Shards edit items and add new ones, and those carry cliloc ids no stock client
table has. Reading exactly one converted file meant an operator had to
re-export 5 MB every time they added one item — friction enough that the table
would simply go stale, which is the failure the spawn atlas was redesigned to
avoid in the first place.
So this mirrors spawnAtlasSource.readSources(): a BASE (the converted client
table) plus every operator-maintained overlay under `custom/`, all re-read on
every boot and hash-gated as a SET. Later sources win, so an overlay both adds
ids the client never had and overrides stock ones the shard re-purposed.
Adding, editing or removing any overlay counts as drift.
`custom/` is the one convention here that is ours rather than the shard's, and
deliberately so: ServUO has no server-side notion of a custom cliloc — they
live in the patched client a shard distributes, and nothing in the tree
declares them. There is nothing to discover. (An operator who does patch their
client cliloc needs no overlay: convert the patched file and the edits are in
the base.) Scale, measured on the live shard: its script tree references 16,434
cliloc ids and only 37 are absent from stock — tens against a 67k base, which
is why this is an overlay and not a second table.
The set brings back a hazard a single file did not have, and it gets the
atlas's answer. A corrupt source fails the parse loudly, but a source that has
VANISHED parses perfectly and imports a table quietly missing everything it
contributed — an unmounted volume is indistinguishable from a deliberate
deletion. So it is staged, not applied (`needsReview`), reported by both the
import and status(), and accepted with `{approve:true}`. That is a flag rather
than the atlas's approve/reject pair because the atlas stores a pending
decision SO THAT approving re-parses; here nothing is stored, so re-reading at
approval time is automatic.
Also reports a per-source breakdown (entries/added/overrode) on import and in
status, which is how an operator confirms an overlay took effect — "overrode: 0"
on a file meant to re-label stock items says it did not.
Two bugs this surfaced, both found by running a shard-style overlay rather than
by another stock-table fixture:
- displayText tidied punctuation unconditionally, so a custom
"Runic Gateway Sigil (v2)" rendered as "(v2". Stripping leftover brackets is
right after a placeholder is removed and wrong otherwise — the same condition
the `%` rule already had.
- CANDIDATE_NAMES did not include `clilocs.plain`, which is the exact filename
CLILOCS.md and the export tool's README tell operators to write. Pointing at
the directory they were told to create failed with NO_FILE.
Verified end to end against the live MariaDB and a real server boot: base-only
import, overlay adding one id and overriding another (per-source breakdown
correct), unchanged set as a no-op, an edited overlay re-importing and
withdrawing its override, a vanished overlay refused with the table intact,
status reporting missingSources, approve applying it, and a file-path
configuration still finding overlays beside it. All three resolve correctly
through the running server: shard-added, overridden and stock. 646 server tests
pass (16 new in clilocSource.test.js, 3 new in clilocParse.test.js); swagger,
routes.manifest.json and routes.guards.json regenerated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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