Someone writing a script against ShopDB had two options: read a 705 KB spec, or
guess. The spec is the reference, not an index, and handing an agent the whole
thing means either truncating it or spending a context window on 479 operations
nobody asked about.
Three additions, each feeding the next.
/api/docs/operations.txt is the index: every operation on one line with its
method, path, tag, auth and summary, at around 70 KB for all 486. A caller can
hold the entire API at once, find the four operations it needs, and only then
fetch their schemas.
/api/docs/openapi.json?tag=... narrows the spec to one of the 41 tag groups.
Components are kept intact deliberately: pruning the schema graph to match would
leave references resolving to nothing, and a generator that fails confusingly is
worse than a file that is larger than strictly necessary.
tools/mcp/ is an MCP server built on both. Five tools rather than 483, because a
tool per operation is unusable - clients degrade past a few dozen and models
start picking the wrong one. It reads everything from the live instance at call
time, so enabling a plugin adds operations it can already reach with no change
here. The token is the security boundary and the README says so plainly: every
operation the credential permits is reachable, so exploratory work wants a
read-scoped token.
The rest of this is about the contract not drifting, which is what makes any of
the above trustworthy.
Two CI jobs:
- api-contract runs the parity gates and then regenerates the spec and fails if
anything changed. Those gates already existed and already worked - they caught
both routes added here, unprompted - but nothing ran them except by hand, and
the committed spec had silently drifted by three operations, including two
setup endpoints added the day before.
- migrations-mysql is the job the header comment has been claiming for some
time while not existing. It described "the REAL multi-site deploy path" and
"what catches an Alembic regression on MySQL before it ships", and there was
no such job. That is worse than no comment: it is the false confidence that
let a migration ship which could not build a schema on a fresh MySQL database.
The suite runs on SQLite, and SQLite accepts a foreign key onto a table that
does not exist.
CONTRIBUTING.md now says to run gen_openapi.py --refresh after changing a route,
and that a route the sweep cannot classify belongs in PUBLIC_ENDPOINTS with a
reason rather than hand-edited into the inventory, which the next refresh would
overwrite. The new index route is declared there alongside the spec it indexes.
/api/docs was broken in every Docker deployment, including the air-gapped ones.
docs.py resolves openapi.json and llms.txt from the repo root, and the image
copies shopdb, plugins, migrations, scripts and wsgi.py but never docs. The page
rendered the Redoc shell and then answered 404 fetching its own specification.
Only the two files the app actually serves are copied; the rest of that tree is
prose with no business in a runtime image.
The theme was invented colours that matched nothing. It now maps the product's
own tokens, and reads the theme the way the app does: the application stores an
explicit light/dark choice and stamps data-theme, so choosing light on a
dark-desktop kiosk used to give a dark documentation page. The operating system
setting is the fallback, exactly as it is in the app.
Light-mode primary, success and error are a shade darker than the product
tokens, because those tokens are designed as fills and fail contrast as text on
the nested panels where type names and required labels sit. Measured with a
browser harness rather than judged by eye: every text node in both themes now
clears WCAG AA, from an initial 5603 reported failures - most of which were the
harness itself ignoring alpha, which is its own lesson about trusting a number.
Four Redoc elements carry hardcoded colours with no theme key and keep targeted
rules, selected by tag and attribute rather than by generated class hashes that
change on every build.
The build now compiles the Python. Docker never imports the application, so a
syntax error sails through every layer and surfaces as a crash-looping
container; that happened, four restarts, while working on this file.
Redoc's upstream licence file was never vendored although its bundle header
points at it. The placeholder added here says exactly that rather than inventing
the third-party notices it is supposed to carry, and the dead redocly.com badge
is hidden: the licence wants the notice in the distribution, not a rendered
link that a site with no internet cannot follow.
The app has a dark theme. /api/docs was the one page that stayed white when the
rest of the site went dark, which is exactly the page somebody has open beside
the app while they work.
Redoc does not read prefers-color-scheme, and the <redoc spec-url> element it
was using takes no theme at all - so the page now initialises through
Redoc.init, which does. Light keeps the default look; dark names the colours
Redoc otherwise derives from the background and gets wrong: body text, the
sidebar, and the right-hand sample panel, which came out dark-on-dark.
It re-initialises on a live scheme change rather than restyling, because Redoc
bakes its colours into styled-components at init - a CSS override reaches the
chrome and misses the content. The listener has the addListener fallback for the
older MediaQueryList, since a shop-floor kiosk browser is exactly where this
gets read.
Nothing new is loaded: same vendored bundle, same spec, no font, no CDN. A test
pins that, because theming is the kind of change that quietly introduces one.
The try-it page is left light. Swagger UI 5 ships no dark theme, so it would
mean vendoring a community stylesheet that fights upstream on every bump - and
it is a development tool that is off in production anyway.
/api/docs on the production site handed out
https://<host>/api/apitokens for an app that lives at /shopdb. Copy that URL
and it 404s; Swagger's try-it fired at the same wrong address.
The mount is a DEPLOYMENT fact and the spec is a BUILD artifact.
gen_openapi.py writes servers: [{"url": "/"}] because at generation time nobody
knows where the app will be hung, and wsgi.py only moves MOUNT_PATH from
PATH_INFO into SCRIPT_NAME when the process starts. Served as written, the file
was right for a root install and wrong for every subpath one - which is how
production runs.
The endpoint now sets `servers` per request from request.script_root: empty at
root, /shopdb under the subpath method, and correct behind a proxy that sets the
prefix. The paths themselves stay mount-free, because the prefix belongs in the
server entry and duplicating it into each path would double it.
The file is about a megabyte, so it is parsed once and cached by mtime, and each
request gets a shallow copy with only `servers` replaced - two requests arriving
on different mounts cannot race on one dict.
A test pins both cases and the fact that paths stay unprefixed. Planting a wrong
server URL fails it.
main was 16 days and 259 commits behind the line the product is actually built
on, at contract 0.30.0 against 0.35.0, with no per-PC credential code at all. It
was neither current nor curated - just stale. This brings it forward and, at the
same time, makes it mean something: main is what a receiving site installs, and
nothing else.
WHAT IT CARRIES. Twelve plugins - backups, computers, endpoints, guides,
knowledgebase, machines, network, notifications, printers, slides, tools,
warranty - plus applications, which is manifest-less core and always ships. The
only manifest dependency inside that set is endpoints on computers, and both are
in it, so the closure is self-contained.
WHAT IT DOES NOT. employees, geenforce, measuringtools, printedparts and usb
stay on the site line. So do the Windows installer tree, the VM rehearsal
helpers, the agent tooling config, one site's data loader, the internal audit
and findings records, and the planner spreadsheet. 1,135 tracked files against
1,438.
A REMOVAL THAT BREAKS THE APP IS NOT A REMOVAL, and two nearly shipped:
deploy/site-profile-universal.json still named all seventeen plugins. It is the
file docs/DEPLOY.md tells a site to provision from, so a fresh install would
have failed at `flask plugin apply-profile` with PluginError - the first thing a
receiving site does, broken by the branch meant to serve them. It now names the
twelve that exist, and its comment says the two must agree.
agent/ was never refreshed. Whoever populated this branch copied shopdb/,
plugins/, frontend/ and tests/ from the site line and left the agent tree at its
September state: 22 C# and PowerShell sources missing, including AgentCredentials,
EnrollmentService, AgentHttpFactory and the fleet-alert client, plus one file the
site line had deleted still present. The old tree is internally consistent, so it
compiles, and nothing in CI builds it - every gate was green over a server that
speaks enrollment and per-PC credentials to a bundled agent source that cannot.
Resynced whole.
DECISIONS THIS ENCODES, rather than defers:
- The plugin-authoring lab builds printedparts, whose manifest depends on
employees, so it could not stay. The lab remains on the site line and main
ships no build-along tutorial. That is a real loss for an adopting developer
and is recorded here rather than discovered later.
- Recognition, Training and Recertification notifications are no longer seeded.
Each splits one notification into a card per employee and renders a photo,
which needs a plugin this branch does not bundle. Seeding them would offer an
author a type that cannot resolve anybody. A site that installs employees gets
them from that plugin's own seed.
- Windows/IIS is documented as the legacy path throughout, and the README leads
with Docker, because that is what a receiving site gets.
The API description is regenerated for THIS branch - 347 paths and 483
operations, down from 415 and 573 - so the published contract describes what is
here rather than what the site line serves. docs/CONFIG.md lost the two
measuring-tool label keys the code no longer declares, which two lanes had
decided opposite ways.
Suite: 3124 passed, 6 skipped. Naming and style gates pass. The docs gates run
rather than skip, and every index line count is derived from the file it names.
