Lipas E2e

LIPAS E2E

Driving real flows through a running dev system, verifying coherently across DB, ES, app-db, and DOM. Not blackbox UI testing — glass-box, REPL-augmented.

For the why behind this skill (principles, architecture, what we deliberately don't build), see webapp/docs/agent-tooling.md.

Prerequisites

• nREPL on localhost:7888 (use clj-nrepl-eval -p 7888)
• App reachable at https://localhost (self-signed cert)
• System running: (user/reset) if it isn't, (user/refresh-all) then (user/reset) after code changes
• Browser MCP available if a scenario needs UI verification

Choose a scenario

If your task isn't listed, compose from the catalog. Add a new scenario file when the task you just did is something you'll do again.

E2E tooling — one layer, all from clj REPL

The agent stays in the clj nREPL session the entire time. lipas.e2e.tools exposes both backend and UI-driver helpers; UI helpers internally call into the running browser via shadow.cljs.devtools.api/cljs-eval, polling cljs state from clj where Thread/sleep actually blocks.

(require '[lipas.e2e.tools :as e2e] :reload)
(require '[lipas.backend.core :as core])

;; Backend / fixture ops
(def liminka (core/get-user (e2e/db) "liminka@lipas.fi"))
(def lid (e2e/seed-site! {:type-code 3110 :city-code 425
                          :name "Fixture" :user liminka}))

;; UI-driven ops (browser dispatches under the hood, blocks on clj side)
(e2e/ui-login! "limindemo" "liminka")
(def created (e2e/ui-create-site! {:type-code 3110 :coords [25.42 64.81]
                                   :name "Demo" :owner "city" :admin "city-sports"
                                   :address "Testikatu 1" :postal-code "91900"}))
(e2e/ui-update-site! {:lipas-id created :changes [[[:name] "Updated"]]})

;; Verification helpers
(e2e/ui-current-name created)        ; reads app-db latest revision
(e2e/coherent? created)              ; cross-layer DB↔ES check
(e2e/revision-count created)         ; raw revision count
(e2e/cleanup! created)

lipas.e2e.tools API (in dev/lipas/e2e/tools.clj)

Backend / fixture helpers (CLJ-only, no browser involved):

UI-driver helpers (drive the running browser via cljs-eval):

Lower-level cljs-eval primitives (when you need to dispatch an event without a wrapper):

The browser-side counterpart lives in dev/lipas/e2e/scripts.cljs (lipas.e2e.scripts/dispatch-create!, dispatch-update!, current-rev, etc.). It's sync-only — no Promises, no async ceremony. The clj wrappers do the polling.

Why this design

Async waits belong on the clj side. Thread/sleep actually blocks; JS Promises don't round-trip cleanly through nREPL eval. By keeping the agent in clj and polling browser state through cljs-eval, async waits become as natural as a synchronous function call.

Single language, single session. No (user/browser-repl) / :cljs/quit switching. Event vectors are natural Clojure data: [:lipas.ui.events/foo arg], no JSON-string keyword conventions.

Use REPL helpers when possible; drop to cljs-eval for ad-hoc dispatches. If the helper exists, use it. If you need a one-off dispatch the helpers don't cover, (e2e/cljs-eval '(rf/dispatch [...])) is fine — just don't build script artifacts ad-hoc; codify them into scripts.cljs + a tools.clj wrapper so the next agent benefits.

Where domain facts live

Don't redocument what exists. Load these only when the task touches the area:

Cross-cutting trip-wires

Things that bite if forgotten:

• Append-only. Every save creates a new revision (same lipas-id, new id+event-date). sports_site_current view shows latest. There is no UPDATE — always fetch → modify → save.
• Use core/save-sports-site!, not core/upsert-sports-site!. Upsert is DB-only and skips ES + jobs. Save wraps it in a transaction, then calls index! search resp :sync (synchronous ES write) and enqueues async jobs. The HTTP handler uses save; e2e should too.
• For revision counts, use e2e/revision-count, not core/get-sports-site-history. History queries the sports_site_by_year view, which collapses same-year revisions. Burns easily when asserting "exactly one new revision."
• Async surface = jobs table. Save itself is sync through ES; analysis/elevation/PTV-sync jobs run in the worker. Use e2e/wait-for-job only when scenario asserts on those.
• Coordinates are [lon lat] (GeoJSON order), inside Finland bounds (lon 18-33°E, lat 59-71°N). Mistakes here surface as Malli validation errors.
• PTV uses :sv, LIPAS uses :se for Swedish. Translate at API edges, not internally.
• Permissions checked in core, not middleware. The handler trusts core/upsert-sports-site! to throw :no-permission. Privilege key for sites: :site/create-edit.
• Auto-permission grant on create. A user creating a new site with no city/type role automatically gets :site-manager for that lipas-id (core/ensure-permission!). So "permission denied" only fires on edits, not creates.
• Append-only ⇒ no real delete. Soft delete = flip status to out-of-service-permanently. For a clean slate, lipas.test-utils/prune-db! (test DB only).

Don't load (low signal for e2e)

These docs exist but cost more context than they pay back:

• docs/frontend.md — verbose, has stale facts (UIx removed but still mentioned, version numbers off)
• docs/guide-frontend-patterns.md — generic Re-frame patterns; grep the codebase instead
• docs/guide-testing.md — generic LLM coaching, not LIPAS testing
• docs/guide-debugging.md — generic debugging principles
• docs/context-repl.md — leaked system prompt, not a reference

If you find yourself reaching for one of these for an e2e task, you probably need to add to the catalog or a scenario instead.

Maintenance

After completing an e2e task:

1. Did you discover a fact you had to dig for? Add it to the relevant scenario, or to catalog.md if cross-cutting.
2. Did you do a flow not yet covered? Drop a new file in scenarios/. Use the existing ones as templates. If the flow is repeatable through the bridge, also add a script to scripts/.
3. Did a scenario steer you wrong? Fix it. Stale > missing.
4. Did you find a tool you needed but didn't have? Add a stub to lipas.e2e.tools (clj side, agent-facing) or lipas.e2e.scripts (cljs side, browser dispatchers/readers) with a docstring describing the intent.

Source: lipas-liikuntapaikat/lipas — distributed by TomeVault.