fix: stop vehicle containers losing custom items on reload

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Problem

Vehicle containers lose custom items when a vehicle loads. Main logged it on 2026-10-05: 52× Arcane Fuel at 20:39, and 2× Arcane Fuel plus 1× Box of Bullets at 06:27. All the trace says is NbtApiException ... Not a number from Container.loadFromJson.

Container.getAsJson ran each item's SNBT through JsonParser.parseString. Gson's lenient mode accepts SNBT, but it stores typed numbers (0b, 0.0d, 4210.0f) as strings and turns [I; 1, 2] into ["I", 1, 2]. When the item loads, Minecraft rejects amount:"0.0d" and bold:"0b". Any item with attribute modifiers, a formatted name or a custom model data float fails, which covers every MMOItem. The failed item is skipped, so the next save drops it for good. Plain vanilla stacks were fine.

Fix

• Save: the item SNBT is now stored as a JSON string, so it round-trips exactly through the json-simple/Gson payload path.
• Load (older saves): the item is rebuilt with the types restored: typed-number strings are unquoted and ["I", …] goes back to [I; …]. If that fails, the old as-saved form is tried.
• No silent loss: an entry that still can't be read is kept and written back unchanged on the next save, with a single VFLogger line instead of a stack trace. An item whose slot is already taken moves to a free slot. Before, anything out of range was dropped.
• Vehicle destroyed: Container.destroy called dropItem with null for empty slots, which throws. So one empty slot stopped every later item from dropping. Empty slots are now skipped, and any unreadable entries are logged so staff can restore them.

Notes

• The items lost on 2026-10-05 are not in Main's current vehicles.db or its three rolling backups. All 25 saved containers are empty, so there is nothing to migrate.
• Rolling back to 2.10.x after this ships would fail to read container items saved by this version.

Tests

• ContainerSnbtTest uses the real Arcane Fuel SNBT to check the lenient-parse damage and the type restore: bytes, doubles, floats, [B;/I;/L;] arrays, escaped quotes, plain lists left alone, nulls and booleans.
• ContainerPayloadRoundTripTest checks that a string SNBT entry survives the save path (Gson → json-simple → pretty Gson) and VehiclePayloadCodec.loadContainers unchanged.
• mvn verify passes locally: 702 tests, 0 failures.

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📝 Summary

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Container contents are more reliably preserved when saving and reloading, including entries that cannot be read or placed.
  • Existing saved container data continues to load, helping prevent contents from being lost when opening older saves.
  • Invalid, occupied or out-of-range preferred slots now fall back to the first free slot.
  • Unreadable retained entries are logged when a container is destroyed.

Walkthrough

Container item entries are saved as SNBT strings. Loading accepts string and legacy JSON-shaped entries, tries compatible representations, and retains entries that cannot be loaded or assigned to a slot. Tests cover legacy conversion and payload round-tripping.

Changes

Container item persistence

Layer / File(s)	Summary
SNBT storage and legacy conversion src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/vehicleframework/vehicles/handlers/container/Container.java, src/test/java/net/tfminecraft/vehicleframework/vehicles/handlers/container/ContainerSnbtTest.java	Container serialisation saves item SNBT as a string. Legacy JSON-shaped values are converted to SNBT candidates. The conversion handles typed numbers and arrays, quotes ordinary strings, and omits null values. Tests cover candidate selection and legacy conversion.
Loading and retaining saved entries src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/vehicleframework/vehicles/handlers/container/Container.java, src/test/java/net/tfminecraft/vehicleframework/database/ContainerPayloadRoundTripTest.java	Loading tries candidate representations and uses the saved slot when available, or another empty slot. Entries that cannot be loaded or assigned to a slot are retained for later saves. Container destruction logs retained entries. The payload round-trip test checks that the entry index and SNBT string remain unchanged.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: ryanbarlow97

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to d5701

Older saved container items whose data contains number-like text can be loaded with that text turned into numbers. The changed item is then saved permanently. The author reports that the current saves hold no container items, but this should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to d5701

The new format prevents item-type corruption and preserves entries that cannot be restored. However, reverting to the previous version after saving in this format can make container items unreadable and permanently remove them on a subsequent save. No new unauthorized access path was established.

Retained concerns

• Medium · reliability · inferred: After the head writes SNBT-string entries, rollback to the PR-base loader can reject those items because it passes their quoted JSON representation to the NBT parser. That loader does not retain failed entries, so its next container save can permanently remove the rejected contents. Forward compatibility in the head does not protect this downgrade path.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The demonstrated compatibility failure affects vehicle-item data in the deployment's SQLite payloads. Ordinary players influence contents through inventory ItemStacks; independent control of raw persisted JSON or external invocation of the public loader was not established. No cross-service or privilege-escalation path was verified.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Normal container opening requires the player's seat to match a container on that vehicle. Inventory admission checks use the container's allow-list. Restoration resolves saved IDs through the owning vehicle's registry before decoding. These caller and admission controls are unchanged in the full PR comparison; the format change does not introduce a new authorization mechanism.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The owning vehicle attempts durable tombstoning before container drops, and normal restoration excludes deleted rows. Destruction nevertheless continues when tombstoning fails, while world drops and database deletion are not one transaction. This failure-containment limitation predates the PR; retained-entry preservation is not evidence of crash-safe or repeat-safe destruction.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Treat the first new-format save as a rollback boundary. Preserve a pre-upgrade database backup and require either a compatible reader or an explicit conversion/restore procedure before running the old version against rewritten data.

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@XxFran10xX Re-reviewed PR #61 at d5701b7. I found no further blocking issues.

• The null-entry fix retains the saved entry and lets later items load.
• The restored-types-first finding remains withdrawn. I used the retrieved learning about the accepted legacy recovery trade-off.
• Both previous review threads are resolved.
• The build check passed. I inspected the code and tests but did not run tests in the sandbox.

The approval condition is met. I am requesting approval.

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🧠 Learnings used

Learnt from: XxFran10xX
Repo: TF-Minecraft/VehicleFramework PR: 61
File: src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/vehicleframework/vehicles/handlers/container/Container.java:341-341
Timestamp: 2026-10-06T15:37:54.031Z
Learning: In TF-Minecraft/VehicleFramework, the Java class src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/vehicleframework/vehicles/handlers/container/Container.java intentionally tries restored-type SNBT before the saved-form fallback for legacy JSON-shaped item entries. The legacy save path lost numeric type information, including MMOItems byte flags inside schema-less minecraft:custom_data. Trying the saved form first can load those flags as strings and change their behaviour. Typed-number-like text remains ambiguous, so restored-types-first is an accepted legacy recovery trade-off. New saves store SNBT as a string and bypass legacy type restoration.

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