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tajniak81andClaude Opus 4.8 03738f08dc Add currency setting and split locale into language + region
Costs rendered as bare numbers because the project had no currency to
render them with. Add one to the profile, beside the existing appearance
preferences:

- users.currency in PocketBase, exposed via /api/me, validated against
  the same 28 codes in the schema, the API and the web app.
- Settings offers the European currencies plus the non-European ones the
  panel already had. Labels come from Intl.DisplayNames rather than a
  hand-kept table, so the lists read in the user's own language and sort
  by what is actually on screen.

The single "Language & region" picker becomes two controls over the one
stored BCP-47 tag, covering European languages and countries, so the two
can be mixed (English in Poland). The API now enforces the
language-REGION shape: the web app feeds the tag straight to Intl, which
throws on a malformed one rather than falling back.

formatKm and the km-count labels passed no locale, so kilometres
followed the browser while the dates and costs beside them followed the
saved preference. They now share one helper that uses the preference.

Rename the "Maintenance log" tab to "Maintenance", the name the
reminder-type list already used.

Amounts are display-only: nothing is converted, so changing currency
reinterprets existing records rather than recalculating them.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-17 11:32:40 +02:00

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# DriverVault — API Server
The central API Server for the DriverVault project. Written in Go (standard
library only, module `drivervault/apiserver`). It is the **single gateway**
between all clients (web app, phone app, Home Assistant plugin, ESP32 device)
and the PocketBase database — **clients never talk to PocketBase directly**. The
API Server authenticates to PocketBase as a superuser and all collection access
rules are left null, so data is only reachable through this server.
It also serves the **superadmin web panel** at the server root (`/`).
## Layout
```
cmd/server/main.go # entry point
internal/
├── api/ # HTTP handlers + router (server.go)
│ ├── auth.go # PocketBase token proxy + role gates
│ ├── users.go # user management (role/org scoped)
│ ├── orgs.go # organization management
│ ├── settings.go # runtime PocketBase connection (pb-config)
│ ├── plugins.go # plugin management endpoints
│ ├── status.go # upstream health probes
│ ├── health.go respond.go panel.go
│ ├── cars.go records.go services.go parts.go shares.go me.go
│ └── dist/ # built panel, embedded via go:embed
├── config/config.go # env + .env load, .env write-back
├── pb/client.go # PocketBase superuser client (runtime-retargetable)
└── plugins/ # plugin system — see plugins/README.md
├── plugin.go manager.go external.go doc.go
└── builtin/ # built-in connectors (none yet)
panel/ # Vue 3 + Tailwind panel source
scripts/ # Node/Python maintenance scripts
bin/api-server.exe # prebuilt binary the deployment runs
```
## Auth & access control
Authentication is **PocketBase's own**. `POST /api/auth/login` is proxied to the
PocketBase users collection and the client keeps the token PocketBase minted;
this server does not issue its own JWT. Every protected request re-resolves that
token against PocketBase (`auth-refresh`), so a role change or a deletion takes
effect **immediately** rather than lingering until a token expires.
```
POST /api/auth/login { "email": "...", "password": "..." } -> PocketBase { token, record }
GET /api/auth/me (Authorization: <token>) -> { id, email, name, role }
GET /api/identity (Authorization: <token>) -> + organization
```
Both `Authorization: Bearer <token>` and a raw `Authorization: <token>` are
accepted (PocketBase's own SDKs send the latter).
### Roles
`users.role` is `user` | `admin` | `superadmin` (empty is treated as `user`).
| Role | Can |
|---|---|
| **user** | their own cars, service records, parts, profile |
| **admin** | the above, plus manage users **within their own organization** |
| **superadmin** | everything, across all organizations, plus the PocketBase connection and plugins |
Guards worth knowing: an admin cannot create or edit a superadmin, cannot move
users between organizations, and nobody can change their own role or delete
their own account. An organization cannot be deleted while it still has members.
### Organizations
`organizations` is the tenant collection; `users.organization` is the
membership. A superadmin spans all organizations; an admin is scoped by the
server to their own. Users may have no organization at all.
### Per-user car ownership + sharing
Cars are not a global list. `cars.owner` marks ownership and `car_shares` grants
other users `read` or `write` access. Every car/service/part handler is gated by
`requireCarAccess`:
- **read** — view the car, its service records and parts.
- **write** — edit the car and full service/part CRUD.
- **owner only** — delete the car and manage its shares.
## Data model
| Collection | Purpose | Key fields |
|---|---|---|
| `cars` | one per car | name, make, model, year, registration, vin, `currentKm`, `serviceIntervalDays` (365), `serviceIntervalKm` (15000), `oilSpec`, `transmissionOilSpec`, `differentialOilSpec`, `brakeFluidSpec`, `coolantSpec`, `owner` |
| `service_records` | the service log | car, date, km, changed_oil, changed_engine_air_filter, changed_cabin_air_filter, notes |
| `parts` | per-car parts catalog | car, name, part_number, category |
| `car_shares` | grants another user access to a car | car, user, `permission` (read \| write) |
| `organizations` | tenants | name (unique) |
| `users` | login + profile (built-in auth collection) | name, email, avatar, `role` (user \| admin \| superadmin), `organization`, bio, theme, locale, date_format, currency, font_size, deletion_requested_at |
**Spreadsheet formulas** (from the original `Car Service.xlsx`), reproduced by
the API on read:
```
Next Service Date = service date + serviceIntervalDays (Excel: =A+365)
Next Service Km = service km + serviceIntervalKm (Excel: =B+15000)
```
These come back on each service record as `nextServiceDate` / `nextServiceKm`.
## Endpoints
```
# public
GET /healthz
GET /api/health
GET /api/status # health of PocketBase + Web App, probed server-side
POST /api/auth/login
GET /api/auth/validate
# identity
GET /api/auth/me
GET /api/identity
# current user (profile / appearance / avatar / data / account lifecycle)
GET /api/me PATCH /api/me
POST /api/me/password
POST /api/me/avatar GET /api/me/avatar DELETE /api/me/avatar
POST /api/me/verify/request
GET /api/me/export POST /api/me/import
POST /api/me/delete POST /api/me/delete/cancel DELETE /api/me
# users + organizations (admin or superadmin; org writes are superadmin-only)
GET /api/users POST /api/users
PATCH /api/users/{id} DELETE /api/users/{id}
GET /api/orgs POST /api/orgs
PATCH /api/orgs/{id} DELETE /api/orgs/{id}
# superadmin
GET /api/admin/pb-config PUT /api/admin/pb-config
POST /api/admin/pb-config/test
GET /api/admin/plugins POST /api/admin/plugins
GET /api/admin/plugins/{name} PUT /api/admin/plugins/{name}
DELETE /api/admin/plugins/{name} POST /api/admin/plugins/{name}/health
# cars + sharing
GET /api/cars POST /api/cars
GET /api/cars/{id} PATCH /api/cars/{id} DELETE /api/cars/{id}
GET /api/cars/{id}/service-records
GET /api/cars/{id}/parts
GET /api/cars/{id}/shares POST /api/cars/{id}/shares
DELETE /api/cars/{id}/shares/{userId}
# service records + parts
GET /api/service-records POST /api/service-records
GET /api/service-records/{id} PATCH /api/service-records/{id} DELETE /api/service-records/{id}
GET /api/parts POST /api/parts
GET /api/parts/{id} PATCH /api/parts/{id} DELETE /api/parts/{id}
```
`GET /api/cars` returns the caller's owned cars plus any shared with them, each
annotated with an `access` field. `GET /api/service-records?car={id}` and
`GET /api/parts?car={id}` filter by car.
> **Gotcha:** `updateCar` rewrites **all** car columns from the payload, so a
> `PATCH /api/cars/{id}` must send the **full** car object — omitted spec fields
> get blanked. (The phone's odometer quick-edit sends the whole car for this
> reason.)
## The panel (`/`)
A Vue 3 + Tailwind app (source in `panel/`, built into `internal/api/dist` and
embedded at compile time). It is the superadmin console:
- **Overview** — live health of the API Server, PocketBase and the Web App.
- **Users / Organizations** — full management, scoped to the caller's role.
- **PocketBase** — retarget the database connection at runtime; test before
saving. Applied immediately **and** persisted to `.env`, so it survives a
restart. This is the escape hatch when the configured PocketBase is wrong or
unreachable — the settings endpoints deliberately do **not** require a working
service account.
- **Plugins** — enable/disable/configure integrations, run health checks,
register external plugins.
- **API** — the endpoint reference.
Log in with any DriverVault account; the sections you see depend on your role.
```powershell
cd panel
npm install
npm run dev # localhost:5174, proxies /api to localhost:8080
npm run build # -> ../internal/api/dist (then rebuild the Go binary)
```
Editing panel source alone does nothing to the served panel — run `npm run build`
and then rebuild the Go binary, since `dist` is embedded.
## Plugins
An extension system for integrating third-party services, managed by a
superadmin. Two kinds share one contract: **built-in** (Go, compiled in) and
**external** (any HTTP service, registered at runtime, **no rebuild**). State
persists to `plugins.json`.
See **[`internal/plugins/README.md`](internal/plugins/README.md)** for the full
guide. DriverVault ships no built-in connectors yet; the external kind is the
place to start.
## Configuration
Copy `.env.example` to `.env` and fill in. Summary:
| Variable | Default | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| `API_ADDR` | `:8080` | listen address (bare port accepted) |
| `POCKETBASE_URL` | `http://10.2.1.10:8027` | PocketBase base URL |
| `POCKETBASE_ADMIN_EMAIL` / `_PASSWORD` | — | superuser service account |
| `CORS_ALLOW_ORIGINS` | `*` | comma-separated browser origins |
| `WEBAPP_URL` | `http://localhost:5173` | probed by `/api/status` |
| `AUTH_USERS_COLLECTION` | `users` | PocketBase auth collection |
| `PLUGINS_FILE` | `plugins.json` | plugin state store |
`PB_URL`, `PB_ADMIN_EMAIL`, `PB_ADMIN_PASSWORD`, `PORT` and `CORS_ORIGINS` are
still honoured for older deployments; the modern names win when both are set.
`CORS_ALLOW_ORIGINS` only matters for **browser** clients (the web app). Native
mobile apps are not subject to CORS.
The service account is **optional at startup**: without it the server still runs
and a superadmin can log in and configure it from the panel, while management
endpoints return 503.
## Scripts (`scripts/`)
```powershell
node scripts/setup-pocketbase.mjs # create/reconcile collections (idempotent)
node scripts/create-user.mjs <email> <pw> "Name" # create an app login
node scripts/set-role.mjs <email> user|admin|superadmin
node scripts/backfill-car-owners.mjs # one-off: assign owner to legacy cars
python scripts/seed_from_excel.py "C:/Users/jania/Desktop/Car Service.xlsx"
```
The Node scripts read `POCKETBASE_URL` / `POCKETBASE_ADMIN_EMAIL` /
`POCKETBASE_ADMIN_PASSWORD` (or the legacy `PB_*` names) from the environment.
> **PocketBase note:** collections created by the setup script do **not** get
> automatic `created`/`updated` autodate fields in this PocketBase version —
> sorting on `created` fails unless an explicit `F.autodate(...)` is added. When
> adding a new car spec field, extend `DESIRED.cars` in `setup-pocketbase.mjs`,
> add it to `models.Car` + the record mapping in `records.go`, then rebuild.
## First-time setup
1. **Create the PocketBase collections** (idempotent — safe to re-run on an
existing deployment; it adds `organizations`, `users.organization`, and grows
`users.role` to include `superadmin`):
```powershell
$env:POCKETBASE_URL="http://10.2.1.10:8027"
$env:POCKETBASE_ADMIN_EMAIL="you@example.com"
$env:POCKETBASE_ADMIN_PASSWORD="secret"
node scripts/setup-pocketbase.mjs
```
2. **Mint the first superadmin.** The panel's management screens need one, and
only a superadmin can promote another — so the first has to come from the
script:
```powershell
node scripts/create-user.mjs admin@example.com "a-long-password" "Admin"
node scripts/set-role.mjs admin@example.com superadmin
```
3. **Run the server** — `go run ./cmd/server`, or build and run the binary.
4. **Open the panel** at `http://localhost:8080/` and sign in.
5. **(Optional) Seed from the spreadsheet** with the server running (see scripts).
## Build & run
```powershell
go build -o bin/api-server.exe ./cmd/server
```
The deployment runs the **prebuilt binary** `bin/api-server.exe` (not `go run`),
started detached so it survives the shell:
```powershell
Start-Process -FilePath ".\bin\api-server.exe" -WorkingDirectory "." `
-WindowStyle Hidden -RedirectStandardOutput api-server.out.log `
-RedirectStandardError api-server.err.log
```
Go's `log` package writes to **stderr**, so check `api-server.err.log` for
request logs and errors. After editing any Go source, rebuild and restart the
process — editing source alone does nothing until the binary is rebuilt.
## Migrating from the JWT build
Earlier builds minted their own HS256 JWT and tracked a `sessions` collection
for "active devices" / remote logout. That is gone — the server now relays
PocketBase tokens. Consequences:
- **`AUTH_SECRET` is obsolete** and ignored.
- **Login returns PocketBase's envelope** — `{token, record}`, not `{token, user}`.
- **`GET|DELETE /api/sessions*` are gone.** PocketBase tokens are stateless, so
there is nothing to revoke per-device. To lock every device out of an account,
change its password: PocketBase rotates the user's token key, which
invalidates every token already issued.
- **User management moved** from `/api/admin/users*` to `/api/users*`, and the
separate password-reset endpoint folded into `PATCH /api/users/{id}`
(`{"password": "..."}`). Responses are enveloped: `{users}` / `{user}`.
- **Existing tokens are invalid** — every client must log in once more.
- The `sessions` collection is left in PocketBase rather than dropped; delete it
by hand if you want it gone.
The Web App and Phone App in this repo are already updated for all of the above.