Add a random part to the selector of new dashboards, like scenes - #2906
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Scenes generate their URL selector with 4 random characters at the end to avoid collisions between scenes sharing the same name slug. Dashboards used the plain slug of their name, so two dashboards whose names slugify to the same value collided on the unique selector column. New dashboards now get their selector from slugify(name, true), exactly like scenes. A selector explicitly given by the caller (API, Cypress fixtures) is still kept as is, and existing dashboards are untouched: no migration rewrites their selector, so their URLs keep working. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BRdJPgpjHkz9LKu39n8fm8
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Included review availability: Your plan includes up to 8 reviews per rolling hour; 6 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughDashboard creation now generates a slug-based selector with a four-character random suffix when no selector is provided. Tests cover generated and explicit selectors, duplicate slugs, missing names, ordering, and edit URLs. ChangesDashboard selector generation
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In `@server/lib/dashboard/dashboard.create.js`:
- Around line 35-41: Update the dashboard creation flow around
dashboardWithSelector and db.Dashboard.create to handle selector collisions with
bounded, uniqueness-aware retry allocation, while preserving the existing
slugification behavior. Ensure retries terminate with the original failure after
the configured limit, and add a deterministic test covering a repeated
four-character suffix collision.
In `@server/test/lib/dashboard/dashboard.create.test.js`:
- Around line 23-25: Update the selector assertions for newDashboard to validate
the complete format: the my-new-dashboard prefix, a separator dash, and exactly
four lowercase alphanumeric characters. Replace the current containment and
length checks with a single pattern assertion.
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In `@front/cypress/e2e/routes/dashboard/Dashboard.cy.js`:
- Around line 25-26: Run the required front-end validation for the changed
Dashboard Cypress test: Prettier, prettier-check, ESLint, the production Vite
build, and the dashboard Cypress E2E test.
In `@server/lib/dashboard/dashboard.create.js`:
- Around line 30-41: Add coverage for the dashboard creation flow around
dashboardWithSelector and db.Dashboard.create, covering generated selectors,
explicit selectors, duplicate slugs, and missing names. Add corresponding server
tests, then run the required formatting, prettier-check, ESLint, and coverage
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| if (!dashboard.selector && dashboard.name) { | ||
| dashboardWithSelector = { | ||
| ...dashboard, | ||
| selector: slugify(dashboard.name, true), | ||
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| return db.Dashboard.create({ ...dashboardWithSelector, user_id: userId }); |
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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
rg -n -C 6 \
'selector|unique|addRandomCharacter|slugify|ValidationError|UniqueConstraint' \
server/models server/lib/dashboard server/utilsRepository: GladysAssistant/Gladys
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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
printf '%s\n' '--- dashboard model ---'
sed -n '70,125p' server/models/dashboard.js
printf '%s\n' '--- dashboard create tests/usages ---'
rg -n -C 5 'dashboard\.create|createDashboard|Dashboard\.create' server/test server/lib server/models
printf '%s\n' '--- selector helper usages ---'
rg -n -C 3 'buildUniqueSelector|addSelectorBeforeValidateHook' server
printf '%s\n' '--- static collision verifier ---'
python3 - <<'PY'
from pathlib import Path
import re
create = Path("server/lib/dashboard/dashboard.create.js").read_text()
model = Path("server/models/dashboard.js").read_text()
has_random_selector = "selector: slugify(dashboard.name, true)" in create
has_unique_selector = bool(re.search(
r"selector:\s*\{\s*allowNull:\s*false,\s*unique:\s*true",
model,
re.S,
))
has_retry_in_create = bool(re.search(
r"(?:retry|catch|while|for\s*\().{0,500}(?:create|slugify)",
create,
re.S | re.I,
))
print({
"generated_selector_uses_random_suffix": has_random_selector,
"dashboard_selector_is_non_null_and_unique": has_unique_selector,
"dashboard_create_contains_collision_retry": has_retry_in_create,
})
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Add bounded selector-collision retry
Dashboard.selector is non-null and unique. The model hook only slugifies the selector and does not retry, so a repeated four-character suffix can make Dashboard.create fail with a unique-constraint error. Use uniqueness-aware allocation or bounded retry, and add a deterministic collision test.
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In `@server/lib/dashboard/dashboard.create.js` around lines 35 - 41, Update the
dashboard creation flow around dashboardWithSelector and db.Dashboard.create to
handle selector collisions with bounded, uniqueness-aware retry allocation,
while preserving the existing slugification behavior. Ensure retries terminate
with the original failure after the configured limit, and add a deterministic
test covering a repeated four-character suffix collision.
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Declined — out of scope for this PR.
This PR's goal is to make dashboard selectors behave exactly like scene selectors. scene.create (server/lib/scene/scene.create.js) does the same slugify(name, true) with no collision retry, and Scene.selector is unique too. Adding a retry loop only to dashboard.create would make the two paths diverge, for a collision that needs both the same name slug and the same 4-character suffix out of 36⁴ ≈ 1.7M. The failure mode is also benign: a clean unique-constraint rejection on create, not corrupted data.
If retry is wanted, it belongs in a separate change covering scenes and dashboards together — ideally inside slugify/the selector hook rather than duplicated in each create.
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@Pierre-Gilles, agreed. A dashboard-only retry would break parity with scene.create.
The collision case remains a possible clean create failure. It should be addressed only in a separate change that covers both selector paths consistently.
Would you like me to open a follow-up issue for shared selector-collision handling?
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File: server/lib/dashboard/dashboard.create.js:35-41
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Learning: In the GladysAssistant/Gladys codebase, `server/lib/dashboard/dashboard.create.js` must keep generated selector behavior aligned with `server/lib/scene/scene.create.js`. Both paths use `slugify(name, true)` without a collision retry, while `Dashboard.selector` and `Scene.selector` are unique. Any selector-collision retry should be implemented as a separate shared change, not only in dashboard creation.
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Learning: In the GladysAssistant/Gladys codebase, core entity models (e.g., `server/models/device_feature.js` for `DeviceFeature`) declare fields like `selector` with `allowNull: false` (and `unique: true`) at the Sequelize model level. Therefore, during code review, do not flag defensive branches that handle a falsy `f.selector` (e.g., `f.external_id || f.id` fallbacks) as data-integrity issues—those paths are effectively unreachable under the model constraints. (If you see such fallbacks, treat them as legacy/unnecessary safety code rather than evidence of possible null/invalid `selector` values.)
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This is a small, well-scoped fix and it is safe to merge.
New dashboards without an explicit
selectornow getslugify(name, true), the same 4-character suffix scenes already use. That is the right fix for names that slugify to the same value (Salon/Salôn) while colliding on the uniqueselectorcolumn. Callers that pass a selector (REST, Cypress fixtures, imports) keep it;addSelectorBeforeValidateHookstill slugifies that value on insert and does not add a second suffix. Existing rows are left alone, which is correct — those selectors live in URLs, bookmarks, and tablet-mode configs.The front already navigates to the selector returned by
POST /api/v1/dashboard, so no UI change is needed. Tests cover the new branches (generated suffix, explicit selector, two colliding slugs, missing name), andupdateOrdernow asserts the returned selector. Cypress box specs passselector: 'test'and are unaffected. NoDEVICE_FEATURE_*changes, no migration, no auth/gateway surface.Not
risk:high. Noneeds:human-review— this copies an established in-tree pattern rather than a product-philosophy call.Sent by Cursor Automation: Automatic PR review
The creation test only checked that the selector contained the name slug and had the expected length, which also passed for values that are not the generated format (a missing separator, or non-alphanumeric characters). Match the whole selector against the exact shape instead. Autofix-Pass: 1
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Follow-up 425bedc only tightens the generated-selector assertion to /^my-new-dashboard-[a-z0-9]{4}$/. The create path is unchanged and still matches scenes: slugify(name, true) when no selector is passed, explicit selectors kept, existing rows left alone.
That remains the right fix for names that slugify to the same value (Salon / Salôn) while colliding on the unique selector column. addSelectorBeforeValidateHook still slugifies an already-set selector without adding a second suffix. The front already navigates to the selector returned by POST /api/v1/dashboard. Tests cover generated suffix, explicit selector, colliding slugs, and missing name; updateOrder uses the returned selector. Cypress and codecov/patch are green on this SHA.
Collision retry on the 4-character suffix is correctly out of scope here — scene.create has the same uniqueness-by-probability, and a dashboard-only retry would break that parity.
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Implements feature request:
https://community.gladysassistant.com/t/tableau-de-bord-lidentifiant-unique-devrait-contenir-une-partie-aleatoire-comme-les-scenes/9829Description
Scenes generate their URL
selectorwith 4 random characters at the end (slugify(name, true)) so two scenes whose names slugify to the same value never collide. Dashboards used the plain slug of their name (through theaddSelectorBeforeValidateHookmodel hook), so two dashboards with names sharing the same slug (Salon/Salôn,Étage 1/Etage 1, …) collided on the uniqueselectorcolumn.dashboard.createnow generates the selector the same way scenes do:server/lib/dashboard/dashboard.create.js: when no selector is passed and the dashboard has a name, the selector isslugify(dashboard.name, true)— e.g.my-new-dashboard-a3f9.scene.create.Backward compatibility (no migration): existing dashboards keep the selector they were created with. Their selectors live in URLs, in bookmarks and in tablet-mode configurations, so no migration rewrites existing rows — a rewrite would break every saved link for zero benefit. Lookups need no change either:
dashboard.getBySelector,update,destroyandupdateOrderall query theselectorcolumn directly, so the old form and the new form work identically. Only newly created dashboards get the random suffix.Front-end: nothing to change on the creation path —
front/src/routes/dashboard/new-dashboard/index.jsalready routes to the selector returned by the server, and no front code derives a dashboard selector from a name (front/src/utils/slugify.jsis only used for users). The only adjustment is the Cypress spec, which asserted the exact URL/dashboard/my-new-dashboard/editand now matches/dashboard/my-new-dashboard-[a-z0-9]{4}/edit. The dashboard box specs pass an explicitselector: 'test'on creation, so they are unaffected.Forum
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https://community.gladysassistant.com/t/tableau-de-bord-lidentifiant-unique-devrait-contenir-une-partie-aleatoire-comme-les-scenes/9829Checklist
sqlite3CLI missing in the sandbox, Docker/network tests) and unrelated to this change. Cypress was not run locally.npm run prettier,npm run prettier-check,npm run eslint), plusnpm run compare-translationsandnpm run buildon the front.This pull request was opened by an automated Claude Code run and needs human review before merging.
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