I'm realizing with this code that I'm going to have a problem if I want
to do HATEOAS-style APIs. chi just doesn't do resource-oriented API
design, and I'd have to build a lot of stuff myself.
I'm in the middle of swapping out the UI. Now is the time to make the
switch.
This is a huge change. I was getting really sick of the split between
nuisance/water tables when more than half of the data they store is
common. I finally bit off the big work of switching it all.
This creates a single unified table, publicreport.report and copies the
existing report data into it. It also ports existing data from the
original tables into the new table.
Along with all of this I also overhauled the system for handling
asynchronous work to use a LISTEN/NOTIFY connection from the database
and a single cache table to avoid ever losing work.
This refactor was born out of the inter-dependency cycles developing
between the "background" module and just about every other module which
was caused by the background module becoming a dependency of every
module that needed to background work and the fact that the background
module was also supposedly responsible for the logic for processing
those tasks.
Instead the "background" module is now very, very shallow and relies
entirely on the Postgres NOTIFY logic for triggering jobs. There's a new
table, `job` which holds just a type and single row ID.
All told, this means that jobs can be added to the queue as part of the
API-level or platform-level transaction, ensuring atomicity, and
processing coordination is handled by the platform module, which can
depend on anything.
This involved moving a lot of stuff to the platform layer since I don't
want event interfaces leaking out.
Also this includes a fix to the user authentication which I had
previously broken by making a platform-layer user object independent of
the database layer.
