The family-lens hardening: library_visibility was only enforced where
file bytes flowed (download/reader/OPDS) — metadata surfaces leaked
hidden libraries to any authenticated account, and registration was
open by default with no admin-side user creation.
- Series are grouped PER LIBRARY now (same name in two libraries =
two entries: manga adaptations / LN splits no longer merge);
/api/series aggregates only the requester's VISIBLE libraries and
/api/series/books REQUIRES a visible library_id (breaking contract;
web + app clients updated in the same change).
- /api/media-items, item detail, and the reader content endpoints
(chapters/panels/outline/THUMBNAILS — page images leaked unguarded
next to a gated GetPage) all enforce the visible set; resolveLibrary
no longer honors a hand-typed library_id outside the visible set.
- Annotation/note/bookmark mutations (update/delete/tombstone, sync
LWW paths incl. conflict resolution) carry ownership predicates:
another account's bare row id is a 404, not a silent delete.
- Admin user creation: POST /api/auth/users (AdminMiddleware) + a
Create User card in the admin Users UI — accounts stay creatable
with self-service registration OFF, which is now the schema default
(fresh installs; the first-admin bootstrap exception is unchanged).
- Tests: series contract re-pinned (per-library, visibility 403s),
new ownership + admin-create integration suites, OPDS all=1 test
now passes an explicit page size (shared-DB growth made the fresh
books fall off page 1), device-cap helper switched to the admin
endpoint.
Born dead in e7ce0cb (2026-04-03, backend reader infrastructure):
the "Phase 2.5" plan assumed MOBI/AZW3/DOCX/RTF would need server-side
parsing, so ParseEbook was written as the endpoint that would do it —
but it only ever returned 501 "not yet implemented", and no route in
router/reader.go ever pointed at it. No caller in Go, templates, or
web JS/TS ever existed either.
The eventual architecture never needed it: the web reader hands the
raw file to foliate-js and parses client-side (MOBI renders via the
fork's mobi.js — verified live; DOCX via mammoth; RTF/PDB shipped).
By now it was also stale — it 501'd DOCX/RTF as "not yet implemented"
while both work, and offered an AZW3 path that was dropped entirely.
Pure deletion: no route registration, no references, no tests, no
behavior change. go build ./... clean.
PDFs shelved in comics or manga libraries (scanned manga, official manga
PDFs with text layers) now get comic reader treatment: bookmarks only —
no text-selection highlights, no annotations, no in-book search. Items
in ebooks libraries are completely unaffected, and EPUBs keep their
existing behavior everywhere.
- handlers: new exported ShouldTreatAsComic(libraryType, formatGroup) —
true for fixed_layout/comic_archive in manga/comics libraries; the
reader JSON API also exposes it as treat_as_comic
- router: the SSR reader page fetches the library type and passes
TreatAsComic through ReaderMetadata into the init config
- reader: when treatAsComic is set, the PDF textLayer selection listener
(mouse and touch paths) never attaches so no highlight popover can
open; pointer mode is forced to pan (Smart/Text segment hidden);
search button and toggleSearch are disabled; previously-created PDF
highlights stop rendering
- bookmarks are unchanged (already page-index based for fixed layout),
and device sync / OPDS / format classification are untouched since
format_group stays fixed_layout
Remove redundant type conversions that Go 1.26 makes unnecessary or that
were already no-ops:
- uuid.UUID(x.Bytes) → x.Bytes (uuid.UUID is [16]byte, same as pgtype UUID Bytes)
- pgtype.UUID{Bytes: [16]byte(u), Valid: true} → pgtype.UUID{Bytes: u, Valid: true}
- (*time.Time)(&x.Time) → &x.Time
- json.RawMessage(x) → x where x is already []byte
- []byte(stringVal) → stringVal where []byte is expected
- int()/int64()/byte() casts on values already of the target type
- Decompressor(fn) → fn (type is identical)
Handle previously ignored error returns:
- collections.go: check json.Unmarshal error in GetCollection
- conversion_service.go: check fileSize.Scan() error
- app_test.go: check app.Shutdown() error in benchmark
Replace direct error equality checks (err == pgx.ErrNoRows, err != http.ErrServerClosed)
with the idiomatic errors.Is() function throughout handlers, services, middleware, and app
startup. This correctly handles wrapped error chains.
Also replace a raw type assertion (*HTTPError) with errors.AsType[*HTTPError]() in the
error handler middleware for consistency.
Additionally, rename shadowed variables for clarity:
- sidecar.go: config -> sidecarConfig, systemConfig (shadowed package-level vars)
- media_scanner.go: uuid -> uuidString (shadowed the uuid package import)
Replace the original 5-theme allowlist (light, sepia, dark, night,
high-contrast) with a richer 20-theme palette organized into tonal
families: neutrals (light, paper, slate, oled), warm tones (sepia,
parchment, warm, candlelight), cool tones (azure, sky, arctic, frost),
and evening tones (dusk, sunset, twilight, forest, moss, solarized).
The backend validator in UpdateSettings now accepts all 20 theme names,
and the frontend Tailwind build is updated to include the new theme CSS
variables and preflight reset.
- Add shouldEnablePanelDetection to determine when to enable panel detection
- Enable for manga/comics libraries with fixed_layout or comic_archive formats
- Fetch library type info using GetLibraryWithType query
- Pass panel detection config to reader initialization
- Include format_group, manga_type, and reading_direction in reader response
- templates/reader.templ: add script tag to load main.js
- Enables reader shell and Alpine components to initialize
- internal/handlers/reader.go: add GetMediaReadingProgress handler
- Backend now supports fetching reading progress via API
- GET /api/media-items/:id/progress returns current progress
- Fix function signatures in reader.go (c echo.Context -> c *echo.Context)
- Replace non-existent UserHasLibraryAccess with GetUserVisibleLibraries pattern
- Implement SSR reader route in router/reader.go with proper access control
- Add inline library access checking following existing codebase patterns
- Fix ReadingProgress struct to use LastReadAt instead of CreatedAt/UpdatedAt
- Ensure all reader endpoints use consistent library access validation
This provides the backend foundation for the reader feature with proper
access control and SSR rendering capabilities.
- Add panel_layout to getDefaultSettings() for dockable panels
- Remove template rendering from ShowReader (router handles SSR)
- Fix pgtype.Int4 marshaling to JSON (no explicit int conversion)
- Remove unused strings import from handlers
John O'Keefe
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