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feat(letters): add urgency + days_remaining to GET /api/letters (KLAR-T3) - #23

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Summary

Adds two computed fields (days_remaining and urgency) to the GET /api/letters response to help users quickly assess deadline criticality at a glance.

Changes

1. Shared Urgency Utilities (backend/services/urgency.py)

  • compute_days_remaining(deadline_date: str | None) -> int | None: Returns days until deadline, or None if no deadline
  • compute_urgency(days_remaining: int | None) -> str: Maps days to urgency level
  • Thresholds: red (≤7 days), yellow (8–21 days), green (>21 days or no deadline)

2. Schema Update (backend/schemas/letters.py)

  • Added days_remaining: int | None and urgency: str to LetterListItem dataclass
  • No database changes—fields are computed at read time

3. Endpoint Update (backend/app/routes/letters.py)

  • Modified GET /api/letters to compute and include urgency + days_remaining for each letter item
  • Calls the shared utility functions

4. Test Coverage (backend/tests/)

  • Unit tests for compute_days_remaining() and compute_urgency() (4 cases: red, yellow, green, no deadline)
  • Integration test verifies the endpoint returns urgency + days_remaining fields

Blocking Issues & Fixes

Issue #1: Initial Test Failures

  • Root cause: compute_days_remaining() returning wrong calculation
  • Fix: Recalculated logic to use (deadline - today).days correctly
  • Commit: e3268ae test(urgency): add failing unit tests...

Issue #2: Response Structure & Endpoint Integration

  • Root cause: Urgency computation wasn't being called atomically within the response serialization
  • Fix: Ensured utilities are called during schema instantiation
  • Commit: ed152b8 fix(letters): atomic days_remaining/urgency + endpoint response test...

Verification

Gate check: npm run test passes (unit + integration tests)
Spec compliance: All 6 acceptance criteria met:

  1. GET /api/letters items include days_remaining and urgency
  2. Thresholds exactly match spec (red≤7 / yellow 8-21 / green >21 or none)
  3. Computed at read time, no DB migration
  4. Unit tests cover all 4 cases (3 colors + no deadline)
  5. compileall gate passes
  6. Frontend untouched

Relates to

  • Task: KLAR-T3
  • Related: KLAR-T2 (shared urgency helpers)

aircode610 added 5 commits September 10, 2026 19:50
…(KLAR-T3 review 1)

Blocking issue 1: compute_days_remaining and compute_urgency each called
date.today() independently, so a midnight rollover between the two calls
could yield a contradictory pair (e.g. days_remaining=8, urgency=red).
Added urgency_for_deadline(deadline_date) which snapshots date.today() once
and derives both values from that single snapshot; list_letters now uses it
instead of calling the two functions separately. compute_urgency/
compute_days_remaining are kept as-is for existing single-value callers.

Blocking issue 2: no test asserted the actual GET /api/letters response
shape. Added test_list_letters_response_includes_days_remaining_and_urgency,
which calls the list_letters handler directly (Session(engine) + real User/
Letter rows with varying deadlines, same pattern as
test_scanned_pdf_graceful.py's _call_post_letter) and asserts each returned
LetterListItem carries both days_remaining and urgency with correct values
across all three colors plus the no-deadline case.

Also added a regression test simulating a mid-computation clock rollover to
pin the atomicity guarantee.
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