MAC6: a snapshot mutation carries its video count back to the list cache.
MAC8: playlist rows and cards are Buttons with the context menu attached,
so macOS accessibility can reach Edit and Delete.
MAC10: a published date stamped with the request's own time is dropped at
both API sentinels, and formattedPublishedDate refuses zero-interval output.
MAC11: a failed history hydration shows Details unavailable with a Try
Again action instead of keeping the raw video ID forever; an empty 200
body is a legible failure.
Two changes to a server-side playlist could overlap: the second planned its
write from the snapshot the first had already invalidated, and on Piped —
where a row is a position — its preflight then passed over whatever had
shifted into the slot. Mutations now hold a per-playlist queue from the write
to the end of the refetch that reconciles it. Creation queues on the account's
list instead: it depends on no playlist's contents, and one queue per account
would only make unrelated changes wait.
The playlist detail view kept the authenticated snapshot in its own state, so
signing in as somebody else — or a change of Apple account — left the previous
login's rows, title and destructive affordances on screen. It now discards them
the moment either lands and loads again, which re-resolves ownership and falls
back to the public endpoint.
Also documents two residuals rather than pretending to close them: equal rows
are indistinguishable to a positional API, so verify-before-remove cannot
protect a particular occurrence of a repeated video; and the credential recheck
is a fence, not a lock, because Keychain state cannot be made atomic with a
remote send.
Ten review findings in the remote-playlist work, all of them the same
shape: something acted on what it remembered instead of what the server
says now.
- A confirmed-gone playlist is forgotten whole — snapshot, list entry,
and both ordering fences — so a refresh that started before the delete
can no longer republish it, and a list refetch that fails offline no
longer leaves it on screen.
- `.accountsDidChange` discards account-scoped content when the account
it belonged to is no longer the effective one, as the status
notification already did.
- A tab that stops being offered no longer stays selected: the browse
view moves to the first available one, which reloads by itself.
- A Handoff account id is accepted only when that account is on the
instance the playlist lives on.
- Composite writes moved up into `AccountService`, over a transport whose
every method is exactly one request: create-with-privacy, rename, and
set-description. The credential is rechecked between each pair, so a
sign-out between the two halves of a create or an edit can no longer
send the second half under the previous user's secret.
- Editing a playlist no longer forces it private. Invidious serialises
visibility as `isListed` — `privacy.public?`, so unlisted and private
are indistinguishable — which the snapshot now carries; the picker
starts there, and sends nothing at all unless it was moved. Invidious
keeps the stored visibility when the PATCH omits it (measured), so an
untouched picker leaves it exactly as it was.
- Tapping Edit on a server-side playlist awaits an authenticated refetch
first and populates the form from it; a failed refetch shows an error
and no sheet.
- Playlist rows are keyed by row rather than by video id, which two rows
of the same video share.
- The add-to-playlist sheet offers only accounts whose instance is
enabled and that hold a credential, alongside the write capability.
Remote playlist entries carried the display row number as their server
position, so a row the app could not parse shifted every removal after it
by one, and rows were paired back to entries by video id, which cannot
tell two copies of the same video apart.
- Piped entry positions are now the raw stream index; entries carry a
separate displayRow for the row they are drawn as, filled in by both
snapshot builders and used by the detail view's row map
- an emptied description clears a server-side playlist instead of being
read as "leave it alone"
- a delete that reported failure forgets a playlist the refetch 404s on,
and drops it from the account's cached list
- the browse view discards account-scoped content when a status change
moves which account the instance resolves to
- every mutation re-reads the credential immediately before it is sent,
which matters most after Piped's verify-before-remove fetch
- Handoff carries the owning account id, so a Piped playlist keeps its
ownership on the receiving device
Reading a server-side playlist was all the app could do: the write half of
both APIs was missing, and the only thing that knew which credential to use
was the subscription layer. So playlists arrive here as an account concern —
hand AccountService an account and it finds the instance, reads the secret,
refuses what the backend cannot do, and records what the answer implies
about the login.
Capabilities decide, never the instance type: a privacy setting sent to a
backend that has none is dropped rather than refused, because the playlist
is still perfectly creatable there. Every call captures the credential it
used and re-reads it before recording an outcome, so a late 401 cannot
reject the login the user just fixed, nor a late success clear a rejection
it never earned.
Removal is where the backends stop being alike. Invidious names the row
itself with an indexId that survives refetches, so it removes directly.
Piped removes by position, and a position is only true of the fetch that
minted it — so the playlist is refetched and the position checked to still
hold the same video before anything is deleted. That narrows the window; it
cannot close it, and only the refetch afterwards shows what really happened.
The cache exists so that refetch cannot be forgotten. Every mutation goes
through it and republishes what it touched — on failure as much as on
success, because a write that reported failure may still have landed — and
nothing is ever edited optimistically. It is in memory alone: the data
belongs to a login rather than to this device, and a stored Piped entry id
would be aimed at whatever occupies that slot next launch. A per-account
generation fences results that come back after the account was cleared,
since clearing has never cancelled the request that was filling it.
Along the way, clients minted per instance sent no User-Agent at all —
instances that whitelist the Yattee prefix answered them with a 401 the
shared client never earned. The factory now bakes the app's User-Agent in
at construction, where no request can outrun it.