The "Clean Search History" automation card kept showing a stale
'DownloadOrchestrator' object has no attribute 'base_url' error
even after the underlying handler bug was fixed in 77d20e9. Root
cause is in the engine, not that handler: AutomationEngine only
captured uncaught exceptions into last_error. Handlers that
report failure by RETURNING {'status': 'error', ...} were treated
as successful from the engine's perspective, so subsequent
gracefully-failing runs never updated the row to reflect the
current state.
Both the timer (run_automation) and event (_handle_event_trigger)
paths now extract the error string from a result whose status is
'error', falling through 'error' -> 'reason' -> 'message' -> a
placeholder so last_error is never None on actual failures
regardless of which key the handler chose. Existing behaviour for
raised exceptions and successful runs is preserved.
Also normalizes _auto_clean_search_history's return key from
'reason' to 'error' so older deployed engines that only check
the canonical key still see the failure.
Adds 7 regression tests covering every result shape the engine
might receive.
The endpoint was returning a 200-line literal dict inline. Moved the
three lists (TRIGGERS, ACTIONS, NOTIFICATIONS) to module-level constants
in core/automation/blocks.py. Route shrinks to 7 lines. Data is now
importable for tests + future docs.
Added 8 shape tests so a typo in the dict (missing 'type', wrong
field type, missing options on a select, etc.) gets caught by CI
instead of breaking the builder UI silently.
The `known_signals` field stays computed at request time via
_collect_known_signals(database) since it's dynamic.
No behavior change. Same response shape. 869 tests passing (was 861).
Ruff clean.
Routes moved to thin parse-args/jsonify handlers; logic now lives in
three focused modules under core/automation/. 436 lines deleted from
web_server.py; 53 added back as wrappers.
Module split:
- core/automation/api.py — CRUD + run + history helpers. Each function
takes (database, automation_engine, ...) explicitly and returns
(response_body, http_status). Includes signal cycle detection
preflight checks for create + update.
- core/automation/progress.py — owns the in-memory progress state dict
+ lock (mirroring the original web_server.py globals as module-level
shared state so all callers see one view), init/update/history
helpers, and the WebSocket emit loop.
- core/automation/signals.py — collect_known_signals for the builder
autocomplete.
Out of scope (deferred):
- _register_automation_handlers — the 23+ action handler closures stay
in web_server.py because each one is tightly coupled to feature-
specific implementations (wishlist, watchlist, library scan, etc.).
- Worker functions (_process_wishlist_automatically, etc.) — belong
with their feature lifts.
- _run_sync_task / _run_playlist_discovery_worker — sync + discovery
PRs.
Behavior preserved 1:1:
- Same route response shapes + status codes
- Same JSON field hydration (trigger_config, action_config,
notify_config, last_result, then_actions)
- Same backward-compat: empty then_actions + notify_type set →
synthesize then_actions from notify_type/notify_config
- Same signal cycle detection behavior on create + update
- Same system-automation protection on delete + duplicate
- Same reschedule/cancel logic on toggle + bulk-toggle + update
- Same progress state shape (status, progress, phase, current_item,
log capped at 50, started_at/finished_at, action_type)
- Same emit-on-finish socketio push from update_progress
- Same emit loop semantics (1s tick, snapshot active states, reap
finished after window)
Pre-existing bugs preserved (will fix in follow-up PRs):
- emit_progress_loop uses naive datetime.now() against tz-aware
started_at/finished_at, so the timeout-zombie check raises
TypeError → caught → never fires, and the cleanup-after-window
check raises → caught → state is reaped on FIRST tick regardless
of the window. Tests document this behavior so the next PR can
flip them to the corrected expectation.
Tests: 72 new under tests/automation/ (signals 10, progress 24,
api 38). Full suite: 861 passing (was 789). Ruff clean.
Broque Thomas