WHY: downloads needed manual refreshes to see progress; the 204 +
HX-Trigger event indirection missed its listener, and the worker
buffered whole enclosures so no progress existed to show.
- Worker streams enclosures to disk through a counting loop (64KiB
chunks, scheme/redirect/size guards preserved) with an in-memory
per-episode progress snapshot (received/total; total from
Content-Length, seeded by the feed's declared length). Deliberately
transient — the DB row state remains the durable truth.
- Episode-list renderer seam: the router injects a closure into
PodcastHandler (handlers can't import templates — MediaDetail cycle)
so htmx download/retry/Download All/refresh/order/policy actions
answer with the REFRESHED partial directly (200, hx-target=
#episode-list) — no events to miss. Non-HX callers keep JSON; tests
without a renderer keep 204+trigger.
- Polling tightens to 2s while downloads are active; downloading rows
render a percentage bar + MB counter (quote-free inline style per
templ gotcha #8) or an indeterminate bar when the server sends no
length.
- Issue #3: Download All (button AND the add-feed checkbox) flips the
CALLER's subscription policy to 'all' — per-user, never global (D6:
files shared, policies not) — and the auto-download select
out-of-band-swaps so the dropdown shows what the user is getting.
They can turn it down afterwards; the flip is honest communication,
not coercion (user-approved 2026-10-29).
PINs: Download All with HX answers 200 + episode-list + oob select and
flips newest → all; add-feed download_all sets policy all.
WHY: the /podcasts search box filtered feed CARDS only (title, display
name, host, publisher, feed description). D14's episode search existed
only as the /api/podcasts/search endpoint and was never wired into the
page — searching 'Quarter' (present only in episode titles) cleared the
grid while 'Trader' (feed metadata) survived.
The page query now consults SearchMyPodcastEpisodes (subscription-scoped
via RLS — the caller's identity) when a query is present; a feed
surfaces when its OWN metadata OR any of its episodes matches, with an
'N matching episode(s)' badge on the card.
PIN: SSR test with a needle that exists only in an episode title — the
feed must surface with the match count.
WHY: htmx sends non-GET requests urlencoded by default; the SetFeedOrder
request struct only carried a json tag, so the binder left Order empty
and 'required' fired — the exact error the order dropdown AND the
Serial-suggestion button produced (hx-vals JSON also arrives
form-encoded). One form tag fixes both controls.
Regression test drives the exact wire format: urlencoded PUT with
order=oldest/native → 200, empty/invalid → 400.
Invariant 3: progress anchors on the episode row (guid identity +
chapter/offset), never the ordinal. Renumbering feed_position (the
fetcher's per-fetch renumber case) leaves the progress row untouched
and the sequence membership stable — downloaded-only with no gaps.
cmd/server/tests/podcast_test.go — six suites, the shared-dev-DB
doctrine (test*-named libraries, cascading cleanup, no binary
fixtures):
- TestPodcastRLSSurfaces: THE AUDITOR (invariant 13) — non-subscriber
404 on feed detail + SSR page (existence leak), episodes absent from
generic media reads, admin escape, subscriber visibility, then the
hidden-library flip hiding an already-subscribed feed (the feed
policy's library-visibility join). Seeding runs as the FIRST ADMIN —
the seed identity has neither subscription nor users row, so podcast
INSERT..RETURNING (SELECT policy under FORCE) 42501s for it;
production pods run as exactly that admin (invariant 12). All direct
row probes read through the admin scope for the same reason.
- TestPodcastAddFeedFlow: member add + subscribe + metadata-only
upsert; duplicate-URL dedupe (no second row); allow_member_feeds
gate (member 403 / admin 201 / subscribe-still-allowed).
- TestPodcastShrunkenFeedRetention: feed purges an episode from the
XML, both rows persist (upsert-without-delete pin, D14).
- TestPodcastEditSegregation: generic edit 400 + write-to-file refusal
for episodes; control book edit unaffected.
- TestPodcastDownloadWorker (ffmpeg-generated tone at runtime): file
lands at <download-root>/<feed-slug>/NNNN-…, audio_metadata probed;
re-download of a downloaded episode never re-fetches (idempotency
pin, enclosure-hit counted); dead enclosure → failed + persisted
reason + metadata intact. Fetch/SSRF tests swap the client via
SetPodcastHTTPClientForTests (the production client refuses
loopback httptest servers by design — the real client gets its own
negative test in services).
- TestPodcastScannerExclusion: SetFolders on a podcasts library root
yields zero scanner folders (invariant 4 pin) — MediaScanner
.FolderCount() accessor added.
Unit: internal/services/podcast_rss_test.go — namespace-aware parsing
fixture (three XML namespaces, fallback chains, hosts/guests),
duration spellings, RFC-822 variants, explicit variants, slug/path
layout, enclosure-extension selection, stripHTML, and the SSRF matrix
(private/loopback/link-local/multicast/mapped-v6 blocked; a loopback
httptest server PROVES the production client refuses it).
suites green: full integration run 161s / 0 failures; vitest 12 files
163 tests.
Contract widening: TestContractPin_MediaListBothBranches' raw-row
allowlist gains the 15 podcast episode columns (additive; documented in
docs/contract_pins.md — inert defaults on scan rows). Bruno: bruno/
podcasts/ mirrors the §8 endpoints (12 requests) + Bookhoard env vars.
tests/ui/COVERAGE.md rows 18-23: podcasts pages/lifecycle/RLS/chain —
Playwright sweep pending.
John O'Keefe