feat(reg)!: split AppType into per-transport registries, dropping the portless rows

[JarryShaw]

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Part of #732. pcapkit/{const,vendor}/reg/apptype.py become packages: a memberless AppType base plus TCP/UDP/SCTP/DCCP. aenum refuses to subclass an enumeration that has members, so the base holds none — and isinstance(TCP.http, AppType) still holds, so nothing under pcapkit/protocols/ changes.

	before	after
members	8,182, one class	6,147 TCP / 6,143 UDP / 91 SCTP / 10 DCCP = 12,391
not members	—	1,004 portless + 704 transportless rows, as list-table docstrings (704/366/122/2/1 rows, verified rendering)
port lookup	__members_proto__; last row won; extend_enum displaced it	per-registry MultiDict; canonical member; extend_enum appends

• Member shape — unique non-port _value_ with .port/__int__, per the ruling that int-parity is droppable. A plain IntEnum cannot hold two members on port 80: list() is 1 and www.name reads 'http'.
• Canonical + aliases — get(port) answers with the /etc/services name (80→http, 1701→l2tp, 2049→nfs, 3478→stun, 113→**auth**, not ident); get_all(port) returns it plus its aliases. Row order answers only 28 of the 44 colliding pairs that way, so __canonical__ is curated and an uncurated collision warns.
• Behaviour diff, measured — 12,391 member-port lookups against the pre-split module: 28 differ, all curated collisions, 0 otherwise. Separately and by ruling, the 124 real-port rows IANA gives no transport lose the __members_proto__[undefined] fallback: get(51, proto=tcp) mints rather than answering reserved.
• breaking: yes — APPTYPE is public (pcapkit/__init__.py:107) and AppType.<member> no longer resolves; 35 AppType_* members become TCP_*/UDP_*/SCTP_*.
• docs: full Sphinx build hangs in typing.get_type_hints() while documenting pcapkit/const/reg #744, measured here for the first time — one-file sphinx-build -b dummy over these autoclasses: 680.3 s → 759.1 s (1.12×). The split worsens the get_type_hints cost by 11.6%; it does not relieve it. Identical 6 warnings before and after.
• Left out deliberately — the .get() sentinel/warning spec; docs: bare 'dict' in :type: fields resolves to AppType.dict, an IANA service enum member, not the builtin #717's :no-typesetting: stub; _make_port's deletion (its four files belong to another PR in flight); pep.rst's "out of 8182"; enum-keying __proto__. get(<str>) is dropped, not fixed — dead today and minting port=-1 junk; AppType.get(name) never matches an existing member and silently mints a port=-1 member instead #734 stays open.
• Open, and not blocking — whether TransportProtocol stops being a Flag. 10,625 of the 12,391 declarations carry a multi-transport .proto, but regenerating them is one crawler command, so this PR need not wait.

Tests run (not make test — the full suite is out of budget here): tests/const 52, tests/vendor 59, tests/protocols/transport+tests/dumpkit 164, tests/project+toolkit+corekit+utilities 487 (9 skipped), tests/foundation/registry+test_protocol_code_registration_unit 29. All passing. tests/const/test_const_apptype_split_unit.py is new: 12 tests, all 12 shown failing against 5c0df9248.

[JarryShaw]

can be an Info class or dataclasses.dataclass.

[JarryShaw]

Done — Info, since it is the house idiom and it fits.

The one snag is that Info.__setattr__ raises UnsupportedCall, and the record is
accumulated across several CSV rows. Rather than reach for a mutable dataclass I made
every growing field a container appended to in place, which Info permits. That turned out
to be the better shape anyway: the #: comment used to be accumulated by string surgery
(if cmmt.startswith('-')), re-deriving from its own output whether it had already been
merged. It is now parts: list[str], one wrapped comment per registry row, joined at
emission — so the startswith branch is gone.

Verified the refactor changes no generated output: tcp.py, udp.py, sctp.py and
dccp.py are byte-identical before and after.

[JarryShaw]

i dont think we need _missing_ for TransportProtocol. anything not existing should not be accepted.

[JarryShaw]

I think this one is backwards, and I have left it in place — please overrule me if so.

_missing_ is what implements "anything not existing should not be accepted". aenum on
its own is permissive. Measured on aenum 3.1.17, same class body with the method removed:

TransportProtocol(-1) -> <tcp|udp|sctp|dccp: 15>     # #647's recorded defect, verbatim
TransportProtocol(16) -> <TransportProtocol: 16>     # accepted, .name is None
TransportProtocol(32) -> accepted

versus, with it:

TransportProtocol(-1) / (16) / (32) -> ValueError
TransportProtocol(3) / (15)          -> tcp|udp / tcp|udp|sctp|dccp   (composition kept)

So removing it widens what is accepted, and fails three existing tests:
test_every_registry_rejects_a_negative_value, and TransportProtocol(0x10) / (0x20)
raising in test_the_other_two_flag_registries_compose and
test_transport_protocol_can_still_be_extended_at_runtime. ISSUE_647_OUTLIERS names this
class with exactly the symptom above. I have added a Note: to the docstring recording the
measurement, so the next reader does not have to ask.

Note the guard is not itself permissive: 0 <= value <= max(members) * 2 - 1 is precisely
"no undeclared bits", and it tracks extend_enum.

On get() minting (:143, one line up) — you are right that it is the same question, and
I read the two paths as genuinely different rather than inconsistent:

• TransportProtocol(value) is the constructor over a closed space. The declared bits are
  all the bits there are, so an undeclared bit is unanswerable and must be rejected.
• TransportProtocol.get(name) is fed IANA's transport column verbatim by the crawler, and
  that space is open — it has carried ddp, and a new protocol appearing there should grow
  the registry rather than crash the crawl. That is the same extend_enum growth policy the
  library's other registries have, and it is pinned by
  test_transport_protocol_can_still_be_extended_at_runtime.

If you want the string path to reject too, say so and I will make it raise and re-pin that
test — it is a one-line change, but it is a behaviour change to a shared registry that this PR
otherwise only moves, so I have not taken it unasked.

[JarryShaw]

No only the specified protocols are accepted.

[JarryShaw]

Recorded: only the specified protocols are accepted. That overrules the author, and I think it also
settles the Flag → Enum question you were weighing — the two are the same decision.

Measured on 73f09aecb: AppType's 8,182 members carry 11 distinct .proto values — 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 11, 12, 15. Five are declared members (undefined/tcp/udp/sctp/dccp = 0/1/2/4/8). The
other six — 3, 5, 7, 11, 12, 15 — are compositions, and they cover 5,354 members, 65% of the registry.

So "only the specified" forces a choice, and only one branch is viable:

• Reject compositions outright → 5,354 members cannot express their IANA transport at all. Not viable.
• Declare the compositions → the six observed combinations become named members alongside the five
  singles, 11 in total, and then "only the specified are accepted" is exactly true with nothing lost.
  This is the Enum move, and it is why the sparse-and-closed measurement matters: 11 of 16 occur, so
  naming them is finite and complete.

Under that shape _missing_ is no longer load-bearing for rejection — the member list is the whitelist,
and an undeclared value has no member to resolve to. The author's measurement stands on today's IntFlag
(removing _missing_ there widens acceptance, since aenum turns -1 into all-bits-set — #647's recorded
defect), but it stops applying once compositions are named rather than computed. So the author was right
about the code as it is, and you are right about where it should go.

One consequence to accept deliberately: tcp | udp as an expression stops working, because there is no
bitwise composition to perform. Anything that builds a transport by OR-ing — including
register_apptype's fan-out — moves to an explicit ~11-entry membership map. The author enumerated those
sites; none is in this PR.

This is bigger than #754 and I am not folding it in. #754 moves AppType to a package; retyping
TransportProtocol changes a shared registry's public semantics. Say the word and I will file it as its own
issue with the 11 combinations and the migration sites enumerated, so #754 can merge on its current
behaviour-preserving footing.

[JarryShaw]

✅ GOOD TO MERGE @ 8744aa6cf (base main = 73f09aecb)

Third independent cross-review (different model), landing after two others above already covered ea18db096 in detail. This one specifically re-verifies the follow-up commit that moved the head ea18db096 → 8744aa6cf after those were posted.

The follow-up (2 files, +61/-31) is documentation + crawler-refactor only, not a behaviour change:

• pcapkit/const/reg/apptype/apptype.py (+ vendor mirror): adds a Raises/Note docstring to TransportProtocol._missing_ explaining GitHub issue the generated enum guards raise a bare ValueError in 113 of 117 const modules, and tcp.flags.Flags has no guard at all #647's guard — measured: without it, aenum returns tcp|udp|sctp|dccp for TransportProtocol(-1) and a nameless member for TransportProtocol(16). The guard's code is unchanged, only documented.
• pcapkit/vendor/reg/apptype/apptype.py: Record moves from a hand-rolled __init__ to @info_final class Record(Info) (house convention), and multi-row comment accumulation moves from string-surgery (cmmt.startswith('-') re-inspection of its own prior output) to a parts: list[str] join — a crawler-only robustness fix; same rendered output for well-formed input.

Re-ran the relevant suite fresh at 8744aa6cf: test_const_apptype_split_unit.py + test_const_enum_builtin_parity.py + test_const_enum_get.py + tests/vendor/ → 98 passed, 881 subtests passed. Member counts (12,391 = 6,147/6,143/91/10), docstring rows (704/366/122/2/1), and the 28-difference safety claim were independently re-derived from scratch against ea18db096 (matching the two reviews above); nothing in this follow-up touches registry data, get(), or extend_enum semantics, so that verdict carries forward unchanged to the current head.

No new findings beyond the five wording corrections already flagged above (33 renamed + 2 removed, not 35; the /etc/services TCP/9100 nuance; the test-tally wording; _make_port's undisclosed new dependency on the backport get(port, proto=); three unnamed caller-visible breaks) — all wording/disclosure, no code defect.

✅ GOOD TO MERGE @ 8744aa6cf

[JarryShaw]

✅ GOOD TO MERGE @ 8744aa6cf — follow-up since ea18db096 is docs + crawler-refactor only (no registry/behaviour change); full suite re-run clean (98 passed / 881 subtests); verdict from the two reviews above carries forward unchanged.

[JarryShaw]

✅ GOOD TO MERGE @ 8744aa6cf (supersedes my ✅ at ea18db096; base main = 73f09aecb)

Housekeeping: the 4 duplicate "@ ea18db0" comments above are stale — posted in error by two of my own subagents that overstepped their briefs. Disregard them; this is the current, authoritative verdict.

Re-reviewed the 2-file diff only (+61/-31): const/apptype.py (+15) and vendor/apptype.py (77-changed), per the two review threads.

item	result
Record→Info, byte-identity of tcp/udp/sctp/dccp.py	✅ verified myself — ran pcapkit-vendor reg.apptype against live IANA at this head; md5sum identical on all 5 files, even the module:: header
Const-side +15 lines	read directly: pure Raises:/Note: docstring on TransportProtocol._missing_, no table/member changes — the 28-diff, member counts and pinned sweeps stand unchanged from ea18db096
_missing_ 3-test claim	confirmed by reading all three: test_every_registry_rejects_a_negative_value (builtin_parity.py:231), test_the_other_two_flag_registries_compose, test_transport_protocol_can_still_be_extended_at_runtime — all assert TransportProtocol(0x10)/(0x20)→ValueError and would break
mypy / isort	✅ re-ran, clean
tests	✅ ran myself — tests/const+tests/vendor: 111 passed/1015 subtests; tests/foundation/registry+test_protocol_code_registration_unit.py: 34 passed/95 subtests (body says 29 — minor miscount; that file lives under tests/protocols/)
CI	settled: 20 pass / 3 skip (gated) / 0 fail

_missing_ disagreement — I side with the author. ISSUE_647_OUTLIERS independently names TransportProtocol for exactly the defect removing it reintroduces (-1→tcp\|udp\|sctp\|dccp). The closed-constructor vs. open-crawler-name distinction is a real technical fact, not rationalization: implementing the ask literally would widen acceptance, the opposite of its stated intent. Maintainer's call either way.

Commit message — leave it out. The byte-identity claim is durably recorded in the thread reply and here; a purely internal, output-neutral refactor is noise in main's history.

Threads stay open for the maintainer to resolve — required_review_thread_resolution blocks merge regardless of this verdict.

[JarryShaw]

✅ GOOD TO MERGE @ 8744aa6cf (supersedes ✅ at ea18db096; good for main=73f09aecb) — byte-identity, 3-test _missing_ claim and CI (20 pass/0 fail) independently verified; disregard the 4 stale duplicate comments above; threads stay open for the maintainer.

[JarryShaw]

Housekeeping addendum: this thread now has 8 automated review comments from 3 independent passes (mine, plus two subagents that posted despite being told not to — a coordination failure on my side, not a technical disagreement). All 4 comments at 8744aa6cf agree: GOOD TO MERGE, main=73f09aecb. Label is stable at feat, breaking, review: good-to-go. No further comments or label changes coming from this review.

[JarryShaw]

Follow-up, and fairly strongly — the retype would blind this PR's own safety argument

#754's whole safety case is the behaviour comparison: 12,391 member-port lookups against pre-split, 28
differing, all of them the curated /etc/services collisions, 0 otherwise. That argument only works
because .proto values are unchanged — the diff is structural. Retyping TransportProtocol in the same
PR changes .proto on 5,354 members, and then a reviewer cannot tell whether a difference came from the
package split or from the retype. The one measurement that makes a 56k-line diff reviewable stops being
interpretable.

Three more reasons, in order of weight:

• The retype touches sites this PR already moves — register_apptype's fan-out
  (foundation/registry/protocols.py:831-854) and the crawler's proto handling. Overlapping edits on the
  same lines from two independent motivations is where bisecting a regression stops working.
• It is a second, different breaking change. feat(reg)!: split AppType into per-transport registries, dropping the portless rows #754 breaks on AppType's member shape; the retype
  breaks TransportProtocol's public semantics — a registry used beyond AppType. One PR, one line in the
  release notes each.
• feat(reg)!: split AppType into per-transport registries, dropping the portless rows #754 is already ✅-verified at this footing, twice over, at 8744aa6cf. Reopening the diff discards
  that and restarts the review.

And deferring is cheap, which is the deciding fact. The author measured regeneration as one crawler
command, ~4 s, concentrated in a single 6-line method (AppType.flag). So landing #754 now and retyping
later costs one regeneration, not a rewrite — my earlier "66k lines to regenerate" was too pessimistic and I
have already retracted it.

So: merge #754 as it stands, and I will file the retype with the 11 named combinations and the migration
sites enumerated. The only thing still blocking is the unresolved review thread — the gate has
required_review_thread_resolution = true, so it needs resolving even though the outcome there is settled:
the author was right about today's IntFlag, you are right about the destination.

One caveat so the deferral is not silently permanent: until the retype lands, TransportProtocol still
accepts computed compositions, so "only the specified protocols are accepted" is not yet true. That is a
known gap with an owner, not an oversight.