Plan 016 B4. The catalog artifact is about 0.6 GB and the app fetched it
with no awareness of the connection: on a desktop that is a minute of
bandwidth, on a phone it can be a month's allowance. It is now skipped on
a cellular connection unless `AllowMeteredCatalogDownload` is on, with
the toggle in Settings' Search Index section, where the text explaining
what the catalog is already lives.
The file layout is dictated by the cgo rule rather than by taste.
`explore` is imported by `cmd/indexbuild`, which builds with
CGO_ENABLED=0 and must not link Wails, so `netpolicy.go` holds the policy
and the JSON parsing -- tested on every platform -- and the single
platform call is a closure injected from `app.go`, which already names
`application` legitimately.
Three rules in it are load-bearing. An unknown answer is not a metered
one: only mobile answers at all, and treating silence as metered would
have disabled the download for every desktop user in the world. Cellular
is the only signal available, because the runtime reports
`wifi|cellular|ethernet|none` and no metered flag -- so a metered Wi-Fi
cannot be detected and is not refused, which is documented rather than
implied. And the gate runs before the first status write, so declining is
a no-op instead of a job in the indicator and an error tier to dismiss.
Two corrections to the plan while implementing it: the portable API is
`application.Mobile.NetworkJSON()`, not `application.Android`'s, which
exists only under the `android` build tag; and the permission is read at
the moment a download would start, so enabling it takes effect on the
next attempt rather than the next launch.
frontend/wailsjs/ is deleted and frontend/bindings/ takes its place —
a real TypeScript module tree nested by Go import path, generated by
wails3's static analyser rather than by building the app and running
it. The @go alias absorbs the constant prefix, so a call site imports
'@go/library/library.js' and the codemod over all 93 sites was a
specifier rewrite plus splitting @go/models' namespaces into one
import per package.
The 12 SetContext bindings and the fake `context` model are gone, as
Phase 2's ServiceStartup port promised: 272 methods across 12
services, none of them plumbing.
@runtime/runtime is now a local shim (src/wails/runtime.ts) over
@wailsio/runtime, so the 22 EventsOn imports are untouched. It
unwraps v3's WailsEvent into v2's callback shape, which is exact here:
nothing in backend/events passes more than one data argument, and v3
only packs arguments into a slice when there is more than one.
v3 tells the truth about two things v2 lied about, and that is most of
the diff. A Go nil slice really does arrive as JSON null, and a Go
named string type really is an enum; v2 typed them as T[] and string.
utils/binding.ts states the app's actual contract — an absent list is
an empty list — once, at the boundary where it is true, and also drops
the CancellablePromise the app never cancels. Four test fixtures
widen an enum field back to its value union.
Not done, and Phase 5's to fix: frontend/test/support/wails-fake.ts
still fakes window.go, which v3 does not have, so `make ui-test` is
broken and harness.test.ts fails to compile on EventsEmit. That test
also asserts v2 ordering that no longer holds — v3's Events.Emit calls
the backend and does not notify in-page listeners at all.
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