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Problem

Users report (v1.4.1 and earlier) that on an active trade the release, fiat sent and chat buttons never show up: only Close and Cancel are visible. Pressing Dispute (or, sometimes, refreshing) makes the buttons appear and the trade can continue.

Root cause

The trade-detail buttons come from OrderState.getActions, which is a lookup on (role, status, last action). The "last action" is the newest message in the order's persisted history, and that history was ordered by MostroMessage.timestamp, which is the local receive time stamped by MostroStorage.addMessage, not the daemon's event time. Mostrod's kind-14 created_at was never copied onto the message.

Receive order is not trade order:

  1. Relay replay after a reconnect (restart, back from background, network change): relays return the pending events newest-first, so the older message is written last and wins.
  2. Concurrent decryption: MostroService._onData is fired per event without serialization and each event runs an off-isolate NIP-44 decrypt before addMessage, so two messages that mostrod sent back to back can be written in either order.
  3. Multiple relays: only the first copy of each event is processed, and every relay delivers in its own order.

Once an older setup-phase message becomes the "latest", _getStatusFromAction moves the status back to that phase, whose action table has no fiat-sent / release / chat entry:

Who What lands last Resulting state Buttons
Buyer waiting-seller-to-pay after hold-invoice-payment-accepted waitingPayment Close, Cancel
Seller buyer-took-order after fiat-sent-ok active / buyerTookOrder Cancel, Dispute, Contact (no Release)

Dispute "fixes" it because dispute-initiated-by-you has a complete row in the table.

Second bug found while writing the regression test (main only, unreleased)

Since #715 getAllMessagesForOrderId returns an unmodifiable view of the index, and OrderNotifier.sync() sorted it in place. Every sync() threw Cannot modify an unmodifiable list, so the order state never left pending on a cold start. Not in v1.4.1.

Fix

  1. Record the daemon's event time. MostroMessage gains eventCreatedAt (ms), set in MostroService._processEvent from the kind-14 event's created_at (the rumor's created_at on the legacy gift-wrap path) and persisted as event_created_at. timestamp keeps its meaning (receive time) so the 60-second recency gate for notifications/navigation and handleEvent are unchanged.
  2. Order the history by event time everywhere. MostroMessage.compareByEventTime (event time, receive time as fallback for legacy rows and as tie-break) is now used by the storage index, OrderNotifier.sync(), the trade-detail countdown and the message-detail widget.
  3. Never move a trade backwards on a late copy. OrderState.updateWith drops setup-phase actions (take-*, pay-invoice, pay-bond-invoice, waiting-*) once the order is active or later, and the active-entry actions (buyer-took-order, hold-invoice-payment-accepted, buyer-invoice-accepted) once it is past active (isStaleSetupMessage). This also covers the live path and histories persisted before this change. add-invoice is deliberately not covered: Mostro reuses it to ask for a payout invoice after a failed payment.
  4. Sort a copy in sync() so the unmodifiable index view no longer breaks the replay.

Tests

  • test/services/mostro_service_event_time_test.dart: a processed kind-14 stores its created_at; an earlier event delivered second does not become the latest message.
  • test/data/repositories/mostro_storage_event_time_test.dart: index order follows event time, legacy rows keep receive order, the field survives a DB round trip.
  • test/features/order/notifiers/order_notifier_replay_order_test.dart: sync() over a history written newest-first ends on active with the fiat-sent button (this test also caught the unmodifiable-list crash).
  • test/features/order/models/order_state_late_setup_message_test.dart: late setup messages are ignored on active / fiat-sent / dispute; the legitimate transitions (active entry, payout add-invoice, order republish) still apply.

flutter analyze: clean (2 pre-existing infos in an unrelated test). flutter test: full suite green except dispute_chat_single_req_test.dart, which fails identically on main (missing refreshDisputeChatSubscription stub in the generated mock) and is unrelated.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Order histories now follow the daemon’s event creation time, providing consistent ordering even when messages arrive or are stored out of sequence.
    • Late or replayed lifecycle messages no longer move active or completed orders back to earlier phases.
    • Latest-message lookups and order synchronization now reflect the correct chronological state.
    • Related child orders are linked more reliably when messages include an order identifier.
  • Documentation

    • Added documentation covering message ordering and lifecycle transition safeguards.

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The change records daemon event creation times, orders stored and replayed messages by event time, and prevents late lifecycle messages from moving orders to earlier phases. Tests cover persistence, replay, service ingestion, and state transitions.

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Order history and state processing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Capture and persist event time
lib/data/models/mostro_message.dart, lib/services/mostro_service.dart, lib/data/repositories/mostro_storage.dart, test/services/*, test/data/repositories/*
MostroMessage stores eventCreatedAt. Service ingestion captures Nostr event time. Storage persists the value and orders messages by event time, with receive-time fallback.
Reject stale lifecycle transitions
lib/features/order/models/order_state.dart, test/features/order/models/*, CLAUDE.md
OrderState.updateWith drops backward phase transitions while allowing the defined new-order republish case. Documentation and tests describe the guard.
Apply event-time ordering to consumers
lib/features/order/notifiers/order_notifier.dart, lib/features/trades/state_message_finder.dart, lib/features/trades/widgets/mostro_message_detail_widget.dart, test/features/order/notifiers/*, lib/services/mostro_service.dart
Order replay and trade history helpers use event-time ordering. Child-order linking accepts messages with order IDs and avoids linking the parent order to itself.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 54973

Event-time ordering and stale-transition handling improve replay behavior, but a delayed fiat-sent message can still replace an open dispute and expose incorrect trade actions. This should be corrected before merge.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Relay
  participant MostroService
  participant MostroStorage
  participant OrderNotifier
  participant OrderState
  Relay->>MostroService: deliver encrypted event
  MostroService->>MostroStorage: persist eventCreatedAt
  MostroStorage->>OrderNotifier: return event-time ordered history
  OrderNotifier->>OrderState: apply messages in order
  OrderState-->>OrderNotifier: retain state or drop stale transition
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Old echoes stay behind the line
Fresh phases hop into the state
Late messages wait outside the gate
The ledger thumps a steady beat

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lib/data/repositories/mostro_storage.dart (1)

205-209: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Use event-time ordering for typed latest lookups.

getLatestMessageOfTypeById reads the database list and reverses it. It never applies MostroMessage.compareByEventTime. If database traversal order differs from daemon event time, this method can return a stale same-payload message.

Initialize _byOrder and scan its newest-first list, or sort the result with the shared comparator.

Proposed fix
 Future<MostroMessage?> getLatestMessageOfTypeById<T extends Payload>(
   String orderId,
 ) async {
-  final messages = await getMessagesForId(orderId);
-  for (final message in messages.reversed) {
+  await _ensureIndex();
+  for (final message in _byOrder[orderId] ?? const <MostroMessage>[]) {
     if (message.payload is T) {
       return message;
     }
   }
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In `@lib/data/repositories/mostro_storage.dart` around lines 205 - 209, Update
getLatestMessageOfTypeById to select the latest typed message by event time
rather than relying on the database list’s reversed traversal order. Use the
existing MostroMessage.compareByEventTime comparator, or scan the newest-first
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- Line 452: Update isStaleSetupMessage so Status.expired is not treated as a
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In `@lib/data/repositories/mostro_storage.dart`:
- Around line 205-209: Update getLatestMessageOfTypeById to select the latest
typed message by event time rather than relying on the database list’s reversed
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Addressed the outside-diff comment as well: getLatestMessageOfTypeById now scans the event-time-ordered index instead of reversing the database list (e795f15, with a test).

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grunch and others added 2 commits September 4, 2026 16:06
Trade buttons come from a (role, status, last action) lookup, and the last
action was the message with the newest local receive time. Relays replay
pending events newest-first and decryption is concurrent, so an earlier
setup-phase message (waiting-seller-to-pay, buyer-took-order) could be
written after a later one, move the status back and leave a trade without
the fiat-sent, release and chat buttons until a dispute reset the row.

- Record the daemon's created_at on every stored message (eventCreatedAt)
  and order the history by it everywhere; timestamp keeps meaning receive
  time for the notification recency gate.
- Drop setup-phase actions in OrderState.updateWith once the order is
  active or later, so a late copy never moves a trade backwards.
- Sort a copy of the history in OrderNotifier.sync(): the index returns
  an unmodifiable view since #715 and the in-place sort threw on every
  replay, leaving orders on pending after a cold start.

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Review follow-up. The setup-only guard left two holes: the wire created_at
has one-second resolution, so two events from the same second still fell
back to receive order and a late fiat-sent-ok could undo a release; and an
expired order was not protected at all.

Replace it with a phase rank over Status: any message whose derived status
ranks below the current one is a late copy and is ignored, the only
allowed backwards move being the new-order republish to pending after a
taker timeout. Cooperative cancel and dispute share the fiat-sent rank
since the protocol moves between them in both directions.

Also serve getLatestMessageOfTypeById from the event-time index instead
of the unordered database scan.

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Status.inProgress =>
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Status.active => 2,
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Separate Status.dispute from the fiat-sent equivalence class.

A delayed Action.fiatSentOk maps to Status.fiatSent. Both statuses have rank 3, so isStaleTransition accepts the update and replaces an open dispute with Status.fiatSent. This removes the dispute phase and changes the available actions.

Model the permitted equal-rank transitions explicitly, or add a directed guard for Status.dispute to reject late fiat-sent actions. Add regression coverage for Status.dispute followed by Action.fiatSentOk.

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In `@lib/features/order/models/order_state.dart` at line 435, Update the status
ranking/transition logic around the `Status.dispute` case so a delayed
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Confirmed, but deferred to #724 rather than fixed in this PR.

The finding is valid. Reproduced against this branch: Status.dispute + a late Action.fiatSentOk yields

STATUS=fiat-sent  ACTION=fiat-sent-ok
SELLER=[release, cancel, dispute, send-dm]
BUYER=[cancel, dispute, send-dm]

Both statuses sit at rank 3 and isStaleTransition only rejects next < current, so the equal-rank move passes, exactly as described.

We disagree on severity — this is Low, not Major. The dispute resolution flow is unaffected. Running the full admin path on top of the corrupted state:

FLIPPED  status=fiat-sent         dispute=d-1/initiated
TOOK     status=dispute           dispute=in-progress
SETTLED  status=settled-by-admin  dispute=resolved/admin-settled

Two reasons: the evidence for accepting admin-* messages is the tracked Dispute object and explicitly not Status.dispute (see the docs on _acceptsAdminDisputeAction), and that object survives the flip; and settledByAdmin/canceledByAdmin rank 6, well above rank 3, so neither admin-took-dispute nor the resolution is treated as stale. What actually degrades is local presentation — the wrong phase label plus a dispute button re-offered on an already-disputed order (mostrod answers cant-do) — and it self-heals on the next dispute message. No funds at risk, no blocked resolution, transient.

One correction to the suggested remedy. Modelling equal-rank transitions generically would over-fix: two of the three rank-3 moves are legitimate and must keep working — fiatSent → dispute / fiatSent → cooperativelyCanceled, and cooperativelyCanceled → fiatSent, since the buyer's action table for Status.cooperativelyCanceled includes Action.fiatSent ("buyer can still send fiat to complete trade"). Only leaving Status.dispute sideways is never legitimate. The fix tracked in #724 is therefore a directed guard on Status.dispute plus regression coverage for dispute + fiat-sent-ok and non-regression coverage for cooperativelyCanceled + fiat-sent.

Deferring because the impact is cosmetic and this app is expected to be superseded before the churn on updateWith pays for itself. Full analysis, reproduction and proposed patch are in #724.

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@grunch, thank you for the detailed validation.

I agree that the impact is Low. The late Action.fiatSentOk causes a transient local presentation regression. It does not remove the tracked Dispute evidence or block the admin resolution flow.

I also agree that a generic equal-rank rule would be incorrect. The follow-up should use a directed guard that prevents transitions out of Status.dispute to Status.fiatSent, while preserving valid rank-3 transitions.

Deferring this change to #724 is reasonable. I will keep this finding open because this PR does not contain the fix.

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File: lib/features/order/models/order_state.dart:435-435
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Learning: In `lib/features/order/models/order_state.dart`, equal lifecycle ranks in `OrderState.phaseRank` do not imply that every sideways transition is valid. `Status.fiatSent` to `Status.dispute`, `Status.fiatSent` to `Status.cooperativelyCanceled`, and `Status.cooperativelyCanceled` to `Status.fiatSent` are valid. A late `Action.fiatSentOk` must not move an order from `Status.dispute` to `Status.fiatSent`; the appropriate fix is a directed guard with regression coverage.

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