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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