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Marc-André Bombeck 0e301b580c Let an Apple Watch ECG arrive without a 1.5 GB export archive
POST /api/insights/ecg takes one recording per request: the stable
recording id the client already has, the on-device timestamp, the
sampling rate, the waveform as integer micro-volts, the lead, the
average heart rate, and the device's own verdict. Same gating as the
reads (auth, the insights module, the insightStatus surface), userId
from the session, APPLE_HEALTH the only source a client may claim.
sampleCount and durationSeconds are derived here, and nothing about the
waveform is ever interpreted.

The write body now lives in one place, src/lib/ecg/persist-recording.ts,
shared by the Withings sync, the export-archive importer and the new
route. Three writers with three persistence bodies is how the two ends
of one rule drift apart.

Migration 0291 adds the second unique index on
(user_id, source, recorded_at, sampling_frequency). The archive importer
identifies a strip by a hash of its content and a live client by the
device's own sample uuid, so the same physical recording arriving
through both doors carried two different ids and would have landed
twice. One device does not record two different strips at the same
instant at the same sampling rate, so the constraint is sound and the
convergence stops being a convention.

The table already holds rows on deployed instances and two writers have
been filling it since v1.19.0, so the index cannot just be created: a
pre-existing collision would abort the migration. The migration resolves
duplicates first, keeping the row with the most samples (a stored strip
beats a verdict-only row), then the one linked to its event
measurement, then the most recently written, then the lowest id so the
choice is total. The losers' event link is salvaged onto the keeper
first, so resolving a duplicate never costs the recording its place in
the event timeline.

If that resolution is wrong on some instance, the failure is visible at
deploy time and not later: db:migrate:deploy runs on boot, so the
container crash-loops with the migration named in the logs and the
release never serves traffic. A deploy that finishes in under thirty
seconds did not run it.

The GET list and detail routes and the export-archive path are
unchanged; this is a second door, not a replacement.
2026-08-01 19:19:01 +02:00
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HealthLog API Spec

openapi.yaml is the canonical OpenAPI 3.1 description for the HealthLog Next.js API. It is the source of truth for the native iOS client's DTO codegen.

The MCP server is documented separately — it is a distinct contract over JSON-RPC, not part of the REST OpenAPI spec:

Preview locally

Open an interactive Redoc preview in your browser:

npx @redocly/cli preview docs/api/openapi.yaml

Generate static HTML for sharing:

npx @redocly/cli build-docs docs/api/openapi.yaml --output docs/api/index.html

Validate

npx @redocly/cli lint docs/api/openapi.yaml

The spec is expected to be lint-clean (errors = 0). Some warnings are intentional:

  • no-server-example.com — http://localhost:3000 is the dev server.
  • operation-2xx-response / operation-4xx-response — webhook + redirect endpoints intentionally omit one or the other.
  • no-unused-components — ReminderPhase is exposed for client codegen even though no path response references it directly.

Layout

  • info — title, version (mirrored from package.json), description.
  • servers — production https://healthlog.bombeck.io plus http://localhost:3000 for local development.
  • tags — domain groupings (Auth, Measurements, Medications, Mood, Dashboard, Insights, Achievements, DoctorReport, Integrations, User, Tokens, Notifications, Onboarding, Health, Settings, Analytics, Export, AuditLog, Monitoring, Webhooks, Ingest, Admin).
  • securitySchemes:
    • bearerAuth — long-lived hlk_* API tokens issued via POST /api/tokens. Required on /api/ingest/medication.
    • sessionCookie — HttpOnly healthlog_session cookie set by the password and passkey login flows. Used by the web app and any iOS client running inside a web view.
  • components.schemas — DTOs for all routes plus the underlying Prisma models (e.g. Measurement, Medication, MedicationIntakeEvent, MoodEntry, User, DashboardLayout, ApiEnvelope, ApiError).
  • paths — all routes from src/app/api/**/route.ts, including the /api/admin/* family which is tagged Admin and marked internal.

Conventions

  • Successful responses use the envelope { data, error: null }.
  • Error responses use the envelope { data: null, error: '<message>' }.
  • Pagination uses limit + offset query parameters and a meta: { total, limit, offset } block on the response.
  • All timestamps are ISO 8601 / RFC 3339 (format: date-time) in UTC.
  • IDs are CUIDs (opaque strings).

Updating the spec

When adding or changing routes:

  1. Update the relevant route handler under src/app/api/**/route.ts.
  2. Mirror the change in openapi.yaml. Keep operationId camelCase and stable — the iOS codegen keys off it.
  3. Run npx @redocly/cli lint docs/api/openapi.yaml and resolve all errors. Warnings are tolerated when documented above.
  4. Bump info.version if the change is breaking for clients.