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From: Timothy
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 19:20:26 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix(685): close the second ingress; stop the error path
claiming a short query
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Verification round returned MERGEABLE with all three blocking findings resolved
by measurement. These are its four remaining items.
- DEFAULT_SEARCH_KINDS was the SECOND ingress into the searched kinds and was
not derived, so the previous commit's "enforced by the type system" claim held
for one of two paths. A non-addable kind there typechecked clean and would
have overstated the hint with every one of its rows dropped — the exact defect
the derivation exists to prevent. Now derived; verified by mutation that
adding 'Collection' to it is a compile error.
- The error path fell into the min-query guidance branch, so a valid 2-character
query that got a 500 told the user to type at least 2 characters. That branch
conflated "nothing searched yet" with "the last search failed". Newly
introduced by the previous commit's error-path reset; now gated on !error and
pinned by a test.
- The aria-live region was mounted conditionally, creating the region and its
text in one commit — which most screen readers do not announce. It is now
mounted unconditionally with the condition inside.
- The §3b lesson mis-stated where the duplicate gate lived: it was inside
runSearch, the genuine single sink, NOT at one of the callers — so the rule as
written ("put the gate in the single sink, not at each caller") described the
revision that was rejected. Reworded to the actual lesson: the gate's home is
the shared helper, and "it's the single sink" is not evidence it is the only
guard. That misreading is why #685 got this wrong twice.
Declined again, with reasons: the NaN pageSize edge (faithful to the sibling
helper), the clamp test's unpinned lower bound (same), and the registry's
disclosed same-identity substitution gap.
refs #740
---
docs/spa-conventions.md | 14 +++++++++-----
web/src/api/pageSizeCallSites.guard.test.ts | 11 +++++++----
web/src/screens/CollectionsScreen.test.tsx | 8 ++++++++
web/src/screens/CollectionsScreen.tsx | 20 +++++++++++++-------
4 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/spa-conventions.md b/docs/spa-conventions.md
index a1261376e..41e72f174 100644
--- a/docs/spa-conventions.md
+++ b/docs/spa-conventions.md
@@ -199,11 +199,15 @@ the #644 follow-up got Class A right and Class B only half right):
match count — this is a bulk multi-select add, where "add the 40 matching episodes" is a
first-class use, so `AddItemsDialog` sums each kind's `totalCount` and renders a `Showing N of
M matches` hint once it exceeds the rendered rows (finding 4 — an earlier revision of this
- bullet called the truncation nothing left to hint at). **Put the gate in the single search
- sink, not at each caller**: `AddItemsDialog` has two entry paths (blank form submit, kind-chip
- click), and #685's first fix duplicated the check at one of them, which measurably tested
- nothing — deleting the duplicate reddened no test, while deleting the sink's gate reddened both
- paths. **Outstanding on this screen**: `AddItemsDialog` still lacks the monotonic `seqRef`
+ bullet called the truncation nothing left to hint at). **The gate's home is the shared HELPER,
+ not the screen — however single-sink the screen's own function looks.** #685 got this wrong
+ twice in a row, and the second time is the instructive one: the check sat inside `runSearch`,
+ which genuinely IS the one sink both entry paths route through, so it read as correct. It was
+ still a duplicate of the helper's gate, and the two masked each other — with both present,
+ deleting EITHER left the whole suite green, so the min-query boundary test pinned nothing.
+ Measured after removing the screen's copy: deleting the helper's gate alone reddens that test
+ and three more. A guard you cannot redden is not a guard, and "it's the single sink" is not
+ evidence that it is the only one. **Outstanding on this screen**: `AddItemsDialog` still lacks the monotonic `seqRef`
stale-response guard and `useIsMountedRef()` — the same class of guard "Debounced typeaheads"
below mandates there, applied to a debounced-while-typing fetch; `AddItemsDialog` is an explicit
Search-button submission, not a typeahead, so that mandate doesn't reach it directly, but the
diff --git a/web/src/api/pageSizeCallSites.guard.test.ts b/web/src/api/pageSizeCallSites.guard.test.ts
index bdc597b3f..d729f0e3a 100644
--- a/web/src/api/pageSizeCallSites.guard.test.ts
+++ b/web/src/api/pageSizeCallSites.guard.test.ts
@@ -187,10 +187,13 @@ const REGISTRY: RegistryEntry[] = [
"real match count below what totalCount reports, and AddItemsDialog now sums each kind's " +
"totalCount and renders a 'Showing N of M' hint when it exceeds the rendered rows. The only " +
'remaining client-side filter in AddItemsDialog (ADDABLE_TYPES.has(item.mediaType)) is inert, ' +
- 'not a silent drop, and this is now enforced by the type system rather than by convention: ' +
- "MediaKindFilter is derived from ADDABLE_TYPE_LIST (`(typeof ADDABLE_TYPE_LIST)[number]`), so " +
- 'adding a non-addable kind to MEDIA_KIND_FILTERS is a compile error, not a silently-possible ' +
- 'mismatch.'
+ 'not a silent drop, and this is now enforced by the type system rather than by convention on ' +
+ 'BOTH ingress paths into the searched kinds — MediaKindFilter (the explicit-chip path) and ' +
+ 'DEFAULT_SEARCH_KINDS (the `all` fan-out) are each derived from ADDABLE_TYPE_LIST via ' +
+ '`(typeof ADDABLE_TYPE_LIST)[number]`, so adding a non-addable kind to either is a compile ' +
+ 'error. Enforcing only the first was the #685 round-3 review finding: the hint sums ' +
+ 'PRE-filter totalCounts against POST-filter rows, so one unenforced ingress is enough to ' +
+ 'overstate it with every row of that kind dropped.'
},
{
file: 'api/paging.ts',
diff --git a/web/src/screens/CollectionsScreen.test.tsx b/web/src/screens/CollectionsScreen.test.tsx
index 831ce49fd..237919112 100644
--- a/web/src/screens/CollectionsScreen.test.tsx
+++ b/web/src/screens/CollectionsScreen.test.tsx
@@ -641,6 +641,14 @@ describe('CollectionsScreen', () => {
});
expect(within(dialog).queryByText(/Showing .* of .* matches/)).not.toBeInTheDocument();
expect(fetchMock).toHaveBeenCalled();
+
+ // A failed search must NOT fall into the min-query guidance branch: the user typed a valid
+ // 2-character query and got a 500, so telling them to "type at least 2 characters" states
+ // something false about what they just did. The error banner is the whole message (#685
+ // review round 3 — that branch conflated "nothing searched yet" with "the last search failed").
+ expect(
+ within(dialog).queryByText(`Type at least ${LIBRARY_PICKER_MIN_QUERY} characters to search.`)
+ ).not.toBeInTheDocument();
});
/* ---------- add-items search bounds (#685) ---------- */
diff --git a/web/src/screens/CollectionsScreen.tsx b/web/src/screens/CollectionsScreen.tsx
index a43412187..0165ace4b 100644
--- a/web/src/screens/CollectionsScreen.tsx
+++ b/web/src/screens/CollectionsScreen.tsx
@@ -76,7 +76,12 @@ const ADDABLE_TYPES = new Set(ADDABLE_TYPE_LIST)
// The default fan-out excludes seasons so a multi-season show doesn't flood the
// results with per-season rows (issue #180); seasons (and the other narrower kinds
// added for #211) stay reachable via the explicit media-kind filter below.
-const DEFAULT_SEARCH_KINDS: LibraryBrowseItem['mediaType'][] = ['Movie', 'TelevisionShow', 'Artist'];
+// Derived from ADDABLE_TYPE_LIST for the same reason MediaKindFilter is: this is the SECOND
+// ingress into `kinds` (the `all` branch of runSearch), and the truncation hint sums pre-filter
+// totalCounts against post-ADDABLE_TYPES rows. A non-addable kind here would overstate the hint
+// with every one of its rows dropped, and typing it as the whole mediaType union let that through
+// (#685 review round 3 — one of two ingress paths was enforced, which is not an invariant).
+const DEFAULT_SEARCH_KINDS: (typeof ADDABLE_TYPE_LIST)[number][] = ['Movie', 'TelevisionShow', 'Artist'];
type MediaKindFilter = 'all' | (typeof ADDABLE_TYPE_LIST)[number];
@@ -390,13 +395,14 @@ function AddItemsDialog({
Results for “{submittedQuery}”
)}
- {totalMatches > results.length && (
-
- Showing {results.length} of {totalMatches} matches — narrow your search.
-
- )}
+ {/* The live region is mounted UNCONDITIONALLY with the condition inside it: most screen
+ readers only announce mutations to a region that already existed, so creating the region
+ and its text in the same commit announces nothing (#685 review round 3). */}
+
+ {totalMatches > results.length ? `Showing ${results.length} of ${totalMatches} matches — narrow your search.` : ''}
+
- {results.length === 0 && submittedQuery === '' ? (
+ {results.length === 0 && submittedQuery === '' && !error ? (
// Keyed to submittedQuery, not the live input: without it, backspacing the query back
// below the min-query length after a successful search wiped the rendered rows AND their
// checkmarks while `selected` (and the Add button's count) still held them (#685 review