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What changed in this PR
Adds VIPER 2 backend support for Student Career Selection, including persistence, APIs, permissions, exports, migration tooling, and tests.
Changes:
- Adds Career Selection models, services, endpoints, access controls, and exports.
- Refactors shared student lookup, access, and export functionality.
- Adds migration and analysis tooling with backend test coverage.
| File | Description |
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web/Viper.csproj |
Excludes migration scripts from web compilation. |
web/Classes/Utilities/PersonSearchHelper.cs |
Supports nullable name selectors. |
web/Classes/Utilities/PdfAccessibilityHelper.cs |
Adds accessible PDF placeholders and footers. |
web/Classes/Utilities/ExcelHelper.cs |
Adds workbook stream serialization. |
web/Classes/Utilities/CsvExportHelper.cs |
Adds sanitized UTF-8 CSV generation. |
web/Classes/SQLContext/StudentsContext.cs |
Maps Career Selection entities and relationships. |
web/Classes/ApiController.cs |
Adds shared export response helpers. |
web/Areas/Students/Services/StudentListAccess.cs |
Defines student-list access scopes. |
web/Areas/Students/Services/StudentExportHelper.cs |
Centralizes student export formatting. |
web/Areas/Students/Services/StudentAppAccessService.cs |
Manages student application permissions. |
web/Areas/Students/Services/IStudentAppAccessService.cs |
Defines application-access operations. |
web/Areas/Students/Services/IDvmStudentLookupService.cs |
Defines DVM student lookup operations. |
web/Areas/Students/Services/ICareerSelectionService.cs |
Defines Career Selection operations. |
web/Areas/Students/Services/ICareerSelectionOptionService.cs |
Defines option-management operations. |
web/Areas/Students/Services/EmergencyContactService.cs |
Reuses shared access and lookup services. |
web/Areas/Students/Services/EmergencyContactExportService.cs |
Reuses shared export helpers. |
web/Areas/Students/Services/DvmStudentLookupService.cs |
Implements current-student lookup. |
web/Areas/Students/Services/CareerSelectionService.cs |
Implements Career Selection business logic. |
web/Areas/Students/Services/CareerSelectionScope.cs |
Defines Career Selection visibility scopes. |
web/Areas/Students/Services/CareerSelectionOptionService.cs |
Manages configurable selection options. |
web/Areas/Students/Services/CareerSelectionExportService.cs |
Generates Career Selection exports. |
web/Areas/Students/Scripts/RunMigrateData.bat |
Runs the data migration. |
web/Areas/Students/Scripts/RunAnalysis.bat |
Runs migration analysis. |
web/Areas/Students/Scripts/Program.cs |
Routes migration commands. |
web/Areas/Students/Scripts/CareerSelectionScriptHelper.cs |
Provides migration utilities and safeguards. |
web/Areas/Students/Scripts/CareerSelectionMigration.csproj |
Defines migration-tool dependencies. |
web/Areas/Students/Models/StudentCareerRowDto.cs |
Defines shared roster fields. |
web/Areas/Students/Models/StudentCareerReportDto.cs |
Defines detailed report output. |
web/Areas/Students/Models/StudentCareerListItemDto.cs |
Defines roster completion output. |
web/Areas/Students/Models/StudentCareerInfoDto.cs |
Defines editable Career Selection data. |
web/Areas/Students/Models/StudentCareerDetailDto.cs |
Defines detailed selection responses. |
web/Areas/Students/Models/MentorOptionDto.cs |
Defines mentor search results. |
web/Areas/Students/Models/Entities/SpeciesOption.cs |
Maps species options. |
web/Areas/Students/Models/Entities/PostGradOption.cs |
Maps post-graduation options. |
web/Areas/Students/Models/Entities/ICareerSelectionOption.cs |
Defines common option behavior. |
web/Areas/Students/Models/Entities/CareerSelection.cs |
Maps stored career selections. |
web/Areas/Students/Models/Entities/CareerOption.cs |
Maps career options. |
web/Areas/Students/Models/CareerSelectionOptionWriteResult.cs |
Represents option-write outcomes. |
web/Areas/Students/Models/CareerSelectionOptionRequest.cs |
Defines option-write requests. |
web/Areas/Students/Models/CareerSelectionOptionDto.cs |
Defines option response data. |
web/Areas/Students/Models/CareerSelectionMapper.cs |
Maps submitted selections to entities. |
web/Areas/Students/Models/CareerOptionType.cs |
Defines option categories and route slugs. |
web/Areas/Students/Models/CareerDropdownOption.cs |
Defines dropdown values. |
web/Areas/Students/Controllers/EmergencyContactController.cs |
Uses shared export responses. |
web/Areas/Students/Controllers/CareerSelectionController.cs |
Exposes Career Selection APIs and exports. |
web/Areas/Students/Constants/StudentRoles.cs |
Centralizes the DVM student role. |
web/Areas/Students/Constants/EmergencyContactPermissions.cs |
Reuses the shared student role constant. |
web/Areas/Students/Constants/CareerSelectionPermissions.cs |
Defines Career Selection permissions. |
test/Students/TestableAAUDContext.cs |
Supports AAUD-backed service testing. |
test/Students/StudentAppAccessServiceTests.cs |
Tests application-access behavior. |
test/Students/ExportServiceTests.cs |
Tests generated export formats. |
test/Students/EmergencyContactServiceTests.cs |
Tests refactored Emergency Contact services. |
test/Students/DvmStudentLookupServiceTests.cs |
Tests DVM student lookup behavior. |
test/Students/CareerSelectionServiceTests.cs |
Tests Career Selection business logic. |
test/Students/CareerSelectionOptionServiceTests.cs |
Tests option management. |
test/Students/CareerSelectionMapperTests.cs |
Tests selection mapping. |
.jscpd.json |
Excludes migration scripts from duplication checks. |
.gitignore |
Ignores migration analysis output. |
.editorconfig |
Configures analyzer suppression for the new DTO. |
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR adds a career-selection feature with student and mentor access controls, option management, and Excel, PDF, and CSV exports. It adds tools to analyze and migrate legacy career-selection data. Shared DVM lookup, app-access, and export code is also added or updated for emergency-contact services. ChangesCareer Selection Application
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Client
participant CareerSelectionController
participant CareerSelectionService
participant VIPERContext
Client->>CareerSelectionController: Request student career detail
CareerSelectionController->>CareerSelectionService: Check scope and load detail
CareerSelectionService->>VIPERContext: Read selection and option records
VIPERContext-->>CareerSelectionService: Return stored records
CareerSelectionService-->>CareerSelectionController: Return detail DTO
CareerSelectionController-->>Client: Return authorized response
Career Selection Migration Tools
Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The Career Selection backend is broadly sound. The migration tooling has two issues to fix or consciously accept before the production run. First, the column-width checks may undercount text limits, which would cause the migration to fail and roll back. Second, a failure after the commit is reported as "nothing was written." A small flag mismatch after saving can also briefly change roster-link visibility for faculty who also edit their own records. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
✅ Passed checks (4 passed)
Full details: Docstring CoverageExplanation Docstring coverage is 31.02% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 403 functions across 50 files. (12 skipped: 7 unsupported, 5 over the file limit.)
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🛠️ Fix failing CI checks 💡
🧪 Generate unit tests (beta)
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In `@test/Students/ExportServiceTests.cs`:
- Around line 122-126: Update the export assertion in the test using `lines[1]`
to check the Species 2 column directly at field index 5, so the test fails if
`OptionalCompletenessLabel` returns “No” instead of blank. Do not rely on a
generic empty-field match, since `LastUpdated` is also null.
In `@web/Areas/Students/Controllers/CareerSelectionController.cs`:
- Around line 306-307: Update the `GetStudentCareerDetail` and
`UpdateStudentCareerSelection` flows to compute `canViewStudentList`
consistently, including the Faculty permission alongside Admin and ReadOnly. Put
the shared permission calculation in one helper and use it for both endpoints so
the refreshed DTO matches the GET response.
In `@web/Areas/Students/Scripts/CareerSelectionScriptHelper.cs`:
- Around line 490-502: Update the column-width metadata query in the method
containing this SQL to use character lengths instead of the byte-based
sys.columns.max_length, and retrieve the converted length as an int. Update the
query parameters and reader access accordingly so Unicode column limits are
compared in characters.
In `@web/Areas/Students/Scripts/MigrateCareerSelectionData.cs`:
- Around line 192-197: In MigrateCareerSelectionData.cs lines 192-197, move
ReseedIdentities and the “COMMITTED.” output outside the transaction try/catch,
guarded by _apply, so the catch only handles failures before commit. In
RunMigrateData.bat lines 97-101, replace “Nothing was written.” with a message
directing users to check whether the transaction committed.
In `@web/Areas/Students/Scripts/Program.cs`:
- Around line 31-33: Update Program.Main’s “migrate-data” case to return the
result of MigrateCareerSelectionData.Run. Change Run to return an int, returning
2 when the operator declines and 0 after a completed migration.
In `@web/Areas/Students/Scripts/RunAnalysis.bat`:
- Around line 26-28: Add setlocal at the start of RunAnalysis.bat so its
ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT assignment, including the optional argument override,
remains local to the script and does not alter the caller’s shell environment.
In `@web/Areas/Students/Scripts/RunMigrateData.bat`:
- Around line 32-37: Configure Git attributes so batch files, including the one
containing the :parse and :parsed labels, are checked out with CRLF line
endings; leave the argument parser unchanged.
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Nothing to do for now, but we should think about how we want to do data migrations. The effort system scripts were meant to be a one-off, but we are repeating them for new areas that need data migrations. We should build a generic system for future migrations.
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I'm curious how the migrations were handled for previous smaller projects, like the Emergency Contact section. The Phone List migration was a fairly significant schema and data change, but this one was close to 1-to-1 so probably could have bypassed a formal migration script.
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Why add a test in an unrelated area to the career selection? Is the career selection using the Excel output classes from the Effort system? Since it would be across areas now, maybe we should move the Excel processing code to a more centralized place.
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I centralized the Excel system but looks like I didn't centralize the unit tests for it. This addition is because code review flagged a security issue when using it for CSV exports, so it may not be necessary if we remove that export option.
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An admin save can wipe the mentor. If the stored FacultyMothraId has no AaudUser row, the detail lookup at :224 returns a null MentorId, the form sends it back, and this line clears the mentor. Migrated data can hit this since the migration only checks HasMothraId. Could we keep the stored mentor when the request's is null and the stored one didn't resolve, and have the migration report mentors missing from AaudUser?
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This stacked PR migrates the Student Career Selection tool from VIPER 1 to VIPER 2. This first PR covers the backend and database changes, including the database migration script.
Notable Changes from Legacy
Notable Changes to Existing Codebase
Deploying
In addition to this stacked PR and separate VIPER 1 changes to redirect links and a query to the new source of truth, a few changes are needed to deploy this PR.
First, the following database additions are required:
The migration script must be run on production. The data verification script passed successfully, and migration has already been completed on test.
The new permission mentioned above must be created and assigned to the STUDENTS_DVM role.
The Left Nav link needs to be updated.