fix: seed system roles - #1066
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR adds system-role seeding with default permissions, integrates it into organization creation, adds tests for persistence behavior, and introduces a migration that backfills roles and role references for existing data. ChangesSystem role seeding
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to This PR moves organizations onto database-backed roles and permissions, but incomplete role seeding can leave users using legacy static permissions, creating a bounded authorization risk during rollout. Merge should wait for explicit migration approval and owner acceptance or mitigation of the missing-role fallback behavior. Suggested reviewers: Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant CreateOrgAndUser
participant seedSystemRolesForOrg
participant PostgreSQL
CreateOrgAndUser->>seedSystemRolesForOrg: seed roles for orgId
seedSystemRolesForOrg->>PostgreSQL: insert roles and default permissions
PostgreSQL-->>seedSystemRolesForOrg: commit transaction
seedSystemRolesForOrg-->>CreateOrgAndUser: continue organization setup
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In
`@db/src/scripts/api-server-pg/2026.08.25T15.56.24.seed_missing_system_roles.sql`:
- Line 1: Add a migration-level regression test for the migration beginning with
BEGIN; that runs against existing organization rows, then verifies permission
seeding and backfills null role_id values for both users and invite tokens. Keep
the existing runtime seeder tests unchanged and exercise the migration itself
through the project’s established migration-test mechanism.
- Line 1: Obtain and record the required explicit human approval for the
PostgreSQL migration before merging or executing the migration transaction
beginning with BEGIN.
In `@server/bin/create-org-and-user.ts`:
- Line 87: Extend the integration test coverage for createOrgAndUser to create
an organization through the full flow and verify that the resulting admin user
has a persisted ADMIN role reference. Do not rely on the direct seeder test in
rolePersistence.test.ts; exercise the CLI creation path containing
seedSystemRolesForOrg and assert the stored role association.
In `@server/graphql/datasources/rolePersistence.test.ts`:
- Line 100: Replace the non-null assertions on roles returned by roles.find in
the affected test cases with explicit type guards. Before accessing role.id in
each case, verify that role is defined and throw a targeted error if not, while
preserving the existing assertions and query behavior.
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Add a migration-level regression test.
This migration writes roles and permissions, then backfills user and invite-token role references. The added TypeScript tests exercise the runtime seeder only. Add a test that executes this migration against existing organization rows and verifies both permission seeding and null role_id backfills.
As per coding guidelines, “New behavior requires a test.”
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In
`@db/src/scripts/api-server-pg/2026.08.25T15.56.24.seed_missing_system_roles.sql`
at line 1, Add a migration-level regression test for the migration beginning
with BEGIN; that runs against existing organization rows, then verifies
permission seeding and backfills null role_id values for both users and invite
tokens. Keep the existing runtime seeder tests unchanged and exercise the
migration itself through the project’s established migration-test mechanism.
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
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rg -n -i 'human approval|explicit approval|approval|seed_missing_system_roles|system roles|role_permissions' db .github 2>/dev/null | head -200Repository: roostorg/coop
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Record explicit human approval before merge.
This file adds a PostgreSQL migration. Record the required explicit human approval before merging or running it.
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In
`@db/src/scripts/api-server-pg/2026.08.25T15.56.24.seed_missing_system_roles.sql`
at line 1, Obtain and record the required explicit human approval for the
PostgreSQL migration before merging or executing the migration transaction
beginning with BEGIN.
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Add a test for the organization-creation integration.
Line 87 adds required persistent behavior to createOrgAndUser. server/graphql/datasources/rolePersistence.test.ts calls the seeder directly, so it cannot detect removal or reordering of this CLI call. Add a test that creates an organization through this flow and verifies that the admin user has a persisted ADMIN role reference.
As per coding guidelines, “New behavior requires a test.”
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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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In `@server/bin/create-org-and-user.ts` at line 87, Extend the integration test
coverage for createOrgAndUser to create an organization through the full flow
and verify that the resulting admin user has a persisted ADMIN role reference.
Do not rely on the direct seeder test in rolePersistence.test.ts; exercise the
CLI creation path containing seedSystemRolesForOrg and assert the stored role
association.
Source: Coding guidelines
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LGTM! Maybe we should add a little heads up somewhere about how renaming a key
requires a data migration updating all three columns at the same time or things break?
| UPDATE public.users AS u | ||
| SET role_id = r.id | ||
| FROM public.roles AS r | ||
| WHERE u.role_id IS NULL | ||
| AND r.org_id = u.org_id | ||
| AND r.key = u.role | ||
| AND r.is_system = true; | ||
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| UPDATE public.invite_user_tokens AS t | ||
| SET role_id = r.id | ||
| FROM public.roles AS r | ||
| WHERE t.role_id IS NULL | ||
| AND r.org_id = t.org_id | ||
| AND r.key = t.role | ||
| AND r.is_system = true; |
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Not blocking!
BUT i think these two backfill UPDATEs are the only part of your change that touches existing rows, and they aren't covered by tests right now. the test file uses seedSystemRolesForOrg, which doesn't include this logic. Could we add a test that seeds an org, inserts a user and an invite token with a legacy role and role_id IS NULL, then exercises the backfill and confirms both get linked to the matching system role?
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Context & Requests for Reviewers
Fixes #1061
In #528, we started working on more granular permissions. Roles + permissions are now persisted in the database.
However, new orgs created since then did not get the new DB-backed roles and permissions. Instead, they rely on defaults in the code, and the permissions only get created on-demand when the defaults are edited. This means that there are really 2 different implementations of permissions!
We can clean this up by getting every org to use the DB-backed roles and permissions so there's just one way to do it. This PR:
Once this is merged, we no longer need the non-DB, code
isFallbackpath for permissions.Tests
I tested this manually by creating an org on main, editing a default role, then checking out this branch and running the data migration, and verifying the permissions in the DB.
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