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Why

Finding #13 of the Oct 1 architecture review: unused code and dependencies ship to every app. DeviceAttestationHelper (308 lines), its API, and the Play Integrity dependency have had no callers since #571 (266c525). About 470 lines of reflection helpers only build annotations that nothing reads. kotlinx-datetime and lifecycle-viewmodel-ktx have no imports.

This is the first PR of two. The telemetry half of the finding (multiplatform in name only, Ktor shipped beside Retrofit) is in the stacked PR on top of this one.

Scope

• Device attestation (reuses the approach from refactor(api): delete unused device attestation and Play Integrity #1001, which was closed without a stated objection; its only review called the change complete):
  • Delete DeviceAttestationHelper, DeviceAttestationHelperTest, and DeviceAttestationApi.
  • Remove ClerkApi.deviceAttestation, the clearCache() call in Clerk.reset(), and ApiPaths.Client.DeviceAttestation.
  • Remove the google-playIntegrity catalog entry and dependency.
  • Remove the three detekt baseline entries for the deleted code, and the DeviceAttestationApi exclusion from ServiceInterfaceValidationTest.
  • Deprecate the public Constants.Attestation object instead of deleting it. Nothing reads it, but deleting it would break any app that references it. It can go in the next major version.
• Reflection helpers. ClerkApiResultConverterFactory built a ResultType annotation for the error type, and ClerkApiResultCallAdapterFactory built a StatusCode annotation for each failed response. Both were appended to the annotations passed to the kotlinx-serialization converter, which never reads them. Nothing else read them either. This PR deletes Annotations.kt, ResultType.kt, StatusCode.kt, Types.kt, ParameterizedTypeImpl.kt, WildcardTypeImpl.kt, and GenericArrayTypeImpl.kt (455 lines), and passes the caller's annotations through unchanged. All of these were internal.
• Dependencies. Drop kotlinx-datetime and lifecycle-viewmodel-ktx from :source:api. Neither has an import in any module. Both were declared implementation, not api as the review said, so no public signature can expose their types. :source:api uses only lifecycleScope from lifecycle-runtime-ktx. :source:ui gets ViewModel and viewModelScope from lifecycle-viewmodel-compose. This PR also removes the kotlinx-datetime catalog entry. The lifecycle-viewmodel entry stays because the samples and the e2e app declare it directly.

Blast Radius

• Apps no longer get these artifacts at runtime: com.google.android.play:integrity, com.google.android.play:core-common, and org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-datetime(-jvm). Together they are about 1.15 MB of unshrunk jars and AARs. lifecycle-viewmodel-ktx drops out of :source:api's graph. :source:ui apps still get it through Compose.
• All three were implementation dependencies, so apps never compiled against them through the SDK. An app breaks only if it uses one of them at runtime without declaring it.
• api-release.aar shrinks from 2,226,968 to 2,170,716 bytes (-56 KB).
• No public API is removed. Constants.Attestation gains a deprecation warning.
• Expected conflicts: test: audit the unit test suite for tests that don't test anything #985 edits DeviceAttestationHelperTest.kt. Resolve by deleting the file. test: audit the unit test suite for tests that don't test anything #985 also edits ClerkApiResultConverterFactoryTest.kt. Keep both sets of changes. feat(protect): integrate mobile challenges #910 adds ClerkProtect.reset() next to the removed clearCache() call. Resolve by keeping ClerkProtect.reset(). The explicit-API/ABI-dump work (finding 6) will need its dumps regenerated after this PR.

Testing

• ./gradlew :source:api:spotlessApply :source:api:detekt :source:api:testDebugUnitTest on JDK 21 passed. Rerun after rebasing onto main at 7ffc6d3 (refactor(api): deprecate the old SignIn/SignUp auth entry points #1039): 859 api tests, 0 failures. :source:ui unit tests and :source:telemetry still compile.
• New test: ClerkApiResultConverterFactoryTest checks that the caller's annotations reach the delegate converter unchanged. It fails on main, where a synthetic ResultType is appended. ClerkApiResultCallAdapterFactoryTest now builds its Call<ClerkResult<…>> type from an interface method instead of the deleted ParameterizedTypeImpl.
• ServiceInterfaceValidationTest passes with no exclusion.
• These compile against the changed :source:api: :source:ui (main and unit tests), :source:telemetry, all four samples, :workbench, and :e2e.
• :source:api:dependencies --configuration releaseRuntimeClasspath, before and after: the only modules that differ are lifecycle-viewmodel-ktx, play:integrity, play:core-common, kotlinx-datetime, and kotlinx-datetime-jvm. In :source:ui's release runtime classpath, the only modules that differ are play:integrity, play:core-common, and kotlinx-datetime(-jvm).

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• Changes
  • Device attestation is no longer performed, and related integrity checks and API support have been removed.
  • Attestation constants remain available but are deprecated and planned for removal in a future major version.
  • Network response conversion now passes the original annotations to the delegate converter instead of adding extra conversion metadata.
  • Other network response handling remains unchanged.

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Walkthrough

The SDK removes device-attestation implementation and API wiring. Retrofit converter factories now pass caller annotations to delegate conversion calls. Related annotation and reflection-type helpers are removed.

Changes

Device attestation removal

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Remove device-attestation flow source/api/src/main/kotlin/com/clerk/api/network/ApiPaths.kt, source/api/src/main/kotlin/com/clerk/api/network/api/DeviceAttestationApi.kt, source/api/src/main/kotlin/com/clerk/api/attestation/DeviceAttestationHelper.kt, source/api/src/main/kotlin/com/clerk/api/network/ClerkApi.kt, source/api/src/main/kotlin/com/clerk/api/Clerk.kt, source/api/src/test/java/com/clerk/api/network/api/ServiceInterfaceValidationTest.kt, source/api/src/test/java/com/clerk/api/attestation/DeviceAttestationHelperTest.kt	The attestation helper, endpoints, and ClerkApi service wiring are removed. Clerk.reset() no longer clears the attestation cache. Service interface validation no longer skips DeviceAttestationApi, and the helper tests are deleted.
Remove attestation support source/api/src/main/kotlin/com/clerk/api/Constants.kt, source/api/build.gradle.kts, gradle/libs.versions.toml, config/detekt/detekt-baseline.xml	Constants.Attestation is deprecated. Attestation-related dependencies and catalog aliases are removed. The Detekt baseline entries are removed.

Retrofit converter annotations

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Pass through caller annotations source/api/src/main/kotlin/com/clerk/api/network/serialization/ClerkApiResultCallAdapterFactory.kt, source/api/src/main/kotlin/com/clerk/api/network/serialization/ClerkApiResultConverterFactory.kt, source/api/src/test/java/com/clerk/api/network/serialization/ClerkApiResultCallAdapterFactoryTest.kt, source/api/src/test/java/com/clerk/api/network/serialization/ClerkApiResultConverterFactoryTest.kt	The call adapter and converter factory pass the original annotations to delegate conversion calls. Tests cover annotation pass-through, and the call adapter test obtains a generic return type through reflection.
Remove annotation and type helpers source/api/src/main/kotlin/com/clerk/api/network/serialization/Annotations.kt, source/api/src/main/kotlin/com/clerk/api/network/serialization/ResultType.kt, source/api/src/main/kotlin/com/clerk/api/network/serialization/StatusCode.kt, source/api/src/main/kotlin/com/clerk/api/network/serialization/GenericArrayTypeImpl.kt, source/api/src/main/kotlin/com/clerk/api/network/serialization/ParameterizedTypeImpl.kt, source/api/src/main/kotlin/com/clerk/api/network/serialization/Types.kt, source/api/src/main/kotlin/com/clerk/api/network/serialization/WildcardTypeImpl.kt	The annotation helpers and annotation types are deleted, along with the reflection-type implementations and utilities.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Refactor

Suggested reviewers: mikepitre

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to c424a

No production regression is established. Consider adding the focused call-adapter annotation-forwarding test to protect the changed behavior.

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source/api/src/main/kotlin/com/clerk/api/network/serialization/ClerkApiResultCallAdapterFactory.kt (1)

118-118: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a nonempty-annotation error-path test.

enqueueErrorResponse always requests the adapter with emptyArray(). ThrowingConverterFactory also ignores its annotations argument. This test cannot detect discarded caller annotations or an appended StatusCode.

Add a case that passes a nonempty annotation array, exercises the 400 response, and compares the delegate’s received annotations with the caller array.

Suggested fix

+  @Test
+  fun `forwards caller annotations to error converter`() {
+    val expected = arrayOf<Annotation>(Deprecated("marker"))
+    var received: Array<out Annotation>? = null
+    val retrofit =
+      retrofit(
+        ThrowingConverterFactory(IllegalStateException()) { received = it }
+      )
+
+    enqueueErrorResponse(retrofit, "{}", expected)
+
+    assertEquals(expected.toList(), received?.toList())
+  }
+
   private interface ErrorService {
     @GET("error") suspend fun fetch(): ClerkResult<Unit, ClerkErrorResponse>
   }
 
@@
-  private fun enqueueErrorResponse(retrofit: Retrofit, body: String): ClerkResult<*, *>? {
+  private fun enqueueErrorResponse(
+    retrofit: Retrofit,
+    body: String,
+    annotations: Array<out Annotation> = emptyArray(),
+  ): ClerkResult<*, *>? {
     val returnType = CallShapes::class.java.getMethod("unitCall").genericReturnType
     val adapter =
-      retrofit.callAdapter(returnType, emptyArray())
+      retrofit.callAdapter(returnType, annotations)
         as CallAdapter<ClerkResult<*, *>, Call<ClerkResult<*, *>>>
 
@@
-  private class ThrowingConverterFactory(private val throwable: Throwable) : Converter.Factory() {
+  private class ThrowingConverterFactory(
+    private val throwable: Throwable,
+    private val onAnnotations: (Array<out Annotation>) -> Unit = {},
+  ) : Converter.Factory() {
     override fun responseBodyConverter(
       type: Type,
       annotations: Array<out Annotation>,
       retrofit: Retrofit,
-    ): Converter<ResponseBody, *> = Converter<ResponseBody, Any> { throw throwable }
+    ): Converter<ResponseBody, *> {
+      onAnnotations(annotations)
+      return Converter<ResponseBody, Any> { throw throwable }
+    }
   }

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