Two fields on the same page were both labelled "Type": the asset's own, and the
catalog model's. Only one of them was vague. "Model type" already says exactly
what it is; the bare "Type" did not say whose.
So the unqualified one is the one that changes. No new vocabulary, and "Model
type" reads correctly against it:
Type -> Machine Type (machines)
Type -> PC Type (computers)
Type -> Printer Type (printers)
Type -> Device Type (network devices)
Left alone everywhere the word is not ambiguous - measuring tools, subnets,
VLANs, notifications, supply types and the manifest editor have no model type on
screen to be confused with.
This is a labelling change only. It does not address the blank type column on
machines imported from the classic ASP database, which is a data gap the
backfill script fills; renaming a column heading was never going to put values
in it.
Adding a "Model type" row next to "Type" put two rows in the Hardware section
that read identically. They come from different tables - modeltypes is the
catalog-wide list spanning every kind of asset, machinetypes is machine-only -
but the names line up in practice: all 262 machines in the development database
match exactly, which is the same fact that makes the type backfill safe.
So the row now appears only when the two disagree, which is the case worth
seeing: a model catalogued as one thing fitted to an asset recorded as another.
When they agree it says nothing and is hidden. Applied to machines, PCs,
printers and network devices, each compared against its own type table.
An asset that carries a model but no vendor was showing a blank the database
could already answer: the model records its vendor, and both sides reference the
same vendors table. Machines, PCs, printers and network devices now fall back to
it.
The fallback is FLAGGED, not merged silently. to_dict sets vendorfrommodel and
the detail pages render "(from model)" beside the value, because the record
itself is still empty: the edit form shows an empty vendor box, and a page
implying the vendor is stored would be lying about where it came from.
The model's type is exposed under its own name, modeltypename, and shown as a
separate "Model type" row. It is deliberately NOT used to fill in the asset's
own type. modeltypes is the catalog-wide list covering every kind of asset - it
holds "Access Point", "Camera" and "Desktop PC" alongside the machine entries -
so it is a different taxonomy from machinetypes. Only about two thirds of the
names overlap, and mapping one onto the other would mistype the remainder, with
the failure mode being a machine labelled "Desktop PC".
scripts/backfill_vendor_from_model.py writes the derived vendor down for real,
since the display fallback leaves reports that read vendorid still seeing
nothing. It is a dry run unless given --commit, fills only rows where the
asset's vendor is NULL and the model names one, and never overwrites a vendor
somebody chose. It skips a table lacking either column, so it runs against a
server whose network migration has not been applied yet.
Verified against the development database by nulling one machine's vendor inside
a transaction: it was detected as fillable, restored to exactly its original
value, and the rollback left the row untouched.
FLASK_ENV is not forced by the script. The app already reads it from .env, and
overriding it demanded a SECRET_KEY the environment had no reason to supply.
Model image URLs are root-relative (/api/models/image/...), so on an /ops
subpath deploy the raw <img src> resolved to the server root and 404'd. Wrap
every model-image src in withBase(): machine/printer/PC/network detail heroes,
the models settings preview, and the machine-badge / asset-label print pages.
withBase leaves external http(s)/data URLs untouched.
Relocate applications, geenforce, knowledgebase, and machines - each owns only
its own views dir, so a clean move to plugins/<name>/frontend/ (views/ +
routes.js, core imports rewritten to @/). geenforce's entryForm.js helper + its
vitest spec move with it (ManifestEditor imports it as a sibling).
Machinery fixes this batch surfaced:
- routes.gen.js codegen uses namespace imports (import * as p_x). A route file
without a `toplevel` export is undefined on the namespace instead of a strict-
ESM missing-binding build error.
- vitest gains a `pretest` stage so plugin-frontend specs (now under
plugins/<name>/frontend/) run from their staged copy in src/.plugins-staged/.
Verified live: GE-Enforce (the most complex, uses the entryForm sibling helper)
renders fully from its staged frontend. Build + 58 vitest + naming green.
