The Flutter Discover screen was Lidarr-search-only; its empty state
showed a "Type to search" placeholder while web's /discover renders
the LB-derived out-of-library artist SuggestionFeed as its default
surface. Parity gap that slipped #356.
- ArtistSuggestion/SeedContribution model mirroring web types, with
attributionText() matching web's "Because you liked/played X[, Y, and
Z]." (Oxford comma, max 3).
- DiscoverApi.listSuggestions() → GET /api/discover/suggestions
(image_url already resolved server-side from Lidarr, a7bea43).
- discover_screen: empty search box → suggestions feed (artist art +
name + attribution + Request, reusing the existing createRequest +
mutation-queue-replay flow with optimistic hide); typing → Lidarr
search replaces; clearing → suggestions return. Mirrors web exactly.
Flutter-only; server endpoint unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
User intent (likes, hides, playlist adds, Lidarr requests, cancels)
now persists across network loss. Controllers write their optimistic
local state to drift first, then try the REST call; on failure
the call is enqueued in cached_mutations rather than rolled back.
MutationReplayer drains the queue on connectivity transitions and
a 1-minute periodic tick.
**Infrastructure (schema 8):**
* CachedMutations table — id / kind / payload (JSON) / createdAt
/ lastAttemptAt / attempts. Drop-after-5-attempts semantics: a
permanently-failing mutation eventually drops, and next sync
reconciles drift to the server's authoritative state.
* MutationQueue.enqueue / pendingCount
* MutationReplayer.start + .drain — start fires from app.dart's
postFrameCallback alongside SyncController / Prefetcher / etc.
* Kind registry: like.add / like.remove / quarantine.flag /
quarantine.unflag / playlist.append / request.create /
request.cancel — each with a Ref+payload handler that re-fires
the corresponding REST call.
**Wired surfaces:**
* LikesController.toggle — optimistic drift like/unlike stays
across REST failure; queues the call. Drops the old rollback.
* MyQuarantineController.flag / .unflag — same pattern. Hide/unhide
visibly persists offline; replays when back online.
* addToPlaylistActionProvider — now does an optimistic
cached_playlist_tracks write (position = max + 1) so the
playlist detail screen shows the new track instantly. Queues
appendTracks on REST failure.
* DiscoverScreen._request — queues request.create on DioException.
No drift state for the request itself (myRequestsProvider is
still REST-only) so the row won't show on /requests until replay
succeeds — acceptable for v1.
* MyRequestsController.cancel — optimistic in-memory remove no
longer restores on failure; queues request.cancel instead.
**Test update:**
quarantine_provider_test "flag rolls back on server failure"
renamed and rewritten to assert the new offline behavior:
optimistic drift row persists, mutation is enqueued for replay.
**Out of scope (v2):**
* Playlist create / rename / delete (no Flutter UI exposes these yet)
* Lidarr request optimistic local row (would need a cached_requests
drift table)
* UI "syncing N pending changes" indicator (operator preference:
silent unless we find a concrete need)
Final slice of the per-item rendering pass. Wraps every tile widget
in an AnimatedSwitcher between the skeleton placeholder and the real
card. 220ms cross-fade with easeOut: tiles "settle into place"
rather than hard-cutting from shimmer to content. Since each tile
fades independently as its data lands — and the HydrationQueue's
concurrency cap drains in a natural cascade — the overall feel is
the staged "page builds piece by piece" effect we wanted, with no
per-tile position math required.
Bumps CachedNetworkImage fadeInDuration from zero to 120ms (server_
image.dart, discover_screen.dart). Imperceptible on cache hits since
the image decodes synchronously; on cache misses the bytes fade in
smoothly instead of popping. Slice 1's "zero fade" call was right
about the 500ms default being a regression, but 120ms threads the
needle.
Playlist detail wraps its body in the same AnimatedSwitcher so the
cold-load skeleton page cross-fades into the real track list.
Tiles affected: home _AlbumTile / _ArtistTile / _TrackTile + liked
_LikedAlbumTile / _LikedArtistTile / _LikedTrackRow + playlist
_SkeletonBody / _Body. All keyed via ValueKey so AnimatedSwitcher
detects the transition.
End of the per-item pass. Net behavior: cold visits paint shaped
pages instantly with skeletons, content cascades in as hydration
lands; warm visits paint fully from drift in the first frame.
Slice 1 of the cover-caching pass. The previous Image.network /
NetworkImage path only cached covers in memory, so a scroll-off + scroll-
back or an app restart re-downloaded every tile from the server. Swap
to cached_network_image so bytes land on disk (path_provider temp dir,
URL-keyed) and survive both.
Sites migrated:
- ServerImage (all /api/*/cover usage — home grid, library, playlist,
artist/album detail headers)
- DiscoverScreen Lidarr suggestion thumbnails
- PlayerBar mini cover (HTTPS branch; file:// branch unchanged since
AlbumCoverCache files are already on disk)
Auth header forwarding preserved via httpHeaders. Fade-in disabled so
populated grids paint instantly on cache hit.
Slice 2 (pre-warm during sync) builds on this same cache manager.
Five terse "No X." strings replaced with the longer actionable forms
the web SPA uses on equivalent surfaces:
- Library Artists/Albums tabs: "No artists yet — scan a library folder
via the server's config." (mirrors web /library/artists, /albums)
- Library Liked tab: "No liked artists, albums, or tracks yet."
(consolidates web's per-section copy since Flutter shows all three
in one tab)
- Search no-results: "No matches for that query." (web has per-section
copy that doesn't fit Flutter's combined view)
- Discover no-results: "Nothing to add for that search yet." (mirrors
web /discover)
Hidden tab keeps its current actionable hint (web's "Nothing hidden
yet." is terser but lacks the "use a track's menu to flag" guidance).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Search keeps its conditional clear-text button and gains the shared
nav widget after it. Discover/Playlists/Settings get an actions row
they didn't have before. The kebab is now reachable from every
top-level screen, which is the prerequisite for the Admin entry.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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