A sweep of the URL map found 165 GET routes that answered anybody, with no
token at all: the whole asset inventory, every machine, PC, printer and network
device, the USB checkout history and who is holding which drive, the staff
directory with its photographs, every core report. Guest access had been argued
about one feature-flag at a time while the front door stood open.
Each of those now carries the read permission it belongs to. That also makes
the guest role mean something: a site can open exactly the reads it chooses,
and nothing follows by accident.
Thirty-three endpoints stay public, and each is named with its reason rather
than left to be inferred: the app shell and its bootstrap, the settings
allowlist (the handler already filters an anonymous caller down to branding and
a few keys), images fetched by <img src> which carries no Authorization header,
what a display kiosk renders before anybody signs in, the parts and USB kiosks,
the client scripts that run as SYSTEM before a user session exists, and a
secure-send link whose unguessable token IS the authorisation.
tests/test_core/test_public_read_surface.py is the standing gate, the companion
to the mutating-route sweep that has guarded writes for months. A new public
read fails CI until somebody adds it to that list in front of a reviewer. Four
further reads need a login but no permission, because the handler decides from
who you are - your own user record, your own API tokens, the role catalogue the
grid renders - and the same test proves each still refuses an anonymous caller.
Verified not vacuous by ungating one route and watching the sweep name it.
The employees plugin gained employees.view; the directory is names, SSOs,
photographs and reporting lines, and it had no permission of any kind.
Around ninety tests asserted payload shapes against endpoints that answered
anybody. They are about what the answer says, not about who may ask, so they
are signed in now rather than the gate being loosened. The ones that assert an
anonymous caller is refused were left exactly as they were.
External HR Picture values are relative paths; the resolver hardcoded
/static/employees/ (which the SPA then mounts under the subpath, e.g.
/ops/static/...), but sites like WJ serve those photos from the
classic EmployeeDBAPP on another URL entirely. New setting
employee_photo_base_url (blank keeps the old behavior; a full URL like
https://host/EmployeeDBAPP/images/ passes through withBase untouched),
declared in the plugin config schema.
Answers the confusion of asking for a DB connection while also offering to
create the tables. Each self-host-capable plugin (employees, usb) now shows a
mode choice; the external connection fields appear only for "connect your own
database". Default is self-hosted (create tables here) - the external path is
the niche/our-site option.
- provisioning_note gains mode_setting; employee_directory_mode + usb_directory_
mode settings (both default 'selfhosted').
- Wizard renders the radio, shows the note for self-hosted and the config fields
for external, and saves the chosen mode.
Employees works fully in both modes. USB self-hosted ROUTING is still TODO - the
USB routes read the external cmmc_usb schema; wiring them to the app-owned
tables is the remaining work (tracked).
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Both plugins provision extra tables, so they now install disabled and explain
themselves before a site opts in.
- Plugin contract gains get_provisioning_note() -> {tables, note, docs}.
Employees and USB implement it (what tables get created in shopdb, how they
are referenced, link to the schema README; USB references the captured
DLP/reminder plans).
- Manifest default_enabled=false for employees + usb; the plugins list API
returns provisioning_note + default_enabled; install now registers a plugin
disabled when default_enabled is false.
- Setup wizard Features step renders the provisioning note the moment a plugin
with one is enabled.
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Most sites have no external HR database, so add a self-hosted directory mode.
- New employee_directory_mode setting: 'external' (default; read a separate HR
DB, unchanged) or 'selfhosted' (app-owned table).
- DirectoryEmployee model + directoryemployees table (migration 7d16). to_dict
emits the same keys the external contract uses (SSO/First_Name/...), so both
modes share one response shape and the frontend is unchanged.
- Employee search / single / batch lookup branch on the mode.
- Self-hosted-only management endpoints: list, create, update, delete, and CSV
import (upsert by SSO). Guarded so they only work in self-hosted mode.
- EmployeeDirectory.vue management page (Settings > Locations & Organization):
table + search + pagination, add/edit/delete, CSV import (file or paste).
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Every site's HR directory and USB check-in/out databases may use a different
schema, so document exactly what each plugin queries and how to adapt.
- plugins/employees/README.md: required employees table columns (SSO,
First_Name, Last_Name, Team, Role, Picture), the queries run, photo handling,
and a CREATE VIEW recipe to map a different site schema without code changes.
- plugins/usb/README.md: cmmc_usb devices / checkinoutlog / users columns,
read-write ops, the employee-directory dependency, and a view recipe.
- USB plugin gains get_config_schema() (cmmc_usb_db_host/name/user + password);
cmmc_usb_connection reads host/name/user settings-first (env fallback), the
password stays env-only - matching the employees plugin.
- Config-field help points at the READMEs.
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- Plugin contract gains get_config_schema(); the plugins list API returns it.
Employees plugin declares its directory-DB fields (host/name/user + password).
- employee_connection reads host/name/user settings-first (env fallback); the
password stays env-only.
- Setup wizard Features step renders each enabled plugin's config: non-secret
fields save to settings; secrets are never stored - the wizard emits .env
lines to paste. Fixed the plugins-list data path (data.plugins).
- Settings PUT now upserts (creates the row on first write) so plugin-config
keys can be saved without pre-seeding.
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Third core feature pulled into a plugin (blueprint-only, like slides). The
employee directory is a read-only lookup over a separate HR database.
- plugins/employees/: manifest (api_prefix /api/employees, no deps), api/ (moved
blueprint, contract-pure: success/error/ErrorCodes + employee_connection all
from shopdb.api), plugin.py (get_blueprint, get_models -> []).
- employee_connection STAYS core infrastructure in shopdb.api (config-driven
external DB connector, shared by search + the notifications shopfloor feed). So
no get_services needed and no contract change - the plugin owns the directory
FEATURE, core owns the shared connector.
- Fixed a latent bug in the move: error paths used ErrorCodes.DATABASE_ERROR
which does not exist -> ErrorCodes.INTERNAL_ERROR (so a directory outage now
returns a clean 500 envelope instead of an AttributeError crash).
- De-cored: deleted shopdb/core/api/employees.py, removed from
CORE_BLUEPRINT_NAMES + core/api/__init__ import/__all__. Registered in
instance/plugins.json.
Pinned first: validation (400) + graceful-degrade (500) characterization tests;
the degrade test caught the DATABASE_ERROR bug and goes green with the fix.
184 tests pass, naming green, app boots 9 bundled plugins, endpoint verified live.
Plugin extractions complete: knowledgebase, slides, employees.
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