A shop configured for the HTTP route uploaded 17 bills correctly today and
never once appeared on the fleet board. Nothing logged it, because from the
terminal's point of view nothing had failed: the reporter was typed against
MqttOrderTransport and started behind an `is MqttOrderTransport` check, so on
HTTP it was silently never constructed. A monitoring feature that quietly does
not exist on one of two supported routes is worse than no feature, because the
blank square reads as "no terminals" rather than "not wired up".
publishHealth moves onto the OrderTransport interface. The broker publishes to
the health topic as before; HTTP posts the same payload to POST /pos/health;
the simulated route does nothing, which is the honest answer for a till with no
back office configured. The reporter is now started for every route.
There was no test for the reporter at all, which is why this shipped. There are
five now, including one that fails on the old code.
Also removes test/widget_test.dart — the stock `flutter create` counter test,
referencing a MyApp that never existed here. It has never compiled and was the
only red in the suite.
263 tests pass, analyzer clean.
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Three changes, all driven by what the back office turned out to need.
The broker is shared with the rider fleet on nearle/riders/…, so topics
move under nearle/pos/{locationid}/{terminal}/… — one ACL rule per
system, and it is obvious from a topic which one owns it. Store ID now
carries the back office's numeric location id; the tenant is resolved
from it server-side and never taken from the wire.
A till publishes a heartbeat every 30 seconds on its own topic. The Last
Will already answers "is it dead", which is not enough to run a hundred
shops on: the failure that costs money is a terminal that is connected,
selling, and quietly holding two hundred bills it has never uploaded. So
the beat carries queue depth, the age of the oldest thing waiting,
today's trading, and printer reachability. Not retained — the back
office holds it under a TTL, and a retained beat would leave an
unplugged till looking alive until something overwrote it.
Bills now carry tax_breakdown, the GST slab split the cart already
computes. A tax return is filed per slab, and recomputing the split
server-side would mean redoing the discount apportionment and getting
exactly the same answer — or else the filed figure stops matching the
paper the shopper was handed.
Docs rewritten against the real deployment: Eclipse Mosquitto 2.1.2, no
NATS anywhere reachable, no TLS, and a broker whose queue and autosave
defaults mean it must not be treated as durable storage.
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Cash drawer
- openCashDrawer was a debugPrint. The drawer never opened.
- It cannot go through the PDF pipeline: a PDF is rendered by the platform
driver, which will not pass raw ESC/POS bytes to the device. So it goes over
a socket instead — nearly every network thermal printer listens on 9100 and
forwards whatever arrives straight to the print head, which makes the whole
protocol five bytes.
- Printer IP and port are configurable in Settings with a Test button that
saves and fires immediately, because a drawer that does not open is
indistinguishable from one that is not wired up.
- Every failure explains itself: unreachable, refused, or simply not
configured — which is the honest state for a USB printer, since there is no
raw path to one from Flutter.
- Now fires only on a cash tender. A card-only sale that pops the drawer is a
shrinkage risk, and it is the first thing a shop notices.
Back-office route
- Host, port, TLS and transport persist to the database; username, password
and API key go to the platform keystore (Keychain / Credential Manager /
Android Keystore). Writing credentials into SQLite would put them in the
same file as the bills, on a machine behind a shop counter.
- Loaded at startup. Previously the dialog wrote settings that were silently
ignored on the next launch, which reads exactly like they never saved — and
credentials retyped every morning end up on a sticky note instead.
- A saved route never overwrites the terminal's store or terminal id. Those
belong to the device, and re-pointing a till at a different broker must not
change who it is, or its bills and presence records stop lining up.
Tests: 168 -> 176. The drawer test stands up a real socket server and asserts
the exact bytes arrive. The config test asserts no credential appears anywhere
in the meta table while the non-secret settings do.
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Answers "which of my 100 tills are alive and healthy", and fixes three things
that were fine on one device and broken on a hundred.
Terminal identity (lib/data/local/terminal_identity.dart)
- Every device mints a UUID on first run, stored in its own database, plus a
short code (T4A9) derived from it. Renaming keeps the device id, so history
keeps pointing at the same physical till.
- Replaces the literal 'TERM-01', which was hardcoded in five places. The whole
fleet reported as one terminal: shift reports merged, MQTT topics collided,
and a second connection with the same client id evicts the first from the
broker — so two tills would have knocked each other offline in a loop.
Invoice numbers now carry the terminal code
- INV-2608-T4A9-00042. The sequence counter lives in each till's own database
and starts at 1, so without this every terminal in the fleet minted
INV-2608-00001 for its first sale of the month. The order UUID kept the data
distinct; the number a customer quotes on a receipt was not.
SQLite pragmas
- WAL, so the product grid refreshing does not block the sale being written,
and the file is never left mid-rewrite by a power cut.
- busy_timeout 5s, so a contended lock waits instead of throwing "database is
locked" — which at checkout is a failed sale with a customer standing there.
- synchronous NORMAL, the right trade under WAL for a till.
Fleet presence (lib/data/sync/presence_reporter.dart)
- Retained status record on connect and once a minute: device id, code, name,
app version, pending bill count, last upload, catalogue revision, sync halt
state. Retained so a dashboard connecting at noon gets all 100 terminals
immediately rather than a blank board.
- The Last Will already said "reachable". A till can be connected and still be
holding 200 unsent bills or running last month's prices; only pending_bills
and catalogue_revision say so.
NATS
- The MQTT gateway maps / to . so the existing transport works unchanged.
SyncConfig.asNatsSubject() exposes the translation, and the contract doc
gives the JetStream subjects (pos.*.*.order, pos.*.*.status) plus the two
server-side requirements: a file-backed stream, and the ack published by the
consumer after commit rather than by the ingest handler.
Tests: 129 -> 140. New coverage for identity minting and stability, per-device
invoice uniqueness, topic and client-id separation, NATS subject mapping, and
the two pragmas. Suite run three times clean.
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Turns the orders table into a queue that empties itself. Bills were only
uploaded when a cashier pressed Sync at end of day; a till that was never
pressed held a day's takings indefinitely.
Drain engine (lib/data/sync/sync_engine.dart)
- Triggers on sale committed, network regained, 5-minute poll, head-office
request, and the manual button.
- Single flight: a busy till firing a trigger per sale would otherwise have
several passes reading the same pending rows and send every bill twice.
A trigger arriving mid-drain is queued and replayed, so nothing is dropped.
- Exponential backoff with +/-20% jitter to a 5-minute ceiling. The jitter
matters: a store's terminals all fail at the same instant when the line
drops, and would retry in lockstep without it.
- Halts rather than loops on a failure retrying cannot fix (bad credential,
refused batch). Pressing Sync clears the halt.
Transports (lib/data/remote/)
- OrderTransport interface; MQTT, HTTP and simulated implementations. The
repository does not know which is in use.
- MQTT: QoS 1 uplink, application-level ACK correlated by batch_id on a return
topic, retained Last Will for terminal-offline detection, downlink for
catalogue pushes and remote sync requests.
- A broker PUBACK is never treated as acceptance. It means the broker holds
the bytes, not that the ledger took the sale. Only ids the back office names
are marked synced; silence leaves a bill pending.
- HTTP carries a stable idempotency key across retries of the same bills.
Retention
- Accepted bills are kept 7 days instead of deleted, so a batch the back
office later loses can be re-sent in full. Purged after that; archived
totals stay forever.
- forBusinessDate now reads pending rows only. A retained bill exists in both
the orders table and day_archive, and summing both would overstate the day.
Fixes found while building this
- SyncEngine._refreshPending wrote state.copyWith(pending: await ...). Dart
evaluates the receiver before the awaited argument, so a connectivity drop
during the wait was silently overwritten by the stale snapshot. Caught by
the first run of the new engine tests.
- PrinterSettingsController wrote state after four awaits with no mounted
check, throwing "used after dispose" when Settings was left mid-load. This
was pre-existing and reached the cashier as a red screen.
Also
- Header pill now reports real sync state: LIVE / n QUEUED / SYNCING /
SYNC HALTED, with an explanation of where the bills are.
- Settings shows the route, last upload, next retry and retention window.
- docs/sync-contract.md states what the back office must implement, including
the idempotency requirement that at-least-once delivery makes mandatory.
Tests: 90 -> 129 passing. New coverage for backoff shape and jitter band,
single flight, halting, ACK correlation and partial acceptance, at-least-once
duplicate handling, retention and purge, and no double-counting after a sync.
Suite run six times clean.
Not addressed: bills already synced by an older build went up overstated and
still need server-side reconciliation. Broker credentials have no Settings
editor yet.
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Bills were persisted correctly but read back wrong. The read path rebuilt a
cart from its lines alone, dropping bill-level discounts and loyalty, so every
figure derived from a stored bill was overstated: the upload payload, the day
archive and the shift report. A discounted 529 bill read back as 620.
Money and data integrity
- order_dao: restore bill_discount and points_redeemed when rebuilding a cart;
keep the reconstruction tier-less so the membership discount is not applied
twice. Trust the recorded total and points via SaleTransaction.storedTotal.
- checkout_sale + order_dao.commitSale: write the bill, its stock movement and
the loyalty update in one transaction. Previously a failure part-way through
left a persisted bill the cashier believed had failed, inviting a duplicate.
- checkout_sale: re-check every line against live stock. A parked bill resumed
after its stock was sold passed validation and oversold.
- catalogue_dao: allocate the invoice sequence in one transaction; the previous
read-modify-write could hand two sales the same number and fail UNIQUE.
- local_store: replay unsynced sales after a catalogue import, so a mid-shift
re-import cannot restore stock that has already been sold.
- payment_controller: stamp the signed-in operator on the bill instead of the
hardcoded seed session, and pass the terminal id through.
- cart: reconcile per-slab GST against the bill total so the parts sum to the
whole on a tax invoice.
Sync and reporting
- sync_repository: drain unsynced bills in a loop rather than silently capping
at one page; stop on rejection so rejected rows cannot loop forever.
- sync_log_dao (new): persist the sync history to the sync_log table, which the
schema already defined but nothing used. It was in memory, so the only record
that bills had been uploaded died at restart.
- Scope shift reports by cashier. day_archive is re-keyed to
(business_date, cashier_name) so a till stays settleable after its bills are
uploaded and deleted. Schema v4 with a migration that carries v3 rows across.
Input and UI
- barcode_service: consume machine-paced keystrokes so a scan cannot also land
in the focused field, and raise the bar to 60ms/char while a text field has
focus so typing a mobile number is not read as a scan. Clock and focus check
injected so the behaviour is testable.
- primary_button: make the label flexible; label plus trailing total overflowed
the Charge button by up to 131px.
- app_router: redirect instead of null-casting when the receipt route is
entered without its transaction.
- customer_repository: reduce the search query to digits so a punctuated mobile
number matches.
Cleanup
- Remove TransactionRepository.save, CustomerRepository.recordSale and
OrderDao.insertOrder, all superseded by commitSale.
- dart fix across the tree; 251 analyzer issues down to 3 info-level.
Tests: 23 passing / 15 failing -> 90 passing. Fixed the two defects that broke
the existing suite (containsAll type argument, reset() needing a catalogue) and
deleted the leftover template test. Added coverage for the order round trip,
the day archive after a real sync, stock safety, checkout atomicity, the v3->v4
migration, scanner-versus-human input, and an app-level smoke test that renders
every module.
Note: bills already uploaded with a discount went up overstated. This stops it
happening again but does not correct historical server data.
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