Sources/ICCery/Print/PMTicketBridge.swift

@@ -36,7 +36,10 @@ enum PMTicketError: LocalizedError, Equatable {
 ///   so Swift hands back an unbalanced `Unmanaged`).
 /// * `PMPrinterGetPaperList`, `PMPaperGetID`, `PMPrinterGetID`,
 ///   `PMPrintSettingsGetValue` are **borrowed** → `takeUnretainedValue()`,
-///   never released.
+///   never released. `PMSessionGetCurrentPrinter` hands back the
+///   session's own printer — also borrowed, never `PMRelease`d (an
+///   over-release here dangles the session and crashes AppKit's
+///   `_printerInPrintSession` / session teardown).
 /// * `printInfo.pmPrintSession()/pmPrintSettings()/pmPageFormat()` are
 ///   borrowed from the `NSPrintInfo` → never released.
 @MainActor
@@ -102,12 +105,168 @@ enum PMTicketBridge {
         guard PMSessionGetCurrentPrinter(session, &current) == 0,
               let printer = current
         else { return fallback }
-        defer { PMRelease(object(printer)) }
+        // Borrowed from the session — never released (see header doc).
         guard let id = PMPrinterGetID(printer)
         else { return fallback }
         return id.takeUnretainedValue() as String
     }
 
+    // MARK: Ticket  (#201 D3)
+
+    /// Capture the live `PMPrintSettings` + `PMPageFormat` as XML
+    /// `Data` plus a plist-safe `NSPrintInfo.dictionary()` fallback.
+    /// The CFData out-params are **+1** by header contract
+    /// ("the caller is responsible for releasing") →
+    /// `takeRetainedValue()`.
+    static func serialise(
+        _ printInfo: NSPrintInfo,
+        queue: String
+    ) throws -> PrintTicket {
+        var settingsRef: Unmanaged<CFData>?
+        let settingsStatus = PMPrintSettingsCreateDataRepresentation(
+            settings(printInfo), &settingsRef, kPMDataFormatXMLDefault)
+        guard settingsStatus == noErr, let settingsRef else {
+            throw PMTicketError.serialiseFailed(
+                stage: "printSettings", status: settingsStatus)
+        }
+        let settingsData = settingsRef.takeRetainedValue() as Data
+
+        var pageFormatRef: Unmanaged<CFData>?
+        let pageFormatStatus = PMPageFormatCreateDataRepresentation(
+            pageFormat(printInfo), &pageFormatRef, kPMDataFormatXMLDefault)
+        guard pageFormatStatus == noErr, let pageFormatRef else {
+            throw PMTicketError.serialiseFailed(
+                stage: "pageFormat", status: pageFormatStatus)
+        }
+        let pageFormatData = pageFormatRef.takeRetainedValue() as Data
+
+        // Cocoa-level fallback — warn-only, never fatal: filter the
+        // dictionary to plist-safe values so one exotic attribute
+        // cannot fail the whole snapshot.
+        let plist = try? PropertyListSerialization.data(
+            fromPropertyList: plistSafe(printInfo.dictionary()) ?? [:],
+            format: .binary, options: 0)
+
+        return PrintTicket(
+            queue: queue,
+            printSettings: settingsData,
+            pageFormat: pageFormatData,
+            printInfoPlist: plist,
+            capturedAt: Date())
+    }
+
+    /// Rehydrate a ticket into `printInfo`'s live PM objects. Order is
+    /// load-bearing: create → copy → session-validate → Cocoa update.
+    /// Cross-queue replay is refused (R3) — the destination's bound
+    /// queue is the session's current printer; a destination with no
+    /// bound printer accepts the ticket (the spooler always binds
+    /// first, so production replay is always guarded).
+    /// A page-format failure is warn-only — paper is re-derived
+    /// upstream by the spooler's S6/S7.
+    static func restore(
+        _ ticket: PrintTicket,
+        into printInfo: NSPrintInfo
+    ) throws {
+        let bound = currentPrinterID(
+            session: session(printInfo),
+            fallback: ticket.queue)
+        guard ticket.queue == bound else {
+            AppLogger.shared.warn(
+                "PrintTicket: refusing to replay a ticket captured "
+                    + "for '\(ticket.queue)' onto '\(bound)'")
+            return
+        }
+
+        var srcSettings: PMPrintSettings?
+        let createStatus = PMPrintSettingsCreateWithDataRepresentation(
+            ticket.printSettings as CFData, &srcSettings)
+        defer {
+            if let srcSettings { PMRelease(object(srcSettings)) }
+        }
+        guard createStatus == noErr, let srcSettings else {
+            throw PMTicketError.restoreFailed(
+                stage: "printSettings", status: createStatus)
+        }
+        let copyStatus = PMCopyPrintSettings(
+            srcSettings, settings(printInfo))
+        guard copyStatus == noErr else {
+            throw PMTicketError.restoreFailed(
+                stage: "printSettings", status: copyStatus)
+        }
+        var changed = DarwinBoolean(false)
+        _ = PMSessionValidatePrintSettings(
+            session(printInfo), settings(printInfo), &changed)
+        if changed.boolValue {
+            AppLogger.shared.info(
+                "PrintTicket: driver adjusted the restored ticket")
+        }
+        printInfo.updateFromPMPrintSettings()
+
+        // Page format — warn-only.
+        var srcFormat: PMPageFormat?
+        let formatStatus = PMPageFormatCreateWithDataRepresentation(
+            ticket.pageFormat as CFData, &srcFormat)
+        defer {
+            if let srcFormat { PMRelease(object(srcFormat)) }
+        }
+        guard formatStatus == noErr, let srcFormat else {
+            AppLogger.shared.warn(
+                "PrintTicket: page format restore failed "
+                    + "(\(formatStatus)) — paper re-derived upstream")
+            return
+        }
+        guard PMCopyPageFormat(srcFormat, pageFormat(printInfo)) == noErr
+        else {
+            AppLogger.shared.warn(
+                "PrintTicket: page format copy failed — "
+                    + "paper re-derived upstream")
+            return
+        }
+        var formatChanged = DarwinBoolean(false)
+        _ = PMSessionValidatePageFormat(
+            session(printInfo), pageFormat(printInfo), &formatChanged)
+        printInfo.updateFromPMPageFormat()
+    }
+
+    /// Recursive plist-safety filter for `NSPrintInfo.dictionary()`:
+    /// keeps String / NSNumber / Bool / Date / Data / URL (→
+    /// absoluteString) / Array / Dictionary, drops everything else, so
+    /// one non-plist attribute cannot fail the whole snapshot.
+    private static func plistSafe(_ value: Any) -> Any? {
+        switch value {
+        case let string as String:
+            return string
+        case let number as NSNumber:
+            return number
+        case let date as Date:
+            return date
+        case let data as Data:
+            return data
+        case let url as URL:
+            return url.absoluteString
+        case let array as [Any]:
+            return array.compactMap(plistSafe)
+        case let dictionary as [String: Any]:
+            var safe: [String: Any] = [:]
+            for (key, element) in dictionary {
+                if let filtered = plistSafe(element) {
+                    safe[key] = filtered
+                }
+            }
+            return safe
+        case let dictionary as [NSPrintInfo.AttributeKey: Any]:
+            var safe: [String: Any] = [:]
+            for (key, element) in dictionary {
+                if let filtered = plistSafe(element) {
+                    safe[key.rawValue] = filtered
+                }
+            }
+            return safe
+        default:
+            return nil
+        }
+    }
+
     // MARK: Values
 
     /// Warn-only `PMPrintSettingsSetValue`: a driver that rejects a key

Sources/ICCery/Print/PrintPanelService.swift

@@ -59,10 +59,12 @@ struct PrintPanelService {
         cupsService: CupsService,
         initialSelections: PrintPanelInitialSelections =
             PrintPanelInitialSelections()
-    ) async throws -> PrintPropertiesResult? {
+    ) async throws -> PanelCaptureResult? {
         #if DEBUG
         if UITestHooks.printPanelStubbed {
-            return UITestHooks.printPanelResult(forQueue: queue)
+            return UITestHooks.printPanelResult(forQueue: queue).map {
+                PanelCaptureResult(properties: $0, ticket: nil)
+            }
         }
         #endif
         // `??` rhs is a non-async @autoclosure — fetch first.
@@ -84,7 +86,7 @@ struct PrintPanelService {
         displayName: String?,
         optionKeys: Set<String>,
         initialSelections: PrintPanelInitialSelections
-    ) throws -> PrintPropertiesResult? {
+    ) throws -> PanelCaptureResult? {
         let printInfo = NSPrintInfo()
         var pmPrinter: PMPrinter?
         var boundViaPM = false
@@ -177,22 +179,31 @@ struct PrintPanelService {
             mediaType = captured.mediaType
         }
         let capturedOptions = cupsOptions ?? ""
-        return PrintPropertiesResult(
-            selectedPrinter: boundViaPM
-                ? PMTicketBridge.currentPrinterID(
-                    session: PMTicketBridge.session(printInfo),
-                    fallback: queue)
-                : nil,
-            options: PrintOptions(
-                orientation: CupsParsers.extractOrientation(
-                    fromOptionsString: capturedOptions),
-                paperSize: CupsParsers.extractOption(
-                    named: "PageSize", fromOptionsString: capturedOptions),
-                mediaType: mediaType,
-                quality: CupsParsers.extractQuality(
-                    fromOptionsString: capturedOptions),
-                ppdUncorrectedPassthrough: true,
-                cupsOptions: cupsOptions))
+        let resolvedQueue = boundViaPM
+            ? PMTicketBridge.currentPrinterID(
+                session: PMTicketBridge.session(printInfo),
+                fallback: queue)
+            : queue
+        // ⑦ Serialise the native ticket — the payload `lp -o` could
+        // never carry (#201). Warn-only via `try?`: a serialise
+        // failure must not lose the Stage 2 mirror above.
+        let ticket = try? PMTicketBridge.serialise(
+            printInfo, queue: resolvedQueue)
+        return PanelCaptureResult(
+            properties: PrintPropertiesResult(
+                selectedPrinter: boundViaPM ? resolvedQueue : nil,
+                options: PrintOptions(
+                    orientation: CupsParsers.extractOrientation(
+                        fromOptionsString: capturedOptions),
+                    paperSize: CupsParsers.extractOption(
+                        named: "PageSize",
+                        fromOptionsString: capturedOptions),
+                    mediaType: mediaType,
+                    quality: CupsParsers.extractQuality(
+                        fromOptionsString: capturedOptions),
+                    ppdUncorrectedPassthrough: true,
+                    cupsOptions: cupsOptions)),
+            ticket: ticket)
     }
 
     /// Initial-selection `PMPrintSettings` writes — paper, quality,

Sources/ICCery/Print/PrintSessionViewModel.swift

@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ final class PrintSessionViewModel: ObservableObject {
     @Published var selectedQuality: String?
     @Published var printOrientation = "portrait"
     @Published var capturedCupsOptions: [String: String] = [:]
+    /// Native print tickets per queue — the spool payload (#201).
+    /// Session-only; cleared whenever the queue's mirror is.
+    @Published var capturedTickets: [String: PrintTicket] = [:]
     @Published var printNotice: Notice?
     @Published var isPrinting = false
     private var printTask: Task<Void, Never>?
@@ -164,31 +167,35 @@ final class PrintSessionViewModel: ObservableObject {
                     )
                     return
                 }
-                if let selected = result.selectedPrinter,
+                if let selected = result.properties.selectedPrinter,
                    printers.contains(where: { $0.name == selected }),
                    selected != queue {
                     selectedPrinter = selected
                     await reloadSelectedCapabilities()
                 }
-                if let captured = result.options.cupsOptions {
+                if let captured = result.properties.options.cupsOptions {
                     capturedCupsOptions[selectedPrinter] = captured
                 }
-                if let media = result.options.mediaType {
+                // The native ticket rides alongside the mirror (#201).
+                if let ticket = result.ticket {
+                    capturedTickets[ticket.queue] = ticket
+                }
+                if let media = result.properties.options.mediaType {
                     selectedMediaType = media
                 }
                 // Capture-return (#183/#186): a dialog paper/quality/
                 // orientation change updates the Stage 2 selections —
                 // never `workflow.pageSize` (printtarg layout is
                 // sacred).
-                if let paper = result.options.paperSize,
+                if let paper = result.properties.options.paperSize,
                    let match = printerCaps.paperSizes
                        .first(where: { $0.name == paper }) {
                     selectedPaperSize = match.id
                 }
-                if let quality = result.options.quality {
+                if let quality = result.properties.options.quality {
                     selectedQuality = quality
                 }
-                if let orientation = result.options.orientation {
+                if let orientation = result.properties.options.orientation {
                     printOrientation = orientation
                 }
                 printNotice = Notice(

Sources/ICCery/Print/PrintTicket.swift

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+import Foundation
+import ICCeryCore
+
+/// A captured native print ticket (#201) — the payload `lp -o` could
+/// never carry. Vendor PDE state, including opaque binary blobs, is
+/// preserved verbatim inside `printSettings`.
+///
+/// In-memory, session-only. Never written to `settings.json` or an
+/// `.icceryproj` (a ticket is queue- and driver-version-specific).
+struct PrintTicket: Equatable, Sendable {
+    /// CUPS queue id this ticket was captured for. Replay onto any other
+    /// queue is refused (R3).
+    let queue: String
+    /// `PMPrintSettingsCreateDataRepresentation(…, kPMDataFormatXMLDefault)`.
+    let printSettings: Data
+    /// `PMPageFormatCreateDataRepresentation(…, kPMDataFormatXMLDefault)`.
+    let pageFormat: Data
+    /// Binary-plist snapshot of `NSPrintInfo.dictionary()`, plist-filtered.
+    /// Cocoa-level fallback only — never the primary restore path.
+    let printInfoPlist: Data?
+    let capturedAt: Date
+}
+
+/// App-level panel outcome: the ICCeryCore `PrintPropertiesResult`
+/// (Stage 2 mirror values, #183/#186) **plus** the native ticket the
+/// spooler replays (#201).
+struct PanelCaptureResult {
+    var properties: PrintPropertiesResult
+    var ticket: PrintTicket?
+}

Tests/ICCeryCoreTests/PrintTicketTests.swift

@@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
+import AppKit
+import Foundation
+import XCTest
+@testable import ICCery
+
+/// Issue #201 Phase 2 — `PMTicketBridge.serialise`/`restore` byte
+/// round-trip, cross-queue refusal (R3), plist fallback, and the
+/// `takeRetainedValue` ownership canary.
+@MainActor
+final class PrintTicketTests: XCTestCase {
+
+    /// The queue a destination `NSPrintInfo` will report as bound —
+    /// the session's current printer, else the Cocoa printer name,
+    /// else a synthetic token for a queue-less environment.
+    private func boundQueue(of printInfo: NSPrintInfo) -> String {
+        PMTicketBridge.currentPrinterID(
+            session: PMTicketBridge.session(printInfo),
+            fallback: "UnboundQueue")
+    }
+
+    func testRoundTripRetainsVendorValue() throws {
+        let source = NSPrintInfo()
+        XCTAssertTrue(
+            PMTicketBridge.setValue(
+                "305", forKey: "EPIJ_Qual", locked: false,
+                in: PMTicketBridge.settings(source),
+                context: "PrintTicketTests"))
+
+        let target = NSPrintInfo()
+        let ticket = try PMTicketBridge.serialise(
+            source, queue: boundQueue(of: target))
+        try PMTicketBridge.restore(ticket, into: target)
+
+        XCTAssertEqual(
+            PMTicketBridge.stringValue(
+                forKey: "EPIJ_Qual",
+                in: PMTicketBridge.settings(target)),
+            "305")
+    }
+
+    func testPrintSettingsDataIsXmlPlist() throws {
+        let ticket = try PMTicketBridge.serialise(
+            NSPrintInfo(), queue: "AnyQueue")
+        XCTAssertFalse(ticket.printSettings.isEmpty)
+        XCTAssertFalse(ticket.pageFormat.isEmpty)
+        XCTAssertEqual(
+            String(decoding: ticket.printSettings.prefix(5),
+                   as: UTF8.self),
+            "<?xml")
+    }
+
+    func testCrossQueueReplayIsRefused() throws {
+        let target = NSPrintInfo()
+        let bound = boundQueue(of: target)
+        let foreign = "DefinitelyNot_\(bound)"
+        try XCTSkipIf(
+            bound == foreign,
+            "destination resolved to the foreign queue")
+
+        // Sentinel on the destination — a refused restore must leave
+        // the target's settings untouched.
+        XCTAssertTrue(
+            PMTicketBridge.setValue(
+                "999", forKey: "EPIJ_Qual", locked: false,
+                in: PMTicketBridge.settings(target),
+                context: "PrintTicketTests"))
+
+        let source = NSPrintInfo()
+        XCTAssertTrue(
+            PMTicketBridge.setValue(
+                "305", forKey: "EPIJ_Qual", locked: false,
+                in: PMTicketBridge.settings(source),
+                context: "PrintTicketTests"))
+        let ticket = try PMTicketBridge.serialise(
+            source, queue: foreign)
+
+        try PMTicketBridge.restore(ticket, into: target)
+        XCTAssertEqual(
+            PMTicketBridge.stringValue(
+                forKey: "EPIJ_Qual",
+                in: PMTicketBridge.settings(target)),
+            "999")
+    }
+
+    func testPrintInfoPlistFallbackRoundTrips() throws {
+        let source = NSPrintInfo()
+        // The `com.apple.print.PrintSettings` entry only exists once
+        // something writes into the attribute dictionary — the
+        // ColorSync mirror does this on the real panel path.
+        source.dictionary()[
+            NSPrintInfo.AttributeKey("com.apple.print.PrintSettings")] =
+            ["PMColorMatchingMode": "APCustomColorMatching"]
+                as NSDictionary
+        let ticket = try PMTicketBridge.serialise(
+            source, queue: "AnyQueue")
+        let data = try XCTUnwrap(ticket.printInfoPlist)
+        let object = try PropertyListSerialization.propertyList(
+            from: data, options: [], format: nil)
+        let dictionary = try XCTUnwrap(object as? [String: Any])
+        XCTAssertNotNil(
+            dictionary["com.apple.print.PrintSettings"])
+    }
+
+    /// 200× serialise loop — a `takeRetainedValue` over/under-release
+    /// canary. Byte counts must stay stable; ASan + Malloc Scribble
+    /// catches an actual imbalance.
+    func testSerialiseIsStableAcrossIterations() throws {
+        let source = NSPrintInfo()
+        var firstCount: Int?
+        for _ in 0..<200 {
+            let ticket = try PMTicketBridge.serialise(
+                source, queue: "AnyQueue")
+            if let first = firstCount {
+                XCTAssertEqual(ticket.printSettings.count, first)
+            } else {
+                firstCount = ticket.printSettings.count
+            }
+        }
+        XCTAssertNotNil(firstCount)
+    }
+}