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Add ordered collections (playlists): polymorphic items + item API (#475)
* Add Playlists: ordered, mixed-type collections

A playlist (Collection kind='playlist') is a manually-curated, ordered list that
mixes item types. Squash of the playlists feature branch (24 commits).

Data model & API:
- CollectionItem is polymorphic via item_kind: 'file' (FileGroup), 'zim'
  (zim_id + zim_entry), or 'url' (link to anything the WROLPi browser opens,
  e.g. /map?lat=&lon=&z=). CHECK constraint enforces exactly one kind; per-kind
  unique constraints; migration a7b1c2d3e4f5.
- Endpoints: create playlist; add/remove/reorder items (idempotent adds: 201 new,
  200 existing); GET returns the ordered items. All mutations wrol_mode_check'd.

Config (source of truth):
- playlists.yaml (PlaylistsConfig) stores each playlist's metadata AND ordered
  items (file by relative path, zim by path+entry, url inline); round-trips a
  DB wipe. Supports backup import (DB_CONFIG_FILE_NAMES).
- The redundant generic CollectionsConfig (collections.yaml) is deleted:
  channels/domains own their configs, authors/subjects are re-derived.

On-disk sync (sync_playlists_directory switch):
- Each playlist materializes into the configurable Playlists Directory
  (playlists_destination, Settings UI input, excluded from indexing) with
  position-prefixed entries: NNNN_<file> hard links (copy fallback across
  filesystems) and NNNN_<title>.html stubs for zim/url items.
- Tagged playlists are namespaced like channels: <playlists>/<tag>/<name>;
  a tag change moves the directory and prunes the empty old tag dir.
- Deletion safety: managed files are only removed when they are our marked
  stubs or still have another hard link (st_nlink > 1) -- never a last copy.
  Stray loose files at the playlists root are removed; stub URLs are
  scheme-allowlisted (no javascript:/data:).

Frontend:
- /playlists list page (CollectionTable, name filter, New Playlist modal, Tag
  column) between Files and Zim in the nav.
- View-only detail page (Name link) and edit page (Edit button): themed table
  with model icons/colors + poster thumbnails, items link to their model page
  (video/archive/doc) or preview, up/down reorder, remove, add-URL form,
  single-tag selector; all editing disabled in WROL Mode.
- Reusable green "Add to Playlist" button on Video/Archive/Doc detail pages,
  the FilePreview toolbar, Zim search results, and Map pins (added as a /map
  URL item with a map-marker icon).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Playlist edit page parity: rename, custom directory, tag modal move suggestion

Match the ChannelEditPage/DomainEditPage UX on the playlist edit page:
Back/View buttons, an edit form (name, description, directory), and the
shared CollectionTagModal with the violet "Tag" button.  The tag modal now
suggests moving the playlist to its managed tag location
(playlists/<tag>/<name>); accepting the suggestion stores directory=None so
the sync keeps auto-managing the location.  Tag buttons on the Channel and
Domain edit pages are now violet to match.

Backend: update_collection learns rename (with per-kind validation and
duplicate checks) and playlist custom directories (cleanup of the abandoned
directory, config round-trip, commit-before-switch to avoid the background
sync racing pre-commit state).  tag_collection's duplicated untag/tag
branches are merged, and the per-kind config-save dispatch is consolidated
into _activate_config_save().

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

* Deduplicate Collection error handling and Tag creation

Delete the duplicate UnknownCollection in wrolpi/collections/errors.py and
re-export the canonical one from wrolpi/errors.py, which carries
status_code=NOT_FOUND (the local copy inherited 500).  Replace the repeated
query/raise pattern in reorganize.py with Collection.find_by_id.

Add Tag.get_or_create_tag and use it for collection tagging; flush the new
Tag before returning so callers can read .id immediately -- previously
tagging a collection with a brand-new tag name set tag_id=None.  Regression
test included.

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

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.circleci Creating browser extension to facilitate starting downloads. Chrome/Brave and Firefox supported. 2026-05-03 11:48:50 -06:00
.github Splitting dependabot PRs to avoid massive breaking PRs. 2026-05-03 12:18:39 -06:00
.run Video downloads have many more options. Downloads are migrated. 2024-11-28 09:48:57 -07:00
alembic Add ordered collections (playlists): polymorphic items + item API (#475) 2026-06-09 19:37:34 -06:00
app Add ordered collections (playlists): polymorphic items + item API (#475) 2026-06-09 19:37:34 -06:00
controller Warn in the navbar when a hard drive runs hot (#470) 2026-06-03 18:46:44 -06:00
debian-live-config Including hdparm for drive handling. 2026-06-01 19:31:17 -06:00
docker Map search added to global search. Preview cards are displayed for all results in new Map tab. 2026-04-13 12:17:08 -06:00
etc Merging wrolpi-portable into debian-live-config; unifying Postgres on /media/wrolpi/config/postgresql. 2026-05-24 12:44:05 -06:00
modules chore: address Greptile P2 review comments on PR 449 2026-05-31 13:02:44 -06:00
pi-gen Including hdparm for drive handling. 2026-06-01 19:31:17 -06:00
release Retrying build image uploads multiple times before failing release attempt. 2026-06-02 13:44:16 -06:00
scripts Documenting WROLPi Portable USB, splitting install docs into INSTALL.md. 2026-05-28 21:33:22 -06:00
test Modifying Video/Channel/RSS Downloaders so that they can download videos, but audio only. These audio files are grouped under their channel directories. 2026-04-14 15:33:01 -06:00
wrolpi Add ordered collections (playlists): polymorphic items + item API (#475) 2026-06-09 19:37:34 -06:00
.coveragerc Adding coverage config which ignores non-API directories. 2024-10-16 18:56:03 -06:00
.dockerignore A new start 2021-11-01 16:43:09 -06:00
.gitignore Automating build and upload of WROLPi release images. 2026-05-30 14:23:08 -06:00
.gitmodules Adding FileGroup.published_date/author/etc. Creating script which converts a Singlefile to an Archive FileGroup files. 2023-10-23 18:09:08 -06:00
.gitpod.yml add Gitpod support (#157) 2023-02-02 16:02:19 -07:00
.mcp.json.example Removing WROLPi admin functionality that is now in Controller. 2025-12-19 18:41:27 -07:00
alembic.ini A new start 2021-11-01 16:43:09 -06:00
conftest.py Zim/Kiwix (Wikipedia) feature 2023-07-10 21:30:40 -06:00
demo_link.jpg Replacing demo image. 2023-01-30 13:27:26 -07:00
docker-compose.yml Checking if postgres is ready faster to speed up docker container startup. 2026-05-03 12:09:12 -06:00
help.sh Migrating Controller from port 8087 to 80 so that it is more discoverable. Reformatting Controller dashboard to make header at the top. Reformatting navigation bar to handle the new links which prevented Admin from being visible in some screens. 2026-04-09 15:01:05 -06:00
icon.ico A new start 2021-11-01 16:43:09 -06:00
icon.png Zim/Kiwix (Wikipedia) feature 2023-07-10 21:30:40 -06:00
INSTALL.md Documenting WROLPi Portable USB, splitting install docs into INSTALL.md. 2026-05-28 21:33:22 -06:00
install.sh Many fixes split out from the feature/unified-query branch. Installing diagnostic tools in the built images. Displaying video comment statistics. Echoing error when install.sh fails. 2024-04-14 13:13:30 -06:00
join_discord.png A new start 2021-11-01 16:43:09 -06:00
LICENSE A new start 2021-11-01 16:43:09 -06:00
main.py Displaying warning when no drive is mounted. 2026-05-14 16:16:18 -06:00
pytest.ini FileGroups in Collections can be reorganized in the Collection's directory. 2026-01-31 18:08:41 -07:00
README.md Documenting WROLPi Portable USB, splitting install docs into INSTALL.md. 2026-05-28 21:33:22 -06:00
repair.sh Moving WROLPi-managed mounts off /etc/fstab onto a drive-resident fstab.yaml. 2026-05-24 12:44:05 -06:00
requirements.txt Pin alembic back to 1.10.4 (dependabot #452 broke install). 2026-06-03 18:21:48 -06:00
test_all.sh Creating test_all.sh script to run all frontend and backend tests. 2025-12-17 15:11:57 -07:00
UPGRADE.md Documenting WROLPi Portable USB, splitting install docs into INSTALL.md. 2026-05-28 21:33:22 -06:00
upgrade.sh Force checkout in upgrade.sh so a dirty working tree can't abort the upgrade 2026-05-29 13:22:56 -06:00

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