[Split 2/N] Add the AblyPubSubDevice product and its factory - #2265
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WalkthroughAdds the ChangesPubSubDevice client creation
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participant App
participant PubSubDevice
participant ARTRealtime
participant AblyTransport
App->>PubSubDevice: createClient(options/key/token)
PubSubDevice->>PubSubDevice: copy options and set ably-pubsub-device
PubSubDevice->>ARTRealtime: create client with device-declared options
ARTRealtime->>AblyTransport: send device agent in connection or request metadata
Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The new SwiftPM device product and factories are covered by option, authentication, and wire-agent tests. Remaining risk is limited to release documentation clarity for package-specific releases. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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191-191: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winDocument device-only releases too.
Line 191 identifies LiveObjects-only releases as no-ops for CocoaPods and Carthage. The same rule applies to
AblyPubSubDevice, because the distribution table marks it as SwiftPM-only. Update the release-note instruction to cover both products.Proposed fix
-* **A tag does not mean the same thing on every channel.** CocoaPods and Carthage consumers receive only the core SDK (the `AblyPubSubCore` product, shipped as the `Ably` pod / `Ably.xcframework`); see [Distribution](`#distribution`). A release whose only change is to LiveObjects is a no-op for them, and the changelog entry should say so. +* **A tag does not mean the same thing on every channel.** CocoaPods and Carthage consumers receive only the core SDK (the `AblyPubSubCore` product, shipped as the `Ably` pod / `Ably.xcframework`); see [Distribution](`#distribution`). A release whose only change is to `AblyPubSubDevice` or LiveObjects is a no-op for them, and the changelog entry should say so.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Pull request overview
Adds a new SwiftPM product (AblyPubSubDevice) that provides a single “door” (PubSubDevice.createClient…) for constructing ARTRealtime clients stamped with the ably-pubsub-device agent identifier, plus tests and SPM example updates to validate/illustrate the stamping and re-export behavior.
Changes:
- Introduces the
AblyPubSubDeviceSwiftPM product/target containingARTPubSubDevice(NS_SWIFT_NAME(PubSubDevice)) factory methods. - Implements option “stamping” by copying
ARTClientOptions, preserving caller-provided agents, and appending the device agent last. - Adds Swift + Objective-C tests and updates SPM examples/docs to cover importing and using the new product.
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PubSubDevice/include/AblyPubSubDevice/ARTPubSubDevice.h |
Public Objective-C (and Swift-named) API for creating device-stamped realtime clients. |
PubSubDevice/ARTPubSubDevice.m |
Implements stamping logic by copying options and appending the ably-pubsub-device agent entry. |
Package.swift |
Adds the AblyPubSubDevice product and target; wires it into test targets. |
Test/AblyTests/Tests/PubSubDeviceTests.swift |
Swift coverage for stamping behavior and on-the-wire agent propagation (realtime + HTTP). |
Test/AblyTestsObjC/ARTPubSubDeviceTests.m |
ObjC tests verifying core types are reachable from @import AblyPubSubDevice and stamping occurs. |
Examples/SPM/Tests/SPMTests/SPMTests.swift |
Ensures the SPM example can import and reference the new product’s API. |
Examples/SPM/Sources/SPMIntegration/main.swift |
Demonstrates creating a device client using only import AblyPubSubDevice. |
Examples/SPM/Package.swift |
Adds AblyPubSubDevice to the example’s product dependencies. |
CONTRIBUTING.md |
Documents the new target layout and distribution table updates for SPM-only products. |
CLAUDE.md |
Updates repo guidance to include AblyPubSubDevice among SPM products. |
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PubSubDevice.createClient(options:) returns the same ARTRealtime the constructor does, plus the agent entry that tells Ably the client runs on an end user's device. Key and token conveniences mirror the core's initialisers. The caller's options and their agents dictionary are never mutated: the entry goes onto a copy, applied last so it wins a collision on its own name, and versionless because the SDK entry beside it carries the version. Tests live in AblyTests, where the proxy transport and HTTP executor are, and assert the identifier on the wire in both directions — that is what billing reads. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Lead-developer review — [Split 2/N] AblyPubSubDevice product + factory. Faithful, well-scoped implementation of this step of the PubSub device/server split rollout (PDR-091b2): the factory surface matches the agreed design exactly (PubSubDevice.createClient(options:) plus key/token conveniences), all six side-stamping semantics are implemented and tested (options copied, fresh mutable agents dict, versionless ably-pubsub-device applied last, caller's object untouched, conveniences stamp too, nil passes through to the core's own error), both wire-level directions are covered (WS agent query param and HTTP Ably-Agent header), and boundaries are clean (Ably.xcodeproj, Ably.podspec, Cartfile, xctestplan, CHANGELOG.md and Test/UTS/ all untouched; the core SDK's own agent identifier is correctly left unchanged for a later PR). One Major (a missing test) and four Minor findings are posted inline. The docstring-coverage CI warning (33%) is non-blocking — the public header is fully documented.
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[MAJOR] LiveObjects plugins-survive-copy test is missing
Finding: There is no test proving that ARTClientOptions.plugins (the LiveObjects plugin hook) survives the [options copy] inside the factory. This file (tests 001–010) and Test/AblyTestsObjC/ARTPubSubDeviceTests.m never mention LiveObjects, Plugin, plugins, or .object. The PR description states that plugins survive the copy, but nothing in the test suite verifies it.
Why it matters: PubSubDevice.createClient is meant to become the entry point for applications — including every LiveObjects user. The factory works by copying the caller's options; if a future change to ARTClientOptions copy semantics silently dropped the plugins dictionary, channel.object would break for every LiveObjects app constructing through this factory, with no test to catch it.
Suggested action: Add a test that constructs options with AblyLiveObjects.Plugin, passes them through PubSubDevice.createClient(options:), and asserts channel.object works (or, minimally, that plugins survives into the client's internal options). The likely mechanical blocker is that the AblyTests target doesn't depend on AblyLiveObjects — add that dependency. If the test is being deliberately deferred, please say so explicitly in the PR thread so the gap is a recorded decision rather than an accident.
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Both halves are now written, in two PRs.
#2291, on top of this PR — the copy-semantics guard, test__011__createClient__carries_over_the_plugins in this file. It sits with the five other contract tests for the same call and uses their idiom, client.internal.options.
The manifest change you expected was not needed. Rather than adding AblyLiveObjects to AblyTests, the test reuses PluginAPITests.MockLiveObjectsPlugin, which already exists in this target and already conforms to the real LiveObjectsPluginProtocol — so the core SDK's test target stays clear of the plugin, and the test needs no network, running in every existing lane on all three platforms.
#2292, at the top of the stack — the behavioural claim, that channel.object works on a factory-built client. It is there rather than here because AblyLiveObjectsTests already depends on AblyPubSubDevice at that point; at this commit that dependency is still Ably, and #2285 renames the same line when it merges the core into the device target, so adding it here would duplicate on rebase without producing a conflict marker.
Both were checked against the regression they describe.
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[MINOR] Header layout: no AblyPubSubDevice.h umbrella, SPM-generated module map — please confirm intentional
Finding: The target ships a single public header, ARTPubSubDevice.h, which carries the #import <Ably/Ably.h> re-export itself, and publicHeadersPath: "include" lets SwiftPM auto-generate the umbrella header and module map. The layout agreed for this step of the PubSub device/server split rollout (PDR-091b2) had a dedicated AblyPubSubDevice.h umbrella header plus a hand-written module map instead.
Why it matters: Nothing is broken — Swift import AblyPubSubDevice and ObjC @import AblyPubSubDevice; both reach the core's types, and this is arguably simpler than the agreed layout (a hand-written module map would have been redundant with SPM's generation). But it is a silent divergence from a written rollout step, and unacknowledged divergences make the later steps of the rollout harder to audit.
Suggested action: No code change requested — just an explicit acknowledgement here that the simpler layout is intentional, so it stands as a recorded decision.
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Overtaken rather than acknowledged: #2285 merges the core into the device target and lands on the layout you were comparing against — Source/include/AblyPubSubDevice/AblyPubSubDevice.h as the umbrella, plus a hand-written Source/include/module.modulemap that also declares the Private submodule. So the divergence closes on its own further up the stack.
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[MINOR] Example target isn't device-only
Finding: This adds AblyPubSubDevice alongside the existing AblyPubSubCore dependency on the same SPMIntegration target. main.swift imports only AblyPubSubDevice and uses the factory, so the new product is exercised at source level — but the example does not prove that depending on AblyPubSubDevice alone is sufficient, because the core product is still linked into the same target.
Why it matters: A key promise of the new product is that import AblyPubSubDevice re-exports the core's types, so an app needs exactly one dependency. With AblyPubSubCore still on the target, a regression that broke that re-export (e.g. a header or module-map change) would slip past this example unnoticed — the core types would still resolve through the direct dependency.
Suggested action: Add a device-only example target, or drop the now-redundant AblyPubSubCore product dependency from SPMIntegration.
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Also resolved by #2285, which removes the core product entirely: Examples/SPM/Package.swift now depends on AblyPubSubDevice alone, so the target does prove that one dependency suffices. The example's direct-construction check went too, since those initializers are internal in #2287 — what remains exercises PubSubDevice.createClient and names RealtimeClient as the return type.
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[MINOR] No separate AblyPubSubDeviceTests target — please confirm intentional
Finding: The new product's tests are folded into the existing AblyTests (Swift) and AblyTestsObjC (ObjC) targets, as here, rather than getting a dedicated AblyPubSubDeviceTests target and xctestplan entry as sketched for this step of the PubSub device/server split rollout (PDR-091b2).
Why it matters: This reads as a justified divergence rather than a defect: the helpers these tests need (TestProxyTransport, TestProxyHTTPExecutor, commonAppSetup) live in AblyTests rather than the shared AblyTesting target, and reusing the existing targets keeps the new tests running in every existing CI lane on all three platforms.
Suggested action: No code change requested — just a conscious sign-off here so the divergence stands as a recorded decision.
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Intentional — your own reasoning is the reason. The helpers these tests need (TestProxyTransport, TestProxyHTTPExecutor, commonAppSetup) live in AblyTests rather than the shared AblyTesting target, and reusing the existing targets puts the new tests in every existing lane on all three platforms rather than requiring a new xctestplan entry.
It paid off again in #2291: the plugins test reuses PluginAPITests' mock plugin, which is only reachable because the tests share a target.
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| `AblyPubSubDevice` and `AblyLiveObjects` are available **via Swift Package Manager only**. CocoaPods and Carthage consumers receive the core SDK alone, so a release tag does not deliver the same set of products to every channel: |
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[MINOR] Release-notes bullet later in this file omits AblyPubSubDevice
Finding: This section now correctly establishes AblyPubSubDevice as SPM-only, but the Versioning section's release-notes bullet (line 191, just outside this diff) still reads "A release whose only change is to LiveObjects is a no-op for them" — naming only LiveObjects when explaining what CocoaPods/Carthage consumers don't receive.
Why it matters: With this PR, the pod/Carthage no-op reasoning applies equally to AblyPubSubDevice: a release whose only change is to the device product delivers nothing to those channels either. As written, the bullet could lead a release author to write inaccurate release notes for such a release. (This echoes an outstanding CodeRabbit nit.)
Suggested action: Extend the line-191 bullet to also name AblyPubSubDevice, e.g. "A release whose only change is to AblyPubSubDevice or LiveObjects is a no-op for them".
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Stale now — that bullet is gone. #2282 drops CocoaPods and Carthage from 2.x, so CONTRIBUTING.md no longer reasons about what those channels do or do not receive; the Distribution section says they stay on the 1.x line. Nothing left to extend.
Part of DX-1726
Second PR in the PDR-091b split stack, stacked on #2264 (base:
split/restructure-core, so the diff shows only this PR's changes). Reference implementations: ably-js#2293packages/device, and ably-java#1233, whose side-stamping contract this ports.What this PR does
New
AblyPubSubDeviceSPM product (PubSubDevice/, Objective-C, depending on theAblytarget).ARTPubSubDeviceisNS_SWIFT_NAME(PubSubDevice)and exposes the door agreed in PDR-091b2:createClient(options:)— the door named in the rollout plan;createClient(key:)/createClient(token:), mirroring the core's own initialisers.All three return an
ARTRealtime, so the side is the package and factory choice plus the agent declaration, not a type distinction — as in ably-go.The stamping contract, ported from
packages/shared/side.ts:ably-pubsub-device, versionless —ARTClientInformationAgentNotVersionedis Objective-C's spelling of thenullvalue ably-java'sSide.javaputs in its agents map, since anNSDictionarycannot holdnil. Registered as"versioned": falsein ably-common#361;[options copy], so the caller's options object and theiragentsdictionary are both left untouched;agentsentries are preserved, so a layered SDK keeps its attribution, and the device entry is applied last, so it wins a collision on its own name;-devicesuffix is load-bearing and carries the warning comment adapted fromside.ts.There is no
Sideabstraction: ably-js and ably-java need one because they ship two identifiers from shared code, and Cocoa ships one.Tests — 10 Swift (
Test/AblyTests/Tests/PubSubDeviceTests.swift) and 2 Objective-C (Test/AblyTestsObjC/ARTPubSubDeviceTests.m).Tests: what billing reads, asserted on the wire
ARTClientInformationdecides between a bare token andname/versionby pointer comparison against the sentinel. If that identity were ever lost the wire would silently carryably-pubsub-device/ARTClientInformationAgentNotVersioned— a misclassification invisible from the options dictionary. So rather than trust it, the tests assert the actual wire output in both directions: theagentquery param on the realtime connection (viaTestProxyTransport) and theAbly-Agentheader on an HTTP request (viaTestProxyHTTPExecutor), each checking the token is present and carries no/.Also covered: caller options not mutated, caller agents preserved, collision resolution, the key/token doors, unrelated options carried over, and that a client built straight from the core declares nothing.
Notes for reviewers
AblyTestsrather than a new test target.TestProxyTransport,TestProxyHTTPExecutorandcommonAppSetupare all in that target, not in the reusableAblyTestingone; a separate target would have meant migrating them. This also keepsTest/Ably.xctestplanunchanged, so the new tests run in every existing lane on all three platforms.ARTClientOptions.copypreservestestOptionsandpluginsas well asagents, so a door-built client works with the test proxy transport and with the LiveObjects plugin unchanged. That is what makes the wire tests possible.import AblyPubSubDevicealone reaches the core's types in both Swift and Objective-C — the module re-export works, verified byExamples/SPMand the ObjC test. OnlyARTRealtime.internalneedsAbly.Private.Ably.xcodeprojis untouched, so the product is SPM-only, consistent withAblyLiveObjects. Which channels carry the 2.0 products is still open; if ably-flutter needs the door through CocoaPods that adds a podspec and hand-maintained framework targets.Verification
swift build -Xswiftc -warnings-as-errors,swift build --build-tests, the 12 new tests green against sandbox,swift test --package-path Examples/SPM, editorconfig-checker v4 clean, andxcodebuild build-for-testing -workspace Ably.xcworkspace -scheme ably-cocoa -destination platform=macOS→ TEST BUILD SUCCEEDED, which compilesAblyTests,AblyTestsObjCandUTSthrough the exact scheme and test plan the Fastlane lanes use.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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New Features
AblyPubSubDeviceSwift Package product for creating clients identified as running on end-user devices.Documentation
AblyPubSubDeviceand its distribution details.Tests