fix: preserve writable letters when saving edits

[ryanbarlow97]

Saving an unsigned letter with Done can lose its custom item identity when ItemsAdder rebuilds BookMeta at MONITOR. It then looks like an ordinary book and bird mail rejects it. The existing ArmourShop fallback does not protect every letter provider or offhand edits.

Cancel the normal save and restore a clone of the original letter on the next tick with only the edited pages changed. Preserve all item metadata and amount, accept writable letters from the mail configuration as well as the sealing configuration, and replace the original slot only if the player is online and its contents are unchanged. Signing and ordinary book handling retain their existing behavior.

This intentionally bypasses ItemsAdder's late book text/image formatting for unsigned letters. It prevents future identity loss; it cannot identify or repair books whose letter metadata was already stripped.

Validation: regression tests failed on the prior save path; mvn clean verify passes all 29 tests. Coverage includes main/offhand saves, moved/replaced/mutated stacks, offline players, failed saves, custom mail letter recognition, and ordinary books. Runtime JAR filename/version validation and git diff --check pass. In-game editing has not yet been verified.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Writable books recognized as letters can now be edited, while ordinary books remain unaffected.
  • Editing a letter preserves its existing item details while updating its pages, including formatting and blank pages.

• Bug Fixes

  • Letter edits are saved only when the original item remains in place and the player stays online, preventing unintended changes to other items.
  • If saving an edit fails, the player is notified.

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• src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/birdmessenger/letters/LetterItems.java
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• src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/birdmessenger/letters/LetterItems.java
• src/test/java/net/tfminecraft/birdmessenger/letters/LetterItemsTest.java

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

LetterItems recognizes configured writable books as editable and restores edited letters by cloning the previous item and replacing its pages. LetterListener cancels recognized book events and schedules conditional inventory replacement for edits.

Changes

Letter editing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Editable letter recognition and restoration src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/birdmessenger/letters/LetterItems.java, src/test/java/net/tfminecraft/birdmessenger/letters/LetterItemsTest.java	isEditableLetter accepts writable books recognized as letters or by the configured mail utility. createEditedLetter clones the previous item and replaces its pages. Tests cover recognition and verify that editing copies page strings while retaining the cloned item’s other state.
Book-sign event handling src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/birdmessenger/letters/LetterListener.java, src/test/java/net/tfminecraft/birdmessenger/letters/LetterListenerTest.java	The listener cancels recognized signing and editing events. For edits, it schedules replacement only when the player remains online and the original inventory item is unchanged. Tests cover failed saves, inventory changes, and ordinary-book handling.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant BookSignEvent
  participant LetterListener
  participant LetterItems
  participant BukkitScheduler
  participant PlayerInventory
  BookSignEvent->>LetterListener: submit edit
  LetterListener->>LetterItems: check editable letter and restore pages
  LetterItems-->>LetterListener: restored item
  LetterListener->>BukkitScheduler: schedule replacement
  BukkitScheduler->>LetterListener: run next tick
  LetterListener->>PlayerInventory: replace slot if player is online and item matches

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 4f93c

No actionable merge-blocking issue remains after normal checks. In-game editing has not yet been verified.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to ef7a5

The new save flow preserves letter identity and checks that the player still holds the original item before replacing it. No security bypass was established, but its interaction with other installed book handlers has not been verified in game.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The independently editable scope is a recognized writable letter in a player's inventory slot, not arbitrary books or the sealing operation. Other installed book handlers remain an unverified integration boundary.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The player supplies edited pages, but the handler takes item identity from the existing recognized stack and checks that stack again before writing. Mail-configured edit eligibility does not grant signing eligibility.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — Compare-before-replace prevents a deferred save from overwriting a moved or changed stack. Overlapping saves may discard a later edit rather than overwrite a newer item; explicit overlap behavior and external listener interactions are not established by the changed tests.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Verify unsigned main-hand and offhand saves with the installed item provider and other book-event handlers, particularly cancellation ordering, page formatting, and overlapping edits.

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A delayed save waits its turn.
If the book moved, no change is made.
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Inline comments:
In @src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/birdmessenger/letters/LetterItems.java:
- Line 80: Update the page-copy operation in the letter restoration flow to use
source.getPages() with meta.setPages(...), preserving the submitted
writable-book page text without component conversion.

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Released as v1.1.2 after addressing the raw-page-text review finding. All 29 tests, PR CI and release CI passed; CodeRabbit approved the corrected commit.

• Dev: installed with backup and restarted. BirdMessenger 1.1.2 enabled successfully; server ready at 18:55:55 UTC. Status responds and there are no new startup ERROR lines compared with the previous boot.
• Main: installed the same verified release with backup, without restart or reload. PID/start time unchanged; status still responds. The fix activates at the next restart.

Both installed JARs match release SHA-256 436dd56a21cf6925963eab1cf89c222fb888698ad497fdc75a74a45a1d862aa4. No live-player edit/mail test performed.