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Purpose of this PR:

Settings loads could rewrite external configuration, carry values between profiles, or report a failed save as successful. Make loading read-only, reset absent/invalid values, save only the edited external key, and use the existing atomic file writer with backup and failure propagation.

Existing JSON keys and value types remain compatible; unknown JSON properties survive saves. Malformed application JSON is preserved rather than overwritten.

Bottom of the stack; targets main. No later PR is needed.

How to Test:

dotnet test WheelWizard.sln

550 tests passed (531 unit, 19 headless UI). Regression cases cover external edits, missing/invalid profile values, corrupt JSON, unknown properties, failed-save rollback/retry, and virtual-setting recovery.

What Has Been Changed:

See the focused implementation above. The existing settings JSON contract and imported translation sheets are preserved.

Related Issue Link:

No linked issue. Part of native GitHub stack #503.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Settings now handle missing or invalid configuration values more consistently, using defaults without automatically writing them to configuration files.
    • Failed saves restore the previous setting value and report the error, allowing users to retry.
    • Settings files retain unrecognized entries, and invalid values no longer cause parsing failures.
    • Reloading settings avoids carrying values over from a previous profile.

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Settings managers now handle missing, invalid, and unreadable configuration values differently. Setting updates record save errors and restore prior values after I/O failures. Dolphin INI loading, Recomp TOML persistence, and WhWz JSON preservation are covered by updated tests.

Changes

Settings Persistence

Layer / File(s) Summary
Setting mutation and recovery
WheelWizard/Features/Settings/Types/Setting.cs, WheelWizard/Features/Settings/Types/VirtualSetting.cs, WheelWizard.Test/Features/Settings/SettingsRecoveryTests.cs, WheelWizard.Test/Features/Settings/WhWzSettingsTests.cs
Setting.Set records I/O errors and restores the previous value when saving fails. VirtualSetting restores signal acceptance after setter failures. Tests cover failed-save retries, virtual-setting dependencies, and reset behavior.
Recomp writes and defaults
WheelWizard/Features/Settings/SettingsFile.cs, WheelWizard/Features/Settings/RecompSettingManager.cs, WheelWizard.Test/Features/Settings/SettingsPersistencePathTests.cs, WheelWizard.Test/Features/Settings/SettingsRecoveryTests.cs
Recomp loading resets missing or invalid values. Recomp writes use the atomic UTF-8 SettingsFile helper and throw on unavailable configuration files. Tests cover missing paths and defaults.
Dolphin INI loading and saving
WheelWizard/Features/Settings/Types/DolphinSetting.cs, WheelWizard/Features/Settings/DolphinSettingManager.cs, WheelWizard.Test/Features/Settings/DolphinSettingsTests.cs, WheelWizard.Test/Features/Settings/SettingsRecoveryTests.cs
Dolphin loading reads each INI file once and does not write defaults. Saving updates only the invoking setting. Parsing uses invariant culture for non-enum values, and tests cover external edits and reloads.
WhWz JSON loading and saving
WheelWizard/Features/Settings/WhWzSettingManager.cs, WheelWizard.Test/Features/Settings/SettingsRecoveryTests.cs
WhWz loading retains unknown JSON entries and records load errors. Saving merges preserved entries with known settings and propagates write failures. Tests cover unknown entries and malformed JSON.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~40 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 65e43

If a Dolphin setting fails to save, the recommended-settings checkbox can indicate success while Dolphin retains an old value. Handle the child failure before merging or accept this bounded risk.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 65e43

File preservation and failed-save rollback improve the usual save path, but a combined settings action can now appear successful when one of its underlying saves fails. A load failure can also prevent further saves for the lifetime of the settings manager. No remotely reachable attack path was established.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · reliability · inferred: A virtual setting that updates several underlying settings ignores their new false-on-save-failure results. It can report success and signal a change after only some updates persist, weakening failure containment for the combined action.
  • Low · reliability · observed: After a JSON load error, the manager protects the original file by refusing saves, but its loaded state also prevents a later reload. Repairing the file externally does not restore saving through the same manager instance.
Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — Effective exposure shown here is the application's local settings files and the backend-owned configuration it edits. The supplied evidence does not establish remote reachability or a cross-tenant boundary.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The Recomp writer refuses to create a missing backend-owned file, and the application JSON manager refuses to overwrite a file it could not load. These controls limit writes across the respective ownership and validity boundaries.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Failure reporting is coherent for an individual setting save but not established for callers that compose several Set operations; the observed virtual composite ignores their returned failures.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Define how composite setters handle a failed constituent update, including whether to stop, compensate completed updates, and suppress a success signal; verify failure-result handling for settings that select runtime data paths.
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Review comments at @WheelWizard/Features/Settings/Types/Setting.cs:
- Around line 38-45: Update the RECOMMENDED_SETTINGS composite setter to check
each child setting’s Set result and propagate failures, using the child’s
SaveError when available. This ensures VirtualSetting.SetInternal reports
failure and restores the previous virtual value if any child save fails.

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  • WheelWizard.Test/Features/Settings/DolphinSettingsTests.cs
  • WheelWizard.Test/Features/Settings/SettingsPersistencePathTests.cs
  • WheelWizard.Test/Features/Settings/SettingsRecoveryTests.cs
  • WheelWizard.Test/Features/Settings/WhWzSettingsTests.cs
  • WheelWizard/Features/Settings/DolphinSettingManager.cs
  • WheelWizard/Features/Settings/RecompSettingManager.cs
  • WheelWizard/Features/Settings/SettingsFile.cs
  • WheelWizard/Features/Settings/Types/DolphinSetting.cs
  • WheelWizard/Features/Settings/Types/Setting.cs
  • WheelWizard/Features/Settings/Types/VirtualSetting.cs
  • WheelWizard/Features/Settings/WhWzSettingManager.cs

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Comment on lines +38 to +45
succeeded = SetInternal(newValue, skipSave);
}
catch (Exception exception) when (exception is IOException or UnauthorizedAccessException)
{
Value = previousValue;
SaveError = exception;
return false;
}

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

🏁 Script executed:

sed -n '245,315p' WheelWizard/Features/Settings/SettingsManager.cs
sed -n '1,115p' WheelWizard/Features/Settings/Types/Setting.cs
sed -n '1,110p' WheelWizard/Features/Settings/Types/VirtualSetting.cs
rg -n 'RECOMMENDED_SETTINGS|RecommendedSettings' WheelWizard

Repository: TeamWheelWizard/WheelWizard

Length of output: 9438


🏁 Script executed:

set -o pipefail
printf '%s\n' '--- UI caller ---'
sed -n '45,120p' WheelWizard/Views/Pages/Settings/VideoSettings.axaml.cs
printf '%s\n' '--- settings service API and implementation references ---'
sed -n '1,95p' WheelWizard/Features/Settings/ISettingsServices.cs
rg -n -C 4 'bool Set|Set\(Setting|SettingsService\.Set|RECOMMENDED_SETTINGS' WheelWizard/Features/Settings WheelWizard/Views
printf '%s\n' '--- registration and validation definitions ---'
rg -n -C 6 'RegisterDolphin|_dolphinCompilationMode|_dolphinCompileShadersAtStart|_dolphinMsaa|_dolphinSsaa' WheelWizard/Features/Settings/SettingsManager.cs
printf '%s\n' '--- relevant tests ---'
rg -n -C 8 'RECOMMENDED_SETTINGS|RecommendedButton|SaveError|save failed|IOException' WheelWizard.Test
printf '%s\n' '--- Setting diff against requested PR base ---'
git diff --unified=80 cf5f3efd9cc3d15889842cd0cf3ba5538e4e42c8 65e43f8d5465e109f81509b51d8c920e4757c7f8 -- WheelWizard/Features/Settings/Types/Setting.cs WheelWizard/Features/Settings/Types/VirtualSetting.cs

Repository: TeamWheelWizard/WheelWizard

Length of output: 41730


🏁 Script executed:

set -o pipefail
printf '%s\n' '--- typed manager Set ---'
sed -n '340,380p' WheelWizard/Features/Settings/SettingsManager.cs
printf '%s\n' '--- Dolphin registration and setting implementation ---'
rg -n -C 12 'DolphinSetting RegisterDolphin|RegisterDolphin\(|class DolphinSetting|protected override bool SetInternal' WheelWizard/Features/Settings/SettingsManager.cs WheelWizard/Features/Settings/Types/DolphinSetting.cs
printf '%s\n' '--- persistence exception paths ---'
rg -n -C 8 'throw new (IOException|UnauthorizedAccessException)|SaveSettings\(' WheelWizard/Features/Settings/ WheelWizard/Shared/
printf '%s\n' '--- settings recovery and recommended-setting tests ---'
rg -n -C 15 'SettingsRecoveryTests|RECOMMENDED_SETTINGS|Recommended_OnClick|RecommendedButton|Set.*false|SaveError' WheelWizard.Test/Features/Settings WheelWizard.Test/Views WheelWizard.Test 2>/dev/null | head -n 260

Repository: TeamWheelWizard/WheelWizard

Length of output: 42426


Propagate failed child saves from RECOMMENDED_SETTINGS.

RECOMMENDED_SETTINGS ignores each child Set result. If a Dolphin save returns false, the setter continues and VirtualSetting.SetInternal reports success. The virtual value then becomes true although one or more Dolphin settings remain unchanged. The settings page also ignores the returned result, so the checkbox can show the recommended profile while Dolphin still uses old values.

Handle a failed child result at this composite boundary:

Suggested fix
             value =>
             {
+                void SetDolphinSetting(Setting setting, object value)
+                {
+                    if (!setting.Set(value))
+                        throw setting.SaveError ?? new IOException("Failed to save a Dolphin setting.");
+                }
+
                 var newValue = (bool)value!;
-                _dolphinCompilationMode.Set(
+                SetDolphinSetting(
+                    _dolphinCompilationMode,
                     newValue ? DolphinShaderCompilationMode.HybridUberShaders : DolphinShaderCompilationMode.Default
                 );
 #if WINDOWS
-                _dolphinCompileShadersAtStart.Set(newValue);
+                SetDolphinSetting(_dolphinCompileShadersAtStart, newValue);
 #endif
-                _dolphinMsaa.Set(newValue ? "0x00000002" : "0x00000001");
-                _dolphinSsaa.Set(false);
+                SetDolphinSetting(_dolphinMsaa, newValue ? "0x00000002" : "0x00000001");
+                SetDolphinSetting(_dolphinSsaa, false);
             },
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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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Review comment at @WheelWizard/Features/Settings/Types/Setting.cs around lines
38 - 45:
Update the RECOMMENDED_SETTINGS composite setter to check each child setting’s
Set result and propagate failures, using the child’s SaveError when available.
This ensures VirtualSetting.SetInternal reports failure and restores the
previous virtual value if any child save fails.

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review. Visit https://docs.coderabbit.ai/cli?utm_source=ghpr

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