Phase 2b + 3 of the metadata overhaul (plan §2.4, §3.1-3.7).
Auto-playlist collections (§2.4): the scanner turns obviously-playlist
sidecar series (explicit '(Reading Order)'/chronological/publication/
in-order/timeline markers only — precision over recall) into curated
static collections: upsert by view_settings.imported_from_series then
name (rename-safe), position set ONLY on insert (clean integers; 1.5/1a
stay unpositioned rather than guessing), membership add-if-missing,
never removed or re-ordered by rescans, provenance in description +
view_settings, show_on_dashboard true (dashboard-eligible by design),
'scanner.auto_playlist_collections' setting (default on, Settings
Registry + schema seed).
Ordering (§3.1-3.2): collection listings order position ASC NULLS LAST
then added_at ASC (was added_at DESC — walked playlists backwards);
PUT /api/collections/:id/items/order applies full-order rewrites
(owner-only, service-gated).
hide_finished + Up Next (§3.3-3.4): GetCollectionItemsForDashboard
gains viewer_user_id + hide_finished (LEFT JOIN reading_progress,
COALESCE percentage < 0.999) and viewer_percentage rides the row for
card graying; GetCollectionUpNext serves the collection's reading-queue
head with the family-lens visible-library array enforced.
Dashboard (§3.5): user collections are dashboard-ELIGIBLE BY DEFAULT —
the show_on_dashboard gate (never writable for user rows since the
column shipped) is gone from GetUserCollectionsForDashboard; hiding
stays dashboard-prefs (hidden_collections) territory; hide_finished
filtered-everything now emits a Complete section instead of silently
vanishing; sections JSON carries is_playlist/complete.
Series page ordering hardening (§3.6): GetSeriesBooks tiebreaks by
title ASC — NULL/tied numbers previously returned heap (scan) order,
which is what the user saw.
Frontend custom-section-builder note: the builder has sent
show_on_dashboard: true since its creation; the API never bound it.
User-row visibility is now intentionally prefs-governed, so the field
stays unbound by design (documented in code).
Pins widened (docs/contract_pins.md): collection detail + up_next;
dashboard sections + is_playlist/complete; new reorder endpoint
recorded.
Verified: TestPlaylistCollectionsEndToEnd (new, full e2e: sidecar
series split, collection auto-creation with position 7, rescan
idempotency, owner-only reorder, finished-filter + completion marker +
Up Next drain) plus the full affected integration sweep green.
SELECT mi.*, ci.excluded forced every caller to filter tombstone
exclusions in Go over a 69-field row, then a 45-field hand converter
(getCollectionItemsRowToMediaItems) copied it field-by-field into
MediaItems for BuildSections. The query now filters
(ci.excluded IS NOT TRUE) itself and returns sqlc.embed(mi) — callers
consume .MediaItems directly, the Go filter loops die in both
collection-detail ladders (JSON + SSR), and the converter is deleted.
Pins, H1/H3 tests, unit suites green.
checkRulesAgainstBook/evaluateRule and the service's EvaluateRules
existed in two parallel universes: one over database.MediaItems (what
every query actually returns) and one over ListMediaItemsRow (what two
hand-written 45-field mediaItemsToListMediaItemsRow converters
produced — verbatim twins in the handler and the dashboard service,
with a URL-resolution side effect baked into a "converter"). The rule
fields (genre/series/author/language/publisher/copyright_year/tags)
all exist on MediaItems, so the evaluators now take the real row and
the converters, their three call-site loops, and the dead
ApplyAutoAssignRules entry point (zero callers) are gone.
The rules surface is wire-covered by the collections rules scenarios;
handlers+services suites and the full pin/H1/H3 battery green.
The old model hard-deleted system collections and re-created them at
the tail, resurrecting stale dedups and breaking ordering. Redesign
(user-directed B-final):
- schema.sql: collections.deleted_at TIMESTAMPTZ (idempotent ALTER —
the whole schema is re-applied on every boot via executeSchema).
- queries.sql: every collection list/read query filters
deleted_at IS NULL; new GetSystemCollectionByQueryType :one
(unfiltered, sees tombstones), TombstoneSystemCollection :exec,
ClearCollectionItems :exec, RestoreSystemCollectionRow :one
(in-place metadata reset + un-tombstone; collections have no
updated_at column — ResetUpdatedAt was a 500 caught by tests).
sqlc regenerated.
- collection_service.DeleteCollection: system collections are
tombstoned (preserving position/ownership); user collections keep
the hard delete. No ErrNoRows to the client (delete is idempotent).
- dashboard_service.RestoreSystemCollection: resolve by query_type;
found → in-place restore (ClearCollectionItems + metadata reset,
un-tombstoned); missing → provision fresh. "Want to Read"/etc.
stay at their home positions forever.
- handlers/collections.CreateCollection: name-taken is 409, not 500.
- handlers/auth.CreateDefaultCollectionsForUser: idempotent by
(user_id, query_type) — update-in-place when a row for that query
type exists (heals renames/tombstones), insert when missing; this
also fixes the duplicate-system-collections regression at source.
The dashboard's All Libraries view could render sections across every
library but could not persist its own preferences: the PUT required a
UUID library_id, and the prefs GET-without-library_id matched an
arbitrary library's row through a loose NULL OR-clause.
Storage: a dedicated user_dashboard_preferences_global table (one row
per user, user_id PK → users CASCADE) instead of a NULL/sentinel
library_id — chosen over both because (a) the column's FK to libraries
rules out a sentinel UUID without dropping the constraint or minting a
fake library row, and (b) intent becomes structural: only the explicit
global path writes that table, so a buggy or outside-the-API write can
never masquerade as global. System and user collections are
user-scoped, so the order/hidden arrays are library-independent and
valid in this scope.
API: PUT /api/dashboard/preferences binds library_id as *string —
JSON null/absent = global, empty string = 400 (a lost value must stay
loud, not silently clobber the global scope), valid UUID = per-library
(unchanged). GET without library_id now returns the global row instead
of an arbitrary one; the per-library query's dead NULL OR-arm is
removed. GET /sections keeps requiring library_id for per-library
views and aggregates across libraries when absent (unchanged).
Tests: global save/update-dedupe/read round-trip, empty-string 400,
global-vs-per-library independence. Two suite failures are the
handoff's documented pre-existing rot (duplicate system collections in
the dev DB; a sections test expecting a 400 the handler never
implemented) — reproduced and confirmed unrelated to this change.
Live-verified on the dev stack: null save 200 x2 with a single row
updated, empty string 400, global read carries the second save.
- dashboard_service.go: Change libraryID parameter from uuid.UUID to
pgtype.UUID across GetDashboardSections, GetDashboardPreferences,
and all helper methods. pgtype.UUID{Valid: false} now signals
"no library filter" (All Libraries), which gets passed through
to sqlc.narg() in the SQL layer.
- series_service.go: Drop libraryID parameter from GetSeriesBooks
entirely. Series are not library-specific — all books in a series
are shown regardless of which library they belong to.
Create SeriesService with methods for paginated series listing, cover
path resolution, series book listing, and a conversion helper for
GetContinueSeriesItemsRow to MediaItems.
Wire the continue-series query type into DashboardService's
getCollectionItemsByQueryType switch and add its metadata to the
RestoreSystemCollection default collection map.
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
- Add library_type_name to GetMediaItem handler response in media.go
- Remove empty LibraryName and LibraryTypeName fields from:
- ListMediaItemsRow in collections.go handler
- ListMediaItemsRow in dashboard_service.go
- These fields are now populated at the database level via trigger
The library_type_name is now automatically populated in the database
when a media item is created, so we remove the manual empty string
assignments and expose the actual value in the API response.
Changed the 4 default system collection names from kebab-case to Title Case
with spaces for better readability and professional appearance:
Changes:
- "continue-reading" → "Continue Reading"
- "recently-added" → "Recently Added"
- "recently-read" → "Recently Read"
- "not-started" → "Not Started"
Implementation details:
- Collection Name field: Updated to Title Case (user-visible identifier)
- QueryType field: Unchanged, remains kebab-case (internal switch/case logic)
- All map keys updated to use new Title Case names as lookups
- Restore modal option values updated to match new names
Files modified:
- internal/handlers/auth.go: Default collection creation for new users
- internal/handlers/dashboard.go: Restore endpoint validation map
- internal/services/dashboard_service.go: System collection metadata map
- templates/restore_system_collection_modal.templ: Form option values
Benefits:
- Cleaner, more professional display names for end users
- Consistent with existing restore modal UI labels
- Improved user experience with properly formatted collection names
- Internal QueryType identifiers remain unchanged for code logic
Add comprehensive collection detail page that works for both system collections
(continue-reading, recently-added, not-started) and user collections.
Backend changes:
- Add new /collections/:id route in internal/router/frontend.go
- Fetches collection using GetCollection with UUID parameter
- Determines collection type from QueryType field
- Resolves library_id for system collections
- Converts database.MediaItems to handlers.BookInfo for display
- Renders CollectionDetail template with collection and books data
- Update SectionData struct in internal/handlers/collections.go
- Add CollectionID string field for view all links
- Update BuildSections() in internal/handlers/dashboard.go
- Pass CollectionID to SectionData for proper link generation
- Simplify getViewAllURL() in internal/handlers/dashboard.go
- Return /collections/{collectionID} instead of /section/{type}
- Works uniformly for both system and user collections
Frontend changes:
- Fix CollectionDetail template in templates/collections.templ
- Fix broken div nesting causing compilation error
- Add null check for CoverImagePath to prevent broken images
- Update aspect ratio to modern aspect-[3/4] syntax
- Use responsive widths (w-16 sm:w-20) for mobile/desktop
- Improve card layout with horizontal flex structure
- Add placeholder image fallback for books without covers
- Remove erroneous renderBooks() function call
This change aligns with the backend update where system collections are
now pre-made user collections in the database with query_type fields.
All collections can now use the same CollectionDetail template for a
consistent viewing experience.
- Implement event queue with 3-second debouncing for file system events
- Add configurable polling fallback (default 3 min) via SCAN_POLL_INTERVAL_MINUTES
- Add SyncFilesystemWithDatabase to detect orphaned DB entries and new files
- Integrate utils.ResolveMediaURL for consistent media file path resolution
- Add COOKIE_SECURE env var with SameSite=LaxMode for session cookies
- Update media handler to properly decode URL paths for file serving
- Refactor scanner initialization to accept poll interval configuration
Implement DeleteUser, ResetUserPassword, and UpdateUserAdmin handlers.
Update collections handler to check soft-deleted users. Update dashboard
service to exclude deleted users from statistics.
Create DashboardService with business logic for Carousel-style dashboard:
Service Methods:
- NewDashboardService: Create service instance with injected dependencies
- GetDashboardSections: Fetch all collections (system + user) with their items
* Gets system collections (user_id = NULL) by query type
* Gets user collections with manual + auto-assigned items
* Filters hidden collections based on user preferences
* Reorders collections based on user custom order
* Sorts by priority if no custom order exists
- GetDashboardPreferences: Fetch user dashboard preferences for library
- UpsertDashboardPreferences: Save or update user dashboard preferences
- RestoreSystemCollection: Reset user's copy of system collection to defaults
Helper Methods:
- filterHiddenCollections: Remove hidden collections from results
- reorderCollections: Reorder sections based on user preference
- sortByPriority: Sort sections by priority (lower numbers first)
- getCollectionItemsByQueryType: Return items for system collections by query type
- getUserCollectionItems: Return items for user collections (manual + auto-assign)
Type Conversion Helpers:
- mediaItemsToListMediaItemsRow: Convert MediaItems to ListMediaItemsRow for rule evaluation
- getCollectionItemsRowToMediaItems: Convert GetCollectionItemsForDashboardRow to MediaItems
Architecture Compliance:
- Service layer holds all business logic (reusable by SSR, API, mobile)
- Returns database types (type safety at DB layer)
- Handler converts to API types (clean JSON contracts)
- Uses existing database queries and collection service
- Procedural/imperative style (no OOP)
- Follows existing pattern from collections.go
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