Three small things the audit named together.
The mood reads spread the whole row, so adding the wire keys shipped
every level-A value twice — once as the column name and once as the key
the write path accepts. A client would have picked one and been stuck
with it. The column spelling is stripped now, and the create response's
key set is asserted so it stays stripped. The published contract is
unaffected either way; these routes are not in it.
The dimension series carried its own copy of the day-key subtraction
that the freshness module already exports. One copy now.
And the reason a stale dimension ships with a notice instead of being
dropped the way the status surfaces drop one is written at the builder:
a one-line card has nothing left to say about a value it cannot narrate,
while an open conversation can say when the value is from — and silence
there would leave no way to tell an unanswered dimension from one nobody
has looked at in a week.
An entry always carries a five-point label, so it always implies a
pleasantness value: the create path derived one from a null and the
capture sheet still showed a clear control for it, which meant a button
the server undid on the way to the database.
One rule on both routes now — a null asks for a value that cannot exist
and gets the derivation, on create and on edit alike — and the control
is gone for that field. The other four are genuinely optional and keep
theirs.
The single create's upsert restated all five columns on its update arm,
so a client re-posting an entry with only a label and a timestamp — the
phone, whose build has no sliders — cleared the stress, energy,
connectedness and stability somebody had answered on the web. The batch
and import paths already preserved them, so the two disagreed.
One answer now, and it is preserve: absence in a request means nothing
to say, an explicit null takes an answer back, and pleasantness still
follows the label because the request always carries one. The create
schema accepts the null that makes clearing expressible.
A re-post that omits a dimension is asserted to leave it standing, and
that assertion has been watched to fail against the old arm.
- one helper resolves the level-A values for a write; the five writers
call it instead of carrying their own copy of the derivation
- the create schema takes a1 to a5, and a value the user set wins over
the derived one; the batch request shape is untouched
- both arms of both upserts restate the values, so a re-post cannot
leave a stale reading beside a mood that has since changed
- the JSON import derives from the row's own label rather than the
file's score, which is the one place the two can disagree
- correcting an entry's label re-derives pleasantness the way it
re-derives the score; an explicit null takes an answer back
- a round trip through all five writers against real Postgres asserts
the rows agree and that nothing invents the other four values
Marc-André Bombeck