Add checksum-based change detection to avoid unnecessary timestamp updates - #81
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Included review availability: Your plan includes up to 1 review per rolling hour; 0 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughGenerated output now includes checksums computed from generated code. Single-file and multi-file generation use content-specific headers. File writing skips unchanged generated files. Tests cover checksum behavior and repeated generation. ChangesChecksum-Based Generated Output
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to The change preserves generated-file timestamps when generated code is unchanged while retaining regeneration for changed or legacy files. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks and review. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Generator
participant writeFile
participant GeneratedHeader
participant OutputFile
Generator->>writeFile: Pass raw generated code
writeFile->>OutputFile: Read existing content
writeFile->>GeneratedHeader: Check generated code checksum
GeneratedHeader-->>writeFile: Return changed or unchanged
alt Changed
writeFile->>GeneratedHeader: Render checksum header
GeneratedHeader-->>writeFile: Return header
writeFile->>OutputFile: Write header and generated code
else Unchanged
writeFile-->>Generator: Skip rewrite
end
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Pull request overview
This PR adds checksum-based change detection to generated code headers and updates the generator to skip rewriting output files when the generated code body is unchanged, preventing unnecessary timestamp/mtime churn during regeneration.
Changes:
- Added checksum computation, rendering, extraction, and change-detection helpers in the generated header module.
- Updated single-file and multi-file generation to compare checksums and skip writing unchanged outputs.
- Updated the library API and expanded the test suite to cover checksum behavior and regeneration behavior.
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| File | Description |
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| src/generators/generated_header.zig | Adds checksum-aware header rendering and checksum extraction/change detection helpers. |
| src/generator.zig | Uses checksums to skip rewriting unchanged generated outputs; adds regeneration-related tests. |
| src/lib.zig | Updates library-facing generation APIs to emit checksum-aware headers. |
| src/tests/generated_header_tests.zig | Adds unit tests for checksum determinism, extraction, and hasChanged behavior. |
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src/generator.zig:807
- Same as the single-file timestamp test: this currently only compares file contents, which doesn't prove the generator skipped rewriting the file (mtime could still change). Consider capturing and comparing the file's mtime before/after the second generation, with a short sleep to avoid timestamp resolution issues.
try std.testing.expectEqualStrings(first_models, second_models);
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| pub fn extractChecksum(content: []const u8) ?u64 { | ||
| const marker = "// Checksum: "; | ||
| const start = std.mem.indexOf(u8, content, marker) orelse return null; | ||
| const after = content[start + marker.len ..]; | ||
| const end = std.mem.indexOf(u8, after, "\n") orelse after.len; | ||
| const hex_str = std.mem.trim(u8, after[0..end], " "); | ||
| return std.fmt.parseInt(u64, hex_str, 16) catch null; | ||
| } |
| const first = try tmp.dir.readFileAlloc(std.testing.io, "out/api.zig", allocator, .unlimited); | ||
| defer allocator.free(first); | ||
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| try generateCodeFromUnifiedDocument(allocator, std.testing.io, tmp.dir, unified, .{ | ||
| .input_path = "fixture.json", | ||
| .output_path = "out/api.zig", | ||
| }); | ||
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| const second = try tmp.dir.readFileAlloc(std.testing.io, "out/api.zig", allocator, .unlimited); | ||
| defer allocator.free(second); | ||
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| try std.testing.expectEqualStrings(first, second); | ||
| } |
| const checksum = generated_header.computeChecksum(generated_code); | ||
| const header = try generated_header.renderNowWithChecksum(allocator, io, checksum); | ||
| defer allocator.free(header); | ||
| const output_code = try std.mem.concat(allocator, u8, &.{ header, generated_code }); | ||
| defer allocator.free(output_code); |
| const models_checksum = generated_header.computeChecksum(models_code); | ||
| const models_header = try generated_header.renderNowWithChecksum(allocator, io, models_checksum); | ||
| defer allocator.free(models_header); | ||
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| const models_with_header = try std.mem.concat(allocator, u8, &.{ header, models_code }); | ||
| const models_with_header = try std.mem.concat(allocator, u8, &.{ models_header, models_code }); |
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In `@src/generator.zig`:
- Around line 733-735: Add defer-based cleanup for each test allocator created
by test_utils.createTestAllocator(), including the instances near both
referenced locations, so gpa.deinit() runs when each test exits while preserving
the existing allocator usage.
- Around line 153-159: Update both output-file read paths around readFileAlloc
to treat only error.FileNotFound as absent; catch other errors, including
error.StreamTooLong, and report them with contextual logging instead of
regenerating the file. Preserve unchanged-file skipping and add regression
coverage for an unchanged output larger than 1 MiB.
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| var gpa = test_utils.createTestAllocator(); | ||
| const allocator = gpa.allocator(); | ||
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Finalize both test allocators.
These tests create gpa but never call gpa.deinit(). The tests therefore do not detect allocator leaks.
Proposed fix
var gpa = test_utils.createTestAllocator();
const allocator = gpa.allocator();
+defer std.debug.assert(gpa.deinit() == .ok);Also applies to: 772-774
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In `@src/generator.zig` around lines 733 - 735, Add defer-based cleanup for each
test allocator created by test_utils.createTestAllocator(), including the
instances near both referenced locations, so gpa.deinit() runs when each test
exits while preserving the existing allocator usage.
Summary
Adds checksum-based change detection to generated code headers, so that re-generating unchanged code no longer updates the timestamp in the output files.
What changed
How it works
New header format
Tests added
All existing tests continue to pass.
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