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Florian Schmidt bfa0b537ee i18n: ship the UI in English and German
ci / build-test (push) Failing after 35s
The last open item on the M7 list. Number and currency formatting was
already locale-aware, but every string in the UI was an English literal,
so a German instance read half in each language -- German data, English
chrome. This translates all of it and adds the machinery to keep it
translated.

Strings live in Localization/Strings.resx (English, neutral) and
Strings.de.resx. The neutral file generates a strongly-typed accessor at
build time, aliased as S in _Imports.razor, so components reference
compiled properties -- @S.Common_Save, not a string key. That choice is
the point: across 4,500 lines of markup, a key lookup that silently
falls back to its own name is a defect you find in production, while a
renamed property is a build error. Generation runs in MSBuild rather
than the IDE designer, so dotnet build alone reproduces it anywhere.

Resource fallback is the hazard here. Ask for a key the German satellite
lacks and ResourceManager quietly serves the English one -- correct at
runtime, disastrous at release time, because a half-translated build
looks perfectly healthy. StringResourceTests reads each satellite with
tryParents: false, which is the only way to see what one actually
contains, and fails on a missing or blank translation, a placeholder
that changed arity, an orphan, or a key nothing references.

Three things needed more than substitution:

- Domain enums reached the screen as bare identifiers. They stay bare in
  the model -- they are persisted as text and appear in the REST API, so
  their names are part of the data contract -- and DisplayNames is now
  the single place that decides how each value is spoken. Every arm ends
  in a fallback returning the identifier, so a value added later cannot
  throw mid-render; EnumDisplayNameTests is what stops that safety net
  quietly becoming the shipping behaviour.

- Infrastructure was writing display text: FlowService's "Other (X)",
  MeterPeriodView's "Generation"/"Consumption", the HA connection-test
  verdicts, the updater's snackbar, the CSV importer's row warnings.
  Each now returns an outcome value and the UI supplies the words, which
  is where the reader's language is known. Diagnostics that are not ours
  -- an HTTP status, systemd's stderr, an exception message -- are passed
  through untranslated, and every English summary is kept alongside the
  outcome so log lines never move with the UI language. The UpdateRunner
  change is additive only; no gate was touched.

- Importer warnings carry their arguments rather than a finished
  sentence, so the numbers inside them pick up the reader's grouping. A
  register that reads 2.940,19 everywhere else must not read 2940.19
  only inside a warning.

Switching language is a redirect through /culture/set followed by a full
reload, not an interactive state change: a Blazor Server circuit is fixed
to the culture of the request that opened it. That makes the endpoint a
redirector taking its target from the query string, so anything but a
local path is refused rather than followed. Preference order is the
cookie, then Accept-Language, then MeterVault__Locale -- an instance can
be pinned to one language and a reader can still switch.

Locale keeps its documented default of "en". Format now follows
CurrentCulture instead of a hardcoded de-DE, so an instance with nothing
configured and a browser asking for English will show English number
formatting where it previously showed German; set MeterVault__Locale=de
to pin the old behaviour. The importer's de-DE parsing is untouched and
stays that way -- that dialect is a property of the spreadsheets, not of
whoever is looking at the dashboard.

Anything that comes from the database -- meter names, energy-type display
names, category names -- is user data and is never translated.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0112ezeWqaZ85kTj5bYu9JHx
2026-08-13 16:36:25 +02:00
schmidt.florian cf7e0396f0 Dashboard: report when a newer release is available
ci / build-test (push) Successful in 1m13s
The instance had no idea what version it was: VERSION drives tagging and the
image publish, but was never stamped into the assemblies, so a running build
reported 1.0.0 forever. Directory.Build.props now stamps it into every project.

The dashboard compares that against the newest tag in the source repository and
shows a banner when behind. A plain GET of a public tag list -- nothing about
the instance is sent -- cached six hours, failing quiet.

Two things it deliberately does not do. It never blocks a render: the banner
paints from the cached answer and refreshes after first render, so a cold start
or an unreachable repository costs nothing rather than holding the dashboard
open for an HTTP timeout. And it never guesses: an unknown version on either
side shows no banner at all, because a banner that cannot clear trains people
to ignore the next real one.

Version comparison is numeric on exactly three components, not System.Version
and not string order. Tags are written vX.Y.Z, the assembly reports X.Y.Z with
a +commithash suffix, and "0.10.0" sorts below "0.9.0" as a string -- each of
those is a way the banner sticks or never appears. Prerelease suffixes compare
equal to their release so an rc tag does not nag. Gitea does not promise semver
ordering, so the highest tag wins rather than the first.

The command shown depends on the install: the LXC has `update`, a container is
replaced by pulling an image, and telling container users to run `update` sends
them after a command that does not exist.

No update *button*. The UI has no authentication and the LXC runs the app as
root, and `update` builds whatever is on master, so a click would be an
unauthenticated path to arbitrary code execution for anything on the LAN. The
README now states the no-auth position plainly rather than leaving it implied.

Tests cover the parse and ordering cases that would strand a banner, the Gitea
payload shape captured from the live API, unreachable and garbage responses,
and that the VERSION file actually reaches the assembly -- read from MeterVault's
own assembly rather than GetEntryAssembly(), which under `dotnet test` is the
test host and reported a confident wrong answer. The suite makes no outbound
request: the app factory disables the check.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01V6joyergfvVLFEizH1hJLd
2026-07-18 20:17:52 +02:00
schmidt.florian 85d650a8f5 Fix: enable global interactivity so dialogs/selects actually work
ci / build-test (push) Successful in 1m12s
Editing a meter (any admin dialog, select dropdown, snackbar, dark-mode toggle)
did nothing: pages declared @rendermode InteractiveServer individually, but
MainLayout — which hosts MudDialogProvider/MudPopoverProvider/MudSnackbarProvider
— was rendered by <Routes>, which was static. Inline MudDialogs and MudSelect
popovers render through those providers, so with the providers non-interactive no
dialog could ever open.

Set the render mode on <Routes> and <HeadOutlet> in App.razor (global
interactivity) and removed the now-redundant per-page @rendermode declarations
(they would otherwise throw "parent already has a render mode").

Why it slipped through: the integration render tests only issue a GET (static
prerender), which never exercises the SignalR circuit. Verified this fix with a
real headless-browser run (Playwright): the meter edit dialog opens and the
"Sub-meter of (upstream meters)" multi-select opens with options — proving the
layout providers are now interactive. 116 tests still green.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Lz2RqAsnQhetqWNoCDfexK
2026-07-14 14:22:15 +02:00
schmidt.florian d5419729e5 M5: Blazor dashboard (MudBlazor + ApexCharts)
- MudBlazor theme (dark default) + responsive drawer/appbar layout + nav.
- DashboardService read model: KPIs with period-over-period deltas, category breakdown,
  "what cost more/less" difference view, monthly trends.
- Pages: Overview (KPI cards + DeltaChip + donut + difference table), Trends (range-select
  bar chart), Meters (list + source status), Import (load reference dataset + CSV dry-run
  preview), Admin (energy types, tariffs). Charts isolated into components to avoid the
  ApexCharts/MudBlazor Color/Format name clashes.
- ReferenceDataImporter: one-click load of all four sheets as a starter dataset (meters,
  tank, tariff history, category memberships) — bundled sample CSVs copied to app output.
- End-to-end render test: import creates meters + consumption; overview/meters/trends/
  import/admin pages all return 200 with KPI cards rendered.

92 tests green (56 Core + 36 integration).

Deferred to polish: dedicated PV & oil/consumable panels, meter-detail page, full admin
CRUD, prev-year trend overlay.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WujdMtMJPbxDpDnMeK22rr
2026-07-13 12:11:12 +02:00