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JIRA Issue

https://weboo.atlassian.net/browse/DEV-1545

Summary

Rewrites the V3 media doc so Fliplet.Media.capture() is documented without naming an encoding.

The original bug was this doc promising "an optimized WebP File". WebKit has no canvas WebP encoder — MDN browser-compat-data records version_added: false for safari/safari_ios on both toBlob and toDataURL, and per the HTML spec an unsupported type is silently serialized as PNG. So on every Apple device the promise could never be kept, and that mismatch is what got the feature reverted.

The doc now says the client downscales and hands the result to Files.upload() — nothing about the format. The server decides what is stored (WebP, enforced on ingest: fliplet-api#8394). No promise, nothing to break.

Note on this PR's history

It originally unpublished capture(), because the method was live in the docs but had never been merged to fliplet-api master — so the AI builder generated calls to a method production didn't have. That was the right call while capture() was reset. It is shipping again now, so unpublishing would hide a method we're about to deploy. Same branch, corrected approach — hence the branch name no longer matching the content.

Changes

  • docs/API/v3/media.mdcapture() documented with no encoding named; options.quality is "image quality", not "WebP quality".
  • .well-known/* + v3/capabilities.md — regenerated from source.

Verification

  • npm run test:unit163/163 pass
  • npm run check:docs (strict) — 203 docs, 46 V3 libraries, no catalog uniqueness violations
  • Catalog capabilities confirmed: capture photo, take photo, camera, … — what the builder matches on
  • Kept an unrelated native-framework changelog sync out of the diff (pre-existing staleness in master's bundle)

Deploy order

Merge after fliplet-api#8394 deploys. Docs must not advertise capture() before the API serves it — that ordering is exactly what caused this ticket's original failure.

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farhantariq12b and others added 2 commits July 20, 2026 19:12
capture() is documented and live on developers.fliplet.com (PR #286, merged
Jul 8) but was never merged into fliplet-api master — so it does not exist in
production. The V3 AI builder reads this doc, learns capture() exists, and
generates apps that call a missing platform method. That is unfixable from
app code, which is why the AI "couldn't fix it in 10 tries" on the QA report.

DEV-1545 is back in To Do and being redesigned (WebKit has no canvas WebP
encoder, so the client can never guarantee WebP on Apple; the WebP guarantee
is moving server-side), so the gap would otherwise stay open indefinitely.

Rather than just delete the guidance — which would leave the builder to
hand-roll navigator.camera.getPicture(), the original failure mode — this
replaces it with the pattern that actually works in production today: a
standard <input type="file" accept="image/*"> (plus the capture attribute to
hint the camera), then Files.upload(). Everything documented here now exists.

Regenerated the derived bundles with `npm run check:docs` (203 docs, 46 V3
libraries, strict). 163/163 doc unit tests pass. Reverted an unrelated
native-framework changelog sync the regeneration picked up (pre-existing
staleness in master's bundle) to keep this diff media-only.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Supersedes the unpublish approach on this branch. Unpublishing was right while
capture() was reset and not shipping, but it IS shipping — fliplet-api
feature/DEV-1545-webp-on-ingest — so removing it from the docs would have hidden
a method we are about to deploy, and the AI builder would never generate it.

The original bug was the doc promising 'an optimized WebP File'. WebKit has no
canvas WebP encoder, so on iOS that promise could never be kept, and the
mismatch is what got the feature reverted. The doc now names no encoding at all:
the client downscales, the server decides what is stored. Nothing to break.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@farhantariq12b farhantariq12b changed the title DEV-1545: unpublish Fliplet.Media.capture() from the V3 docs (method not in production) DEV-1545: document Fliplet.Media.capture() without naming an encoding Jul 21, 2026
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docs/.well-known/llms-full.txt:40951 — the regenerated catalog drops capture() from the Media description, contradicting the PR's whole purpose

-- Fliplet.Media — Capture or select a photo and upload files in V3 apps with Fliplet.Media — capture() to take or pick a photo (web + native) and Files.upload() to store it and get a URL back.
+- Fliplet.Media — Upload files and display stored images in V3 apps with Fliplet.Media — Files.upload() to store a file and get a URL back, plus server-side resizing and format conversion.

This is leftover state from commit 42db45d (the unpublish commit) that commit 63baec5 reverted in media.md but not in the generated bundle.
So llms-full.txt is out of sync with its own source. Since that bundle is what the builder reads, the net effect of merging as-is is that the catalog line describing Fliplet.Media never mentions taking a photo — while the doc it links to is all about taking a photo. The PR body's claim ".well-known/* + v3/capabilities.md — regenerated from source" isn't accurate on either count: capabilities.md isn't in the diff at all, and llms-full.txt doesn't match it.

Fix: re-run the generator from a clean tree at 63baec5 so llms-full.txt:40951 matches capabilities.md:43, and re-run npm run check:docs.

galisufyan-327 caught that llms-full.txt's Fliplet.Media catalog line still
carried the unpublish-era description ("Upload files and display...") while
media.md's frontmatter, llms.txt, llms-v3-libraries.json and v3/capabilities.md
all describe capture(). The bundle the builder reads was out of sync with its
own source — my consolidation commit (63baec5) regenerated the other surfaces
but left this one stale.

Re-ran `npm run check:docs` from a clean tree; all five surfaces now agree on
the capture() description. 163/163 unit tests pass, strict check clean.

This time I did NOT hand-revert the unrelated native-framework changelog sync
(6.4.4→6.4.7) that the regen also picks up: manually surgical-editing a
generated file is exactly what produced the mismatch being fixed here. The
changelog line is llms-full.txt catching up to its own source doc, not drift
from this PR. Keeping generated output as the generator produces it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Good catch — you're right, and it's my consolidation error. Fixed in cb6d473.

llms-full.txt's Fliplet.Media catalog line still carried the unpublish-era description while media.md frontmatter, llms.txt, llms-v3-libraries.json, and v3/capabilities.md had all been updated to the capture() one. My earlier commit (63baec5) regenerated the other surfaces but left llms-full.txt stale. Re-ran npm run check:docs from a clean tree — all five surfaces now agree:

media.md frontmatter:   Capture or select…
llms.txt:               Capture or select…
llms-full.txt:          Capture or select…   (was: "Upload files and display…")
v3/capabilities.md:     Capture or select…
llms-v3-libraries.json: Capture or select…

163/163 unit tests pass, strict check clean. And to be precise on your other point: v3/capabilities.md was already in sync (it's not in the diff because it didn't change) — only llms-full.txt was stale.

One deliberate note: the clean regen also syncs an unrelated native-framework changelog line (6.4.4→6.4.7) that master's bundle is stale on. I've left it in rather than hand-revert it — surgically editing a generated file is exactly what produced the mismatch you flagged. It's llms-full.txt catching up to its own source, not drift from this PR.

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