The dropdown offered the filter and it never worked. It rendered as
`value="0"`, and adminPhotos.js skips '0' outright:
if (category_id !== undefined && category_id !== '' && category_id !== '0') {
so no category condition was applied and the whole event came back. Four lines
below that guard sits the branch that does the work, keyed on the literal
'uncategorized' — which nothing was sending. The two ends have never agreed on
the wire value, and neither is wrong on its own.
It fails silently, which is why it went unnoticed: a full list reads as 'the
filter found nothing to narrow' rather than 'the filter did not run'.
Send what the backend already understands rather than teaching it a second
spelling. The onChange passes non-numeric values through unchanged, so the
string arrives intact.
Reported in #1209 by someone re-categorising a few thousand photos imported
without a category — the filter is the first step of filter, Select All, bulk
assign, so its failure takes the whole path with it.
Tests both ends of the contract, since the bug was the pairing rather than
either half: the frontend emits 'uncategorized', and the endpoint answers it
with only the null-category rows. The backend test also pins that 0 means no
filter, so a future change there has to be a decision rather than an accident.
Co-authored-by: Paul Nothaft <paul@MacStudio-von-Paul.local>
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