Replace the hardcoded 7-day session lifetime and fixed password
complexity rules with registry-backed accessors so they can be tuned
from the admin UI without a code change.
auth.go:
- Drop the SessionDuration const; keep DefaultSessionDuration (7 days)
as the fallback used when no registry is wired (e.g. in tests).
- AuthHandler gains an optional *database.SettingsRegistry and a
sessionDuration() helper that reads the registry, falling back to
DefaultSessionDuration.
- Cookie MaxAge, JWT exp claim, and ExpiresIn responses now derive from
sessionDuration() instead of the package-level SessionDurationSec, so
a settings change takes effect on the next login.
refresh_token.go:
- Refresh-token lifetime follows sessionDuration() via a new
refreshTokenTTL() helper (was a separate refreshTokenExpiration const
that silently had to be kept in sync with the session duration).
password_validator.go:
- PasswordValidator now reads min length and the upper/lower/number/
special toggles from the registry at validation time, so rule
changes apply immediately. The special-character regex is compiled
once and reused (sync.Once).
- GetPasswordRequirements() and ValidatePassword() reflect the active
configured rules instead of a static list.
- Add SetDefaultPasswordSettings() so the package-level default
validator (used by echo's struct-tag validator) follows live config.
All paths degrade gracefully to the historical defaults when no
registry is wired.
Remove redundant type conversions that Go 1.26 makes unnecessary or that
were already no-ops:
- uuid.UUID(x.Bytes) → x.Bytes (uuid.UUID is [16]byte, same as pgtype UUID Bytes)
- pgtype.UUID{Bytes: [16]byte(u), Valid: true} → pgtype.UUID{Bytes: u, Valid: true}
- (*time.Time)(&x.Time) → &x.Time
- json.RawMessage(x) → x where x is already []byte
- []byte(stringVal) → stringVal where []byte is expected
- int()/int64()/byte() casts on values already of the target type
- Decompressor(fn) → fn (type is identical)
Handle previously ignored error returns:
- collections.go: check json.Unmarshal error in GetCollection
- conversion_service.go: check fileSize.Scan() error
- app_test.go: check app.Shutdown() error in benchmark
Replace direct error equality checks (err == pgx.ErrNoRows, err != http.ErrServerClosed)
with the idiomatic errors.Is() function throughout handlers, services, middleware, and app
startup. This correctly handles wrapped error chains.
Also replace a raw type assertion (*HTTPError) with errors.AsType[*HTTPError]() in the
error handler middleware for consistency.
Additionally, rename shadowed variables for clarity:
- sidecar.go: config -> sidecarConfig, systemConfig (shadowed package-level vars)
- media_scanner.go: uuid -> uuidString (shadowed the uuid package import)
- Add SessionDuration constant (7 days) and SessionDurationSec computed value
- Update JWT token expiration to use SessionDuration instead of 1 hour
- Update register/login cookie MaxAge to use SessionDurationSec (604800)
- Update register/login API response ExpiresIn to use SessionDurationSec
- Update refresh token endpoint ExpiresIn to use SessionDurationSec
- Remove redundant client-side document.cookie lines from login/register
- Add TODO comment for HTTPS cookie Secure flag
This provides Google-like persistent sessions with a single source of truth
for session duration, eliminating hardcoded values throughout the codebase.
- Add parseTokenUUID() helper to convert string to pgtype.UUID
- Update RefreshAccessToken to parse token string to UUID before validation
- Update Logout to parse token string to UUID before revoking
- Update CreateRefreshToken to pass UUID directly to database
- Update auth.go: fix return value order from CreateRefreshToken
- Remove unnecessary comments for cleaner code
john-okeefe