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Issue being fixed or feature implemented

Switching between mainnet and testnet could freeze the UI for 30–60 seconds while PlatformWalletManager performed blocking native teardown on the main thread. After moving teardown off-main, a shorter post-ready hitch remained because ShieldedTxLookup synchronously queried SwiftData mainContext after shielded sync completion.

Depends on dashpay/platform#4469.

What was done?

  • Added one serialized async network-switch flow: stop the old runtime, await native teardown, start the destination runtime, then publish ready.
  • Added an app-wide blocking transition overlay that survives root-controller rebuilds and exposes retry on failure.
  • Updated host, wipe, onboarding, and temporary-manager paths to explicitly await SDK shutdown and preserve manager ownership ordering.
  • Added switch and teardown telemetry, including per-step FFI timings and the off-main thread stamp.
  • Moved ShieldedTxLookup reads from SwiftData mainContext to a private ModelContext in a detached task, while preserving awaited snapshot semantics and rejecting stale network generations.
  • Added timing logs for initial and shielded-sync-triggered snapshot refreshes.

How Has This Been Tested?

  • DashPay Debug build for a generic iOS Simulator: BUILD SUCCEEDED.
  • Repeated mainnet → testnet → mainnet switches on iOS Simulator.
  • UI remained responsive after the loader was dismissed.
  • Exported logs confirmed native teardown offMain=true with successful FFI codes and 0–1 ms teardown in the final run.
  • Shielded snapshot logs confirmed offMain=true; startup refreshes took 21–39 ms and post-sync refreshes took 4–70 ms.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added network switching with progress tracking, readiness checks, failure handling, and retry support.
    • Added a full-screen network-switch overlay showing the destination network and transition status.
    • Home shortcuts and Settings now use the unified network-switching experience.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved wallet startup, shutdown, switching, and wipe cleanup.
    • Preserved existing transaction data when refreshes fail.
    • Improved transaction lookup refresh timing after transfers, recoveries, and removals.

Await native SDK teardown off the main thread, serialize managed network switches behind an app-wide transition overlay, and move shielded transaction snapshot reads to a private SwiftData context with timing telemetry.
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  • DashWallet/Sources/Infrastructure/SwiftDashSDK/SwiftDashSDKWalletWiper.swift
  • DashWallet/Sources/UI/Menu/Settings/SettingsScreen.swift
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SDK runtime lifecycle and network switching

Layer / File(s) Summary
Asynchronous SDK lifecycle and manager ownership
DashWallet/Sources/Infrastructure/SwiftDashSDK/SwiftDashSDKHost.swift, DashWallet/Sources/Infrastructure/SwiftDashSDK/SwiftDashSDKWalletRuntime.swift, DashWallet/Sources/Infrastructure/SwiftDashSDK/SwiftDashSDKWalletWiper.swift, DashWallet/Sources/Infrastructure/SwiftDashSDK/SwiftDashSDKSPVCoordinator.swift, DashWallet/Sources/Infrastructure/SwiftDashSDK/PlatformAddressSyncCoordinator.swift
SDK startup and shutdown now use asynchronous operations. Temporary managers are explicitly shut down after provisioning, wipe, and deletion operations.
Asynchronous shielded transaction snapshots
DashWallet/Sources/Infrastructure/SwiftDashSDK/PlatformAddressSyncCoordinator.swift
Shielded transaction snapshots now build in detached SwiftData contexts. Stale results are rejected, prior snapshots survive fetch errors, and asset-lock coverage diagnostics are recorded.
Managed network transition state and runtime switching
DashWallet/Sources/Infrastructure/SwiftDashSDK/WalletEnvironment.swift, DashWallet/Sources/Infrastructure/SwiftDashSDK/SwiftDashSDKWalletRuntime.swift
Network switching now uses managed-switch metadata, serialized runtime teardown and rebuild, readiness checks, and explicit transition states and errors.
Network switch UI and refresh call-site migration
DashWallet/Sources/UI/Home/HomeViewController+Shortcuts.swift, DashWallet/Sources/UI/Menu/Settings/SettingsMenuViewModel.swift, DashWallet/Sources/UI/Menu/Settings/SettingsScreen.swift, DashWallet/Sources/Infrastructure/SwiftDashSDK/AssetLockRecoveryService.swift, DashWallet/Sources/Infrastructure/SwiftDashSDK/UnconfirmedTransactionRemover.swift, DashWallet/Sources/UI/Home/Views/HomeViewModel.swift, DashWallet/Sources/UI/Payments/InternalTransfer/*
Home and Settings actions use runtime-managed switching and display transition progress or failure states. Shielded transaction refreshes now include operation-specific reasons.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to a2f6c

The PR should not merge yet: a failed multi-network wallet wipe can leave temporary managers alive and race later wallet rebuilds, while the network-switch retry path still bypasses the required state-management boundary and may make retry behavior harder to keep consistent.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant NetworkSwitchOverlayPresenter
  participant SwiftDashSDKWalletRuntime
  participant WalletEnvironment
  participant SwiftDashSDKHost
  User->>NetworkSwitchOverlayPresenter: Select destination network
  NetworkSwitchOverlayPresenter->>SwiftDashSDKWalletRuntime: switchNetwork(to:)
  SwiftDashSDKWalletRuntime->>WalletEnvironment: switchToNetwork(source: .managedSwitch)
  WalletEnvironment-->>SwiftDashSDKWalletRuntime: Managed network-change notification
  SwiftDashSDKWalletRuntime->>SwiftDashSDKHost: Await teardown and rebuild
  SwiftDashSDKHost-->>SwiftDashSDKWalletRuntime: Runtime readiness
  SwiftDashSDKWalletRuntime-->>NetworkSwitchOverlayPresenter: Switching or failed phase
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In
`@DashWallet/Sources/Infrastructure/SwiftDashSDK/SwiftDashSDKWalletWiper.swift`:
- Around line 501-544: Move the shutDownTemporaryManagers helper before the
networks collection loop and wrap managerForWipe processing plus deletion
handling in a shared do/catch so any thrown lookup also shuts down previously
collected temporary managers. Replace the four-element deletions tuple with a
small named struct and update all field accesses accordingly, preserving
deterministic shutdown on both success and failure paths.

In `@DashWallet/Sources/UI/Menu/Settings/SettingsScreen.swift`:
- Around line 336-389: Introduce a small `@MainActor` ViewModel for
NetworkSwitchOverlayView that mirrors NetworkTransitionState and exposes
retry(), moving SwiftDashSDKWalletRuntime.shared.switchNetwork(to:) out of the
View struct. Update the retry Button action to call the ViewModel method and
have the view render from the ViewModel’s phase, leaving
NetworkSwitchOverlayView rendering-only.
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  • DashWallet/Sources/Infrastructure/SwiftDashSDK/AssetLockRecoveryService.swift
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  • DashWallet/Sources/UI/Home/HomeViewController+Shortcuts.swift
  • DashWallet/Sources/UI/Home/Views/HomeViewModel.swift
  • DashWallet/Sources/UI/Menu/Settings/SettingsMenuViewModel.swift
  • DashWallet/Sources/UI/Menu/Settings/SettingsScreen.swift
  • DashWallet/Sources/UI/Payments/InternalTransfer/InternalTransferConfirmSheet.swift
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Reviewed the full diff, the CodeRabbit threads, and the state of the dependency. The architecture of this change is right — moving the blocking native teardown off-main and giving the rebuild a single owner is the correct fix. Two things I'd like resolved before this goes in, plus a merge-order blocker.

What looks good

  • stop()stopAsync() with the native teardown off the main thread is the actual freeze fix, and the documented order (cancel + await contactCryptoDrainWatchmanager.shutdown() → drop references) is followed in SwiftDashSDKHost.swift:779+.
  • One owner for the rebuild (switchNetwork(to:)), with the observer skipping .managedSwitch notifications, removes the old double-drive of the lifecycle.
  • isRuntimeReady(for:) as the single readiness predicate shared by refresh elision and the switch — and it now also requires host.wallet != nil.
  • Call sites are consistently updated: host.start( (2), host stop (1), managerForWipe (2), ShieldedTxLookup.refresh (11). Nothing left behind.
  • Temporary-manager leaks in the wiper and the onboarding provisioning paths are closed on every throw path (the 2da667ce7 follow-up covers both the collection loop and the deletion loop under one do/catch — confirmed).
  • ShieldedTxLookup reading through a private ModelContext in a detached task, guarded by both the generation counter and modelContainer === container, correctly prevents a slow read from an old network replacing newer state.

Blocker: merge order

This depends on dashpay/platform#4469, which is still open against v4.2-dev. PlatformWalletManager.shutdown() and PlatformWalletShutdownMetrics do not exist on v4.2-dev today, swift-sdk is wired in as a local SPM package, and this repo has no build CI (only PR-title validation + CodeRabbit). If this merges first, develop stops compiling for everyone and nothing catches it. Please land #4469 first.

Please fix before merge

1. A failed switch blocks the whole app with no way outSwiftDashSDKWalletRuntime.swift:212SettingsScreen.swift:382

In .failed the overlay stays up in its own UIWindow at .alert + 1 and the only affordance is Retry. By that point the network key has already been rewritten to the destination and the old runtime is torn down. A reproducible case: a wallet that exists only on mainnet → switch to testnet → host.start throws walletNotFound(testnet)fullReset.failed, and Retry deterministically fails the same way. The user cannot get back to Settings or anywhere else — force-quit is the only exit, and after relaunch they are still on the broken network. Before this PR the same situation left the app runtime-less but navigable.

Suggest adding a second action to the failed card — "Back to <from>" — that rolls the persisted network key back and switches to the origin network.

2. Retry can leave the overlay up permanentlySwiftDashSDKWalletRuntime.swift:174

The early no-op branch returns without calling NetworkTransitionState.shared.finish(). If the runtime comes up on its own after a .failed switch (a background refresh via platformSyncRearm / startIfReady), Retry lands in exactly that branch: the runtime is ready, the phase stays .failed, and the blocking overlay can no longer be dismissed by anything. One-line fix: clear the phase in the no-op branch when it isn't already .idle.

Non-blocking notes

  • No tests. The NetworkTransitionState phase machine and the ShieldedTxLookup generation/staleness logic are both cheap to unit test and are exactly the parts where a regression would be silent.
  • SDK(network:) (~1–2s, prefetches quorums over the network) is still on the main thread. Acknowledged in the code and covered by the overlay, which is a fine stage 1 — but worth being explicit that the hitch is hidden, not gone.
  • NetworkSwitchOverlayPresenter is app-scoped but lives in SettingsScreen.swift. Matches the append-to-existing-file convention, but nobody will look for it there.
  • stopAsync does await drainWatch?.value. If that task is ever parked in a synchronous FFI call that doesn't observe cancellation, the overlay spins forever. The comment argues it can't happen; that's an assumption rather than a guarantee.

Happy to re-review as soon as 1 and 2 are addressed.


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