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PATCH /api/v2/tracks/{track_id} becomes a real partial patch: a field absent leaves its correction alone, null removes it, a value sets it. Fixes #177, where a client correcting one field erased every other correction on the track — another client's included.

Changes

  • TrackMetadataPatch fields are Option<Option<T>> behind a present deserializer, because plain serde reads an absent field and a null one as the same None.
  • set_track_metadata merges the patch over the stored correction under the writer gate, in the transaction. Only an explicit null drops a list and re-reads the file.
  • Unchanged: a blank string reads as null; [] is a value for the lists (credits nobody); removing the last correction deletes the override row.
  • Docs: the route's doc comment, TrackMetadataPatch, TrackOverrides and docs/api-v2-guide.md state the three states, with a {"year":null} example.
  • The OpenAPI schema is now locked by a test: no field required, every field typed [T, "null"].

Why no version header

The one client that sends this patch was audited in InstaZDLL/WaveFlow:

  • remote/drain.rs builds the body with every field spelled out, null included, so each request keeps its meaning field for field.
  • The three fields its editor has no input for — sort_title, comment, musicbrainz_recording_id — go from erased to left alone. That is the bug, not a regression.
  • An emptied input becomes None, sent as null (remote/write.rs, correction()), so clearing a field still removes its correction.

Its comments justified the explicit nulls by wholesale semantics, and read that way they invite the one optimisation that would break clearing: skipping None fields. Corrected in the companion PR InstaZDLL/WaveFlow#607 — best merged after this one.

Test plan

Run locally on Windows 11:

  • cargo fmt --all --check
  • cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings
  • cargo test --all-features --lib — 49 passed
  • cargo test --all-features --test native_api — 12 passed, two of them new
  • cargo test --all-features --test service — 3 passed, schema lock included
  • webapp checks — not applicable, webapp/ is untouched

Proven by inversion, each one restored byte for byte before the next:

Inversion Result
absent read as a removal (the old wholesale) 3 fail — the tests that keep what they do not mention
null read as absent 4 fail — the tests that remove
[] read as a removal 1 fails, on "an empty list credits nobody rather than going back to the file"
{} without the short-circuit 1 fails, on "and announces nothing"
the short-circuit without the role check 1 fails: a listener's {} stops being a 404

Notes

  • The third inversion caught a vacuous assertion before review could: the list test used a WAV that credits nobody, so "went back to the file" and "credits nobody" were both an empty list. It now uses a FLAC that credits somebody.
  • Three existing tests cleared corrections by sending {}. They now send null, and {} is asserted to be a no-op: no write, no library feed event, and still refused to a listener. The first version still recorded an upsert on the feed for it — found by CodeRabbit, fixed in 267b7c0.
  • GET /tracks/{track_id}/overrides (feat: read a track's corrections and a library's members #183) stays. It is no longer needed to make a write safe; it is still how an editor shows which fields are corrected.

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https://claude.ai/code/session_019coGCzcX775GmG9kYz8fft

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Nouvelles fonctionnalités

    • La mise à jour des métadonnées fonctionne désormais par patch partiel : les champs omis restent inchangés.
    • Une valeur null ou une chaîne vide supprime une correction, tandis qu’une liste vide reste une valeur explicite.
    • Les listes d’artistes et de genres peuvent être restaurées depuis les tags du fichier.
    • Les corrections sont fusionnées champ par champ sans écraser les modifications indépendantes.
  • Documentation

    • La documentation de l’API précise ces comportements, ainsi que les règles de restauration et d’échec atomique.

PATCH /api/v2/tracks/{track_id} replaced the whole set of corrections, so
a field left out was erased. A client correcting one field dropped every
other correction on the track, including ones another client had made —
reproduced in #177, not deduced.

It is now a partial patch with three states per field: absent leaves the
correction alone, null removes it, a value sets it. `{}` changes
nothing. A blank string still reads as null, and `[]` is still a value
for the two lists — a track that credits nobody.

Plain serde cannot say three states: an absent field and a null one
both deserialise to None, and that difference is the whole contract.
Every field is now Option<Option<T>> behind a small deserializer that
tells present from absent. The merge against the stored correction
happens under the writer gate, in the transaction, because merging
against a correction another writer has since replaced would write the
old one back.

No version header, because the audit of the one client that sends this
patch found nothing that depends on omission. The desktop's drain.rs
spells every field out, null included, so each of its requests keeps
its meaning field for field. What changes is that the three fields its
editor has no input for — sort_title, comment, musicbrainz_recording_id
— are left alone instead of erased, which is the bug. Its comments
justified the explicit nulls by wholesale semantics and would now invite
the one optimisation that breaks clearing, so they are corrected in
InstaZDLL/WaveFlow in the same move.

Tests cover absent, null and value for scalars and lists, the desktop's
request replayed as it is sent, a blank string, an out-of-range value
refusing the whole patch, and the last removal deleting the row. Three
existing tests relied on omission to clear and now send null. The
OpenAPI schema is locked: no field required, every field admits null —
a generated client that lost either would lose the contract.

Each half was proven by inversion. Reading absent as a removal failed
the three tests that keep what they do not mention; reading null as
absent failed the four that remove. One assertion was vacuous until an
inversion showed it: the list test's WAV credits nobody, so "went back
to the file" and "credits nobody" were both an empty list. It now uses
a file that credits somebody, and reading [] as a removal fails it.

GET /tracks/{track_id}/overrides stays. It is no longer needed to make a
write safe; it is still how an editor shows which fields are corrected.

Fixes #177

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019coGCzcX775GmG9kYz8fft
Signed-off-by: InstaZDLL <github.105mh@8shield.net>
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Le PATCH des métadonnées devient partiel. Les champs absents restent inchangés, null supprime une correction et une valeur la définit. Les corrections existantes sont fusionnées dans une transaction. Les tests couvrent la restauration des listes, l’atomicité et les modifications entre clients.

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Correction partielle des métadonnées

Layer / File(s) Summary
Contrat du patch partiel
src/services/mod.rs, src/api/tracks.rs, docs/api-v2-guide.md
TrackMetadataPatch distingue l’absence, null et une valeur. Les chaînes vides valent null. Les listes vides restent des valeurs explicites. La documentation décrit le nouveau contrat.
Fusion et persistance transactionnelles
src/services/track_metadata.rs
set_track_metadata fusionne chaque champ avec la correction existante. Les suppressions de listes restaurent les valeurs du fichier. Les validations, l’autorisation et l’écriture utilisent l’état fusionné.
Validation de la sémantique
tests/native_api.rs, tests/service.rs
Les tests vérifient la conservation des corrections, les suppressions explicites, les listes vides, l’atomicité, la persistance entre scans, les modifications entre clients et le schéma OpenAPI.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant API
  participant TrackMetadataService
  participant Database
  participant TrackFile
  Client->>API: PATCH /api/v2/tracks/{track_id}
  API->>TrackMetadataService: décoder TrackMetadataPatch
  TrackMetadataService->>Database: lire les corrections existantes
  TrackMetadataService->>TrackFile: relire le fichier si une liste est supprimée
  TrackFile-->>TrackMetadataService: valeurs restaurées
  TrackMetadataService->>Database: fusionner et persister les corrections
  Database-->>API: état transactionnel mis à jour
  API-->>Client: réponse de la piste
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The partial metadata patch behavior preserves omitted corrections, supports explicit removal, and avoids writes for empty patches without weakening authorization. No current merge-blocking risk was identified.

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Title check ✅ Passed Le titre décrit clairement le changement principal : le patch d’une correction de piste ne modifie pas les champs absents.
Description check ✅ Passed La description contient les sections requises, explique la sémantique du patch, détaille les changements, présente le plan de test et fournit les notes utiles aux reviewers.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Les exigences de l’issue #177 sont couvertes. TrackMetadataPatch distingue champ absent, null et valeur. set_track_metadata fusionne les corrections existantes sous le verrou d’écriture et dans …
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed Les changements restent dans le périmètre de l’issue #177. La documentation, le schéma OpenAPI, les tests de contrat et les corrections de commentaires client valident ou expliquent la nouvelle sémant…
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- Around line 211-222: In the track metadata update flow, short-circuit patches
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Comment thread src/services/track_metadata.rs
The partial patch made `{}` a no-op in what it stored, and nowhere else.
It still took the writer gate, rewrote the override row with a fresh
updated_at, regenerated the track's search row, and recorded an upsert
on the library feed — so every client would refetch a track that had
not changed, and the guide's "`{}` changes nothing" was false. The test
compared only the correction values, which is why it passed.

A patch that mentions no field now returns before the gate. It is still
a request to correct the track, so the caller's role is checked the way
a real patch checks it: a listener sending `{}` gets 404, not a 200 that
answers differently from every other patch they send. The read happens
without the gate because there is no write for a revoked role to slip
in front of.

The test counts library feed events across `{}` and checks that a
sentinel updated_at survives — a sentinel, because comparing with the
previous write's stamp would pass whenever both land in the same
millisecond. A listener's `{}` is asserted to be refused.

Proven by inversion. Without the short-circuit, "and announces nothing"
fails. With it but without the role check, the listener's `{}` stops
being a 404.

Found by CodeRabbit on #184.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019coGCzcX775GmG9kYz8fft
Signed-off-by: InstaZDLL <github.105mh@8shield.net>
@github-actions github-actions Bot added type: fix Bug fix and removed type: fix Bug fix labels Sep 11, 2026
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