# ShopDB Flask API - LLM guide

ShopDB is a plugin-based asset-management system (PCs, printers, machines,
network devices, measuring tools, applications, knowledge base, USB, warranties)
for GE Aerospace sites. This file is the quick entrypoint; the full machine
spec is the OpenAPI at `/api/docs/openapi.json` (browse it at `/api/docs`).

## Base URL
Prod (West Jefferson): `https://tsgwp00525.wjs.geaerospace.net/shopdb`
All API paths are under `/api` (e.g. `<base>/api/assets`). Dev: `http://localhost:5001`.

## Auth
Three schemes:
- **Bearer JWT** - most endpoints. Get one by logging in, or use a managed
  Personal Access Token (PAT). Send `Authorization: Bearer <token>`.
  - Login: `POST /api/auth/login` `{ "username": "...", "password": "..." }`
    -> `data.access_token`. Refresh: `POST /api/auth/refresh`.
  - PATs are minted in the UI (Settings > API Tokens); a *scoped* PAT is limited
    to named permissions and suspends the admin bypass.
- **X-API-Key** - unattended/service endpoints (collector ingest, GE-Enforce
  fetch). Send `X-API-Key: <managed-token>`.
- **Public** - some read endpoints (e.g. printer install-list, employee search,
  dashboards) need no auth.

Auth level per endpoint is in the OpenAPI `security` field: `bearerAuth`,
`apiKeyAuth`, or none. Admin-only and permission-gated routes both use bearer.

## Response envelope
JSON endpoints return `{ "status": "success", "data": <payload>, "meta": {...} }`.
Errors: `{ "status": "error", "message": "...", "code": "..." }` with an HTTP 4xx/5xx.
Lists include `meta.total` / pagination. A few feed endpoints (screensaver, some
installer text formats) return raw text/JSON without the envelope - noted per route.

## Common recipes
- Search everything: `GET /api/search?q=<term>` (multi-word = AND across words).
- List assets on the map: `GET /api/assets/map`.
- List a type: `GET /api/printers`, `/api/computers`, `/api/machines`,
  `/api/network`, `/api/measuringtools` (paginated: `?page=&perpage=`).
- Get one: `GET /api/printers/<id>` etc.
- Create (bearer): `POST /api/printers` `{assetnumber, windowsname, vendorid, ...}`.
- Reports: `GET /api/reports` (list), `GET /api/reports/pc-relationships` (PC<->machine).
- Printer installer data: `GET /api/printers/install-list` (public; add
  `?format=text` for a pipe-delimited variant); `GET /api/printers/pc-default?machine=<n>`.
- Collector ingest (X-API-Key): `POST /api/collector/computers`.
- GE-Enforce: `GET /api/geenforce/manifest?pctype=<scope>`,
  `GET /api/geenforce/payload/<sha256>`, `POST /api/geenforce/report`.
- Import (admin PAT, preserves timestamps with `X-Import-Mode`): see docs/IMPORT-API.md.

## Conventions
- DB-mirrored params/fields use lowercase concatenated names (no underscores):
  `locationid`, `vendorid`, `windowsname` - match them exactly.
- IDs in paths are integers.
- Plugin endpoints live under the plugin's prefix (`/api/<plugin>/...`).

## Full reference
- Machine spec: `GET /api/docs/openapi.json` (OpenAPI 3.1, 362 operations).
- Interactive: `GET /api/docs` (Redoc).
- Human reference: `docs/API-REFERENCE.md`.
