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Work package M3-06 (editing surfaces), first part of the relationship slice. Slice 3 (#5) made objects; this part edits what they're linked to, from the relationships panel.

  • Engine (StagedLinks.swift): three new calls on the session.
    • link(_:to:through:) adds objects to a to-many, at the end if it's ordered, or sets a to-one, replacing its current object.
    • unlink(_:from:through:) takes objects out of a to-many, or empties a to-one if it holds one of them.
    • insertRelatedObject(to:through:entity:) makes a new object of the destination entity (or one of its sub-entities), already linked, in a single edit.
  • How they behave:
    • Each call is one undoable edit.
    • Linking something already linked, or unlinking something that isn't, changes nothing and leaves nothing to undo.
    • Core Data keeps the other end of the relationship in step.
    • Either side may be an object that exists only in staged edits.
    • An entity the relationship can't hold, or an unknown relationship name, is refused before anything is staged.
  • RelatedObjects.Item now identifies its object by PendingObjectID, so new objects linked into a relationship appear in the list, after the saved ones.
    • ref is now optional: nil for an object only inserted.
    • init(ref:display:) still works.
  • App: the relationships panel
    • It re-reads whenever the staged edits change.
    • When the store is editable, a to-many relationship has a + button that makes a related object and opens it in the inspector. If the destination has sub-entities, the button becomes a menu listing the concrete ones.
    • Every listed object has Unlink: in its context menu, as a VoiceOver action, and on the Delete key. The object itself isn't deleted.
    • New objects are marked New. They can't be revealed in the grid or have their URI copied until they're committed.
  • Not in this slice: a new object behind a to-one. Until the commit, a to-one that points at an object that exists only in staged edits shows as empty in the grid and the inspector, so this waits for the object-picker slice.
  • Docs: slice 4a in the M3-06 progress entry, and a note in ARCHITECTURE §6.4.

Checked here:

  • Lint and layering are clean.
  • The String Catalog round-trips byte for byte with 5 new strings.
  • No duplicate test names.
  • Every existing test that used item.ref as non-optional has been updated.

PRD IDs: EDT-3 (also REL-1, EDT-8)

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  • Clean-room: this change is based only on public documentation and on Apple frameworks observed through public APIs. I did not decompile or inspect any closed-source product.
  • Commits are signed off (git commit -s, DCO).
  • Tests added or updated; swift test passes. macOS runs in this CI.
    • Engine, StagedLinksTests (5):
      • a to-many linked and unlinked, with the inverse following and nothing written to the file;
      • an ordered to-many taking new objects at the end and keeping the order of the rest;
      • a to-one replaced, refusing two objects, and emptied only by unlinking the object it holds;
      • a related object inserted and linked as one edit (a sub-entity is allowed, another entity refused);
      • refusals happen before anything is staged, and a read-only session is refused.
    • App, EditingSessionTests +1: the panel makes a related object, shows it, and unlinks it.
  • No new strict-concurrency warnings. To be confirmed by CI.
  • Public engine API has DocC comments: link, unlink, insertRelatedObject, RelatedObjects.Item.object.
  • No row data is logged (store-derived values are wrapped in Redacted).
  • User-visible strings are externalised; new controls have accessibility labels. + is labelled New Related Object; Unlink is also a VoiceOver action.
  • ADR added or amended if a decision changed. No decision changed.

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  • New Features
    • Create new objects directly from the Relationships panel and link them to the selected object.
    • Unlink related objects using the context menu, accessibility actions, or Delete key. Unlinking removes the relationship without deleting the object.
    • Newly created related objects appear in the list before they are saved, and relationship changes refresh the displayed items.

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- Engine (StagedLinks.swift): link(_:to:through:) adds to a to-many (at the
  end of an ordered one) or sets a to-one; unlink(_:from:through:) takes
  objects out or empties a to-one holding one of them;
  insertRelatedObject(to:through:entity:) makes an object of the
  destination, or a sub-entity, already linked, as one edit. Each is one
  undoable edit; what is already linked or not linked is passed over;
  Core Data keeps the inverse; either side may be an object only inserted
- RelatedObjects.Item names its object by PendingObjectID, so a linked
  object only inserted is listed too, after the saved ones
- App: the relationships panel re-reads whenever what is staged changes;
  editable, the followed to-many has a + (a menu for sub-entities) that
  makes a related object and inspects it, and each listed object has
  Unlink (context menu, VoiceOver action, Delete key); the object stays.
  A to-one's new object waits for the picker (EDT-3)
- Tests: StagedLinksTests (5), EditingSessionTests +1

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The store now stages relationship links, unlinks, and related-object insertions as undoable edits. Related-object items can represent uncommitted objects. The relationships panel supports inserting and unlinking related objects and refreshes its list when staged edits change.

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Relationship editing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Represent pending related objects
Sources/DabbiStore/RelatedObjects.swift, Sources/DabbiStore/ValueConverter.swift, Sources/DabbiStore/StoreSession.swift, Tests/DabbiStoreTests/RelatedObjectsTests.swift
Related-object items use PendingObjectID and can represent uncommitted inserts. Relationship reads return these items, and unordered relationships sort unsaved objects after saved objects.
Stage relationship mutations
Sources/DabbiStore/StagedEdits.swift, Sources/DabbiStore/StagedLinks.swift, Sources/DabbiStore/StoreSession.swift, Tests/DabbiStoreTests/StagedLinksTests.swift, docs/ARCHITECTURE.md
StoreSession adds link, unlink, and insertRelatedObject. The tests cover relationship kinds, inverse updates, undo and redo, and validation errors.
Connect editing to the relationships panel
App/CoreDataDabbi/Editing/EditingSession.swift, App/CoreDataDabbi/Relationships/*, App/CoreDataDabbi/Resources/Localizable.xcstrings, App/CoreDataDabbiTests/*, docs/IMPLEMENTATION_PLAN.md
The panel model and view support insertion and unlinking. Related rows refresh when staged edits change; uncommitted rows are marked and cannot be revealed until they have a reference. Tests and the implementation plan reflect the panel behavior and pending-object API.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant RelationshipsView
  participant RelationshipsModel
  participant EditingSession
  participant StoreSession
  RelationshipsView->>RelationshipsModel: insertRelated(entity) or unlink(item)
  RelationshipsModel->>EditingSession: stage the relationship edit
  EditingSession->>StoreSession: call insertRelatedObject or unlink
  StoreSession-->>EditingSession: return staged changes and inserted object ID, when applicable
  EditingSession-->>RelationshipsModel: return the edit result
  RelationshipsModel-->>RelationshipsView: display the updated selection and related items
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Test (macos-15, Xcode 26.3) is failing, and not because of this PR. The job is a continue-on-error canary. Its log has one compile error, VersionLog.swift:254 ("sending 'connection' risks causing data races"), which main already has. None of the files this PR changes has an error or warning under Xcode 26.3.

There is no fix yet. Swift 6.2.3 accepts the same code, so I can't reproduce the error to check a patch. A compile error fails the same way every time, so I'm not re-running the job.


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…used whole

RelatedObjects.Item.ref is optional now (nil for an object only inserted),
and two tests still used it as a reference: RelatedObjectsTests followed a
tag through it, and ProjectWindowTests read its entity. The engine suite did
not compile. The tag's reference is unwrapped; the entity is the item's
object's.

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In `@Sources/DabbiStore/RelatedObjects.swift`:
- Around line 10-12: Update Codable handling for RelatedObjects.Item so decoding
existing representations with the ref key remains compatible, using explicit
coding where needed; define a separate compatibility rule for inserted objects
that have no ObjectRef, or provide the required format migration and version
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- Around line 367-370: Update the relationship ordering so objects with equal
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From CodeRabbit's review of #7:

- RelatedObjects.Item encodes `ref` next to `object` and decodes either.
  Until objects only inserted could be listed, an item was a `ref` and a
  `display`; engine value types are the API contract (ARCHITECTURE §4), so
  a reader of that form still reads every saved object, and a payload in it
  still decodes. RelatedObjectsTests +1 (both directions, and an inserted
  object round-tripping without a `ref`)
- Objects only inserted all sorted as the largest key, leaving their order
  to the set's own, which can change between reads; the panel reads again
  after every edit, and its rows and selection moved. Their temporary URI
  now breaks the tie, before the limit is applied

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