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evgeniyChepelev f2318a8fef [client] iOS - Remove duplicate Login RPCs from the iOS SDK (#6931)
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Removes redundant `Login` RPCs from the iOS SDK bindings.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
* Added an interactive iOS login option that starts authentication
directly when needed.
* Improved login flow handling, including clearer error reporting and
successful-login notifications.
* Login configuration is now saved automatically after successful
authentication when applicable.

* **Bug Fixes**
  * Prevented duplicate login requests during iOS startup.
* Improved startup behavior and error propagation when the management
service is unavailable.

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Removes redundant `Login` RPCs from the iOS SDK bindings. Both changed
files are behind
the `ios` build tag — Android, desktop and the shared core are not
affected.

### Problem

`auth.Auth.IsLoginRequired()` is not a cheap probe: it calls
`doMgmLogin()` and classifies
the resulting error, so every "is login required?" check costs a **full
`Login` RPC**. There
is no lighter way to ask. As a result the iOS client issued ~7 `Login`
requests before the
first `Sync`, where Android issues ~3, and the extra ones were
indistinguishable from real
logins in the management logs.

Three of those came from this package:

1. `Run()` called `LoginSync()` before starting the engine, which
performs `IsLoginRequired`
**and** `Login` — two RPCs. This duplicated the engine's own
`loginToManagement`
(`client/internal/connect.go`), which runs immediately before the first
`Sync` and is the
authoritative login. The `Login(ctx, "", "")` inside `LoginSync` could
not even establish
anything: with an empty setup key and empty JWT, a registration attempt
fails by
   construction, so it was a pure check.
2. `Auth.login()` called `IsLoginRequired()` again before opening the
browser, even when the
   caller had already determined that login is needed.

This is not only wasted traffic:

- **It pushes peers toward the server-side login ban.** In
`management/internals/shared/grpc/loginfilter.go`, every login with
unchanged metadata
increments `sessionCounter`, and exceeding `reconnLimitForBan` (30)
within
`reconnThreshold` (5 min) bans the peer for `baseBlockDuration` (10
min), doubling on
repeat. Redundant logins carry identical metadata, so they count against
exactly this
budget. At 7 logins per connect the budget is exhausted after ~4
reconnects instead of
  ~10 — reachable on flaky mobile networks.
- **Each redundant check is a potential 2-minute stall.**
`IsLoginRequired` retries with
backoff up to `MaxElapsedTime` (2 min) and returns `true` on failure, so
an unreachable
server was reported as "login required" rather than as a timeout, and
the `LoginSync`
  pre-flight could abort engine startup on that basis.

### Changes

**`client/ios/NetBirdSDK/client.go`** — `Run()` no longer performs the
`LoginSync()`
pre-flight. The engine's `loginToManagement` remains the single
authoritative login.

**`client/ios/NetBirdSDK/login.go`** — new exported `LoginInteractive`,
which skips the
`IsLoginRequired()` pre-flight and goes straight to the browser /
device-code flow, for
callers that have already established login is required.
`LoginWithDeviceName` keeps the
check for callers where the auth state is unknown (tvOS). Both now
delegate to a shared
`startLogin()`.

### Why this is safe

An expired or revoked session still fails the connection, one step later
and through a
single path: `loginToManagement` returns `PermissionDenied` → the
deferred
`MarkManagementDisconnected` records it on the shared status recorder →
`ClientStop` fires
the listener's disconnect callback, where `IsLoginRequiredCached()`
reports login-required →
the client tears the tunnel down. The error is also returned out of
`Run()`.

Where the server is unreachable, the engine now retries with backoff and
recovers on its
own instead of aborting the start.

Co-authored-by: Zoltan Papp <zoltan.pmail@gmail.com>
2026-08-02 09:51:14 +02:00
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2023-05-18 19:47:36 +02:00