Clarify FHIR Study Context and HealthKit Observation Ownership

[PSchmiedmayer]

♻️ Current situation & Problem

A HealthKit event can be relevant to several studies, each under its own protocol revision. The conversion API bundles each known enrollment as ResearchStudy, PlanDefinition and ResearchSubject entries, and a retry must preserve the original context. Serialized exchange graphs must be rejected before Foundation can collapse duplicate members, and a retraction must not invent a deletion time HealthKit never reports. Applications also need to own and cancel their HealthKit observation without a race during installation.

This PR builds on #67 and its alignment to grove-fhir 96de131 (SchmiedmayerLab/grove-fhir#42). It stays within FHIR conversion, exchange validation and HealthKit observation; application persistence and delivery remain outside the package.

Rebase (2026-09-23): ported from the single commit 53d2d47 onto #67, as three commits, and rebased with #67 since; it now sits on #67's head 66f0a88e.

• Superseded by Generate the Swift FHIR Contract from the Implementation Guides #67: the parts Generate the Swift FHIR Contract from the Implementation Guides #67 already replaces are dropped: typed researchStudies references and the protocolCanonical removal (now studies: [StudyEnrollment]), plus the Swift Crypto range, which Generate the Swift FHIR Contract from the Implementation Guides #67 now sets to "4.0.0"..<"6.0.0".
• Everything else: kept or adapted as listed below.

⚙️ Release Notes

• Document and test that studies: [StudyEnrollment] is study relevance only: each enrollment keeps its own protocol revision, no output carries instantiatesCanonical, and a retry of the persisted context rebuilds the same event.
• Reject serialized exchange graphs that are not strict JSON before model decoding. That covers duplicate members, a byte-order mark, non-finite numbers, trailing text, excessive nesting and invalid UTF-8.
• Replace RetractionEvent's retractedAt: Date with occurred: RetractionOccurrence, an instant or known bounds, so an unknown deletion time does not require an invented timestamp. Generate the Swift FHIR Contract from the Implementation Guides #67's HealthKitConverter.retraction(for:context:) takes occurred: here, and a deletion handler can pass .period(start: deletedAfter, end: detectedAt).
• Add opt-in @_spi(Experimental) HealthKit observation with synchronous installation and an owned lifetime. Keep delivery ownership internal and finish bounded cleanup retries even when cancellation interrupts registration or observation.

Breaking: retractedAt: becomes occurred:.

Swift Crypto 4 remains supported through #67's "4.0.0"..<"6.0.0"; 3.x is excluded because its SymmetricKey is not Sendable.

No new collection scheduler, delivery journal, IG wire format or GroveStudy redesign is introduced.

📚 Documentation

The HealthKit conversion guide explains per-enrollment protocol revisions and preserving the initial conversion context for retries. Study relevance is not consent or access authority, and late association is the receiver's decision. The HealthKit and contract guides describe RetractionOccurrence, including bounding a HealthKit deletion by anchored queries.

Observation callers explicitly import @_spi(Experimental) import GroveHealthKit. This interface may change or be removed without source-compatibility guarantees; it is not part of the stable public API.

Closes #81.

Related: grove-fhir #34.

✅ Testing

Local results at 25076fa; 7f825ab differs from it only in the Swift Crypto range:

• GroveHealthKit: passes on macOS (69 tests) and the iOS 26.5 Simulator (74 tests). Each run also has 3 known SDK issues the tests expect.
• GroveHealthKitFHIR: passes on macOS and the iOS Simulator (178 tests each).
• GroveFHIR: passes on both (65 tests each).
• Conformance: the HealthKit lane validates 28 resources against the grove-fhir 96de131 guides, including a new two-study fixture.
• Static checks: SwiftLint strict, Periphery strict and the script tests pass.

New regressions cover:

• Cancelled teardown, and rollback after a partial registration.
• Malformed serialized input.
• Retraction periods.
• Study relevance leaving the event unchanged.

Physical-device background delivery remains outside this simulator verification. Hosted CI remains a release gate.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The package adds GroveFHIRDelivery, a SQLite-backed actor for durable source checkpoints, event staging, delivery attempts, receipts, retries, and pruning. It adds storage protection and Linux build wiring. HealthKit gains scoped background observation APIs with cancellation and cleanup handling. FHIR contracts now validate strict serialized input and preserve occurrence variants. HealthKit FHIR conversion records typed research-study references and no longer emits instantiatesCanonical.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Source
  participant DeliveryJournal
  participant DeliverySQLite
  participant Receiver
  Source->>DeliveryJournal: stage event delta
  DeliveryJournal->>DeliverySQLite: commit payload and checkpoint
  DeliveryJournal-->>Receiver: prepare delivery attempt
  Receiver-->>DeliveryJournal: submit receipt
  DeliveryJournal->>DeliverySQLite: verify and store receipt

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant HKHealthStore
  participant ObserverQuery
  participant Operation
  Caller->>HKHealthStore: start background observation
  HKHealthStore->>ObserverQuery: install and enable delivery
  HKHealthStore->>Operation: run caller operation
  Operation-->>HKHealthStore: complete or throw
  HKHealthStore->>ObserverQuery: invalidate and await handlers
  HKHealthStore-->>Caller: return result or error

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Priority: ➖ Normal

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 26a88

Cancellation may leave HealthKit background delivery enabled, while the delivery journal retains Linux compatibility, storage-guarantee, and performance concerns that should be addressed before merge.

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❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 24.47% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 94 functions across 20 files. (7 skipped:…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The description links the pull request to issue #81, references issue #34, and identifies pull request #67 as related context.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes align with the stated objectives for FHIR conversion, exchange validation, HealthKit observation ownership, delivery journaling, package configuration, documentation, and testing. No chang…
Title check	✅ Passed	The title accurately describes the FHIR study-context changes and HealthKit observation ownership changes. It is concise and specific, although it does not mention the new delivery journal.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the study-context, exchange-validation, retraction, HealthKit observation, and delivery-journal changes. It is related to the changeset and provides sufficient contex…

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The new BackgroundObservationScopeTests suite calls iOS18+/macOS15+/watchOS11+ APIs without matching availability annotations, which can break compilation when lowered deployment targets are enabled.

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Pull request overview

This PR tightens HealthKit→FHIR conversion semantics around explicit multi-study relevance (removing the ambiguous protocol shortcut), hardens serialized ExchangeGraph ingestion, and introduces a reusable, contract-driven SQLite delivery journal for durable retries and custody receipts.

Changes:

• Remove protocolCanonical from HealthKitConversionContext, preserve only typed researchStudies, and update docs/fixtures accordingly.
• Add strict serialized-event validation (duplicate JSON members + raw identifier-system checks) and refine retraction provenance time semantics.
• Introduce GroveFHIRDelivery (actor-isolated SQLite journal) plus HealthKit background observation scope utilities and associated tests/CI coverage.

File summaries

File	Description
Tests/TestPlans/GroveFHIR.xctestplan	Adds GroveFHIRDelivery to coverage targets for the GroveFHIR plan.
Tests/GroveHealthKitTests/BackgroundObservationScopeTests.swift	New tests for synchronous observer installation and cancellation/cleanup behavior.
Tests/GroveHealthKitFHIRTests/HealthKitRecordingDocumentTests.swift	Adds researchStudies to context helper and validates multi-study behavior for recording documents.
Tests/GroveHealthKitFHIRTests/HealthKitFHIRTestContext.swift	Removes protocolCanonical from the shared test context initializer.
Tests/GroveHealthKitFHIRTests/HealthKitConverterTests.swift	Adds multi-study fixtures + invalid study-reference validation and updates context construction.
Tests/GroveHealthKitFHIRTests/ExchangeGraphSerializedInputTests.swift	New tests to ensure serialized events reject malformed JSON/UTF-8 and invalid identifier systems pre-decode.
Tests/GroveHealthKitFHIRTests/ExchangeGraphCorpusTests.swift	Ensures serialized fixtures preserve event identity and updates retraction occurred-time expectations.
Tests/GroveHealthKitFHIRTests/ConformanceFixtureTests.swift	Adds two-study quantity fixture and verifies no instantiatesCanonical is inferred.
Tests/GroveFHIRTests/SharedDeliveryJournalTests.swift	New end-to-end tests for journal staging, reopening, custody uncertainty, pruning, and format/scope rejection.
Tests/GroveFHIRTests/DeliveryContractFixture.swift	Provides a deterministic contract fixture for journal tests (targets, receipts, commitments).
Sources/GroveHealthKitFHIR/HealthKitConverter+ECGCore.swift	Removes automatic instantiatesCanonical emission from ECG observation context application.
Sources/GroveHealthKitFHIR/HealthKitConversionContext.swift	Removes protocolCanonical and documents durable, receiver-resolved study relevance via researchStudies.
Sources/GroveHealthKitFHIR/GroveHealthKitFHIR.docc/ConfiguringAConversion.md	Documents multi-study attribution without asserting protocol, and retry-stable context reuse.
Sources/GroveHealthKit/HealthKit Extensions/HKHealthStore+ObservationScope.swift	New iOS18+/macOS15+/watchOS11+ observation scope helpers for synchronous install and durable teardown.
Sources/GroveHealthKit/HealthKit Extensions/HKHealthStore+BackgroundDelivery.swift	Refactors observer installation to be synchronous and passes object types through the invalidator.
Sources/GroveFHIRDelivery/GroveFHIRDelivery.docc/GroveFHIRDelivery.md	New DocC overview describing contract-driven custody journal responsibilities and storage constraints.
Sources/GroveFHIRDelivery/DeliverySQLite.swift	New SQLite wrapper used internally by the journal (transactions, binding, strict error surface).
Sources/GroveFHIRDelivery/DeliverySourceSetup.swift	Implements durable source creation/restore/confirmation and identity-scope derivation.
Sources/GroveFHIRDelivery/DeliveryJournalSchema.swift	Adds schema + storage-protection validation (permissions/ACL/protection class) and SQLite PRAGMA setup.
Sources/GroveFHIRDelivery/DeliveryJournal.swift	Implements the actor-isolated journal API (checkpointing, staging, attempts, receipts, pruning, retry state).
Sources/GroveFHIRDelivery/DeliveryContract.swift	Defines the DeliveryContract protocol and shared error/scope/commitment types.
Sources/GroveFHIRContract/RetractionEvent.swift	Changes retraction provenance to accept occurred bounds instead of a single timestamp.
Sources/GroveFHIRContract/ExchangeGraph.swift	Adds strict pre-decode JSON validation and raw identifier-system validation for serialized events.
Sources/CGroveDeliverySQLite/shim.h	Adds C shim for sqlite bindings and errno access.
Sources/CGroveDeliverySQLite/module.modulemap	Defines the system module for linking against sqlite3.
packages.toml	Adds GroveFHIRDelivery + SQLite shim targets to the GroveFHIR package definition and Linux target list.
Package.swift	Adds GroveFHIRDelivery product, SQLite system library target, and expands swift-crypto version range.
.spi.yml	Adds GroveFHIRDelivery to Swift Package Index build targets.
.github/workflows/tests.yml	Installs SQLite build prerequisites on Linux for the GroveFHIR package job.

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Sources/GroveFHIRDelivery/DeliverySourceSetup.swift (1)

37-37: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Make UUID normalization reusable across delivery files.

UUID.lowercase is fileprivate to DeliveryJournal.swift, so DeliverySourceSetup.swift cannot use it. Move it to module-visible scope and replace the repeated uuidString.lowercased() calls with this helper.

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In `@Sources/GroveFHIRDelivery/DeliverySourceSetup.swift` at line 37, Make the
UUID lowercase normalization helper currently defined in DeliveryJournal.swift
module-visible, then update the query in DeliverySourceSetup and other delivery
files to reuse UUID.lowercase instead of calling uuidString.lowercased()
directly.

Sources/GroveFHIRDelivery/DeliveryJournal.swift (1)

179-179: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Compute the staged byte total incrementally instead of rescanning per event.

checkByteLimit() performs unfiltered aggregate scans over delivery and source_state. The staging loop allows 128 changes, and maximumEvents allows 65,536 retained rows. Calling it after each insert repeats full-table aggregation.

Read the base total once before the loop. Add payload.bytes.count and the serialized target blob length after each insert. Keep the final checkByteLimit() after the cursor update as the authoritative check.

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In `@Sources/GroveFHIRDelivery/DeliveryJournal.swift` at line 179, Update the
staging loop in DeliveryJournal to read the base byte total once before
processing events, then increment the staged total after each insert using
payload.bytes.count and the serialized target blob length. Avoid calling
checkByteLimit() for every inserted event, while retaining the final
checkByteLimit() after the cursor update as the authoritative validation.

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Inline comments:
In `@Sources/GroveFHIRDelivery/DeliverySQLite.swift`:
- Line 31: Update the Linux build configuration or the DeliverySQLite
implementation around sqlite3_open_v2 to require SQLite 3.31.0 or newer, either
by enforcing the dependency minimum or adding a compile-time version guard for
SQLITE_OPEN_NOFOLLOW. Preserve the existing .createNew and .openExisting
behavior.

In `@Sources/GroveFHIRDelivery/GroveFHIRDelivery.docc/GroveFHIRDelivery.md`:
- Line 45: Update the documentation sentence describing rejected protections to
scope the extended-ACL guarantee to Darwin platforms, while keeping the
cross-platform hard-link guarantee unchanged; alternatively, document the Linux
ACL verification only if such a check is implemented in
DeliveryJournalSchema.checkProtection.

In `@Sources/GroveHealthKit/HealthKit`
Extensions/HKHealthStore+ObservationScope.swift:
- Around line 99-100: Update releaseObservation to perform both
observation?.invalidateAndWait() and disableBackgroundDelivery(for:) inside an
unstructured MainActor task, then await that task’s value so teardown and retry
handling continue independently of the cancelled caller task.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@Sources/GroveFHIRDelivery/DeliveryJournal.swift`:
- Line 179: Update the staging loop in DeliveryJournal to read the base byte
total once before processing events, then increment the staged total after each
insert using payload.bytes.count and the serialized target blob length. Avoid
calling checkByteLimit() for every inserted event, while retaining the final
checkByteLimit() after the cursor update as the authoritative validation.

In `@Sources/GroveFHIRDelivery/DeliverySourceSetup.swift`:
- Line 37: Make the UUID lowercase normalization helper currently defined in
DeliveryJournal.swift module-visible, then update the query in
DeliverySourceSetup and other delivery files to reuse UUID.lowercase instead of
calling uuidString.lowercased() directly.

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• .github/workflows/tests.yml
• .spi.yml
• Package.swift
• Sources/CGroveDeliverySQLite/module.modulemap
• Sources/CGroveDeliverySQLite/shim.h
• Sources/GroveFHIRContract/ExchangeGraph.swift
• Sources/GroveFHIRContract/RetractionEvent.swift
• Sources/GroveFHIRDelivery/DeliveryContract.swift
• Sources/GroveFHIRDelivery/DeliveryJournal.swift
• Sources/GroveFHIRDelivery/DeliveryJournalSchema.swift
• Sources/GroveFHIRDelivery/DeliverySQLite.swift
• Sources/GroveFHIRDelivery/DeliverySourceSetup.swift
• Sources/GroveFHIRDelivery/GroveFHIRDelivery.docc/GroveFHIRDelivery.md
• Sources/GroveHealthKit/HealthKit Extensions/HKHealthStore+BackgroundDelivery.swift
• Sources/GroveHealthKit/HealthKit Extensions/HKHealthStore+ObservationScope.swift
• Sources/GroveHealthKitFHIR/GroveHealthKitFHIR.docc/ConfiguringAConversion.md
• Sources/GroveHealthKitFHIR/HealthKitConversionContext.swift
• Sources/GroveHealthKitFHIR/HealthKitConverter+ECGCore.swift
• Tests/GroveFHIRTests/DeliveryContractFixture.swift
• Tests/GroveFHIRTests/SharedDeliveryJournalTests.swift
• Tests/GroveHealthKitFHIRTests/ConformanceFixtureTests.swift
• Tests/GroveHealthKitFHIRTests/ExchangeGraphCorpusTests.swift
• Tests/GroveHealthKitFHIRTests/ExchangeGraphSerializedInputTests.swift
• Tests/GroveHealthKitFHIRTests/HealthKitConverterTests.swift
• Tests/GroveHealthKitFHIRTests/HealthKitFHIRTestContext.swift
• Tests/GroveHealthKitFHIRTests/HealthKitRecordingDocumentTests.swift
• Tests/GroveHealthKitTests/BackgroundObservationScopeTests.swift
• Tests/TestPlans/GroveFHIR.xctestplan
• packages.toml

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