Drift cache intentionally drops cover_url (server-derived). The
adapters comment says "REST cold-cache fallback briefly shows the real
values before drift takes over" — but once drift takes over, covers
are empty forever. Fix per source:
- Album cover: server constructs the URL deterministically as
/api/albums/<id>/cover (internal/api/convert.go:69). Mirror that
in CachedAlbumAdapter.toRef so AlbumRef.coverUrl is non-empty
whether the row came from a fresh fetch or a drift hit. Restores
cover art on the artist detail album grid (and any other surface
reading albums from drift).
- Artist cover: server picks a representative album and reuses its
cover (convert.go:98). Drift doesn't store the pointer, so derive
client-side via the artist's first loaded album. New _ArtistAvatar
prefers a non-empty server-emitted coverUrl and falls back to
/api/albums/<firstAlbumId>/cover, then slate while the album list
is still loading.
Album grid spacing was off because childAspectRatio: 0.8 inflated
each cell taller than the AlbumCard's actual ~160dp footprint,
leaving a visible gap below every card. Switch to mainAxisExtent: 168
with explicit 8dp main/cross spacing — cells now match the card and
sit on a clean grid.
Two fixes in one commit because they're entangled — the systemVariant
work would have been theater otherwise.
## The wire-format bug
/api/library/sync was emitting PascalCase JSON for artist / album /
track / playlist upserts (raw json.Marshal of sqlc-generated structs
with no JSON tags — sqlc.yaml: emit_json_tags=false). Flutter's
sync_controller _*FromJson reads snake_case keys, so all metadata
sync rows landed in drift with empty strings / zero ints.
The like_track / like_album / like_artist / playlist_track entities
work because they're hand-built `map[string]string` payloads with
snake_case keys — they sidestepped the bug. The 4 raw-marshal
entities did not.
Existing sync test caught zero of this — it asserts on len(upserts)
not field shape.
Fix: server-side view structs in library_sync_views.go with proper
JSON tags + pgtype-flattening (UUID → 8-4-4-4-12 hex string,
Date → "2006-01-02"). Mirrors the playlistRowView pattern from
/api/playlists. New library_sync_views_test.go pins the wire keys
so future field-name drift breaks loud.
## systemVariant column (closes#357 plan C v1 limitation)
playlistSyncView now carries `system_variant` server → wire.
Flutter drift schema bumped from 1 → 2 with onUpgrade adding the
`systemVariant TEXT NULL` column to cached_playlists. Cursor reset
to 0 in the migration so existing rows refresh with the new field
on the next sync.
playlistsListProvider now filters locally by systemVariant:
- kind='user' → systemVariant IS NULL (the add-to-playlist sheet's intent)
- kind='system' → systemVariant IS NOT NULL
- kind='all' → no filter
Closes the documented v1 limitation where the add-to-playlist sheet
showed system playlists alongside user-created ones.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Foundation for the provider migrations. cacheFirst<D, T> wraps the
drift.watch() + REST cold-cache fallback pattern: yields cached rows
when present, kicks off REST fetch + drift populate when empty +
online, yields empty when offline. REST failures swallow to empty so
callers can surface errors via toast.
adapters.dart adds CachedX → XRef extension methods + reverse
XRef.toDrift() companions for Artist/Album/Track/Playlist. Adapters
accept some loss of server-derived fields (coverUrl, streamUrl,
ownerUsername) — UI already handles empty values; cold-cache fallback
briefly shows the real values before drift takes over.
cache_first_test covers all 4 branches (non-empty, empty+online,
empty+offline, REST failure). adapters_test covers basic round-trips.
Both safe to run on CI runner — no drift open required.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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