PostType becomes an output filename, so an unset or unvalidated value does
not stay a data problem -- it creates a file. OutputMode wrote untyped rows
to `PostType ?? "Unknown"`, IngestMode read that file back and derived the
literal type "Unknown" from its name, and the two would have regenerated
each other indefinitely.
Nothing was setting the type in the first place. AddPost -- the path every
notes/likes harvest goes through -- omitted PostType from its INSERT column
list entirely, so 1790 rows across 469 blogs had none. Ingest could never
repair them: it types a post only when it meets it inside a real export
file, and these posts appear in none.
Type at the source, from what each path actually knows:
- TraverseDirectory takes it from the filename it is already reading
("texts.txt" -> "texts"), the same rule ingest uses.
- CollectLikes has no file, so it reads the legacy-format `type` field that
GrabLikes already requests with npf=false, mapped singular -> plural.
- AddPost/UpdatePost gained the plumbing to carry it. UpdatePost fills a
missing type but never overwrites one, and its change-detection clause
had to learn about PostType or the SET would be unreachable for a row
whose content was already current.
PostTypes is the single source of truth: eight canonical names, and
anything else normalizes to null. Null is safe -- OutputMode skips those
rows -- while a stray value would have become a stray file. IngestMode and
TraverseDirectory now skip non-export .txt files outright, and the legacy
importer no longer passes a pre-column NULL straight back in.
For the rows already stored untyped, content is the only signal left, so
the migration infers from which columns they carry. Verified against a copy
of the live database: 1780 of 1790 typed, 10 left untyped for want of any
content at all, idempotent on a second pass. HasImage is deliberately not
consulted -- it is set on 12,420 of 19,828 known text posts.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
The every-50-file progress line wasn't enough to know which blog was
currently being processed on a long run. Now -ingest prints a
"entering folder: <name>" line whenever the source folder changes, and
the every-50 progress line also prefixes the folder name.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <[email protected]>
`-ingest <blogname>` now restricts the run to one blog's folder, mirroring
the existing -parse <blogname> ergonomics. `-ingest` with no arg still
processes every blog under appSettings:PathTTRoot (or PathInput fallback).
Breaking vs 3aff849: the first positional arg is interpreted as a blog
name, not a path. Configure the root via appSettings:PathTTRoot.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <[email protected]>
Folds the standalone ThreeTxtFileHelper tool into URLNotesGrabberCORE so
text-file ingest/output/correct lives alongside the API scraper. Adds
new flags -ingest, -output, -correct (with -apply), -updatepaths, and a
one-time -importposts <posts.db> migration.
Schema: Blogs.TTFolderPath and Posts.PostType are added by an idempotent
migration. On (BlogName, PostID) collisions, content columns are
overwritten while engagement columns (ByLikes, RootBlogName, RootURL,
HasNotesGathered, NotFound, NotesGatheredDateTime, Likes*) are preserved.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <[email protected]>
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