GET /api/opportunities takes released_from, an RFC 3339 time, and lists
only the opportunities whose latest release is at or after it. It works
with paging and with changed_after, which keeps the same batch either
way; an invalid value is 400.
The frontend's filter defaults to 7 days, from midnight UK time, and
sends it with every load and catch-up, so a year of opportunities isn't
downloaded to show a week's. Changing the days loads the list again;
Clear filters goes back to 7.
Each save that records a batch also deletes, in the same
transaction, the batches older than database.change_batch_retention
(30 days by default; 0 or less keeps them for ever), with their
records of opportunities. A client still holding a deleted batch
gets 410 Gone from ?changed_after= and reloads the whole list, as
for any unknown batch.
Every save that stores new opportunities or new releases records them in a
change batch (migration 00008: opportunity_change_batches and
opportunity_change_batch_opportunities; the opportunities table is
unchanged), as does every change of marks. A batch is named by a random
SHA-256 hash, so it can't be guessed, and ordered by its created_at, which
is kept strictly increasing even if the clock goes back.
GET /api/opportunities pages now carry the newest batch, read before the
page, and GET /api/opportunities?changed_after=<batch> returns every
opportunity changed since that batch, unpaged, with the newest batch it
includes. Offset and limit can't be combined with it, and an unknown batch
is 410 Gone, telling the client to reload the whole list.
OpportunitiesUpdated now carries its save's batch, and a "large" flag: over
50 opportunities, new and updated are left empty and only the summary
counts them, so a big catch-up no longer sends tens of thousands of UUIDs.
bwilliams