The remove-background route's catch block turned every throw from removeImageBackground into a 502 "the background-removal service did not answer". But removeImageBackground also throws for an unrecognised file extension (a legacy .jpeg), for a file missing from the uploads volume, and when REMBG_URL is not set at all — none of which involve contacting the sidecar. The admin was told to retry a service that was never reached, while the real reason existed only in the server log.
Added SidecarRequestError in rembgClient.ts, following the NoOriginalToRestoreError pattern already in backgroundRemoval.ts. It is thrown only for failures that happen after actually attempting to reach the sidecar: the fetch call itself throwing (now wrapped in a try/catch, covering unreachable and timed-out), a non-2xx response, or a response that is not a PNG. It is deliberately not thrown for "REMBG_URL is not set", since that path never attempts contact at all.
The remove-background handler now checks err instanceof SidecarRequestError before answering 502; everything else answers 500 with a message that says what actually went wrong.
Added a unit test pairing (rembgClient.test.ts) asserting the sidecar-contacted failures are SidecarRequestError and the unconfigured case is not, and an integration test (adminItemDrafts.integration.test.ts) proving a missing upload file answers something other than 502 with a message that does not claim the service did not answer.
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Round 1 caught every throw from restoreImageOriginal() and reported it as a 404, on the theory that losing the concurrent-restore race is the only way that call fails. But the throw carried nothing to distinguish that race from a genuinely different failure during the same UPDATE — a dropped database connection, a transient outage — so a real failure was now silently reinterpreted as "someone already restored this" instead of surfacing as the loud 500 it was before.
backend/src/intake/backgroundRemoval.ts now exports NoOriginalToRestoreError, a named subclass of Error thrown in place of the bare Error restoreImageOriginal previously threw. The message text is unchanged, so backgroundRemoval.integration.test.ts's rejects.toThrow(/no original/) assertion keeps passing without modification.
backend/src/routes/adminItemDrafts.ts catches that class specifically in the restore-original handler and rethrows anything else, so a real failure still reaches the app-level error handler and comes back as a 500 instead of being mislabeled as "already done".
backend/tests/integration/adminItemDrafts.integration.test.ts adds a test that spies on restoreImageOriginal via jest.spyOn on the module namespace (the project compiles to CommonJS, so the route's call site reads the export off that object at call time, which makes the spy effective without jest.mock) to reject once with a plain Error, and asserts the response is 500 rather than 404 — proving the narrowing changes real behavior, not just internal structure. The spy is restored in a finally block.
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restore-original's precheck (existing.original_image_path === null) and restoreImageOriginal's own guard (WHERE ... AND original_image_path IS NOT NULL) could disagree under a race: two concurrent restores, or a rapid double-click, could both pass the precheck before either commits, and the loser's UPDATE would then match zero rows and throw. The handler had no try/catch around that call, so the throw propagated through asyncRoute to the app-level error handler and the caller got a bare 500, breaking the route's documented 200 | 404 contract even though the row itself was left correct.
Wraps the restoreImageOriginal call in a try/catch, matching the shape remove-background already uses in this file, but answering 404 rather than 502: losing this race means another admin already finished the restore, not that a downstream service failed. Adds a comment on the catch explaining why it exists, and a test that fires two restores concurrently and asserts neither comes back 500.
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Adds two admin-gated endpoints on the review queue router: POST /:itemId/images/:imageId/remove-background and POST /:itemId/images/:imageId/restore-original. Both run synchronously and reuse the same backgroundRemoval module the drafting worker uses, so a cut-out obtained either way is identical and either can be undone by Restore.
Ownership is scoped by item as well as by image (imageOfItem selects on id AND item_id), because the image id is a serial and guessing one is easy — a photo belonging to a different submission must not be reachable through another item's URL. A sidecar failure returns 502, not 500, and leaves the row untouched, since removeImageBackground only writes the row after the cut-out file already exists on disk.
GET /api/admin/item-drafts now returns { drafts, backgroundRemoval } instead of { drafts }, and each image in the payload gains original_image_path, which is what the review queue UI will use to decide between "Remove background" and "Restore original". DRAFT_SELECT's images aggregate is extended accordingly, keeping the deliberate column spelling that guards against the upload_links token digest leaking into the response.
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Regenerate clears attempts along with the state. The worker only picks up rows below the attempt cap, so re-queueing a draft that has already failed three times without clearing them would produce a button that appears to work, does nothing, and leaves nothing anywhere to say why.
Discard deletes nothing — not the item, not the photographs. It is one click away in what amounts to an inbox, and the photos are often the only copy of something no longer in the sender's hands, so the destructive reading of the word is deliberately not available here. The item returns to pending, because a discarded submission must not stay on sale.
Restore returns a draft at the state its own contents justify rather than unconditionally ready. A submission discarded before it was ever drafted has no copy, and coming back as ready would present an empty draft as a finished one. Judged on whether a name was ever written, because the state held before discarding is not stored.
Backend now at 346 unit and 317 integration tests, all passing.
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The only path from an intake submission to the storefront. It performs what mark-available performs — the status, and clearing the sale and reservation fields — rather than calling that route, because the copy and the publish have to be one transaction: an item published carrying the previous draft's name would be worse than one not published at all.
The price rule is applied here rather than trusted from the client. A changed number becomes the admin's; an unchanged one keeps whatever it was, so publishing without touching the field records that nobody chose it. The row is locked for the transaction so two admins publishing the same submission cannot interleave one's price decision with another's name.
Whole cents only. A fractional value would round somewhere nobody is looking and put the item on sale at a price no one entered.
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Columns are spelled out rather than selected with a wildcard, so a column added to item_drafts later does not silently start reaching the browser. That matters most for the join to upload_links, which carries the token digest — only the label is taken, and a test asserts the digest never appears in a response.
Discarded rows are excluded by default rather than deleted. Discard has to be recoverable because it is one click away in what amounts to an inbox, but a discarded row left in the default view would compete for attention with work that still needs doing.
The gate goes on the mount in app.ts rather than inside the router, matching every other admin router. Since ADMIN_GATE_SECRET is unset for integration runs the gate is disabled there, so the test that asserts the mount is actually gated sets the secret for its own duration — leaving requireAdminGate off a new mount is otherwise a silent hole.
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