShare(line('if (x) { y()')))
+  assert.equal(parsed?.op, 'line')
+  assert.equal(parsed?.roomId, 'r1')
+  assert.equal(parsed?.who, 'Alice')
+  assert.equal(parsed?.text, 'if (x) { y()')
+})
+
+test('a line whose text closes a brace is read back, not dropped', () => {
+  const text = 'so the closing brace is }'
+  const parsed = parseRoomShare(encodeRoomShare(line(text)))
+  assert.equal(parsed?.op, 'line')
+  assert.equal(parsed?.text, text)
+})
+
+test('a brace right after an escaped quote is still inside the string', () => {
+  const text = 'say "{" now'
+  assert.equal(parseRoomShare(encodeRoomShare(line(text)))?.text, text)
+  const quoteThenBrace = 'a quote " then a brace }'
+  assert.equal(parseRoomShare(encodeRoomShare(line(quoteThenBrace)))?.text, quoteThenBrace)
+})
+
+test('a join keeps the braces of the lines it copies', () => {
+  const parsed = parseRoomShare(encodeRoomShare({
+    op: 'join',
+    roomId: 'r1',
+    name: 'Launch plan',
+    history: [
+      { who: 'Alice', text: 'if (x) { y() }' },
+      { who: 'Bob', text: 'plain line' },
+    ],
+  }))
+  assert.equal(parsed?.op, 'join')
+  assert.deepEqual(parsed?.history?.map(entry => entry.text), ['if (x) { y() }', 'plain line'])
+})
+
+test('plain text and balanced braces still parse', () => {
+  assert.equal(parseRoomShare(encodeRoomShare(line('hello there')))?.text, 'hello there')
+  const balanced = 'plan {a} then {b}'
+  assert.equal(parseRoomShare(encodeRoomShare(line(balanced)))?.text, balanced)
+})
+
+test('a truncated envelope is still refused', () => {
+  const whole = encodeRoomShare(line('hello'))
+  assert.ok(parseRoomShare(whole))
+  assert.equal(parseRoomShare(whole.slice(0, -1)), undefined)
+})

docs/subsystems/core-host.md

@@ -334,6 +334,7 @@ Work a member hands a Bot with `message_bot` from its group Session runs in a hi
 
 ### A local room's invite link (#852)
 
+- A share envelope's body is found by scanning from the first `{` after the marker, and that scan tracks JSON string literals and `\` escapes (#2447): `encodeRoomShare` writes `text` with `JSON.stringify`, which leaves braces raw, so a chat line's own `{` or `}` is text and never ends the envelope early. One unbalanced brace used to fail `JSON.parse` and drop the whole envelope — a sent line never arrived, and a `join` that copied such a line lost its history with it. `parseRoomShare` is the parser the host trusts; the client's `envelopeTail` (#855) already scanned this way.
 - A room that lives in FlyBot can hand out one link: `https://social.botawaken.com/r/<inviter Bot handle>/<ticket>`. `core/src/shared/room-share.js` `parseRoomInviteLink` reads both shapes in the one invite field and says which one it saw (`{ kind: 'local', handle, ticket }` / `{ kind: 'face', ticket }`), and `roomInviteUrl` builds the local one. The ticket is `randomBytes(16)` in base64url — 22 characters of `[A-Za-z0-9_-]`, inside the 64-character shape `FACE_INVITE_TICKET` already accepts. The handle is its own path segment because `send_as_member` addresses a Bot by handle, and a ticket cannot carry one inside that limit.
 - The room record is the only authority: `room.localInvites [{ ticket, handle, botId, expiresAt?, mintedAt, mintedBy, server?, url?, homes?, acceptedAt?, withdrawnAt? }]`. A link has **no deadline and is not single-use** (owner decision 2026-10-24, #892, Bot Social #65): anyone it is given to can join with it, each home once (`homes: { [home]: [seat handles] }`; a record from before keeps its one `acceptedBy` / `seats`, read through `homesOf`), until the owner withdraws it or the room is deleted. A link minted with an `expiresAt` (an older Bot Social, or before the change) keeps that deadline. Several may be live at once (#878); a record written before the list (`room.localInvite`) is moved into it on first read. `rt.mintRoomInvite(roomId, actor)` adds one (dead links that seated nobody are dropped then); `rt.localInvitesOf(roomId)` lists the open ones (not withdrawn, not out of date; a link someone joined with stays open) and `rt.localInviteOf(roomId)` is the newest; `rt.roomOfLocalInvite(ticket)` resolves the room from the ticket; `rt.revokeRoomInvite(roomId, ticket?)` withdraws one link, or without a ticket every open one: it sets `withdrawnAt` (nobody new joins; the server ticket is revoked without `endClaims`), the seats it made stay, and a withdrawn link that seats nobody is dropped. A shared (`inbound-share`) or face-to-face room refuses to mint — it has its own invitation.
 - Three steps on the same envelope, answered by the room record: the invitee's host sends `{ op: 'ask', ticket }`; the inviter answers `{ op: 'invite', ticket, roomId, name, lead, expiresAt }`, which is information only (it consumes nothing and seats nobody); the accepting knock `{ op: 'ask', ticket, accept: true }` runs verify → consume → add → the existing `join`, which `addRoomParticipant` sends. `applyInboundRoomShare` handles both ops **before** the branch that projects a room for an unmatched `join` / `line`, so a knock never conjures a room; `parseRoomShare` accepts `ask` without a `roomId` and requires one on `invite`. The asker is `event.fromHandle` (the transport's sender), never a field of the payload. The accepting home is added to `homes`: the same home retrying is idempotent success (the lost `join` reply is sent again) and another home may join too (#892); an add the room refuses removes that home again. Refusals are local on the inviter's host (`unknown` / `revoked` / `expired` / `no-sender` / `not-addable`) and change nothing. The UI half — the Members card's **Invite by link** row and the dialog the offer draws — is still to come. Covered by `core/test/remote-room.test.js` (#852).

patches/ds-bot/files/src/shared/room-share.js

@@ -257,9 +257,21 @@ export function parseRoomShare(text) {
   if (start < 0) return undefined
   let depth = 0
   let end = -1
+  // #2447: a brace inside a string literal is a message's own text, not structure. `encodeRoomShare`
+  // writes `text` with `JSON.stringify`, which leaves braces raw, so counting them dropped the whole
+  // envelope over one `{` in a chat line — the same scan the client's `envelopeTail` does (#855).
+  let inString = false
+  let escaped = false
   for (let i = start; i < raw.length; i += 1) {
     const ch = raw[i]
-    if (ch === '{') depth += 1
+    if (inString) {
+      if (escaped) escaped = false
+      else if (ch === '\\') escaped = true
+      else if (ch === '"') inString = false
+      continue
+    }
+    if (ch === '"') inString = true
+    else if (ch === '{') depth += 1
     else if (ch === '}') {
       depth -= 1
       if (depth === 0) { end = i; break }

patches/ds-bot/files/test/room-share-braces.test.js

@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+// #2447: the brace scan that finds the end of a room-share envelope has to know when a brace is
+// part of a chat line's own text. One unbalanced `{` or `}` in a message used to end the scan in
+// the wrong place, JSON.parse then failed, and the whole envelope was dropped — a sent line never
+// arrived, and one brace in a copied line killed the join that carried it.
+import assert from 'node:assert/strict'
+import { test } from 'node:test'
+import { encodeRoomShare, parseRoomShare } from '../src/shared/room-share.js'
+
+const line = (text, extra = {}) => ({ op: 'line', roomId: 'r1', seq: 7, who: 'Alice', text, ...extra })
+
+test('a line whose text opens a brace is read back, not dropped', () => {
+  const parsed = parseRoomShare(encodeRoomShare(line('if (x) { y()')))
+  assert.equal(parsed?.op, 'line')
+  assert.equal(parsed?.roomId, 'r1')
+  assert.equal(parsed?.who, 'Alice')
+  assert.equal(parsed?.text, 'if (x) { y()')
+})
+
+test('a line whose text closes a brace is read back, not dropped', () => {
+  const text = 'so the closing brace is }'
+  const parsed = parseRoomShare(encodeRoomShare(line(text)))
+  assert.equal(parsed?.op, 'line')
+  assert.equal(parsed?.text, text)
+})
+
+test('a brace right after an escaped quote is still inside the string', () => {
+  const text = 'say "{" now'
+  assert.equal(parseRoomShare(encodeRoomShare(line(text)))?.text, text)
+  const quoteThenBrace = 'a quote " then a brace }'
+  assert.equal(parseRoomShare(encodeRoomShare(line(quoteThenBrace)))?.text, quoteThenBrace)
+})
+
+test('a join keeps the braces of the lines it copies', () => {
+  const parsed = parseRoomShare(encodeRoomShare({
+    op: 'join',
+    roomId: 'r1',
+    name: 'Launch plan',
+    history: [
+      { who: 'Alice', text: 'if (x) { y() }' },
+      { who: 'Bob', text: 'plain line' },
+    ],
+  }))
+  assert.equal(parsed?.op, 'join')
+  assert.deepEqual(parsed?.history?.map(entry => entry.text), ['if (x) { y() }', 'plain line'])
+})
+
+test('plain text and balanced braces still parse', () => {
+  assert.equal(parseRoomShare(encodeRoomShare(line('hello there')))?.text, 'hello there')
+  const balanced = 'plan {a} then {b}'
+  assert.equal(parseRoomShare(encodeRoomShare(line(balanced)))?.text, balanced)
+})
+
+test('a truncated envelope is still refused', () => {
+  const whole = encodeRoomShare(line('hello'))
+  assert.ok(parseRoomShare(whole))
+  assert.equal(parseRoomShare(whole.slice(0, -1)), undefined)
+})