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The real-data era: token live, stubs retired, editions on demand

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BGG application approved. The migration the stub markers guarded for
weeks: both synthetic caches deleted; tests/fixtures/bgg_cache
re-recorded from the live API (recording list extended to every
scenario the suite exercises — Civilization truncation, the Sorcerer
SPI tiebreak, StarForce, Flat Top's thematic year, Alice Is Missing's
rpgitem fallback); resolve --force re-matched all 133 titles for real
(109 auto, 6 ambiguous, 18 unmatched, 30 edition ballots);
data/STUB_DATA.marker deleted with its exit condition met — the guard
mechanism stays armed should stubs ever regenerate.

Reality fixed one bug and taught one lesson. The bug: a multi-type
search lists an expansion twice (once per matched type) and the parser
kept the generic boardgame entry — parse_search now dedupes by id
preferring the specific type, which is what keeps expansion tagging
(the base-vs-expansion review guard) alive on real data. The lesson:
hand-built ambiguity is tidier than the real thing — Wingspan has 46
versions with three plausible English Stonemaier printings, so the
suite's synthetic version ids and version_auto expectations became
real ballots (assertions updated to recorded reality; the cue-plumbing
test keeps its crafted two-version scenario via an injected
transport).

New: pick edition. A cue-less matched row is version_unknown by design
(never guess) — but the owner knows which printing the box is.
open_version_ballot() fetches the game's complete version list,
cue-scores it when cues exist, and marks the row version_ambiguous so
the normal Review edition pass presents it; the Titles page grows the
button (Eric's three Wiz-Wars: two cue-less copies can now each claim
their edition).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016jXZFSTZQKzAC8fqpWSz9g
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Eric Wagoner
2026-08-05 18:50:17 -04:00
co-authored by Claude Fable 5
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Two of those files deserve a word:
- **`data/STUB_DATA.marker`** — the committed CSVs were resolved from *hand-written stub fixtures* (the author's BGG application is still awaiting approval), so every version id in them is a synthetic placeholder. The upload stage refuses to run while this marker exists, precisely so nobody (including a fresh clone) can push placeholder data to a real BGG account. Starting fresh with your own token, you'll never see it again.
- **`data/STUB_DATA.marker`** — normally absent. It appears only if the synthetic stub fixtures (from `scripts/write_stub_fixtures.py`) regenerate the CSVs, and the upload stage refuses to run while it exists — so placeholder data can never reach a real BGG account. The committed CSVs are real API data.
- **`data/collection_snapshot_*.xml`** — with `BGG_API_TOKEN` set, `diff` fetches your collection live and you don't need these. Without a token (still waiting on approval?), you can use the logged-in-browser exemption: while signed in to BGG, save these two URLs as `data/collection_snapshot_base.xml` and `data/collection_snapshot_expansions.xml` (if you get a "queued" message, refresh after a few seconds):
- `https://boardgamegeek.com/xmlapi2/collection?username=YOU&own=1&version=1`
- `https://boardgamegeek.com/xmlapi2/collection?username=YOU&own=1&version=1&subtype=boardgameexpansion`