Deep-review round 5, over round 4's own fixes.
- Sessions are keyed by rating_key alone while a session's DIRECTORY is per (key, offset, tag), and
the artifact URL carried no session identity — so once a seek-restart or a second viewer of the
same item took the registry slot, the old viewer's request for `seg_12.ts` was answered 200 with
the new session's twelfth segment: bytes from a different `-ss` offset under `-copyts`, on a
timeline the client is not on. Wrong content with a success status is the one failure a player
cannot notice, and round 4's reclaim-on-404 could never fire on it. The id is in the path now (so
the playlist's relative names resolve back into the same session), a mismatch is a 404, and the
player reclaims at the playhead. The entry playlist's auto-start is gone with it: it could only
ever begin at 0, silently discarding the viewer's position.
- Round 4 exempted paused viewers from the reaper by keeping EVERY finished session for the full
ten-minute idle window — one whole segmented copy of a film per item, on the volume the download
center shares. The signal it needed already existed: an open player checkpoints its position every
10 s whether or not it is playing, so that route now touches the session and the periodic pass is
back on the short rule.
- POST /session's opportunistic reap was never scoped to the key being started: it walked the whole
registry with the 30 s finished rule, so pressing play on ANY item — even a direct-play one, the
call ran before that early return — killed another viewer's paused session. It is gone; the
periodic pass owns reaping.
- A segment that can never arrive no longer polls out the full 20 s: the producer's handle is passed
to `wait_for`, so a finished ffmpeg answers at once. This is a sync route, so each such wait parked
a threadpool worker AND a pooled DB connection, and an ordinary seek past the produced region was
enough to do it.
- The DataError handler's re-raise branch — the half that keeps a genuine DataError a 500 — is
pinned, so simplifying it to an unconditional 422 cannot pass in silence.
Six regression tests (two route-level, in the DB lane), each mutation-checked red on the assertion
it is named after. pytest 1124, vitest 999.
Deep-review round 4, the "one report per failure" contract round 3 introduced.
- `req` marked gateway (502/503/504) and network failures "already reported" because they raise
the connection notice. But that notice is about connectivity and removes itself on the very next
answer — which every caller's own resync refetch fetches at once — so a delete that hit a
keepalive reset flashed the notice and was then reported nowhere, the list still there. Only the
durable reports (the error dialog, the 401 sign-out) count now; the caller says the action failed.
- A connection notice the user closed swallowed every later one for the rest of the visit; it is
raised again.
- `req` and `uploadReq` share one failure policy (`reportFailure`). The upload copy had drifted: a
502 opened the blocking "Server error (502)" dialog and cleared a notice that was still true.
- A taken Plex collection name is a structured 409, localized, and the create/rename calls are
quiet: it was an English dialog plus a Hungarian toast. `notifyCollectionEditError` is gone.
- The mutation onErrors that toasted unconditionally after a non-quiet request (invite approve /
deny / add, demo whitelist, audit clear, scheduler, share, full history, edit, config tests, tag
attach) go through `notifyActionError`; the playlist delete's hand-rolled copy of it too (it takes
a level now). The user role / suspend / delete actions had no onError at all: a user deleted in
another tab failed silently and stayed listed — now said, and the list refetched.
Deep-review round 4, backend half.
- The periodic HLS reaper (round 3) applied the "finished and unfetched for 30 s" rule that only a
NEW session request may apply. A remux finishes long before the film, and a paused player with a
full buffer fetches nothing, so a one-minute pause killed the session and playback died ~30 s after
resuming. The periodic pass is `reap_abandoned` now (the long idle limit, finished or not).
- A subtitle `publish` that could not keep its output (full / read-only cache volume) returned
quietly, so every poll queued the window and the whole-container pass again. It reports failure
and the pass is backed off like a failed read; a cached VTT that cannot be READ is answered
`unavailable` (`cache_unreadable`) instead of scheduling reads that can never land.
- The subtitle routes bound `rating_key` / `sub_ord` (they become a cache file name: a 250-digit
one was ENAMETOOLONG, which pathlib's exists() re-raises -> a 500), and the cache helpers no longer
throw on such a name.
- One app-wide handler turns psycopg's "text fields cannot contain NUL" DataError into a 422: round 3
guarded only the by-rating_key lookup, and `contains=`, `contains_group=`, reorder/bulk key lists
and the collection search still 500'd.
- The hand-written `db.get(...) is None -> 404 "Unknown ..."` siblings use `get_or_404` with a
`what` (channel / video / user), so the Hungarian UI no longer shows English for a gone row.
Deep-review round 3 of bug hunt 2026-09.
- The YouTube and Plex progress bodies are bounded by POSITION_MAX_S (the int4 position columns): a
finite position of 2^31 or more was a DataError, i.e. a 500 — the sibling of round 2's non-finite
fix.
- plex/stream.py promised "a periodic reaper", but reap_idle ran only inside the NEXT session
request: after the last playback an abandoned session (its ffmpeg still working, its directory a
whole segmented copy of the film) lived until someone pressed play again. A lifespan task reaps
every 60 s.
- Tests for what round 2 left untested: the 422's body keeps the list shape the UI localizes, and
stream_session refuses non-finite start/aoff.
Deep-review round 3 of bug hunt 2026-09.
- get_or_404 / owned_or_404 answer a structured {code: "not_found", reason: <what>}
(errors.notFound.* in HU+EN, generic fallback). The structured-404 fix of round 2 had gone into the
ad-hoc `_own_playlist` (CLAUDE.md's "Not" pattern) while the shared helpers stayed string-only, so
views, tags, pins, Plex playlists, invites and users still 404'd in English. `_own_playlist` now
goes through owned_or_404; admin's hand-rolled user lookups use get_or_404.
- A move into a list that is gone names the TARGET (reason "move_target") — "this playlist doesn't
exist any more" was read as the list on screen, which still exists.
- Every refusal in the playlists router is a {code: "playlist", reason} (playlists.errors.* HU+EN)
instead of a bare English string shown verbatim in the Hungarian UI.
- `req` / `uploadReq` mark the errors they already put on screen (the error dialog, the connection
notice, the 401 sign-out), and notifyActionError skips those. The watched toggles, the saved views
and a playlist delete toasted a fault the dialog was already showing; Playlists' two hand-written
status filters now go through the same check.
Deep-review round 2 of the 2026-09 bug hunt, over the round-1 fix diff.
- A window was LATE by the distance to the keyframe its input seek landed on, and then doubled for
good once the full pass merged in: a cue already running at the window's start came out at a
negative time, and the webvtt muxer's default shifted the whole output so it sat at 0. Measured on
the real Westworld S01E06 at 25:00: every window cue +5.005 s, 682 cues merged instead of 608.
`-avoid_negative_ts disabled` keeps the times exact (the parser reads ffmpeg's signed-field
spelling of a negative time); now 608/608 on that file, and a real-ffmpeg test pins it.
- A full pass that failed was re-armed every minute while the viewer watched what it did publish —
a whole-container read per minute. It now backs off for an hour; windows keep running meanwhile.
- A failed WINDOW set the track's failure memo, so any uncovered position read "failed" — a final
answer that ends the player's poll, even with the full pass about to deliver, and one any account
could plant with an absurd `at`. It now marks only the span it failed to read; "failed" is given
once the full pass AND a window there have both failed.
- Windows join by what they COVER, not a bucketed identity: a backward seek no longer waits behind a
window that cannot cover it, and a playhead crossing a bucket edge no longer queues a second read.
The queue is bounded per track and overall.
- shutdown() sets a flag a worker checks before it spawns ffmpeg (one still in its Plex lookup used to
start a read after the kill sweep); queued-job cancellation and the lifespan call are now tested.
- A window starts where ffmpeg is told to seek (rounded to the ms it gets), a rounded-up millisecond
carries into the minute (no more `00:00:60.000`), a key's first publish claims nothing before its
VTT lands, and `at`/`offset`/`start`/`aoff` refuse non-finite values (`at` also an absurd one).
Deep-review of the bug-hunt round (R1). The background extractor from ed4ab4e1 held, but its seams
did not:
- Window + full pass doubled every cue in the first hour. merge_vtt de-duplicated on the raw timing
text, and the two passes spell a timestamp differently (shift_vtt writes HH:MM:SS.mmm, ffmpeg's
webvtt muxer drops the hour below 1 h; shift_vtt(-0.0) never normalised the full pass). Timing is
now parsed and re-emitted canonically, keyed with the cue text so two cues sharing a time survive.
- A full pass that exited non-zero was published as complete: "ready" forever, subtitles ending
where ffmpeg died, and no eviction to ever retry. It now covers only up to its last cue, is never
complete, and records the failure memo.
- The window's dedup identity held the live playhead, so every 1 s poll queued another read of the
file. It is keyed on the track now, and a queued job re-checks coverage before reading anything.
- A sidecar track waited behind an unrelated embedded full pass (the full job is per item). Its
window job now fetches it whole — one small request.
- The <track> fetch ran the scheduler at position 0: an unrequested window over the head of the file,
and a refusal of a window that was on disk. It is a pure read of the cache now.
- publish() is serialised (a lost update became permanent once complete was set); the pool is shut
down and running ffmpeg children killed at app shutdown (they held interpreter exit for minutes);
?at=inf is a 422, not a 500; and both subtitle routes use current_user instead of the cookie-only
poster gate, which let a suspended or epoch-revoked session keep scheduling reads (pre-existing).
_extract_and_publish finally has tests of its own — every earlier test stubbed it out. 19 mutations,
each red on the assertion that names it.
Two halves of the same report ("Collectionben nem működik a rendezés?"). The pasted browse URL
sorts correctly — that part was working. What did not:
The Collection INFO page had no sort control at all and a hardcoded release-year-ascending order.
It now shows the browse grid's Sort control, with the browse grid's vocabulary, because a second
sort vocabulary on a neighbouring surface is exactly the kind of drift this repo keeps paying for:
`PLEX_SORT_KEYS` is now one tuple in `plex/query.py`, and a test pins BOTH implementations to it —
browse's key→column map (extracted from the handler to be reachable) and the collection page's
key→member map. A key added to the vocabulary without teaching one of them fails the gate instead
of putting a dead option in the menu.
Ordering a collection cannot be a single ORDER BY: its two legs are different tables, so the merged
member list is sorted in Python. Members with no value for the key sink to the END in both
directions (a movie with no rating is not "the worst rated" — the browse grid's `nullslast()`), and
ties always resolve title-ascending, so flipping the direction reverses the ranking rather than the
alphabet inside it. `lastwatched` needed the show leg's `resumed_at`, so the page now takes ONE
rollup pass that yields both the badge status and the recency instead of the status alone — without
it that menu entry would have ordered every show as never-watched. The default stays release-year
ascending: a franchise reads in release order, and that is what the page did before.
The other half: a shared Plex link carries the collection filter as bare rating_keys, so a link
opened cold had no name for them — the sidebar token rendered `17045` and the chip could only say
"Collection". `GET /api/plex/collections` takes a `keys=` CSV now, and a display-only hook resolves
just the missing ids. It deliberately does NOT write them into `collectionTitles`: that map is
hashed into the Plex query keys, so storing a resolved label there would split the cache from the
identical state and refetch the grid for a piece of text.
Verified in the browser on localdev against the real Plex library: the movie collection's menu
offers Length and the show collection's does not (the same scope rule as browse); rating-ascending
reorders 8.1/7.4/7.2/6.6/6.5 correctly; `lastwatched` on a show collection brings the in-progress
shows up; the choice survives a reload (it is a server pref, on its own key so opening a collection
never re-sorts the library behind it); and the reported URL now reads "Pirates of the Caribbean
Collection" in both the sidebar and the chip.
12 pytest + 8 vitest, mutation-checked against 14 mutations (direction ignored, nulls first, no
stable tiebreak, unknown key untouched, wrong default, show recency dropped, empty `keys=` falling
through to everything, a key missing from either sort map, every id refetched, ids unsorted,
fetched titles unmerged, the chip ignoring them, the hook's result never reaching the builder) —
each red on exactly the test that names it.
Bug hunt 2026-09, items 8 and 12 — the two things the Plex player was measurably
lying about.
Item 8: picking a subtitle track showed nothing for a long time, and the reported
workaround was to stop/start until it suddenly worked. Measured on prod against a
17.06 GB MKV with two embedded SubRip tracks:
full pass, one track 154 s
full pass, both tracks in ONE run 111 s
-c:s copy (no WebVTT conversion) 143 s
from 1:00:00 to the end of file 66 s
a 630 s window at 1:00:00, both 8 s
So the conversion was never the cost: ffmpeg streams every byte of the container
between its seek point and its stop point, and the array delivers ~140 MB/s. The
only lever is reading less. Three changes follow from that:
* a window around the playhead is extracted and published FIRST (seconds), and
the full pass completes behind it;
* every embedded text track rides that same single read — picking Hungarian used
to cost a full pass and then switching to English cost another one;
* none of it happens inside a request any more. The endpoint answers 202 while a
background worker extracts, the player polls /status (carrying its position, so
the window follows the viewer), and one ffmpeg run finally has a timeout.
-copyts is deliberately absent from a windowed pass: with it ffmpeg ignores -t and
reads the whole container anyway (measured — a [0, 600 s] window still took the
full 145 s), so a window comes back on a zero-based clock and is shifted to
absolute time here. Cached tracks written by older builds have no coverage sidecar
and count as complete, so nothing is re-extracted after the upgrade.
The <track> is no longer mounted before the server has something to put in it; a
"Preparing subtitles: …" notice stands in, and a track that can never be shown says
why instead of leaving the viewer to conclude the picker does nothing.
Item 12: "Bitrate" read a constant 211 kbps on every remux, because it was the
master playlist's BANDWIDTH — which ffmpeg derives from the one stream whose rate
it knows, the -b:a 192k AAC track, plus 10%. It is a measurement now: bytes per
second of MEDIA from hls.js FRAG_LOADED, accumulated per fragment type and summed
(a multi-audio session's video and audio renditions cover the same media seconds,
so pooling them would report half the truth), and an honest dash until the first
fragment lands. The panel also finally names the audio and subtitle track in play.
Verified in the browser against the real Plex library, and every new test
mutation-checked.
The button deletes the local row and mirrors the un-mark to Plex, but it decided whether
to push from the previous STATUS alone (prev_status != "new") — and an in-progress item's
row is status="new" carrying a position, which is exactly how the importer maps a bare
viewOffset. So for the single case the button exists for, nothing was ever sent to Plex:
the offset stayed, and the next pull imported it straight back. The user cleared Protector
twice and it returned to Continue watching at 92s both times.
Push now when Plex holds anything to clear — a view count, or a resume point. "hidden"
stays Siftlode-only and pushes nothing, which is what this endpoint's docstring always
claimed and the status-only guard contradicted.
One unscrobble clears BOTH viewCount and viewOffset — measured against the live server from
a watched+offset state and an offset-only one, so the push itself needed no change. The
client docstring that claimed "clears viewCount" is what sent the first diagnosis down a
wrong path (a timeline write with time=0, which does not clear an offset at all); it now
records what the server actually does.
Verified end to end on the real Plex server: the button leaves viewCount=None viewOffset=None,
and a full 44,885-item re-import brings back no row for it.
`test_only_a_show_row_pays_for_a_resolution` seeded no watch state, so every rail query
inner-joined its way to zero rows and the loop body — with it the assertion — never ran. It
now seeds a video, a movie and an episode, and asserts all three kinds are present before
the loop, so it cannot go vacuous again.
The Plex half of the surprise rail had no test for either of its promises: every test that
reached `plex_surprise` passed budget="any" against a library with no state rows, so the
duration bounds and the already-started exclusion could both be deleted with the suite
green. The YouTube half has had tests for the same two rules since S1 — the asymmetric half
of one principle.
`plex_item` and `plex_show` — two of the five pinnable kinds — were pinned by no test at
all, leaving the rating_key → internal-id translation and both shelf arms uncovered,
including the self-reference cycle that once 500'd the shelf. And `GET /api/discover/pick`
was exercised only through its domain function, so the route's own query-string translation
could regress silently; the new test excludes all three candidates, which is what proves the
whole list parsed rather than one unsplit string.
`PIN_COLUMNS`/`PIN_KINDS` claimed in a comment to be the one place the pin vocabulary is
spoken and had no readers anywhere: `resolve_ref` re-spelled the column names and the route
re-typed the kind list. Both now drive off the constants.
The `_NO_TS` sentinel was introduced as a crash fix and is not one. The key it replaced,
`(ts is not None, ts)`, cannot raise — tuple comparison finds the first UNEQUAL element via
`==`, so two null keys compare equal and `None < None` is never reached; three independent
runs confirmed it over every permutation. The rationale now says what the sentinel actually
buys, lives once in `plex.rollup`, and the third rail that was still on the older spelling
has been swept to match. Its test is renamed and re-scoped to the mutation it does catch.
Frontend: the reroll's second press asserted `expect.any(Array)`, which cannot tell an
accumulating exclusion window from a replacing one — both that and SEEN_WINDOW = 1 (each
reinstating the measured nine-card cycle) left the suite green. And `onInfo`'s jump type was
untested while `onPlay`'s was pinned twice, so pointing the ⓘ affordance at the player
typechecked and shipped green.
All eight fixes mutation-checked; every mutant died on its intended test.
The Continue-watching and Surprise rails sorted on `(ts is not None, ts)`. That
key LOOKS null-safe and is not: two rows that both lack a timestamp compare
equal on the flag and then compare `None < None`, which raises — so a show whose
rollup has no `resumed_at`, or a movie state written before
`progress_updated_at` existed, could 500 the rail instead of sorting last.
Replaced with an explicit epoch sentinel, and named it beside the other rail
constants so the sibling rail E24 adds cannot re-derive the same broken key.
The browse scope is a pure DB query with no request state, but it lived in
routes/plex/_shared.py. E24's Home surface needs the same scope from a domain
package, and a domain package importing from routes/ inverts the one-way
dependency CLAUDE.md draws.
Moved to app/plex/query.py and renamed to content_libs (public — it is a domain
helper now). Swept all five call sites and both tests in one go rather than
leaving a re-export shim: the canonical-patterns table already names the
routes.admin re-export as the anti-pattern.
Deep-review round 1 on feature/plex-playback-class-filter:
- Sticky watermark (medium): _apply_item reset the bit-depth probe watermark
only on a codec-string change, so a same-codec re-encode (8-bit->10-bit HEVC)
kept a stale video_bit_depth/transcode_hw forever (the backfill only re-probes
media_probed_at IS NULL rows). Also reset when the Plex Part key changes (the
file was replaced), not just the codec.
- i18n parity (medium): the HU playback-class labels were mixed-language (only
'direct' translated). Translated remux/transcode_hw/transcode_sw and the
tooltips consistently to Hungarian (Kozvetlen streameles / Atkodolas).
- Layering (low): _PLAYBACK_CLASSES was module-private yet imported across into
routes.plex.browse; renamed to public PLAYBACK_CLASSES (it is the shared
source of truth for facet order + zero-fill).
- a11y (low): the browse-card playback-class dot conveyed meaning only via a
mouse-hover title; added role=img + aria-label so SR/touch users get the class.
- tests: the NULL/unprobed transcode_hw -> SW fold (filter + facet), facet
self-exclusion under an active playable filter, the migration codec-set ==
HW_DECODABLE_CODECS drift guard, the probe-batch bound + oldest-first order,
the transient probe-failure retry path, and the same-codec re-encode re-probe.
Backend gate green (ruff + full pytest); FE gate green (tsc/lint/knip/prettier/
vitest). NOTE: the facet-vs-runtime disagreement for 10-bit HEVC (C1) is the
known merge-order constraint — this branch's runtime is codec-only; the facet
becomes truthful once BUG1/tonemap's bit-depth-aware routing lands with it. Left
as a sequencing constraint, not code-changed here.
Upgrade mode-3's 10-bit/HDR branch from "route to software libx264" (BUG 1's
behaviour) to a full-GPU pipeline: VAAPI decode → OpenCL tonemap (hable,
HDR10/HLG → bt709 SDR nv12) → h264_vaapi. Gen 9.5 (UHD 630) can't tonemap in
the VAAPI VPP (tonemap_vaapi fails), so OpenCL is the only HW route — proven on
the prod iGPU at ~4.2x realtime, ~1 CPU core.
- stream.py: `_select_encode` returns (hw, tonemap); a 10-bit/HDR HW-decodable
source picks the tonemap graph when the OpenCL runtime is present, else drops
to software. `_opencl_present` gates on a registered ICD. `_venc_opts` /
`_hwaccel_in_opts` gain the tonemap variant (named vaapi+opencl devices,
`-filter_hw_device ocl`, hwmap→tonemap_opencl→hwmap reverse). `_want_hw` kept
as the hw-half wrapper. The runtime HW→SW fallback still backstops a session
that emits no segment.
- Dockerfile: add the Intel NEO OpenCL runtime (intel-opencl-icd). It was removed
from Debian trixie, so it's pulled from bookworm (22.43 still supports Gen 9.5;
the .deb runs on the trixie base — verified live). Harmless without /dev/dri.
- route + FE: thread `tonemap` through the session response; the stats overlay
mode row reads "transcode · GPU · HDR→SDR" for the tonemap path.
- tests: tonemap command branch, the (hw, tonemap) selection matrix (auto/on ×
8-bit/10-bit × opencl), start_session tonemap wiring, and the fmtMode tag.
Adds a movie-scoped "Playback" filter to the Plex feed so a user can isolate items by how
they play — the groundwork for collecting HW-transcodable (or no-transcode) versions.
Four classes derived from the stored `playable` + a new `transcode_hw` facet:
- Direct Play (direct), Direct Stream (remux)
- Transcode · HW — playable=transcode AND the iGPU can hardware-transcode it
- Transcode · SW — playable=transcode, software libx264 only
The HW/SW split is precise, not codec-only: a 10-bit/HDR HEVC is HW-decodable yet breaks the
VAAPI nv12 pipeline (the same case plex/stream special-cases), so it must count as SW.
Backend:
- New PlexItem columns (migration 0077): transcode_hw, video_bit_depth, media_probed_at.
Migration backfills transcode_hw codec-only so the filter works immediately.
- `plex.sync.transcode_hw_capable` is the single classifier; the HW-decodable codec set moves
to sync as `HW_DECODABLE_CODECS` and plex.stream imports it, so the catalog facet and the
runtime encoder choice can't disagree by codec.
- Bit-depth backfill (`_probe_media_batch`, wired into sync): probes only HW-decodable transcode
items' video Stream for bit-depth + HDR and refines a 10-bit/HDR HEVC to software. Bounded
per run, watermarked by media_probed_at. A codec change resets the watermark (stale probe).
- Filter + self-excluded facet on a shared `playback_class_expr` CASE (movie-leg only — a show
is an aggregate with no single class). transcode_hw threaded onto the feed/detail/card JSON.
Frontend:
- Multi-select "Playback" Combobox in the sidebar (movie scope, facet-empty drop-out), active
chips, 4-way corner-dot badge (green/blue/amber/red) + tooltip, and an info-page playback chip
with a codec · bit-depth subtitle. New `bg-info` (blue) token, i18n HU/EN parity.
- Fix a regression where the card's playback dot lost its hover tooltip: the full-card reveal
overlay swallowed the cursor; the dot now sits above it (z-20).
Gate: backend full lane + frontend typecheck/lint/knip/prettier/vitest all green. Browser-UAT'd
on localdev (filter narrows to the SW set, facet counts, badge colour + tooltip, info chip).
Non-h264 items (playable="transcode": HEVC/VP9/AV1/MPEG-2/XviD…) now play by
re-encoding the video to H.264 inside the existing HLS session, instead of the
old HTTP 501. VAAPI hardware encode (h264_vaapi, full GPU decode→scale→encode
pipeline) where the render node is present and the source is HW-decodable;
libx264 software fallback otherwise (yuv420p 8-bit, -threads reserve-one-core).
The re-encode mints a keyframe at every segment boundary (-force_key_frames) so
the HLS muxer still cuts independent segments and seeking works; everything else
— -copyts, the HLS tail, multi-audio renditions, the AAC audio path — is the
same machinery as remux, so hls.js/subtitles/seeking are unchanged. The session
route returns transcode/hw so the player can surface the active mode.
pytest pins both command branches (software + VAAPI shape) and the HW-selection
gate (render node present AND source HW-decodable). Browser-UAT'd on the XviD
fixture (Winning London): 501→plays, real 528×384 H.264 frames, 0 dropped, seek
lands clean; stats overlay Mode row reads "transcode".
Deep-review of the quickfix batch surfaced two data/preference-loss bugs plus
smaller items; all fixed with tests.
- watch_sync _pull_apply: don't let the Plex-authoritative pull overwrite a DIRTY
local row (a change whose immediate push failed) — that stranded the value
forever since _repush_dirty only retries dirty rows. Leave it dirty for re-push.
- PlexProvider / ChannelsProvider: a partial shared link opened in a fresh tab
persisted mount-time DEFAULTS over the account's stored scope/sort/filters
(base read before the account was pinned). Persist/keep only URL-present dims;
re-hydrate the omitted ones from storage.
- playback resume write-back: guard against out-of-order delivery (a superseded
older push now drops) and evict the throttle map so it can't grow unbounded.
- PlexPlayer: announce mid-playback buffering to assistive tech (role=status +
sr-only label); new plex.player.buffering (HU+EN).
- columnSort: hoist the shared key:dir sort codec used by both URL-state modules.
- Tests: dirty-guard + flag-settle + per-key throttle scoping + superseded-push
(backend); hold-repeat/suppress-click/unmount + partial-link no-clobber +
refetch-doesn't-clobber-undo (frontend). Backend pytest 475, FE vitest 519.
Add a 'lastwatched' sort key to the unified Plex browse. Movies rank by
coalesce(progress_updated_at, watched_at); shows by max(coalesce(...)) across
their episodes (rollup.resumed_at, now broadened from progress-only so watched
episodes count too). Never-watched titles sink via nullslast.
Frontend auto-applies lastwatched:desc when entering the in-progress watch-state
view and restores the pre-entry sort on exit; a manual sort change while there
still wins. i18n HU+EN. Backend tests cover both union legs + mixed nullslast.
Make Plex the source of truth for watch state:
- Write-back during playback: item_progress now pushes the resume position to
Plex on the periodic checkpoint too (not only the final flush), throttled to
one push per item every ~10s (in-memory, single-process rate limiter). The FE
now also fires an immediate (debounced) push on seek.
- Faster incremental pull: 30 → 15 min (plex_watch_sync_interval_min).
- Plex-authoritative pull: _pull_apply resolves a genuine divergence to Plex's
state instead of last-write-wins; the _same_state + synced_to_plex short-circuit
still prevents a freshly-pushed row from bouncing. Removed the now-unused
_LWW_TOLERANCE_S / _sift_ts.
Tests: 5 new in test_plex_watch_sync.py (Plex-wins resume/watched, no-bounce,
throttle final vs periodic).
- collections: the resync-failed-after-successful-write path now returns 422
(honest "reconcile on next sync" detail), NOT 502. The frontend treats
502/503/504 as gateway-unreachable and raises a sticky offline banner
(api/core.ts RETRIABLE_GATEWAY); the app answered, so a 422 action-error
toast is correct. Removes the false-offline regression the 502 introduced,
and — since 422 isn't retried — the create double-write vector with it.
- tests: make the mutate-then-resync rollback assertion non-vacuous — the
resync stub now flushes a partial local change before raising, so the test
proves db.rollback() actually undoes it; split into a write-failed (422)
case and a resync-failed (422 + reconcile detail + rollback) case.
- New-collection dup hint is now muted-tone with its own nameMaybeTaken copy
(per-library uniqueness means the name may be free here) instead of the red
authoritative nameTaken, which the still-enabled create flow contradicts.
- history: cover the navCounter post-reload collision guard (ensureNavId
advances the counter past a higher persisted sfScroll id).
Round of USER-triggered deep-review fixes (11 CONFIRMED + 1 PLAUSIBLE, all
verified) on the 22-commit branch:
- collections: split the mutate-then-resync error surface. A resync READ that
fails after a successful Plex mutation no longer reports a false 422 "Plex
write failed" + rollback; it returns 502 "sync pending" (the next full sync
reconciles the mirror). New _write_or_pending_error helper; delete is exempt
(no Plex read). Covered by new happy-path / 422-rollback / 502 tests.
- New-collection dup-name guard is now advisory only: existingNames is the
search-scoped, all-library union, but the backend enforces uniqueness PER
library — so it no longer blocks a valid same-name collection in another
library, and the backend 409 is localized to nameTaken.
- member-remove now confirms before the write-through (matches delete-collection).
- add-title / new-collection library search render an error state on request
failure instead of a misleading "No matches".
- history: seed navCounter past the current entry's persisted sfScroll on load
so post-reload ids can't collide with back-stack entries and mis-restore scroll.
- PageScroller: LRU-cap the navId-keyed savedScroll map (was unbounded).
- share isIntrinsicReadOnly between the browse tile and the info page so the
lock/edit affordance can't drift.
Two follow-ups after testing the collection editing against real Plex, which revealed that
Plex CONFLATES same-named collections (two rating_keys resolve to one merged member list) —
a genuine footgun.
- Duplicate-name guard: create and rename now reject (409) a title that already exists in the
target section (case-insensitive), before any Plex write. create() can also derive the
library from the seed item, so the caller needn't know the section key. The create dialogs
surface the 409, and the New-collection panel warns inline before submit.
- A "New collection" button on the Collections browse surface (admin only) opens a panel:
a name field (with the live duplicate check) + a search to pick the FIRST title — Plex can't
create an empty collection, it needs a seed. Creating opens the new collection's detail page
straight away, so you can keep adding titles there. This is the B-route the user wanted,
vs. the only prior path (a movie's "add to collection").
Verified live: the 409 guard (creating an existing name is blocked, no Plex write), and the
full New-collection flow (name + first title → create → lands on the detail page); test
collections created and deleted, real account left clean.
Gate: tsc/lint/knip/prettier clean, 424 vitest; backend ruff clean, 7 collections tests
(+ a duplicate-name-rejection assertion).
Clicking a collection tile now opens a dedicated Collection info page (like the Plex-web
one) instead of just applying it as a filter. New GET /collections/{rk} returns the hero
aggregates (year range, most-restrictive member cert, total runtime) + the members ordered
by release year then title; a new PlexCollectionView renders the hero (art/title/meta/
summary+More) and the member grid, with a Play-all and Shuffle over the playable leaves
(reusing the player's existing queue + auto-advance).
For a non-external, admin-enabled collection the page offers rename / delete / add-title
(a search picker) / remove-item, all through the pre-existing admin endpoints that write
THROUGH to Plex (each edit awaits and re-fetches — no optimism, since a Plex write can 422).
An eligible collection shows "Enable editing" first (the DB editable flag). Read-only ones
(smart / imdb / tmdb / … auto-lists) are marked with a lock on both the info page AND the
browse tile, up front.
New `{ kind: "collection" }` sub-view wired through plexSubUrl (bookmarkable ?v=collection:rk),
PlexBrowse (render branch, Backspace back-nav, tile handler), with a round-trip test.
Verified live: tile→page, hero + chronological members (James Bond 1962→2021, PG-13, 55h),
Play/Shuffle, Enable editing → edit controls + remove-X, the add search (marks already-in
titles "Added"), and the read-only lock on external collections. Real Plex mutations wired
but not executed against the live account.
Gate: tsc/lint/knip/prettier clean, 424 vitest; backend ruff clean, 6 collections tests
(+ a detail-hero/ordering assertion).
A new Discover rail listing what the user last FULLY watched, newest first: a movie as its
own card, a show as the specific EPISODE watched (carrying its show title via leaf_card). Sits
above Recently added. Movies honour the sidebar filters like the other rails; episodes carry no
filterable metadata so they don't. Clicking a card plays it (the existing onCard path already
routes episodes to the player). Bilingual heading added.
Verified live: the rail renders watched movies + episodes with Watched badges.
Gate: tsc/lint/knip/prettier clean, 423 vitest; backend ruff clean, 13 discover tests (+ a
recently-watched movie+episode assertion).
The Surprise rail drew a random 20+20 sample including already-watched titles. Its point is
to surface something to WATCH, so exclude seen titles (a watched movie, a fully-watched show
— a partially-watched or never-started show still counts as unseen) and cap at 3 movies + 3
shows (6 total), interleaved.
Verified live: /surprise returns 6 items, 3+3, none watched.
Gate: backend ruff clean, 12 discover tests (+ a watched-exclusion/cap assertion).
The collection browse-tile montage queried only movie members, so show-library
collections (IMDb Popular, TMDb Trending, … in the TV library) rendered as bare colour
tiles. Union the art from PlexShow members as well (a collection lives in one library, so
exactly one side has art); fall back to the collection's own poster, then the colour hash.
Runtime stays movie-only (shows have no single duration).
Verified live: every collection now shows a montage (0 art-less tiles, was ~all the show
collections).
Gate: backend ruff clean, 5 collections tests (+ a show-collection art assertion).
The full-bleed 4-poster collage drowned the on-tile text. Split PosterTile in two: the top
half shows up to 2 montage posters, the bottom half is a solid colour-hash band that carries
the label, so the text is always readable. Genre tiles drop the count (just the label now);
collection tiles show the name on one truncated line plus a sub-line of item count · total
runtime. A group with no art falls back to an all-colour tile.
Backend: `/collections` cards gain `total_runtime_s` (a new `runtime_by_key` grouped sum) and
their montage art is capped at 2. Frontend: PosterTile reworked; a `collectionMeta` helper
builds the count·runtime sub-line via the existing formatRuntime.
Verified live: collection and genre tiles render 2 posters over a readable colour band with
the right sub-lines; colour fallback intact for art-less groups.
Gate: tsc/lint/knip/prettier clean, 423 vitest; backend ruff clean, collections tests green
(+ a new art/runtime assertion).
The Browse-by-genre tiles and the Collections browse tiles were flat color-hash
gradients. Give each a 2×2 collage of its top films' poster art, with the color hash
kept as the fallback so a group with no matching art (a show-only or empty collection)
never renders blank.
Backend: a shared `top_art_keys` windowed query returns, per key (a genre value or a
collection rating_key), the top few items' rating_keys — best-rated then newest, in one
query. Wired into the Discover genre tiles and the collections union endpoint; the client
renders the posters from the existing /api/plex/image/{key} endpoint, so no new image
plumbing. Frontend: a shared PosterTile component (collage + scrim + label, color-hash
fallback) replaces the two ad-hoc colored-tile implementations.
Verified live on localdev: genre tiles and collection tiles render real poster collages,
with the color fallback correctly kicking in for groups without art.
Gate: tsc/lint/knip/prettier clean, 423 vitest; backend ruff clean, 11 discover tests
(incl. a new genre-art assertion).
Discover now behaves like the Browse grid — the active metadata filters (genre /
rating / year / collection / studio / …) narrow every rail: Continue watching,
Recently added, Surprise me, the genre tiles, and Because you watched. Same
LibraryFilters / meta_filter_conds the grid uses, applied to each rail's movie +
show query (movie duration included); a rail may come back empty, which the client
already hides. Genre-language matches the grid.
Because Discover honours filters itself, adding a filter no longer force-flips the
Discover landing to the grid (only a header SEARCH does, since Discover has no
search rail) — so you stay on Discover with narrowed rails.
Frontend threads `filters` into api.plexDiscover/plexSurprise + their query keys
(plexSurprise is variadic now) and the watched-toggle setQueryData; PlexDiscover
reads them from usePlex. Tests: two discover filter-narrowing cases; PlexDiscover
dom test updated for the provider default + 3-arg call.
Full-epic /deep-review (11 finders + 12 adversarial verifiers) surfaced no HIGH; every
mechanism finding calibrated to LOW on verification. Fix all 13:
Correctness / reliability:
- Combobox: Enter now commits the VISUALLY highlighted row (highlightIndex ?? activeIndex),
not the bare keyboard activeIndex — so arrow-then-hover-then-Enter no longer toggles a
different option than the one painted, and hover-with-no-arrow is no longer a silent no-op.
- parse_person: dedup the known_for pool by (id, media_type), not the bare id — TMDB movie
and tv id spaces are independent, so a same-id movie+show pair is two distinct credits
(matches the collision-safe key the rest of the module already uses).
- person-enrich: a per-person in-flight + 60s cooldown guard (people._should_schedule_enrich)
dedups concurrent opens and rate-limits re-triggering while TMDB is degraded (a transient
TmdbError leaves the watermark NULL), so bursts can't pile 8s tasks onto the shared threadpool.
- PlexInfo compact()/money(): format with i18n.language (keeping currency USD) instead of a
hardcoded en/en-US, matching the app's Intl convention.
- delete the dead `plex.filter.add` i18n key (both locales) — the +Add button that used it is gone.
Reuse:
- _continue_watching reuses rollup.agg_subquery(include_resumed=True) + query.apply_show_state_filter
instead of a third hand-inlined copy of the per-show rollup + in_progress predicate, so the
Discover rail can't drift from the grid's definition.
Test coverage (the gaps a regression would ship through):
- resolve_library_guids scope-exclusion (a credit in a non-scoped/disabled library is dropped)
+ the []-vs-None distinction; parse_person cross-media-id retention; enrich_person transient
(NULL watermark) and 404 (stamp) branches; _enrich_person_bg body (fresh session close/rollback,
None-guard) + the cooldown dedup; continue_watching fully-watched-show exclusion; Combobox
Enter-commits-highlighted + async/controlled-query mode; PopoverItem aria-checked contract;
RatingsRow missing-IMDb + imdb==audience branches.
Backend lane 413→420, FE vitest 351→357; all gates green. No migration.
Address the deep-review's deferred backend items so E5 is review-complete:
- person-enrich OFF the request path (ABUSE finding): person_detail no longer makes
the TMDB call inline (even bounded to 8s it sat on the serve thread, un-throttled,
demo-reachable — it violated the module's "no live TMDB call at serve time"
invariant). It now schedules a FastAPI BackgroundTask (people._enrich_person_bg,
fresh session, best-effort) after the response; the first open serves the row as-is
and the bio lands by the next open. The inline try/rollback recovery is gone with it.
- reuse: a shared tmdb.resolve_library_guids owns the collision-safe guid→library
bucketing (movie vs tv ids are independent sequences) that resolve_recs and
people._resolve_known_for each hand-duplicated; a new rollup.item_state_map dedups
the "PlexState-by-item_id" fetch across the person + discover paths.
- test gaps: enrich_batch transient TmdbError leaves the watermark NULL to retry;
guid_to_tmdb_id resolves a tvdb source + tv media_type via /find's tv_results;
_continue_watching includes a NULL-status started movie and excludes a hidden one;
/api/search/youtube returns 422 (not 5xx) when ingest fails (route-level, B-core-1).
Backend lane 403 → 413, ruff clean. No migration; serve contracts unchanged.
Three verified deep-review findings (the 4th, the filter combobox a11y gap, is
deferred to a dedicated session on the combobox architecture):
- SEC (medium): TmdbClient sent the api_key as a URL query param, so an HTTP
error's httpx exception string embedded the full URL incl. the key, which
enrich_batch logged. _get now raises status+path only (never str(e)/the URL)
and severs the secret-bearing cause with `from None`. Regression test asserts
neither the status nor the network error path contains the key.
- STATE (low): person_detail's lazy-enrich except now db.rollback()s, so a
failed enrich_person commit can't poison the session and 500 the subsequent
SELECTs (SQLAlchemy 2.x deactivates the tx on a commit-time flush failure and
does not auto-reset it). Test locks that the page renders despite a poisoned
enrich.
- ABUSE (low): the request-path lazy person enrich now caps its TMDB client at
an 8s timeout (was the 30s default) so a slow TMDB can't tie up a worker;
TmdbClient gained a `timeout` param (batch keeps 30s). The fuller fix (move
person enrichment off the request path) is logged for later.
Follow-ups from the epic-end /code-review of the E5 branch:
- tmdb.resolve_recs + people._resolve_known_for: match recommendations/
credits to the library bucketed by media_type. TMDB movie ids and tv ids
are independent sequences, so a bare `tmdb:<id>` match could deep-link a
movie rec to an unrelated show (or vice-versa) on a numeric collision.
Regression test added (test_resolve_recs_matches_by_media_type_not_bare_id).
- routes/search: wrap the _ingest_candidates call so a DB/enrich failure
degrades to a 422 with a message instead of a bare 500 hidden behind the
FE's generic "search failed" (extends the B-core-1 rationale); rollback on
failure. Stamp enriched_at with its own timestamp taken after the enrich,
not the stub-insert placeholder.
- routes/plex/discover: key serialized cards back by rating_key (globally
unique in Plex) instead of id(obj); fix the stale rows 3-tuple annotation.
Reworks the always-expanded filter chip walls into compact, Seerr-style
"+ Add" → searchable-popover pickers (the user's space-saving ask), and adds
the missing studio filter.
- New MultiSelectChips: selected values as removable chips + a "+ Add" trigger
opening a searchable checklist (AnchoredPopover platform — menuitemcheckbox,
arrow/Escape, anchor flip). Options carry facet counts; a large vocabulary
renders a 50-row cap + "N more — refine with search" footer (studios run to
~1500). Replaces the flat Genre + Age-rating chip lists.
- New Studio filter via the same picker. Backend: /facets now aggregates the
studio vocabulary (distinct studio + count, self-excluded like genres). The
studio filter itself already existed (only addable from the detail page before).
- Collection converted to the same "+ Add" pattern (CollectionPicker): a
single-select popover with server-side search + the 50-cap; the selected
collection still shows as a removable chip. Retires the always-inline search+list.
New i18n plex.filter.studio/add/moreRefine + common.search/remove/noResults
(en+hu). Tests: MultiSelectChips.dom.test.tsx (5, incl. the cap) +
test_plex_facets studio-vocabulary. Browser-E2E'd: Genre→Horror(402),
Studio→A24(14, capped/searched), Collection→James Bond(26)/harry-search.
Gate: vitest 342, backend lane 403.
The person page now leads with a TMDB bio, lazily fetched the first time it's
opened (off the S2-linked `tmdb_person_id`) and then served from the row:
- Migration 0072: ADD-only nullable person columns on plex_people — biography,
birthday, deathday, place_of_birth, known_for_department, also_known_as,
known_for ([{tmdb_id, media_type, title}]), tmdb_enriched_at.
- tmdb.py: TmdbClient.fetch_person (/person/{id}+combined_credits), parse_person
(bio + a popularity-ranked, deduped known_for), apply_person, enrich_person
(lazy one-shot, key+id guarded, commits, 404 stamps the watermark).
- people.py person_detail: loads the full person row, lazily enriches (best-effort
— never fails the page), serves the bio fields + resolves known_for to library
rows by guid (in-library only, popularity order).
- FE PlexPersonView: bio/birth-facts/aka hero + a "Known for" Carousel rail above
the existing Movies/Shows filmography; PlexPersonDetail type + i18n (en+hu).
Tests: test_plex_person_bio.py (6: parse / lazy-enrich guards / serve) + extended
PlexPersonView.dom.test.tsx + the unknown-name contract in test_plex_person.py.
Browser-E2E'd on Jim Carrey (live TMDB enrich → bio 1937 chars, born 1962-01-17
Newmarket, Known-for resolved). Gate: vitest 337, backend lane 402.
A dedicated Plex "Discover" landing — a stack of horizontal Carousel rails
served from ONE consolidated read (serve-from-DB, no live Plex/TMDB call):
- GET /api/plex/discover → continue_watching (in-progress movies + shows, most
recently progressed) · recently_added · genres (top-N tiles) ·
because_you_watched (recs of the most-recent watched, TMDB-enriched movie,
resolved to library rows by guid via serve_block's resolver).
- GET /api/plex/surprise → a fresh random, scope-bounded sample for the ↻ rail.
Frontend: PlexDiscover.tsx (rails reuse the S1 Carousel + S3 PlexPosterCard;
colored genre tiles → tap to filter the grid; ↻ reshuffles the surprise rail
alone). Discover is now the root sub-view; the flat grid becomes the bookmarkable
"Browse all" secondary view (?v=browse) reached by a header search/filter (a
browse-intent flip) or the new Discover⟷Browse toggle.
resolve_recs is promoted from _resolve_recs (now cross-module). Tests:
test_plex_discover.py (rail shape/order, continue-watching, because-you-watched
+ null, surprise bounds, scope) and PlexDiscover.dom.test.tsx; plexSubUrl
round-trip updated for discover-root/grid-browse. Backend lane 393, vitest 332.
The poster card (grid + person page) gets the Seerr-style hover: on hover a
bottom scrim slides up with the title, a "year · runtime · ★rating" meta line,
and a 3-line synopsis — the info you'd otherwise click through for — plus a
less-flat play ring (radial-gradient + ring shadow) and a top-right quick-action
cluster (Info + watched-toggle, revealed on hover / always on touch). Rest-state
badges (season / type tag) yield to the scrim on hover; the playable-cost tint
stays. (§1 A + C from the enrichment study.)
Backend (the data the scrim needs, mirroring S1's `art`): the grid
(browse.unified_library) now emits a lang-coalesced, truncated `summary` (new
query.summary_col) + the Plex `rating`; movie_card/show_card do the same (EN) for
the detail/related/person cards. PlexCard.rating type added (summary already
existed for episodes).
Gate: tsc x3 / eslint / prettier / knip / vitest 326 green; ruff green; backend
lane full suite green. Self-E2E on the live dev server (rebuilt on this branch,
S2-enriched): the grid serves rating+summary (Shawshank 9.3, Godfather 9.2, real
synopses) and the card renders the play ring + scrim (The Expanse: ring, synopsis,
★8.1) — verified via the DOM (the pane wouldn't composite for a screenshot).
Matches each mirrored Plex movie/show to TMDB by its stored canonical guid,
fetches once (append_to_response), and PERSISTS the enrichment onto the row —
served from the DB, never a live TMDB call at serve time. Additive: the
Plex-sourced imdb_rating/rating are untouched; tmdb_rating is the distinct
TMDb community score (ratings scope = TMDb + Plex's IMDb/audience, no OMDb/RT).
- config.py: tmdb_api_key + api_base/language/interval/batch defaults.
- sysconfig SPECS: tmdb_api_key (secret, Fernet) + tmdb_language, auto-rendered
in the admin Config page; read like the Plex token.
- migration 0071 (ADD-only nullable, reversible): plex_items + plex_shows gain
tmdb_id / tmdb_enriched_at (watermark) / tmdb_rating / tmdb_vote_count /
budget / revenue / keywords / crew / studios / production_countries /
recommendations / backdrops; plex_people gains tmdb_person_id (the S2
foundation for S6 person bios). No watermark reset needed.
- app/plex/tmdb.py: TmdbClient (mirrors PlexClient; throttled; 404->None,
transient->TmdbError), parse_tmdb / apply_tmdb_detail (one-parser rule),
guid_to_tmdb_id (tmdb: direct, imdb:/tvdb: via /find), enrich_batch (movies
then shows, transient error leaves the watermark NULL to retry, definitive
no-match still stamps so it isn't re-fetched), _link_people (upserts
tmdb_person_id by name), serve_block (recommendations resolved to library
rows by guid), run_enrich (no-op without a key).
- scheduler: tmdb_enrich nightly job (default 120 min, no YouTube quota),
runtime-tunable + "run now" from the Scheduler dashboard.
- detail endpoints emit `tmdb` (movies + shows) so it's curl-verifiable now;
the FE render lands in S5.
Note: _link_people inserts plex_people rows for TMDB cast/crew; unreferenced
crew (composers etc., not in cast_names/directors) get pruned by the orphan
sweep — acceptable, the person page is cast-driven and cast rows survive.
Gate: ruff + py_compile green; backend test lane FULL suite 387 passed
(incl. migration drift downgrade->re-upgrade + test_plex_tmdb 9 tests).
Frontend unchanged since S1. Not merged (epic branch, stacks on S1).
routes/plex/browse.py was a 1693-line god-module (libraries + facets +
collections + playlists + show/item detail + people). Split it into focused
sibling routers under the same /api/plex prefix — pure code motion, no SQL /
route-path / response-shape changes:
browse.py 1693 -> 469 (list_libraries, unified_library, facets)
collections.py (new 253) browse + admin collection editor; owns _collection_source
playlists.py (new 405) the user's orderable playlists
detail.py (new 438) show/item detail + enrichment; _lib_key lives here
people.py (new 139) cast/crew chips + person filmography
Cross-module helpers _norm_lang + _content_libs move to _shared.py (their one
home); detail imports _collection_source from collections (one-way, no cycle).
__init__.py includes the four new routers. Three DB-lane tests follow the moved
symbols (import path for _content_libs; monkeypatch targets for PlexClient /
_show_enrichment now on detail).
Behaviour-equivalent: ruff clean, 348 DB-lane pass (unchanged), parity net green.
The `show` scope (all|watched|in_progress|unwatched) filter and the status CASE
were hand-duplicated between unified_library (the grid) and facets.wsq — the
exact drift risk the review flagged (a hidden movie kept out of the grid must
not inflate facets). Extract them into four shared query.py helpers
(movie_status_case, show_status_case, apply_movie_state_filter,
apply_show_state_filter), model-agnostic (callers pass the joined state
expressions), and point all three call sites at them.
Pure behaviour-equivalence refactor: browse.py -67 lines, no query changes.
Green under the E3 S1 parity net + query_conversion/facets/field-scoped/lang
tests (348 DB-lane pass, ruff clean).
1. (correctness) Show hero rating regression: PlexBrowse's show hero rendered a
rating only when show.imdb_rating was set, so after the S6 IMDb-only change a
show with no imdb:// entry showed no rating. Now falls back to the audience
`rating` like PlexInfo.
2. (correctness) ratingMin column mismatch: the rating filter and the /facets
rating_max now key off coalesce(imdb_rating, rating) — the SAME "best score"
the badge displays — so a ratingMin picked from a shown IMDb score narrows the
right column instead of the raw audience `rating`.
3. (altitude) HU search gap: new query.vector_match() matches EITHER vector in HU
(or_(search_vector_hu, search_vector)) so a row with no HU twin stays findable
by its English title; ranking still uses the HU vector. field_recheck unions
the HU+EN per-field tsvectors in HU, staying a strict subset of the prefilter.
4. (test-coverage) Extracted the badge logic to lib/plexRating.pickRatingBadge
(shared by PlexInfo + the show hero) with a unit test (imdb-preferred, audience
fallback, 0-score, none). Backend tests added for the HU union search + the
IMDb-preferred rating filter.
5. (efficiency) Language switch no longer double-fetches the grid: browseQ is
gated on a committedLang state that lags `lang` by one render, so the
genre-clear effect settles into a single fetch instead of one throwaway fetch
with stale-language genres plus a second.
DB-lane suite 295 passed / 2 skip; FE tsc/knip/lint clean, 217 vitest pass.
E5 S6 backend half (no migration — the *_hu / rich columns exist from S5a/S5b).
Language-aware serving (?lang=hu serves the HU overlay twin, EN fallback per row):
- query.py: column pickers title_col / genres_col / vector_col; field_recheck and
meta_filter_conds take `lang`. DISPLAY/FILTER pickers coalesce(*_hu, *) (EN
fallback); SEARCH pickers use the raw *_hu column mirroring the generated
search_vector_hu (coalesce to '', not EN) so the field recheck stays a strict
subset of the GIN vector (the S2 invariant). genres_col type_coerces the coalesce
to JSONB so the GIN `.contains` survives.
- browse.py: `lang` param on /library, /facets, /item, /show (validated to en|hu).
unified_library title/vector/rank/field-scope + meta filters are language-aware
for both the movie and show branches; facets unnest the active-language genre
vocabulary (jsonb_typeof guard kept); detail endpoints serve HU title/summary/
genres/show_title with EN fallback. Episodes stay EN (not overlay-localized).
IMDb-only rating (folded-in S5b review #5):
- detail.py rich_detail: drop the audienceRating/rating fallback → imdb_rating is
NULL when there's no imdb:// Rating entry (stop mislabelling a Plex audience score
as IMDb). item_detail now also serves the `rating` column (audience score;
show_detail already did) so the UI can show it when there's no IMDb score.
Tests: test_plex_lang.py (HU title serving + EN fallback, language-specific facet
vocabulary, genre-filter language matching, item_detail lang + rating split);
test_plex_detail updated for IMDb-only. DB-lane suite 293 passed / 2 skipped; ruff clean.
Applies the three findings from the /code-review high pass on this stack:
1. to_tsquery_str moved from app.feedquery to app.utils — it's a generic
tsquery sanitizer with no feed dependency; housing it in the feed
read-model coupled the Plex browse module to the feed domain. Both feed
and plex now import it from the neutral util module.
2. feedquery.decode_cursor no longer raises fastapi.HTTPException — it raises
a plain ValueError, and routes/feed.get_feed translates it to the HTTP 400.
The read-model no longer imports fastapi, matching its "no request state"
docstring.
3. Dropped the leading underscore on the helpers that are now a cross-module
public API: feedquery {filtered_query, sort_keys, order_by, keyset_predicate,
encode_cursor, decode_cursor}; plex.query {TS_CONFIG, FIELD_COLUMNS,
field_recheck, split_csv, added_cutoff, meta_filter_conds, apply_meta_filters,
like_escape}; plex.cards {movie_card, show_card, episode_card, leaf_card}.
Genuinely-internal helpers (_channel_url, _saved_expr, _ADDED_WINDOWS,
_lib_key) keep their underscore.
Pure code motion + rename. DB-lane suite 287 passed / 2 skipped; ruff clean.
Second half of the 2026-08-17 review's "Plex query/cards extraction" — slim
the 1841-line browse.py god-module ahead of S6 (which reworks the library
query's column selection for the HU overlay).
- app/plex/cards.py: the pure grid/leaf card serializers (_movie_card,
_show_card, _episode_card, _leaf_card).
- app/plex/query.py: the library query-shaping layer — field-scope tsvector
rechecks (_TS_CONFIG, _FIELD_COLUMNS, _field_recheck) and the shared sidebar
metadata filters (_csv, _added_cutoff, _meta_filter_conds, _apply_meta_filters,
LibraryFilters, _like_escape). This is the seam S6 will touch.
browse.py imports both and keeps its route handlers; the entangled
collection/playlist card cluster (_collection_source/_collection_editable)
stays put deliberately. All helpers were browse-internal, so no external
importers change. Pure code motion — DB-lane suite 287 passed / 2 skipped;
ruff clean. browse.py 1841 -> 1667 lines.
B-core-3 (2026-08-17 review): decouple two things from router modules.
1. Feed read-model → new app/feedquery.py: the pure query-building and
row-serialization layer (feed_columns, serialize, _filtered_query,
to_tsquery_str, and the keyset-pagination helpers) moves out of
routes/feed.py, which keeps only the route handlers, _feed_params, and
the request models. The three external consumers (playlists, search,
plex/browse) now import from app.feedquery instead of reaching into the
feed router.
2. admin_user sweep: 7 modules imported admin_user via app.routes.admin
(an incidental re-export of app.auth.admin_user). Repoint them all to
the definition in app.auth (audit, channels, config, quota, scheduler,
plex/admin, plex/browse); routes.admin keeps its own import for its use.
Pure code motion — no behaviour change. Full DB-lane suite 287 passed /
2 skipped; ruff clean.
Persist the info-page rich fields that were previously read LIVE from plex.metadata() on every view —
imdb_rating (IMDb-specific, vs `rating`=audienceRating), imdb_id, tagline, and full_cast
([{name,role,thumb}]) — onto plex_items/plex_shows, and serve the detail endpoints from the row.
- migration 0065: ADD imdb_rating/imdb_id/tagline/full_cast (nullable → no rewrite/lock, unlike 0064);
NULL people_enriched_at on movie/show rows so the existing cast backfill re-fetches each once and
fills the new columns.
- new app/plex/detail.py: rich_detail(meta) (moved out of browse._rich_meta so sync + serve share one
parser) + apply_rich_detail(row, meta); wired into _enrich_people_batch and the info-page lazy fill.
- item_detail: movies serve cast/IMDb/tagline/genres from the row and keep plex.metadata(markers=True)
ONLY for markers + audio/subtitle streams (so detail survives a live-Plex outage); episodes (never
enriched) still parse detail from that live meta.
- show_detail: serves cast/IMDb from the row; `related` stays live best-effort and also lazily fills a
not-yet-enriched show.
- tests: rich_detail/apply_rich_detail parsing + persistence, backfill stamping, item_detail
outage-resilience + lazy fill + episode-live, show_detail row serving. Full suite 285 pass / 2 skip;
migration verified reversible (up→down→up).
Precondition for S6's pure-DB language-aware serving.
Adds the storage + sync for the Hungarian-metadata overlay (the browsable EN sections gain HU
twin fields written from a paired HU section, matched by guid; no browsable HU rows).
Schema (2 migrations, ADD-only; run before the first HU sync while *_hu is NULL so the generated
column build is trivial):
- 0063: plex_libraries.metadata_lang ('en' default) + self-FK overlay_of.
- 0064: plex_items/plex_shows.guid (indexed) + title_hu/summary_hu/genres_hu (+ GIN) + a STORED
generated search_vector_hu mirroring the EN vector (title_hu A / people_text B / summary_hu C) + GIN.
Sync:
- includeGuids=1 on section_items so the canonical guid rides the cheap listing.
- _canonical_guid(meta) (tmdb > imdb > tvdb) captured onto every EN row in _apply_item/_sync_shows.
- Two-pass sync(): pass 1 mirrors browsable (non-overlay) sections; pass 2 reads plex_overlay_map
('huKey:enKey', new sysconfig), designates each HU section (metadata_lang='hu' + overlay_of), and
_sync_overlay writes title_hu/summary_hu/genres_hu onto the guid-matched EN rows.
Browse: _content_libs now excludes overlay libraries (overlay_of is None); the unified_library and
facets inline library partitions fold into it, and list_libraries/collections exclude overlays too.
Tests: DB-lane coverage of the overlay write (matched vs unmatched rows, no browsable HU rows, the
generated search_vector_hu populates), the guid parse, and the browse exclusion. Full suite 272
passed; migrations verified reversible (upgrade→downgrade→upgrade). S5b (persist the live detail
fields + serve item/show detail from DB) is the follow-up.
peter