Editing

I decided it is 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 a 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 help to 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!