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Problem

Bug report: after putting a letter in the mailbox, the recipient picker can take several minutes to appear. Pressing Next can close it, and a new picker can then appear minutes later.

openPicker waited for RPCharacters.refreshMailTargetTexturesAsync before it opened anything. That refresh fetches each uncached character skin from ProvinceSystem one at a time, with an 8 s timeout. Main has about 240 characters and its log shows wardrobe requests timing out, so the wait can run to minutes.

While nothing showed, players retried:

  • The second letter replaced the first in the send session, so the first letter was lost.
  • Each retry queued another refresh. When a later one finished, it opened a picker over the current one. Replacing the picker counts as cancelling, so the letter was returned and the session deleted. Any click in the new picker, such as Next, then closed it.

Changes

  • Open the picker straight away with the skins already cached. The refresh runs in the background, and refreshPickerHeads redraws the heads if that picker is still open, keeping the page and selection.
  • Only open a picker while a letter is waiting and no picker is already showing.
  • Return any waiting letter before a new one replaces it.
  • The delayed close after placing a letter now closes only the letter GUI, not a picker that has opened since.

TF-Minecraft/RPCharacters companion PR: stop repeating failed skin lookups on every open, and let overlapping refreshes share one. The two PRs don't depend on each other: this one works with the RPCharacters build already deployed.

Testing

  • New PickerOpenTest: the picker opens before the refresh finishes and is redrawn afterwards; a closed picker is left alone; no picker opens without a waiting letter or over one already showing. It fails on main and passes here.
  • mvn verify passes.

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  • New Features
    • The character picker displays available targets immediately and refreshes them when updated textures are ready.
  • Bug Fixes
    • The picker won’t open without a pending letter or when another picker is already open.
    • Closing a letter screen returns a valid letter before saving it to the session.
    • Delayed inventory closure no longer closes a different screen opened in the meantime.
  • Tests
    • Added coverage for picker opening, target refreshes, and related screen and session behavior.

The picker waited for RPCharacters to fetch every uncached character
skin from ProvinceSystem, one request at a time, before it opened. On
Main this can take minutes. Players who retried in the meantime lost
their first letter, and each extra refresh later opened a picker over
the current one, which cancelled the session so the next click (such
as Next) closed the menu.

Open the picker straight away with the cached skins and redraw the
heads when the refresh finishes. Only open a picker while a letter is
waiting and none is already showing. Return any waiting letter before
a new one replaces it, and make the delayed close after placing a
letter close only the letter GUI.

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Walkthrough

The picker opens with loaded targets before texture refresh completes. An asynchronous refresh updates the open picker when eligibility checks pass. Letter GUI close handling returns the letter before storing it and checks the open inventory before closing it.

Changes

Mail GUI lifecycle

Layer / File(s) Summary
Letter close handling
src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/birdmessenger/listener/GuiListener.java
Closing the letter GUI returns the letter before storing it. A delayed close only closes the inventory if the letter GUI remains open.
Picker opening and refresh
src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/birdmessenger/BirdMessenger.java, src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/birdmessenger/gui/CharacterPickerGui.java, src/test/java/net/tfminecraft/birdmessenger/PickerOpenTest.java
openPicker checks for an unconfirmed session with a letter and avoids opening a second picker. It opens with loaded targets, then refreshes them asynchronously. The GUI can replace its target list. Tests cover opening, refreshed targets, closed pickers, and session checks.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant BirdMessenger
  participant CharacterPickerGui
  participant RPCharacters
  BirdMessenger->>CharacterPickerGui: Open with loaded targets
  BirdMessenger->>RPCharacters: Refresh target textures asynchronously
  RPCharacters-->>BirdMessenger: Return refreshed targets
  opt Player online, same picker open, session present, and targets nonempty
    BirdMessenger->>CharacterPickerGui: Replace targets
    BirdMessenger->>CharacterPickerGui: Apply clamped page
  end
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to c401f

The picker refresh is largely corrected, but visible refresh coverage and selection pagination should be addressed as bounded follow-up risks.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to c401f

The new flow has safeguards against replacing a pending letter, reopening an old picker, and sending to a recipient who is no longer valid. One callback scheduling guarantee remains unverified, so the risk cannot be treated as minimal.

Retained concerns

  • Low · security · inferred: The new refresh path updates a shared send session and Bukkit inventory directly from a callback whose execution thread is not established by the available dependency contract. If it can run concurrently with GUI events, picker and session transitions are not serialized.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The state changed by an individual refresh is the initiating player’s session and captured picker. Recipient data comes from the shared character dependency, whose callback scheduling remains unverified.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Opening requires a pending, unconfirmed letter and refuses to replace an open picker. The refresh checks picker identity, while delivery revalidates the recipient against RPCharacters rather than trusting the displayed head alone.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The visible selected marker compares character ID alone, whereas refresh reconciliation and delivery compare both character ID and owner UUID. The stronger send-time check limits the effect of a potentially ambiguous marker; this marker logic is not established as a new PR condition.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Establish the RPCharacters callback’s thread contract; if it does not guarantee main-thread execution, dispatch the picker and session update onto the server thread before reading or mutating them.
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A rabbit watched the picker bloom,
With fresh targets filling every room.
Stale names hopped out of sight,
The open page stayed just right.
“Send your letter,” thumped the hare,
While GUI doors closed with care.

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@src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/birdmessenger/BirdMessenger.java:
- Around line 145-158: Update refreshPickerHeads to reconcile
session.getSelected() against the refreshed targets by owner UUID and character
ID. Clear the selection if it is no longer listed; otherwise update it to the
refreshed target and set the picker page to that target’s new index. When there
is no selection, preserve the existing page-clamping behavior before applying
the page.

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- Line 121: In the scheduled task in GuiListener, replace the LetterGui holder
check with an identity check against the captured top inventory. Close the
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Compare the open inventory with the one that scheduled the delayed
close, so a new letter GUI opened in the meantime stays open. Drop a
picker selection whose recipient disappears when the heads refresh.

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🟡 Minor · Clear and redraw the picker when no recipients remain. · BirdMessenger.java:154-155

src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/birdmessenger/BirdMessenger.java:154-155
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Clear and redraw the picker when no recipients remain.

When targets is empty, update the picker, clear the selection, reset the page, and redraw it before returning. The current return leaves stale targets and selection visible. Confirmation can pass the stale target to trySend, but MailService.trySend rejects recipients that are no longer listed and returns the letter. The impact is a stale picker and a failed confirmation, not a send to the removed recipient.

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 		if (targets.isEmpty()) {
+			picker.setTargets(targets);
+			session.setSelected(null);
+			session.setPickerPage(0);
+			CharacterPickerGui.applyPage(session, picker);
 			return;
 		}
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- 155:
When `targets` is empty, update the picker with the empty target list, clear the
session selection, reset the picker page, and redraw the page before returning.
Make this change in the empty-target branch of `BirdMessenger`; preserve the
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- Around line 154-155: When `targets` is empty, update the picker with the empty
target list, clear the session selection, reset the picker page, and redraw the
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src/test/java/net/tfminecraft/birdmessenger/PickerOpenTest.java (1)

105-105: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert that an empty refresh redraws the open inventory.

refreshDropsASelectedRecipientWhoIsNoLongerListed checks only picker.targets(). If the refresh updates the model but skips CharacterPickerGui.applyPage, the test still passes while stale heads remain in the open inventory. Clear prior interactions, then verify that the refresh clears and repopulates the inventory controls.

Suggested test assertion
             session.setSelected(picker.targets().get(0));
             directory.clear();
+            clearInvocations(picker.getInventory());
             refreshCallbacks.getFirst().run();
             assertTrue(picker.targets().isEmpty(), "an emptied list is redrawn, not left stale");
+            verify(picker.getInventory()).clear();
+            verify(picker.getInventory()).setItem(eq(CharacterPickerGui.SLOT_CANCEL), any(ItemStack.class));
+            verify(picker.getInventory()).setItem(eq(CharacterPickerGui.SLOT_CONFIRM), any(ItemStack.class));
             assertNull(session.getSelected());
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Update refreshDropsASelectedRecipientWhoIsNoLongerListed to clear prior
interactions with the picker inventory before triggering the refresh, then
verify the refresh clears the inventory and repopulates the cancel and confirm
controls via setItem. Preserve the existing assertions for the empty targets and
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- Line 105: Update refreshDropsASelectedRecipientWhoIsNoLongerListed to clear
prior interactions with the picker inventory before triggering the refresh, then
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