ersatztv/docs/e2e-local.md

# Local live-E2E recipe

Purpose: how to stand up a real, running instance of this fork locally (dotnet host + built SPA)
for manual or Playwright-MCP-driven end-to-end verification — no live Docker/prod dependency.
**Update this doc (and `scripts/e2e-local.sh`) in the same PR that changes any convention below.**

This is for interactive/agent-driven verification, not CI (`docs/ci-cd.md` covers the CI pipeline,
which never runs the app itself).

## When live-E2E is required (not optional)

A live-E2E pass through this recipe is a **required** step — not a nicety — for any PR that changes
an **API write-path handler**: a `POST`/`PUT`/`DELETE` `/api/*` command that mutates state and then
reloads it through the read path. Reason: this class has a **correlated blind spot** that unit and
characterization tests share. A green fixed-point test passed while a write-path returned a 500 in
production because the handler returned a *lazy* LanguageExt `Map` the test never enumerated (#229,
PR — see `docs/decisions.md` and `api-conventions.md` §7); the reload-through-read-path mechanics can
throw only when the result is actually materialised, which the SPA does and the test did not. Live
driving the real screen (or `curl`ing the real endpoint) is the only net that reliably catches it.

Concretely, for a write-path PR: stand up the instance (Steps below), exercise the changed
create/update/delete flow against the real endpoint or its SPA screen, and confirm the mutation
**round-trips through a subsequent read** (list/detail/browse) — not just that the write returned 2xx.
Pure-SPA/read-only or docs PRs don't need it. State in the PR/close comment that live-E2E ran (or,
for a non-write-path change, that it wasn't required) — the same auditable-exemption rule the review
skip rubric uses (kickoff workflow lore).

## Why the steps are in this order

- **`ErsatzTV/Startup.cs`'s `/app` SPA middleware resolves its static-file root once, at startup**
  (`SpaStaticFileRoot()`, checked with `Directory.Exists` and swapped to a `NullFileProvider` if
  missing — see `Startup.cs` around the `app.MapWhen(... "/app" ...)` block). If `wwwroot/app`
  doesn't exist yet when the process starts, **the SPA will 404 forever until you restart the
  process** — copying the built files in after the fact does nothing for an already-running
  instance.
- The dotnet host and the SPA share **one port** (default 8409, `ETV_UI_PORT` / `SystemEnvironment.
  UiPort` in `ErsatzTV.Core/SystemEnvironment.cs`) — there's no separate dev server/proxy in this
  workflow; you're testing the actual production static-hosting path.
- A fresh config folder per run avoids state bleed (leftover channels/schedules/DB) between test
  sessions corrupting your assertions.

## Steps

1. **Build the prerequisites** (once, or after any source change):
   ```bash
   dotnet build ErsatzTV.sln
   cd web && npm run build && cd ..   # → ErsatzTV/wwwroot/app (vite.config.ts outDir)
   ```

2. **Copy `wwwroot` into the build output** (the `dotnet build` output directory does not
   automatically pick up `web/`'s build artifacts placed directly into the source `wwwroot`):
   ```bash
   rm -rf ErsatzTV/bin/Debug/net10.0/wwwroot
   cp -R ErsatzTV/wwwroot ErsatzTV/bin/Debug/net10.0/wwwroot
   ```
   The `rm` matters: if the destination dir already exists (any prior run), `cp -R src dst`
   copies **into** it (`dst/wwwroot/...`) and the server silently keeps serving the previous
   run's stale assets. `scripts/e2e-local.sh` does the rm+copy for you.
   If you rebuild the SPA (`npm run build`) while the dotnet process from step 4 is already
   running, **re-copy and then restart the process** — see the "why" note above; it will not pick
   up new files live.

3. **Use a fresh scratch config folder** — never reuse one across test runs:
   ```bash
   CONFIG_DIR=$(mktemp -d)
   ```

4. **Run the app**, pointed at the scratch folder:
   ```bash
   cd ErsatzTV/bin/Debug/net10.0
   ETV_CONFIG_FOLDER="$CONFIG_DIR" dotnet ErsatzTV.dll
   ```
   Wait for the log line **`Done migrating search index`** (emitted by
   `RebuildSearchIndexHandler` in `ErsatzTV.Application/Search/Commands/`, with a
   `... in {Duration}` suffix) — that's the last long-running startup step; before that, requests
   may 404/error. The UI and the entire `/api/*` surface are served on the **same port**, 8409 by
   default (override with `ETV_UI_PORT`).

5. **Seed data** as needed via the API — no API key is required for local mutating requests by
   default (`ApiKeyAuthorizationFilter` only enforces the `X-Api-Key` header when
   `Api:WriteKey` is configured; it's empty/unset in a fresh local config, so writes are open).
   Examples:
   - Create a channel: `POST /api/channels` — check the current
     `ErsatzTV/wwwroot/openapi/v1.json` (or `CreateChannelRequest.cs`) for the exact required field
     list before assuming these are complete, but as of this writing it requires (among plain
     fields) these enums: `PlayoutSource: "Generated"`, `PlayoutMode: "Continuous"`,
     `SongVideoMode: "Default"`, `TranscodeMode: "OnDemand"`, `IdleBehavior: "StopOnDisconnect"`.
   - Create a playout for an existing channel: `POST /api/playouts` with
     `{"channelId": <id>, "scheduleKind": "Block"}` (or `"Classic"`/`"Scripted"`/`"Sequential"` per
     `ChannelPlayoutSource`/schedule-kind enums — check `v1.json` for the current set).

6. **Tear down**: kill the `dotnet ErsatzTV.dll` process and confirm the port is freed
   (`lsof -i :8409` should return nothing) before starting another run — a stray process holding
   the port will make the next run's health check hang or fail confusingly.

## Playwright MCP screenshots

If you're driving the browser via the Playwright MCP server for visual verification, screenshots
land in **the MCP server process's own cwd** (this repo's root, not wherever you ran the dotnet
process from) — expect stray `*.png` files at the repo root after a session; this is tolerated,
not a bug to fix, but don't check them in.

## Script: `scripts/e2e-local.sh`

A copy of this script is included in this doc's directory; it is intended to land at
`scripts/e2e-local.sh` in the repo. It automates steps 2–4 above (build is assumed already done —
run `dotnet build` / `npm run build` yourself first, since rebuilding on every invocation is slow
and this script is meant to be re-run often during a debugging session).

Usage:
```bash
scripts/e2e-local.sh [CONFIG_DIR]
```
- `CONFIG_DIR` defaults to a fresh `mktemp -d` if omitted.
- Copies `ErsatzTV/wwwroot` → `ErsatzTV/bin/Debug/net10.0/wwwroot`.
- Launches `dotnet ErsatzTV.dll` in the background with `ETV_CONFIG_FOLDER` set.
- Waits (up to 120s) for the `Done migrating search index` log line.
- Prints the PID and port, then **exits leaving the server running** — the caller is responsible
  for killing the PID when done (`kill <PID>`).

## Seeding a local TV library for E2E

Channels/playouts are API-seedable (step 5 above), but a **local media library is not** — there
is no `/api/*` endpoint to add a local library folder. To exercise media-browse / search / detail
screens you need real scanned items. Recipe (used to verify the #220 episode-nav PR):

1. **Generate tiny media files on disk** — one show (one season, ~3 episodes), plus a second show
   whose title *contains the first as a substring* (good substring-search sanity data), plus a
   movie if you need a non-episode kind. Keep TV and movies under **separate roots** so each
   library scans cleanly (a Shows library pointed at a folder that also contains movies will try
   to parse the movies as shows). Each file is a 2-second `testsrc` clip:
   ```bash
   MEDIA=/tmp/etv-media    # any scratch path
   mkdir -p "$MEDIA/tv/Show Alpha/Season 01" \
            "$MEDIA/tv/Show Alpha Returns/Season 01" \
            "$MEDIA/movies/Test Movie (2020)"
   for n in 01 02 03; do
     ffmpeg -y -f lavfi -i testsrc=duration=2:size=320x240:rate=10 -c:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p \
       "$MEDIA/tv/Show Alpha/Season 01/Show Alpha - s01e$n.mkv"
   done
   ffmpeg -y -f lavfi -i testsrc=duration=2:size=320x240:rate=10 -c:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p \
     "$MEDIA/tv/Show Alpha Returns/Season 01/Show Alpha Returns - s01e01.mkv"
   ffmpeg -y -f lavfi -i testsrc=duration=2:size=320x240:rate=10 -c:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p \
     "$MEDIA/movies/Test Movie (2020)/Test Movie (2020).mkv"
   ```

2. **Attach the folders to the built-in local libraries via SQLite.** A fresh config DB already
   has the seven default local libraries (`Library` rows for a single `LocalMediaSource`): `Movies`
   is `Id=1`, `Shows` is `Id=2`. `LibraryPath` is just `(Path TEXT, LibraryId INT)` — insert one
   row per root, pointing each at the matching library:
   ```bash
   DB="$CONFIG_DIR/ersatztv.sqlite3"    # CONFIG_DIR from the run above; server may be running
   sqlite3 "$DB" "INSERT INTO LibraryPath (Path, LibraryId) VALUES ('$MEDIA/tv', 2);"     # Shows
   sqlite3 "$DB" "INSERT INTO LibraryPath (Path, LibraryId) VALUES ('$MEDIA/movies', 1);" # Movies
   ```

3. **Trigger a scan and wait for items to appear.** The scan endpoint takes an empty body:
   ```bash
   curl -s -X POST http://localhost:8409/api/libraries/2/scan -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{}'
   curl -s -X POST http://localhost:8409/api/libraries/1/scan -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{}'
   # poll until episodes show up (scanner runs as a background subprocess):
   curl -s "http://localhost:8409/api/library/browse?mediaType=Episode&pageSize=50"
   ```
   The scan runs even though `LibraryPath` was inserted after startup — the scan handler re-reads
   the library from the DB. Browse (`/api/library/browse`) reads straight from the DB, so items
   appear there within a few seconds.

### Gotchas

- **Do NOT delete the `search-index/` folder to "reset" search.** On startup the app *recreates the
  index empty* (`Search index failed to initialize; will delete and recreate` → `Migrating search
  index to version N`) and that migration does **not** re-index from the DB — only a **scan**
  writes documents into the Lucene index. The scanner subprocess writes the index while running; a
  restart never rebuilds it from existing DB rows. If you wipe `search-index/`, a *rescan of
  unchanged files won't repopulate it* (the scanner skips unchanged items), so search stays empty.
  The clean recovery is a fresh `CONFIG_DIR`: launch → insert `LibraryPath` → scan **once** → leave
  the index alone.
- **Search query relevance is field-scoped, not free-text.** The `/api/search` default field does
  **not** match bare title words: `Alpha` and `Show` return nothing for a "Show Alpha" title, while
  `title:Alpha`, `Show*`, or `*Alpha*` all match. The SPA search box forwards the query verbatim, so
  when driving search-result screens in E2E use a field/wildcard query (e.g. `title:Alpha`) to get
  deterministic hits. (This is pre-existing ErsatzTV search behavior, independent of any SPA change.)