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Human ruling, 2026-08-18: "we really need the base rain license in codegen, fine
that you paramatized it but you threw out the defaults"
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#135, closing #75, made LibCodeGen.filePrefix required-params-only and threaded
spdxLicenseIdentifier / copyrightText through LibFs.buildFileForContract and
buildFileForTaggedContract. The parameterisation is not relitigated here and no
parameterised signature changes. A defaulting form is added beside it, so a Rain
repo gets Rain's header without passing it.

The API

Two exported file-level constants in LibCodeGen.sol:

string constant RAIN_SPDX_LICENSE_IDENTIFIER = "LicenseRef-DCL-1.0";
string constant RAIN_COPYRIGHT_TEXT = "Copyright (c) 2020 Rain Open Source Software Ltd";

and one defaulting overload on every entry point that takes the pair:

new delegates to
LibCodeGen.filePrefix() filePrefix(spdx, copyright)
LibFs.buildFileForContract(vm, instance, contractName, body) the 6-arg form
LibFs.buildFileForContract(vm, instance, dir, contractName, body) the 7-arg dir form
LibFs.buildFileForTaggedContract(vm, instance, tag, contractName, body) the 7-arg form

Arities are 0/2, 4/6, 5/7 and 5/7 respectively — every pair is distinguished by
argument count alone, so no call that resolves today resolves differently.

Why exported constants rather than literals inside the overloads

A consumer that threads the header down through its own build library — which is
what rainlanguage/rain.deploy does, and what #135's own reasoning says a
published intermediate library has to do — cannot use a defaulting overload at
all: it has to hand two values to its own writer. Without exported constants that
consumer restates the two strings, so the org's licence lives in as many places
as there are repos. Named, there is one definition and every use site is
greppable. Named RAIN_* rather than DEFAULT_* because whose licence it is, is
the load-bearing fact: a repo in another org that writes RAIN_COPYRIGHT_TEXT
is visibly claiming Rain's copyright, which is exactly the mistake #75 was filed
about.

Why the writers and not filePrefix alone

filePrefix is not what a build script calls. script/Build.sol calls
LibFs.buildFileForContract / buildFileForTaggedContract, and those call
filePrefix internally. A default that stopped at filePrefix would leave every
actual generation still passing both values, which is the state the ruling
rejects.

Why all three writer entry points

The rule is "an entry point that takes the header has a form that defaults it".
Skipping the dir overload would make it "…except that one", and a caller that
chose its own directory would be a caller that also has to state a licence for no
reason: the two are independent.

NatSpec

The old text argued for required parameters ("...are the calling project's to
state and are taken from the caller"), which is still true and is left standing.
What is added to it, on the parameterised form and on each defaulting form, is
which of the two a given consumer is: the defaulting form states this org's
values, which is a statement only a repo this org owns can make, and a consumer
elsewhere calls the form that takes them. The tagged form's doc adds that a
snapshot is frozen once written, so the header it lands with is the header it
keeps.

README.md gains a ## Generated file header section saying the same thing for
someone who reads the README rather than the source — including that reuse lint
in a foreign repo would pass a wrongly-defaulted header, because it checks the
tag is present rather than right.

Tests

Seven added, 275 -> 282.

LibCodeGen.filePrefix.t.sol

  • testRainDefaultsExact — the two constants against their literals. They head
    every generated file in every Rain repo, so a change to either rewrites
    committed source org wide and has to land as a deliberate diff.
  • testFilePrefixDefaultEqualsExplicitRainValuesthe pin the ruling asks
    for
    : filePrefix() equals filePrefix(RAIN_SPDX_LICENSE_IDENTIFIER, RAIN_COPYRIGHT_TEXT).
  • testFilePrefixDefaultExact — and equals the literal header. Equality alone is
    satisfied by both sides being wrong together; this says which bytes they both
    have to be.
  • testFilePrefixDefaultsAreAcceptedValues — both defaults are single-line and
    non-empty, so the defaulting overload is reachable rather than a call that
    always reverts.

LibFs.buildFileForContract.t.sol, LibFs.buildFileForTaggedContract.t.sol

  • testBuildFileForContractDefaultHeaderIsRainsExplicitHeader
  • testBuildFileForContractInDirDefaultHeaderIsRainsExplicitHeader
  • testBuildFileForTaggedContractDefaultHeaderIsRainsExplicitHeader

Each writes the same instance twice — once through the defaulting overload, once
through the parameterised one naming the two constants — reads both files back,
and asserts they are equal and equal to the file rebuilt from the literal
header text. The literal is the oracle, per this suite's existing rule that the
expected content is never produced by calling LibCodeGen back.

Red then green

Every one of the seven fails on b7120c5 by construction — the symbols and the
overloads do not exist there:

Error (2904): Declaration "RAIN_SPDX_LICENSE_IDENTIFIER" not found in "src/lib/LibCodeGen.sol"
Error (2904): Declaration "RAIN_COPYRIGHT_TEXT" not found in "src/lib/LibCodeGen.sol"
 --> test/src/lib/LibCodeGen.filePrefix.t.sol:6:1

Green on this head: 29 test suites, 282 tests passed, 0 failed, 0 skipped.

Mutations

mutation-probe over the changed lines, baseline verified green at 282 first.
8/8 KILLED, 0 survived, 0 no-run, 0 harness errors.

mutant killed by
M01 default licence is a different licence all three writer tests, testFilePrefixDefaultExact, testRainDefaultsExact
M02 default copyright names a different holder same five
M03 filePrefix() passes the defaults in the wrong order testFilePrefixDefaultEqualsExplicitRainValues, testFilePrefixDefaultExact
M04 filePrefix() default drifts by one character same two
M05 buildFileForContract default in the wrong order testBuildFileForContractDefaultHeaderIsRainsExplicitHeader
M06 buildFileForContract default drifts by one character same
M07 buildFileForContract dir default in the wrong order testBuildFileForContractInDirDefaultHeaderIsRainsExplicitHeader
M08 buildFileForTaggedContract default in the wrong order testBuildFileForTaggedContractDefaultHeaderIsRainsExplicitHeader

M03–M08 are the swap the argument list invites: two adjacent string memory
parameters, so a call that swaps them compiles and writes a file whose licence
tag carries the copyright holder. Each is caught by the test for its own entry
point and by nothing else, which is what those three tests were written for.

QA

  • Discriminating tests: testRainDefaultsExact,
    testFilePrefixDefaultEqualsExplicitRainValues, testFilePrefixDefaultExact,
    testFilePrefixDefaultsAreAcceptedValues,
    testBuildFileForContractDefaultHeaderIsRainsExplicitHeader,
    testBuildFileForContractInDirDefaultHeaderIsRainsExplicitHeader,
    testBuildFileForTaggedContractDefaultHeaderIsRainsExplicitHeader — each
    fails on base b7120c5 by construction, verified by writing the tests first
    and running forge build on the unmodified source: Error (2904): Declaration "RAIN_SPDX_LICENSE_IDENTIFIER" not found in "src/lib/LibCodeGen.sol" and the same for RAIN_COPYRIGHT_TEXT. The
    constants and the four overloads do not exist there, so no spelling of these
    tests compiles against base.
  • Mutations applied: mutation-probe, baseline verified green at 282 first,
    8/8 KILLED, 0 survived, 0 no-run, 0 harness errors.
    LibCodeGen.sol:25 RAIN_SPDX_LICENSE_IDENTIFIER = "LicenseRef-DCL-1.0" ->
    "MIT" -> killed by all three writer tests + testFilePrefixDefaultExact +
    testRainDefaultsExact.
    LibCodeGen.sol:30 RAIN_COPYRIGHT_TEXT -> "Copyright (c) 2026 Someone Else" -> killed by the same five.
    LibCodeGen.sol:176 filePrefix(RAIN_SPDX_LICENSE_IDENTIFIER, RAIN_COPYRIGHT_TEXT) -> arguments swapped -> killed by
    testFilePrefixDefaultEqualsExplicitRainValues, testFilePrefixDefaultExact.
    LibCodeGen.sol:176 -> copyright replaced by the same text plus a trailing
    . -> killed by the same two.
    LibFs.sol:459 -> arguments swapped -> killed by
    testBuildFileForContractDefaultHeaderIsRainsExplicitHeader.
    LibFs.sol:459 -> licence replaced by "LicenseRef-DCL-1.1" -> killed by the
    same.
    LibFs.sol:558 -> arguments swapped -> killed by
    testBuildFileForContractInDirDefaultHeaderIsRainsExplicitHeader.
    LibFs.sol:653 -> arguments swapped -> killed by
    testBuildFileForTaggedContractDefaultHeaderIsRainsExplicitHeader.
  • Oracle: the literal header text, spelled out in the tests, never obtained
    by calling LibCodeGen.filePrefix back. expectedFile in both LibFs suites
    already rebuilds the whole file from literals plus address.codehash, and the
    new tests use it; testFilePrefixDefaultExact and testRainDefaultsExact
    assert against literals directly. That is what makes
    testFilePrefixDefaultEqualsExplicitRainValues meaningful rather than
    self-referential: the equality says the two call paths agree, the literals say
    which bytes they both have to be.
  • Category check: the ruling asks for one thing — Rain's licence and
    copyright available as defaults alongside the parameterised form, without
    relitigating filePrefix() stamps this org's licence and copyright into other repos' generated files #75. Covered: the values exist as named exported constants
    (RAIN_SPDX_LICENSE_IDENTIFIER, RAIN_COPYRIGHT_TEXT); a defaulting form
    exists on every entry point that takes the pair, not just filePrefix, so an
    actual build script benefits; every parameterised signature is byte-identical
    to base, so filePrefix() stamps this org's licence and copyright into other repos' generated files #75 stays closed; NatSpec on both forms now says which consumer
    calls which; the README states the same for a reader who does not open the
    source. Not done, deliberately: nothing in rainlanguage/rain.deploy Document the return value of every tooling builder #134,
    which the ruling puts out of scope.

Checks run locally, each of which CI also runs

  • forge test — 29 suites, 282 passed, 0 failed, 0 skipped
  • forge fmt --check — clean
  • slither . — 9 contracts, 98 detectors, 0 results
  • reuse lint — compliant with REUSE 3.3, 58/58 files

rainlanguage/rain.deploy #134

Untouched, as ordered, and it does not need to change. Its threading of the two
values through LibRainDeploySnapshot stays correct for the reason that PR
gives: rain-deploy is itself published and consumed by deploy repos in other
orgs, so a defaulting call inside it would put Rain's header into their
append-only snapshots — the same defect one layer up.

One thing there could simplify: script/Build.sol declares
GENERATED_SPDX_LICENSE_IDENTIFIER / GENERATED_COPYRIGHT_TEXT as its own two
literals, which are byte-identical to the constants this PR exports, so they
could become an import instead of a restatement. It is a judgement call rather
than an obvious win — that file's own NatSpec argues the opposite ("THIS repo's
licence, declared by THIS repo, which is the whole point of it being here"), and
importing couples rain.deploy's declared licence to a codegen bump. Worth a
separate decision, not a change to #134.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added standard default licence and copyright headers for generated files.
    • Added convenient contract-generation options that automatically apply the standard headers.
    • Added documentation describing header requirements, validation, and behavior outside standard repositories.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Ensured default-generated headers match explicitly supplied standard header values.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage validating default header content, formatting, and generated file output.

…ters

`filePrefix`, `buildFileForContract` (both spellings) and
`buildFileForTaggedContract` each gain an overload that takes neither
`spdxLicenseIdentifier` nor `copyrightText` and applies
`RAIN_SPDX_LICENSE_IDENTIFIER` and `RAIN_COPYRIGHT_TEXT`, two new exported
constants holding this org's own values. The parameterised forms are unchanged,
so a consumer outside the org still states its own header and #75 stays closed.

Each defaulting overload is the parameterised one applied to the two constants
and nothing else, so there is no second spelling of the header to drift, and the
non-empty-single-line rule holds over the defaults like any other value.

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The change adds Rain default SPDX and copyright constants, a default filePrefix() overload, and default-header overloads for contract file generation. Documentation and tests cover constant values, validation, exact output, and equivalence with explicit defaults.

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Generated-file header defaults

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Header constants and filePrefix defaults
src/lib/LibCodeGen.sol, test/src/lib/LibCodeGen.filePrefix.t.sol, README.md
LibCodeGen exposes Rain header constants and adds a zero-argument filePrefix() overload. Tests and documentation define and validate the default header behavior.
Default-header contract generation
src/lib/LibFs.sol, test/src/lib/LibFs.buildFileForContract.t.sol, test/src/lib/LibFs.buildFileForTaggedContract.t.sol
LibFs adds default-header overloads for standard, directory-specific, and tagged contract files. Tests compare omitted headers with explicit Rain defaults and exact expected content.

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Comment thread src/lib/LibCodeGen.sol Outdated
"A consumer outside it calls this one" put two pronouns next to two competing
antecedents: the sentence before it is about the overload taking no arguments, so
"this one" reads as that overload rather than as the one the comment documents,
which is the opposite instruction. CodeRabbit read it that way on #144.

Behaviour is unchanged; the text now names the two argument overload as what a
consumer in another org calls.

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