55 files hand-rolled the same serialiser -- number the objects, record each one's offset, emit a
classic cross-reference table and a trailer -- 111 times over. The object bodies are properly the
business of the crate under test; the envelope around them is not, and every copy is a place for a
fixture to be quietly wrong in a way that makes a test prove less than it appears to.
`pdfcraft-testkit` holds that envelope. It has no workspace dependencies on purpose, so the crates
at the bottom of the layering can use it without a cycle, and it returns bytes rather than a parsed
document for the same reason.
The builder is byte-identical to the serialiser it replaces, asserted against a verbatim copy of
the old code across versions and trailer variations, because a migration that changes a fixture's
bytes silently changes what the test using it proves. Watched failing by breaking the free-entry
generation: three tests caught it. The one intended difference is that an empty stream dictionary
gives `<< /Length N >>` rather than a doubled space.
Migrates cos, measure and redact: 111 copies in 55 files becomes 108 in 53. The rest are
follow-ups rather than one sweep -- ui-egui alone is 27 of those files and is the most contested
area in the repository. Some copies should stay: a test about a malformed cross-reference table
needs to write its own bytes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Giuseppe Silano