When the integration run lost its schema partway through, it presented as 36 assertion errors about categories, price filters and favourite notifications. The real message — `relation "items" does not exist` — was further down the same log, and hours went into chasing the assertions instead.
The cause is still open and needs runner-side evidence this cannot reach: whether the Postgres service container is being recreated mid-run, which would come back with an empty data directory. This is the half that can be fixed from here — whatever the cause, the next occurrence reads as "the database lost its schema" on the first line, names which tables are gone, and says that nothing in the suite drops tables so the database was replaced underneath the run.
globalSetup asserts once after migrating, which establishes the fact the rest of the run depends on. Without it, a run that never had a schema and one that lost it midway are indistinguishable from the failures they produce.
resetDb checks only when its TRUNCATE fails, rather than on every reset. It runs in a beforeEach several hundred times a suite, and an extra round trip each time to guard against a rare event would be paying continuously for it. When the schema is fine, an unrelated failure is passed through untouched rather than dressed up as a schema problem.
The diagnostic is tested against a database that has actually lost its schema, not reasoned about. An earlier attempt dropped the schema before the run and proved nothing — globalSetup re-migrates, so it repaired itself and every test passed. The suite drops and rebuilds around each case and restores in afterAll; the full integration suite was then run twice to confirm the restore holds for everything ordered after it.
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A count type beside the existing hours, text and choice readers. resolveHours would have worked — it is parseFloat with a positive guard — but calling a submission ceiling an "hours" setting is a lie in the type name that every later reader has to decode. Whole numbers only, so a ceiling of 12.5 is a typo rather than a preference, and a malformed value falls back rather than yielding a NaN that compares false against everything and silently disables the limit.
resetDb is widened to clear intake_ settings as well as email_ ones. It deliberately does not truncate admin_settings, so a ceiling of 1 left behind by one suite would make every later suite's submissions refuse with a 503, in files that never mention a ceiling. The comment there already records that exact failure happening once with an email template subject, which reached the favorite-alert tests and failed five of them somewhere else entirely.
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The schema for the intake pipeline. A submission becomes an `items` row at status 'pending' — already invisible to every public and storefront query since #90 — with an `item_drafts` row beside it holding the submitter's note, which link it arrived through, and the fields the drafting worker will fill in later.
`upload_links` stores a digest rather than a token, so a leaked database is not also a leaked set of working links, and the admin screen can show a token exactly once. `max_submissions` is nullable for "no cap", but the route will default it to a finite number: an unbounded link should be something asked for, not something that happens when nobody thought about it.
`item_drafts.upload_link_id` is ON DELETE SET NULL rather than CASCADE. Deleting a link must not delete the items that arrived through it — provenance is lost, the goods are not.
`items.price_cents` keeps NOT NULL and gains a default of 80.00, so an arriving item is always priced. That is the decision taken in the design review over making the column nullable: it costs the schema-level guarantee that nothing can publish at a price nobody chose, and buys not having to teach the cart, the checkout and thirteen other files about an item without a price. The protection moves into the review queue, and `price_source` exists so that queue can say whether a number came from a model, the default, or a person.
The number lives in the migration rather than in configuration. Changing a default price is a rare, deliberate act that deserves a record; an environment variable would let it drift silently between environments, and a wrong default is invisible until something has already sold at it.
Verified up, down and up again rather than only forwards — an irreversible migration is one that cannot be tested. Then verified by inspection rather than assumption: the default reads 8000, both tables and the state index exist, and an item inserted with no price comes back at 8000.
Backend: 263 integration, 302 unit, all passing against the new schema.
Ref #222
Every customer email was a template literal in the route that sent it, so changing a word meant a code change, a review and a deploy. All five now render from markdown that an admin can edit: verification, password reset, favorite sold, favorite withdrawn, and the cart reminder. Five, not the four the issue counted — the favorite alerts have separate copy for sold and withdrawn.
markdown-it runs with html disabled, which is its default and the reason for choosing it over marked. Raw HTML in a stored body is escaped rather than passed through, so editing copy cannot put script into a customer's inbox. That is a stronger guarantee than sanitising output, because there is no output to sanitise.
Values are substituted into the markdown before it renders, which means a value that should become a list has to arrive as markdown. The cart reminder previously built li elements by hand; those would now be escaped and shown to the customer as literal angle brackets, so it emits a markdown list instead. The greeting is one placeholder rather than a bare name, so a template author writes {{greeting}} instead of "Hi {{firstName}}," — which reads as "Hi ," for anyone who registered before first names were required.
Saving is refused when a body has dropped a placeholder it needs, naming all of them rather than the first. This is the rule that separates a convenience from a way to break password resets from a settings screen: a reset email with no link still sends, still looks correct in the log, and is useless to everyone who receives it.
The favorite alerts' consent sentence is appended by the server and is not editable. It explains why the customer is receiving the mail, which is a compliance artifact rather than copy, and editing wording should not be able to delete it.
Unset templates fall back to the built-in defaults, so an install that never touches the settings screen behaves exactly as it did. The API reports an uncustomised template as null rather than as its default text, so "never edited" stays distinguishable from "edited to something identical", and DELETE restores the default by forgetting the row rather than writing the default into it.
Two problems surfaced during verification, both worth recording.
Five favorite-alert tests failed with no error and no mail. The cause was not this code: resetDb does not truncate admin_settings, so a subject of "Gone" stored by the new template tests survived into a later suite and changed the mail it was asserting on. Cleaning up inside the template tests would have fixed only that pairing, so resetDb now clears stored templates for every suite — template rows are test data like any other, and one outliving the suite that wrote it makes a failure appear somewhere unrelated.
The withdrawal notification then failed on timing. Loading copy from the database made the sender async, and the removal path was fire-and-forget, so the response could beat the mail out of the door. Dispatch was previously synchronous even though the sends themselves were not awaited; that is now restored by awaiting it.
Verified: 197 unit and 195 integration passing, lint unchanged at 4 warnings. The admin screen for editing these follows in the next commit.
Refs #92
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Customers can favorite and unfavorite items from the storefront, opt in to being told when a favorite is sold to someone else, and manage that preference from their account page.
The opt-in is a consent of its own rather than the existing marketing flag. Being told that a specific item you asked about has gone is a narrower thing than agreeing to marketing, and folding one into the other would leave marketing_consent_text no longer describing what was actually agreed to. It is recorded the same way as the marketing consent — flag, timestamp, and the exact wording shown — and accepting it does not set marketing_consent.
The prompt appears only after a customer has actually favorited something, so the reason for asking is concrete rather than an abstract marketing ask, and it says plainly that it is separate from marketing email. Declining keeps the favorite.
Notifications fire when an item reaches sold, either through checkout or an admin marking it sold, and never to the buyer — telling someone the item they just bought is unavailable reads as a bug. Reserved is deliberately not a trigger: reservations expire and get released, so a "gone" email would often be about an item still for sale. Disabled accounts are excluded, per #33.
completeCheckout now returns the sold item ids and the buyer so its three call sites can notify after COMMIT. Sending inside the transaction would email people about a sale that then rolled back, and would hold the transaction open for SMTP. Each message is sent independently so one bad address cannot stop the rest, and the sale has already succeeded regardless.
Favoriting while signed out opens the existing inline register/login modal, exactly as Add to Cart does, and completes the favorite on success.
Also fixes a latent bug in the same component: while the session was still resolving, `customer` is null for a signed-in visitor too, so clicking Add to Cart or the new heart in that window prompted them to sign in again. Both now ignore clicks until the session has resolved, and the control shows as loading meanwhile.
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Adds a self-referencing categories tree, a tag registry with
deterministic colours, and item_tags, plus admin CRUD for both.
GET /api/items now accepts category, tags, min_price and max_price.
Category matching walks the subtree with a recursive CTE so selecting a
parent includes everything filed beneath it; tags match with AND via a
count check, since ANY() alone would return items carrying only one of
them. Malformed filter params return 400 rather than being ignored, so a
broken link doesn't quietly list the whole catalogue.
GET /api/filters serves the drawer its tree, tags, and price bounds in
one request.
Item image/tag aggregation moves from LEFT JOIN + GROUP BY to scalar
subqueries. Joining two one-to-many relations multiplies their rows, so
an item with 2 images and 3 tags would have repeated every image three
times once tags were added.
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