Frontier has no baked *_GameRuleWrapperCircuit; real Rec Room delivered
Rec Royale's rule chip in the room blob, and without it there is no
BattleRoyaleManager and no match. A newer-client export of a custom Rec
Royale room shows the saved RecRoyaleSquads chip is minimal — prefab id,
palette tag (prefab name lower-cased, 25 chars), circuit node id and an
EMPTY GameRuleWrapperData (field 41) — so the stub can generate it.
Prefab ids read from the client's spawnable-tool table in resources.assets
(SpawnableTool_Runtime_<ENUM> → 20-byte hash → two u32 → 16-byte id), the
Squads id cross-checked against the real save: Solos 983db81a…, Squads
857f7500…. The stub for a room whose name contains RecRoyaleSolos /
RecRoyaleSquads carries the matching chip as a fourth persistence view.
Test: Rec_royale_stub_carries_its_game_rule_chip (both rooms).
Enable + co-owner still gave no Maker Pen. The 2023 client grants Maker
Pen / save / spawn rights off the player's GameRole
(ICreatorRole.CreatorRoleCanUseMakerPen on RecRoom.Systems.PlayerRoles
.GameRole), and game roles are persisted OBJECTS in the room blob: every
real save inspected (Rec Center room_100_v1.dat, Stunt Runner
room_125_v1.dat) carries three GameRoleNode chips — a default role named
after the room plus the built-in "In-Game" and "Eliminated" roles, with
well-known GUIDs shared by every room. A blob with none leaves a co-owner
with no role to hold, so MakerPen.CheckMakerPenPermissionAndUpdateMode
fails regardless of the room-role collection.
BuildRroEditableBlob now emits Rec Royale's own three role objects, laid
out field-for-field like the client's writer (including the always-present
empty Overridable submessages), with view ids derived from the activity id
so repeated downloads describe the same objects. The default role sets
can_use_maker_pen, matching the permissive room-role overlay. Test pins
three persistence views and the three role GUIDs.
An enabled baked room still had no Maker Pen: the client fetched the CDN's
synthetic stub for room_{id}_dorknet_v8.dat and silently loaded the room
with no room roles. Measured against Rec Center's working room_100_v1.dat
(10,930 bytes, the same client loads it with Maker Pen), the old 1,872-byte
roles-only stub was stamped PersistedRoomVersion 19 — past the March-2023
client's ceiling of 16, which only the S3-hit path clamped — and lacked the
skeleton every real save carries (last_save_time, activity_id = the room's
LocationReplicationId, connectable graph, scene settings, object model,
room_mood_* blocks).
RoomDataBlobService.BuildRroEditableBlob now emits that skeleton per room
at version 16 (untyped fields appended on the wire; payloads are Rec
Center's defaults verbatim). CdnController resolves the RRO room for the
miss path, passes its location id, and clamps synthesised blobs the same
way it clamps S3 hits. Tests pin version 16, the activity id and
CanUseMakerPen on every role.
Security:
- roomcode PUT now requires instance ownership (any player could plant
or relocate codes on foreign private instances)
- /platformid/{accountId} requires auth (anonymous Steam/Oculus id
enumeration oracle)
- request tracing no longer captures successful /thread bodies by
default (chat messages landed unredacted in logs); opt in via
Trace__SuccessBodyPaths
- anonymous action-link renewal clamped to 720h per consume
Data integrity:
- buyPurchaseReminder upserts its objective sentinel (second purchase
threw UNIQUE after the wallet was debited)
- progression reward gift + idempotency sentinel commit in one
transaction (crash between them double-minted the reward)
- ClubPermissionsGalleryAndModeration migration defaults corrected to
the entity contract (CommentsJson '[]', ClubChatEnabled true); new
one-shot ClubChatDefaultRepair migration fixes databases that
applied the wrong defaults; bootstrap repairs '' CommentsJson rows
- admin subroom-maxplayers audit entry commits with the mutation
- account purge covers CustomAvatarItems (ownership deleted, created
items reassigned to the system account)
- duplicate photo reports ignored while one is unresolved
Stability:
- bootstrap only swallows the expected duplicate-column error; locked
databases and schema failures now fail startup instead of the first
endpoint
- clone blob write failure degrades to an empty sub-room instead of a
500 after the clone row committed
- resumed photo-feed cursor stamped DateTimeKind.Utc (Npgsql rejects
Unspecified for timestamptz)
- unreadcounts queries per requested room instead of materialising the
whole comment keyspace
Tests:
- destroys-the-probe-session template guard is case-insensitive
74/74 tests pass.
File a GitHub issue from a failing test case, and let the case follow the
issue afterwards.
POST api/testcasemanagement/v1/testcase/{id}/issue file + link
DELETE api/testcasemanagement/v1/testcase/{id}/issue unlink
POST api/testcasemanagement/v1/issues/sync reconcile now
plus TestCaseIssueReconciler, a background sweep on the same code path as the
manual endpoint so the two cannot drift. Admin-gated: these are not part of the
2023 client's surface, unlike the existing test-case routes which are open
because the watch gates that tab client-side.
The link lives in TestCaseEntity.JiraBugUrl — the field Rec Room's own tooling
used for the bug filed against a failing case. That avoids a migration, which
matters more here than the name: the Postgres path is EnsureCreated-only and
never replays migrations, so a new column has to be added twice or it is missing
in production. A leftover genuine Jira link is ignored rather than misparsed,
since the issue number is only read from a GitHub-shaped URL.
Filing is idempotent — a case already carrying a live issue returns it instead
of filing again, so sweeping a failing pass repeatedly does not spam duplicates.
Unlinking leaves the issue alone; closing someone's issue as a side effect of
tidying a QA link would be the wrong call.
Reconcile moves a case only between the two states it owns: closed+Failed goes
to NotYetTested, open+NotYetTested goes back to Failed. A closed issue is NOT
marked Passed — closing is a developer's claim that the fix landed, not a
tester's observation that the case passes, so the case goes back in the queue.
The first draft flipped any non-Failed case to Failed on an open issue, which
contradicted its own doc comment and yanked a case out from under a tester
mid-claim; the test for that caught it.
Everything degrades rather than fails when unconfigured: IsConfigured is false
without a token, endpoints answer 503 with the reason, and the reconciler logs
once and idles. GitHub is faked in the tests, which cover idempotency, both
state transitions, the mid-claim case, and the unconfigured path.
Sixteen agents, one controller each, over every route the coverage test
reported as missing or wrong-verb. Route+verb coverage is now 516/522 (98.9%),
up from 90.8%.
Each handler was written against binary evidence rather than the audit's prose:
verb from the BestHTTP.HTTPMethods ordinal at the call site, response shape from
the issuing method's return type, request shape from whether the client uses
form fields, a raw JsonUtility body, or query params. Agents were told to skip
rather than stub, and several did.
New surface worth noting:
- Link host: actionlink create/get/consume and datalink get/put, previously
unrouted entirely.
- Club roster reads: members, banned, requests, requests/search, members/search,
each with the client's real sort/paging params and the wire row shape its
reader expects (the banned row has no MembershipType field, so it isn't sent).
- Home clubhouse set/clear, club disband (soft, via the existing State column),
and DELETE mainimage as its own action rather than a verb alias — the client
parses the details envelope from it, so it is not status-only.
- Club chat threads, comment CRUD, keepsake collect/delete, progression-event
xp boosts, image report and cheered/bulk, iOS StoreKit product reporting.
The six routes still missing all need storage that does not exist yet
(per-role club permissions, club additional-image slots, MinLevel,
ClubChatEnabled). Those are left for a single schema change rather than faked.
Also excludes DELETE /account/me from the endpoint contract probe. That route is
now a real, correctly-guarded account purge, and the probe walks every route
with one test player — so calling it destroyed the probe's own session and
turned one real event into 49 cascading foreign-key and 401 failures.
OnDisconnectedAsync told friends a player went offline, but nothing ever
pushed the opposite transition — PlayerCameOnline existed in
NotificationService with zero callers. The pair was asymmetric, so a SignalR
reconnect (network blip, replica restart) greyed the player out on every
friend's list for the rest of the session even though they were still
playing. Only re-entering a room, which pushes presence via /goto, brought
them back.
AddConnectionAsync already computed the first-connection transition to
maintain the online set but returned void; it now reports it, mirroring
RemoveConnectionAsync.
The push is deliberately conditional on a room already being known. The
presence payload derives isOnline from roomInstance being non-null, so
pushing with no room reads as OFFLINE — worse than staying quiet. On a fresh
boot there is no room yet and the /goto that follows sends the real presence
anyway, so this only fires on reconnects, where the cached room is exactly
what friends need to see again.
Audits every route the March-2023 client can call against what this server
actually serves, and fixes the defects that were breaking gameplay. Adds
docs/recroom-2023-client-api-complete.md as the reference: ~500 route
literals across 13 subsystems, with verb, request/response shape, and a
per-subsystem diff. 315 defects catalogued; the ones fixed here are listed
in its "Already fixed" table.
Path coverage was never the problem — 465 of 506 routes already had
handlers. The failures were in shape, and they cluster into four causes:
- Wrong verb. The verb is a BestHTTP.HTTPMethods ordinal (GET=0 .. PATCH=5),
confirmed from that enum's static constructor. Routes registered POST-only
while the client PUTs returned 405, which made room consumables neither
buyable nor consumable and blocked every room-key edit.
- Bare scalar wrapped in an object. The client reads `1000`, not
`{"Limit":1000}`; the issuing method signature says which. Wrapping makes
the deserializer throw and the feature dies silently.
- [FromBody] vs form-urlencoded. The client sends nearly every write as form
data, which an [ApiController] action bound [FromBody] rejects with 415
before the handler runs. This alone broke all 13 club member-management
endpoints. Adds Binding/FormOrJsonModelBinder so this is fixed once.
- Notify dispatch keys. Both enum overloads of the client's RegisterHandler
lower the id via Int32.ToString() and register only that numeric key, and
lookup is a case-sensitive TryGetValue that returns silently on a miss. We
were sending the enum NAME for most ids, so friend-request updates, forced
logout, maintenance broadcasts, live balance and consumable updates, and
invention moderation pushes all evaporated with no error anywhere.
Notable behavioural bugs fixed:
- Editing a club announcement deleted it: PUT was a third binding on the
delete handler. Split apart, and the missing create route added.
- leaderboard/CheckAndSetStat did not exist. The 2023 client has no SetStat
literal at all, so every leaderboard score it wrote was discarded.
- Setting a club clubhouse cleared it: the handler read roomId from the query
while the client sends it in the body, then wrote the resulting null.
- Club join requests were inverted (the enum is Open=0, InviteOnly=1,
AskToJoin=2), so ask-to-join clubs rejected everyone and invite-only clubs
quietly admitted them.
- Room bans were pushed as id 24, for which the client registers no handler;
they now go out as ModerationKick with IsBan, so the ban takes effect
immediately instead of at next login.
- Room-key ownership queries answered for the wrong player, and "has anyone
bought this key" asked "did I buy it" — always false for the creator.
Also persists settings that were previously acknowledged and dropped
(playlist accessibility/restrictions/level-voting/warning, per-player status
visibility, VR movement mode and avoid-juniors, custom room codes), which is
what the new columns in the migration are for.
One test asserted the old nested PriceAndCurrency response shape; the
client's consumable formatter has no such key and reads Price and
PurchaseCurrencyId flat, so the test was corrected alongside the handler.
- Updated `url-coverage.md` to clarify the behavior of the `api/rooms/v2/myRecent` endpoint.
- Enhanced `StoreService.cs` to include new properties for color variants: `combination_id` and `descriptor`.
- Modified logic in `StoreService` to validate color variants based on the new descriptor instead of swatch GUID.
- Updated database bootstrap scripts to create new tables for `RoomConsumables` and `RoomConsumableOwnership`, including necessary indexes.
- Revised README to reflect changes in debugging options and the introduction of `DorkNet.DebugMod`.
- Updated documentation on request expectations to clarify server-side behavior for room visibility.
- Enhanced installation script to provide clearer instructions for enabling the debug console.
- Added a new document detailing the process for dumping avatar items and color variants from the Rec Room client.
* feat: add 3D Charades word lists management and profanity filter toggle
- Implemented Charades word lists management in the admin UI, allowing for unlimited named word lists with difficulty settings.
- Added functionality to bind live card slots to specific word lists, with automatic fallback to built-in lists.
- Introduced a profanity filter toggle in server settings, enabling or disabling the server-side profanity filter.
- Updated database schema to support new features, including additional columns for profanity filter status and charades slot bindings.
- Enhanced documentation to reflect new features and their usage.
* feat: add identityserver-signing.pfx to .gitignore
* feat: add new matchmake routes for player, event, club, and code
- Implemented new endpoints for retrieving account privacy settings.
- Added fields for privacy preferences such as profile visibility, online status, and activity visibility.
feat: Extend play menu tags functionality
- Updated PlayMenuTagsRequest to include TrendingTags.
- Modified SetPlayMenuTags to handle trending tags.
- Enhanced logging to include trending tags.
fix: Increase maximum archive size for room zip imports
- Updated MaxArchiveBytes from 12GB to 25GB in RoomZipImportController.
feat: Improve CDN image handling
- Added local image path resolution for room images.
- Implemented lazy loading of room image aliases from JSON file.
feat: Enhance match player presence resolution
- Updated ResolveDataBlobForPresenceAsync to consider sub-room IDs and private instance status.
feat: Extend RoomEntity with new properties
- Added AllowNewUsers, MinLevel, MaxPlayerCalculationMode, LoadScreensJson, PromoImagesJson, and PromoExternalContentJson fields.
feat: Update database schema for new room properties
- Added new columns to the Rooms table for AllowNewUsers, MinLevel, MaxPlayerCalculationMode, LoadScreensJson, PromoImagesJson, and PromoExternalContentJson.
feat: Implement platform notifications controller
- Created PlatformNotificationsController for managing user notification preferences.
- Added endpoints for retrieving and setting notification preferences and categories.
- Updated the RoomsController to utilize synthetic CDN keys for data blobs.
- Introduced methods for determining current or synthetic data blob names.
- Adjusted room role permissions to align with new game role definitions.
- Enhanced the SanitizeController with a new endpoint for purity checks.
- Modified Match and PlayerPresence services to handle deferred presence commits.
- Improved RoomDataBlobService to support new game role and tool tag settings.
- Added support for boot dorm grace period in PlayerPresenceService.
- Updated protobuf definitions to reflect new room role and game role structures.
You are now able to go into dorm and the rec center!
- Updated Bulk method to parse incoming JSON object arrays for UGC item IDs.
- Introduced ReadBulkIdsAsync to handle both object arrays and flat GUID lists.
- Added synthetic placeholder responses for missing UGC items to prevent client errors.
feat: Implement MatchmakeRoom and MatchmakeSubRoom endpoints in GoToController
- Added MatchmakeRoom and MatchmakeSubRoom methods to facilitate joining public and sub-rooms by numeric ID.
- Enhanced ApplySubRoomMutation to ensure proper state transitions for sub-rooms.
- Improved logging for matchmaking actions.
fix: Refactor PlayerSettingsController to handle database save exceptions
- Introduced SaveSettingsChangesAsync to manage DbUpdateException for busy SQLite scenarios.
- Updated methods to call SaveSettingsChangesAsync instead of direct SaveChangesAsync.
chore: Update URL coverage documentation for new matchmaking endpoints
- Documented new MatchmakeRoom and MatchmakeSubRoom endpoints in url-coverage.md.
chore: Add default room data file for room loading
- Included default_room.room to serve as a fallback for missing room data.
fix: Improve SQLite concurrency handling in DatabaseBootstrap
- Configured SQLite to use WAL mode and set a busy timeout for better concurrency.
chore: Create SqliteErrors utility for handling SQLite exceptions
- Added SqliteErrors class to encapsulate logic for detecting busy SQLite exceptions.
refactor: Update RoomDataBlobService to serve default room data
- Modified GetDefaultBlob to load and serve a default room blob with proper role data.
- Implemented ProgressionEventsController to handle progression event retrieval and active events.
- Created RoomConsumablesController for listing and purchasing room consumables.
- Developed RoomCurrenciesController for managing room currencies, including creation, updates, and balance retrieval.
- Added RoomEarningsDistributionsController to fetch earnings distribution data for rooms.
- Introduced ScreenShareReportsController for reporting screen share incidents.
- Established SubscriptionSeasonsController to provide current subscription season details and rewards.
- Launched UgcPurchasablesController for managing user-generated content purchasables, including bulk operations.
- Added new data entities for customization and room economy, including custom avatar items, room currencies, and UGC purchasables.
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