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Parent issue: https://github.com/sequentech/meta/issues/12769

2 of 4, on #2981 — so this diff shows only what is added on top. Above: #2983#2988.

The whole of janitor's Python, ported into sequent-core::election_config. Every module is new and behind a feature, so nothing that does not want it pays for it — with one deliberate exception: windmill's exporter now writes its two CSVs through the shared code instead of its own.

The test that makes it worth doing

what_it_builds_is_a_bundle_the_platform_accepts — the document the builder produces deserializes into ImportElectionEventSchema, the importer's own struct, and passes validate(), the importer's own rules. Two implementations that merely looked similar would not.

What is in it

ModuleFeature
emitThe CSV byte shapes, written once instead of three times
pathsDotted headers, cell coercion, deep merge
sheetTable shaping over a neutral Cell
idsThe deterministic uuid5 factory
brandingAn event's languages, title and login CSS as realm settings
presetsThe four authentication presets
xlsxelection_config_xlsxcalamine; the only part that knows a file format
renderelection_config_templatesThe eight .hbs entity templates, compiled in
buildelection_config_templatesRows to a bundle
archiveelection_config_archiveThe files a bundle ships as, and a reproducible zip

The gates are the point: admin-portal, voting-portal, ui-core and ballot-verifier build with default_features and get the schema and validator, carrying no spreadsheet parser, template engine or zip writer.

Decisions worth a reviewer's time

  • A blank cell and a cell holding null are different things, all the way through.

  • The fixture suite is data, not codefixtures/sound.json plus fixtures/cases.json, compiled in and exported. Tests written separately in Rust and TypeScript would prove only that each side agrees with itself; the browser runs these same cases.

  • The four voting channels are validated in pairs, because each is a precondition rather than a switch. A flag on with its other half missing produces a start control that opens a period nobody can vote in — found out on election day by somebody who cannot fix it.

    ChannelIts other halfVerdict
    onlinenothingOff is an error — nobody could vote
    early_votingan area allowing itError either way round; the message names the areas
    kioskan auth client named <client>-kioskWarning — the half is in the environment
    telephonethe event's IVR tabWarning — the half is filled after import
  • paper is deliberately not exposed: it exists in hasura_core::VotingChannels and nowhere else — no status, no start control, no label — so a checkbox for it would change nothing.

The trap this removed

windmill's scheduled-events exporter derived both header and rows from serde_json::to_value(event).as_object(), taking .keys() and .values(). That produces the right file today, and only because three unstated things line up: preserve_order is enabled somewhere in the graph, insertion order is ScheduledEvent's field order, and that order matches what the importer reads.

import_scheduled_events.rs reads the payload from record.get(10). Sorted alphabetically, index 10 is task_id — so every exported event would import with its payload read as a task name, and the task that opens voting would never fire. Reordering the struct, or losing preserve_order, would have done that silently on the disaster-recovery path.

Rows are now built field by field against SCHEDULED_EVENT_COLUMNS: the order is the code rather than a consequence of it. One byte-level change — emit writes \n where csv::Writer wrote \r\n. The reader accepts either, and it makes an export diffable against a generated bundle.

Fixed rather than ported

  • A warning branch the Python could never reach: it warns when a census has no email or mobile column, but email is derived and always present.
  • iso_639_2t_to_bcp47 is the platform's own table, not a second transcription of all 177 entries.
  • "a election reference is required" reworded to have no article to get wrong.

CI added here

Six cargo check --lib feature-gate jobs in tests.yml. pub mod build is gated on election_config_templates and its pub use was not, so the crate did not compile for any feature set that leaves the templates out — every consumer except step-cli. cargo build --workspace hides that by unifying features across the graph; these jobs fail in two minutes and name the gate.

Verified

  • sequent-core572 passed at keycloak,default_features,election_config_{xlsx,templates,archive}; 353 at the narrower set CI runs here
  • All seven feature gates cargo check clean
  • windmill — 306 passed, unchanged from main
  • cargo fmt --check, reuse lint clean

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added tools to create complete election configurations from structured plans or XLSX spreadsheets.
    • Added validation for election plans, schedules, contests, areas, ballots, contacts, and trustees.
    • Added support for authentication presets, localization, branding, templates, scheduled events, reports, and communication templates.
    • Added deterministic export bundles and optional ZIP archives with importable election files.
    • Added timezone-aware timestamps and backward-compatible timestamp formats.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved CSV export consistency for reports and scheduled events, including null handling and multi-value fields.
  • Tests

    • Added comprehensive coverage for configuration building, validation, imports, archives, rendering, localization, scheduling, and feature combinations.

edulixand others added 13 commits August 6, 2026 13:28
First step of unifying the three tools that build or check an election event
import on one shared definition — see meta#12769.
Report, ReportCronConfig, ReportType and EReportEncryption move from
windmill::postgres::reports and windmill::services::reports::template_renderer
into a new sequent-core::election_config module, so that the tools which *write*
an import bundle describe reports the same way the importer reads them.
windmill re-exports all four, so its ~10 call sites are untouched. The database
mapping — ReportWrapper and its TryFrom<Row> — deliberately stays in windmill: it
needs tokio_postgres, which has no place in a module that has to compile to WASM.
The module is placed in sequent-core rather than beyond because the dependency
runs one way. beyond is a git submodule of step and path-depends on this crate, so
step cannot depend on beyond; anything windmill must use has to be here.
sequent-core also already compiles to WASM and is already vendored into the front
ends, so both consumers reach it through paths that already carry production code.
Gated on default_features, matching types::hasura whose entities the bundle schema
will be built from. The WASM build enables that feature (build_wasm.yml), so the
module is present in the browser.
Six unit tests cover the wire forms that are part of the file format rather than
implementation details: the snake_case encryption policy the reports CSV carries,
a cron config surviving an empty object, and permission_label being a list here
where Election's is a string.
Related: sequentech/meta#12769
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
ImportElectionEventSchema moves out of windmill, so that the tools which write an
import bundle describe it the same way the importer reads it. Until now each
reproduced it: janitor in Handlebars templates, the Election Architect in a
hand-built TypeScript object that was not even the importable shape.
windmill re-exports it, so its own call sites are unchanged. Two field types
differ, both so the module can compile to WASM for the browser-side tools:
tenant_id is a String, not a Uuid. Import replaces it with the importing
request's tenant regardless of what it says, and every use here
stringified it already. Making it a Uuid would pull that crate into
default_features and put getrandom in the WASM build for no benefit.
The export path still runs parse_uuid_v4, and validation will report
a malformed value as a readable problem rather than an opaque serde
error.
keycloak_event_realm is a serde_json::Value, not a RealmRepresentation. That
type comes from the keycloak crate, which pulls reqwest. Nothing is
lost: serde round-trips it exactly, windmill deserializes it into the
typed form at the one place it talks to Keycloak, and validating a
realm needs a live Keycloak anyway, so it was never something the
shared validation could check.
Five tests cover what the format guarantees: a minimal bundle deserializes, a
missing version falls back to the historical default so old bundles still import,
the realm round-trips including keys this crate has never heard of, a missing
non-Option field is rejected, and tenant_id survives unaltered so replace_ids can
map it.
Verified: cargo check clean on sequent-core and windmill, 11 election_config tests
pass, windmill's own 235 lib tests pass, rustfmt clean.
Related: sequentech/meta#12769
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The pure half of checking an import bundle: no database, no IO, no clock. That is
what lets the same code answer in a browser before an upload and on the server
before a transaction, and it is the constraint to keep when adding a rule.
Anything needing the database — does this tenant exist, is this area name taken —
stays in windmill on top of this pass.
validate(&bundle) -> Report, never stopping at the first problem. Each Problem
carries a machine-readable Code, a Severity, a dotted path into the bundle, and
the entity's external_id where it has one — the UUIDs are regenerated on import
and mean nothing to whoever has to fix the source, whereas the external_id is what
they typed.
Warnings are not lesser errors. A warning says the bundle is self-consistent but
probably not what its author meant, and the one that exists today is the
expensive one: a permission label hides an entity from every administrator who
does not hold it, so an event imports cleanly and then lists nothing. The bundle
cannot know who holds what, so it cannot be an error.
The rules come from two places — what the importer rejects, and what janitor
learned the hard way. The second kind matters more, because those bundles satisfy
every type in the schema and still fail on election day: a contest on no area's
ballot, a leaf area with no ballot, more winners than candidates, and rankings
counted by an algorithm that ignores them. That last one is worth stating plainly:
ballot encoding follows the counting algorithm, not voting_type, so a preferential
contest counted by plurality-at-large imports cleanly and then reads a voter's
rankings as unordered selections.
tenant_id's format is checked here rather than by the type, which is what the
schema traded away to stay WASM-safe. looks_like_uuid does it by shape rather than
by pulling the uuid crate — and therefore getrandom — into the WASM build to
inspect a string.
50 tests. Each starts from one bundle that validates cleanly and breaks exactly
one thing, so a failure names the rule. Two are about the failure modes of the
checks themselves: a negative winning_candidates_num must not wrap into a huge
usize and silently pass, and every algorithm in each list is exercised against the
voting type it belongs with rather than a sampled few.
Related: sequentech/meta#12769
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
windmill now runs sequent-core::election_config::validate on the bundle as
written, before replace_ids rewrites the identifiers, and refuses the import if
anything fatal turns up. The operator gets every problem at once, in the same
wording the browser-side tools will show before an upload.
This is additive: the checks that follow need the database, and this pass by
design does not touch it.
Reclassified ballot coverage from error to warning, which is the part worth
scrutiny. Wiring validation into the import path means a bundle that used to
import can now be refused — including the platform's own export, re-imported for
disaster recovery. A contest with no candidates yet, a contest not yet on a
ballot, an area nobody has assigned contests to: an event still being configured
legitimately looks like that, and exports of it must round trip. Those bundles are
entirely self-consistent and produce a working event; they just mean nobody votes
there yet. Refusing them would break recovery in order to enforce a rule about
authoring, so they are warnings.
The line is now: an error means the bundle is internally inconsistent or would be
rejected or corrupted by the platform; a warning means it is consistent but the
configuration looks unintended. Authoring tools should treat warnings as blocking,
and step-cli and the SPAs will do that with a strict mode rather than by lying
about the severity here. Two tests pin the line from both sides.
Adds a validate_bundle example, the same call step-cli and the browser will make,
for checking a real export from a shell. Run against the generated SEIU1000
bundle it reports 0 errors and 1 warning — the permission label that made every
election invisible on the first real import. The Rust validator and janitor's
Python rules independently reach the same verdict on real data, which is the point
of sharing them.
Related: sequentech/meta#12769
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The zip the Admin Portal accepts holds one JSON document and up to three CSVs,
and two of those CSVs are read positionally by the importer. That shape was
implemented three times — windmill's exporter, janitor's Python, the Election
Architect's TypeScript — and the copies had drifted.
election_config::emit is the single implementation. The awkward parts are the
ones worth having in one place:
A JSON-in-CSV field holds a JSON literal which is then CSV-quoted on top, so a
string arrives wrapped in three double quotes. It looks like an escaping bug and
is not: the importer parses each field with deserialize_str after CSV decoding,
so the JSON layer is load-bearing. A SQL NULL is written as a bare unquoted
null, which is why JsonField distinguishes Null from Value(Value::Null) — fold
them together and an empty column becomes indistinguishable from one holding
null.
A lone empty field in a single-column row is the only emptiness that needs
quoting; unquoted it is a blank line, which a reader cannot tell from no row at
all. An empty field beside others stays bare. The special case therefore lives
in join_csv, which knows the row length, not in escape_csv, which does not.
SCHEDULED_EVENT_COLUMNS and REPORT_COLUMNS are the format, not a presentation
choice: import_scheduled_events.rs reads the payload at index 10 and
process_reports_file reads election_id at 1 and permission_label at 7. Naming
them puts the ordering somewhere a reader can find it.
MULTI_VALUE_SEPARATOR is a single pipe, matching the importer. Workbooks use
"||", so whichever tool reads one has to convert; a "||" that reaches a CSV is
read as one value containing an empty one.
it_matches_what_janitor_already_writes pins the property that justifies
replacing three implementations with one: the expected row is copied verbatim
from the file janitor's Python emitted for the SEIU1000 event, byte for byte.
Pure, like the rest of the module — strings and bytes, no filesystem — so the
same code writes a file from step-cli and offers a download from a browser.
Related: sequentech/meta#12769
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
An authoring spreadsheet's column headers are paths into the target JSON:
`presentation.i18n.en.name` means nested objects four deep. That mapping is what
makes a workbook client-agnostic — a new column lands in the output with no code
change — and it is currently only in janitor's Python.
election_config::paths is the Rust it needs to be for step-cli and a browser to
read the same workbook the same way. Ported rule for rule, then tested harder
than the original: 27 tests, several of them for cases the Python has never been
asked about.
The distinctions worth naming:
A blank cell and a cell holding "null" are different, and stay different all the
way through. Blank means the author said nothing, so the template default holds;
"null" means they cleared it. coerce_cell returns Option<Value> for exactly that
reason — Some(Value::Null) is not None. Collapse them and there is no way to
remove a default.
Whether a column is multi-valued is decided by the column, not the content. A
cell with no separator in it still becomes a one-element list, or the JSON type
emitted would depend on the data. MULTI_VALUE_SEPARATOR here is "||", the
workbook's; emit's is "|", the importer's. They are different constants because
they are different formats, and something has to convert.
A trailing ".0" is a spreadsheet artifact, never intent: 3.0 typed as 3 has to
reach the platform as an integer or deserialization into i64 fails. But "1.0.0"
is a version and ".0" is text, so the check is for digits-dot-zeros and nothing
looser.
Only bracketed text is parsed as JSON — that is how a whole voting_channels
array fits in one cell — so a candidate named "NaN" survives, and a description
that opens with a bracket but is not JSON stays a description.
Naive timestamps are read as UTC. A cell carries no timezone and guessing the
author's local one would silently shift a voting window.
Lists replace rather than concatenate on merge. Three channels means those three,
not those three appended to the template's.
Two columns that disagree about a field's shape — `presentation` as a scalar and
`presentation.i18n` — are reported as a Problem rather than panicked, because it
is an authoring mistake and the author is who has to see it. New
Code::ConflictingColumns, raised while reading a source document rather than
while validating a bundle: nothing can be built until someone picks one.
Cell is a neutral vocabulary, so this layer has no opinion about where a row came
from — .xlsx, a CSV, or a browser's form state all narrow to the same six
variants, and the reader that produces them is the only part that needs a
spreadsheet library.
Related: sequentech/meta#12769
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Sheets of rows of coerced cells, and the .xlsx reader that produces them — the
last piece that only existed in janitor's Python, and the one step-cli and a
browser both need before either can build a bundle.
Split in two on purpose. election_config::sheet is pure and knows nothing about
any file format: it takes grids of Cell and does the header row, the duplicate
column check, blank-row trimming and the per-sheet multi-value decision.
election_config::xlsx is the only part that needs a spreadsheet library, and it
does nothing but narrow calamine's cells to Cell. So the awkward cases are all
testable without a fixture file, and the reader's own tests build a real .xlsx in
memory rather than committing a binary — nothing to keep in step with the code,
and no way for a client's data to end up in the repository.
Behind a new election_config_xlsx feature. admin-portal and voting-portal enable
default_features for their WASM build and have no workbook to read; they should
not carry a spreadsheet parser in their bundle.
What the tests pinned down:
Blank rows are dropped rather than trusted — a spreadsheet's stored dimensions
count rows that were merely visited, and the SEIU1000 sample claims a thousand
rows for a sheet holding two. Dropping one must not shift the numbers after it,
because the number is what an author looks at.
A duration cell is asked about before being converted. calamine's as_datetime
turns 0.5 into 1899-12-31T12:00 — a plausible-looking timestamp and entirely
wrong — so is_duration() is checked first and the number handed over for
validation to object to. Found by a test that assumed the opposite.
A text cell that looks numeric stays text, matching the Python. A spreadsheet
hands over a number for a numeric cell, so text here means the author formatted
the column as text, which is how member id 007 stays 007 instead of failing to
match a voter. A number typed as a number arrives as a float and does become an
integer.
Two tabs that normalise to the same key are refused. "Admin Users" beside
"AdminUsers" is not a document with a duplicate tab, it is one where nobody knows
which tab is live, and picking silently would eventually import the wrong voters.
A duplicated column is refused for the same reason: which one wins would be
arbitrary and invisible.
Sheets nobody reads are listed rather than ignored, so a misspelled tab gets
noticed.
Absent and empty read the same — a document with no Reports sheet and one with an
empty Reports sheet both mean no reports — so no caller needs to special-case
either.
Origin carries the sheet name and the row number as the spreadsheet shows them.
A bundle path like elections[3].title is no use to whoever has to fix the file.
Related: sequentech/meta#12769
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every id in a generated bundle is a version 5 UUID over the event's external_id,
the entity kind and the row's external_id. Regenerating an unchanged source
therefore produces byte-identical output, so a diff between two runs shows only
what the author actually changed; and two events built from different sources
never collide, because the event's external_id is mixed into the namespace.
it_agrees_with_the_python_it_replaces pins six ids produced by janitor's ids.py.
They match on the first run, which is what lets the Rust take over without
renumbering any event already generated — including the SEIU1000 bundle.
Written out rather than taken from the uuid crate. Its v4 feature pulls getrandom,
whose WASM support is version-specific and already pinned elsewhere in this
workspace; nothing here needs randomness and it should not acquire a reason to.
And the byte layout is the thing that must never change — alter it and every event
ever generated renumbers — so it is better read than trusted. sha1 is the only new
dependency, pure Rust and already in the lock file.
Two details that are easy to get wrong and are now tested:
Parts are length-prefixed rather than joined by a separator. Joined by one,
["a/b"] and ["a", "b"] hash alike, which for an area/contest link means two
different pairs sharing an id and one silently overwriting the other. An
external_id holding a slash is unusual, not forbidden.
The prefix counts characters, not bytes, matching the Python. A byte count is the
more obvious choice in Rust and would renumber every id derived from a non-ASCII
external_id for no gain, since either count is unambiguous. "José-Muñoz" is ten
characters and twelve bytes; a test pins it against the Python's answer.
Related: sequentech/meta#12769
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The templates supply the platform boilerplate; the source document overrides it.
That split is what keeps client configuration out of the code — a delivery
engineer who needs a different default supplies their own template instead of
patching a tool. Moving the eight .hbs files and the renderer into the shared core
is what lets step-cli and a browser produce the same bundle from the same
workbook.
Compiled into the binary rather than read from disk. A browser has no directory to
read, and fetching eight files before rendering anything would be absurd.
Overrides come in as text from whoever can obtain them: step-cli reads a
directory, a SPA takes an upload.
Behind a new election_config_templates feature, separate from `reports` — that one
also brings a headless browser and three AWS SDKs, and this needs only the
template engine.
The interesting decision is escaping. Handlebars escapes for HTML by default,
which is the wrong language here: a quote would become &quot;, valid JSON holding
the wrong text. Turning escaping off instead would let a stray quote break the
document. So the escape function is a JSON string escape, which is stricter than
what the Python did and means a custom template interpolating something
undisciplined still renders parseable JSON. The builtin templates only
interpolate ids, timestamps and enum values and never need it; client text is
deep-merged into the parsed result, never rendered.
A helper's output bypasses the engine's escape function. {{json}} relies on that —
the point is to emit a JSON literal, and a quoted object would not be one — while
{{default}} has to escape for itself, because it lands inside a string. Both are
tested, since the difference is invisible until a fallback contains a quote.
An override for a name nobody renders is refused rather than ignored: elections.hbs
in a templates directory is a typo, and silently rendering the builtin would leave
its author staring at output that ignores their edit.
A template that renders invalid JSON quotes the lines around the failure with the
offending one marked. A bare parse error against a hundred lines of rendered
output is not debuggable.
Strict mode is off on purpose: a template referring to a field this entity has no
value for should leave it blank for the merge to fill, not stop the build.
Related: sequentech/meta#12769
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rows to entities: each one a rendered template with the row's dotted-path columns
deep-merged over it, identified by a uuid5, and joined to the others by
external_id. Nothing reaches for a clock or a filesystem, so the same build runs
in step-cli and in a browser and produces the same bytes.
what_it_builds_is_a_bundle_the_platform_accepts is the test that makes sharing
this worth anything: the document the builder produces deserializes into
ImportElectionEventSchema — the importer's own struct — and passes validate(), the
importer's own rules. Two implementations that merely looked similar would not.
Problems accumulate rather than stopping at the first one, and each names the
sheet and row it came from. An author fixing a spreadsheet wants the whole list,
not one round trip per mistake, and a bundle path is no use to whoever has to
edit the file. A test with three separate mistakes in it asserts all three are
reported.
The decisions carried over, each now with a test that says why:
A control column is consumed, not merged. election.external_id is how a contest
names its election, not a field called external_id on an object called election.
Areas are read in two passes so a parent may appear below its own child; authors
do not sort their spreadsheets topologically. An area may not be its own parent.
An area needs a name, and two areas may not share one, because the voters CSV
resolves a voter's area by name. A duplicate silently assigns voters to whichever
one the importer finds first.
A base export is merged under the templates, never over them, and its identity
fields are scrubbed first: its ids, its bulletin board, its keys, and a statistics
and status block describing a run that already happened. Carrying any of those
over produces an event that looks configured and is not. Identity is reasserted
after the merge, so adding a field cannot reintroduce the bug.
reports stays an empty array and scheduled_events stays null. Both travel in their
own CSV; a populated array here is silently dropped, which is how a report goes
missing without an error.
A parameter nothing interprets is recorded in election_event.annotations with a
warning rather than dropped, because dropping it is how a setting goes missing on
election day. A parameter with no value is a placeholder the author left blank,
and says so.
An id typed as a number matches the same number written as text. Whether a cell
was formatted as a number is not something an author controls per column.
One message improved rather than ported: the Python's "a election reference is
required" is now phrased without an article to get wrong.
This level builds the JSON document. The CSV members, the auth presets and the
Keycloak realm are the next levels; keycloak_event_realm is null until then.
Related: sequentech/meta#12769
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Four of a bundle's parts are not in the JSON document at all. Voters and scheduled
events are always CSVs, reports are a CSV or nothing, and admin users, role
permissions and communication templates are tenant- or portal-scoped rather than
part of an event import. All of them resolve external_ids against the entities the
previous level built, which is why they live beside it — build_tables.rs is a child
module of build.rs so the two share the resolved ids while each file stays
readable.
The scheduled-events table is where the voting window actually lives:
scheduled_events in the JSON document is not read by the importer at all. Its rows
go out through emit's JsonField, so a SQL NULL is a bare null and the payload is a
CSV-quoted JSON literal, and the task id is built by the same function that
mirrors generate_manage_date_task_name — a different shape means a task that never
fires.
What the tests pin down:
A voter's area travels as a name, because that is what the importer resolves by. A
voter with no authorized-election-ids is authorized for all of them; writing an
empty attribute would deny access to every election instead. A voter with an email
address is treated as verified, because an unverified address blocks delivery of
the one-time code and a census address is one the client asserts is correct.
Any column the builder does not derive is carried through as a Keycloak user
attribute, which is how a client adds a reporting breakout column with no code
change. A passthrough column blank for every voter is dropped, and that is not
cosmetic: get_copy_from_query treats the mere presence of a password header as
"hash a password for each of these voters", so a blank one would give every voter
an empty credential.
A column name outside ^[a-zA-Z0-9._-]+$ is refused here, because both CSV
importers reject it mid-import with nothing naming the column.
An author may write an event type the way they say it — "start voting period" and
"start-voting-period" both reach START_VOTING_PERIOD. An election whose window
never opens or never closes is warned about: it imports fine and then quietly
never opens, and an event-wide row covers every election.
A report's encryption_policy and permission_label are read from the row, not from
the rendered template. They are control columns, so the row was excluded from the
merge and the template value is only a default — reading it instead is how
configured_password silently became unencrypted once.
The permission matrix is transposed: a matrix is what a human can check at a
glance, and role,permissions is what export_tenant_config.rs writes.
A template document gets its newlines back, because literal \n and \" are what
survive a copy-paste out of a JSON export. Unescaped in one pass, so an escaped
backslash before an n does not become a line break.
One dead branch removed rather than ported. The Python warns when a census has no
email or mobile column at all, but `email` is a derived column and is always
present, so that branch could never fire. A census with no contact column reaches
the per-voter count with every voter unreachable, which is the more useful message
anyway; a test says so.
Related: sequentech/meta#12769
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The last of janitor's Python: the four authentication presets, the realm settings
an event already implies, and the permission-label check that explains an empty
Elections list.
Presets are patches, not realms. A realm is ~165 kB of interdependent Keycloak
configuration whose client URLs belong to the environment it was exported from,
and the importer takes keycloak_event_realm wholesale — a present realm replaces
the environment's provisioned default rather than merging into it. So a preset is
applied to a realm someone exported from a working event, and is always also kept
on its own so nothing the document asked for is silently dropped. With no base
export, no realm is emitted and the patch says so out loud.
Two things a deep merge cannot express are now struct fields rather than magic keys
inside the patch, which is how the Python carried them: binding an authenticator
config, and patching the user profile. That removes the strip-the-directives step
the writer used to need, and with it the chance of forgetting it.
The realm work worth reading:
identityProviders and authenticatorConfig are merged by alias, not replaced. They
are referenced by alias from elsewhere in the realm, so replacing either wholesale
would strip providers the environment configured on purpose.
The realm name is derived from tenant and event, because the voting portal and the
smart-link URLs derive it the same way — it is not a free choice. A base export's
own event id is swapped out of its client URLs first, because import remaps every
UUID it finds and a stale one would be remapped to something unrelated.
The user profile is parsed, patched and re-serialised rather than merged: it lives
inside a Keycloak component as a single JSON string.
A preset naming a flow or authenticator the target realm lacks is warned about
rather than applied blindly, which is only possible because each preset states
what it needs and why.
The event's own languages, title and login CSS become realm settings, because the
platform carries none of them across: it never syncs supportedLocales, and has no
path at all from an event name to a realm display name. Language codes go through
the platform's own iso_639_2t_to_bcp47 rather than a second copy of it — the
Python transcribed all 177 entries by hand. Basque and Dutch are missing from that
table and pass through unconverted; both implementations always behaved that way,
so it is a gap in util::locale rather than a regression, and a test says so.
CSS is escaped for java.text.MessageFormat, quotes before braces so the quotes
this adds are not themselves doubled, and written for every enabled locale —
Keycloak looks the message up in the voter's language, so CSS under `en` alone
vanishes when a voter switches to Spanish. A stylesheet copied out of a working
realm arrives already quoted and is unwrapped first.
uses_otp now gates the voter-reachability warning. Under SAML or digital
certificates the client's identity provider authenticates the voter, so "56 of 56
voters cannot be sent a one-time code" is noise rather than a finding.
The permission-label check is the one that matters most in practice. An election
whose label no administrator holds imports cleanly, reports no error, and then
does not appear in the Elections list at all — it happened on the first real
import, where a document labelled an election dlc-officers-dburs while its own
administrators carried dlc-officers. Warnings rather than errors, because
administrators may already exist in the target tenant carrying labels this file
knows nothing about.
Related: sequentech/meta#12769
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The last piece before a CLI: what a built bundle is written as, and the zip the
Admin Portal accepts.
Pure, like the rest of the module — named byte blobs, no filesystem. step-cli
writes them to a directory, a browser offers them as downloads, and neither leaves
a half-written output behind because nothing is written until everything is built.
The line worth reading is between the two groups. Importable members go inside the
zip. Administrators, roles and communication templates go beside it: they are
tenant- or portal-scoped, and putting them in the zip would mean importing an
election event could silently create administrator accounts. A test asserts
admin_users.csv is in one list and not the other.
The scheduled-events member is written even when empty. The voting window lives in
it, so whether the file exists must not depend on whether the source had a sheet.
The reports member is the opposite: absent when there are none, because an empty
reports CSV is not a valid one.
The realm patch is written whether or not it was applied, and its comment says
which — the two need opposite things done next. Because the bind-authenticator and
user-profile directives are struct fields rather than keys inside the patch, there
is nothing to strip here, and the file can instead state each one explicitly with
a note that it is not a merge. Whoever applies it by hand cannot deduce that from
the patch itself.
The zip is reproducible: a fixed timestamp and a fixed mode on every entry.
Without them the archive's bytes change on every run and "regenerating produced no
diff" stops being something anyone can check. A test zips the same bundle twice
and compares.
Behind a new election_config_archive feature, and the layout half is behind the
builder's. A front end that only validates an existing bundle has nothing to write
and should carry no zip writer.
One deliberate difference from the Python: every JSON file is two-space indented
rather than one-space for the event document and two for the rest. Cosmetic, since
the importer parses it, but it does mean the first regeneration of an existing
event reindents that file once.
Related: sequentech/meta#12769
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Adds a feature-gated election configuration pipeline. It reads XLSX workbooks, validates and compiles election plans, renders entities and realm patches, emits CSV/JSON artifacts, creates deterministic archives, and updates related exports.

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Election configuration pipeline

Layer / File(s)Summary
Input models and deterministic primitives
packages/sequent-core/Cargo.toml, packages/sequent-core/src/election_config/{mod,paths,sheet,time,ids,emit,xlsx}.rs
Adds workbook parsing, cell coercion, timestamp handling, deterministic UUID generation, and shared CSV emission contracts.
Entity rendering and authentication patches
packages/sequent-core/src/election_config/render.rs, packages/sequent-core/src/election_config/templates/*, packages/sequent-core/src/election_config/{branding,presets}.rs
Adds JSON-safe Handlebars templates, localization and CSS branding patches, and authentication presets.
Bundle tables and realm construction
packages/sequent-core/src/election_config/{build_tables,build_realm}.rs
Builds voter, schedule, report, administrator, permission, template, and Keycloak realm artifacts.
Workbook-to-bundle compilation
packages/sequent-core/src/election_config/{build,build_tests}.rs
Compiles workbook rows into deterministic bundles, resolves relationships, merges base exports, and reports validation diagnostics.
Blueprint validation and workbook compilation
packages/sequent-core/src/election_config/{architect,architect_tests}.rs
Adds blueprint models, schedule and ballot validation, workbook conversion, districting, localization, and side-file generation.
Archive and export integration
packages/sequent-core/src/election_config/{archive,fixtures}.rs, packages/sequent-core/src/election_config/fixtures/*, packages/windmill/src/services/export/*, .github/workflows/tests.yml
Adds importable artifact layouts, reproducible ZIP archives, validation fixtures, shared Windmill exporters, and feature-gate compilation checks.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Merge Risk:🟠 High · up to 82062

This PR adds workbook-based election bundle generation and changes scheduled-event exports to use shared serialization, but the current implementation can drop valid references, silently lose scheduled actions, crash or emit invalid realm data, deny election access for whitespace-only input, and expose more CI credentials than necessary. Merge should be blocked until these concrete correctness and security risks are fixed.

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participant Workbook as Workbook
participant Builder as build
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XLSX->>Workbook: parse worksheets into normalized rows
Workbook->>Builder: provide workbook and templates
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Three findings from CodeRabbit on #2981, all real.
**The algorithm list was written twice.** `COUNTING_ALGORITHMS` spelled out the ten
serde renames of `CountingAlgType`, and `PREFERENTIAL_ALGORITHMS` spelled out what
`is_preferential` answers — with doc comments admitting both. The list is now
`CountingAlgType::VARIANTS`, by way of a `VariantNames` derive, and the mismatch check
asks `is_preferential()` instead of a second list.
The review suggested validating through `CountingAlgType::from_str`, and that one
step I did not take: the enum is `#[strum(ascii_case_insensitive)]`, so parsing first
would accept `Borda` — which Rust reads correctly and `ICountingAlgorithm` in
`ui-core`, which compares the string, does not. So the value is matched exactly and
*then* parsed: the enum says which algorithms exist, and validation says they have to
be spelled the way the platform spells them. `PREFERENTIAL_ALGORITHMS` stays spelled
out because the browser is handed a `&'static [&'static str]` and `is_preferential`
cannot be called in a const — with a test that fails the moment the two disagree, in
both directions.
The voting types are named constants now rather than string literals inline in the
match arms.
**Negative counts passed validation.** Every rule about `min_votes`, `max_votes` and
`winning_candidates_num` is a comparison — `min > max`, `winners > available` — and -1
satisfies all of them, so a contest asking for minus one winner imported. The column
is a signed integer and takes it. There is a floor now, and the test that used to
assert only "nothing wrapped" — which quietly documented the hole — asserts the
refusal for all three fields. Zero is still allowed: a contest a voter may abstain in
has `min_votes` 0.
**A report's label reported the wrong path.** The permission-label warning was pinned
to `elections[].permission_label` while it also collects labels from `bundle.reports`,
so a bundle whose only labelled entity is a report sent somebody to the elections
screen, where there is nothing to change. One warning per source collection now.
218 sequent-core tests, 306 windmill, fmt and the feature gates clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The nitpick from the same review, and both gaps are real.
**An event with no areas was an untested rule.** `check_identity` refuses it —
every voter belongs to an area, so a bundle with none imports an event nobody can be
enrolled in — and its sibling for `elections` had a test while this did not.
**Nothing asserted that a problem actually stops an import.** `election_config`'s
suite covers what counts as fatal; `check_bundle` refusing one was covered by reading
the code. Two tests at the importer boundary now: a bundle with no areas does not
import and the error names the fault, and the same bundle with that one fault
repaired gets through the gate and comes back with remapped ids.
The invalid bundle is built in the test file on purpose; a *sound* one is not. A
second copy of the sound fixture is the duplication this whole change exists to
remove, and `election_config::fixtures` — the shared fixture both callers read —
arrives in #2982, which is where windmill's warning-only case belongs.
One thing the review asked for that no test can assert: that validation runs *before*
`replace_ids`. It does, and the reason is in the comment on `check_bundle`, but the
ordering has no observable difference in the report today — `Problem::path` carries
collection indices and `about` carries an `external_id`, and remapping rewrites
neither.
219 sequent-core tests, 308 windmill.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`CLAUDE.md` asks for no explanatory notes or history in the source, and the review
was right that the comments I added were mostly that: what the code used to do, which
test used to assert what, why a list was written twice. That belongs in the commit
message, which already has it.
What stays is the part a reader needs and cannot see:
- why `counting_algorithm` is matched exactly *before* it is parsed — `from_str` is
`ascii_case_insensitive` and `ICountingAlgorithm` in `ui-core` compares by value;
- why `PREFERENTIAL_ALGORITHMS` is still spelled out — the browser is handed a
`&'static [&'static str]` and `is_preferential` is not a const fn;
- why the count floor has to be stated — the fields are signed and every other rule
about them is relational;
- why the label warning is per collection — `Problem::path` is where the entity is;
- why the negative-`max_votes` case is exempt from the no-wraparound assertion;
- why the windmill fixture is deliberately unsound.
219 sequent-core tests, 308 windmill, unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reported: an election event with no areas would not import. It should.
The bundle is consistent and the platform takes it — it just means no voter can be
given a ballot yet, which is the same shape as the three ballot-coverage rules this
branch already downgraded: a contest with no candidates, a contest on no area's
ballot, an area with no contests. An event still being configured looks like this,
and so does the platform's own export of one, which has to re-import for recovery.
`Code::MissingField` is documented as "a required field is absent or empty", and
areas are no longer required, so the code moves to `BallotCoverage` — "something that
would be on a ballot is not" — beside its three siblings.
The windmill importer test used this exact case as its fatal example, so it now uses
a contest pointing at an election that is not in the bundle.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The test asserted no errors and a `BallotCoverage` warning, which an implementation
emitting both codes would also satisfy. Areas are not a required field any more, so
the absence of `MissingField` on that path is part of the behaviour and is asserted.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Actionable comments posted: 17

🧹 Nitpick comments (12)
packages/sequent-core/src/election_config/build_tables.rs (1)

605-724: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Confirm the report id stays stable when a row moves.

self.ids.uid("report", &[&report_type, &election_id, &(index + 1).to_string()]) includes the sheet position. If an author inserts a report row above an existing one, every later report changes id. The module promises byte-identical output for an unchanged source, which still holds, but a small edit then rewrites unrelated report ids.

If the platform treats a report id as stable across regenerations, derive it from the report type, the election and the template alias instead of the row index.

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In `@packages/sequent-core/src/election_config/build_tables.rs` around lines 605 -
724, Update the report ID construction in build_reports to remove the
row-position component (index + 1) and derive the UID from the stable report
type, election ID, and template alias instead. Preserve the existing UID
namespace and ensure reports retain the same ID when rows are inserted or
reordered.
packages/sequent-core/src/election_config/build_tests.rs (1)

1077-1261: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a test for two schedule rows that name the same processor and election.

The scheduled-event id and the task id derive from the processor and the election only. No test covers two rows with the same pair. See the comment on packages/sequent-core/src/election_config/build_tables.rs Lines 432-498.

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In `@packages/sequent-core/src/election_config/build_tests.rs` around lines 1077 -
1261, Add a test alongside the scheduled-event tests that supplies two schedule
rows with the same event_type and election.external_id but different scheduled
datetimes, then verifies both rows are emitted and their scheduled-event/task
identifiers collide as expected from the processor-election pair. Anchor the
test to the existing built helper and scheduled_events row assertions.
packages/sequent-core/src/election_config/time_tests.rs (1)

179-183: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a case for an extreme offset_minutes.

The suite covers out-of-range offsets in the thousands. It does not cover a value that overflows the offset_minutes * 60 multiplication in Timestamp::instant (see the comment on packages/sequent-core/src/election_config/time.rs Lines 96-104). Add a test asserting instant() returns a Problem for i32::MAX, so the guard stays in place.

🧪 Proposed test
+#[test]+fn an_offset_that_overflows_is_reported_rather_than_panicking() {+ let stamp = Timestamp::new("2027-03-01T09:00", "Nowhere", i32::MAX);+ assert!(stamp.instant().is_err());+ assert!(says(&errors(&stamp), "not a real UTC offset"));+}
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minimal, and validate.
In `@packages/sequent-core/src/election_config/time_tests.rs` around lines 179 -
183, Add a test alongside an_offset_given_in_seconds_is_refused_as_out_of_range
that constructs a Timestamp with offset_minutes set to i32::MAX and verifies
instant() returns a Problem, preserving the overflow guard in
Timestamp::instant.
packages/sequent-core/src/election_config/sheet.rs (1)

71-78: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Extract the repeated column literal into a named constant.

"authorized-election-ids" appears in both the SHEET_VOTERS arm and the SHEET_ADMIN_USERS arm. The other sheet-key values in this file are already named constants. A rename in one arm and not the other changes multi-value coercion for one sheet only, and the resulting deserialization failure names a different sheet than the edit.

As per coding guidelines: "Extract repeated string literals into named constants instead of using magic strings."

♻️ Proposed change
+/// Column holding a `||`-separated list of election external ids.+pub const COLUMN_AUTHORIZED_ELECTION_IDS: &str = "authorized-election-ids";+/// Column holding a `||`-separated list of permission labels.+pub const COLUMN_PERMISSION_LABELS: &str = "permission_labels";+/// Column holding a `||`-separated list of permission labels, reports sheet.+pub const COLUMN_PERMISSION_LABEL: &str = "permission_label";+
pub fn multi_value_columns(sheet_key: &str) -> &'static [&'static str] {
match sheet_key {
- SHEET_VOTERS => &["authorized-election-ids"],- SHEET_ADMIN_USERS => &["permission_labels", "authorized-election-ids"],- SHEET_REPORTS => &["permission_label"],+ SHEET_VOTERS => &[COLUMN_AUTHORIZED_ELECTION_IDS],+ SHEET_ADMIN_USERS => {+ &[COLUMN_PERMISSION_LABELS, COLUMN_AUTHORIZED_ELECTION_IDS]+ }+ SHEET_REPORTS => &[COLUMN_PERMISSION_LABEL],
_ => &[],
}
}
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In `@packages/sequent-core/src/election_config/sheet.rs` around lines 71 - 78,
Extract "authorized-election-ids" into a named constant in the election
configuration module, then use that constant in both the SHEET_VOTERS and
SHEET_ADMIN_USERS arms of multi_value_columns. Preserve the existing returned
column lists and other sheet mappings unchanged.

Source: Coding guidelines

packages/sequent-core/src/election_config/ids.rs (1)

102-119: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Model the entity kind as an enum instead of a free-form &str.

uid takes kind as &str, and the set of kinds is fixed: election_event, election, contest, candidate, area, area_contest, tenant. A typo in a call site produces a different namespace and renumbers ids silently. The compiler cannot catch it today.

Define an enum with Display and take it here. The rendered string stays identical, so the pinned test values do not change.

As per coding guidelines: "Use Rust enums with Display and FromStr rather than string constants when representing fixed sets of values."

♻️ Sketch of the enum-based signature
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]+pub enum IdKind {+ ElectionEvent,+ Election,+ Contest,+ Candidate,+ Area,+ AreaContest,+ Tenant,+}++impl std::fmt::Display for IdKind {+ fn fmt(&self, formatter: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {+ let text = match self {+ IdKind::ElectionEvent => "election_event",+ IdKind::Election => "election",+ IdKind::Contest => "contest",+ IdKind::Candidate => "candidate",+ IdKind::Area => "area",+ IdKind::AreaContest => "area_contest",+ IdKind::Tenant => "tenant",+ };+ formatter.write_str(text)+ }+}

Then uid takes kind: IdKind and formats it once into the existing name construction.

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minimal, and validate.
In `@packages/sequent-core/src/election_config/ids.rs` around lines 102 - 119,
Introduce an IdKind enum covering election_event, election, contest, candidate,
area, area_contest, and tenant, with Display and FromStr implementations. Update
uid to accept IdKind and use its Display representation in the existing name
construction so generated UUID strings remain unchanged; update tenant_id and
all call sites to pass enum variants instead of free-form strings.

Source: Coding guidelines

packages/sequent-core/src/election_config/render.rs (1)

34-61: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Derive ENTITY_TEMPLATES from BUILTIN_TEMPLATES instead of maintaining two lists.

The two constants hold the same set of names. Only the test at lines 336-346 keeps them in sync. If someone adds a template to BUILTIN_TEMPLATES and forgets ENTITY_TEMPLATES, with_overrides rejects a valid override name for a template that is in fact compiled in.

Keep BUILTIN_TEMPLATES as the single source and derive the name list from it.

♻️ Proposed change
-/// Entity templates that get rendered. An override may replace any of them.-pub const ENTITY_TEMPLATES: &[&str] = &[- "election_event",- "election",- "contest",- "candidate",- "area",- "area_contest",- "scheduled_event",- "report",-];+/// Entity templates that get rendered. An override may replace any of them.+///+/// Derived from [`BUILTIN_TEMPLATES`] so the two cannot drift apart.+pub fn entity_templates() -> impl Iterator<Item = &'static str> {+ BUILTIN_TEMPLATES.iter().map(|(name, _)| *name)+}

Call sites then use entity_templates().any(|template| template == *name) for the override check and entity_templates().collect::<Vec<_>>().join(", ") for the message.

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In `@packages/sequent-core/src/election_config/render.rs` around lines 34 - 61,
Make BUILTIN_TEMPLATES the single source of truth by removing the separately
maintained ENTITY_TEMPLATES list and adding an entity_templates() helper that
derives template names from it. Update with_overrides to use
entity_templates().any(...) for override validation and collect the derived
names when constructing the error message, while preserving existing behavior.
packages/sequent-core/src/election_config/architect_tests.rs (1)

246-259: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Resolve the payload column by name rather than by index 10.

rows[0][10] depends on the position of event_payload in SCHEDULED_EVENT_COLUMNS. If the column order changes, this test reads a different field and can still pass. Find the index from the column list.

♻️ Proposed change
- // Event-wide: the wizard asks once, and that covers every election.- let payload = &bundle.scheduled_events.rows[0][10];+ // Event-wide: the wizard asks once, and that covers every election.+ let payload_at = bundle+ .scheduled_events+ .columns+ .iter()+ .position(|column| column == "event_payload")+ .expect("the payload column");+ let payload = &bundle.scheduled_events.rows[0][payload_at];
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In `@packages/sequent-core/src/election_config/architect_tests.rs` around lines
246 - 259, Update the test
the_voting_window_becomes_the_scheduled_events_the_importer_reads to derive the
event_payload column index from SCHEDULED_EVENT_COLUMNS by name, then use that
index when reading bundle.scheduled_events.rows[0] instead of the hard-coded 10;
preserve the existing payload assertion.
packages/sequent-core/src/election_config/architect.rs (2)

306-310: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Prefer the derived Default with #[default] on the variant.

Clippy's derivable_impls flags a manual Default impl that returns a plain variant.

♻️ Proposed change
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
#[serde(rename_all = "snake_case")]
pub enum Policy {
/// Let it happen without comment.
Allowed,
/// Let it happen, but say something first.
+ #[default]
Warn,
/// Do not let it happen.
Restricted,
}
--impl Default for Policy {- fn default() -> Self {- Policy::Warn- }-}

Add Default to the derive list on the enum.

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In `@packages/sequent-core/src/election_config/architect.rs` around lines 306 -
310, Update the Policy enum to derive Default and mark the Warn variant with
#[default], then remove the manual impl Default for Policy. Preserve Warn as the
default variant.

330-363: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Reuse the existing platform policy enums.

EOverVotePolicy, EUnderVotePolicy, EBlankVotePolicy, and InvalidVotePolicy already define these values and provide Display and FromStr. Keep Policy as the architect input type, but map each method through the matching platform enum and use to_string() instead of duplicating literals.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.
In `@packages/sequent-core/src/election_config/architect.rs` around lines 330 -
363, Update the Policies methods over_vote, under_vote, blank_vote, and
invalid_vote to convert each Policy value through its corresponding platform
policy enum and return that enum’s to_string() result. Preserve Policy as the
architect-facing input type and remove the duplicated string literals, reusing
the existing enum mappings and Display implementations.

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Consider one matrix entry with every election_config_* feature enabled together.

Each election_config_* feature is checked alone. A symbol gated on one feature and referenced from a module gated on another compiles in isolation and fails only in the combined set. One extra entry covers that.

♻️ Proposed change
 - gate: election_config_xlsx
cache: xlsx
features: --features election_config_xlsx
+ - gate: all election_config features+ cache: election-config-all+ features: --features election_config_templates,election_config_archive,election_config_xlsx,default_features
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In @.github/workflows/tests.yml around lines 33 - 51, Add a CI matrix entry in
the workflow’s feature-test matrix that enables all election_config_* features
together, using an appropriate gate label and cache key. Preserve the existing
individual feature entries and ensure the combined feature list is passed to the
test command.
packages/windmill/src/services/export/export_election_event.rs (1)

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Write the CSV text straight into the ZIP instead of through a temporary file.

The rows are already a String. The code writes them to temp_reports_file, reopens the file, and copies it into zip_writer. zip_writer.write_all(...) after start_file removes the temp file, the reopen, and two error paths.

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In `@packages/windmill/src/services/export/export_election_event.rs` around lines
486 - 487, Update the export flow around plain_csv and zip_writer to write the
generated CSV String directly into the ZIP after starting its entry with
start_file. Remove the temporary reports file write, reopen, and copy steps
while preserving the existing CSV content and error propagation.
packages/windmill/src/services/export/export_schedule_events.rs (1)

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Trim the change-history commentary to what a future reader needs.

Lines 76-86 describe the previous implementation in detail. The repository guidelines ask for removal of explanatory boilerplate and stale commentary, keeping comments that explain non-obvious current logic. Keep the statement that the column order is fixed by SCHEDULED_EVENT_COLUMNS and that the importer reads by index. Move the rest to the commit message.

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In `@packages/windmill/src/services/export/export_schedule_events.rs` around lines
72 - 92, Trim the comment above the rows construction to retain only the current
invariant: column order is defined by SCHEDULED_EVENT_COLUMNS and the importer
reads fields by index. Remove the historical implementation details,
dependency-order discussion, and change-history rationale; leave the
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Inline comments:
In @.github/workflows/tests.yml:
- Around line 26-68: Add a job-level permissions block to feature-gates granting
only contents: read, and configure the actions/checkout step with
persist-credentials disabled. Keep the existing checkout and cargo check
behavior unchanged.
In `@packages/sequent-core/src/election_config/architect.rs`:
- Around line 620-649: Extend check_areas beyond the direct self-parent check to
detect cycles of any length by walking each area’s parent_external_id chain with
a visited set, stopping on missing parents or repeated non-origin nodes. Report
Problem::error with Code::AreaCycle for every area whose chain returns to its
own external_id, while preserving the existing dangling-reference validation and
plan-level vocabulary.
- Around line 576-618: Update validate_plan’s area validation loop to detect
duplicate non-empty area.external_id values, reporting a Code::DuplicateId
problem against the plan-level area path with the conflicting identifiers. Use
the existing earlier-area lookup pattern in check_areas, and retain the separate
duplicate-name validation.
In `@packages/sequent-core/src/election_config/build_realm.rs`:
- Around line 488-499: Remove the panic-prone object assumption for the user
profile component resolved before patch_user_profile, and validate that
component is a JSON object before any component.get("config") access or
mutation. Report a non-object component through the existing self.problem or
self.warn mechanism, then follow the established malformed-export handling
without aborting the build; keep normal object processing unchanged.
- Around line 265-273: Update the base_event_id replacement branch in the realm
transformation to retain the original Value::Object(realm) when
serde_json::from_str fails, rather than returning Value::String(swapped), and
report the parse failure through the existing error-reporting mechanism.
In `@packages/sequent-core/src/election_config/build_tables.rs`:
- Around line 282-318: Update voter_elections so an authorized-election-ids
value containing only whitespace follows the same all-elections path as an
absent value. Detect this before resolving requested entries, while preserving
existing trimming, deduplication, and dangling-reference handling for nonblank
values.
- Around line 432-498: In the scheduled-event builder, validate that each
processor/election identity is unique before appending to rows or scheduled;
reject duplicate identities through the existing problem/reporting mechanism,
matching the require_unique behavior used by the other builders. Apply the check
to the identity inputs used by both self.ids.uid and scheduled_event_task_id so
duplicate schedule rows are not emitted.
- Around line 44-57: Replace the duplicated string list in EVENT_PROCESSORS with
the shared EventProcessors enum, using its Display and EnumString
implementations for validation and formatting. Update the START_VOTING_PERIOD
and END_VOTING_PERIOD comparisons to use EventProcessors variants while
preserving the existing fuzzy normalization before parsing.
In `@packages/sequent-core/src/election_config/build_tests.rs`:
- Around line 349-381: Extend
a_numeric_id_matches_the_same_number_written_as_text to include Areas and
AreaContests, using Cell::Int for the Areas external_id and numeric reference
cells in the AreaContests relationship columns, then assert the exported area
relationship resolves the numeric ID to the text reference. Preserve the
existing Elections and Contests coverage.
In `@packages/sequent-core/src/election_config/build.rs`:
- Around line 946-953: Replace row.text-based external ID reads with
row.get(...).map(value_as_text) followed by trimming so numeric and space-padded
IDs normalize consistently with require_external_id and resolve. Apply this in
packages/sequent-core/src/election_config/build.rs lines 946-953 for the second
Areas pass, and lines 1022-1055 for area.external_id and contest.external_id,
ensuring UID and duplicate-key lookups use the normalized values.
In `@packages/sequent-core/src/election_config/emit.rs`:
- Around line 20-26: Update task-name generation to reuse
crate::types::scheduled_event::generate_manage_date_task_name with an
EventProcessors value, removing the duplicate formatting logic. Also relocate
MULTI_VALUE_SEPARATOR to an ungated shared module, or explicitly document that
the separator feature requires keycloak because default_features does not enable
it.
In `@packages/sequent-core/src/election_config/fixtures.rs`:
- Around line 176-208: Update the_suite_covers_every_code_validation_can_produce
to iterate all Code variants via an exhaustive Code::ALL constant or existing
enum-iteration mechanism, replacing the hard-coded subset; ensure adding a new
variant causes a compile-time decision and each validation-produced code is
still asserted as covered.
In `@packages/sequent-core/src/election_config/presets.rs`:
- Around line 461-464: Correct the documentation for names to state that preset
names are returned in PRESETS declaration order, unless the function is
intentionally changed to sort its collected results. Preserve the current return
behavior and avoid unrelated changes.
- Around line 76-81: Replace the string-typed Requirement.kind with a
RequirementKind enum covering Flow, Authenticator, and AuthenticatorConfig,
implementing Display and FromStr with the existing lowercase string
representations. Update all Requirement initializers and consumers, including
the realm-builder matching logic and affected presets/tests, to use exhaustive
enum matching while preserving their current behavior.
Apply the same fix in `@packages/sequent-core/src/election_config/build_realm.rs`
around lines 354 - 370: The realm-builder string match is the second occurrence
of the same fixed-set modeling issue.
In `@packages/sequent-core/src/election_config/templates/contest.hbs`:
- Around line 5-10: Remove the placeholder definitions for min_votes, max_votes,
winning_candidates_num, voting_type, and counting_algorithm from the contest.hbs
template. Keep build_contests and validation unchanged so missing workbook
fields remain absent and validation returns MissingField instead of applying
defaults.
In `@packages/sequent-core/src/election_config/templates/scheduled_event.hbs`:
- Around line 5-8: Update the comment in the scheduled event template to replace
the stale build.py reference with the Rust builder module that computes
event_processor, the scheduled date, and task_id; retain the requirement that
task_id matches generate_manage_date_task_name.
In `@packages/sequent-core/src/election_config/time.rs`:
- Around line 96-104: Update the offset calculation in instant to use checked
multiplication for self.offset_minutes and 60, converting overflow into the
existing Problem via the same invalid-offset error path before calling
FixedOffset::east_opt. Preserve the current behavior for valid offsets and
ensure instant never panics or wraps for arbitrary i32 values.
---
Nitpick comments:
In @.github/workflows/tests.yml:
- Around line 33-51: Add a CI matrix entry in the workflow’s feature-test matrix
that enables all election_config_* features together, using an appropriate gate
label and cache key. Preserve the existing individual feature entries and ensure
the combined feature list is passed to the test command.
In `@packages/sequent-core/src/election_config/architect_tests.rs`:
- Around line 246-259: Update the test
the_voting_window_becomes_the_scheduled_events_the_importer_reads to derive the
event_payload column index from SCHEDULED_EVENT_COLUMNS by name, then use that
index when reading bundle.scheduled_events.rows[0] instead of the hard-coded 10;
preserve the existing payload assertion.
In `@packages/sequent-core/src/election_config/architect.rs`:
- Around line 306-310: Update the Policy enum to derive Default and mark the
Warn variant with #[default], then remove the manual impl Default for Policy.
Preserve Warn as the default variant.
- Around line 330-363: Update the Policies methods over_vote, under_vote,
blank_vote, and invalid_vote to convert each Policy value through its
corresponding platform policy enum and return that enum’s to_string() result.
Preserve Policy as the architect-facing input type and remove the duplicated
string literals, reusing the existing enum mappings and Display implementations.
In `@packages/sequent-core/src/election_config/build_tables.rs`:
- Around line 605-724: Update the report ID construction in build_reports to
remove the row-position component (index + 1) and derive the UID from the stable
report type, election ID, and template alias instead. Preserve the existing UID
namespace and ensure reports retain the same ID when rows are inserted or
reordered.
In `@packages/sequent-core/src/election_config/build_tests.rs`:
- Around line 1077-1261: Add a test alongside the scheduled-event tests that
supplies two schedule rows with the same event_type and election.external_id but
different scheduled datetimes, then verifies both rows are emitted and their
scheduled-event/task identifiers collide as expected from the processor-election
pair. Anchor the test to the existing built helper and scheduled_events row
assertions.
In `@packages/sequent-core/src/election_config/ids.rs`:
- Around line 102-119: Introduce an IdKind enum covering election_event,
election, contest, candidate, area, area_contest, and tenant, with Display and
FromStr implementations. Update uid to accept IdKind and use its Display
representation in the existing name construction so generated UUID strings
remain unchanged; update tenant_id and all call sites to pass enum variants
instead of free-form strings.
In `@packages/sequent-core/src/election_config/render.rs`:
- Around line 34-61: Make BUILTIN_TEMPLATES the single source of truth by
removing the separately maintained ENTITY_TEMPLATES list and adding an
entity_templates() helper that derives template names from it. Update
with_overrides to use entity_templates().any(...) for override validation and
collect the derived names when constructing the error message, while preserving
existing behavior.
In `@packages/sequent-core/src/election_config/sheet.rs`:
- Around line 71-78: Extract "authorized-election-ids" into a named constant in
the election configuration module, then use that constant in both the
SHEET_VOTERS and SHEET_ADMIN_USERS arms of multi_value_columns. Preserve the
existing returned column lists and other sheet mappings unchanged.
In `@packages/sequent-core/src/election_config/time_tests.rs`:
- Around line 179-183: Add a test alongside
an_offset_given_in_seconds_is_refused_as_out_of_range that constructs a
Timestamp with offset_minutes set to i32::MAX and verifies instant() returns a
Problem, preserving the overflow guard in Timestamp::instant.
In `@packages/windmill/src/services/export/export_election_event.rs`:
- Around line 486-487: Update the export flow around plain_csv and zip_writer to
write the generated CSV String directly into the ZIP after starting its entry
with start_file. Remove the temporary reports file write, reopen, and copy steps
while preserving the existing CSV content and error propagation.
In `@packages/windmill/src/services/export/export_schedule_events.rs`:
- Around line 72-92: Trim the comment above the rows construction to retain only
the current invariant: column order is defined by SCHEDULED_EVENT_COLUMNS and
the importer reads fields by index. Remove the historical implementation
details, dependency-order discussion, and change-history rationale; leave the
scheduled_event_row and json_csv behavior unchanged.
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**A non-object user profile component aborted the build.** `components[…][0]` can hold
any JSON value, and `.expect("a realm component is an object")` turned a malformed
base export into a panic instead of a message. Reported through `self.warn` now, the
same way the missing-attributes case two blocks above already is.
**`offset_minutes * 60` could overflow.** It is `i32` arithmetic, `offset_minutes`
deserializes from any `i32`, and `instant()` runs before `check()` does — so a value
above `i32::MAX / 60` panicked in debug and wrapped in release, producing a wrong
instant rather than a problem. `checked_mul` folds it into the existing "not a usable
offset" problem.
**Two schedule rows for one processor and one election silently became one.** Both the
uuid5 and the task id derive from the processor and the election alone, so the second
row emitted the same identity, the importer kept one, and the other scheduled time
was lost with no message. Rejected as a `DuplicateId` naming the earlier row, which is
what `require_unique` does for voters.
Two tests: the overflow reports rather than panics, and the duplicate schedule is
refused. 575 sequent-core tests, fmt clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
**A whitespace-only `authorized-election-ids` denied every election.** An absent cell
means "all of them" and takes an early return; a cell holding only spaces is
*present*, so every entry fell to the `is_empty` guard, `resolved` stayed empty, and
the voter was written an empty attribute — which denies access to everything, with
nothing reported. A blank cell now means what an absent one means.
**`row.text` read ids differently from the rest of the builder.** It answers only for
a string cell and does not trim, while `require_external_id` and `resolve` read the
same columns through `value_as_text` and trim — so a numeric or space-padded
`external_id` registered in the first Areas pass and vanished in the second. Worse in
`area_contests`, where the two reads key the duplicate check: two different numeric
pairs both keyed as `("", "")`. Both reads go through `value_as_text` now.
**Plan validation only caught an area inside itself.** A two-hop loop — A inside B
inside A — passed `validate_plan` and surfaced later from the bundle validator, in
generated-id vocabulary the author never wrote. `climbs_into_a_loop` walks the parent
chain with a visited set and stops at the first repeat.
One test for the loop; the other two are covered by the existing build suites.
576 sequent-core tests, fmt clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
**A realm that would not re-read became a JSON string.** Swapping the base event's id
through the encoded realm can fail to parse, and the fallback returned
`Value::String(swapped)` — so `keycloak_event_realm` held text where the importer
expects an object, and the importer took it wholesale. It now carries the realm over
unchanged and says so, which is the lesser fault.
**The fixture coverage check could not fail.** Its comment claimed that adding a
`Code` without a case fails the test; it walked a hard-coded list, so a new variant
was neither covered nor reported. Every variant is now walked and placed by an
exhaustive `match`, so a new one does not compile until somebody decides which side it
belongs on — which is how `ConflictingColumns`, absent from the old list, got placed.
**The numeric-id test covered Elections only**, and the Areas and AreaContests
builders read their reference cells through a different accessor — the defect the
previous commit fixed. Extended to both sheets, asserting two areas and two links
rather than a collapsed pair.
**Two stale comments:** `names()` returns declaration order rather than sorted, and
`scheduled_event.hbs` pointed at `build.py` for values this port computes in
`election_config::build_tables`.
577 sequent-core tests, fmt clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two lists that had to agree with the platform and were written out again beside it —
the same fault as the counting algorithms in #2981, and the same fix.
**`EVENT_PROCESSORS` is gone.** `event_processor` parses through
`EventProcessors::from_str` and returns the typed value, so the eleven strings are the
enum's `strum` spellings and nothing else. The fuzzy normalisation authors rely on —
"start voting period", "start-voting-period" — happens before the parse, as it did.
`check_voting_windows` compares variants instead of string literals.
**`scheduled_event_task_id` is gone too.** Its own doc said it "mirrors
`generate_manage_date_task_name`… reproduced rather than approximated", and the
template beside it warns that a different shape means a task that never fires. It
calls the platform's function now. The two tests that asserted the exact task name
still assert it, so they pin the scheduler's shape rather than the copy's.
`EventProcessors` gains `EnumIter`, which is what lets the "expected one of" message
name the variants instead of a list beside them.
577 sequent-core tests, fmt clean, and the emitted CSV is unchanged — the task-name
assertions are byte-for-byte what they were.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Worked through the review — 13 of the 17 addressed across four commits (ab5a5c8, 96964d9, 3ba7736, 8452d2a). Each finding was checked against the code first; every one below was real.

Defects

  • build_realm.rs panicked on a malformed base export..expect("a realm component is an object") on an array element that can be any JSON value. Reported through self.warn now, like the missing-attributes case two blocks above.
  • build_realm.rs returned a realm of the wrong type. A failed reparse after the id swap returned Value::String(swapped), so keycloak_event_realm held text where the importer expects an object — and it takes it wholesale. Carries the realm over unchanged and says so.
  • time.rs could overflow.offset_minutes * 60 is i32 and instant() runs before check(); checked_mul folds it into the existing problem. Test added.
  • Two schedule rows for one processor and election became one. Same uuid5, same task id, importer keeps one, other time lost silently. DuplicateId naming the earlier row, like require_unique does for voters. Test added.
  • A whitespace-only authorized-election-ids denied every election. Present-but-blank fell through the is_empty guard to an empty attribute. A blank cell now means what an absent one means.
  • row.text read ids differently from resolve. No numeric coercion, no trim — so a numeric external_id registered in the first Areas pass and vanished in the second, and in AreaContests two different numeric pairs both keyed the duplicate check as ("", ""). Both reads go through value_as_text. The numeric-id test is extended to both sheets, which is your build_tests.rs finding.
  • Plan validation caught only self-parenting.climbs_into_a_loop walks the chain with a visited set, so A→B→A is reported in the plan's own vocabulary. Test added.

One source of truth

  • EVENT_PROCESSORS is gone.event_processor parses through EventProcessors::from_str and returns the typed value; check_voting_windows compares variants. The fuzzy normalisation happens before the parse, as before.
  • scheduled_event_task_id is gone. Its own doc said it mirrored generate_manage_date_task_name "reproduced rather than approximated" — it calls that function now, and the two tests that asserted the exact task name still do, so they pin the scheduler's shape rather than a copy's. EventProcessors gained EnumIter so the "expected one of" message names the variants.

Stale comments: names() returns declaration order, not sorted; scheduled_event.hbs pointed at build.py for values election_config::build_tables computes.

The fixture coverage check could not fail. Its comment claimed a new Code without a case fails the test; it walked a hard-coded list. Every variant is walked and placed by an exhaustive match now — which is how ConflictingColumns, missing from the old list, got placed.

Still open, deliberately:

  • contest.hbs placeholders — I have not removed them. You are right that the template fills fields before validation sees them, so MissingField can never fire for those five. But these templates were ported from janitor and ✨ step-cli and the browser over the shared core #2983 claims byte-for-byte parity with its output; removing keys makes the builder stricter than the tool it replaces and would reject workbooks that build today. That is a product call about which columns become mandatory, not a code cleanup, so it needs the ticket owner rather than me.
  • presets.rs typed Requirement.kind and tests.yml least-privilege permissions — both agreed, not yet done.

577 sequent-core tests, all seven feature gates and cargo fmt --check clean, verified in the devcontainer.

edulixand others added 3 commits August 22, 2026 12:08
**A misspelled requirement kind checked the wrong collection.** `Requirement.kind`
was a `&'static str` and the realm builder matched it with `"flow" => flows,
"authenticator_config" => configs, _ => authenticators` — so a typo fell into the
authenticator arm, compared against the wrong list and reported nothing. It is a
`RequirementKind` now, the match is exhaustive, and the test that asserted the string
was one of three is gone because the type says it.
**The `feature-gates` job declared no `permissions`**, so it inherited whatever the
repository default is, to check out code and run `cargo check`. `contents: read`, and
`persist-credentials: false` so the job token does not sit in `.git/config` for every
later step to read.
577 sequent-core tests, fmt clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`uid` keys on the kind and the `external_id` and nothing else — no enclosing
election, no row number — so the same identifier twice inside a kind mints one id
for two things and the second replaces the first wherever it is referenced. The
plan validator caught a duplicate area *name* and nothing else; the builder caught
the identifier, but as a workbook row number, which is not a thing a wizard author
ever saw.
One helper, `require_unique_external_id`, used for areas, elections, contests and
candidates. Contests and candidates are keyed across the whole plan rather than per
election, because that is how `uid` keys them: the same contest identifier in two
elections is one contest on the ballot.
A blank identifier is left to the `MissingField` rule that already owns it — two
things to fill in are not two names for one thing, and "duplicate" would point at
the wrong repair. `an_unset_identifier_is_a_missing_field_and_not_a_duplicate`
pins that.
Also drops a doubled comment in `fixtures.rs`, left from the previous pass.
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`contest.hbs` carries `min_votes`, `max_votes`, `winning_candidates_num`,
`voting_type` and `counting_algorithm`, so those five are always present by the
time `validate` looks and its `MissingField` rule for them cannot fire. A workbook
that omits `max_votes` gets "choose one" and nothing says so.
Removing the template values is not the fix: `contests_sheet` did not write two of
them at all, so an Architect plan would stop building, and janitor's workbooks —
which #2983 matches byte for byte — rely on the rest. Which columns become
mandatory is a product call for the ticket owner.
What does not need one is being told. `build_contests` warns per column, naming
the value that stood in, and `contests_sheet` now writes `voting_type` and
`counting_algorithm` itself: the wizard offers one voting method today, and a
workbook that says which one is a document somebody can read, which a template
default is not. Same values, so the built bundle is byte-for-byte what it was.
`contest.hbs` claimed validation rejects a contest missing any of the five. It
does not, and now says so.
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All seventeen review threads are now answered inline and resolved. The four that were still open at the last pass:

presets.rs typed Requirement.kind — done in d398529. RequirementKind over Flow, Authenticator and AuthenticatorConfig, with Display and FromStr over the same lowercase strings. The realm builder matches exhaustively, so a typo is a compile error rather than a silent trip down the authenticator path.

tests.yml least privilege — done in d398529. permissions: contents: read on the gate job, persist-credentials: false on the checkout.

A plan may not reuse an identifier2d5e16d, and it was the one finding nobody had touched. uid keys on the kind and the external_id and nothing else, so the same identifier twice inside a kind mints one id for two things and the second replaces the first wherever it is referenced. The plan validator caught a duplicate area name; the builder caught the identifier, but as a workbook row number, which is not a thing a wizard author ever saw. One helper, require_unique_external_id, now used for areas, elections, contests and candidates — the same hole was in all four, and contests and candidates are keyed across the whole plan rather than per election because that is how uid keys them. A blank identifier stays with the MissingField rule that owns it; two things to fill in are not two names for one thing.

contest.hbs placeholders75b7f11, addressed but not as prescribed. Removing the five values breaks two callers: contests_sheet did not write voting_type or counting_algorithm at all, so every Architect plan would stop building, and janitor's workbooks — which #2983 matches byte for byte — leave the rest out too. Which columns become mandatory is a product call about the import format. What is not a product call is being told: build_contests warns per column, naming the value that stood in, and contests_sheet now writes those two itself, since the wizard offers one voting method today and a workbook that says which one is a document somebody can read. Same values, so the built bundle is byte-for-byte what it was. The template's comment claimed validation rejects a contest missing any of the five; it does not, and now says so.

583 sequent-core tests, all six feature gates and cargo fmt --check clean in the devcontainer.

edulixand others added 2 commits August 22, 2026 14:07
Two things wrong with the commit before this one.
The `check_areas` doc comment ended up above `require_unique_external_id`, so
"Districting: the areas themselves" documented a duplicate-id check. Put back.
Worse, the warning listed the five substituted values in the builder, which is a
second copy of what `contest.hbs` says — the one-source-of-truth fault this review
already caught twice. It now reads the value out of the rendered contest, after the
row's overrides have been merged over it, so the message names the value the bundle
actually carries and a change to the template cannot make it lie. The test asserts
the value, not just the column.
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`contests_sheet` writes all five ballot-shaping columns, so nothing is left for
`contest.hbs` to stand in for and the new warning must be silent on a compiled
plan. Asserted rather than assumed: dropping a column from that sheet would
otherwise only show up as a warning nobody reads.
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…inst it (#2981)
Parent issue: sequentech/meta#12769
**1 of 4**, base `main`. Stacked above:
[#2982](#2982) →
[#2983](#2983) →
[#2988](#2988).
**The only one of the four that changes existing behaviour.** The rest
are additions.
## Why
Three tools built or checked an election-event import and shared no
code: windmill's importer, janitor's Python, the Election Architect's
TypeScript. Each had its own bundle schema, CSV byte shapes and
validation, and each got them slightly differently. Every defect found
while building janitor was one implementation disagreeing with the
platform.
## What changes
| | |
|---|---|
| **Moved** | `ImportElectionEventSchema` and the report types →
`sequent-core::election_config`. windmill re-exports both, so its ~10
call sites are untouched. `TryFrom<Row>` stays in windmill: it needs
`tokio_postgres`, which cannot compile to WASM. |
| **Reshaped** | `keycloak_event_realm` → opaque `serde_json::Value`;
`tenant_id` → `String` with a shape check in validation. The `keycloak`
crate would pull `reqwest`, `uuid` would pull `getrandom`. No field
loses anything, and the export path still runs `parse_uuid_v4`. |
| **New** | `election_config::validate` — pure checks returning
structured `Problem`s, each with a machine-readable code, a dotted path
and the entity's `external_id`. No database, no IO, no clock, because it
has to run in a browser. |
| **Wired** | windmill validates the bundle **as written**, before
`replace_ids` rewrites identifiers, and refuses the import on anything
fatal. The operator gets every problem at once, in the wording the
browser-side tools use. |
| **Example** | `validate_bundle` — the same call `step-cli` and the
browser make, for checking an export from a shell. |
## The part that deserves scrutiny
Wiring validation into the import path means **a bundle that used to
import can now be refused** — including the platform's own export,
re-imported for disaster recovery.
Four rules were fatal and should not have been: a contest with no
candidates, a contest not yet on any area's ballot, an area with no
contests assigned, and — reported since — an event with no areas at all.
An event still being configured legitimately looks like that; those
bundles are self-consistent and import into a working event. They just
mean nobody votes there yet.
| | |
|---|---|
| **Error** | Internally inconsistent, or the platform would reject or
corrupt it |
| **Warning** | Consistent, but the configuration looks unintended |
Authoring tools treat warnings as blocking through a strict mode rather
than by lying about severity here. Pinned from both sides by
`an_event_still_being_configured_can_be_re_imported` and
`an_inconsistent_bundle_is_still_refused`.
## Verified
- `sequent-core` — 219 passed at `keycloak,default_features`, in the
devcontainer
- `windmill` — 308 passed
- `cargo fmt --check`, `reuse lint` clean
- Against the generated SEIU1000 bundle: 0 errors, 1 warning — the
permission label that made every election invisible on that event's
first real import
## Reading it
Four commits, one thing each: report types moved in → bundle schema
moved out of windmill → the shared validation → windmill validating
before importing.
Then two from the review: the algorithm list and the preferential split
now come from `CountingAlgType` instead of being written out beside it,
negative vote counts are refused rather than passing every relational
check, and a report's permission label reports
`reports[].permission_label` instead of pointing at `elections`. Plus
the two boundaries that were untested — an event with no areas, and a
fatal bundle failing the import.
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## Summary by CodeRabbit
* **New Features**
* Added comprehensive election bundle validation for required fields,
references, identifiers, contest configuration, ballot coverage,
permissions, and scheduling.
* Added structured reports with categorized errors and warnings.
* Added shared election import schemas, report definitions, scheduling,
and encryption settings.
* Added a command-line tool to validate bundles and return failure
status when errors are found.
* **Improvements**
* Import processing now validates bundles and reports warnings before
completion.
* Tenant and realm data are preserved consistently during import and
export.
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