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John O'Keefe cc893f758e feat(docs): drift gate — docs frontmatter validated against real routes
Every API doc that declares frontmatter (method/path/auth/area) is now
checked by a unit test against three sources of truth:

1. Route registration: internal/router/*.go is parsed the way echo resolves
   it (group prefixes concatenate; scanner.go's parameterized groups seeded).
   Doc paths that no longer exist fail. (This is the check that would have
   caught the /api/api/admin/hash-conflicts split.)
2. Auth: frontmatter auth label must match the middleware chain
   (none|jwt|jwt+admin|device-token|optional-jwt).
3. Shapes: internal/docs/schema.go registry — example-request decoded with
   unknown fields DISALLOWED (typo guard), required-by-validate fields must
   appear (staleness guard), example-response top-level key set compared
   both directions against the marshaled handler type (or a RawMessage pin
   for hand-built map responses).

Five collections docs are the pilots with real handler shapes; notable
corrections they pin: update returns 201 (not 200), list excludes smart
collections unless include_auto=true, rule priority is 1-10 higher-wins
(docs claimed 1=highest), created_at is Go time.String() not RFC3339,
hide_finished/show_up_next toggles documented. CollectionResponse hoisted
out of GetCollections/GetBookCollections as CollectionSummary /
BookCollectionSummary so the registry can pin real types.

The gate fails on missing registry entries by design — that is the
maintenance contract. Known pre-existing (not this commit): vet copy-lock
warnings in media.go.
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method, path, auth, area
method path auth area
GET /api/collections/:id jwt collections

Get Collection

Returns one collection with its books and, for smart collections, the computed Up Next entries.

Example request

GET /api/collections/550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000

Example response

{
  "id": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000",
  "user_id": "8f14e45f-ceea-467f-a429-0b21bfc0b1a2",
  "name": "To Read",
  "description": "Books I want to read soon",
  "color": "#00FF00",
  "icon": "📖",
  "auto_assign_rules": null,
  "view_settings": { "kobo": { "view_mode": "grid" } },
  "books": [],
  "book_count": 0,
  "is_smart": false,
  "up_next": [],
  "created_at": "2026-10-24 13:57:01.81234 +0000 UTC"
}

created_at uses Go's time.String() format, not RFC3339. books and up_next are book-card arrays; up_next items carry id, title, author, cover, format, progress.

Query parameters

Param Type Notes
library_id uuid optional; scopes items/counts to one library (invalid values are rejected with 400)

Response fields

Field Type Notes
id string (uuid)
user_id string (uuid) owner
name string
description string
color string
icon string
auto_assign_rules array | null
view_settings object
books array book cards in this collection
book_count number length of books
is_smart boolean
up_next array smart collections only: computed next-up entries
created_at string

Errors

Status Body When
400 {"error": "invalid collection id"} / {"error": "invalid library_id"} malformed id(s)
404 {"error": "collection not found"} no such collection
500 {"error": "..."} unexpected server error