A single tile that only extended a word perpendicular to the client-declared
direction was rejected: the UI always sent dir=H for one-tile plays (the
dirOverride/Controls toggle was orphaned in the Stage 7 game rework), so placing
"А" above "БАК" to form "АБАК" failed the solver's main-word-length check even
though the word is in the dictionary.
Make the backend infer a play's orientation from the placed tiles and the board
(internal/engine.resolveDirection): two or more tiles by the line they share, a
lone tile by the axis it abuts (longer word wins, horizontal on a tie). Direction
becomes an output, not an input: drop dir from the SubmitPlay/Eval wire requests
and add it to EvalResult. Journal replay keeps trusting the stored "H"/"V"
(SubmitPlayDir) so a rebuilt game matches the one committed.
UI: stop computing/sending direction; the preview now shows the words a move
forms with its total score (game.previewWords); the make-move control is disabled
until the play is confirmed legal; the "your turn" label hides while tiles are
pending. Delete the orphaned Controls.svelte.
Regenerate the FlatBuffers bindings (Go + TS) and update the gateway transcode
and the loadtest edge client to the new contract. Bake the decision into
ARCHITECTURE.md (§5/§9.1), FUNCTIONAL.md (+ _ru) and the backend README.
Move the cross-file integration fixtures — the service constructors
(newGameService/newSocialService/newRobotService/newMatchmaker), the game-assembly
helpers (newMirror/newGameWithSeats/newDraftGame), account provisioning
(provisionAccount/provisionGuest) and the stats reader — out of the domain test
files (newGameService alone was used by 10 files) into a single
backend/internal/inttest/helpers.go. Helpers used by a single file stay local.
Pure relocation: the helper bodies are unchanged, no test logic changes; the
imports the moves left unused are pruned. go vet -tags=integration is clean.
Foundation for persisting a player's client-side composition: a game_drafts table
(game_id, account_id, rack_order, board_tiles jsonb) with raw-SQL store/service methods —
GetDraft/SaveDraft (seated-player check) and, on every committed move, clearing the actor's
own draft and resetting any opponent's board draft whose cell the play overlapped (the
draft can no longer be placed; the rack order is kept). Integration tests cover the
round-trip, the actor clear, the overlap reset, a non-conflicting survival, and the
outsider rejection. The gateway op slice + UI wiring follow.
Ilia Denisov