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Closes #12913.

A review pass over Bit.Boilerplate's app root, routing and component base stack. Two of these are reachable in the default configuration.

Default configuration

dotnet new bit-bp with no arguments did not compile. src/Tests/Features/Chatbot/AiChatPanelDictationUITests.cs was in no template.json exclude rule, while AiChatPanelTestBase.cs and TestChatClient.cs are both removed at advancedTests != true || signalR != true. CI cannot see it: the build-only job passes --signalR false without --advancedTests, and both test jobs pass --advancedTests. Fixed by adding the file to the same rule as its three siblings, and by a new guard (below) that closes the whole class.

A tenant switch never reached the SignalR hub. PropagateAuthState returns early when the user id is unchanged, and that early return sat above the only client-side ChangeAuthenticationState call — which is the only thing that updates the hub connection's principal after the handshake. AuthManager.RefreshToken's own doc lists three things that change a signed-in user's claims without changing the user id (plain renewal, elevated access, tenant switch); all three took the early return. With multitenant=true, signalR=true, AppHub.GetUserSessionLogs therefore authorised against the previous tenant for the life of the connection.

The fix hoists only the cheap, idempotent half above the check — re-send the current token when the hub is already connected — rather than widening the early-return key, which would run UpdateSession and pushNotificationService.Subscribe on every routine refresh. It is deliberately not routed through EnsureSignalRStarted, whose catch publishes IS_ONLINE_CHANGED=false and which would also call StartAsync.

Routing

  • Deep links on Android and iOS. Routes.OpenUniversalLink parsed the incoming url with new Uri(url). Every caller passes an app-relative url, and that constructor is UriKind.Absolute — it throws on Windows, but on Linux/Darwin it succeeds by treating the value as an implicit Unix file path. Measured on both:

    WINDOWS  new Uri("/en-US/products?culture=fa-IR") THREW UriFormatException
    LINUX    new Uri("/en-US/products?culture=fa-IR") OK -> file:///en-US/products%3Fculture=fa-IR  Query=''
    

    The ? is percent-encoded into the path and Uri.Query is empty, so GetCulture() — which reads the query first — never sees the culture. The documented /categories?culture=fa-IR form of a universal link therefore never set forceLoad, and the user followed a link to the Persian page and got the English app. Now resolved against the app's base first. The decision is extracted into Routes.NeedsReloadForCulture so it can be pinned.

  • EnsureNavigationManagerIsReady busy-spun. while (... is null) await Task.Yield() is a spin, not a poll — one ThreadPool worker at 100% for the whole of a MAUI cold start from a deep link. Replaced with a TaskCompletionSource completed by the injected setter. A timeout that throws was rejected: ClientExceptionHandlerBase.IgnoreException drops TimeoutException, so it would change the exception type without changing the symptom.

  • brouter=true not-found pages. ReferenceEquals(lastPublishedRouteData, RouteData) could not distinguish "never published" from "already published null", and the <NotFound> arm passes RouteData="@null" — so ReferenceEquals(null, null) suppressed the one publish that state ever makes, and MainLayout kept the previous page's chrome (or, on a cold load onto a bad url, rendered no header at all).

  • brouter=true keep-alive. Nothing called IBrouter.ClearKeepAlive, so a retained ProductsPage handed the next user the previous one's search text and grid filters. Released when the resolved user id changes — not on every auth-state notification, which would discard kept state on a routine token refresh.

Component base stack

  • AppPageBase's {culture?} guard ran only on firstRender. A client-side navigation between two urls that resolve to the same page type reuses the instance, so /pricing rendered the home page instead of Not-Found. The check is now also run on parameter updates, gated on having rendered interactively once — moving it to OnParamsSetAsync outright would fire during prerender/SSR, where NavigateTo throws NavigationException.

  • BitDataGridStrings: 2 of 62 members were set, so every grid rendered its toolbar, filters, column chooser, exports, empty/loading state and screen-reader announcements in English next to translated column headers. Now filled, with 51 new resx keys grouped under a <!-- Bit.BlazorUI messages --> section in all ten AppStrings*.resx files. The two members that were already set are folded into whole format strings rather than concatenated around fixed placeholders.

  • UsersPage built a per-selection CancellationTokenSource and never passed its token, so a superseded request could paint — and revoke — the previous user's sessions under the newly selected user's name. RolesPage had the same double-assign but did thread its token through, so only its redundant allocation is removed.

  • AppComponentBase.DisposeAsync ran its whole body twice on a second call. Now idempotent. It does not fix OwningComponentBase.IsDisposed never being set: that property's setter is private and the base's IAsyncDisposable.DisposeAsync is a private explicit implementation, so neither is reachable while this class re-implements the interface. Closing it properly means overriding DisposeAsyncCore instead — a change to the disposal contract of every component — so it is documented at the call site rather than guessed at here.

Smaller

  • BitButil.UseFastInvoke() around userAgent.Extract() has been inert since Butil c7a57ca6e (Extract uses the always-async path), and its comment promised an ordering guarantee naming SignInPage.razor.cs, which never read the value. Removed.
  • SHOW_MESSAGE returned false and displayed nothing when a message carried data and notification permission was not granted — and the one production sender (RoleManagementController.SendNotification) uses SendAsync, so that false is discarded and the message was lost. Now shows the snack bar and returns false purely as information.
  • Parameters.IsOnline's doc named SignalR as the default source of the value; signalR defaults to false, so it is ExceptionDelegatingHandler that drives it. Reworded configuration-neutrally.
  • The error boundary's icon-only diagnostic button had no accessible name, and BitErrorBoundary — mounted outside MainLayout — never saw the currentDir cascade, so it was the one screen ignoring text direction. Both are parameters the components already offer.
  • AppDataAnnotationsValidator's doc cited ValidationAttribute.ErrorResourceType, which does not exist.

Known limitation, deliberately not fixed

The error boundary's diagnostic button depends on Recover() succeeding and publishes a non-persistent message, so when the same exception re-trips the boundary during recovery the modal has already unmounted and the message is dropped — i.e. it silently does nothing for exactly the deterministic render-path exception it exists for. The real fix is to host AppDiagnosticModal from the boundary rather than from MainLayout, which costs the BitDir cascade and moves it outside CascadingAuthenticationState. That is a layout-ownership decision, so the limitation and both candidate fixes are documented at the call site instead.

Tests

Two, deliberately — not one per change.

  • EveryTestFile_Should_BeExcludedFromGeneratedProjects_UnlessItIsADeliberateSample — every .cs under src/Tests/Features/** must be named in some exclude rule, unless it is on an explicit allow-list of samples meant to ship. Run against the unfixed template.json it fails naming exactly AiChatPanelDictationUITests.cs.
  • UniversalLinkCultureTests (9 cases) — drives Routes.NeedsReloadForCulture. Run with the fixed line reverted to new Uri(url), all 9 fail.

Also fixed two false positives in the existing TemplateConfigurationTests that had left the suite red locally: the port guard flagged devtunnel host -p <port> in AGENTS.md prose (a port flag argument really is a port), and the literal-directive guard scanned gitignored TestResults, where a Playwright .webm can contain the byte sequence by chance.

Verification

  • Server.Web, Client.Windows, Client.Maui and Tests all build.
  • dotnet new generated with defaults and with --advancedTests true --signalR true: the new test files are gated correctly in both directions, both generated Tests projects build, and no template directives leak into the output.
  • 17 tests green (TemplateConfigurationTests + UniversalLinkCultureTests).

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added localized diagnostic and data-grid text across multiple languages, including accessibility announcements.
    • Improved culture-aware universal-link navigation and validation.
    • Enhanced authentication state propagation for connected real-time services.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Prevented stale user-session requests from overwriting current selections.
    • Improved cancellation handling, route updates, error notifications, and component disposal.
    • Corrected data-grid localization and right-to-left error-boundary behavior.
  • Tests

    • Expanded coverage for universal-link culture handling and template file filtering.

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The boilerplate app updates routing, culture validation, localization, authentication propagation, SignalR handling, component disposal, request cancellation, and template validation. New tests cover universal-link culture behavior and template exclusion rules.

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Navigation and culture handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Navigation and culture handling
src/Templates/Boilerplate/Bit.Boilerplate/src/Client/Boilerplate.Client.Core/Components/Routes.razor.cs, .../AppRouteDataPublisher.cs, .../Pages/AppPageBase.cs, src/Templates/Boilerplate/Bit.Boilerplate/src/Tests/Features/Urls/UniversalLinkCultureTests.cs
Navigation readiness uses a task signal. Universal links resolve relative URLs before culture checks. Route publishing handles an initial null state. Page culture validation runs after initial render and during later parameter changes. Tests cover query and route cultures.

Localized UI and diagnostics

Layer / File(s) Summary
Localized UI and diagnostics
src/Templates/Boilerplate/Bit.Boilerplate/src/Shared/Resources/AppStrings*.resx, .../Pages/AppPageBase.cs, .../AppErrorBoundary.razor*, .../AppDataAnnotationsValidator.cs, .../Parameters.cs
Bit.BlazorUI and DataGrid resources were added for multiple cultures. App pages load the full BitDataGridStrings set. Error diagnostics use localized labels and RTL direction. Component documentation was updated.

Authentication and SignalR coordination

Layer / File(s) Summary
Authentication and SignalR coordination
src/Templates/Boilerplate/Bit.Boilerplate/src/Client/Boilerplate.Client.Core/Components/AppClientCoordinator.cs
Authentication propagation is serialized. Connected hubs receive refreshed tokens. Brouter keep-alive state is cleared after user changes. Notification fallback and connection-cancellation logging were updated.

Component lifecycle and request state

Layer / File(s) Summary
Component lifecycle and request state
src/Templates/Boilerplate/Bit.Boilerplate/src/Client/Boilerplate.Client.Core/Components/AppComponentBase.cs, .../AppRouteDataPublisher.cs, .../Pages/Management/RolesPage.razor.cs, .../UsersPage.razor.cs
Component disposal is idempotent. Management pages replace or clear cancellation sources for active requests.

Template generation validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Template generation validation
src/Templates/Boilerplate/Bit.Boilerplate/.template.config/template.json, src/Templates/Boilerplate/Bit.Boilerplate/src/Tests/Features/TemplateConfig/TemplateConfigurationTests.cs
Additional tests are excluded from generated projects. Template scans skip test results and WebM files. Validation covers test exclusions and documented port arguments.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to bf971

The PR improves routing, authentication propagation, generated-project coverage, and localization, but the current head can still display stale management data after a selection changes and may allow actions such as session revocation against the wrong user. Its template checks can also accept files that remain in configurations where an exclusion condition does not apply. These bounded correctness issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant AppClientCoordinator
  participant AuthManager
  participant SignalRHub
  participant IBrouter
  AppClientCoordinator->>AuthManager: Propagate authentication state
  AppClientCoordinator->>SignalRHub: ChangeAuthenticationState with refreshed token
  AppClientCoordinator->>IBrouter: ClearKeepAlive after user change
  SignalRHub-->>AppClientCoordinator: Complete propagation
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With culture strings from dusk till morn.
Hubs receive the tokens new,
Old requests hop away from view.
Tests guard templates, neat and bright—
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In
`@src/Templates/Boilerplate/Bit.Boilerplate/src/Client/Boilerplate.Client.Core/Components/Pages/Management/UsersPage.razor.cs`:
- Around line 116-124: Guard asynchronous management-page updates against stale
selections. In UsersPage.razor.cs lines 116-124, verify the request CTS identity
and selected user before assigning allUserSessions. In RolesPage.razor.cs lines
100-113, pass the request identity into LoadRoleUsers and LoadRoleClaims, then
verify it before assigning role-specific state.

Apply the same fix in
`@src/Templates/Boilerplate/Bit.Boilerplate/src/Client/Boilerplate.Client.Core/Components/Pages/Management/UsersPage.razor.cs`
at line 124.

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`@src/Templates/Boilerplate/Bit.Boilerplate/src/Tests/Features/TemplateConfig/TemplateConfigurationTests.cs`:
- Around line 269-272: The isGated calculation in TemplateConfigurationTests
currently treats every excluded path as unconditional and must account for each
exclusion rule’s condition before gating a test file. Evaluate the applicable
rules against supported configurations, or restrict the check to the default
configuration it can establish, so conditional exclusions do not gate files that
remain in other generated configurations.
- Around line 191-197: Update IsPortFlagArgument to require the port flag be a
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  • src/Templates/Boilerplate/Bit.Boilerplate/.template.config/template.json
  • src/Templates/Boilerplate/Bit.Boilerplate/src/Client/Boilerplate.Client.Core/Components/AppClientCoordinator.cs
  • src/Templates/Boilerplate/Bit.Boilerplate/src/Client/Boilerplate.Client.Core/Components/AppComponentBase.cs
  • src/Templates/Boilerplate/Bit.Boilerplate/src/Client/Boilerplate.Client.Core/Components/AppDataAnnotationsValidator.cs
  • src/Templates/Boilerplate/Bit.Boilerplate/src/Client/Boilerplate.Client.Core/Components/AppErrorBoundary.razor
  • src/Templates/Boilerplate/Bit.Boilerplate/src/Client/Boilerplate.Client.Core/Components/AppErrorBoundary.razor.cs
  • src/Templates/Boilerplate/Bit.Boilerplate/src/Client/Boilerplate.Client.Core/Components/AppRouteDataPublisher.cs
  • src/Templates/Boilerplate/Bit.Boilerplate/src/Client/Boilerplate.Client.Core/Components/Pages/AppPageBase.cs
  • src/Templates/Boilerplate/Bit.Boilerplate/src/Client/Boilerplate.Client.Core/Components/Pages/Management/RolesPage.razor.cs
  • src/Templates/Boilerplate/Bit.Boilerplate/src/Client/Boilerplate.Client.Core/Components/Pages/Management/UsersPage.razor.cs
  • src/Templates/Boilerplate/Bit.Boilerplate/src/Client/Boilerplate.Client.Core/Components/Parameters.cs
  • src/Templates/Boilerplate/Bit.Boilerplate/src/Client/Boilerplate.Client.Core/Components/Routes.razor.cs
  • src/Templates/Boilerplate/Bit.Boilerplate/src/Shared/Resources/AppStrings.ar.resx
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  • src/Templates/Boilerplate/Bit.Boilerplate/src/Shared/Resources/AppStrings.fr.resx
  • src/Templates/Boilerplate/Bit.Boilerplate/src/Shared/Resources/AppStrings.hi.resx
  • src/Templates/Boilerplate/Bit.Boilerplate/src/Shared/Resources/AppStrings.nl.resx
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  • src/Templates/Boilerplate/Bit.Boilerplate/src/Shared/Resources/AppStrings.sv.resx
  • src/Templates/Boilerplate/Bit.Boilerplate/src/Shared/Resources/AppStrings.zh.resx
  • src/Templates/Boilerplate/Bit.Boilerplate/src/Tests/Features/TemplateConfig/TemplateConfigurationTests.cs
  • src/Templates/Boilerplate/Bit.Boilerplate/src/Tests/Features/Urls/UniversalLinkCultureTests.cs

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