Preserve XML, OpenStep and binary dictionary keys at their format owners. Share validated binary reference facts with materialization while retaining scalar precision, UID identity and bounded expansion. Migrate archive, Interface Builder, native and app-bundle consumers, then remove obsolete key-omission accounting and schema copies.
Validated source regressions and compiled CLI/MCP workflows, including native plist fidelity and archive identity. Typecheck, lint, docs and test discovery pass. No performance benchmarks were required.
Pass hierarchy or connection identity from the producing call rather than
searching graph IDs containing caller-selected paths and authored IDs. Keep
connection omissions from making a retained hierarchy appear partial.
Replace mirrored ID-substring test oracles with exact endpoint relationships.
Cover marker-bearing paths and authored identities through domain, CLI/MCP,
summary and byte-retention boundaries.
Validation: affected source and compiled/public tests passed, including native
Foundation/ibtool fixture lanes; one Linux-only invalid-byte filename case
skipped on macOS. Static, docs and discovery checks passed.
Use original object-table UIDs for inventory, hierarchy and connector references. Retain authored identity fields as data, refuse forged reference aliases and select UIKit top-level collections without substituting unrelated roots.
BREAKING CHANGE: Keyed archives that previously used authored objectID or object-id graph identities now use decimal table UIDs. Authored values remain attributes; ibtool and native NIBArchive identities retain their existing source semantics.
Fixes#6849Fixes#6850
* fix(apple): classify keyed-archive objects by declared superclasses
Interface Builder keyed archives record each object's superclass chain
in `$classes`, but the decoder classified objects by class-name
substrings alone. UINavigationController, UITabBarController and
UISearchController contain "control" but not "viewcontroller", so they
were reported as controls.
Classify keyed-archive objects by UIKit/AppKit view-controller, control
and view bases in their declared chain first, falling back to the name
heuristic only when the chain names none. The decoder now reads
`$classes` through one helper shared with NSArray detection.
Fixes#5218
* test(apple): cover each declared keyed-archive base with neutral class names
Neutral names classify only through the archived superclass chain, so each
UIKit and AppKit base entry and the control-before-view ordering now has a
case that fails without it.
* perf(apple): parse each keyed-archive class chain once
Objects sharing one class descriptor reparsed and scanned its whole
`$classes` array per object, so 20,000 objects sharing a 20,000-name chain
took about 16 seconds to decode. Cache each descriptor's chain as a set by
archive UID; the same archive decodes in about 3.5 seconds, matching main.
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Co-authored-by: Kaoru0822 <208281322+kaoru0822-kitauji@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Select authoritative connection fields by runtime class in a shared owner used by keyed archives and NIBArchive projection. Preserve archive identities, endpoint relationships and coverage, and replace duplicate synthetic outlet assertions with a rooted public CLI fixture.
Validation: compiled CLI acceptance against the issue-sourced rooted UIKit fixture and 41 filesystem tests. Native UIKit framework validation was not rerun. Fixes#2177.
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