The charger list sorted by a field the collection never had

Opening Home chargers answered {"status":400,"message":"Something went wrong
while processing your request."} — PocketBase's generic refusal, here for an
unknown sort field. home_chargers declares its own fields and nothing else:
PocketBase adds no created field to a collection defined through the API, which
is exactly why control_audit and organizations declare theirs. The list handler
sorted by created anyway. It was the only handler in the server that sorts by
created — every other one sorts by name, km or date, fields their collections
actually declare — so the gap had never had a chance to show.

The field is now declared, and reconcile adds it to the collection already
standing on the next boot, since home_chargers is in reconcileOrder. Import order
is the only order a charger has: it carries no date of its own, and a wallbox
bolted to a wall does not accumulate events the way a car does.

The list also stops depending on that. A rejected sort now falls back to the
unsorted query rather than failing the request: the order is a nicety, the list
is not, and an owner reading a database error about a field they cannot see is
the worst of both. It also makes the deploy order stop mattering — the page works
before the bootstrap has run, and the sorted query wins once it has.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

API Server/internal/api/homechargers.go

@@ -79,11 +79,25 @@ func (s *Server) listHomeChargers(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		writeError(w, http.StatusUnauthorized, "not authenticated")
 		return
 	}
-	res, err := s.pb.List(r.Context(), colHomeChargers, url.Values{
+	query := func(sort string) url.Values {
-		"filter":  {fmt.Sprintf("owner='%s'", me)},
+		q := url.Values{
-		"sort":    {"created"},
+			"filter":  {fmt.Sprintf("owner='%s'", me)},
-		"perPage": {"200"},
+			"perPage": {"200"},
-	})
+		}
+		if sort != "" {
+			q.Set("sort", sort)
+		}
+		return q
+	}
+	res, err := s.pb.List(r.Context(), colHomeChargers, query("created"))
+	if err != nil {
+		// A collection created before `created` was declared does not have the
+		// field, and PocketBase rejects the whole query over an unknown sort. The
+		// order is a nicety; the list is not, so ask again without it rather than
+		// show the owner an error about a field they cannot see. The bootstrap
+		// adds the field on the next boot, and the sorted query then wins.
+		res, err = s.pb.List(r.Context(), colHomeChargers, query(""))
+	}
 	if err != nil {
 		writePBError(w, err)
 		return

API Server/internal/bootstrap/schema.go

@@ -219,6 +219,11 @@ var collectionsSchema = map[string][]fieldDef{
 		// Owner. Non-cascading, like a car's: deleting a user must not silently
 		// wipe the records they own.
 		fRelation("owner", "users", false, false),
+		// A charger carries no date of its own, so the import order is the only
+		// order there is to list them in. PocketBase adds no created field to a
+		// collection defined through the API, so it is declared here like the
+		// audit trail's.
+		fAutodate("created", true, false),
 	},
 	// Custom fields layered onto the built-in "users" auth collection.
 	"users": {

API Server/scripts/setup-pocketbase.mjs

@@ -457,6 +457,10 @@ const DESIRED = {
     F.text("provider_charger_id"),
     // Owner. Non-cascading, like a car's: deleting a user must not wipe their records.
     F.relation("owner", "users", false, false),
+    // A charger carries no date of its own, so the import order is the only order
+    // there is to list them in. PocketBase adds no created field to a collection
+    // defined through the API, so it is declared here like the audit trail's.
+    F.autodate("created", true, false),
   ],
   // Server-wide settings as a single record, keyed "global". Today it holds
   // pluginSettings: the top (L1) layer of the integration cascade — every