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EthanHealy01 2483e9f37a Report editor-originated failures into the same queue (Review Flow PR 2) (#7296)
Review Flow PR 2 of 5. Editor tool failures now reach the same durable
queue as failures from folders, buckets and webhooks.

## What's added

**A report endpoint** — `POST /api/v1/file-run-events/reports`, open to
any authenticated user. Takes four fields: `operation`, `errorCode`,
`fileIds`, `detail`. No team, no actor, no filename: the first two come
from the session, the third is never a field. Refused with 400 above 200
file ids, and nothing is written when refused.

**Automatic reporting from every tool** — wired into `useToolOperation`,
so no per-tool work is needed. Client-side refusals (an unsupported
format that never reaches the server) are reported too. User
cancellations are not.

**Error codes parsed from Blob bodies as well as JSON** — a
download-typed tool call fails with a Blob, so `errorCodeOf` handles
both shapes.

**Source attribution for unattended runs** — `sourceId` is threaded from
`PolicyRunner` through `PolicyRun` to the recorded row and out to the
wire, so a folder, bucket or webhook failure names what fed it.
Previously it had none.

**Deleting a file closes its failures** — `FileContext.removeFiles`
notifies `POST /removed-files`, which transitions those incidents to
`FILE_REMOVED`. Terminal, so they leave every reviewer's queue. The rows
stay for audit.

**The queue can be emptied** — reads now default to open statuses only;
ask for a status explicitly to see closed rows.

## Behaviour changes

- **Editor failures dedup per person.** `RecordFailure.scopeRef()`
includes the actor for TOOL-origin rows, so two people hitting the same
failure on the same file are two incidents rather than one. Processor
rows are unaffected and their dedup key is byte-identical to before.
- **`UNKNOWN` offers only Dismiss.** Acknowledge is no longer offered on
it.
- **Background reports no longer raise a toast.** Both calls pass
`suppressErrorToast`, so a failed report is silent as intended;
previously a core build showed the user a "Not Found" toast on every
tool failure.

## What is stored

File ids only, never names. The request type has no filename field, and
a `fileNames` value handed to the client reporter is accepted and
ignored.

One caveat to review deliberately: the free-text `detail` is stored
**verbatim**. `RecordFailure` truncates it at 2000 characters and
nothing else; the redaction that used to strip name-shaped text was
reverted in `024899f3f6` because it made an unclassified failure
impossible to act on. A backend message that embeds a filename
(LibreOffice conversion errors, IO errors) will therefore persist that
text and show it to a team leader.

## How to test

Needs a proprietary or SaaS build with login enabled. `task dev:all`
gives you one.

1. **Report a failure from a tool.** Open a PDF, run **Remove Password**
on it with a wrong password. Nothing visible changes for you: reporting
is silent by design.
2. **See it recorded.** Go to `/processor/documents` and scroll to
**Failures** (dev builds only). A row appears titled "Password-protected
document", with `Hit by <your user>`. Press **Show raw JSON** to see
exactly what was stored.
3. **Confirm no filename is stored as data.** In that JSON, `fileId` is
an opaque uuid and there is no name field. Note the `detail` string may
contain a filename if the backend put one in its message, per the caveat
above.
4. **Confirm the request is capped.** In DevTools, POST to
`/api/v1/file-run-events/reports` with 201 entries in `fileIds`. It
returns 400 naming the limit, and no rows are added.
5. **Deleting a file clears its failure.** Back in the editor, delete
the file you just failed on. Refresh the failures list: its row is gone
from the default view. Filter by `FILE_REMOVED` to see it still exists.
6. **Two people, two incidents.** Have a colleague fail the same tool on
their own copy of the same file. Two rows, not one occurrence count.

## Migration

`source_id` is a new column and `FILE_REMOVED` a new status value. Both
are already in the SaaS migration ([Stirling-PDF-SaaS
#322](https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF-SaaS/pull/322));
self-hosted picks them up from `ddl-auto`.
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Frontend

All frontend commands are run from the repository root using Task:

  • task frontend:dev — start Vite dev server (localhost:5173)
  • task frontend:build — production build
  • task frontend:test — run tests
  • task frontend:test:watch — run tests in watch mode
  • task frontend:lint — run linting
  • task frontend:typecheck — run TypeScript type checking
  • task frontend:check — run typecheck + lint + test
  • task frontend:install — install npm dependencies

For desktop app development, see the Tauri section below.

Layout

frontend/ is a workspace containing one or more apps. Today it holds the PDF editor under frontend/editor/; new apps (the developer portal, etc.) will sit alongside it as siblings. Shared tooling — package.json, node_modules, .storybook/, oxlint, Prettier — lives at frontend/ so every app installs once and lints with the same config.

Environment Variables

The editor's environment variables live in committed .env files at frontend/editor/:

  • .env — used by all builds (core, proprietary, and as the base for desktop/SaaS)
  • .env.desktop — additional vars loaded in desktop (Tauri) mode
  • .env.saas — additional vars loaded in SaaS mode

These files contain non-secret defaults and are checked into Git, so most dev work needs no further setup.

To override values locally (API keys, machine-specific settings), create an uncommitted sibling editor/.env.local / editor/.env.desktop.local / editor/.env.saas.local. Vite automatically layers these on top of the committed files.

Docker Setup

For Docker deployments and configuration, see the Docker README.

Tauri

All desktop tasks are available via Task. From the root of the repo:

Dev

task desktop:dev

This ensures the JLink runtime and backend JAR exist (skipping if already built), then starts Tauri in dev mode.

Build

task desktop:build

This does a full clean rebuild of the backend JAR and JLink runtime, then builds the Tauri app for production.

Platform-specific dev builds are also available:

task desktop:build:dev           # No bundling
task desktop:build:dev:mac       # macOS .app bundle
task desktop:build:dev:windows   # Windows NSIS installer
task desktop:build:dev:linux     # Linux AppImage

You can also run JLink steps individually:

task desktop:jlink          # Build JAR + create JLink runtime
task desktop:jlink:jar      # Build backend JAR only
task desktop:jlink:runtime  # Create JLink custom JRE only
task desktop:jlink:clean    # Remove JLink artifacts

Clean

task desktop:clean

Removes all desktop build artifacts including JLink runtime, bundled JARs, Cargo build, and dist/build directories.