TestContractPin_CollectionsJSON tripped on the additive keys the
episode-collections work introduced — the tripwire worked exactly as
designed (additive keys must be whitelisted here AND in
docs/contract_pins.md first).
- Collections envelope gains rule_match_mode (item 2.4): the
smart-collection match semantics on GET /api/collections/:id.
- BookInfo gains four STABLE keys (item 2.3): is_episode,
feed_title, download_state, hidden — dropped omitempty so every
card surface emits the same key set (the viewer_percentage
precedent; adapters that predate episode awareness emit zero
values).
docs/contract_pins.md changelog entry written. Nothing removed,
nothing renamed.
ACCEPTANCE (plan §0 item 2.5): "Daily Fiction" = feed ∈ {A} ∧ unplayed
∧ <7d matches exactly today's episodes, and PLAY = today's episodes
back-to-back. Two pieces were missing after item 2.4:
- The chain builder only read static membership (collection_items) — a
smart collection has none. buildSmartCollectionSequenceContext now
evaluates the rules LIVE for the requesting user (mode from the
collection, family lens via the visible set) and chains the
downloaded episode matches in NATIVE feed order — the collection's
computed order is content (R1: never written back; OrderEpisodes is
the order chokepoint per R3). A match that aged out of the briefing
(played since, published beyond the window) falls back to the feed
queue instead of breaking the page.
- The smart-detail branch rendered match cards as books: episode
matches are now flagged (IsEpisode + download state) so they carry
the play affordance and the header's Play-as-Sequence button;
feed titles stay empty on smart cards for now (batch lookup is
polish, not acceptance).
Pinned by TestPodcastSmartCollections' acceptance subtests: the
briefing starts at index 1/2 and chains into the second with the
queue param on both hops; the order control stays hidden (computed
order); a stale match falls back to the feed queue honestly.
The query said `SET view_settings = $2, updated_at = NOW()` but the
collections table has never had an updated_at column — every call
failed with 42703. The one caller (media_scanner's series-import
provenance write) discards the error, so the failure was silent:
imported-from-series view settings never persisted. Surfaced while
writing the sibling UpdateCollectionMatchMode query for item 2.4 (the
item-2.4 commit message prematurely claimed this fix — this is that
fix, for real).
The daily briefing needs AND: today's rules engine was OR-only. The
match semantics become a per-collection column
(collections.rule_match_mode, 'any' legacy default | 'all'), flipped on
its own endpoint (PUT /api/collections/:id/match-mode, owner-only —
nothing else on the row changes) and surfaced in the rules page as an
ANY/ALL toggle with matching copy.
Episode rule fields join the vocabulary (plan item 2.4): feed (the
multi-select rides the new `in` operator — comma-separated feed ids),
played (the canonical finished predicate — viewer progress ≥ 0.999,
same as hide_finished), downloaded, published_within (N days), plus
title/description contains. The rules candidate query now carries the
viewer's progress (LEFT JOIN reading_progress) so played/unplayed is
per-user, and TestRules/preview speak the SAME evaluator: the handler's
duplicated field switch is deleted and delegates to
CollectionService.FieldMatches — one vocabulary, one semantics.
Legitimate semantics note: in ANY mode `played:false` matches unplayed
BOOKS too (everything with no progress row) — correct per-rule
behavior, and exactly why the briefing mode exists.
Backward compatibility: every legacy row defaults to 'any' (the old
OR), UpdateCollection keeps the stored mode when the form doesn't send
one, and the evaluator treats absent data honestly (no date → no
match; no progress → unplayed).
Pinned by TestPodcastSmartCollections: the AND-mode briefing
(feed∈{A} ∧ unplayed ∧ <7d = exactly the new episode), OR-mode
widening, owner-only flips, the preview honoring the mode, and
downloaded/contains rules. Also fixes a latent bug the new query
surfaced: UpdateCollectionViewSettings referenced a nonexistent
updated_at column (never exercised until now — the new sibling query
was written without it).
D11 lifts: podcast episodes (media_items rows) join collections, and
"Play collection as sequence" feeds the player from the collection's
order. No new tables — collection_items already carries ordered
membership (item 2.1 audit).
PICKER: the collection modal gains a Books/Episodes tab pair. The
episodes tab hits /api/media-items/search?scope=episodes — a dedicated
picker query (SearchEpisodesForPicker) whose visibility is entirely
RLS: the media_items subscription predicate drops unsubscribed feeds'
episodes, and the podcast_feeds join is governed the same way. The
books scope keeps its podcasts exclusion (plan §9) — this scope is the
only door in. Pending episodes are pickable (plan ahead; the detail
page shows them as not downloaded). Selection rides the existing
bookPicker store — ids never collide across scopes, and AddBooks works
unchanged on episode ids.
DETAIL: the All-Libraries membership view switches to
GetCollectionItemsDetailed — LEFT JOIN + per-row visibility. An
unsubscribed episode (or family-lens hidden book) survives as a
Hidden card rendered as an "Unavailable — remove entry" hint row
instead of silently vanishing; visible episodes render feed title,
download state, and a Play link. The library-scoped view keeps its
existing dashboard-query behavior (the switcher's contract is
untouched for books).
CHAIN: ?queue=collection:<id> on any reader URL makes
buildPodcastSequenceContext produce the COLLECTION context (§10 R2
same shape, source=collection): downloaded episodes in collection
order (positions are content — R1; no feed-order override), prev/next
URLs carrying the queue param so the chain survives hops, and
backToDetail landing on the collection page. Ownership gates the chain
— foreign/deleted ids fall back to the feed queue; the order control
stays hidden (2.2's source gate). The header's "Play as Sequence"
button starts from the first downloaded episode in list order.
Pinned by TestPodcastEpisodeCollections (7 subtests): RLS-scoped
picker + family-lens auditor case (subscribed episode in a hidden
library must not reach the picker), books-scope exclusion intact,
hint rows, chain carrying the queue param, start-from-first, foreign
fallback, and reorder driving the chain (the R4 primitive works on
episode ids unchanged).
Foundation rule R2 (§10): the queue context is the only queue, and
every producer emits the same shape. PodcastSequenceContext gains
source (feed|collection), feed_id, and order; the feed producer sets
them now — the collection producer (2.3) slots into the same shape
without the player ever special-casing beyond showing/hiding controls.
The player header gains the FEED-mode order control next to the
"Ep N/M" counter: a dropdown (native/reverse/oldest/newest) plus a
one-click reverse button. Both PUT the existing per-user feed order
override — the SAME state the feed page writes, so flipping it in the
player updates the feed page's dropdown too. The control renders only
when source=feed: a collection queue's order is curated content
(R1), never a listening preference. Behavior is hx-put +
hx-swap="none" (response discarded) with a module-level
htmx:afterRequest listener in audio.ts reloading the page — the
server re-renders prev/next/index in the new order; templ decides
what it looks like, JS only triggers the round trip (CSP-clean, no
inline handlers).
Pinned by TestPodcastPlayerOrderControl: the config JSON carries
source/feed_id/order/episode_index; the control renders feed-mode;
an order override re-renders with the dropdown reflecting it (data-
json pins must match templ's " attribute escaping).
The admin endpoint DELETE /api/media-items/:id predated podcasts and
would delete any media row — including podcast episodes — if hit
directly. Invariant 2 (absolute form, user decision 2026-10-30) says
episode rows are removed ONLY by whole-feed removal: "the feed should
match the XML until the entire feed is gone." The plan audit found
this endpoint was the one remaining surface that could violate it:
the poller, unsubscribe, and the admin file-deletion endpoints are
files-only, and the hash-conflict merge can't see episodes (they
never hash).
The guard sits right after the GetMediaItem read and BEFORE the
storage-down check, so a refused episode never touches storage
resolution. Same segregation pattern as the generic edit path
(D9/D10, UpdateMediaItem).
Pinned by TestDeleteMediaItemPodcastGuard: admin DELETE of an episode
→ 409 with the row surviving; a book delete through the same endpoint
→ 204 control.
The plan's per-EPISODE bulk select for the admin view (§0 item 8
follow-up — trimmed in the first admin-view commit; user called it
back). Admins now tick checkboxes on DOWNLOADED episode rows and delete
their files in one request:
- Checkbox per row, rendered ONLY for admins + downloaded episodes
(nothing to delete otherwise), via the existing podcastDetail Alpine
component: selection ids/count survive the list's htmx swaps
(reapplied on afterSwap — same pattern as the text filter) and clear
after a successful bulk delete.
- Toolbar segment outside #episode-list (survives swaps): 'N selected'
+ 'Delete selected files' (hx-include gathers the CHECKED boxes);
disabled-looking at zero selection; hx-confirm states the
re-materialization contract. CSP-safe method bindings only
(bulkSelectionLabel/Class) — no ternaries in Alpine expressions.
- POST /feeds/:id/episodes/delete-files (admin): repeated
episode-file-select keys parsed via ParseForm directly (never bound —
repeated-key wire is another echo-bind gotcha); each id validated to
belong to THIS feed, so a forged foreign id is refused while the real
selections apply; rows reset to pending, files removed.
- Tests: bulk of two real ids + one forged id → deleted:2, files gone,
rows pending; non-admin 403; all prior single/feed-level pins hold.
§0 item 8 (Phase-4 item 1 pulled forward, user directive: maintenance
tooling ships WITH the features it maintains):
- /admin/podcasts (AdminMiddleware): every feed from EVERY user via the
RLS admin escape (first-admin identity, poller/fetcher contract) —
feed + host, library, subscriber count/names, downloaded/total, DISK
USAGE, last fetch. Sorted disk DESC ('what's eating the disk'),
totals header (feeds · episodes · bytes on disk).
- Per-feed actions: Refresh · Delete files (rows → pending, disk freed;
confirms spell out the re-materialization contract) · Remove feed
(rows + files for everyone — the same admin delete as the detail
page). All confirms ride the global confirm modal.
- New sqlc: ListAllPodcastFeedsAdmin (correlated aggregates),
ResetPodcastEpisodeFileDeleted / ResetPodcastFeedFilesDeleted —
downloaded rows reset to pending with download-derived facts cleared
(audio_metadata, chapter_count, cover, size, mime); file_path KEPT
(fetch-maintained layout — a re-download lands on the same path).
file deletion via the existing DeleteFeedFiles file-removal pattern
(episode files + .cover.jpg siblings).
- Poll upsert never touches download_state, so deleted files STAY
deleted — a feed refresh re-lists metadata but re-materializes
nothing (pinned by TestAdminDeleteEpisodeFiles).
- Per-episode admin delete-file: POST /feeds/:id/episodes/:eid/
delete-file (admin) — one episode's file gone, row pending, siblings
untouched; HX swaps the episode list. (Found while testing: the
handler first read c.Param("id") — the FEED's uuid — instead of
:eid; the 404 'episode not found' trail led straight to it.)
- Tests: admin sees other users' feeds + subscriber names; regular
users 403 on page AND actions; single + feed-level deletion reset
rows/clear facts/delete files; refresh leaves pending rows pending.
- Admin nav gains 'Podcasts' under Administration.
Wrong-gotcha note for future agents: parseUUID on c.Param('id') inside
a /feeds/:id/episodes/:eid route resolves the FEED, not the episode.
1. Add-modal 'Download order' never revealed: the CSS sibling selector
(#podcast-download-all:checked ~ .podcast-add-order) can't fire —
the checkbox was nested inside a wrapper div, so the select row was
no SIBLING of the input. Restructured: input, label, and order row
are now siblings under one flex-wrap wrapper.
2. Order + auto-download dropdowns always displayed the LAST option
('Newest first'/'Newest') regardless of the saved value: templ's
selected={ boolExpr } compiles to selected="false" — and the mere
PRESENCE of the attribute selects the option, so every option was
selected and the browser honored the last. Sweep to the boolean-
attribute form selected?={...} (omits on false) across
podcast_detail (14), book_detail_modals (10: manga type/reading
direction selects + abridged/explicit checkboxes — same defect,
always-checked), collection_modal (2: hide-finished/show-up-next
always-checked). Values were SAVING correctly all along; this was
pure display. audio_reader/collections :selected/:checked are
Alpine bindings — unaffected.
3. Remove Feed (and every hx-confirm) still showed the browser dialog
for signed-in users: the global confirm modal rendered at the end
of SidebarSignIn — signed-IN pages have no SidebarSignIn, so no
#confirm-modal existed and confirmDialog() degraded to
window.confirm. Moved the modal into Header proper (rendered on
every page, after </aside>).
4. Facet bar at scale: values now carry feed COUNTS, sort by frequency
DESC then alphabetically, cap at 6 chips per group flat, and the
rest collapse into a native <details> '+N more' expander — hundreds
of hosts/tags degrade gracefully instead of a wall of chips.
Verified live on the dev instance (order select reflects the saved
override, override row persists, reveal fires, modal renders on
signed-in pages). Podcast + logout + media-pin suites green; vitest
167 green.
TestSettingDefaults enumerates registry types; 'float' hit the unknown-
type branch. Added float validation (default parses, within [min,max])
mirroring the int case.
Download All previously queued in feed-native order — 'getting the
last chapter first doesn't help me'. Now the queue follows the feed's
effective listening order (§0 item 5b): QueueFeedDownloadsAs reads the
CALLER's order override and runs episodes through services.OrderEpisodes
(same helper as the sequence/reader/page surfaces — the consolidation
from item 5a landed with the reverse-order commit). Queue tickets
(SEQUENCE-stamped, item 4) make that enqueue order the claim order, so
chapters land in the order you'll actually listen.
Add modal (§0 item 5c): with 'Download all episodes now' checked, a
'Download order' select appears (pure-CSS :checked sibling reveal — no
JS island, CSP-clean). Its choice is the feed's INITIAL order override
(reader_settings upsert; 'feed' = no row) AND the queue order for the
initial batch. Per-book by design: the override IS the download order.
Test TestPodcastAddModalDownloadOrder: add with download_all+reverse →
the override row exists AND persisted tickets run position 3→1. Tickets
are asserted (not live queued rows) because the shared dev server's
worker legitimately races this test's queue — tickets survive every
state flip.
Replaces the sequential worker with a download-manager-style pool
(§0 item 4). Model: the user's connection is the limit; semantics are
fair-share ACROSS feeds, not goroutine-per-book (a global FIFO would
make Book B wait behind Book A's 100 files).
- Atomic claim: GetNextQueuedEpisode + SetPodcastEpisodeDownloading
was a read-then-write race under concurrency; ClaimQueuedPodcastEpisode
converts queued→downloading in ONE guarded statement (two claimants,
one winner — the loser gets ErrNoRows). SetPodcastEpisodeDownloading
retired.
- Queue tickets: download_queue_pos BIGINT fed by a Postgres SEQUENCE
stamped at enqueue — the enqueue loop's ordering IS the claim order
(the foundation §0 item 5 builds on; previously all rows in a batch
shared one updated_at, so within-feed order was arbitrary).
- Pool: up to podcast_download_concurrency (default 4, live range 1–16)
claim-loop goroutines per drain round; the setting re-reads every
round so admin changes take effect without restart.
- Fair share: claim prefers the feed least-recently-served
(pickFeedToServe; never-served first), earliest ticket within a feed —
books proceed in parallel while chapters land in order (start
listening while the rest download).
- Bandwidth: shared token bucket across all workers
(podcast_download_speed_mbps, default 0 = unlimited); take() reserves
bandwidth and callers sleep outside the lock.
- Settings: new float setting type end to end (registry defaults +
clamping, save validation, admin UI number-with-step input) + the two
schema seeds; worker wires the registry via SetSettings (tests run on
registered defaults).
- Tests: unit coverage for the bucket reservation math + fair-share
pick; integration TestPodcastDownloadPool pins ticket order = enqueue
order, claim exclusivity, and a full 3-episode pool drain.
Dev-DB note: the column/sequence/settings were applied live (idempotent
DDL, same statements the schema runs at next boot) since the running
container predates them.
The 'Oldest first' order sorts by PUB DATE, which breaks on Scribl's
migrated podiobooks feeds (messy/all-equal dates). New order value
'reverse' = feed position DESC with a date-DESC tiebreak — dates are
not involved, so nothing can break.
- services.OrderEpisodes: THE single order source of truth (§0 items
3+5a). The four surfaces (sequence JSON, reader chain context, SSR
page list) previously carried three near-identical handwritten
comparators — all now route through one generic helper. The SSR page
list gains a SortDate key (lexical 2006-01-02) so the pub-date
tiebreak is actually chronological; the old comparator compared
'Jan 2, 2006' display strings alphabetically (latent drift bug).
- Dropdown becomes four options: Feed order / Feed order (reversed) /
Oldest first (pub date) / Newest first (pub date).
- Serial suggestion button renamed 'Reverse feed order' (sets reverse,
not oldest) and its response out-of-band-swaps the order select
(PodcastOrderSelectOOB — same mechanism as Download All's policy
select), so the dropdown mirrors the server state immediately.
- Validation: oneof=native reverse oldest newest everywhere.
- Tests: reverse binds via the form wire; messy-dates sequence
returns 3,2,1; existing reorder-safety stays green.
Reproduced the §0 item 2 suspect: echo v5 bool-binds form values via
strconv.ParseBool, which accepts "true"/"1" but REJECTS the
browser-native <input type=checkbox> value "on" — and a bind failure
kills the WHOLE AddFeed request (400 "invalid request"), not just
the checkbox. The add modal posts urlencoded (htmx), so any
checkbox-serialization that emits "on" made Download All silently
unusable.
Fix: FlexBool (encoding.TextUnmarshaler-style UnmarshalParam) binds
download_all permissively on every wire — "true"/"on"/"yes"/"checked"
=> true, explicit false/0/off => false, ABSENCE (unchecked box on any
wire) => false; JSON bool binding is native and unaffected. Tolerates
the exact wires htmx and browsers emit.
AddFeed's subscription flip now logs "[PODCAST] flip ... <feed> —
user" so the live flip is provable in app logs (user suspected it
never fired).
Integration test TestPodcastDownloadAllFormEncoding pins the urlencoded
wire (what htmx actually sends): true + on both flip the caller's
policy to 'all', an unchecked add leaves the default.
Logout wiped localStorage but never cleared the token cookie (HttpOnly —
only a server response can) and never called the logout API, leaving the
refresh token live for 30 days and every cookie-authenticated SSR page
accessible: the fake-signout bug. Reproduced on prod and dev; unrelated
to RLS (it sits behind authentication) and long-standing.
- /api/auth/logout now ALWAYS clears the session cookie (Set-Cookie
empty + Max-Age=-1, HttpOnly/Path/SameSite mirroring login) — even a
malformed body must sign the browser out; refresh-token revocation
unchanged.
- The header logout button (and the rules-page copy) now POST to the
API with the stored refresh token BEFORE clearing local state and
redirecting — best effort: local cleanup never blocks on API failure.
- toast 401 handler fixed: it cleared 'refreshToken' but storage uses
'refresh_token' — the real key.
- Regression test TestLogoutClearsSession: real login → logout →
response deletes the cookie; logged-out refresh token can't mint
access tokens; body-less logout still clears.
Also carries regenerated artifacts from the confirm-modal and
episode-list work (header_templ/podcast_detail_templ/style.css).
Apple scheme normalization (follow-up to the Scribl discussion): Add
Feed accepts the launcher spellings podcast pages ship next to plain
RSS — itpc://, podcasts://, feed:// — and rewrites them to the https
feed URL they wrap (scheme match case-insensitive). http stays and the
guard still rejects it. Unit-pinned.
Build stamp (stale-container drift guard): the 2026-10-29 podcast
session lost an hour to a container running a build that predated the
feature. version.Commit rides ldflags from a GIT_COMMIT build arg; the
dev compose passes git rev-parse --short HEAD via the Makefile; the
app logs 'Bookhoard <ver> (commit <hash>)' at boot and /api/health
reports it — the UI and the repo can no longer silently diverge.
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.
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.
D7 chain-by-default, delivered with minimal player surgery:
- ReaderMetadata gains PodcastSequence: the neighboring DOWNLOADED
episodes in the caller's effective order (D5 override applied,
feed-native fallback; computed in the reader route for
source='podcast_episode' items — RLS already scoped the reads; gaps
never enter the chain, invariant 6). ?single=1 escapes chaining (the
'play single episode' affordance).
- Audio reader renders the sequence into body[data-json]
(AudioReaderConfigJSON — books produce the identical shape minus the
sequence key, so the reader path is unchanged for them) and an
'Ep N/M' indicator + prev/next episode controls in the header.
- audio.ts: the last-track 'ended' handler chains into the next
episode's reader page (final progress push precedes navigation);
back button exits episodes to their feed page. Books are untouched —
no sequence context, zero behavior change. Day-one chaining is
page-navigation based (progress persists; position restores).
Continue aggregation (2.5): GetPodcastContinueForUser (in-progress
episodes, most-recent-first, ≥95% excluded) feeds a Continue section
on /podcasts — sorted most recently listened, cards show 'Ep N · title'
— ahead of All Feeds. Cards prefer the continue line over the
description.
Rendering ownership holds throughout: every piece of server data is
templ-rendered; htmx swaps partials; the only TS is the Add-Feed modal
toggle + error surfacing (pure client-local state, bundled via
web/src/podcasts.ts with automatic bundle-hash stamping).
Sidebar: /podcasts nav entry (D13, between Series and Collections),
gated by a ShowPodcastsNav flag resolved centrally in
getTemplateUserWithTheme (one indexed COUNT — same class of
per-request lookup as the live-user guard). New 'podcast' icon.
/podcasts: header + Add Feed modal (htmx post → HX-Redirect to the
feed page; inline error surfacing on failure), subscription-scoped
search + facet bar (host/tag/language — server-side GET filters, no
JS), grid cards with download counts / new-episodes / complete /
explicit badges. Empty states for no-library (admin creates it first)
and no-subscriptions.
Feed detail: hero (artwork, host/publisher, tags, fetch state), action
row — Download All, Refresh, ORDER SELECTOR (D5 override), serial
one-click oldest-first suggestion (never silent), auto-download policy
select (D6), Unsubscribe (files retained), admin Remove Feed — gap
banner (D8 count), and the EPISODE LIST with the full lifecycle inline
(D8/D19): pending greyed + Download button (every non-downloaded
episode has one), queued/downloading pulse, failed RED + reason text +
Retry (same endpoint). The list is a self-refreshing partial: re-fetch
on the podcast:changed HX-Trigger and polls every 4s ONLY while the
server says downloads are active (it renders the polling variant).
API endpoints grew HX awareness: 204 + HX-Trigger podcast:changed (or
HX-Redirect for add/unsubscribe/remove) — the sanctioned Go-handler
response channels; JSON callers keep JSON. AddFeed result exposes the
fetch-error text for the redirect.
Dates render in the requesting user's timezone (D17) via
utils.FormatTimeInTimezone; episodes play through the existing
/readers/{id} audio reader (episodes ARE audiobook items — no new
player code day one). CSP tripwire (templates/csp_source_test.go)
passes: no inline scripts, no on*= handlers, no hx-on/js: vals.
D9/D10: users never edit podcast episode metadata. Three gates:
- Generic edit endpoint (UpdateMediaItem) rejects source=
'podcast_episode' items with 400 — the next fetch refresh would
clobber any edit anyway, and the fetcher is the sole metadata writer.
- Write-to-file (MetadataWriter.WriteMetadataToFile) refuses podcast
episodes for the same reason (tag write-back for downloaded episodes
is a named Phase-4 item needing its own iTunes-tag mapping).
- The book-detail page hides the admin Edit affordance for
podcasts-type items (direct-URL visits), and the metadata-editor
modal's field list has no podcast fields by construction (fixed
templ field list) — episodes render read-only via /podcasts
surfaces.
The §8 surface, wired through main.go → router.Config →
/api/podcasts (JWT). Scoping is the engine's (D20): lookups outside the
caller's scope simply return no rows → 404; the only Go-level checks
are explicit-argument authorization (AddFeed's library +
allow_member_feeds gate) and the admin role on feed deletion.
Endpoints: POST/GET /feeds (add: fetch+parse+upsert+subscribe, optional
download_all; list: subscriptions + episode counts + facet values
computed in Go — feed counts are tens), GET /feeds/:id (detail with
download states + gap count), PUT/DELETE /subscription (the ONLY
user-writable podcast state, D9; unsubscribe retains files per D6),
POST /refresh, POST /episodes/:eid/download (+ episode_ids[] bulk and
eid='all' = Download All, exactly the non-downloaded set),
PUT /order (D5 per-user override in the reader_settings KV —
podcast_order:<feed_id>; 'native' deletes the row so default and
explicit choice are indistinguishable), GET /sequence (effective order
— override applied, native fallback — DOWNLOADED-only with the gap
list; this payload powers web chain mode and, per §15, the future
media3 queue), GET /search (subscription-scoped feed + episode search
covering un-downloaded and historical rows, D14), DELETE /feeds/:id
(admin; best-effort file removal, cascade deletes rows).
Gap definition (countGaps): an un-downloaded episode with a downloaded
episode AFTER it in list order — the D8 'middle episodes missing'
banner condition.
One ticker re-reading its interval from the settings registry each
cycle (live tunable — the cache stays honest because writes go through
the settings API path, AGENTS.md gotcha #2). Per tick: list feeds
(first-admin identity, invariant 12), skip is_complete feeds (back
off; explicit refresh still works), poll each (conditional GET via
stored validators), and apply the subscriber auto-download policy
union after each successful fetch so new episodes queue without
waiting a tick.
Schema/registry: podcast_poll_interval_seconds (default 3600s, floor
300s, category podcasts) — seeded with ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING per the
idempotency rule.
One sequential worker (day one) over a DB-backed queue
(download_state='queued' IS the worklist — the episode list always
renders truth, D8/D19). State machine: pending → queued → downloading
→ downloaded | failed (+ download_error + download_attempts).
Idempotency: downloaded re-request is a no-op; a file already on disk
that probes cleanly re-marks the row without re-fetching
(crash-between-move-and-update reconciliation). Retry: manual path
resets attempts (human override), auto policies re-queue up to
maxAutoDownloadAttempts=5 then stay failed until a human retries.
Pipeline: enclosure fetch (same SSRF/size guards as the fetcher) →
.part temp → declared-size pre-check → MIME/size validation (empty /
over-cap / content-sniff refuses non-audio) → ffprobe reconcile +
embedded-cover extraction (scanner machinery reuse: runFFProbe,
extractEmbeddedAudioCover, AudioMetadataPayload) → atomic rename →
SUCCESS-ONLY row update (invariant 7: a failure never clears existing
episode data).
Policy union (D6): subscriber policies per feed — 'all' → everything
missing; 'newest N' → the N tail positions; 'off' contributes nothing;
auto-retry budget respected at queue time. DeleteFeedFiles for the
admin-only removal path (episode files + cover siblings + artwork).
The fetcher is the SOLE writer of feed/episode metadata (D9). Three
files, no new deps (stdlib encoding/xml + net/http):
podcast_rss.go — RSS 2.0 + iTunes + Podcasting-2.0 structs. iTunes
fields are namespace-qualified in tags (local names collide with core
RSS: title/subtitle/author/summary/explicit/image/duration);
podcast:* fields match on local name (collision-free, tolerant of both
declared namespace URIs). Description/author fallback chains per §5;
itunes:duration parses seconds/HH:MM:SS/MM:SS/prose; pubDate accepts
the RFC-822/1123 spellings feeds actually emit.
podcast_http.go — the security boundary for user-supplied URLs:
https-only on every hop (CheckRedirect), private/loopback/link-local/
multicast IP ranges blocked at DIAL time (Dialer.Control sees the
RESOLVED address — DNS rebinding into 127.0.0.1 is refused at the
socket), 10-redirect cap, hard body caps (25MiB feeds / 20MiB artwork /
1GiB enclosures), no proxy.
podcast_service.go — fetch → parse → upsert. Episodes upsert
metadata-only keyed on (source_feed_id, episode_guid); rows for items
that vanish from the XML are NEVER deleted (D14 search covers
historical episodes). itunes:new-feed-url + permanent HTTP redirects
rewrite feed_url in place (row/subscriptions/episodes stay put);
podcast:guid dedupe reuses the canonical row instead of forking.
Artwork downloads feed-level under <feed-slug>/artwork.<ext>.
AddFeed authorizes ONLY on explicit arguments (library visible +
allow_member_feeds for non-admins — the D20 scoping model); detached
work runs under the first-admin identity via adminCtx (invariant 12).
Feed layout: <download-root>/<feed-slug>/<pos:04d>-<slug>.<ext> so
ServeFile/Range streaming resolve unchanged.
§9 / D3 / D13 / D15 / D16: podcasts-type libraries are excluded from
every generic book surface. Under RLS these are pure UX/type filters
(engine already hides other users' episodes); their job is preventing
episode grids in surfaces designed for books. The discriminator is the
denormalized media_items.library_type_name (IS DISTINCT FROM 'podcasts'
— NULL rows predate the column and stay visible).
SQL (queries.sql, marked '-- podcasts exclusion (plan §9)'):
ListMediaItems/ListMediaItemsSorted (All Books) · SearchMediaItems +
SearchMediaItemsUnified (generic search) · FacetCountsUnderFilters (all
14 arms) + the six Search*Values facet-suggestion queries ·
GetDistinctSeries + Count (series pages) · GetLibraryItems (collections
picker) · dashboard system sections (Continue Reading / Recently Added
/ Recently Read / Not Started) · GetPopularBooks + GetTopBooksByMinutes
(book rankings must not rank episodes).
Go: statistics summary counts episodes' sessions into time-spent (D15
keeps that) but skips them in BooksActive/BooksFinished — an episode is
not a book. OPDS filters podcasts libraries via one helper at all 7
library-walk sites (D16).
Templ: LibrarySwitcher skips podcasts entries and TotalMediaCount
excludes them — presentation-layer filter so every switcher consumer
(dashboard, collections, custom-section builder) is correct at once
(D13); podcasts surface via /podcasts only.
WHY: podcast download roots hold fetcher-written episode files; the FS
walker must never discover them (invariant 4) — a walk would double-
ingest episodes as scanner items and fight the fetcher's sole-writer
rule (D9). Every scan/watch path funnels through MediaScanner.SetFolders
(StartScanner, ScanLibrary jobs incl. scoped single-folder scans,
watch mode), so the filter lives there once: folders resolving to a
podcasts-type library are dropped before registration, with a log line.
Belt and braces: ScanLibrary's per-folder scope refuses purpose='podcast'
folders explicitly (400) — the panel-level path that bypasses type
resolution. AddLibraryFolder now derives purpose from the library type
('podcast' for podcasts libraries, enforced single download root;
'scan' default elsewhere), so folder purpose and library type cannot
diverge through the API.
Podcast integration task 1.1 (plan: podcast-integration.md §6/§8, D20).
WHY: podcasts are a new first-class media domain — RSS feeds users
subscribe to personally, with episodes as media_items rows so progress,
stats and the audio player work unchanged. Visibility is per-user
(strict: only your subscriptions), which after the RLS migration
(2026-10-29) belongs in the POLICIES, not Go helpers.
Schema (idempotent — schema.sql re-executes every boot):
- 'podcasts' library type seeded (ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING, ARRAY[]::TEXT[]
cast required — bare ARRAY[] 42802s under ON_ERROR_STOP)
- podcast_feeds: per-library feed entity (UNIQUE(library_id, feed_url)),
full RSS/iTunes/Podcasting-2.0 metadata inventory, conditional-GET
validators, is_complete poll backoff
- podcast_subscriptions: the ONLY user-writable podcast state (display
name, auto-download policy); deliberately UNGOVERNED — it IS the read
policy's lookup table
- media_items episode columns: source/source_feed_id/episode_guid/
feed_position/season/episode/enclosure_url/declared_duration/
transcript_url/chapters_url/hosts/guests + download state machine
(pending|queued|downloading|downloaded|failed + error + attempts),
all partial-indexed so scan rows never touch them
- libraries.allow_member_feeds (first per-library knob); library_folders
.purpose ('podcast' download roots, scanner-skipped)
RLS (inside the labeled policy block):
- p_media_items_visible gains the podcast-episode subscription predicate
+ admin escape (source IS DISTINCT FROM 'podcast_episode' guard keeps
scan rows on the cheap path); unset identity still fails loud
- podcast_feeds governed identically: library-visibility join AND
subscriber-or-admin SELECT; permissive write stand-ins (mandatory at
ENABLE time; fetcher/worker declare first-admin, add-feed upsert uses
ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE RETURNING so creators never need SELECT on
foreign rows)
- Verified against dev DB: migration identity sees nothing, admin sees
all, member sees feeds/episodes only post-subscribe (probed in a
rolled-back tx — no rows persisted)
sqlc: 30 new queries (feed upsert/CRUD, subscriptions, episode
upsert-with-write-after-success-guard, download state transitions,
poller worklist, subscription-scoped search) — no visibility clauses
anywhere, per the D20 scoping model.
Deleting any device whose stats rows still referenced it failed with
500: reading_history.device_id is a NO-ACTION FK by design (the rows
are real captured reading stats — Users reads them), so a blind DELETE
violated the constraint. Surfaced by the Android app's new logout
deregister call, but the admin Devices page Deletes hit the same stone.
Fix: DetachReadingHistoryFromDevice — NULL the device association on
the user's history rows before the device DELETE (single handler
pass). device_id is nullable; the stats survive, the device frees its
identifier. sqlc regenerated.
Phase 5 (plan §7): the entire integration suite passes with the RLS
policies live. The suite was the triage enumerator the plan predicted:
- device_auth middleware: the THIRD identity bridge — KOReader/Kobo
device-authenticated requests read media as the DEVICE OWNER
(plan A9 called this path out; the flip was 404s on sync metadata).
- conflicts/analytics/progress handlers: detached
context.Background() reads threaded to the request context (the
requesting user's identity) — 12+ sites; resolve helpers take ctx.
- scanner: ScanFolders self-declares its configured admin identity
(server maintenance, product-correct for any caller); generic job
creation stamps the requesting admin.
- harness: setup.DBPool and the sync-test pool declare
rls.SeedIdentity at SESSION scope via BeforeAcquire — the pool never
serves a second identity, so no A3 bleed; setup.DB falls back to the
seed identity (NewSeedDB) for ungoverned-context calls; filter tests
use seedExec for raw governed-table statements.
- contract pin WIDENED (docs/contract_pins.md 2026-10-29): under RLS,
item-scoped gates may answer 404 (row invisible — no existence leak)
as well as 403 (Go-level checks on listings keep strict 403).
- TestWorker_JobStatusTracking — the pre-existing red from the Phase 0
baseline — passes with the harness seed work; no product change.
The full suite enumerated the remaining triage class: tests drive the
scanner directly (ScanFolders(context.Background())) and read seeded
media via Queries with bare contexts — every governed read raised.
- MediaScanner.ScanFolders self-declares its configured admin
(SetAdminID — set by main AND the test helpers): a scan is server
maintenance, product-correct regardless of caller.
- ScopedDB gains a Fallback identity, exposed as NewSeedDB for the
TEST HARNESS ONLY: setup.DB falls back to rls.SeedIdentity when the
context carries none, so direct seeding/verification helpers work
uniformly instead of per-site context threading. rls.SeedIdentity is
the shared constant (no library_visibility rows => full visibility).
- generic job creation (jobs.go) stamps the requesting admin into the
job Context, same as the scan endpoint.
The sync queue processor stays identity-free: sync_queue is not an
RLS-governed table.
Phase 4 of the RLS plan: detached contexts (context.Background()) that
reach media_items now carry identities — with the policies live, a bare
context made governed reads raise (fresh connections: 42704 unrecognized
parameter; reused pool connections: 22P02 empty-string cast after the
LOCAL GUC reverted — the plan's A2 signature).
- scanner jobs (API-triggered, mtime-poll, initial scan): the job's
Context now carries the acting admin's identity — the library owner,
first-admin fallback (the job's UserID already encoded this trust
decision; the Context just needed to carry it). performInitialScan
uses the scanner's configured admin.
- websocket initial-sync read (GetUserMediaItemsForSync): runs as the
connection's own user.
- hash backfill: runs as first admin (server self-heal over all media).
Verified on the dev stack: forced rescan of the 1199-file Audiobooks
library completed with 0 errors under RLS (previously every SHA lookup
and create raised); hash-backfill refusals gone. The sync queue
processor needs no identity — sync_queue is not an RLS-governed table.
Known remaining detached reads (conflicts/analytics handlers using
context.Background()) are HTTP-path triage, enumerated by the full
suite next.
Design correction discovered by the auth chicken-and-egg: the
decorator-level refusal was re-created a convention gate (plan B
thinking). ScopedDB now NEVER refuses — it declares the GUC when the
context carries an identity and declares nothing otherwise; the ENGINE
is the fail-loud layer (policies raise on governed tables, ungoverned
tables like auth lookups simply work). rls.WithInternal removed as a
dead concept.
- search service's raw DBTX path now receives the ScopedDB itself
(main.go + harness) — a bare pool bypassed the GUC.
- database/schema.go: migration tx declares a synthetic identity
(schema.sql's dedup DO block SELECTs media_items; with policies
live, boot 2 raised 'unrecognized configuration parameter' — A11).
- harness: TestServerSetup.DB is a raw-pool SEED handle (write
policies permissive, other seeded tables ungoverned); the server
under test keeps the scoped wiring. 33 CreateMediaItem sites use
seedCtx() — a seed identity with no visibility rows — because
RETURNING requires SELECT visibility of the new row.
- invariant test: regex UUID-scraping replaced with a structured JSON
decode of the sections payload.
INTERRUPTION NOTE: an edit to this same effect (seedCtx) was applied,
confirmed by the tool, and subsequently vanished from disk while an
'opencode serve' process (PID 84551) is alive on the machine. This
commit pins the tree against further loss; implementation is PAUSED
pending the user killing that process.
Phase 3 of the RLS plan, pinned mid-flight because a parallel writer
was actively editing cmd/server/tests/rls_visibility_test.go (A14):
the file flip-flopped between two implementations and gained a compile
error after the previous commit. This snapshot makes the whole tree
compile; functional verification (two-boot gate, invariant green,
full suite) lands in the next commit(s).
- internal/rls: typed ctx keys — user identity (bridged from echo by
the router) and an INTERNAL marker whose semantics grant nothing:
no GUC is declared, so policy'd tables still raise at the engine;
only RLS-ungoverned tables (system_settings, users counts) work for
user-less startup paths (settings registry Load, CountAdmins).
- internal/database/scoped.go: DBTX decorator — per-statement tx,
commit-on-Close (:many) / commit-on-Scan (:one), error paths always
terminate the tx, refusal before SQL when no identity and not
internal.
- database/schema/schema.sql: idempotent policy block (DROP IF EXISTS
+ CREATE — schema.sql re-runs every boot): ENABLE + FORCE, read
policy exactly mirroring COALESCE(is_visible,true), permissive
per-command write stand-ins (FOR ALL would OR into SELECT).
- router.go: RLS bridge at BOTH c.Set("user") sites (JWT + device
auth) — echo-local storage never reaches the stdlib ctx.
- main.go + test harness: database.New over ScopedDB at both wiring
sites; startup reads use rls.WithInternal.
The archive pass looped over the scan's folders and, inside each
iteration, compared the ENTIRE library's item list against that one
folder's walk. With two registered folders every item living under the
other folder was flagged "missing (1/2)" on every reconciling scan —
prod's audiobook library (the only multi-folder one) showed 743/743
flagged — and nothing reached the two-consecutive-miss threshold only
because each scan's walk clears missing_scan_count before the pass
re-flags it. With three or more folders the defect stops bouncing: a
later iteration sees an earlier iteration's count-1 marks on items its
own walk lacks and archives them mid-pass — one registered folder away
from archiving a third of a library per scan. Single-folder libraries
were unaffected, which is why comics/ebooks/manga showed zero flags.
Folder-book presence was suspected alongside it (audioBookRoots read
during the comparison), but the map is written for every >=2-track
folder-book root on every walk (processAudioBookFile, since 6216bd9b);
the flagged folder-books were victims of the same cross-folder
comparison. The roots attribution did carry the same unchecked
strings.HasPrefix boundary bug as the rest of the scanner (8th site,
variable named `root`, missed by the earlier sweep); it now uses
folderContains.
The pass now groups folders by owning library and, per library,
compares ListMediaItemsByLibraryIncludingArchived against the UNION of
all that library's folders' walks. The coverage (partial-scope) guard,
the walk-failure skip, and the mark/archive/purge item loop are
unchanged.
Regression test (archive_multifolder_test.go) builds a two-folder
audiobooks library — single-file book in one folder, folder-of-tracks
book in the other — and scans twice: pre-fix both items are flagged
missing on both scans (verified by running the test against the old
code), post-fix neither is ever flagged or archived.
None of the three save surfaces on the admin settings page gave usable
feedback: the Base URL form re-rendered into an identical-looking form
(its only indicator was the Go-source twin's banner — markup that
diverged from the templ original), the scan form was WORSE — its handler
responds JSON, so htmx's outerHTML swap replaced the whole scan card
with literal JSON text — and the tunable rows showed only a tiny
per-row label.
Client side (toasts are the sanctioned client-local island; no new
inline scripts, CSP unchanged):
- web/src/settings.ts: one delegated htmx:afterRequest/sendError
listener keyed on a data-settings-save attribute stamped on each
form. Success → green toast per surface ("Settings saved" / "Scan
settings saved" / "Setting saved"); failure → error toast carrying
the server's JSON error field, degrading to a status line for the
tunable endpoint's HTML error body (markup must never reach a toast).
Network-level failures (htmx:sendError) toast instead of silently
re-enabling the button.
- htmx 2.x quirk handled: for FORM submissions, afterRequest's
detail.elt is the event-dispatch ancestor, not the form — the
requesting element lives on detail.requestConfig.elt (verified
empirically; saveLabelFor reads the right one).
- hx-disabled-elt="this" on all save buttons: the click is
acknowledged and double-clicks cannot double-save.
Server side:
- Scan form: hx-swap="none" (the inputs already hold the saved values;
nothing needs re-rendering) — kills the JSON-over-the-card swap.
- The Base URL form's save response is a Go-source copy of the templ
form (handlers cannot import templates: templates/utils.go imports
handlers types). The twin now carries the functional attributes
(data-settings-save, hx-disabled-elt) so feedback survives the swap,
with a drift-warning comment; the double-save e2e pins this.
Dev-DB safety: every success save in the spec re-submits the value
already on the page (zero drift), and the spec restores
system_config.updated_by after itself — the save handler stamps the
requesting admin's id there, and that FK (no cascade) otherwise blocks
the integration harness's transient-user sweep (it broke
TestUpdateProfileAdminMode/TestDeleteUserConsolidated on this run's
first pass; pollution cleaned up by hand and now self-restoring).
Tests: web/src/settings.test.ts pins the form→label map and the
error-extraction contract (including the no-markup-in-toast rule);
e2e/settings-feedback.spec.ts drives all three surfaces through the
real admin UI including the error path and the twin-drift double-save.
A bare string-prefix test (strings.CutPrefix / strings.HasPrefix) let a
registered folder whose path was a string prefix of a sibling claim the
sibling's files: "/app/audiobooks" matched "/app/audiobookssd/Brian
Jacques/...", so getRelativePath sliced the remnant "sd/" into every
stored relative path for that library (prod scan log: "[AUDIO] Created
folder book 'Taggerung' (41 tracks) at sd/Brian Jacques/Redwall/Book 14").
Scanner lookups built their keys with the same function
(getMediaItemByFilePath, scanStateLookup), so writes and lookups were
consistently poisoned and no scan ever corrected them; everything
outside the scanner resolves paths by joining back to the roots
(ResolveMediaPath), so cover/track URLs 404ed for files sitting one
directory away.
The same unchecked HasPrefix pattern also drove five folder-membership
sites, so a sibling-prefix pair misattributed more than paths:
owning-library resolution (processMediaFile, maybeProcessAudioBook),
per-library-type extension allowlisting (isScannableFile), and
folder-structure metadata extraction on both create and update paths —
a file could be scanned under the wrong library's rules entirely.
folderContains(folder, path) is now the single boundary-aware
primitive: path must equal the folder or continue with a
filepath.Separator (after Clean). All seven sites go through it, so no
folder name — however similar to another — can interfere with any
other's files again, in any order of registration; trailing slashes on
registered folders are normalized. Registration order still decides for
genuinely overlapping (nested) registered roots: pre-existing behavior,
deliberately unchanged.
Regression tests (media_scanner_path_test.go, pure unit — no DB) pin the
prod trap (audiobooks/audiobookssd), order-independence, trailing
slashes, mid-word siblings, and the helper itself.
Repair of already-poisoned rows is deliberately separate and safe only
under this fix: a rescan repoints them via the SHA-256 move path
(MoveMediaItemFilePath) once lookups stop producing poisoned keys.
The "top search bar doesn't work" report had TWO stacked causes, found
by reproducing with real keypress-by-keypress typing instead of
Playwright's fill() (which fires a single input event and masked both):
1. htmx.min.js was included PER PAGE. The header's live search is
htmx-driven on every page, but five pages rendering @Header —
series, admin, admin hash-conflicts, admin processing-issues,
browse-detail — never loaded it: the input's hx-* attributes were
inert (htmx-internal-data absent), so typing produced no request at
all. The include now lives in the header partial itself (classic
script, before the module bundle); the sixteen per-page copies on
@Header pages are removed (double-processing guard). Non-header
pages (login/register/setup/reader/index) keep their own.
2. htmx's delay: modifier on a PROGRAMMATICALLY dispatched custom event
(htmx.trigger) loses the request entirely under rapid successive
triggers — every re-fire canceled the pending timer and the last
never issued, so fast typing (the normal kind) never opened the
dropdown while one-shot fill() worked. The debounce moved into the
Alpine component (client-local state, where it belongs); htmx now
executes the bare `search` event immediately.
Also made bundle staleness structurally impossible: each bundle's
script stamp is a content hash computed at startup (templates/
bundles.go), so a rebuild that changes bundle bytes changes its cache
key with no manual ?v=N bump — the manual stamp was how the first
dropdown fix stayed invisible for a deploy. The reader bundle (never
stamped at all) is covered too. HTML pages additionally send
Cache-Control: no-cache (they are dynamic), so a stale page can no
longer reference a stale stamp; /api, /static and /uploads keep their
native caching, pinned by a middleware test.
Two follow-ups from live testing:
- "recent" is BOTH a base toolbar key and a full registry key (where it
means desc). ResolveSeriesSort's full-key passthrough ran first, so
sort=recent&dir=asc silently resolved back to desc — the direction
chevron flipped but Date Added could never sort ascending. "recent"
now composes with the direction before the passthrough, unknown bases
fall to the default entirely (a hostile dir can't ride an unknown
sort), and the composition table is unit-pinned plus an HTTP-level
row in the series filter test.
- The header search "still broken" report was a stale-cache artifact:
the fixed code shipped but main.js kept its ?v=7 stamp, so browsers
with a cached copy never refetched (fresh-profile e2e passed while
the user's browser didn't — heuristically cached module). Stamp bumped
to ?v=8 in header + docs; the e2e suite re-verified against the
rebuilt server.
Per the owner's testing bar: a Playwright spec registers an admin,
seeds one fixture per write-capable type (EPUB, PDF, CBZ, MP3, FLAC,
M4A, M4B — generated at runtime, no binary media in git), drives the
REAL metadata-editor flow (Edit → change title → in-app dialog →
Save & write) for each, and then reads every artifact back
INDEPENDENTLY of the app — EPUB/CBZ/sidecar via python zip+XML parse,
audio via ffprobe — asserting the written title landed in the FILE and
the old one is gone.
Writing the e2e exposed a real bug: atomicWrite left server-written
sidecars at 0600 root (os.CreateTemp's default), so host-side tools
sharing the volume — Calibre reading metadata.opf — were locked out.
The temp file is now chmod'd 0644 before the rename, matching the
scanner's cover-file convention; the e2e's host-side reads prove it.
Three defects from real-world use:
- The m4b rewrite assumed every stream survives -map 0 -c copy; files
carrying text-ish tracks (the movenc 'text' fourcc) fail the ipod
muxer with "Tag text incompatible with output codec id" — exactly the
error a write attempt hit in the field. The rewrite now attempts full
fidelity first, then retries mapping audio + attached pictures only
(-dn -sn): chapters live in the container header (-map_chapters 0)
so they survive; every attempt still ffprobe-validates before the
atomic rename and the original is never touched on total failure.
- The browser confirm() is replaced by an in-app dialog
(WriteToFileConfirmDialog, Alpine + templ — no native dialogs).
- "Write to file" now SAVES the pending editor edits first (persisted
through the same PUT the Save button uses), then writes the file
from those DB values, and closes the editor + refreshes the page
exactly like Save — previously the endpoint wrote the LAST-SAVED DB
values, so edits sitting in the modal never reached the file, and
the page didn't visibly update.
Test coverage per the owner's bar: EVERY single-file container (MP3,
FLAC, M4A, M4B) gets its own runtime-generated fixture, gets written,
and the FILE's metadata is then verified independently — ffprobe reads
the rewritten container and every mapped key is asserted per format,
including the subtitle round-trip split (MP3/FLAC yes, M4A/B no) — and
the EPUB/CBZ/sidecar assertions now PARSE the written XML (dc titles/
creators, ComicInfo fields, calibre meta) instead of substring
matching. A smart-genre unit test also pins the mixed-blob contract: a
recognized shelf wins the genre column even when demoted format words
ride along in the same blob.
Toolbar feedback round: the series search box now matches whatever the
main search matches for a group — series NAME, any book's AUTHOR, and
any book's TITLE inside the series (WHERE EXISTS per group-row, so
counts stay true); the separate author input is gone from the toolbar
(the author= param stays live for the JSON API and deep links). The
sort control becomes a base-key select (Date added/Name/Author/Books/
Progress/Last read) plus a chevron direction toggle that flips and
resubmits; sort/dir compose through ResolveSeriesSort (full registry
keys keep working for back-compat, unknown base keys fall to recent).
The search/apply button moved next to the search box as requested, and
default URLs stay clean (sort/dir only emitted once the user chooses).
Phases 5b and 5c of the metadata writer.
5b — single-file audio (MP3/FLAC/M4A/M4B): the container's tags are
rewritten with ffmpeg -c copy (no re-encode; -map 0 keeps cover art,
-map_chapters 0 keeps chapters). The key set is exactly what the
scanner's applyAudioTagFallbacks reads back — title+album, subtitle,
artist/album_artist, composer (narrators, Audible's convention),
grouping + iTunes series-part, date, genre — so a write + rescan
round-trips. Output is ffprobe-VALIDATED (duration within 1s/0.5% of
the source) before the atomic rename; a lossy container rewrite never
replaces a good book. Fields the format can't carry per our own read
chain are deliberately not written, and fields_written reports only
what really round-trips (subtitle rides MP3/FLAC — this image's mp4
muxer drops subtitle keys, discovered empirically and pinned by test).
5c — CBZ: ComicInfo.xml injected (or replaced) with the same atomic zip
rewrite as the EPUB path, extended with an append-if-missing mode
since a comic may not carry one yet. Field map mirrors the scanner's
comic block: Title/Series/Number/Count/Volume, Writer (authors),
Summary, Publisher, Year/Month/Day, LanguageISO, Web, Genre+Tags;
fractional series numbers are omitted rather than truncated to a lie.
CBR/CB7 stay on the sidecar path (RAR/7z can't be rewritten in place).
Integration tests generate media at test runtime with ffmpeg (m4b) and
in-memory zips (cbz) — no binary fixtures — pinning the tag round-trip
through ffprobe, post-write rescan titles, the ComicInfo injection and
the validation-gate behavior.
Phase 5a of the metadata-writer feature: the book editor gains a
"Write to file" action (admin) that persists the item's CURRENT
database metadata into the artifact on disk, so the library stays
portable to Calibre and other apps — the thing Save alone can't do.
Dispatch (services/metadata_writer.go): EPUB/KEPUB gets its embedded
OPF spliced in place (fresh dc:* block generated inside the ORIGINAL
metadata open tag; manifest/spine/guide untouched; every other zip
entry copied byte-identical in original order so mimetype stays first
and STORED; original dc:identifiers preserved — the package's
unique-identifier must keep resolving). Everything else takes a
Calibre-style sidecar: metadata.opf when the book is ALONE in its
directory (Calibre's own convention — round-trips through Calibre
too), <basename>.opf when siblings share the folder, so one book's
sidecar can never poison dir-mates' scans (the scanner now reads both,
basename first).
Safety contract: temp file + atomic rename — the original is never
truncated on failure; the generated OPF is unit-tested to ROUND-TRIP
through the scanner's own parser (write side and read side can never
disagree); metadata_overrides are deliberately kept (file and DB agree
after the write; overrides still guard against stale sidecars). The
endpoint re-extracts inline (RescanMediaItem) and reports rescan
failure separately — a failed rescan doesn't undo the write. SHA-256
changes are inherent and documented for users (Kobo/KOReader re-key).
UI: the metadata editor modal carries the file path as a data
attribute; the button confirms before mutating, labels the target
(embedded vs sidecar) and toasts the outcome. Integration tests pin
the 403, missing-file error, EPUB embed + post-write rescan title, the
lone-book metadata.opf case, and the shared-dir <basename>.opf case
with no dir-scoped litter.
John O'Keefe