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Action Mode: name the sharing mode and count direct-mode countries - #9179

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Why

While sharing on a desktop today, a direct connection (SmC) failed verification because the router's port forward pointed at a stale LAN address. The app fell back to Unbounded without saying so, and the card still read "Enabled". Once the forward was fixed, Iranian users connected within a second, but Advanced stats still listed only China and Russia, carried over from the earlier Unbounded session.

What changes

  • The status line names the mode: "Enabled · WebRTC" or "Enabled · Direct connection". Errors are shown unchanged.
  • Advanced stats opens with a Sharing mode row. After a fallback it adds the reason, e.g. "Direct connection unavailable: Your router accepted the port mapping but isn't forwarding traffic to this computer." The reason comes from radiance's error on setPeerProxy or the phase=error status event, and lives in ShareState.fallbackReason until sharing stops.
  • Direct-mode peers count toward Countries. _handlePeerConnection now calls _attributeToCountry with zero bytes, so those rows show people only. Before this, only Unbounded snapshots fed the list.
  • Auto-enable is no longer on the tab. ActionModeSetting already renders it, and the Advanced stats row added in Add Advanced stats for Unbounded volunteers #9166 had pushed it below the fold.

New strings are in en.po only, for Transifex.

sequenceDiagram
    autonumber
    participant UI as Tab<br/>action_mode.dart
    participant N as ShareNotifier<br/>share_notifier.dart
    participant R as radiance

    UI->>N: toggle → _start(smc)
    N->>R: setPeerProxy(true)
    R-->>N: peer-status phase=error<br/>"router isn't forwarding…"
    Note over N: _fallbackToUnbounded(reason)<br/>stores fallbackReason ⚠️
    N->>R: setUnboundedEnabled(true)
    N-->>UI: "Enabled · WebRTC"<br/>+ reason in Advanced stats
    R-->>N: peer-connection +1 (SmC)
    Note over N: _handlePeerConnection<br/>now also _attributeToCountry
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Related

lantern-cloud's verify callback (a GCP address) arrives as a peer connection, so it was counted as a person helped, and with this PR it would also add a United States row. getlantern/radiance#688 drops it in radiance, which can see that the connection is headed to api.iantem.io. The two PRs are independent, but the US row only goes away once a radiance bump including #688 lands here.

Testing

  • flutter test test/features/action_mode: 79 pass. Added: mode in the status line for both modes, the fallback reason in Advanced stats, the Direct connection label in SmC, SmC country attribution, and fallbackReason set on fallback. The 360×640 usability test now exercises the Advanced stats link in place of the removed checkbox.
  • flutter analyze is clean on the changed files.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Action Mode status now identifies the active sharing mode: Direct connection or WebRTC.
    • Advanced stats show the sharing mode and, when WebRTC is used as a fallback, the reason for the switch.
    • Direct-connection peers are included in country statistics, and countries with peers but no data transferred show the people count without a zero-byte amount.
  • Changes

    • The auto-enable control is no longer available on the Action Mode tab.

The status card said "Enabled" for both sharing modes, and a failed direct
connection fell back to WebRTC without saying so. The status line now names
the mode ("Enabled · WebRTC", "Enabled · Direct connection"), and Advanced
stats opens with a Sharing mode row that gives the reason when the direct
connection failed and Lantern switched to WebRTC.

Direct-mode peers never reached the Countries list, which was fed only by
Unbounded snapshots, so a volunteer serving Iranians over SmC saw only their
old Unbounded countries. SmC arrivals are now attributed to a country too,
as people with no byte counts.

Auto-enable moves off the tab. It was already in Action Mode settings, and
the Advanced stats row had pushed it below the fold.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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🟡 Changes recommended

Fallback reasons can leak into later sessions, and direct-only country rows incorrectly display unavailable byte measurements as zero.

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What changed in this PR

Makes Action Mode’s sharing method and fallback reason visible, and adds direct-mode peers to country totals.

Changes:

  • Names the sharing mode in the status card and Advanced stats.
  • Records fallback reasons and attributes direct-mode peers to countries.
  • Removes the duplicate auto-enable control from the tab and updates tests.
File Description
test/​features/​action_mode/​snapshot_test.dart Tests country attribution and fallback reasons.
test/​features/​action_mode/​action_mode_widgets_test.dart Tests mode labels, fallback details, and stats access.
lib/​features/​action_mode/​provider/​share_notifier.dart Captures fallback reasons and counts direct-mode countries.
lib/​features/​action_mode/​advanced_stats_sheet.dart Displays sharing mode and fallback details.
lib/​features/​action_mode/​action_mode.dart Labels the mode and removes duplicate auto-enable controls.
lib/​core/​models/​share_state.dart Adds fallback-reason state.
assets/​locales/​en.po Adds English mode and fallback strings.

Review effort: Balanced

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📝 Walkthrough

Action Mode now shows the selected sharing mode in its status and advanced stats. Advanced stats can show why SmC fell back to Unbounded. The notifier records new SmC peers in country statistics, and the tab no longer displays the auto-enable control.

Changes: Action Mode sharing

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Fallback state and peer statistics
lib/core/models/share_state.dart, lib/features/action_mode/provider/share_notifier.dart, test/features/action_mode/snapshot_test.dart
ShareState adds fallbackReason, which remains set while sharing continues and clears when sharing is disabled. The notifier passes SmC startup and error messages to the Unbounded fallback. New SmC peers add one person with zero transfer bytes to country statistics. Tests check the state and country statistics.
Sharing mode status and advanced stats
assets/locales/en.po, lib/features/action_mode/action_mode.dart, lib/features/action_mode/advanced_stats_sheet.dart, test/features/action_mode/action_mode_widgets_test.dart
The status and advanced-stats views show localized sharing-mode labels. Advanced stats can show the fallback reason. Country rows with people but no bytes show the people count without a zero-byte amount. The tab removes the auto-enable control. Widget tests cover these displays and the control removal.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

Possibly related issues

  • Engineering issue 4032: It requests further changes to Action Mode advanced stats, and this pull request also changes that view’s statistics presentation.

Suggested reviewers: jigar-f

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 20f3f

Action Mode now identifies the sharing mode and fallback reason, and includes SmC arrivals in country statistics. No actionable risk remains in the reviewed changes, so the PR is ready to merge after normal checks.

Security architecture risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 20f3f

The changes improve visibility into sharing behavior without changing which sharing mode is enabled or granting additional privileges. Direct-peer statistics reuse existing location lookups and store country-level totals rather than peer addresses. No material security risk was identified in the changed behavior.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The introduced data exposure is country-level arrival history in the existing application settings path. The added call does not introduce a new peer-IP recipient: direct-peer arrivals already used the same fixed HTTPS location endpoint.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Direct-peer events are handled only in SmC mode. Concurrent streams from an already-tracked IP do not create additional country arrivals; attribution occurs when a new peer arc is created. Lookup failure produces an unknown-country aggregate rather than changing sharing authority.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Pending country attribution checks that the controller is still mounted before updating lifetime totals. Deferred persistence preserves late lookup results while the controller remains alive; disposal cancels the persistence timer. This is aggregate accounting, not a transactional security or authorization record.
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- Line 87: Update _applyUnboundedSnapshot so a snapshot with enabled false that
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Comment thread lib/core/models/share_state.dart Outdated
A snapshot that stopped sharing kept the fallback reason, so a later
session could show a failure that was no longer current; copyWith now drops
it once the mode is off. And a country with people but no byte count, as
direct sharing has, showed "0 B · 1 person"; it now shows the people only.

Addresses review on #9179.

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🟢 Approval recommended

The localized changes address both prior issues with regression coverage, and no blocking findings remain.

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