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Summary

GET /api/v1/loas serves LOAs to keys holding the new read:loas scope. Each request reads the five LOA forums live, one record per thread, in the order #276 lays out:

GET /api/v1/loas[?endedSince=YYYY-MM-DD]     read:loas, Cache-Control: max-age=0
  endedSince more than 365 days before UTC today -> 400 (typed datastore error)
  FindLoas(now, endedSince)
    visible threads in nodes 180/178/540/400/369, posted in the year before the window starts
    parse each opening post as it reads now (edits win)
      Start Date / End Date ([S]struck[/S] text dropped)
      reason as plain text, line breaks kept
      Subject = last Username label: mention id, then current username, then approved previous username
    fill missing dates or reason from the form submission closest to the post time (within 5 s, that forum's forms)
    classify: open / upcoming / ended (UTC calendar days, End Date inclusive)
              or needs review: DATES_UNREADABLE, END_BEFORE_START, TOO_LONG (>14 days), NO_SUBJECT, UNKNOWN_SUBJECT
    window: open + upcoming, needs review posted in the last 14 days
            + with endedSince: ended on or after it, needs review posted on or after it
  {"loas": [...]} ordered by threadId

datastores/
├── loas.go            # FindLoas: read, resolve the Subject, classify, window
├── loapost.go         # opening-post parser and the review rules
└── loasubmission.go   # form-submission match and fill
rest/loas.go           # handler: binds endedSince, maps the typed error to 400
types/loa.go           # Loa, LoaSubject, LoaForum, LoaState, LoaReviewReason
xenforo/               # thread, form submission, username change models

Each ticket landed as its own merge commit: #277, #279, #278, #280, #282, #281, then the code review fixes.

Some calls here aren't spelled out in the spec. They're worth a look:

• A needs-review LOA posted more than 14 days ago is left out of the default response, even when its dates cover today. One example is a TOO_LONG LOA filed three weeks ahead. That is LOAs: return unreadable LOA threads as needs review #280's acceptance criterion as written. A sync that passes endedSince still gets it.
• "Posted in the last 14 days" counts from midnight UTC 14 days back, so late in the UTC day it reaches almost 15 days.
• The route parses its query strictly, like the tickets list. Broken percent-encoding anywhere in the query gets a 400.
• When more than one member once held a previous username, the Subject is whoever held it when the thread was posted.
• The submission fills each date on its own. A post with a readable Start Date keeps it even when its End Date comes from the submission.

Evidence

• Before: GET /api/v1/loas is not a route, and no key can be limited to LOAs.
  After: go vet ./... is clean and make test-integration passes on b5bd2a4. The datastore package ran fresh against MariaDB in 49 s.

  harness   last Username label wins over the Submitter's earlier label
  harness   End Date [S]Oct 16, 2026[/S] -> Oct 23, 2026     -> endDate 2026-10-23
  harness   Saturday to Saturday (14 days)                    -> OPEN
  harness   15 days                                           -> NEEDS_REVIEW / TOO_LONG
  harness   endedSince 365 days back ok, 366 days back        -> ErrEndedSinceTooFarBack
  harness   post edited, stale form answer                    -> post's dates and reason
  handler   read or read:tickets key                          -> 403 "scope required: read:loas"
  golden    loas/ended_since                                  -> one LOA in each state
  

  Each ticket and the review fixes also ran their new rows against hand-made mutants, 105 in all, and the rows killed every one.

Merge Danger

Door: two-way

The change only adds code. The API runs no DDL and adds no index.

Blast Radius: additive

Existing routes and keys behave as before. The route answers 403 until a forum admin creates the read:loas scope row in the ApiKeyManager ACP and grants it to the leadership groups. Do that first, then deploy, then make sure each consumer's key owner is in a gated group.

Closes #276
Closes #277
Closes #278
Closes #279
Closes #280
Closes #281
Closes #282

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added an API endpoint to list leave-of-absence (LOA) records, including open, upcoming, ended, and needs-review entries.
  • Added optional endedSince filtering, with date validation and a limit of 365 days.
  • Added dedicated read:loas access; this scope grants access only to LOA routes.
• Documentation
  • Documented the LOA endpoint, response fields, access requirements, and date-filter behavior.

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• datastores/loapost.go
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📝 Walkthrough

The change adds GET /api/v1/loas, protected by read:loas. It reads and classifies LOA forum threads, supports form-answer fallbacks and an optional endedSince window, and adds API schemas, response types, and tests.

Changes: LOA listing API

Layer / File(s)	Summary
API contract and scope types/loa.go, openapi/openapi.yaml, GLOSSARY.md, contract/README.md, datastores/datastore.go	Defines LOA response types and schemas, documents read:loas, and adds the FindLoas datastore contract.
Post parsing and review classification datastores/loapost.go, datastores/loas_posts_test.go, datastores/loas_reason_harness_test.go	Parses dates, subjects, and reasons from opening posts, and assigns review reasons when required fields are unreadable or invalid.
Forum retrieval and subject resolution datastores/loas.go, datastores/loas*_harness_test.go, xenforo/*, testdb/schema.sql	Reads visible LOA threads, resolves subjects, applies state and date-window rules, and tests retrieval behavior.
Form submission fallback datastores/loasubmission.go, datastores/loas_submission_harness_test.go, testdb/schema.sql, xenforo/formSubmission.go	Matches nearby form submissions to threads and fills dates or reasons that are missing from posts.
Route and contract validation rest/loas.go, rest/rest.go, rest/query.go, rest/cachecontrol.go, rest/loas*_test.go, contract/*, testdb/fixtures.sql, testdb/testdb.go	Registers the scoped endpoint, binds date filters, applies response cache policy, and adds route and golden coverage.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant routes
  participant listLoas
  participant FindLoas
  Client->>routes: GET /api/v1/loas with read:loas
  routes->>listLoas: Dispatch authorized request
  listLoas->>FindLoas: Query with request time and endedSince
  FindLoas-->>listLoas: LOA records or error
  listLoas-->>Client: LoasResponse or HTTP error

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 175be

The LOA endpoint is ready to merge; administrators must grant the new read:loas scope to intended keys before they can access it.

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 175be

The dedicated permission limits access, but missing post fields can be filled from a different submission based only on forum and posting time. This can misattribute personal leave information and potentially expose answers associated with hidden or deleted threads.

Retained concerns

• Medium · security · inferred: The new fallback treats temporal proximity as record identity. A visible thread missing dates or a reason can inherit another submission's answers because matching checks only the target forum and a five-second timestamp window. Those answers are serialized under the visible thread's identity without verifying the submission's owner or originating thread visibility. If form logs survive hiding or deleting their source thread, this can disclose otherwise excluded personal leave information to read:loas callers. The same-forum and time restrictions constrain the scenario but do not prevent it.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• observed — read:loas is a cross-forum grant covering qualifying LOAs from nodes 180, 178, 540, 400, and 369. FindLoas receives no caller identity or tenant parameter. Exposure includes leave reasons and dates together with thread links and subject identifiers, but not arbitrary forums or complete source models.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — A read:loas caller can receive unrelated submission answers when a qualifying visible thread lacks fields and another same-forum submission is the nearest within five seconds. Deliberately inducing this also requires the ability to create or edit a suitable visible thread. Hidden-source disclosure additionally depends on retained form answers; production retention was not verified. The response contains no fallback provenance that would distinguish those answers from the visible post.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Authentication rejects missing, invalid, and inactive keys before handler execution. Route authorization checks exact scope membership: read and read:tickets do not imply read:loas. These controls constrain API recipients but do not validate fallback submission provenance.
• observed — Direct thread retrieval enforces visible discussion state. Fallback applies a same-forum restriction and five-second proximity limit, and preserves readable dates and nonblank reasons already present in the post. None of those controls verifies that the selected submission created that thread.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Fallback selection is deterministic: it chooses the closest eligible timestamp and resolves equal distances using submission order. Determinism supports repeatability, but ambiguous matches are still accepted and one submission is not reserved exclusively for its originating thread.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Require trustworthy submission-to-thread provenance and compatible source visibility before exposing fallback answers. Where that relationship cannot be established, preserve the missing field rather than treating timestamp proximity as authority. Define separately whether deliberately removed post content may be restored from historical submissions.

Pre-merge checks: 5

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check		The title clearly and concisely identifies the new GET /api/v1/loas endpoint for serving trooper LOAs, which is the main change.
Linked Issues check		The PR meets the coding requirements in [#276]–[#282]. It adds the read:loas-gated route, live reads from the five forums, opening-post parsing, Subject resolution, plain-text reasons, form fallback…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changes stay within [#276]–[#282]. The added models, datastore code, REST handler, OpenAPI contract, glossary, scope fixtures, test fakes, integration fixtures, and tests support the LOA endpoint.…
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 90.32% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 93 functions across 34 files.

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Explanation

The PR meets the coding requirements in [#276]–[#282]. It adds the read:loas-gated route, live reads from the five forums, opening-post parsing, Subject resolution, plain-text reasons, form fallback, review classification, UTC windows, endedSince aliases and validation, ordering, cache control, wire types, documentation, fixtures, and tests. The current handler maps malformed dates, old dates, and datastore failures to errors. The current datastore validates the 365-day limit and applies the required open, upcoming, ended, and needs-review windows.

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The changes stay within [#276]–[#282]. The added models, datastore code, REST handler, OpenAPI contract, glossary, scope fixtures, test fakes, integration fixtures, and tests support the LOA endpoint. The test database schema supports the new test fixtures. The PR does not add pagination, extra filters, ELOA behavior, runtime caching, production DDL or indexes, or AWOL-route changes.

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• contract/fake_datastore_test.go
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• contract/goldens/auth/loas_wrong_scope.golden.json
• contract/goldens/loas/default.golden.json
• contract/goldens/loas/ended_since.golden.json
• contract/goldens/loas/ended_since_too_far_back.golden.json
• contract/routes_test.go
• contract/spec_test.go
• datastores/auth_harness_test.go
• datastores/datastore.go
• datastores/loapost.go
• datastores/loas.go
• datastores/loas_ended_since_harness_test.go
• datastores/loas_harness_test.go
• datastores/loas_posts_test.go
• datastores/loas_reason_harness_test.go
• datastores/loas_subject_harness_test.go
• datastores/loas_submission_harness_test.go
• datastores/loasubmission.go
• openapi/openapi.yaml
• rest/cachecontrol.go
• rest/cachecontrol_test.go
• rest/fake_loas_test.go
• rest/loas.go
• rest/loas_ended_since_test.go
• rest/loas_test.go
• rest/query.go
• rest/rest.go
• rest/rest_test.go
• rest/spec_test.go
• rest/tickets.go
• testdb/fixtures.sql
• testdb/schema.sql
• testdb/testdb.go
• types/loa.go
• types/loa_test.go
• xenforo/formSubmission.go
• xenforo/thread.go
• xenforo/usernameChange.go

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