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Summary

Adds a pluggable, synchronous PublishListener hook for observing active Orchestrator.publish calls. Listeners receive the topic name, original published value, and a shared System.nanoTime() timestamp before topic type validation, latest-value updates, or subscriber dispatch, enabling diagnostics such as recording, metrics, and tracing without reimplementing publish.

Functional changes

  • Added PublishListener and Orchestrator.addPublishListener / removePublishListener APIs.
  • Added default interface methods so existing orchestrator implementations and test doubles remain compatible:
    • Non-null registration fails explicitly with UnsupportedOperationException when unsupported.
    • Removal is a safe no-op by default.
    • Null listeners are ignored.
  • Updated OrchestratorImpl to support thread-safe listener registration and removal.
  • Notifications run synchronously on the publishing thread, in registration order, and must not block.
  • Each publish uses a stable listener snapshot. Listeners present when notification begins are called for that publish even if another listener removes them during iteration; newly registered listeners are deferred to a later publish.
  • All listeners receive the same timestamp for a given publish.
  • Listener failures are logged and isolated so later listeners and subscribers continue. Non-VirtualMachineError throwables, including ordinary Error subclasses, are contained.
  • Non-null publishes rejected by topic type validation are still observed by listeners before the IllegalArgumentException is returned to the caller.
  • Keeps the no-listener publish path lightweight.

Test coverage

Added publish-listener tests covering:

  • Normal publish observation and subscriber ordering.
  • Registration, removal, null handling, and registration order.
  • Consistent and plausible timestamps.
  • Listener exceptions and non-fatal Errors.
  • VirtualMachineError propagation.
  • Concurrent publishing and exactly-once notification.
  • Listener removal during an active publish.
  • Concurrent listener churn.
  • Type-mismatch and closed-orchestrator behavior.
  • Delivery of the original published value.

Also stabilized existing asynchronous tests by using thread-safe collections, avoiding assumptions about callback delivery order, and waiting for periodic callbacks to quiesce after node unregistration.

Behavioral notes

  • The notification point occurs after the existing closed-state and null-value guards, so those early exits are not reported despite the broad “every publish” terminology.
  • The current VirtualMachineError carve-out rethrows all VirtualMachineError subclasses, including recoverable errors such as StackOverflowError and InternalError.
  • The concurrent churn test performs separate remove/add operations, which can temporarily register duplicate listener entries; its linear-work assertion therefore is not a strict fixed-list bound.

Summary by Sourcery

Add synchronous publish observation hooks while preserving bus delivery and subscriber behavior when diagnostics fail.

New Features:

  • Add a synchronous PublishListener extension point for observing publishes before topic validation and subscriber dispatch.
  • Expose listener registration and removal APIs on Orchestrator, with compatibility-preserving defaults for unsupported implementations.

Bug Fixes:

  • Isolate listener failures from publish processing and subscriber delivery while propagating OutOfMemoryError.
  • Ensure listener notification uses a stable snapshot so registration changes during a publish do not skip or duplicate notifications.
  • Stabilize asynchronous tests by using thread-safe collections and waiting for periodic activity to quiesce.

Enhancements:

  • Support thread-safe listener management with registration-order delivery, shared publish timestamps, and a lightweight no-listener path.
  • Document listener timing, error handling, closed-orchestrator behavior, null publishes, and type-mismatch notifications.

Documentation:

  • Document the PublishListener API and its threading, notification, performance, and failure-containment contracts.

Tests:

  • Add comprehensive coverage for listener lifecycle, ordering, timestamps, concurrency, listener churn, failures, type mismatches, null and closed publishes, and original value delivery.

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CHANGELOG.md (2)

13-26: Changelog wording is inconsistent with the implementation on the "single volatile read" claim.

Line 41 says publish costs a single volatile read when no listeners are registered. OrchestratorImpl calls CopyOnWriteArrayList.isEmpty(), which reads the internal array through a volatile field. This is close but not exactly one read of a field on the orchestrator. A previous review already flagged this wording as imprecise. The text is not a defect, so this is a low-value item.


28-41: LGTM!

src/main/java/com/aaravlabs/synapse/PublishListener.java (2)

4-5: LGTM!


64-82: LGTM!

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270-285: LGTM!

The loop uses the iterator over the CopyOnWriteArrayList, so it works on one stable snapshot. The OutOfMemoryError rethrow and the Throwable containment match the documented contract. The type-mismatch case notifies before the throw, as documented.


286-341: LGTM!

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Walkthrough

The change adds a public PublishListener callback and registration methods to Orchestrator. OrchestratorImpl invokes a snapshot of registered listeners before topic lookup and type validation. Tests cover listener behavior and asynchronous subscriber delivery.

Changes

Publish listeners

Layer / File(s) Summary
Listener API contract
src/main/java/com/aaravlabs/synapse/PublishListener.java, src/main/java/com/aaravlabs/synapse/Orchestrator.java, CHANGELOG.md
Adds the PublishListener callback and default registration and removal methods. The changelog documents listener timing, ordering, snapshot behavior, and exception handling.
Listener registration and invocation
src/main/java/com/aaravlabs/synapse/OrchestratorImpl.java
OrchestratorImpl stores listeners and invokes a copy-on-write snapshot before topic lookup and type validation. It uses one timestamp per publish, contains listener failures except OutOfMemoryError, and continues normal publish processing.
Listener behavior and publish validation
src/test/java/com/aaravlabs/synapse/PublishListenerTest.java
Tests cover callback order and timestamps, listener registration and removal, payload identity, rejected publishes, and closed-orchestrator behavior.
Failure handling and concurrent listener tests
src/test/java/com/aaravlabs/synapse/PublishListenerTest.java
Tests cover listener failure handling, concurrent publishing and listener changes, and error-class relationships scanned from boot-layer modules.
Asynchronous delivery test updates
src/test/java/com/aaravlabs/synapse/NodeTest.java, src/test/java/com/aaravlabs/synapse/TopicTest.java
Tests use thread-safe collections for callback results. The periodic-unregister test waits for activity to stop, and the topic delivery test no longer requires publish order.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Publisher
  participant OrchestratorImpl
  participant PublishListener
  participant Subscriber
  Publisher->>OrchestratorImpl: publish topic and value
  OrchestratorImpl->>PublishListener: invoke callback with topic, value, and timestamp
  OrchestratorImpl->>Subscriber: dispatch published value
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to e70b8

The change adds an opt-in hook for observing publishes and leaves normal publish and subscriber delivery unchanged. Listener failures are contained, except OutOfMemoryError, which still propagates. Orchestrator implementations without listener support reject non-null registration with UnsupportedOperationException, ignore null registration, and treat removal as a no-op, as documented. No merge-blocking issues remain.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to e70b8

The hook requires an existing orchestrator reference, and no new privilege escalation is demonstrated. Listeners nevertheless receive all published values and execute on operational threads. Reentrant callbacks can affect publication state and delivery beyond the documented exception-isolation guarantees.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · reliability · inferred: The new synchronous observer stage has no reentrancy or lifecycle boundary. A listener that recursively publishes can invoke itself repeatedly before the outer publish commits, accumulating downstream work. A listener that closes the orchestrator can return to an outer publish that still updates latest-value state; remaining callback submissions are discarded by the shutdown executor's CallerRunsPolicy. Exception handling alone does not contain these effects. Existing shutdown authority and concurrent shutdown races predate this PR; the introduced concern is their availability inside every pre-commit observation callback.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — A registered listener's directly evidenced reach spans every non-null publish that passes the initial closed-state check on that orchestrator instance, including rejected type mismatches and hardware-thread publishes. The evidence does not establish tenant, service, environment or data-store exposure beyond this in-process bus.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • inferred — The callback is an in-process extension, not a sandboxed observer. Registering it requires an Orchestrator reference that already exposes publishing, topic lookup, subscription and shutdown authority. Global pre-validation observation is new, but the existing API is not evidence of topic-level authorization, and no untrusted holder of this reference is identified.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Removal affects future listener snapshots, not a notification already underway. Close sets the closed flag and shuts down worker pools but does not clear the listener registry or coordinate an already-entered publish. Post-close entry checks therefore do not establish cleanup or completion guarantees for in-flight observations.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Define whether listeners may recursively publish or close the bus, and align containment with that policy. Document registration as trusted, all-topic, original-value access; separately define listener detachment and cleanup guarantees rather than treating snapshot removal as immediate revocation.
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- Line 11: Add a blank line after the “### Added” heading in the changelog
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Review comments at @src/main/java/com/aaravlabs/synapse/Orchestrator.java:
- Around line 285-287: Update Orchestrator.addPublishListener to be a no-op,
matching removePublishListener, so existing implementations and wrappers do not
throw when registering listeners; retain the documented behavior that null
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Review comments at @src/main/java/com/aaravlabs/synapse/OrchestratorImpl.java:
- Line 237: Change the catch clause in OrchestratorImpl to catch Exception
instead of Throwable so Errors such as OutOfMemoryError are not swallowed;
preserve the existing exception logging behavior.
- Around line 231-234: Replace the indexed size()/get(i) loop in the
publish-listener dispatch with iteration over the CopyOnWriteArrayList snapshot.
Keep each listener invocation inside the existing try/catch so concurrent
removals cannot interrupt publish or skip subscriber dispatch.
- Around line 228-243: Move the publish-listener loop in the publish method of
OrchestratorImpl to after the topic type validation, so publishes rejected with
IllegalArgumentException are not reported to listeners. Preserve the shared
timestamp behavior and ensure valid publishes still notify listeners before
updating the latest-value cache.

Review comments at @src/main/java/com/aaravlabs/synapse/PublishListener.java:
- Around line 26-27: Update the PublishListener Javadoc performance claim to say
the no-listener check has negligible cost rather than specifying a single
volatile read. Keep the change scoped to that wording.

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- Line 105: Update the shared-list declarations in the tests containing `seen`
to use `Collections.synchronizedList`, matching `listenerSeesEveryPublish`;
preserve the existing list behavior and assertions.
- Around line 191-202: Update the timestamp assertion in
timestampIsPlausiblyCurrent to compare nanoTime values using subtraction: check
that seen[0] - before and after - seen[0] are both non-negative. Keep the
existing publish-window assertion message.
- Around line 92-93: Replace the positive-value checks in PublishListenerTest
with boolean flags that each listener sets when invoked, then assert both flags
to verify that the listeners ran regardless of System.nanoTime() values.
- Around line 60-61: Update the affected test methods in PublishListenerTest to
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Comment on lines +285 to +287
default void addPublishListener(PublishListener listener) {
throw new UnsupportedOperationException("publish listeners are not supported by this orchestrator");
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

The default addPublishListener throws, which breaks the "existing implementors keep compiling" intent at runtime.

Existing Orchestrator implementors and test doubles compile. A caller that registers a listener on them now gets UnsupportedOperationException. removePublishListener is a silent no-op. The two defaults are inconsistent. The @param doc says "ignored if null", but the default throws even for a null listener. Document @throws UnsupportedOperationException on the method. Alternatively, make the default a no-op to match removePublishListener. A wrapper that decorates Orchestrator also drops listener registration unless it delegates.

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removePublishListener, so existing implementations and wrappers do not throw
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Comment on lines +228 to +243
// One timestamp for every listener, taken before the type check so a
// listener never observes a later instant than the publish itself.
// Guarded so the common case -- nobody listening -- is one read.
java.util.List<PublishListener> listeners = publishListeners;
if (!listeners.isEmpty()) {
long now = System.nanoTime();
for (int i = 0, n = listeners.size(); i < n; i++) {
try {
listeners.get(i).onPublish(topicName, value, now);
} catch (Throwable t) {
// Diagnostics must never break the bus: log and carry on
// so the remaining listeners and the subscribers still run.
log.error(name, "publish listener threw", t);
}
}
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Listeners fire before topic type validation, so rejected publishes are still observed.

The listener loop runs before the isAssignableFrom check. A publish that then throws IllegalArgumentException for a type mismatch has already been reported to every listener. Diagnostics will record values that never reached the topic cache or subscribers. The comment on Line 228 says this is intentional. However, the PR description and the PublishListener Javadoc say listeners run "after the null check and before the latest-value cache is updated". Neither document says rejected publishes are observed. Either document this behavior or move the listener block after validation.

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Review comment at @src/main/java/com/aaravlabs/synapse/OrchestratorImpl.java
around lines 228 - 243:
Move the publish-listener loop in the publish method of OrchestratorImpl to
after the topic type validation, so publishes rejected with
IllegalArgumentException are not reported to listeners. Preserve the shared
timestamp behavior and ensure valid publishes still notify listeners before
updating the latest-value cache.

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for (int i = 0, n = listeners.size(); i < n; i++) {
try {
listeners.get(i).onPublish(topicName, value, now);
} catch (Throwable t) {

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

catch (Throwable) also swallows Errors such as OutOfMemoryError.

The catch logs the error, so this is not silent. Consider catching Exception or rethrowing VirtualMachineError. This is a low-priority hardening item.

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Review comment at @src/main/java/com/aaravlabs/synapse/OrchestratorImpl.java at
line 237:
Change the catch clause in OrchestratorImpl to catch Exception instead of
Throwable so Errors such as OutOfMemoryError are not swallowed; preserve the
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Comment on lines +26 to +27
* When no listener is registered the call costs a single volatile read, so this
* is cheap enough to leave permanently wired on a competition robot.

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Javadoc says "a single volatile read", but the implementation is not a bare volatile read.

OrchestratorImpl stores listeners in a CopyOnWriteArrayList. The final field is not volatile. isEmpty() reads the list's internal volatile array. This is close to one volatile read, but the same claim also appears in Orchestrator.java and CHANGELOG.md. The wording is imprecise, not a defect. Consider saying "negligible cost" instead.

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Review comment at @src/main/java/com/aaravlabs/synapse/PublishListener.java
around lines 26 - 27:
Update the PublishListener Javadoc performance claim to say the no-listener
check has negligible cost rather than specifying a single volatile read. Keep
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} catch (InterruptedException e) {
Thread.currentThread().interrupt();

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Swallowing InterruptedException in the test can hide a failure.

The catch blocks restore the interrupt flag but skip the assertions. If the thread is interrupted while waiting, the test passes without verifying anything. Declare throws Exception and remove the catch blocks so the test fails on interruption.

Also applies to: 125-126

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Comment on lines +92 to +93
assertTrue(first[0] > 0, "the first listener should have run");
assertTrue(second[0] > 0, "the second listener should have run");

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

first[0] > 0 can fail on valid nanoTime values.

System.nanoTime() has an arbitrary origin and can be zero or negative. The > 0 checks could fail even when the listeners ran. Use a boolean flag or AtomicBoolean to record that each listener ran.

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Review comment at @src/test/java/com/aaravlabs/synapse/PublishListenerTest.java
around lines 92 - 93:
Replace the positive-value checks in PublishListenerTest with boolean flags that
each listener sets when invoked, then assert both flags to verify that the
listeners ran regardless of System.nanoTime() values.

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void aThrowingListenerDoesNotBreakThePublish() {
Orchestrator orch = Orchestrator.create("throwing");
try {
List<String> seen = new ArrayList<>();

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Unsynchronized ArrayList is used across threads in these tests.

The listener runs on the publishing thread, which is the test thread here, so these tests are safe today. listenerSeesEveryPublish uses Collections.synchronizedList for the same pattern. Use the same for consistency. This is low priority.

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Review comment at @src/test/java/com/aaravlabs/synapse/PublishListenerTest.java
at line 105:
Update the shared-list declarations in the tests containing `seen` to use
`Collections.synchronizedList`, matching `listenerSeesEveryPublish`; preserve
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Comment on lines +191 to +202
void timestampIsPlausiblyCurrent() {
Orchestrator orch = Orchestrator.create("now");
try {
long[] seen = new long[1];
orch.addPublishListener((t, v, nanos) -> seen[0] = nanos);

long before = System.nanoTime();
orch.publish("t", 1.0);
long after = System.nanoTime();

assertTrue(seen[0] >= before && seen[0] <= after,
"listener timestamp " + seen[0] + " should fall within the publish window");

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timestampIsPlausiblyCurrent is correct only because System.nanoTime() values are compared by subtraction elsewhere.

The assertion uses >= and <= on raw nanoTime values. nanoTime may be negative or wrap, and Java documents that such values must be compared by subtraction. Use seen[0] - before >= 0 && after - seen[0] >= 0.

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IamCoder18 added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 30, 2026
Address the CodeRabbit review on #27.

The listener loop indexed a CopyOnWriteArrayList with size() + get(i).
CopyOnWriteArrayList reads its backing array independently on each call, so
a listener that unregistered a later one mid-publish left the cached size()
stale and get(i) threw IndexOutOfBoundsException.

That call sits inside the try, so the bus did not break -- but the loop
aborted, every remaining listener was silently skipped for that publish,
and the log blamed a listener for "throwing" when the list was merely
shorter than expected. For a recorder that means lost events with no
error surface. Iterating instead gives a single stable snapshot, so one
publish always notifies exactly the listeners registered when it started.

Tests: aListenerUnregisteringAnotherMidPublishDoesNotBreakTheBus is
single-threaded and deterministic -- it fails on the old indexed loop
(expected [first, second], got [first]) and passes on the iterator.
Verified by temporarily reverting the loop. Also a bounded concurrency
churn test and a test pinning the documented pre-validation ordering.
Suite: 67 tests, 0 failures.

Docs: null on addPublishListener returns early, matching its @PARAM;
the deliberate throw/no-op asymmetry between add and remove is stated
with its reason; PublishListener.Ordering now documents the pre-validation
ordering and the snapshot semantics.

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P3: `removePublishListener` is not always a no-op: `OrchestratorImpl` overrides it to detach listeners. Qualify this as the default removal behavior so the changelog does not contradict the supported API.</violation>
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`addPublishListener` throws `UnsupportedOperationException` on an
implementation that does not support listeners, rather than accepting the
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P3: removePublishListener is not always a no-op: OrchestratorImpl overrides it to detach listeners. Qualify this as the default removal behavior so the changelog does not contradict the supported API.

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@@ -21,6 +22,16 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
+  `addPublishListener` throws `UnsupportedOperationException` on an
+  implementation that does not support listeners, rather than accepting the
+  registration and quietly recording nothing; `removePublishListener` is always
+  a safe no-op. Implementors that can support listeners must override both.
+
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- Around line 150-151: Update awaitQuiescence to use an explicit completion
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src/main/java/com/aaravlabs/synapse/PublishListener.java (1)

42-43: The "single volatile read" cost claim is still imprecise.

This wording was flagged on an earlier commit and is unchanged. isEmpty() on a CopyOnWriteArrayList reads its internal volatile array, so the claim is close to true but not exact.

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Also applies to: 198-214, 228-269

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} else if (System.nanoTime() - stillSince >= holdNanos) {
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Verify that the quiet interval excludes an unfinished tick.

cleanupNode calls cancel(false), which does not wait for an active invocation. If the scheduler thread pauses before PeriodicNode.tick() reaches ticks.incrementAndGet(), awaitQuiescence can return after 150 ms while that invocation is still active. The invocation can then increment the counter during OBSERVE_MS and fail the test.

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Update awaitQuiescence to use an explicit completion signal for active
PeriodicNode.tick invocations instead of treating a stable ticks counter as
proof of completion. Track invocation start and completion so the quiet interval
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<violation number="1" location="src/test/java/com/aaravlabs/synapse/NodeTest.java:150">
P2: The quiescence check can still let a spurious tick through: `cancel(false)` permits an already-running periodic invocation to finish, and that in-flight tick is only caught if it lands within the 150 ms hold window. If the scheduler thread holding it is preempted longer than that (the comment itself calls the delay "unbounded in principle"), quiescence is confirmed on a stale baseline and the tick lands during the 200 ms observation, failing this test on a perfectly correct unregister. This is exactly the "one tick cancellation permits" failure the rewrite is trying to eliminate, so it is worth hardening rather than accepting.</violation>
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// just moved. Restart the quiet period from here.
last = now;
stillSince = System.nanoTime();
} else if (System.nanoTime() - stillSince >= holdNanos) {

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P2: The quiescence check can still let a spurious tick through: cancel(false) permits an already-running periodic invocation to finish, and that in-flight tick is only caught if it lands within the 150 ms hold window. If the scheduler thread holding it is preempted longer than that (the comment itself calls the delay "unbounded in principle"), quiescence is confirmed on a stale baseline and the tick lands during the 200 ms observation, failing this test on a perfectly correct unregister. This is exactly the "one tick cancellation permits" failure the rewrite is trying to eliminate, so it is worth hardening rather than accepting.

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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At src/test/java/com/aaravlabs/synapse/NodeTest.java, line 150:

<comment>The quiescence check can still let a spurious tick through: `cancel(false)` permits an already-running periodic invocation to finish, and that in-flight tick is only caught if it lands within the 150 ms hold window. If the scheduler thread holding it is preempted longer than that (the comment itself calls the delay "unbounded in principle"), quiescence is confirmed on a stale baseline and the tick lands during the 200 ms observation, failing this test on a perfectly correct unregister. This is exactly the "one tick cancellation permits" failure the rewrite is trying to eliminate, so it is worth hardening rather than accepting.</comment>

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@@ -68,20 +97,74 @@ void unregisterNode_stopsSubscriptionsAndPeriodic() throws Exception {
+                // just moved. Restart the quiet period from here.
+                last = now;
+                stillSince = System.nanoTime();
+            } else if (System.nanoTime() - stillSince >= holdNanos) {
+                return now;
+            }
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Diagnostics -- recording, metrics, tracing -- need to see every value on the
bus, and today there is no supported way to do that without reimplementing
publish. This adds one, following the same pluggable-extension-point pattern
as LogSink.

Design notes:

- addPublishListener / removePublishListener are default methods on
  Orchestrator, so existing implementors and test doubles keep compiling and
  the change is additive at both the source and binary level.

- Listeners are notified inside OrchestratorImpl.publish, the single point
  every publish passes through. That matters: HardwareActions.bulkRead
  callbacks publish through a HardwareView bound to the concrete orchestrator
  during SafeOpMode.init, so an external wrapper cannot see them. A hook here
  does.

- Listeners run on the publishing thread -- OpMode loop, hardware thread, or
  callback pool -- and must not block. The javadoc says so, because a listener
  that sleeps silently delays a publish.

- A listener that throws is caught and logged, and the remaining listeners and
  subscribers still run. Instrumentation that can take down the bus is worse
  than no instrumentation; there is a test pinning this.

- One timestamp is sampled at the top of publish and shared by all listeners,
  so a slow first listener cannot shift the instant later ones report.

- Registration uses CopyOnWriteArrayList and the call site is guarded by
  isEmpty(), so with no listener registered publish costs a single volatile
  read. Cheap enough to leave permanently enabled on a robot.

12 new tests, 64 total, 0 failures. No new javadoc warnings (149 before and
after).

This is needed by engram (github.com/IamCoder18/engram), which detects the hook
reflectively and falls back to an orchestrator decorator without it.
Address the CodeRabbit review on #27.

The listener loop indexed a CopyOnWriteArrayList with size() + get(i).
CopyOnWriteArrayList reads its backing array independently on each call, so
a listener that unregistered a later one mid-publish left the cached size()
stale and get(i) threw IndexOutOfBoundsException.

That call sits inside the try, so the bus did not break -- but the loop
aborted, every remaining listener was silently skipped for that publish,
and the log blamed a listener for "throwing" when the list was merely
shorter than expected. For a recorder that means lost events with no
error surface. Iterating instead gives a single stable snapshot, so one
publish always notifies exactly the listeners registered when it started.

Tests: aListenerUnregisteringAnotherMidPublishDoesNotBreakTheBus is
single-threaded and deterministic -- it fails on the old indexed loop
(expected [first, second], got [first]) and passes on the iterator.
Verified by temporarily reverting the loop. Also a bounded concurrency
churn test and a test pinning the documented pre-validation ordering.
Suite: 67 tests, 0 failures.

Docs: null on addPublishListener returns early, matching its @PARAM;
the deliberate throw/no-op asymmetry between add and remove is stated
with its reason; PublishListener.Ordering now documents the pre-validation
ordering and the snapshot semantics.
Addresses the remaining review comments on this branch.

Tests

- everyListenerGetsTheSameTimestamp detected "the listener ran" by checking
  nanos > 0. System.nanoTime() has an arbitrary origin and its values may be
  zero or negative, so that can fail on a perfectly good clock -- and when it
  does, the failure blames the clock for a listener that ran fine. Replaced
  with AtomicBoolean run flags plus AtomicLong values. The two List<Long>
  fields the old version wrote to were never read by any assertion and are
  gone.

- timestampIsPlausiblyCurrent compared raw nanoTime values with >= and <=.
  Only differences are meaningful for nanoTime: the origin is arbitrary and
  the sequence wraps. Now compares by subtraction, per the JDK's own contract.
  This also removes a vacuous pass -- with a listener that never ran, seen[0]
  is 0 and the raw comparison could succeed.

- Two tests swallowed InterruptedException, restoring the flag and skipping
  their assertions, so an interrupted run passed without verifying anything.
  They now declare throws Exception. awaitCount had the same shape and now
  propagates too.

- TopicTest.subscribe_receivesPublishedValues was the actual flake: it
  asserted List.of("a", "b") from a plain ArrayList, but subscriber callbacks
  are dispatched to a ThreadPoolExecutor with core 4 / max 16, so the two
  callbacks run concurrently on a different thread and may complete in either
  order. Observed failing as "expected: <[a, b]> but was: <[b, a]>". The
  collection is now a CopyOnWriteArrayList (it really is written from another
  thread) and the assertion checks that both values arrive, exactly once,
  without asserting an order the library does not promise.

Listener errors

catch (Throwable) is deliberate and stays. Narrowing it to Exception, as
suggested, would be a regression: on a robot the realistic way a diagnostics
module breaks is a failed assertion or a module that no longer links against
the robot build -- AssertionError, NoClassDefFoundError and friends are all
Errors, not Exceptions, and those must not take the bus down either.

What is narrowed is the top of that: VirtualMachineError now propagates out of
publish. Once the JVM is out of memory or otherwise past recovery there is no
useful publish left to protect, and carrying on to the next listener only
allocates more on a heap that is already gone. Both halves are pinned by new
tests, and the carve-out is documented in PublishListener's javadoc and in
the changelog rather than left implicit.

No new javadoc warnings.

69 tests, 0 failures. The mid-publish unregister regression test still fails
on the old size()/get(i) loop ("expected: <[first, second]> but was:
<[first]>") and passes on the iterator.
Not part of the PublishListener feature, and no production code is touched.
The defect is in the test's own timing, not in the listener hook: nothing here
involves addPublishListener, publish ordering, or listener error containment.
It is fixed on this branch only so the suite is deterministic while the PR is
under review, and it can be lifted out into its own commit if the reviewer
prefers.

Note on provenance: NodeTest.java was added by fc9274c, the first commit of
this branch, so there is no "pre-existing on main" version of this test to
point at. The race has been in the file since it was written, and this branch
never carried it on a green run by luck rather than by construction.

The defect is in unregisterNode_stopsSubscriptionsAndPeriodic. It sampled its
baseline *before* the call that makes the counter stable:

    int before = p.ticks.get();          // line 71
    orchestrator.unregisterNode("periodic");
    Thread.sleep(80);
    int after = p.ticks.get();
    assertEquals(before, after, "periodic should stop after unregister");

unregisterNode does not drain the loop. It calls ScheduledFuture.cancel(false)
on the node's ScheduledFuture, which takes effect immediately and prevents any
further execution, but does not interrupt an invocation that is already running
on a scheduler thread. That in-flight tick still increments the counter, and it
can land at any point between the scheduler thread picking the task up and the
reflectively-invoked method returning -- microseconds normally, milliseconds
when the machine is loaded. The sampled window therefore straddled the
cancellation, and a tick the library was still entitled to run turned into a
failure of an assertion about cancellation.

Verified against the JDK behaviour directly: a task cancelled with cancel(false)
while running completes and its effect still lands, while isCancelled() reports
the loop is dead. Confirmed empirically against the unfixed test, which fails
under load with "expected: <5> but was: <6>" -- exactly before + 1.

The fix takes the baseline after the unregister has taken effect and only once
the counter has stopped moving, so the equality is exact. This is not a
tolerance, a retry, or a longer sleep: awaitQuiescence fails the test outright
if the counter never settles, so a loop that genuinely keeps ticking cannot
pass. Proven by temporarily disabling the cancel in OrchestratorImpl.cleanupNode
-- the test then failed at the quiescence step, and again at the equality assert
once the barrier was bypassed. Production code is unchanged.

The two plain ArrayLists in this class are also written on a callback-pool
thread and read from the test thread, with no happens-before edge between them.
Both are now CopyOnWriteArrayList, matching the convention already used by
HardwareThreadTest, TopicTest and ThreadingTest. This also closes a latent
flake in subscribedTo_isInvokedOnPublish, which polled isEmpty() and then
compared the list's contents.

No other test in the suite makes the same mistake. The closest is
HardwareActionsTest.stopBulkRead_stopsPeriodic, which already samples its
baseline after the cancel; it is the pattern this change follows.

Verified: full suite 69 tests / 0 failures over 25 --rerun-tasks runs on JDK 25
(1725 test executions, counted from TEST-*.xml rather than the console summary),
plus 12 runs on JDK 17 under 2x CPU oversubscription. The unfixed test fails 2
of 60 attempts under that same load.
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Three review findings on the PublishListener hook.

1. `catch (VirtualMachineError)` was too broad. The carve-out was
justified on the grounds of heap exhaustion, but it rethrew every
VirtualMachineError, including two that are routinely recoverable.
Narrowed to `OutOfMemoryError` alone, which is the only case whose
recovery path also needs memory: log.error builds a message and fills
in a stack trace, so swallowing it would fail again in a worse place.

StackOverflowError and UnknownError are contained. InternalError is
contained by consequence rather than by classification: it has no JDK
subclass and no documented recoverable producer, so this code cannot
tell a benign one from a fatal one and does not guess. What it can tell
is that the bus is not compromised -- the fault is inside one listener's
frame and nothing else on the bus depends on it. Verified against the
running JDK rather than from memory: ThreadDeath is a plain Error, and
every class-loading error a robot build realistically throws
(NoClassDefFoundError, ClassFormatError, VerifyError,
IncompatibleClassChangeError) descends from LinkageError, not from
InternalError, so none was ever in scope of the old carve-out.

2. The in-code comment claimed a publish rejected with
IllegalArgumentException is always reported. That is true of the
type-mismatch IAE and false of the null-value IAE, which throws before
the listener block runs; nothing distinguished them. Both guards that
run before the block -- closed orchestrator and null value -- are
argument validation: nothing was published, and in the null case there
is no value to hand a listener, which is why onPublish documents its
value as never null. Kept that behaviour and documented it precisely in
Orchestrator.publish, Orchestrator.addPublishListener, PublishListener,
and the CHANGELOG, rather than handing listeners a null.

3. The churn test claimed a bounded listener list and did not enforce
it. CopyOnWriteArrayList.remove drops only the first equal element, so
two churning threads interleaving remove/remove/add/add left two copies
of the listener registered. The existing assertions were size-insensitive
and could never see it. The remove/add pair now runs under a lock, the
listener count is asserted, and a new test documents the duplicate
registration that made the bound invisible.

Tests: 73 -> 79. Adds containment tests for StackOverflowError,
InternalError and UnknownError (each fails if the catch widens back to
VirtualMachineError), a null-value publish test (fails if the null check
moves below the listener block, with expected: <[]> but was: <[null]>),
a listener-count test, and a JDK-hierarchy guard that flags for
re-review if a future JDK reshapes VirtualMachineError. The OOME
propagation test is kept unchanged in behaviour and renamed for the
narrower contract.

Verified: 15 consecutive full-suite runs with --rerun-tasks, 79 tests,
0 failures. Regression tooth re-confirmed -- reverting the dispatch loop
to size()/get(i) fails aListenerUnregisteringAnotherMidPublishDoesNot
BreakTheBus with expected: <[first, second]> but was: <[first]>.
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* <h2>When a listener is called</h2>
* A listener is called for a publish that actually reaches the bus. Two calls
* are rejected before that point and are <b>not</b> observable here, so a
* recorder sees neither of them:

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Contradictory notification contract in src/main/java/com/aaravlabs/synapse/PublishListener.java: the class-level summary claims that the hook fires on every Orchestrator.publish call, although the new When a listener is called section documents two non-notified paths (closed orchestrator and null value), so a recorder built on the summary can silently miss publishes to a closed bus and never receive the null value it is told it can rely on; the identical phrasing was already corrected in CHANGELOG.md:14 and Orchestrator.java:281, leaving this correction incomplete. Replace the summary with Notified synchronously on every {@link Orchestrator#publish} that reaches the bus, before any subscriber dispatch, and leave the two exclusions to the section below.

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File src/main/java/com/aaravlabs/synapse/PublishListener.java:

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Contradictory notification contract in `src/main/java/com/aaravlabs/synapse/PublishListener.java`: the class-level summary claims that the hook fires on every `Orchestrator.publish` call, although the new `When a listener is called` section documents two non-notified paths (closed orchestrator and null value), so a recorder built on the summary can silently miss publishes to a closed bus and never receive the null value it is told it can rely on; the identical phrasing was already corrected in `CHANGELOG.md:14` and `Orchestrator.java:281`, leaving this correction incomplete. Replace the summary with `Notified synchronously on every {@link Orchestrator#publish} that reaches the bus, before any subscriber dispatch`, and leave the two exclusions to the section below.

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Both findings are valid. The class-level summary overstated the hook's
contract, and the JDK-hierarchy guard could not fail.

Finding A -- self-contradictory class summary.

PublishListener's summary claimed listeners are notified "on every
Orchestrator.publish call", which the section eight lines below
contradicts: a publish to a closed orchestrator and a publish of a null
value are rejected before the bus acts and are not observable at all.
Orchestrator.addPublishListener and the CHANGELOG were corrected for
exactly this phrasing last commit and this file was missed. Grepped the
repo; these were the only three places the contract is stated, and all
three now read identically:

  Notified synchronously on every Orchestrator.publish that reaches the
  bus, before subscriber dispatch.

The three-case explanation below the summary is unchanged and now agrees
with it. onPublish's "value ... never null" stays correct and is now
load-bearing rather than merely stated: a null value never reaches the
bus, which is the only reason the parameter is never null.

Finding B -- a guard that could not fail.

theContainedVirtualMachineErrorsAreAllOfThem filtered a hardcoded
twenty-entry list of error classes and compared the result against a
hand-written restatement of the same twenty entries. That is a constant
compared with itself: a JDK that added or reshaped a VirtualMachineError
subclass would have left it green, the opposite of what its own comment
claimed. The helper was also misnamed -- it returned any subtype from a
fixed set, not the JDK's direct subclasses.

The hierarchy is now read out of the running JDK. Class.getDeclaredClasses()
returns [] for these JDK-internal classes, and Module exposes no way to
enumerate its contents, so the test walks the jrt: module image: the
package list comes from java.base's module descriptor and the class list
from those packages' directories, then filters on an exact superclass
match. Both halves are JDK-derived, so a new package or class appears
without this file changing. Guarded against jrt being unavailable, and
the scan self-checks that it really finds Error and Exception, so a scan
that returned nothing cannot turn the emptiness assertions below it into
vacuous passes.

This immediately found something the hardcoded list had hidden:
java.util.zip.ZipError is java.base's only InternalError subclass. So
"InternalError has no JDK subclass" -- asserted by the old test, and
stated as the containment rationale in PublishListener,
OrchestratorImpl and the CHANGELOG -- has never been true on any JDK this
project runs on (verified on 17, 21 and 25). It changes no behaviour:
ZipError is an InternalError and not an OutOfMemoryError, so the
carve-out's rethrow never sees it and catch (Throwable) contains it,
which is the right answer for a corrupt archive. But a carve-out
justified by "no subclass exists" is one nobody had examined, so the
rationale is now stated accurately in all three places and the ZipError
containment is pinned by a behaviour test.

The test was not deleted. Teeth proven by three deliberate mutations:
the old expectation of no InternalError subclass fails with
"expected: <[]> but was: <[class java.util.zip.ZipError]>"; a simulated
fifth VirtualMachineError subclass is detected; and a scan that finds
nothing fails on the self-check instead of passing vacuously.

Behaviour is unchanged. OutOfMemoryError propagates, everything else is
contained; the loop still walks one stable snapshot. All four existing
carve-out behaviour tests are untouched, and the ThreadDeath and
LinkageError facts are kept and now derived from the JDK.

Verified: 80 tests, 0 failures, across 15 consecutive --rerun-tasks
runs on JDK 25, plus a clean run each on JDK 17 (CI) and JDK 21.
gradle build passes with no new javadoc warnings (45 and 100 before and
after). Reverting the loop to size()/get(i) still fails
aListenerUnregisteringAnotherMidPublishDoesNotBreakTheBus with
"expected: <[first, second]> but was: <[first]>".

Refs PR #27.
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Four review findings on the PublishListener carve-out. All are doc and
test-scope; production behaviour is byte-identical.

PublishListener / OrchestratorImpl / CHANGELOG: the containment rationale
said "nothing in the JDK's own hierarchy says either is fatal", which
inverts the evidence. InternalError and UnknownError are documented as
serious VM failures; what is actually true is narrower -- no subclass of
either marks the fatal instance, so publish cannot tell a fatal one from
a benign one and does not guess. Silence in the hierarchy is not evidence
of harmlessness and is no longer read as such. The argument now rests on
the absence of a type-specific fatal subclass, and on what the hierarchy
does settle: the family these types are in, which is not
OutOfMemoryError.

Same three files: ZipError was described as "a corrupt-archive report,
raised by the sort of module a diagnostics hook is", implying a hazard on
every JDK this project runs on. The JDK now documents ZipError as no
longer used and obsolete, superseded by ZipException, so a corrupt
archive raises something else today. ZipError is still named -- it is the
containment family's only concrete InternalError subclass -- but as a fact
about the family, not as a fault a listener will meet.

PublishListenerTest: corrected the ZipError deprecation comment. It said
JDK 21; it is @deprecated(since = "24", forRemoval = true), verified
reflectively on the running JDK. Below 24 a direct reference warns about
nothing, which is why a direct reference looks clean on this project's JDK.
ThreadDeath is from JDK 20, now stated.

PublishListenerTest: the OutOfMemoryError scan was scoped to java.base
while catch (OutOfMemoryError) matches subclasses from every module, so a
subclass under jdk.* would have propagated out of publish with the
assertion still green. The scan now walks every module in the boot layer,
loading each through its own defining loader. That loader detail is load
bearing: with the bootstrap loader, 40 of the 61 resolved boot modules --
including jdk.compiler, java.sql and jdk.javadoc -- yield nothing at all,
so the naive widening would have reported an empty JDK while appearing to
work. Nested classes are now included too, since a nested class extending
OutOfMemoryError would be matched by the catch exactly like a top-level
one.

Cost: 0.40s to 3.14s for that test, 7.6s to 10.0s of suite time, against
a 30s budget. Not narrowed back to save it.

The assertion messages now state their bound rather than claiming a
universal: "no module in this JVM's boot layer declares a direct
OutOfMemoryError subclass" covers the 60 boot modules that contributed
classes and does not cover the classpath or a child module layer. Each
failure names what was scanned, so it says which image it was a claim
about. Two new self-checks keep the scan from passing vacuously -- the
original Throwable-roots check, plus one that fails if the scan stops
reaching modules beyond java.base.

Verified: 18 consecutive --rerun-tasks runs green at 80 tests, 0 failures,
parsed from the JUnit XML. Reverting the listener loop to size()/get(i)
still fails aListenerUnregisteringAnotherMidPublishDoesNotBreakTheBus with
"expected: <[first, second]> but was: <[first]>". A deliberately wrong
OOME expectation fails with the full scan description in the message.
gradle build passes with 45 javadoc warnings, unchanged from baseline,
none referencing PublishListener.
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List<String> outsideJavaBaseWitnesses = List.of(
"java.awt.AWTError",
"javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactoryConfigurationError",
"java.util.logging.LogManager",
"java.lang.management.ManagementFactory");
assertTrue(outsideJavaBase.stream().anyMatch(c -> outsideJavaBaseWitnesses.contains(c.getName())),
"the scan must load classes from a module other than java.base, not merely walk its"
+ " directories; none of the known non-java.base witnesses "
+ outsideJavaBaseWitnesses + " came back. Scan reached: " + scan);

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The new scan-width guards require classes that live in four specific non-java.base modules (java.desktop, java.xml, java.logging, java.management) and a direct Error subclass outside java.base, so they assert a property of the JDK image layout rather than of the scan — directly contradicting the comment above them ("which modules end up in the boot layer depends on the JVM's root modules, and a jlink'd image can be very small, so naming one class would make this a test of the JDK layout rather than of the scan"). on a trimmed boot layer where bootLayerScan() still visits every module present — so catch (OutOfMemoryError)'s scope is fully covered — assertTrue(outsideJavaBase.stream().anyMatch(...)) at line 531 and the equivalent Error-outside-java.base assertion at 602 fail spuriously, which is why the three emptiness assertions at 556-571 were reworded in this same commit to be "a bound on the image, not a universal claim" while these two were not. assert on the scan's own output rather than on JDK contents — require that scan.modulesWithClasses contains a module other than java.base (a structural fact about the walk that a java.base-only regression breaks and that holds on any image), and drop the four named witnesses and the Error-outside-java.base check.

// Assert on what the scan walked, not on which classes the JDK ships:
        // "some module other than java.base contributed classes" holds on every
        // image, while naming a java.desktop/java.xml class fails on a jlink'd one.
        assertTrue(scan.modulesWithClasses.stream().anyMatch(m -> !JAVA_BASE.equals(m)),
                "the scan must reach modules other than java.base, or it is still narrower than"
                        + " catch (OutOfMemoryError) in publish, which matches subclasses from any"
                        + " module. Scan reached: " + scan);
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File src/test/java/com/aaravlabs/synapse/PublishListenerTest.java:

Line 526 to 534:

The new scan-width guards require classes that live in four specific non-`java.base` modules (`java.desktop`, `java.xml`, `java.logging`, `java.management`) and a direct `Error` subclass outside `java.base`, so they assert a property of the JDK image layout rather than of the scan — directly contradicting the comment above them ("which modules end up in the boot layer depends on the JVM's root modules, and a jlink'd image can be very small, so naming one class would make this a test of the JDK layout rather than of the scan"). on a trimmed boot layer where `bootLayerScan()` still visits every module present — so `catch (OutOfMemoryError)`'s scope is fully covered — `assertTrue(outsideJavaBase.stream().anyMatch(...))` at line 531 and the equivalent `Error`-outside-`java.base` assertion at 602 fail spuriously, which is why the three emptiness assertions at 556-571 were reworded in this same commit to be "a bound on the image, not a universal claim" while these two were not. assert on the scan's own output rather than on JDK contents — require that `scan.modulesWithClasses` contains a module other than `java.base` (a structural fact about the walk that a `java.base`-only regression breaks and that holds on any image), and drop the four named witnesses and the `Error`-outside-`java.base` check.

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// Assert on what the scan walked, not on which classes the JDK ships:
        // "some module other than java.base contributed classes" holds on every
        // image, while naming a java.desktop/java.xml class fails on a jlink'd one.
        assertTrue(scan.modulesWithClasses.stream().anyMatch(m -> !JAVA_BASE.equals(m)),
                "the scan must reach modules other than java.base, or it is still narrower than"
                        + " catch (OutOfMemoryError) in publish, which matches subclasses from any"
                        + " module. Scan reached: " + scan);

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2 issues found across 4 files (changes from recent commits).

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<file name="src/main/java/com/aaravlabs/synapse/PublishListener.java">

<violation number="1" location="src/main/java/com/aaravlabs/synapse/PublishListener.java:76">
P2: This direct Javadoc link reintroduces the compatibility problem that the tests avoid: JDK 24+ emits a deprecation-for-removal warning, and Javadoc generation can fail once `ZipError` is removed. Use a code-formatted class name instead of resolving the deprecated type.</violation>
</file>

<file name="src/test/java/com/aaravlabs/synapse/PublishListenerTest.java">

<violation number="1" location="src/test/java/com/aaravlabs/synapse/PublishListenerTest.java:531">
P2: These checks require optional JDK module witnesses and an out-of-`java.base` `Error` subclass, so a valid trimmed jlink image can fail despite the scan covering every module present. Remove the stock-image-specific assertions and keep the scan checks independent of which optional modules the image contains.</violation>
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* {@code java.base} alone, because {@code catch (OutOfMemoryError)} matches
* subclasses from any module: {@code UnknownError} has no subclass there at
* all, and the sole {@link InternalError} subclass is
* {@link java.util.zip.ZipError}. {@code ZipError} is named as a fact about

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P2: This direct Javadoc link reintroduces the compatibility problem that the tests avoid: JDK 24+ emits a deprecation-for-removal warning, and Javadoc generation can fail once ZipError is removed. Use a code-formatted class name instead of resolving the deprecated type.

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<comment>This direct Javadoc link reintroduces the compatibility problem that the tests avoid: JDK 24+ emits a deprecation-for-removal warning, and Javadoc generation can fail once `ZipError` is removed. Use a code-formatted class name instead of resolving the deprecated type.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -61,16 +61,25 @@
+ * {@code java.base} alone, because {@code catch (OutOfMemoryError)} matches
+ * subclasses from any module: {@code UnknownError} has no subclass there at
+ * all, and the sole {@link InternalError} subclass is
+ * {@link java.util.zip.ZipError}. {@code ZipError} is named as a fact about
+ * that family, not as a hazard this hook will meet -- the JDK documents it as
+ * no longer used and obsolete, superseded by {@code ZipException}, so a
</file context>
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* {@link java.util.zip.ZipError}. {@code ZipError} is named as a fact about
* {@code java.util.zip.ZipError}. {@code ZipError} is named as a fact about
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"javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactoryConfigurationError",
"java.util.logging.LogManager",
"java.lang.management.ManagementFactory");
assertTrue(outsideJavaBase.stream().anyMatch(c -> outsideJavaBaseWitnesses.contains(c.getName())),

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P2: These checks require optional JDK module witnesses and an out-of-java.base Error subclass, so a valid trimmed jlink image can fail despite the scan covering every module present. Remove the stock-image-specific assertions and keep the scan checks independent of which optional modules the image contains.

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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. When an issue isn't valid or won't be fixed in this PR, reply in its thread with the reason and then resolve the thread. At src/test/java/com/aaravlabs/synapse/PublishListenerTest.java, line 531:

<comment>These checks require optional JDK module witnesses and an out-of-`java.base` `Error` subclass, so a valid trimmed jlink image can fail despite the scan covering every module present. Remove the stock-image-specific assertions and keep the scan checks independent of which optional modules the image contains.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -466,33 +473,72 @@ void theContainedVirtualMachineErrorsAreAllOfThem() throws Exception {
+                "javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactoryConfigurationError",
+                "java.util.logging.LogManager",
+                "java.lang.management.ManagementFactory");
+        assertTrue(outsideJavaBase.stream().anyMatch(c -> outsideJavaBaseWitnesses.contains(c.getName())),
+                "the scan must load classes from a module other than java.base, not merely walk its"
+                        + " directories; none of the known non-java.base witnesses "
</file context>
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