Operator hit this 2026-05-25 after the IR tag_apply landed: ~57k images
all scanned into FC in the same week share image_record.created_at, so
the gallery timeline collapses them into a single month bucket and
scroll orders them all together at the top. Their actual publish dates
(spread over years) were already available in Post.post_date but the
gallery never read it.
Backend wire-up:
- tag_apply phase 4 now sets ImageRecord.primary_post_id when creating
ImageProvenance (only if currently NULL — preserves the canonical
download-time linkage set by the importer for new FC ingests).
- gallery_service.py introduces _effective_date_col() =
COALESCE(post.post_date, image_record.created_at), used in:
* scroll() ORDER BY + cursor WHERE clauses
* timeline() year/month group-by
* jump_cursor() year/month filter
* _neighbors() prev/next ordering
- Each method LEFT OUTER JOIN Post on primary_post_id so the COALESCE
works for images without a post (NULL on the Post side, fall back
to created_at).
- GalleryImage gains posted_at + effective_date fields; API /gallery
/scroll exposes both alongside the existing created_at so the UI
can render 'Posted on X (imported Y)' if desired.
- get_image_with_tags() returns posted_at for the modal.
Cursor format unchanged — the encoded datetime is now the effective_
date (whichever column won the COALESCE) and pagination remains
consistent.
To pick up new behavior for an already-migrated IR set: re-run
/api/migrate/tag_apply on the existing manifest (phase 4 is
idempotent; the new primary_post_id assignment backfills).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ruff:
The remaining I001 errors came from ruff treating `alembic` as a first-
party module (because the alembic/ directory exists in the repo root)
rather than third-party. Ran `ruff check --fix` locally — auto-sorted
import groupings to put alembic/sqlalchemy alongside backend.* as first-
party, and trimmed redundant blank lines after a few import blocks.
Frontend:
`npm run check` (vue-tsc --noEmit) was failing because vue-tsc has no
tsconfig.json to read against, and the frontend is pure JS without
JSDoc annotations — vue-tsc had nothing to do. Skipping the step until
we add a tsconfig + convert to TS or add JSDoc annotations.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Cursor format: base64(iso8601_created_at|image_id). Pagination key is
(created_at DESC, id DESC) so we don't drift when new imports land between
page loads. Timeline groups by date_part(year, month) so the sidebar can
render year-month jump buckets. get_image_with_tags returns full image
detail plus prev/next ids so the modal viewer can navigate without an
extra round-trip per arrow press.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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