Favorites and recently-viewed rows store Stalker items as full JSON
snapshots, so a vclub-style embedded series[] episode list froze at the
moment the row was written: a series favorited when only episode 1 was out
kept showing one episode forever when opened from favorites, recents,
Continue Watching, or any dashboard rail.
New withStalkerSnapshotRefresh() store feature renders the stored snapshot
immediately and re-fetches the item from the portal in the background via a
title search (get_ordered_list&type=vod&search=..., matched by id, paginated
up to 5 pages, wildcard-category retry), patching fresh episodes and cmd into
the active selection. The patch is guarded on both the item id and the active
playlist id, since Stalker ids are only unique per portal.
Only the in-memory selection is patched — the stored snapshot row is
deliberately left alone, because every entry path into the detail view runs
this refresh and writing it back would add an uncontrolled background writer
to the whole-playlist read-modify-write that every favorite/recent mutation
performs.
Also fixes the stalker-mock-server embedded-series scenario, which generated
series[] as objects the app's vclub adapters filter out instead of the
episode-number arrays real portals send.
Regular type=series and Ministra is_series items are unaffected; Xtream is
unaffected (get_series_info is never cached).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Load the complete ITV channel list once per portal (Ministra get_all_channels with a paged crawl fallback) and use it for: full local search across every channel, per-genre category count badges, an all-channels paginated grid on Live TV entry, and eager bulk EPG so row previews appear without playing a channel. Censored (adult) genres absent from get_all_channels fall back to the legacy paged flow and show no badge. Includes mock-server support, unit + E2E coverage, and architecture docs.
- Implemented unit tests for StalkerCollectionChannelsListComponent to verify EPG program loading and state management.
- Created unit tests for StalkerLiveStreamLayoutComponent to ensure proper rendering of EPG lists and handling of channel playback.
- Refactored EPG loading logic in StalkerLiveStreamLayoutComponent to improve performance and maintainability.
- Updated HTML template in StalkerLiveStreamLayoutComponent to replace deprecated components with new EPG list component.
- Enhanced EPG program handling by introducing methods for timestamp parsing and current program detection.
- Fix getVisibleSourceTitles: use .playlist-title selector instead of
.mdc-list-item__primary-text which no longer matches playlist-item component
- Fix category-management test: re-navigate to sources page after
refreshSource since refresh navigates away from sources
- Fix recent.e2e test: remove switchUnifiedCollectionContent calls after
clearRecentItems since the content toggle disappears when all items cleared
- Fix stalker mock server: generate numeric episode IDs ("1","2",...) in
season.series array so toSeriesNumbers() can parse them; previously used
non-numeric IDs like "30000-s1-e1" which parsed to NaN, producing empty
episode arrays and causing playFirstSeriesEpisode to time out
https://claude.ai/code/session_01VU6ZZTG7YrhKhKBQvBfmpp
- Introduced `stalker-mock-server` with TypeScript configuration for local development and testing.
- Updated `playwright.config.ts` to run both Angular app and mock server in parallel during e2e tests.
- Created comprehensive e2e tests for Stalker portal functionality, including health checks, portal addition, and content loading.
- Added detailed architecture documentation for both `stalker-mock-server` and `xtream-mock-server`, outlining design decisions, data flow, and API protocols.
- Implemented `xtream-mock-server` to simulate Xtream Codes API for local development and testing, with corresponding e2e tests.
- Enhanced test isolation by resetting mock server state before each test run.
