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Problem and behavior

Fixes #284. Architecture connections can address optional boundary IDs so zone relationships land on visible frames without proxy components. Component-to-boundary and boundary-to-boundary links use the shared router and the existing label, composition, Viewer, and delta contracts.

This remains an additive schema-v1 change: anonymous boundaries work as before; component inventory and legend counts exclude boundaries. Explicit sides, via, routes, and label offsets remain authoritative. Boundaries expose outward-facing interfaces; links to contained endpoints report architecture/boundary-endpoint-contained, and wraps creates membership rather than graph edges.

Revision for the maintainer review

Addresses the September 16 review. The PR targets dev. Merge commit 978687e7d4067acb406db0a2990b6a1f5fcc3d5c integrates dev 548f3b9e0e3aaf8ce9938e659574ec9fc3871d45 with the previously reviewed head 9de26f1.

  • Uses dev's extracted createRouter instead of retaining an inline router. Endpoint lookup/port spreading accept named frames, while component obstacle checks retain only real components. An unrelated named frame does not become an opaque obstacle.
  • Boundary-title convergence measures routes and labels for each candidate frame layout. The returned final scene supplies rendering, label masks, canvas sizing, diagnostics, layout receipts, and legend avoidance. Long titles and offset labels therefore use the same final frame geometry.
  • Retains current-dev dominant-axis inference and port spreading. Auto canvas includes boundary connection labels; an undersized authored viewBox reports composition/label-canvas-containment with supported fixes.
  • Regenerates validators and archify.zip from the combined sources. No release-version change or separate Viewer feature work.

Validation

Windows, Node 22.23.2; commands from archify/:

node --test --test-concurrency=2 test/architecture-boundary-endpoints.test.mjs test/geometry.test.mjs test/layout-rules.test.mjs test/automatic-port-spread.test.mjs test/architecture-delta.test.mjs test/engineering-profile.test.mjs test/renderer-import-isolation.test.mjs test/generate-validators.test.mjs

Run as the boundary file and a separate seven-file related suite: 20 + 263 passed, no failures or skips. Four added integration cases cover long-title/offset-label geometry and canvas containment, vertical dominant-axis routing, boundary fan-out/order independence, and named-frame transparency. Against the previous head's package, the same new cases produce three failures and one preservation pass; all four pass on this revision.

ARCHIFY_CHROME=/path/to/chrome node --test --test-concurrency=1 test/desktop-reader-browser.test.mjs test/finder-browser.test.mjs test/focus-browser.test.mjs test/route-probe-browser.test.mjs test/guided-views-browser.test.mjs

Real Chrome 150: 45 passed, no failures or skips.

Local npm test is not green: 1,679 tests, 1,560 passed, 42 failed, 77 skipped, no cancellations. Viewer/brand-mark/validator/release-identity/golden preflights passed. Browser coverage was run separately as above.

Thirty-one failure names match the September 11 Windows run; that is a historical name comparison, not a current-dev baseline. For the 11 failure names not present in that run, fresh isolated candidate/current-dev runs both yield 1 pass and 10 failures: atlas symlink creation fails with EPERM, the Windows archive-path test fails in its build helper, and eight repository-evidence replacement fixtures fail during Git initialization (\\.\nul). The delivery-lock empty-write case passes on both isolated runs, so the cause of its original full-suite failure remains unresolved. This is a focused comparison, not a claim that a full dev baseline was run. No unrelated assertion, timeout, or product behavior was changed to make the suite pass.

Final-head CI run 35193142996 is successful for 978687e7d4067acb406db0a2990b6a1f5fcc3d5c: 11 jobs passed, including Node 18/20/22/24, three-platform package smoke, Windows portability, ZIP freshness, and the shared browser/WebM gate. Pages deployment was conditionally skipped. No workflow approval is pending; maintainer re-review remains outstanding.

Browser and compatibility evidence

Reproduce the representative component-to-boundary-to-boundary-to-component example from the repository root:

node archify/bin/archify.mjs deliver architecture docs/issue-284-visual-evidence/boundary-endpoints.architecture.json /tmp/boundary-endpoints.html --quality showcase --json
ARCHIFY_CHROME=/path/to/chrome node archify/bin/archify.mjs visual-check /tmp/boundary-endpoints.html --json
  • Fresh showcase delivery passes 9/9 checks. Chrome visual-check passes at 1440x900, 1600x1000, 1920x1080, and 2048x1320. The 1440x900 light/dark captures were inspected separately for readable titles/labels, frame alignment, and clipping.
  • Finder/Focus and Route Probe pass nine operations: the three-edge client -> application-zone -> data-zone -> audit path works; six membership-only routes remain unreachable; both named boundaries are selectable.
  • The new long-title regression case, with labelDx: 1000 and labelDy: 150, passes public showcase validate/deliver and all four Chrome viewports. At 1440x900 in both themes, titles fit the final frames, projected boundary title size is about 8.684px (above the 6px floor), the displaced label fits the 1665x379 auto canvas, and route endpoints meet final frame side centers within 0.01 screen px. This is a geometry stress case, not a proposed ideal visual layout.
  • The same input with a 1000x500 authored viewBox is rejected by validate and deliver with composition/label-canvas-containment; no artifact was forced past validation.
  • Frozen component-only web-app and production-deployment inputs produce byte-identical diagram SVG on current dev and this revision.

The checked-in screenshots remain illustrative captures from original head c4fe801; they are not relabelled as the fresh browser evidence above.

Generated package

The current official tracked-only stager and Node 22 ZIP writer (including its mode manifest) were used through a local Windows plaintext I/O adapter, with no archive postprocessing. A control build exactly reproduces current dev's tracked ZIP. Two candidate builds are byte-identical; all 84 entries match staged source bytes/modes and pass CRC checks. Candidate SHA-256: 68672577c7214158a349b2064bd5a55f90336e147f00a1d44fe282bdf2c3319f.

Extracting outside the repository without node_modules, then running showcase validate/deliver, passes all 9 checks with no errors or warnings; delivered HTML matches the worktree artifact. Generated-validator freshness and git diff --check pass.

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Summary

Architecture connections can target named boundaries, components, or one of each. Boundary IDs are optional and unique across both collections. Boundary endpoints use final frame geometry, including title expansion. Routing, labels, focus, guided views, deployment checks, and delta reporting support them.

Compatibility

The change applies only to architecture. Existing anonymous boundaries, schema-v1 diagrams, and component-only connections remain supported.

Validation

Reviewed base: 72c750bb070d95171dbb2244e5b62b1b7da69c12. Reviewed head: 978687e7d4067acb406db0a2990b6a1f5fcc3d5c.

The author reports targeted tests, regenerated validators, and a deterministic ZIP. Visual evidence is reused from its reported revision and does not establish browser or perceptual acceptance. At the reviewed head, full-suite failures were reported on the prior head or main; remote CI was awaiting approval and required checks.

Walkthrough

Architecture diagrams now support optional boundary IDs as connection endpoints. The renderer, router, validation, guided views, diagnostics, delta comparison, schemas, documentation, and tests handle named boundaries. Documentation also updates locale support, routing rules, viewport repair, and repository evidence across diagram types.

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Layer Summary
Boundary endpoint contract Adds boundary IDs to the schema and layout output. Documents endpoint behavior, uniqueness, routing, locale values, viewport repair, and repository evidence.
Boundary endpoint rendering and validation Routes connections through component or boundary endpoint geometry, validates collisions and containment, supports guided-view focus, shares label geometry, and renders named boundaries as focusable groups.
Diagnostics and delta handling Expands named boundary endpoints through their members. Classifies boundary ID changes as scope changes and applies delta state to structural frames.
Validation and visual evidence Adds coverage for routing, anchoring, authored routes, validation, diagnostics, legacy geometry, delta output, and boundary endpoint examples.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 97868

Focusing a named boundary can leave its label visible while the boundary frame dims, producing an inconsistent guided-view state. This is localized and does not block normal diagram rendering.

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Contribution Scope ✅ Passed The contribution scope is documented and focused. The PR states the user problem and intended outcome: architecture relationships should target visible boundary frames without proxy components. It lin…
Validation Evidence ✅ Passed The PR provides comprehensive and well-supported evidence for the material claims about adding optional boundary IDs and boundary endpoint connections to the architecture diagram type. **Evidence eval…

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Please resolve these conflicts and merge this change. Would be very helpful.

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Gentle reminder on this. Seems like some tests are pending.

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The feature is worthwhile: an explicitly named zone can expose an outward-facing interface without inventing a proxy component. Keeping wraps as membership rather than implicit graph edges is a sensible scope boundary. I ran the boundary-endpoint, architecture-delta, and engineering-profile suites at 9de26f130cae6a344fcfd52451359ed54c228938: 46 passed, zero skipped.

Required integration before acceptance (not a reproduced defect on the original head): please update onto current dev, which now includes the shared architecture router (#266), connection-label canvas containment (#236), and dominant-axis endpoint inference (#379). The old inline-router patch cannot be accepted unchanged:

  • Current rendering measures routed connection labels before boundary-title/canvas convergence. This PR creates boundary endpoints from the final resolved frames. Integrate these so routing, label measurement, and the final drawn boundary use the same geometry, including a long boundary title and a boundary-connection label extending past the component extent. An automatic canvas must contain the label; a deliberately too-small explicit viewBox must still report its diagnostic.
  • Preserve the distinction between endpoint lookup and component obstacles when using the shared router. Passing all boundary frames as ordinary component obstacles would change route acceptance. Retain the existing explicit via/side behavior and outward-only contained-endpoint diagnostic.
  • Keep the existing component inventory/legend/Delta distinctions covered, then run the relevant current-dev tests and a browser check of a representative component-to-boundary and boundary-to-boundary scene. Regenerate affected validators/package outputs and obtain green final-head CI.

The author owns this bounded integration follow-up. No need to broaden this into implicit containment edges or nested boundary membership. This stays open targeting dev; main promotion is separate.

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🟡 Minor · Propagate focus state to boundary labels. · render-architecture.mjs:707-710

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Propagate focus state to boundary labels. renderSvg() emits boundary labels as foreground siblings. Viewer focus and guided views update only [data-node-id] elements, so a boundary frame can dim while its label remains visible. Mirror the boundary group's focus and guided-view state onto the matching data-composition-frame-id label group. Do not move the label into renderBoundaryFrame() without preserving its foreground z-order.

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In `@archify/renderers/architecture/render-architecture.mjs` around lines 707 -
710, Update the boundary-label rendering in renderSvg() so the matching
data-composition-frame-id label group receives the boundary group’s focus and
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Tested this against my use case from #410 (subsystem-to-subsystem edges without proxy components).

Setup: a "Payments Service" boundary wrapping an API component and a Retry Worker component, with a connection from a Client component straight to the boundary, and another from the boundary to a Database component.

Result: works as intended. Both connections resolved cleanly against the boundary's frame - render passed all 9 validation checks, and inspecting the output SVG confirmed the edges terminate on the boundary's actual rect edges (not reaching into an internal component). This is exactly the abstract-level connection semantics described in #284 and #410.

One thing worth flagging for anyone else testing: wraps still only accepts component ids, not another boundary's id (tried it, got "wraps unknown component"). Boundary containment currently only happens by accident, when two boundaries' wraps lists happen to overlap geometrically. That's a separate, pre-existing gap (tracked in #410) - not a regression from this PR, just noting it since it's adjacent to what this PR touches.

No issues found with the boundary-endpoint behavior itself. Would be good to see this merged.

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A real-world test on #284 now gives us a specific boundary-endpoint failure. In a three-component/two-boundary repro, a bottom boundary and a top boundary overlap on the horizontal axis, but automatic inference chooses right/left; the generated route then fails clean-flow/endpoint-side-direction and follows the target border long enough to trigger composition/container-border-run. Explicit fromSide: "top" / toSide: "bottom" works. Please include that minimal spec from the #284 report as an automatic-routing regression, while retaining the existing explicit-side path and obstacle rules. Another tester confirmed the basic boundary attachment for #410, so this is a focused gap rather than a rejection of the feature. I have not independently reproduced the reported failing spec yet; the contributor's exact diagnostics are the current evidence.

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