# Attendance Records Backend

## Purpose

`attendance_records` is the per-student attendance entry within an attendance session — the
present/absent/late/excused mark, optional minutes late, and remarks. It is a generic-CRUD
slice assembled from the shared factories and belongs to one `attendance_sessions` row and one
`students` row.

This is the generic student/session attendance entity; staff attendance is the separate
`staff_attendance` slice (documented elsewhere).

## Slice Files (by layer)

- Route: `src/routes/attendance_records.ts` — `createCrudRouter(controller, { permission: 'attendance_records' })`.
- Controller: `src/api/controllers/attendance_records.controller.ts` — `createCrudController(service, { csvFields })`.
- Service (BLL): `src/services/attendance_records.ts` — `createCrudService(DbApi, { notFoundCode: 'attendance_recordsNotFound' })`.
- Repository (DAL): `src/db/api/attendance_records.ts` (`Attendance_recordsDBApi`) — entity-specific
  `create`/`bulkImport`/`update`/`findBy`/`findAll`; `remove`/`deleteByIds`/`findAllAutocomplete`
  delegate to `db/api/shared/repository.ts`.
- Model: `src/db/models/attendance_records.ts`.
- Shared used: CRUD factories (`services/shared/crud-service.ts`,
  `api/controllers/shared/crud-controller.ts`, `api/http/crud-router.ts`), repository helpers
  (`db/api/shared/repository.ts`), `shared/constants/pagination.ts` (`resolvePagination`),
  `db/utils.ts` (`Utils.uuid`/`Utils.ilike`), `shared/constants/database.ts`
  (`BULK_IMPORT_TIMESTAMP_STEP_MS`).

## API

The standard generic-CRUD surface (all under `/api/attendance_records`, JWT +
`${METHOD}_ATTENDANCE_RECORDS` permission, all `200`) — see `backend-architecture.md` for the
shared 9-endpoint contract:

- `POST /` — body `{ data }`, returns `true`.
- `POST /bulk-import` — multipart CSV file, returns `true`.
- `PUT /:id` — body `{ data, id }` (the service reads the id from the **body**), returns `true`.
- `DELETE /:id` — returns `true`.
- `POST /deleteByIds` — body `{ data: string[] }`, returns `true`.
- `GET /` — query filters, returns `{ rows, count }`; `?filetype=csv` streams a CSV of `csvFields`.
- `GET /count` — returns `{ rows: [], count }`.
- `GET /autocomplete` — `?query&limit&offset`, returns `[{ id, label }]` where `label` is
  `status`.
- `GET /:id` — returns the record with eager associations (see Data Contract).

`csvFields`: `id`, `remarks`, `minutes_late`.

## Access Rules

- JWT required; the whole router is guarded by `checkCrudPermissions('attendance_records')`,
  deriving `READ_ATTENDANCE_RECORDS` / `CREATE_ATTENDANCE_RECORDS` /
  `UPDATE_ATTENDANCE_RECORDS` / `DELETE_ATTENDANCE_RECORDS` per HTTP method.
- Access is granted by role permission or per-user `custom_permissions` (see `permissions.md`).

## Tenant Scope

- `findAll` scopes `where.organizationId` to `currentUser.organizationId`; a `globalAccess`
  role clears the org filter (sees all tenants).
- `create` assigns the organization from `currentUser.organizationId`; `update` only reassigns
  organization for `globalAccess` users (otherwise it stays the caller's org).

## Data Contract

Model columns (`paranoid`, soft-delete via `deletedAt`):

- `id` (UUID PK).
- `status` — ENUM `present` | `absent` | `late` | `excused`.
- `minutes_late` — INTEGER.
- `remarks` — TEXT.
- `importHash` (STRING(255), unique), `organizationId`, `attendance_sessionId`, `studentId`,
  `createdById`, `updatedById`, timestamps (all UUID FKs nullable).

Associations: `belongsTo` organization, attendance_session (`attendance_sessions`),
student (`students`), createdBy/updatedBy (users). `findBy`/`GET /:id` eager-load organization,
attendance_session, and student in a single `Promise.all`.

List filters (`AttendanceRecordsFilter`): `id`, `remarks` (iLike), `minutes_lateRange`,
`status`, `attendance_session` (id or `session_type`, `|`-separated), `student` (id or
`student_number`), `organization`, `createdAtRange`, plus `field`/`sort` ordering and
`limit`/`page` pagination.

## Behavior / Notes

- `create`/`bulkImport`/`update` set associations via the Sequelize `set*` mixins (no file
  relations on this entity).
- `bulkImport` offsets `createdAt` per row by `BULK_IMPORT_TIMESTAMP_STEP_MS` to preserve order.
- List pagination uses the shared `resolvePagination` defaults (page size 10, capped at 100).
- Note: `AttendanceRecordsFilter` accepts an `active` flag the model has no column for; it is
  applied to `where.active` but, with no such column, is currently inert (kept for source
  accuracy).

## Tests

None yet.

## Related

- Generic-CRUD contract: `backend-architecture.md`; related slices: `attendance_sessions`,
  `students`, `permissions.md`.