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Add trailing strip support for sparse ledmaps - #5745

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Rework on gap and ledmap build.

  • Added a helper function to read numbers from a json array directly from a file with better tolerance for whitespaces.
  • Gap file no longer needs the json buffer, it now also reads directly from the file.
  • ledmap is now generated in a two-pass manner: read the file and count the number of physically mapped pixels then allocate memory for the matrix + remaining physical pixels. Read the file again and fill the buffer

I also added a (brute-force) loop to map any unmapped physical pixels at the end but commented it out (also did not test that). Currently any unmapped pixel with stay unmapped (-1) - it really is a design choice whether pixels left unmapped should be added after the map or just left blank.

Tested both gap and ledmap and for the tests I did it works as expected (gap file, gap file with trailing pixels, full ledmap, full ledmap with trailing strip, sparse ledmap with trailing strip). There may be some edge cases I missed.

fixes #5529

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  • New Features

    • Improved support for custom and sparse 2D LED mappings, including layouts with trailing pixels.
    • Mapping files can use more flexible formatting.
  • Bug Fixes

    • 2D gap maps load more reliably from configuration files.
    • Invalid or out-of-range mapping values are handled safely.
    • Incomplete gap-map files no longer leave partially applied mappings.
    • Invalid trailing segments and unsupported 2D coordinates are rejected.

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2D gap maps now load through direct file streaming. Custom LED-map parsing reallocates tables for sparse and trailing pixels. Segment validation uses the expanded mapped length and checks trailing 1D coordinates.

Changes

Custom mapping and gap loading

Layer / File(s) Summary
Streaming gap-map loading
wled00/file.cpp, wled00/fcn_declare.h, wled00/const.h, wled00/FX_2Dfcn.cpp
Adds file-based integer parsing and loads constrained gap values directly from /2d-gaps.json.
Custom LED-map sizing and validation
wled00/FX_fcn.cpp
Accounts for custom mapping size, rebuilds 1D and 2D mapping tables, handles invalid entries, and validates trailing 1D segments.
Platform declaration compatibility
wled00/fcn_declare.h
Adds platform guards and declarations for filesystem, timing, identity, touch, and usermod registration APIs.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: softhack007

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 31cc6

Some trailing-strip segments may not control their physical LEDs, and a map ending in -1 may target the wrong LED. These mapping issues should be addressed before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 31cc6

Existing mapping files can produce different physical LED output after this change. In particular, a missing-pixel marker at the end of an array may instead activate a pixel. The effect is limited to the device’s configured LED outputs; no new permission to write mapping files was established.

Retained concerns

  • Low · security · observed: The streaming reader can convert a terminal or whitespace-suffixed -1 into 1. A saved gap or LED map can therefore address a physical LED where the file specifies a missing pixel.
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Security Blast Radius

  • observed — An incorrectly translated index can affect physical LEDs on the device, but BusManager dispatches writes only to buses containing that index; no out-of-range bus write was established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — Where an existing map ends with -1 and physical pixel 1 exists, loading that map can send output to pixel 1 rather than preserve the missing-pixel marker. This does not establish a new ability to upload a map.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — State requests may select existing filesystem maps without the file-upload PIN check; upload itself checks the PIN. Map values are also checked against physical length, although the sign-reading defect occurs before that validation.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Apply the parsed sign before every successful reader return, and preserve checks of missing-pixel sentinels at both mapping consumers.
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❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning Issue #5529 requires a sparse matrix map to preserve unmapped entries and expose the trailing strip at its physical range. The new readNextIntFromFile() sets negative but applies it only on the EO… Apply the negative sign before every successful return path in readNextIntFromFile(). Add automated tests for compact and whitespace-formatted arrays with a final -1. Verify the mapped table, physical count, trailing-strip range, and se…
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 55.56% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 9 functions across 5 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Description Check ✅ Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: adding trailing-strip support for sparse LED maps.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The whole-PR diff contains changes to 2D gap loading, LED-map allocation and validation, the file integer reader, and the related JSON-lock declaration. These changes support the sparse-map and traili…
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Explanation

Issue #5529 requires a sparse matrix map to preserve unmapped entries and expose the trailing strip at its physical range. The new readNextIntFromFile() sets negative but applies it only on the EOF return path. For -1, or -1], it returns +1. The new two-pass loader therefore counts and maps an unmapped pixel as physical pixel 1, which can produce an incorrect trailing-strip range. The whole-PR diff shows no automated regression test for this case.

Resolution

Apply the negative sign before every successful return path in readNextIntFromFile(). Add automated tests for compact and whitespace-formatted arrays with a final -1. Verify the mapped table, physical count, trailing-strip range, and segment bounds.

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wled00/file.cpp (1)

366-407: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Solid, well-guarded parser — consider adding unit tests.

Logic checks out: overflow-safe saturation, correct consume/leave semantics for ,/], and graceful handling of malformed trailing characters. Given this new parser now backs both gap-file and ledmap loading (wled00/FX_2Dfcn.cpp, wled00/FX_fcn.cpp), a focused unit test covering leading whitespace, negative numbers, overflow, and malformed trailing chars would guard against regressions.

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oversized-number saturation, and malformed trailing characters. Verify the
parser’s comma consumption and array-terminator behavior while exercising the
same loading paths used by gap files and ledmaps.
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In `@wled00/FX_fcn.cpp`:
- Around line 2227-2251: The 1D ledmap loader uses an overly strict token match
that rejects whitespace-formatted map arrays. In the 1D setup branch, update the
f.find check guarding map parsing to search for the same "\"map\"" token used by
the 2D path, while leaving the subsequent integer parsing unchanged.

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- Around line 366-407: Add focused unit tests for readNextIntFromFile covering
leading whitespace, negative values, oversized-number saturation, and malformed
trailing characters. Verify the parser’s comma consumption and array-terminator
behavior while exercising the same loading paths used by gap files and ledmaps.
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2213-2213: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Populate or exclude the trailing mapping entries.

When "map" contains exactly Segment::maxWidth * Segment::maxHeight valid entries and _length is larger, deserializeMap() allocates trailing entries and leaves them at 0xFFFF. fixInvalidSegments() permits those coordinates, but getMappedPixelIndex() has no identity fallback, so they render as unmapped. Populate the entries with unused physical indices, or set customMappingSize to the matrix length so trailing coordinates use direct indexing.

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In `@wled00/FX_fcn.cpp` at line 2213, Update deserializeMap() so trailing
customMappingTable entries are either populated with unused physical indices or
excluded by setting customMappingSize to the matrix length when the map ends at
Segment::maxWidth * Segment::maxHeight; ensure fixInvalidSegments() cannot leave
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this is ready to merge for a broader audience to test, like I wrote in the opening statement, I did test this and found it to be working as intended.

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🟡 Minor · Apply the negative sign before the ] return. · file.cpp:393-405

wled00/file.cpp:393-405
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Apply the negative sign before the ] return.

When readNextIntFromFile() reads a final negative value, it returns at ] before applying negative. A final -1 therefore becomes +1.

This affects valid gap arrays and custom ledmaps. The affected consumers use -1 as an unmapped or missing-pixel sentinel. The shared fix covers the gap loader and both custom-ledmap parsing passes.

Suggested fix
     } else if (c == ']') {
-      if (foundDigit) return true; // leave ']' available for the next call to terminate with "false"
+      if (foundDigit) {
+        if (negative) value = -value;
+        return true; // leave ']' available for the next call to terminate with "false"
+      }
       f.read();                    // consume array terminator (support multiple arrays in a file)
       return false;
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Ran some quick tests, seemed like it worked pretty well to me!

@coderabbitai's final review entry is definitely a bug, though not introduced by this PR. Those return trues should just be break to pop out of the loop. Approving as is but it would be nice to fix that too.

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sparse map followed by trailing strip is not supported

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