- Field registry (services/filter_registry.go): ~55 typed fields —
every book column, file/lifecycle facts, the three HOLDING
STRUCTURES (library, collections with excluded-aware membership,
series with FULL primary+alternate_info membership), and the whole
user-relative class (status, progress, last read, my rating, review,
notes/highlights presence, note/highlight text, time spent, pages
read, collections, added by) reading the VIEWER's rows. Operators
are typed constants; negation is an operator.
- Composed engines (services/filter_query.go): one Go clause builder
over raw pgx feeds the search (identical SearchMediaItemsUnifiedRow
shape), the field-aware suggestions, and a true-COUNT live count.
Mandatory WHERE head everywhere (family lens + integrity facts).
Values are always bound parameters — no user string reaches a
field/operator position, ever.
- Wire: the qf JSON param (validated strictly — unknown
fields/operators/malformed values are 400); qf wins over flat params
on hand-crafted URLs; flat deep links keep working unchanged.
- Endpoints: GET /api/media-items/filter-count (live count);
field-values autocomplete upgraded in place — any registry field
key, qf binds the OTHER rules (symmetric under-filter suggestions,
zero-match values never offered); classic six without a tree keep
their static pinned contract.
- UI: the drawer becomes the rule builder — the ONLY filter UI (templ
markup, Alpine tree state, sanctioned island; grouped field menus,
operator menus with red negations, field-aware value menus, live
count, chips per rule with red negations, URL rehydration, smart
serialization flat-when-simple else qf).
- Tests: composed semantics (AND/OR/negation/nesting/enums/bools/
numbers/dates/empty), every user-relative field class with the
my-data weld (two readers, different worlds), note-text substring
pin (catharsis ≠ Carthage), family lens (hidden libraries nowhere,
403s), suggestion-under-rules exactness, qf validation + precedence,
flat-vs-tree equivalence; registry completeness unit test.
Phase 1 + backend of Phase 2 of the faceted-navigation plan. One
declarative facet registry (services/facet_registry.go) drives the
bookshelf filter system; a drift-guard unit test reflects over the
generated SearchMediaItemsUnifiedParams so a registry entry and its
sqlc.narg block can never disagree silently.
- Nine new filter params on SearchMediaItemsUnified: story_arc,
imprint, edition (scalar-fuzzy), age_rating, format_group,
manga_type, reading_direction (exact), explicit, abridged
(presence-bound bools). Comma = OR-within multi-select on every
text facet; AND-across-facets unchanged.
- Genre model v2 (user rule: a subgenre is not a genre, it's a tag):
genre_lexicon.go rebuilt as shelf set + subgenre->shelf map;
pickSmartGenre picks direct shelf > mapped subgenre > Fiction floor
> empty (unknown-only stays tags-only). Type-words (Manga, Comics,
Graphic Novel) join the demote list. Both 'adventure' and 'action &
adventure' are shelves — provider data uses both and the verified
traces pin them.
- Language filter UX: comma elements normalize through the ingest
language map, so display names ('English') match rows stored as ISO
codes ('en'). The language autocomplete now serves display names.
- NEW GET /api/media-items/facets?facet=X&library_id=... — registry-
driven value+count listing (14 static per-column queries, family-lens
join); language values carry display names; bool/range facets 400.
- Family-lens gates: an explicit hidden-library library_id is now a
403 on the search endpoints (was a silent empty set) — JSON branch
and HTMX grid partial both.
- handlers.ParseMediaSearchParams is the SINGLE param parser for the
search JSON endpoint and the HTMX grid partial; the HTML branch
previously dropped publisher_filter and narrator_filter silently.
Pins: docs/contract_pins.md changelog entries (additive request
params; new facets endpoint). Tests: facet_registry_test.go (shape +
SQL drift guard + library-type union), series_parsing_test.go genre-v2
cases, facets_integration_test.go (param filtering e2e, counts,
language display, 403s) — container runner.
handlers textToString, router textToString, router getText, and utils
normText were four copies of the same NULL-to-empty unwrap (99 call
sites). One exported utils.PgTextString replaces them all; the private
normText (comparison normalizer) stays but is now the odd one out.
Harness fix found on the way: setupTestServer built a full wiring
literal for route registration and then RETURNED a second, sparser
literal that never copied AnnotationService — setup.AnnotationService
was always nil on the struct every test receives. Nobody noticed until
cross_library_move_test became the first caller (it previously used
the now-retired plain CreateMediaHighlight query); it now exercises
the real SaveHighlight path through the wired service.
router/search.go (the templ BooksGrid fragment surface) now uses
BookCardsFromUnified — the unified row's LibraryTypeName column gives
the badge with no LibraryTypeMap query; also drops that site's
needless pgtype.UUID byte-roundtrip on the cover URL.
Annotations banner: audio/text bookmarks join notes and highlights —
third row kind (bookmark glyph indicator, H:MM:SS / Page N / Chapter N
friendly labels), edit-note/delete actions branch by kind, and the
banner's export now covers all annotations. The archived ledger
(ListDeletedAnnotationsForBook) already tombstoned bookmarks equally
and Restore/Purge take annotation_type=bookmark — verified live:
delete → restore brings the row back with its note intact.
Volume: the dragger sits BELOW the mute icon in the panel (stacked
flyout shape) with the horizontal slider from the last round.
Badges: the real fix for comics/manga — format_group only knows
'comic_archive' (manga_type is unreliable across sources), so the
comic/manga split is resolved from the LIBRARY type server-side.
handlers.MediaBadgeKind + BookInfo.Badge at every construction site
(dashboard SSR + sections API, collections, series, and the bookshelf
search grid — which was also missing FormatGroup entirely, so no card
ever badged there). Both renderers (templ + dashboard.ts) switch on
the resolved badge. Verified: All-Books grid renders 2 Comic + 3
Manga badges, dashboard the audiobook one.
Infra: header.templ main.js src gains ?v=<stamp> — browsers keyed an
intermediate bundle by URL and served it across rebuilds (the stale
'Add note' the user saw); bump the stamp when JS stale-shadows.
The /collections/:id page had several broken features because three
referenced functions (removeBook, toggleBookForRemoval,
filterCollectionBooks) were never defined, and every book card was
wrapped in <a href="/media/..."> so clicking the checkbox or remove
button navigated to the book detail page instead.
Card restructure:
- Remove the <a> wrapper; title and cover are now individual links.
- Checkbox sits in a <label> with expanded click area (p-2 -m-2).
- Checkbox uses Alpine :checked/@change bound to a reactive
selectedBooks array on the collections component.
Remove (single + bulk):
- Add removeBook(id) and bulkRemove() methods with confirm() dialogs.
- Wire the "Remove Selected" button with :disabled binding and @click.
- Selected-count badge is now Alpine-reactive (x-show/x-text).
Search within collection:
- Add filterCollectionBooks() that filters cards client-side by
title/author via data-* attributes and @input.
Book picker ("Add Books"):
- Point the HTMX search inputs at the existing /api/media-items/search
endpoint instead of the non-existent /api/media-items/filtered.
- Add hx-trigger="loadBooks" + hx-get to the grid so loadBooks()
actually fires an initial request when the picker opens.
- Merge the hidden limit/offset inputs into the #book-picker-filters
div so hx-include picks them up (was a separate <form id=filter-form>
that nobody referenced).
- Add show_checkbox mode to handleSearchHTML: when present, render a
new BookPickerGrid template with clickable, selectable cards instead
of the reader BookCard.
- Fix bookPicker submit() to location.reload() instead of a non-existent
reloadCollection HTMX event, and clearFilters() to target text inputs.
The play button on book cards now opens the reader directly, instead of
always going to the detail page. Cards with an active progress sync
conflict route the play button to the detail page (which hosts the
conflict dialogue and resolves before writing progress), so the user is
never silently dropped into the reader with an unresolved conflict.
Backend:
- Add HasConflict to BookInfo and stamp it via ListSyncConflictsByUser
(MarkActiveConflicts / MarkActiveConflictsSections) on the dashboard,
bookshelf, series, tag, and search result card builders.
- Each page issues a single conflict query regardless of card count.
BookCard:
- Restructure into a detail link (cover + meta) with the play action as a
sibling overlay using a pointer-events split: the container passes
clicks through to detail while only the circular button routes to the
reader. No nested anchors.
- On touch devices (hover: none) the play button stays visible.
Fix: carousel nav buttons had opacity-0 without pointer-events-none, so
they swallowed hover/clicks over book cards on the dashboard. They are
now click-through until the carousel is hovered.
Updated the backend services and handlers to properly detect and pass
the has_cover parameter's validity state to the database layer.
Changes:
- services/search.go: Changed HasCover type from bool to pgtype.Bool
to support 3-state logic (NULL, TRUE, FALSE)
- handlers/media.go: Fixed 3-state detection by checking if has_cover
exists in query params before setting Valid flag
- router/search.go: Fixed 3-state detection to match media.go logic
- router/frontend.go: Use pgtype.Bool{Valid: false} for SSR initial
load to ensure no filtering occurs on first page load
The key fix is detecting whether the has_cover parameter was actually
sent in the request:
- Parameter not sent → pgtype.Bool{Bool: false, Valid: false}
- Parameter sent as "true" → pgtype.Bool{Bool: true, Valid: true}
- Parameter sent as "false" → pgtype.Bool{Bool: false, Valid: true}
Previously, media.go was hardcoding Valid: true, which meant it was
always filtering by has_cover=false (only books without covers) when
the parameter wasn't sent, causing searches to incorrectly return
0 results for queries like "1984".
This ensures consistency between the JSON API endpoint (media.go) and
the HTML endpoint (search.go), and fixes the critical bug where SSR
was returning 0 books on initial page load.
Rewrite /api/media-items/search endpoint to detect HTMX requests and return appropriate response format. The endpoint now checks for HX-Request header and routes to HTML renderer or JSON handler accordingly.
- Check HX-Request header to detect HTMX requests
- Return HTML via BooksGrid template for HTMX requests
- Return JSON for API clients (existing behavior)
- Add handleSearchHTML function for HTML rendering
- Use shared MediaHandler.ExecuteSearch method
- Eliminates previous issue where JSON was rendered in browser
- Update Config struct to replace EbookHandler with MediaHandler, SearchHandler, MatchingHandler
- Add CollectionHandler to Config struct
- Update RegisterRoutes to call new registration functions
- Create registerCollectionsRoutes for 15 collection endpoints
- Create registerSearchRoutes for search endpoints (uses MediaHandler.SearchMediaItems, MatchingHandler.QueryBooks)
- Create registerMatchingRoutes for 8 matching/linking endpoints
- Update registerMediaRoutes to use cfg.MediaHandler (adds 24 media endpoints)
- Create registerProgressRoutes for 3 universal progress endpoints
All 57 routes preserved and properly registered with correct handlers.
No functionality lost, all endpoints work identically.
This is Phase 5 of the ebook.go refactoring plan.
John O'Keefe
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