Server-side fix for the drift audit finding (Scribe #578, parent
#552). Mirrored on Android (and Flutter) but the root cause and
the smallest blast-radius fix both live here.
The bug:
- Android MeApi.getProfile() calls GET /api/me and deserializes
into MyProfileWire which has nullable display_name + email.
- Server's handleGetMe was emitting the narrower UserView shape
(id, username, is_admin only).
- Android always saw displayName=null, email=null. The Settings →
Profile screen rendered BLANK form fields for users with stored
values.
- Saving from the blank state submitted empty strings to
PUT /api/me/profile, which interprets empty as "clear to NULL"
(me_profile.go:53-65) — DESTROYING the user's saved profile.
- Flutter (flutter_client/lib/api/endpoints/settings.dart:9-12)
has the identical bug pattern.
The fix:
- handleGetMe now emits profileViewFromUser(user) — the same
shape PUT /api/me/profile already returns (meProfileResp:
id, username, display_name, email, is_admin).
- auth.UserFromContext already returns a full dbq.User row, so no
extra DB lookup needed.
- Web's User TypeScript type is narrower than this response but
doesn't care about the extra fields (TS structural typing).
- LoginResp.User still uses UserView; login response unchanged.
New test asserts the regression directly: a user with stored
display_name + email sees them in /api/me. Old test updated to
decode into meProfileResp and assert the nullable fields are
correctly null for an unset profile.
Android side needs no change — the existing wire shape already
expected display_name + email; this just delivers them.
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