[kixelated]

Problem

The hand-written C ABI always stamps JSON window edits with the broadcast clock, so callers cannot preserve when an edit occurred.

Approach

• Add the existing optional moq_timestamp pattern to window push and pop, including shared parsing, millisecond conversion, and NULL for the broadcast clock.
• Update every caller, generated-header source, API docs, README, migration notes, and the C guide. Test zero, fractional 90 kHz timestamps, pop conversion, and invalid timestamp rejection without mutations. Existing tests retain NULL coverage.
• Refuse a timestamp the track's scale can't hold before any producer state changes. CodeRabbit found that a valid moq_timestamp such as (1 << 61) - 1 s passed parsing but failed the millisecond conversion inside write_frame. By then a window header had already closed the open group and published an empty one. The same gap was in moq-json's snapshot producer (an empty newest group in place of the last value) and stream producer (the log aborted). Fixed at the root: moq-net's existing group::on_track is now public, and all three moq-json producers call it before encoding, refusing with TimestampMismatch. Each producer has a regression test that fails without the fix. The failure-path tests that used conversion overflow to inject a post-append_group write failure now rewind before a seeded group's start instead.
• Rewrite the quest to its remaining pre-encoded rung scope, which stays blocked on moq-dev/moq#7029 through its Required link to /quest/m1/simulcast-rung-disable.md. That PR is still open (auto-merge enabled) at 40abd5971639a8db2fc5c6eb4e486d3d09be3ab4; main lacks its moq_mux::import::Track::set_enabled, import::VideoInit.priority, AV1/VP8/VP9 setters, and FFI rate-control/lower interfaces. No unmerged source changes were copied or imported.

Decisions

• Mark this ready without the rung work (2026-11-02, /quest-iterate sub-agent): the timestamp change is independently complete, and the quest keeps the rung scope behind its blocker, so nothing here waits on moq-dev/moq#7029. Holding this PR until that one lands would only delay a finished change.

Impact

• moq-json: a window push or pop, snapshot update, or stream append whose timestamp doesn't fit the track's timescale is refused with TimestampMismatch before encoding. It no longer publishes an empty group, rolls a group, or aborts a stream log. This now also covers an unchanged snapshot value or a pop on an empty window, which used to return Ok without checking. moq-net gains the public group::on_track.

• Breaking hand-written C ABI: moq_publish_json_window_push and moq_publish_json_window_pop gain a final const moq_timestamp *timestamp. Pass NULL for the existing broadcast-clock behavior, or a pointer to the edit time; recompile against the regenerated moq.h. Pop is also unsafe to call from Rust because it now reads a caller pointer.

• Wire: none. The existing track timestamp encoding is unchanged.

• The generated C package over moq-ffi is unchanged; these functions belong to rs/moq-c.

• Fix the unconvertible-timestamp gap in moq-json, not only in moq-c's window wrappers (2026-11-02, /quest-iterate sub-agent). CodeRabbit suggested pre-converting to milliseconds in json_window_push and json_window_pop. The same bug reaches Rust callers and moq-c's snapshot and stream calls, where it is worse: the last value is lost, or the log is aborted. One check in the producers covers every caller.

• Keep MOQ_ERROR_MOQ for such a timestamp rather than MOQ_ERROR_TIMESTAMP_OVERFLOW (same session). That matches moq_publish_track_frame and the other JSON calls, and keeps the track's scale out of moq-c. The four JSON timestamp docs state it.

Alternatives

Reuse the snapshot/stream timestamp parser and clock default. Do not duplicate the shared rung implementation while its owning PR is open. The independently useful timestamp work can land first, with the existing quest retaining the remaining scope.

Checks

On 11a55c6eb5af5421780d8326e6b151d4717982d4 (main merged cleanly at 74c5167354):

• Passed: quest gate nix develop --command just ci (exit 0): Rust check and nextest (9475 tests), JS, Markdown, workflows, quest, shell, TOML, Nix, and justfile modules.
• Passed: quest check --base origin/main --branch quest/m1/c/api-gaps (571 documents).

Review

Codex via quest review --base origin/main, gpt-6.1-sol, medium effort. Round 1 of session 01a19def-5c89-77c0-af4b-2c4507a13897 reviewed 11a55c6eb5af5421780d8326e6b151d4717982d4 against 74c5167354d594ff387fcfa984b88aa523ed1d59: no findings. The earlier session 01a19dc0-8654-7463-9e38-692c5f52efe2 was resumed, but quest review started a new session because the merged base changed the reviewer's instructions.

Automated findings: CodeRabbit's nitpick on d1c80ddd01 (convert timestamps to milliseconds before the window producer calls) was fixed at the root as described above; see the reply. The OpenAI review and Pullfrog on f040897e85 reported no findings.

Follow-ups

None new. The rung work stays in /quest/m1/c/api-gaps.md and becomes ready once moq-dev/moq#7029 lands. Active C work was checked before editing: moq-dev/moq#7385 changes consumer cancellation and the shared test file; this PR confines its test changes to JSON windows.

(Written by GPT-6.1 Sol; updated by Claude Opus 5.5)

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Walkthrough

The JSON window push and pop APIs now accept optional timestamps. The publish methods use supplied timestamps or fall back to the window clock. Tests cover invalid timestamp scales and conversion to track milliseconds. The C API documentation and migration notes describe the new arguments, NULL behavior, and header recompilation. The API gap documents update the scope and prerequisites for separate C API work.

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to d1c80

Callers must rebuild against the new header. No merge-blocking defect was established.

Pre-merge checks: 5

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: accepting caller timestamps for JSON window edits in the C API.
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentat…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Description check		The description directly explains the JSON window timestamp API changes, related validation, documentation updates, tests, and remaining quest scope.

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Explanation

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[kixelated]

Automated review by review (OpenAI)

Reviewed commit: f040897

No actionable bugs found in the changed areas. The direction is appropriately small: reuse the existing optional timestamp parser and clock fallback for both window edits, leaving timescale conversion in the shared track writer rather than adding parallel conversion logic. The ABI break, pointer safety requirements, migration notes, and zero/fractional-timestamp and invalid-input tests are consistent. Splitting the independently useful timestamp change from the blocked rung work avoids duplicating that implementation.

Verification: static inspection of the diff, relevant C ABI/publisher paths, window encoder/producer, track timestamp conversion, header generation, callers, and tests. I did not run builds or tests; this is not a test-pass claim.

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[pullfrog]

✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

• Caller timestamps on JSON window edits — moq_publish_json_window_push and moq_publish_json_window_pop gain a trailing const moq_timestamp *timestamp, parsed by the shared ffi::parse_timestamp and converted to the track's milliseconds by the existing track writer, with NULL still stamping the broadcast clock. Mirrors json_snapshot_update / json_stream_append exactly.
• ABI and Rust break — _pop becomes unsafe extern "C" because it now dereferences a caller pointer; both entries document their # Safety contract. MIGRATE.md records the recompile requirement.
• Docs and quest — rs/moq-c/README.md, MIGRATE.md, doc/lib/c/index.md, and quest/m1/c/api-gaps.md updated; the quest drops the completed timestamp scope and keeps the rung work behind its #7029 blocker.
• Tests — new json_window_caller_timestamps covers zero, a 90 kHz fractional value (111111/90000 → 1234 ms), a microsecond pop (2500999 → 2500 ms), and an invalid scale: 0 rejected with MOQ_ERROR_TIMESTAMP_OVERFLOW without emitting events; existing tests keep NULL coverage.

The generated c/moq header over moq-ffi and all other language bindings are unaffected, as confirmed by the absence of callers outside rs/moq-c, and Timestamp::Ord is scale-aware so the producer's self.at.max(...) accumulator is safe across mixed caller scales.

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[coderabbitai]

Nitpick comments: 1

rs/moq-c/src/api.rs: 1

3758-3759: Trivial · Data Integrity & Integration · Low value

Preconvert caller timestamps to milliseconds.

A timestamp such as { value: (1 << 61) - 1, scale: 1 } passes parse_timestamp, but conversion to Timescale::MILLI fails later as TimestampMismatch. For a header edit, the producer closes the prior group, publishes an empty group, and then rejects the frame. The pending window edit remains uncommitted, as required by the producer's failure contract, but the track still exposes an unnecessary group transition.

Convert the timestamp before either producer call. This returns MOQ_ERROR_TIMESTAMP_OVERFLOW before changing producer state.

Suggested fix

 		let timestamp = unsafe { ffi::parse_timestamp(timestamp)? };
+		let timestamp = timestamp
+			.map(|timestamp| timestamp.convert(moq_net::Timescale::MILLI))
+			.transpose()?;
 		State::lock().publish.json_window_push(window, value, timestamp)

Apply the same conversion in moq_publish_json_window_pop.

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Review comment at @rs/moq-c/src/api.rs around lines 3758 - 3759:
Convert optional caller timestamps to milliseconds before invoking the producer
in the JSON window push and pop paths, including the path calling
json_window_push and moq_publish_json_window_pop. Ensure conversion errors are
returned before either producer call can change state, while preserving the
existing behavior for absent timestamps and failed edits.

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Review comments at @rs/moq-c/src/api.rs:
- Around line 3758-3759: Convert optional caller timestamps to milliseconds
before invoking the producer in the JSON window push and pop paths, including
the path calling json_window_push and moq_publish_json_window_pop. Ensure
conversion errors are returned before either producer call can change state,
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[kixelated]

@coderabbitai Thanks: confirmed and fixed in 11a55c6 (fix commit 9310d7c), at the root rather than in moq-c.

The gap was in moq-json, not just the C wrappers. All three producers checked only whether a timestamp was present before touching a group, so a valid timestamp the track's millisecond scale can't hold got through:

• window: a header closed the open group and published an empty one; an op reset the encoder and rolled a group for nothing
• snapshot: same, and a snapshot consumer jumping to the empty newest group lost the last value
• stream: the write failed after the group was live, which aborts the whole log

The fix exposes moq-net's existing group::on_track (the presence check plus the conversion write_frame already does) and calls it in each producer before encoding, so the edit is refused with TimestampMismatch and nothing changes. That covers every caller, including Rust users and moq-c's snapshot and stream functions.

I kept the C error code as MOQ_ERROR_MOQ rather than pre-converting to get MOQ_ERROR_TIMESTAMP_OVERFLOW. That matches what moq_publish_track_frame and the other JSON calls return for a timestamp a track can't hold, and it keeps the track's scale out of moq-c. The four JSON timestamp docs now say so.

Tests: a_timed_track_refuses_an_unconvertible_timestamp in each moq-json producer (all three fail without the fix), plus (1 << 61) - 1 s push and pop cases in moq-c's json_window_caller_timestamps. The existing failure-path tests used conversion overflow to inject a post-append_group write failure, so they now rewind before a seeded group's start instead.

(Written by Claude Opus 5.5)

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@kixelated Thanks for fixing this in the shared producers. Checking timestamp conversion before encoding addresses the mutation risk for both Rust and C callers.

Keeping MOQ_ERROR_MOQ also preserves the error mapping used by the other track writes. The reported regression tests cover both producer-level rejection and the C window push/pop paths. I have not independently verified the commits or test results.

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Learnings added

Learnt from: kixelated
URL: https://github.com/moq-dev/moq/pull/7614

Timestamp: 2026-11-02T20:26:22.554Z
Learning: Within repository "moq-dev/moq", only for files matching one of ["rs/moq-json/**"]: When reviewing timestamp handling in Rust moq-json window, snapshot, or stream producers, check that timestamp presence and conversion to the track's timescale are validated before encoding or changing encoder, group, or track state. Use the shared moq-net group::on_track validation rather than relying on write_frame to reject an unconvertible timestamp after state changes. Check regression coverage that an unconvertible timestamp returns TimestampMismatch without changing producer state.

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Learnt from: CR
Repo: moq-dev/moq PR: 0
File: rs/moq-net/AGENTS.md:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-10-22T14:25:20.815Z
Learning: Applies to rs/moq-net/** : Source excerpt:
# Rules

- `Timestamp` is an instant with a scale, not a scalar. `checked_add`/`checked_sub` error on mismatched scales; `.convert()` first. `ZERO` is second-scale, so seed a max with `Option`, not `ZERO`. A track's timestamps never rewind. A local write refuses one, but some received tracks skip that check: a peer's rewind must never panic or cost unbounded work, yet results on that track may be wrong, so spend nothing on staying correct after one.

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Reviewed commit: 11a55c6

No new actionable bugs found in the substantive changes since my previous review, accounting for the main merges. CodeRabbit's conversion-overflow finding is addressed: window, snapshot, and stream now validate and convert timestamps before encoding or publishing groups. Reusing group::on_track fixes the shared cause for Rust and C callers instead of duplicating conversion in the C wrappers; keeping the existing MOQ_ERROR_MOQ mapping is consistent. The added tests exercise rejection without losing prior data or preventing subsequent valid writes, while the revised fixtures retain post-publication failure coverage.

Verification: static inspection of producer paths, shared conversion, error handling, and changed tests. I did not run builds or tests.

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[pullfrog]

✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

This run re-reviewed the delta since the prior Pullfrog review (f040897), which is the root-cause fix that followed CodeRabbit's finding.

• Refuse an unconvertible timestamp before encoding — moq_net::group::on_track is now pub, and all three moq-json producers (window, snapshot, stream) call it before opening a group or encoding, so a timestamp the track's scale can't hold is refused with TimestampMismatch instead of after append_group already published an empty newest group. Track::write in the window/snapshot producers no longer repeats the presence check.
• Regression tests — window/snapshot/stream tests cover the unconvertible timestamp with no group published and prior data preserved; the post-append_group failure fixtures now rewind before a seeded group's start (conversion overflow no longer reaches that path), and the C test adds the MOQ_ERROR_MOQ case alongside the existing scale-0 and fractional conversions.
• Cleanup — dropped an unneeded mut on the rejecting fixtures.

Traced the new public on_track through every group-appending call site: write_frame still validates internally so the pre-converted timestamp is only re-converted (a no-op), the presence semantics are now checked exactly once per edit, and Timestamp::Ord keeps the self.at.max accumulator correct. Docs and the C error mapping (TimestampMismatch → MOQ_ERROR_MOQ) are consistent with the tests. No wire change.

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