Three tables behind the template configuration feature:
section_field the reusable heading library (name, level, font size,
colour)
paper_template a named outline (name, abstract)
template_field the join, and the only home of display order (sort)
The field library is deliberately flat. A `parent_id` would tie a level-2
heading to exactly one level-1 heading, and the point of the feature is that
a field such as "Background" can sit under both "1. Introduction" and
"2. Related Work" — and in any number of templates, at a different position
in each. Hierarchy is expressed only by `level`, which is a rendering hint.
Display order lives entirely in `template_field.sort`. The order fields were
picked in is never stored, so selecting fields out of order and assigning
sorts renders in sort order. Two consequences are intentional and documented
on the model: repeats are allowed (no unique constraint on template+field)
and ties are legal (broken by insertion order, so the ordering is total).
Templates reference library fields rather than copying them, so renaming or
restyling a field updates every template that places it.
TiDB parses FOREIGN KEY and then ignores it, so the constraints are declared
for documentation and the integrity is enforced in the application layer:
deleting a field still in use is refused with the field names, creating a
template against a missing field is refused, and deleting a template removes
its join rows through the ORM's delete-orphan cascade.
Also normalises font_color to #RRGGBB on write (accepting rgb() and
shorthand) and emits font_size as a JSON number rather than pydantic's
default Decimal string.
scripts/seed.py is idempotent and fills the library with a standard academic
outline plus three starter templates.
Backend (backend/):
- FastAPI app with layered app/{api,core,crud,db,models,schemas} structure
- TiDB connection via SQLAlchemy. The URL is built with URL.create rather
than string formatting: the password contains '@', which would otherwise be
parsed as the user/host separator and silently truncate the credential.
- Alembic environment wired to Base.metadata and the app settings, so
backend/.env stays the single source of truth for credentials
- /api/health endpoint reporting database reachability
- models/ and crud/ are intentionally empty: no model classes are defined and
no tables are created, at import time or otherwise
Frontend (frontend/):
- Vue 3 + Vite + TypeScript scaffold (create-vue, --bare)
- axios instance with a normalized error shape
- vue-router with a home route and a catch-all 404
- pinia + pinia-plugin-persistedstate; the app store persists selected keys
- Element Plus with its icons registered globally
- dev proxy forwards /api to the FastAPI service on port 8000
The database paper_doc was created in TiDB out of band; no table exists yet.
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