The dashboard hero showed no backdrop for items whose detail page had one.
Two independent causes, both about identity rather than the matching gate.
Stalker items never reach the `content` table, so the xtream back-fill of
`content.backdrop_url` has no equivalent for them — but the enriched backdrop
is already sitting in the stored playlist entry (`info.tmdb_backdrop`). The
activity mappers now surface it as `backdrop_url`, where the hero already
looks first.
The hero's TMDB lookup ran on the display title alone, while the detail view
searched with the original title and the release year. Without a year
`pickConfidentMatch` requires a single exact title match, which common titles
never satisfy, and the miss lands in the negative cache under a lookup key the
detail view's hit can never be found at. The query is now built from the same
fields (`extractStalkerItemTmdbHints`), and the resolved `tmdb_id`
short-circuits the search entirely.
A 'movie' verdict retries as 'tv' without the id — 'movie' is the answer every
row falls back to, and an id is valid only for its own media type. A 'tv'
verdict, reached only on positive series evidence, gets no retry back to
'movie'.
Also removes `buildStalkerRecentItems`, a dead duplicate of the mapper the
dashboard actually uses.
- Updated the `selectFavorites` selector to filter favorites ensuring they are strings.
- Added new interfaces for `PortalActivityItem`, `PortalRecentItem`, and `PortalFavoriteItem` to standardize activity item representation.
- Introduced `StalkerPortalItem` interface to represent items in Stalker portals.
- Created utility functions for extracting and normalizing data from Stalker portal items.
- Refactored `DashboardDataService` to utilize new interfaces and utility functions for managing recent and favorite items.
- Removed deprecated mapping functions and replaced them with direct usage of new interfaces.
- Added navigation utilities for recent and favorite items to streamline routing logic.
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