The conductor table keyed on Terminal::uuid(), which comes from the catalog
.elmt definition and is empty for every element authored before that field
existed. A conductor was dropped unless *both* its terminals had one, so the
tables this slice adds were empty on almost every project in existence:
examples corpus conductor rows in the database
industrial.qet 0 of 671
affuteuse_250h.qet 0 of 263
tremie_vibrante.qet 0 of 77
741.qet 0 of 67
Across the 23 example projects, 16 of the 20 that contain conductors have
zero terminal uuids -- 2366 of 3002 conductors -- and overall coverage is
7.3%. Meanwhile --export-cables, already on master, lists all 671 conductors
of industrial.qet from the document. A feature that only works on newly
authored elements is not one users can rely on.
Terminal::stableUuid() returns the terminal's own uuid when it has one and
otherwise derives one from its local position and orientation inside its
element. That is not an invented scheme: it is what the project format
already does. TerminalData::fromXml() says so where it parses the field --
"if the attribute not exists, means, the element is created with an older
version of qet. So use the legacy approach to identify terminals" -- and the
legacy approach is the terminal's position. m_pos is read from the definition
and is not touched by moving the element on a folio, so the identity survives
loads, saves and folio moves. Derived values are UUID v5 in a fixed namespace,
so they are reproducible without being stored, and cannot collide with the v4
uuids the element editor generates.
Every project in the corpus now has exactly as many conductor rows as the
document has conductors -- 20 of 20 measured, 0 mismatches. (schema_indus.qet
is excluded: it blocks on a modal dialog at zero CPU under any CLI flag, the
pre-existing hang PR #661 addresses.)
Two things this deliberately does not key on:
- The terminal name. It is not stable: QET rewrites a terminal named "_" as
unnamed, which would have silently changed the identity of 1421 of
industrial.qet's 1790 terminals on their first resave. Measured across the
corpus, dropping it costs nothing -- geometry alone yields exactly the same
three collisions -- and it means renaming a terminal no longer changes what
it is.
- Uniqueness in the face of a definition that declares two terminals at the
same point and orientation. Three cases exist in the whole corpus. They
merge to a single terminal row, which is harmless: two terminals identical
in position and orientation are indistinguishable in every observable
respect, and every conductor on either still resolves to the right element
and terminal name. Both affected projects (industrial, perceuse) return
their full conductor count.
The only conductor still skipped is one whose terminal has no parent element,
which has no identity to key on at all.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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