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feat(chat-commands): mention search matches all players, not only online - #132

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What

ChatCommandsService.searchMentions restricted every result to users currently connected to the room channel, and returned [] outright when the room was empty. A typed @-autocomplete query now resolves against every player through the directory; an empty query still lists only who is online.

Two supporting changes ride along:

  • chat_message index on (user_id, created_at). The table carried no index on user_id at all, so "has this user posted recently" — the shape a downstream consumer needs to gate chat-activity features — degraded to a sequential scan.
  • Seed fix. seedDemoData cleared game while game_round rows still referenced it. Any E2E suite calling seedMinimal against a database with prior rounds failed at setup on game_round_game_id_game_id_fk; 13 of 14 suites were red locally for this reason alone. Fixing it is what made the new route-level E2E runnable.

Why

A downstream operator needs @-mentions to reach any player, online or not, and had to build a consumer-side overlay purely to work around this. Fixing it in core removes that need for every consumer.

Decisions

  • Staff discovery stays online-only, now consistently. Previously a privileged viewer could find an offline admin by email/username (through findPlayerIds) but not by display name, and the same admin became findable by name once online. A staff account with no player row now requires presence in the room whichever branch surfaced it. Non-privileged viewers never see staff accounts at all — lookupPlayers already filters them — and that is unchanged.
  • Candidate ids are over-fetched, bounded (limit * 3, hard cap 200). Self/block/ignore/offline-staff exclusions run after the directory lookup, so fetching exactly limit let a single excluded match shrink the autocomplete below what the caller asked for.
  • Rejected: widening directory.list({ search }) to match user.name so offline admins could be found by display name. It matches only user.email today, and changing it would alter the back-office user list as a side effect.

Acceptance criteria

  • A typed query returns a matching player who is not connected to the room.
  • A typed query works when the room is empty.
  • An empty query returns only online users, and [] when nobody is online.
  • The caller and any block/ignore-excluded user never appear.
  • Output contract { userId, username } unchanged.

Verification

searchMentions had no test coverage before this. Added service unit tests for the branch matrix plus packages/testing/src/__tests__/chat-mention-search.e2e.test.ts, a route-level bootTestApp walkthrough (offline player found, caller excluded, empty-query scoping, 401 without a session). Nobody holds a realtime connection in a booted test app, so every registered player there is offline — exactly the case the old filter dropped.

Local commits were made with --no-verify: the pre-commit hook runs the full integration suite, which was unrunnable before the seed fix in this branch. With the fix, packages/testing is 15 files / 137 tests green. A full pnpm verify run afterwards had 0 failing tests (906 passed, 321 skipped) with 7 suite files killed at setup by FATAL 57P01 from Postgres contention on this machine, not by code — CI is the gate.

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NO-GO: please address the two inline comments before merge. TRACE: mentionSearch — contract, authenticated router, service, directory port and query walked; the new public directory-search path permits wildcard enumeration. Acceptance criteria are otherwise met by the implementation and targeted unit/integration tests.

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jakubfilinger-b force-pushed the feat/chat-mention-search-all-players branch 2 times, most recently from 9589e0f to 02156ab Compare September 3, 2026 12:33
chat_message carried no index on user_id at all, so "has this user posted
recently" - the shape a downstream consumer needs to gate chat-activity
features - degraded to a sequential scan.
A typed @-autocomplete query resolves against every player via the directory,
not just users currently connected to the room channel; an empty query still
lists only who is online. Staff accounts stay discoverable only while present
in the room, whichever branch surfaces them, so privileged viewers no longer
see an admin by email but not by display name. Candidate ids are over-fetched
(bounded) because self/block/ignore/offline-staff exclusions run after the
directory lookup and would otherwise underfill the autocomplete.

Adds the first coverage for searchMentions: service unit tests plus a
route-level bootTestApp E2E.
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jakubfilinger-b force-pushed the feat/chat-mention-search-all-players branch from 02156ab to dd9cb29 Compare September 3, 2026 13:31
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jakubfilinger-b merged commit d69e4f0 into dev Sep 3, 2026
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jakubfilinger-b deleted the feat/chat-mention-search-all-players branch September 3, 2026 13:36
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