This was removed in #25280 as the relevant DB entities didn't go outside the DB layer anymore. SS14.Admin however still uses them directly (as it only supports Postgres), so the interface is still useful there.
How can ONE DATABASE COLUMN have so many cursed issues I don't know, but it certainly pissed off the devil in its previous life.
The start_date column on round entities in the database was added by https://github.com/space-wizards/space-station-14/pull/21153. For some reason, this PR gave the column a nonsensical default value instead of making it nullable. This default value causes the code from #25280 to break. It actually trips an assert though that's not what the original issue report ran into.
This didn't get noticed on wizden servers because we at some point backfilled the start_date column based on the stored admin logs.
So I change the database model to make this column nullable, updated the C# code to match, and made the existing migration set the invalid values to be NULL instead. Cool.
Wait how's SQLite handle in this scenario anyways? Well actually turns out the column was *completely broken* in the first place!
The code for inserting into the round table was copy pasted between SQLite and PostgreSQL, with the only difference being that the SQLite key manually assigned the primary key instead of letting SQLite AUTOINCREMENT it. And then the code to give a start_date value was only added to the PostgreSQL version (which is actually in the base class already). So for SQLite that column's been filled up with the same invalid default the whole time.
Why was the code manually assigning a PK? I checked the SQLite docs for AUTOINCREMENT[1], and the behavior seems appropriate.
I removed the SQLite-specific code path and it just seems to work regardless. The migration just sets the old values to NULL too.
BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!
Turns out just doing the migration on SQLite is a pain in the ass! EF Core has to create a new table to apply the nullability change, because SQLite doesn't support proper ALTER COLUMN. This causes the generated SQL commands to be weird and the UPDATE for the migration goes BEFORE the nullability change... I ended up having to make TWO migrations for SQLite. Yay.
Fixes#26800
[1]: https://www.sqlite.org/autoinc.html
Fixes#26211
Admin messages now have separate "seen" and "dismissed" fields. The idea is that an admin should be able to tell whether a user pressed the "dismiss for now" button. Instead of using "seen" as "show this message to players when they join", "dismissed" is now used for this.
Existing notes in the database will automatically be marked as dismissed on migration. A note cannot be dismissed without being seen (enforced via constraint in the database too, aren't I fancy).
As part of this, it has become impossible for a player to play without dismissing the message in some form. Instead of a shitty popup window, the popup is now a fullscreen overlay that blocks clicks behind it, making the game unplayable. Also, if a user somehow has multiple messages they will be combined into one popup.
Also I had enough respect for the codebase to make it look better and clean up the code somewhat. Yippee.
God bloody christ. There's like three layers of shit here.
So firstly, apparently we were still using Npgsql.EnableLegacyTimestampBehavior. This means that time values (which are stored UTC in the database) were converted to local time when read out. This meant they were passed around as kind Local to clients (instead of UTC in the case of SQLite). That's easy enough to fix just turn off the flag and fix the couple spots we're passing a local DateTime ez.
Oh but it turns out there's a DIFFERENT problem with SQLite: See SQLite we definitely store the DateTimes as UTC, but when Microsoft.Data.Sqlite reads them it reads them as Kind Unspecified instead of Utc.
Why are these so bad? Because the admin notes system passes DateTime instances from EF Core straight to the rest of the game code. And that means it's a PAIN IN THE ASS to run the necessary conversions to fix the DateTime instances. GOD DAMNIT now I have to make a whole new set of "Record" entities so we avoid leaking the EF Core model entities. WAAAAAAA.
Fixes#19897
* Give .props files 2-space indents.
* Move to Central Package Management.
Allows us to store NuGet package versions all in one place. Yay!
* Update NuGet packages and fix code for changes.
Notable:
Changes to ILVerify.
Npgsql doesn't need hacks for inet anymore, now we need hacks to make the old code work with this new reality.
NUnit's analyzers are already complaining and I didn't even update it to 4.x yet.
TerraFX changed to GetLastSystemError so error handling had to be changed.
Buncha APIs have more NRT annotations.
* Remove dotnet-eng NuGet package source.
I genuinely don't know what this was for, and Central Package Management starts throwing warnings about it, so YEET.
* Remove Robust.Physics project.
Never used.
* Remove erroneous NVorbis reference.
Should be VorbisPizza and otherwise wasn't used.
* Sandbox fixes
* Remove unused unit test package references.
Castle.Core and NUnit.ConsoleRunner.
* Update NUnit to 4.0.1
This requires replacing all the old assertion methods because they removed them 🥲
* Oh so that's what dotnet-eng was used for. Yeah ok that makes sense.
* Add Robust.Analyzers.Test
* Update submodule
* commit to re-run CI
Role bans (#6703) seemed to have changes to the DB model from after the migrations were created. This means a bunch of constraints/indices changed names and this wasn't reflected in a migration yet.
This means Content.Server.Database doesn't have a direct hard dependency on an SQLite implementation. The implementation is already provided by Robust anyways, so this means a publish of SS14.Admin doesn't need a libe_sqlite.so
Thanks to julian figuring out IDesignTimeDbContextFactory exists in #6327.
All this DbContext configuration and options setup stuff is insane. Microsoft should be absolutely ashamed for coming up with this load of garbage.
