Editing

I decided it was time to start writing tests for the editing functions using the JobQueue, and DocCache. In other words, it was time to wire up the components into the beginnings of a real editor service.

I described the design in the README.md in the services directory

I first wrote a test for DocumentHydrator, then prompted it to make the DocumentHydrator class:

read @src/dockb/services/README.md and implement the DocumentHydrator class so it matches
@tests/dockb/services/semantics/test_document_hydrator.py

This worked perfectly, and it shows how well TDD works with an LLM. I then went on to do the same to make the other hydrators.

Now I need to create the equivalent of the AsyncSentenceReconstructor, and the SyncSentenceReconstructor, for Document, Chapter, and Paragraph. I wrote the design document and the tests.

Then I realised that the 4 Sync... and 4 Async... classes, and the 3 Hydrators and the SentenceTokenizer were so similar, I could combine them. I ended up with:

• DocumentHydrator
• ChapterHydrator
• ParagraphHydrator
• SentenceTokenizer
• Reconstructor (abstract)
• SyncReconstructor (implements Reconstructor) - really only used in tests...
• AsyncReconstructor (implements Reconstructor)

Now the thing is, that when a model's set_text() method is called, I really want the AsyncReconstructor to be automatically triggered, but its constructor must be passed a DocCache, and JobQueue, which the models are ignorant of, and I don't want to have to pass them to the set_text() function. That would be really awkward and would cause a dependency nightmare.

Therefore, the models need to optionally trigger a listener. The models need to use the DockbCollection class (which I'd created a day or so ago, but not used) rather than just a simple List. I can make this collection class auto-parent models that are added to it, and the models can maintain a reference to their own parent.
The editing functions in DockbBase are not needed either... so I instructed the LLM to remove them and clean up their associated tests.
Then I designed the automatic parenting (documented in the README.md), made a test, and told the LLM to implement it.

At this stage now, I need to design how the editing will work.

By the way... I was talking to a colleague, complaining about how OpenCode is inclined to go ahead rather than wait for me to instruct it to write code, and he said, "It has a plan mode, you push TAB."
Embarrassing! Yes, that helps a lot!