feat(tracks): add a Track API with a provider registry - #2995
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Implements the query API discussed in SignalK#2504: recorded vessel positions, queried by time window and area, served as GeoJSON. A track is neither a route nor an uploaded GPX document. It is recorded position data — unnamed, time-ordered, and interesting mainly as "where has this vessel been". Routes stay in resources/routes and named GPX tracks stay in resources/tracks; this is the missing third thing. Providers register the way history providers do, so nothing here decides where positions are stored. SQLite, a time-series database and Parquet are all equally valid behind the same interface, and a plugin needs no new mount point to implement it. Two rules are worth calling out because they shape the contract: A time window is required unless a single context is requested. `?context=self` with no window asks for one vessel's entire recorded history, which is the point of keeping own-vessel data forever; the same query across every context a server has seen is years of data for hundreds of vessels and is refused. The time range asked for is always returned. Where a result would be too large, providers reduce points — by resolution, point budget or simplification — and report what they applied in the response. Silently narrowing the range would break the case the API exists for: drawing a whole voyage at low zoom. `maxPoints` sits alongside `simplify`/`epsilon` because they are different contracts. Epsilon bounds geometric error and is right when fidelity matters; maxPoints bounds transfer and rendering cost and is what a low-powered client needs, since the same epsilon yields wildly different point counts for a year at anchor and a year of passages. Query validation runs before the provider lookup, so a malformed query reports 400 rather than 501 and does not send anyone hunting for a missing plugin.
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Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The new Track API provides aggregated recorded-position queries, but generated clients or validators may reject documented nullable coordinate values, and a stalled provider can hold an aggregate request open. These compatibility and availability concerns should be resolved or explicitly accepted before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Plugin
participant TrackApiHttpRegistry
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participant TrackProvider
Plugin->>TrackApiHttpRegistry: registerTrackApiProvider(provider)
Express->>TrackApiHttpRegistry: request tracks
TrackApiHttpRegistry->>TrackProvider: getTracks(TracksRequest)
TrackProvider-->>Express: TracksResponse
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In `@packages/server-api/src/tracks.ts`:
- Around line 84-85: Update the documentation for the geometry option in the
track metadata type to describe both behaviors: geometry defaults to true and
includes geometry, while setting geometry to false omits it and returns metadata
only.
- Around line 200-203: Update doRegisterPlugin so
appCopy.unRegisterTrackApiProvider is assigned to a function that delegates to
trackApiRegistry.unregisterTrackApiProvider(plugin.id), ensuring plugins receive
the required scoped method instead of undefined.
In `@src/api/tracks/index.ts`:
- Around line 158-174: Update respondWith so provider lookup and handler
execution are handled separately: keep the existing 501 response for a missing
provider, but catch provider failures from handler(provider), log the error
server-side, and return a generic server-error response without exposing
error.message to clients.
- Around line 66-83: Update registerTrackApiProvider and
unregisterTrackApiProvider to guard interpolated debug calls with debug.enabled
&&, matching the existing pattern. Make registerTrackApiProvider replace the
existing provider for a duplicate pluginId instead of silently discarding the
new provider, while preserving validation and registration logging.
In `@src/api/tracks/openApi.ts`:
- Around line 263-273: Update the `/contexts` OpenAPI definition to include the
`Contexts` parameter and document that requests without `from` or `duration` are
valid only when exactly one context is supplied, matching the behavior enforced
by `parseTracksQuery`; keep the existing parameter definitions unchanged.
- Around line 197-203: Align the Epsilon OpenAPI schema with the validation in
the tracks query parser by changing its minimum from 0 to a strictly positive
constraint. Update the Epsilon schema near the visible name and description
while preserving its number type and example.
In `@src/api/tracks/query.ts`:
- Around line 98-112: Update parseFlag to use module-level Set constants for the
accepted truthy and falsy flag values, reusing those sets for membership checks
instead of allocating array literals on each call. Preserve the existing parsing
results and error behavior.
- Around line 180-205: Update the simplify and geometry parsing in the query
request builder to detect parameter presence with hasOwnProperty, matching the
existing times handling, so valueless parameters reach parseFlag as an empty
string and become true. Apply the change directly around the simplify and
geometry branches, or reuse a shared helper if one already exists.
- Around line 29-45: Update parseDuration to reject zero and negative durations
by checking parsed.sign <= 0 for both ISO strings and numeric-second fallbacks
before returning; push the existing validation error and return undefined so
invalid values are not assigned to request.duration or request.resolution.
In `@test/tracks-query.ts`:
- Around line 154-195: Add parser support for empty values as true for the
simplify and geometry flags in the relevant tracks query parsing logic, matching
the existing times behavior. Extend the flags tests around the existing
valueless times case to verify simplify: '' and geometry: '' produce true.
- Around line 1-6: Update the test import for parseTracksQuery to use the source
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In `@test/tracks-query.ts` around lines 1 - 6, Update the test import for
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From CodeRabbit's review of SignalK#2995. Four real defects and four smaller corrections: `?simplify` and `?geometry` were silently ignored while `?times` worked. `first()` returns undefined for an empty string, and only `times` had a presence check compensating for it. All three now go through one helper that tests presence on the raw query, so the valueless form a query string uses to spell a flag works everywhere. Negative and zero durations were accepted. Temporal takes a leading minus, so `duration=-PT1H` asked for a window ending before it started, and `resolution=PT0S` thinned nothing. Both are now rejected. Provider failures were reported as 400 with the provider's own message in the body — a server fault dressed as a client error, leaking whatever the message contained, which for a database-backed provider can be a connection string or SQL. Lookup and invocation are now separated: naming a provider that does not exist stays 400, a provider that throws is logged and answered with a plain 500. `unregisterTrackApiProvider` was declared on the registry type but never assigned to the plugin-facing app, so a plugin calling it got undefined. Also: re-registering a provider for the same plugin id now replaces it rather than keeping the first silently; debug calls are guarded; `epsilon` in the OpenAPI is exclusive of zero, matching the parser; the `/contexts` route documents its `contexts` parameter and the time-window rule; and the `geometry` doc comment describes both directions.
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In `@src/api/tracks/index.ts`:
- Around line 182-186: Add HTTP 500 response definitions to the OpenAPI
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In `@src/api/tracks/query.ts`:
- Around line 212-215: The query-building logic in the tracks endpoint must
preserve the rule that epsilon implies simplification: reject an explicit
simplify=false when epsilon is present, or prevent it from overwriting the
enabled value. Update the relevant parsing/validation flow around
request.simplify and add a regression test covering duration, epsilon, and
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- Around line 38-39: Update the numeric-duration branch in parseTracksQuery to
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seconds, and catch conversion failures so invalid oversized durations produce
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Second review pass on SignalK#2995. An out-of-range duration threw out of the parser. Temporal refuses a total above its safe range, and the numeric-seconds fallback was not wrapped, so `duration=99999999999999999999` raised an uncaught RangeError — a 500 for what is only a malformed query string, which is exactly what validating before the provider lookup was meant to avoid. `epsilon` with `simplify=false` was accepted and silently resolved one way: epsilon sets simplify, then the explicit flag overwrote it. The two contradict each other, so the combination is now rejected rather than guessed at. The 500 that a failing provider produces is now documented in the OpenAPI for both provider-backed routes, so the error contract can be read from the description.
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101-106: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winUse named constants for coordinate bounds.
Replace the literal
180and90limits with named longitude and latitude constants. This makes the validation rules explicit and prevents inconsistent edits.As per coding guidelines: “No magic numbers; use named constants.”
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In `@src/api/tracks/openApi.ts`:
- Around line 157-160: Update the OpenAPI integer schemas for both duration and
resolution to include minimum: 1, matching parseDuration’s rejection of zero and
negative values. Document that the ISO duration string alternatives must
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In `@src/api/tracks/query.ts`:
- Around line 101-106: Update the bounding-box validation to define and use
named constants for the maximum longitude and latitude values instead of the
literals 180 and 90 in the longitude and latitude checks. Keep the existing
error messages and validation behavior unchanged.
- Around line 87-88: Update the bbox parsing in the query handler to reject any
trimmed empty component before converting values with Number, while preserving
the existing four-component and finite-number validation. Add a regression test
covering a bbox such as 24.5,,25.2,60.3 and verify it is rejected.
- Around line 17-19: Update the query-parameter parsing around first() to detect
whether non-flag parameters are present before normalization, and reject scalar
values that are empty or whitespace-only instead of treating them as omitted.
Preserve omission for absent parameters and keep valueless flag handling
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Third review pass on SignalK#2995. Two of these are the same bug in different places: a blank value parsed as a number rather than refused. A bbox with a missing component was accepted and silently wrong. `Number('')` is 0, not NaN, so `bbox=24.5,,25.2,60.3` passed the finite check and placed the south edge on the equator — a query for Helsinki answered with a box in the Gulf of Guinea, returning 200 and no indication anything was amiss. Blank components are now rejected. A present-but-blank scalar was treated as an absent parameter, because `first()` collapsed both to undefined. `?duration=` therefore skipped the time-window requirement rather than reporting a malformed query. Every non-flag parameter now rejects a blank value; `readFlag` keeps the valueless form, which is the one place it legitimately means something. Also: the bbox bounds use named constants, and the OpenAPI marks duration and resolution as positive, matching what the parser enforces.
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`Number()` reads hex and exponential notation, so `maxPoints=0x10` became a budget of 16 and `1e3` became 1000 — a typo silently changing what was asked for rather than reporting an error. Matches how the History API guards its own numeric parsing.
`contexts=self,self` put the same vessel in the FeatureCollection twice. After qualification the same context can also arrive under two names, so the set is taken after resolving rather than before.
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Number() rounds above 2^53, so maxPoints=9007199254740993 was accepted as 9007199254740992 — a different budget than the one asked for. A point budget that large is meaningless anyway, so isSafeInteger is the right bound.
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Looks pretty nice already!
I think tracks query API could work like resources API so that all registered providers are queried and the server combines the results. This would allow having part of your tracks data in format and part in another. This would make sense in bbox context without time range. If we go this way the response should include provider ids.
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The behavior of the time params is the same as in History API? So we could reuse the types from there that specify the combinations https://github.com/SignalK/signalk-server/blob/master/packages/server-api/src/history.ts#L83
Do we want to provide similar typings for the other parameter set as a whole?
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Coming at this from a slightly unusual angle: I maintain signalk-parquet, which would likely implement this provider interface (it already stores position in raw + downsampled tiers with bbox spatial queries, so The shape is right. Provider registry, query params over path segments, MultiLineString-per-context with gaps as segment breaks, and especially the "never narrow the time range — thin points and report what you applied" rule: that last one is exactly the contract a client needs to trust the response. One addition would make a big practical difference: optional per-coordinate properties, parallel to
Something like Two smaller notes from mapping it onto a real store:
On the multi-provider question — fan-out with a Happy to trial-implement the provider side in signalk-parquet against this branch if a real implementation would help validate the interface. |
From @motamman's review, who would implement the provider in signalk-parquet and consume it from two clients. A client colouring a track by speed, or deriving a route from a recorded passage, currently has to fetch positions here, fetch the other paths from the History API, and join the two by timestamp — the row-alignment problem `coordTimes` exists to remove, reintroduced one level down. @panaaj asked for the same thing in SignalK#2504, wanting to render by depth and temperature. `?properties=navigation.speedOverGround,...` returns them nested to match coordinates exactly as coordTimes is, so a client that understands one understands the other. Provider-optional: what was actually returned is listed in `appliedProperties`, so "this provider does not have that path" is distinguishable from "that path had no values in this window" — the same reason `resolution` and `epsilon` report what was applied. Also resolves an omitted `to` to now in the shared parser. The description already claimed that default while the parser left it undefined, so each provider would have applied it independently, or not at all. An unbounded single-context query is untouched: no window was asked for, so inventing an end would silently bound it.
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- Around line 99-100: Update the schema’s oneOf definition so one branch
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In `@src/api/tracks/query.ts`:
- Line 312: Replace the unsafe cast in the request properties assignment with
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- Around line 335-337: Update the request validation around the from, duration,
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In OpenAPI 3.0.0, the nullable: true keyword is intended to act as a modifier of a base type, and its behavior on untyped Schema Objects (those without a same-level type) is technically ambiguous [1]. While some parsers or validators may accept it, the specification does not clearly define its interaction with boolean applicators like oneOf when no explicit type is provided [1]. To ensure compatibility and avoid validation errors, it is standard practice to define an explicit type or handle nullability by nesting the nullable property within the subschemas of the oneOf array [2][3]. To define a schema that permits a number, a string, or null (i.e., number | string | null), you should use the oneOf keyword to combine the two types, each with their own nullable status, or apply nullable to the individual members of the oneOf list [4][3]. The following structure is the recommended approach: components: schemas: NumberOrStringOrNull: oneOf: - type: number nullable: true - type: string nullable: true Alternatively, if you want to allow null at the top level of the combined schema, you can structure it as follows: components: schemas: NumberOrStringOrNull: oneOf: - type: number - type: string nullable: true Note that while the second example is sometimes used, some tools may strictly enforce that nullable must be paired with an explicit type; therefore, the first example is generally considered more robust across different OpenAPI implementations [2][3].
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- 1: https://github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification/blob/main/proposals/2019-10-31-Clarify-Nullable.md
- 2: GitHub discussion 4543 in microsoft/typespec (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 3: https://danott.dev/thoughts/openapi-nullable-object-anyof-oneof-allof
- 4: https://swagger.io/docs/specification/v3_0/data-models/data-types/
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In the OpenAPI Specification (OAS), the nullable property is a modifier used to indicate that the value of a field may be null, acting as an alternative to including null as a type [1][2]. While the specification defines Schema Objects as an extended subset of JSON Schema, the nullable property is specifically intended to complement a defined type [1]. If the type is not explicitly defined, the behavior of nullable can be ambiguous or implementation-dependent across different tools, as the specification does not explicitly mandate that nullable must have an accompanying type to function, but it is structurally designed to modify the expected type [1][2]. Regarding the comparison with oneOf: 1. Nullable: This is the standard way in OpenAPI 3.0 to allow null values for a specific type definition (e.g., type: string, nullable: true). 2. oneOf null: While JSON Schema supports defining null as a type (e.g., type: [string, null]), OpenAPI 3.0 does not support null as a valid type keyword [1][2]. Using oneOf with a null type definition is often used as a workaround in environments that do not fully support the OpenAPI-specific nullable keyword, but using nullable is the preferred, specification-compliant approach for OpenAPI 3.0 [1][2].
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Model nullable values with an OpenAPI 3.0-compatible union.
This OpenAPI 3.0 schema uses nullable: true without a same-level type, so it does not reliably include null in the oneOf. Make one branch nullable and keep the other non-nullable, then validate the generated document.
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In `@src/api/tracks/openApi.ts` around lines 99 - 100, Update the schema’s oneOf
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Do not cast external strings to Path[].
paths as Path[] bypasses the Path brand for client input. Validate each value with a shared Signal K path parser before assigning request.properties.
As per coding guidelines: “Use strict type checking; avoid any or equivalent escape hatches.”
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In `@src/api/tracks/query.ts` at line 312, Replace the unsafe cast in the request
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From review of the properties addition. Three fields describing one window is how two providers come to answer the same query differently: given from+duration, one reads from..to while another reads duration-before-to. The window is now resolved to a single from/to before it reaches a provider. `duration` measures back from the end, as History's description says and as "the last 7 days" means; with both given the later start wins, since `from` is a floor the caller set. Resolving it surfaced a crash. Temporal.Instant.subtract refuses day and larger units, because their length depends on a timezone — so `duration=P7D`, the OpenAPI's own example, threw out of the parser and would have surfaced as a 500 for a valid query. These windows are absolute, so the arithmetic goes through UTC. Also validates `properties` against a Signal K path pattern rather than casting client input into the branded `Path` type, and moves `nullable` onto each member of the values union, since it is ambiguous on a schema that has `oneOf` and no same-level type in OpenAPI 3.0.
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Thanks — a review from someone who'd implement the provider and consume it from two clients is exactly what this needed. Both of your first two points are in, and the Per-coordinate properties: added. The argument that landed is that it's the same problem this API exists to solve, one level down. A client colouring a track by SOG currently fetches positions here, fetches SOG from History, and joins them by timestamp — which is the row-alignment problem Values come back nested to match
You were right that the description claimed a default the parser never applied. Fixing it surfaced a second interop hazard in the same area: Resolving it also exposed a crash worth mentioning, because it would have hit you immediately: Stable segment ids: I'd like to push back, gently. The need is real, but I don't think this API can honestly promise it. A segment is derived from a gap threshold applied to a time window, so it changes with the window, with What you're describing sounds less like a query result and more like a saved thing: "this passage, which I have decided to keep and refer to later". @panaaj made the point in #2504 that named, persistent tracks belong in On multi-provider fan-out — noted, and I agree the response carrying provenance costs little. I've left it out of this PR to keep it to one change, but it seems like the right shape. Please do trial-implement in signalk-parquet. That's the most useful thing that could happen to this interface — a second provider is what tests whether the abstraction actually abstracts, and you'd hit anything awkward about |
The ordering check ran before the window was resolved, so it never saw the defaulted `to`. `from=2027-01-01` with no `to` therefore produced a window running backwards — from after to — and passed validation with no errors. `from` with a `duration` did the same. Moving the check after resolution covers both, and still catches explicit bounds given in the wrong order. A window lying entirely in the future stays valid: that is an empty result, not a malformed query. Introduced by defaulting `to` in the previous commit.
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Registers the accumulated tracks as a Track API provider, so a server carrying SignalK/signalk-server#2995 can answer /signalk/v2/api/tracks from this plugin. Until now that route replied 501, 'No track api provider configured'. The v1 routes stay mounted, so Freeboard-SK keeps working until it moves. Registration is an optional call: older servers offer no registerTrackApiProvider and must still start. The provider reaches the store through a getter rather than capturing it, because start() replaces the store wholesale. It does not unregister in stop() — the server pushes its own unregister onto the plugin's stop handlers. An explicit `to` is exclusive, as parseTrackQuery already has it for v1: a client walking adjacent windows would otherwise get the point at the shared boundary in both. Without one the window ends at now and keeps the newest fix. A calendar-unit resolution is resolved against a fixed UTC reference. Temporal's total() refuses weeks, months and years without a starting point, and the API validates resolution as any positive ISO 8601 duration, so ?resolution=P1W would otherwise have thrown a RangeError out as a 500. maxPoints, simplify, epsilon and properties are accepted and ignored; this provider serves positions and has neither a simplifier nor co-recorded values. That is recorded on TracksRequest. Covered end to end: the plugin is packed, installed into a throwaway server and queried over HTTP. Removing the registration turns the suite back into the 501 it replaces.
Registers the accumulated tracks as a Track API provider, so a server carrying SignalK/signalk-server#2995 can answer /signalk/v2/api/tracks from this plugin. Until now that route replied 501, 'No track api provider configured'. The v1 routes stay mounted, so Freeboard-SK keeps working until it moves. Registration is an optional call: older servers offer no registerTrackApiProvider and must still start. The provider reaches the store through a getter rather than capturing it, because start() replaces the store wholesale. It does not unregister in stop() — the server pushes its own unregister onto the plugin's stop handlers. An explicit `to` is exclusive, as parseTrackQuery already has it for v1: a client walking adjacent windows would otherwise get the point at the shared boundary in both. Without one the window ends at now and keeps the newest fix. A calendar-unit resolution is resolved against a fixed UTC reference. Temporal's total() refuses weeks, months and years without a starting point, and the API validates resolution as any positive ISO 8601 duration, so ?resolution=P1W would otherwise have thrown a RangeError out as a 500. maxPoints, simplify, epsilon and properties are accepted and ignored; this provider serves positions and has neither a simplifier nor co-recorded values. That is recorded on TracksRequest. Covered end to end: the plugin is packed, installed into a throwaway server and queried over HTTP. Removing the registration turns the suite back into the 501 it replaces.
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The plugin beta is now available in the app store. https://www.npmjs.com/package/@signalk/tracks-plugin/v/3.0.0-beta.0 It supports 60s pos store in local sqllite, queries the history api and when available delivers more granular data from the history provided. Make sure to run a install/image with this PR installed. Happy to hear from you. |
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I am happy with this PR now - @motamman no rush, but should we wait for you or proceed? |
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@tkurki I haven't had time to kick the tires. Give me 24 hours? |
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Kicked the tires as promised. I implemented the provider side in signalk-parquet against this branch at dc26ad9, running on a test box next to What the provider does. Positions come from raw-tier parquet federated with the live SQLite write buffer, thinned by time bucketing in DuckDB (first fix per bucket rather than an average, since averaging cuts corners off a track). The bucket size is derived from Mapped cleanly, no surprises
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From a second provider implementation (signalk-parquet) reviewed on SignalK#2995. `resolution` now reaches providers in hours and below. Temporal.Duration.total() refuses day-and-larger units without a reference date, so ?resolution=P1D threw for both independent implementations that tried it. The window is already resolved for providers; the spacing should be too. Years and months are rejected rather than normalised: a month is 744h measured from January and 672h from February, so it does not describe a spacing at all. bbox selects tracks, it does not clip them. Both readings are implementable and the two providers had chosen differently, which would return different geometry for the same query depending on who answered. properties are matched to the nearest sample, not to a shared timestamp. Paths arrive from different talkers a couple of hundred milliseconds apart, so an equality join yields null for every point while appliedProperties still reports success.
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Great! And sorry, I meant to merge this before tagging 2.32.0, but my train of thought got somehow derailed. But maybe Dirk can now give it the finishing touch with normalised duration? |
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One thing fell out of implementing it that I had not anticipated: months and years are rejected rather than normalised. Also in the same commit, both contract questions @motamman raised:
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Temporal refuses a date beyond its supported range, so normalising a duration large enough to overshoot it threw out of the parser and surfaced as a 500 for what is a bad query string. Guarded the same way parseDuration guards its own seconds fallback.
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Confirmed against 4b9e060. signalk-parquet now follows the settled contract on both counts — bbox selects the whole track, properties match the nearest sample — and the normalized On months and years: keep the rejection. A monthly spacing has no fixed length and nobody sizing a track display asks for one; a 400 that says "use days or smaller" is the honest answer. On Happy to do the second pass once |
SignalK/signalk-server#2995 now rejects a spacing below a millisecond, so the e2e asserts the 400 rather than a 200. The fractional-millisecond path still matters for anything above the floor, so PT0.5S covers it.
A spacing finer than a timestamp cannot thin anything, so PT0.0005S was a request no store could act on. It also reached providers intact and Temporal.Duration.from rejects a fractional value in any unit, so reporting the applied spacing back threw and the route answered 500 for a query the parser had accepted. Rejected rather than rounded up: silently widening a client's spacing is worse than telling it the value was unusable.
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Added a millisecond floor on
Rejected rather than rounded up, on the grounds that silently widening a client's spacing is worse than telling it the value was unusable. That is the third narrowing of @motamman worth knowing if signalk-parquet derives its bucket from |
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From motamman's second-provider review on SignalK/signalk-server#2995. bbox matched a track on its *last* position, inherited from the v1 routes where 'vessels near here now' is the right question. The v2 contract asks a different one — 'a vessel that crossed the box an hour ago and has since left still matches' — and that example returned nothing. The v1 routes keep their own rule; only the v2 provider asks for intersection. maxPoints was accepted and ignored, which the fan-out made visible: over the same window signalk-parquet returned 29 points reporting PT24S while this returned 128 reporting nothing. The spacing now widens until the budget fits and the response reports what was applied. The reported bbox now takes the narrower longitude interval. A track spanning the antimeridian was described as covering 358 degrees rather than two; RFC 7946 writes such a box with west greater than east. Found by review, and reachable far more often now that bbox selects on any position.
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bbox selects tracks rather than clipping them, per the sentence now in the contract. Worth repeating that the plugin was wrong here too and differently wrong from either reading — it matched on the vessel's last position, inherited from the v1 route, so the contract's own example returned nothing. Three implementations, three behaviours.
Auditing the
And one your review found indirectly: a track spanning the antimeridian reported a bounding box covering 358 degrees rather than two. A second pass would be welcome whenever suits. The two things I would most like checked are whether bbox selection now matches what signalk-parquet does, and whether the Thank you for putting the numbers in your comment. |
feat: Track API provider (SignalK/signalk-server#2995), parquetjs pin, 0.7.44-beta.4
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Implements the Track query API discussed in #2504, as the "server PR with provider typings, API code and OpenApi description" suggested there.
Additive only — no existing behaviour changes.
What a track is here
Recorded position data: unnamed, time-ordered, queried by time window and area. Distinct from
resources/routes, which is a course someone authored and intends to follow, and fromresources/tracks, which is a named uploaded GPX document. Both of those stay exactly where they are.Provider registry, not a mount point
Providers register the way history providers do:
So nothing here decides where positions are stored. SQLite, a time-series database, downsampled Parquet and PostGIS are all equally valid behind the same interface, and a plugin needs no new v2 mount point to implement it.
The API
All parameters are query parameters, following the History API rather than using path segments:
contexts(orcontext, defaulting to self),from,to,duration,bbox,resolution,maxPoints,simplify,epsilon,times,geometry,provider.Durations are ISO 8601, and — as
parseTimeRangeParamsalready does — a bare integer is accepted as seconds, since clients will have learned that from History.Response is a
FeatureCollection, oneFeatureper context,MultiLineStringgeometry so a gap in recording starts a new segment. Metadata lives inproperties:context,isSelf,contextName,from,to,bbox,pointCount, and the appliedresolution/epsilon. Per-point times areproperties.coordTimes, nested to matchcoordinates— the convention only covers LineString, so the MultiLineString nesting is pinned in the OpenAPI description.Two rules that shape the contract
A time window is required unless a single context is requested.
?context=selfwith no window asks for one vessel's entire recorded history, which is the point of keeping own-vessel data forever. The same query with no context is years of data for every vessel the server has ever seen, and is refused with a 400.The time range asked for is always returned. Where a result would be too large, providers reduce points and report what they applied. Silently narrowing the range would break the case the API exists for — drawing a whole voyage at low zoom.
maxPointssits alongsidesimplify/epsilonbecause they are different contracts: epsilon bounds geometric error,maxPointsbounds transfer and rendering cost. The same epsilon yields wildly different point counts for a year at anchor versus a year of passages, which is why a low-powered client needs the budget form.Notes
bboxiswest,south,east,north, matching the Resources API, and means intersects anywhere in the window rather than "current position is inside": a vessel that crossed an hour ago and has since left still matches.tracksis added toSignalKApiIdand appears in/signalk/v2/features.Tested
test/tracks-query.ts): durations both forms, bbox order and antimeridian, the unbounded rule in all four combinations, context qualification including non-vessel prefixes, thinning parameters, flags._providerslists, 501 with no provider, and 400 with the correct message for each malformed parameter.tsc,eslint,prettierclean. History and server-api suites pass unchanged (59 + 59).Happy to adjust any of the shape — particularly
maxPoints, which was the one open question in the thread.Summary
This PR adds a provider-based Track query API for recorded, time-ordered positions.
/signalk/v2/api/tracks.FeatureCollectionresponses withMultiLineStringgeometries, metadata, nested timestamps, and provider provenance.app.registerTrackApiProviderand removes them during plugin cleanup.SignalKApiId, package exports, and OpenAPI documentation.