The 30s timeout on the client.New HTTPClient was hard-coded and
opaque. Long-running paginated reads against slow networks were
tripping it with no escape hatch.
Lift the value into a named constant and let .veans.yml override it
via a new optional http_timeout field (Go duration syntax, e.g.
"60s", "5m"). The field has omitempty so a freshly-written
.veans.yml from `veans init` doesn't surface the knob — operators
who need to tune it can hand-edit, but it stays out of the way for
the common case.
Runtime loader applies the override after client.New if set;
bootstrap- and login-time clients (built before .veans.yml exists)
keep the default.
The project picker used to require at least one pre-existing project
and would otherwise hard-error: "no projects visible to this user —
create one in the Vikunja UI first". Now it always offers an extra
numbered entry "Create a new project" and, when the user picks it,
prompts for a title (required) + identifier (optional). Empty-list
case routes straight to creation.
Backed by a new client.CreateProject(ctx, *Project) method (`PUT
/projects`); the e2e harness now uses that instead of the raw c.Do
call it did before.
Also fixed a latent bufio bug in StdPrompter.ReadLine that this work
surfaced: every call created a fresh bufio.Reader, which read-ahead a
buffer and threw it away on return. Second+ prompts read empty. Reuse
one buffered reader on the StdPrompter instance.
The previous init flow took whatever the user typed for --server and
called GET <url>/api/v1/info on it. If the user typed
"vikunja.example.com" (no scheme), or pasted the URL with /api/v1 in
it (double-suffix), or pointed at a localhost install on the default
:3456 port without typing the port, we'd hand back a raw HTTP error.
New `client.DiscoverServer` ports the frontend's
helpers/checkAndSetApiUrl.ts discovery: probe a small ordered set of
plausible bases for /api/v1/info, return the first one that returns
parseable Info. Candidate order:
1. scheme://host[:port]/path (as the user typed it)
2. scheme://host:3456/path (default API port)
3. opposite scheme of (1)
4. opposite scheme of (2)
Heuristics:
- Missing scheme → https for public hosts, http for localhost /
127.0.0.1 / [::1] (matches most CLIs' behaviour)
- Trailing /api/v1 from a pasted URL is stripped before probing, so
we don't double up to /api/v1/api/v1/info
- Trailing slashes normalized
Errors now list everything we tried + the last underlying network
error, so the user can see why a URL failed instead of just
"GET /info: connection refused":
veans: VALIDATION_ERROR: couldn't find a Vikunja instance reachable
from "vikunja.example.com" — tried:
- https://vikunja.example.com/api/v1/info
- https://vikunja.example.com:3456/api/v1/info
- http://vikunja.example.com/api/v1/info
- http://vikunja.example.com:3456/api/v1/info
last error: dial tcp: lookup vikunja.example.com: no such host
bootstrap.Init now defers URL canonicalisation to DiscoverServer and
caches the matched info from the probe (no second /info round-trip).
Unit tests cover the candidate-builder across the common shapes:
bare hostname, localhost, /api/v1-suffixed paste, explicit port,
subpath install, 127.0.0.1:3456, trailing slash. e2e green.
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