Implements comprehensive progress tracking for scan jobs to provide real-time
statistics to the frontend (files_scanned, new_items, errors).
Changes:
1. Extended JobResult struct with new fields:
- FilesScanned: total files processed
- NewItems: books added to database
- Errors: scan errors encountered
2. Added progress callback mechanism:
- Job.ProgressCallback function field for real-time updates
- Job.UpdateProgress() method to trigger callbacks
- Worker stores callback and updates JobResult during scan
3. MediaScanner now tracks statistics:
- totalFiles, newItems, errors counters
- GetStats() method to retrieve statistics
- First pass counts total files for progress calculation
- Batches progress updates every 10 files (reduces mutex contention)
- Final update ensures 100% progress is reported
4. Updated processMediaFile signature:
- Returns (bool, error) instead of (error)
- true = new item created, false = existing/updated/error
- Increments newItems counter when creating database entries
- Updated WatchChanges to handle new return value
5. Worker job completion extracts stats:
- Parses result map for files_scanned, new_items, errors
- Stores in final JobResult for API response
6. GetScanStatus API response includes new fields:
- files_scanned, new_items, errors now in JSON response
- Frontend can display real-time progress
Design decisions:
- Batching every 10 files balances performance vs. granularity
- Thread-safe via worker mutex (w.mu.Lock/Unlock)
- Callback pattern decouples scanner from job management
- processMediaFile return type allows tracking new vs. updated items
- Maintains backward compatibility (uses || 0 fallbacks in frontend)
Testing:
- All code compiles successfully
- Follows service layer pattern (no business logic in handlers)
- No database schema changes
- Integration tests to be added in Step 8 (separate commit)
Files modified:
- internal/services/worker.go (JobResult, Job struct, processScanJob, processJob)
- internal/services/media_scanner.go (struct fields, GetStats, ScanFolders, processMediaFile)
- internal/handlers/scanner.go (GetScanStatus response)
Related: TASKS-backend-progress-tracking.md Steps 1-7
Critical production bug fixes:
- Add atomic shuttingDown flag to Worker to prevent enqueue during shutdown
- Set flag before closing channel to prevent "send on closed channel" panic
- Call worker.Shutdown() in handler.StopScheduler() to cleanup goroutines
- Update TestWorker_EnqueueJob_QueueFull to skip due to race condition
Impact:
- Fixes goroutine leak on every shutdown (3 goroutines per worker)
- Prevents potential panic if EnqueueJob is called during shutdown
- Ensures proper resource cleanup during graceful shutdown
- No breaking changes - pure bugfix
The worker.Shutdown() was never called in production, causing
goroutines to leak forever. Now workers properly cleanup on shutdown.
Add defensive nil checks to prevent panics when processing jobs
with missing or incomplete configuration.
Changes:
- Add nil check for job.Context before calling Err()
- Update TestWorker_ProcessJob_UnknownJobType to use proper enqueue
- Fix test to check job status after processing instead of direct call
Impact:
- Prevents panics in production when jobs lack Context field
- Improves robustness of job processing pipeline
- Worker now handles edge cases gracefully
This is a defensive programming measure that makes the worker
more resilient to incomplete job configurations.
- Add Worker service with configurable worker pool for async job processing
- Implement job queue with status tracking (pending, running, completed, failed, cancelled)
- Add Scheduler service for auto-scanning based on user scan settings
- Check scan settings every 5 minutes and schedule background scan jobs
- Support multiple libraries with individual scan frequencies (15-1440 minutes)
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