internal/api/api.go

@@ -121,6 +121,12 @@ func New(cfg *config.Config, svc *service.Service) *gin.Engine {
 	changeSets := v1.Group("/change-sets", h.requireAuth())
 	changeSets.POST("/:id/revert", h.revertChangeSet)
 
+	// Journal entries are addressed by their own id; the service resolves the
+	// owning garden for the permission check, same as objects and plantings.
+	journal := v1.Group("/journal", h.requireAuth())
+	journal.PATCH("/:id", h.updateJournalEntry)
+	journal.DELETE("/:id", h.deleteJournalEntry)
+
 	// Plant catalog: built-ins (seeded, read-only) plus the actor's own rows.
 	plants := v1.Group("/plants", h.requireAuth())
 	plants.GET("", h.listPlants)

internal/api/journal_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,157 @@
+package api
+
+import (
+	"net/http"
+	"strconv"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+func journalPath(gardenID int64) string {
+	return "/api/v1/gardens/" + strconv.FormatInt(gardenID, 10) + "/journal"
+}
+
+func journalEntryPath(id int64) string {
+	return "/api/v1/journal/" + strconv.FormatInt(id, 10)
+}
+
+// TestJournalCrudAPI walks the whole entry lifecycle over HTTP.
+//
+// It exists because the service-level tests could not see that PATCH and DELETE
+// were never registered on the router: the handlers were written, tested through
+// the service, and completely unreachable. Anything addressed by its own id
+// needs at least one test that goes through the router.
+func TestJournalCrudAPI(t *testing.T) {
+	r := authEngine(t, localCfg())
+	cookie := registerAndCookie(t, r, "[email protected]")
+	gid := createGardenAPI(t, r, cookie, "G")
+
+	w := doJSON(t, r, http.MethodPost, journalPath(gid), map[string]any{
+		"body": "First frost tonight", "observedAt": "2026-10-12",
+	}, cookie)
+	if w.Code != http.StatusCreated {
+		t.Fatalf("create: status %d, body %s", w.Code, w.Body.String())
+	}
+	entry := decodeMap(t, w.Body.Bytes())
+	id := int64(entry["id"].(float64))
+	if entry["observedAt"] != "2026-10-12" || entry["body"] != "First frost tonight" {
+		t.Errorf("unexpected entry: %+v", entry)
+	}
+
+	// List it back.
+	w = doJSON(t, r, http.MethodGet, journalPath(gid), nil, cookie)
+	if w.Code != http.StatusOK {
+		t.Fatalf("list: status %d, body %s", w.Code, w.Body.String())
+	}
+	body := decodeMap(t, w.Body.Bytes())
+	entries, _ := body["entries"].([]any)
+	if len(entries) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("got %d entries, want 1: %s", len(entries), w.Body.String())
+	}
+	if first := entries[0].(map[string]any); first["authorName"] == "" {
+		t.Error("author name missing from the list read")
+	}
+
+	// PATCH — the route this test exists for.
+	w = doJSON(t, r, http.MethodPatch, journalEntryPath(id), map[string]any{
+		"body": "First frost, tomatoes done", "version": entry["version"],
+	}, cookie)
+	if w.Code != http.StatusOK {
+		t.Fatalf("patch: status %d, body %s", w.Code, w.Body.String())
+	}
+	updated := decodeMap(t, w.Body.Bytes())
+	if updated["body"] != "First frost, tomatoes done" {
+		t.Errorf("body = %v", updated["body"])
+	}
+
+	// A stale version conflicts, carrying the current row.
+	w = doJSON(t, r, http.MethodPatch, journalEntryPath(id), map[string]any{
+		"body": "stale", "version": entry["version"],
+	}, cookie)
+	if w.Code != http.StatusConflict {
+		t.Errorf("stale patch: status %d, want 409", w.Code)
+	}
+	if current, _ := decodeMap(t, w.Body.Bytes())["current"].(map[string]any); current == nil {
+		t.Error("409 should carry the current row")
+	}
+
+	// DELETE — likewise.
+	w = doJSON(t, r, http.MethodDelete, journalEntryPath(id), nil, cookie)
+	if w.Code != http.StatusNoContent {
+		t.Fatalf("delete: status %d, body %s", w.Code, w.Body.String())
+	}
+	w = doJSON(t, r, http.MethodGet, journalPath(gid), nil, cookie)
+	if entries, _ := decodeMap(t, w.Body.Bytes())["entries"].([]any); len(entries) != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("%d entries survived the delete", len(entries))
+	}
+}
+
+// TestJournalFiltersAPI covers the query parameters, including a malformed one.
+func TestJournalFiltersAPI(t *testing.T) {
+	r := authEngine(t, localCfg())
+	cookie := registerAndCookie(t, r, "[email protected]")
+	gid := createGardenAPI(t, r, cookie, "G")
+
+	w := doJSON(t, r, http.MethodPost, objectsPath(gid), map[string]any{
+		"kind": "bed", "name": "North Bed", "xCm": 100, "yCm": 100, "widthCm": 100, "heightCm": 100,
+	}, cookie)
+	objectID := int64(decodeMap(t, w.Body.Bytes())["id"].(float64))
+
+	doJSON(t, r, http.MethodPost, journalPath(gid), map[string]any{
+		"body": "garden level", "observedAt": "2026-05-01",
+	}, cookie)
+	doJSON(t, r, http.MethodPost, journalPath(gid), map[string]any{
+		"objectId": objectID, "body": "bed level", "observedAt": "2026-06-01",
+	}, cookie)
+
+	countAt := func(query string) int {
+		t.Helper()
+		w := doJSON(t, r, http.MethodGet, journalPath(gid)+query, nil, cookie)
+		if w.Code != http.StatusOK {
+			t.Fatalf("list%s: status %d, body %s", query, w.Code, w.Body.String())
+		}
+		entries, _ := decodeMap(t, w.Body.Bytes())["entries"].([]any)
+		return len(entries)
+	}
+	if n := countAt(""); n != 2 {
+		t.Errorf("unfiltered = %d, want 2", n)
+	}
+	if n := countAt("?objectId=" + strconv.FormatInt(objectID, 10)); n != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("by object = %d, want 1", n)
+	}
+	if n := countAt("?from=2026-05-15&to=2026-12-31"); n != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("by date range = %d, want 1", n)
+	}
+
+	// A malformed filter is an error, not a silently ignored one that widens the
+	// query back to the whole garden.
+	w = doJSON(t, r, http.MethodGet, journalPath(gid)+"?objectId=abc", nil, cookie)
+	if w.Code != http.StatusBadRequest {
+		t.Errorf("malformed objectId: status %d, want 400", w.Code)
+	}
+	w = doJSON(t, r, http.MethodGet, journalPath(gid)+"?from=nonsense", nil, cookie)
+	if w.Code != http.StatusBadRequest {
+		t.Errorf("malformed from: status %d, want 400", w.Code)
+	}
+}
+
+// TestJournalRequiresAccessAPI — anonymous is 401, a stranger is 404.
+func TestJournalRequiresAccessAPI(t *testing.T) {
+	r := authEngine(t, localCfg())
+	owner := registerAndCookie(t, r, "[email protected]")
+	gid := createGardenAPI(t, r, owner, "G")
+	stranger := registerAndCookie(t, r, "[email protected]")
+
+	if w := doJSON(t, r, http.MethodGet, journalPath(gid), nil, nil); w.Code != http.StatusUnauthorized {
+		t.Errorf("anonymous list: status %d, want 401", w.Code)
+	}
+	if w := doJSON(t, r, http.MethodGet, journalPath(gid), nil, stranger); w.Code != http.StatusNotFound {
+		t.Errorf("stranger list: status %d, want 404", w.Code)
+	}
+	w := doJSON(t, r, http.MethodPost, journalPath(gid), map[string]any{"body": "nope"}, stranger)
+	if w.Code != http.StatusNotFound {
+		t.Errorf("stranger write: status %d, want 404", w.Code)
+	}
+	if w := doJSON(t, r, http.MethodDelete, journalEntryPath(1), nil, stranger); w.Code != http.StatusNotFound {
+		t.Errorf("stranger delete: status %d, want 404", w.Code)
+	}
+}

internal/service/journal.go

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package service
 
 import (
 	"context"
+	"errors"
 	"strings"
 
 	"gitea.stevedudenhoeffer.com/steve/pansy/internal/domain"
@@ -93,13 +94,14 @@ func (s *Service) CreateJournalEntry(ctx context.Context, actorID, gardenID int6
 	if _, err := s.requireGardenRole(ctx, actorID, gardenID, roleEditor); err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
-	if err := s.checkJournalTarget(ctx, gardenID, in.ObjectID, in.PlantingID); err != nil {
+	objectID, err := s.resolveJournalTarget(ctx, gardenID, in.ObjectID, in.PlantingID)
+	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
 	e := &domain.JournalEntry{
 		GardenID:   gardenID,
-		ObjectID:   in.ObjectID,
+		ObjectID:   objectID,
 		PlantingID: in.PlantingID,
 		AuthorID:   actorID,
 		Body:       strings.TrimSpace(in.Body),
@@ -115,31 +117,57 @@ func (s *Service) CreateJournalEntry(ctx context.Context, actorID, gardenID int6
 	return s.store.CreateJournalEntry(ctx, e)
 }
 
-// checkJournalTarget verifies that an object/planting an entry points at really
-// lives in this garden.
-func (s *Service) checkJournalTarget(ctx context.Context, gardenID int64, objectID, plantingID *int64) error {
+// resolveJournalTarget validates an entry's target and returns the object id to
+// store against it.
+//
+// A plop-level entry gets its parent object filled in even when the caller
+// didn't name one. Without that, "notes about this bed" would silently exclude
+// every note written about a plant IN the bed — the bed filter and the plop
+// filter would disagree about what an entry is about, which is exactly the
+// question the reader is asking.
+//
+// A store failure that isn't "no such row" is passed through rather than
+// flattened to ErrInvalidInput: a database problem is not the caller's bad
+// request, and mapping it to a 400 would hide it from the logs entirely.
+func (s *Service) resolveJournalTarget(ctx context.Context, gardenID int64, objectID, plantingID *int64) (*int64, error) {
 	if objectID != nil {
 		o, err := s.store.GetObject(ctx, *objectID)
-		if err != nil || o.GardenID != gardenID {
-			return domain.ErrInvalidInput
+		if errors.Is(err, domain.ErrNotFound) {
+			return nil, domain.ErrInvalidInput
 		}
-	}
-	if plantingID != nil {
-		pl, err := s.store.GetPlanting(ctx, *plantingID)
 		if err != nil {
-			return domain.ErrInvalidInput
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		if o.GardenID != gardenID {
+			return nil, domain.ErrInvalidInput
+		}
+	}
+	if plantingID == nil {
+		return objectID, nil
+	}
+
+	pl, err := s.store.GetPlanting(ctx, *plantingID)
+	if errors.Is(err, domain.ErrNotFound) {
+		return nil, domain.ErrInvalidInput
+	}
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
 	}
 	o, err := s.store.GetObject(ctx, pl.ObjectID)
-		if err != nil || o.GardenID != gardenID {
-			return domain.ErrInvalidInput
+	if errors.Is(err, domain.ErrNotFound) {
+		return nil, domain.ErrInvalidInput
 	}
-		// A plop-level entry that also names an object must name the RIGHT one,
-		// or the two filters would disagree about which entries are about what.
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	if o.GardenID != gardenID {
+		return nil, domain.ErrInvalidInput
+	}
+	// A plop-level entry that ALSO names an object must name the right one.
 	if objectID != nil && *objectID != pl.ObjectID {
-			return domain.ErrInvalidInput
+		return nil, domain.ErrInvalidInput
 	}
-	}
-	return nil
+	return &pl.ObjectID, nil
 }
 
 // journalEntryForWrite loads an entry and enforces who may change it: the author

internal/service/journal_test.go

@@ -292,3 +292,34 @@ func TestJournalStaysOutOfRevisionHistory(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("journal writes produced %d change sets; they should produce none", got-before)
 	}
 }
+
+// TestPlopEntryIsVisibleUnderItsBed — an entry about a plant IN a bed is an entry
+// about that bed. Without deriving the parent object, "notes about this bed"
+// would silently exclude every note written about something growing in it.
+func TestPlopEntryIsVisibleUnderItsBed(t *testing.T) {
+	s := newTestService(t, openConfig())
+	owner := seedUser(t, s, "[email protected]")
+	g := seedGarden(t, s, owner)
+	bed := seedBed(t, s, owner, g.ID)
+	plant := seedOwnPlant(t, s, owner, 15)
+	ctx := context.Background()
+
+	plop, err := s.CreatePlanting(ctx, owner, bed.ID, PlantingInput{
+		PlantID: plant.ID, XCM: 0, YCM: 0, RadiusCM: 20,
+	})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("CreatePlanting: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	// Only the plop is named — no objectId.
+	e := writeEntry(t, s, owner, g.ID, JournalInput{PlantingID: &plop.ID, Body: "Scapes forming"})
+	if e.ObjectID == nil || *e.ObjectID != bed.ID {
+		t.Fatalf("objectId = %v, want the plop's parent bed %d", e.ObjectID, bed.ID)
+	}
+	if byBed := listJournal(t, s, owner, g.ID, JournalQuery{ObjectID: &bed.ID}); len(byBed) != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("the bed filter found %d entries, want the plop's", len(byBed))
+	}
+	if byPlop := listJournal(t, s, owner, g.ID, JournalQuery{PlantingID: &plop.ID}); len(byPlop) != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("the plop filter found %d entries, want 1", len(byPlop))
+	}
+}

internal/store/journal.go

@@ -14,12 +14,19 @@ import (
 const journalColumns = `id, garden_id, object_id, planting_id, author_id, body,
 	observed_at, version, created_at, updated_at`
 
-func scanJournalEntry(s scanner) (*domain.JournalEntry, error) {
-	var e domain.JournalEntry
-	if err := s.Scan(
+// journalScanTargets returns the scan destinations for journalColumns, in order.
+// The list read appends one more for the joined author name, so the two readers
+// share a single definition of the column order rather than each repeating it.
+func journalScanTargets(e *domain.JournalEntry) []any {
+	return []any{
 		&e.ID, &e.GardenID, &e.ObjectID, &e.PlantingID, &e.AuthorID, &e.Body,
 		&e.ObservedAt, &e.Version, &e.CreatedAt, &e.UpdatedAt,
-	); err != nil {
+	}
+}
+
+func scanJournalEntry(s scanner) (*domain.JournalEntry, error) {
+	var e domain.JournalEntry
+	if err := s.Scan(journalScanTargets(&e)...); err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
 	return &e, nil
@@ -105,10 +112,7 @@ func (d *DB) ListJournalEntries(ctx context.Context, gardenID int64, f JournalFi
 	entries := []domain.JournalEntry{}
 	for rows.Next() {
 		var e domain.JournalEntry
-		if err := rows.Scan(
-			&e.ID, &e.GardenID, &e.ObjectID, &e.PlantingID, &e.AuthorID, &e.Body,
-			&e.ObservedAt, &e.Version, &e.CreatedAt, &e.UpdatedAt, &e.AuthorName,
-		); err != nil {
+		if err := rows.Scan(append(journalScanTargets(&e), &e.AuthorName)...); err != nil {
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf("store: scan journal entry: %w", err)
 		}
 		entries = append(entries, e)