feat(tasks): write a task straight into a section

The box at the top puts things in the project with no section, which is right for
capturing. But a project has sections because the work belongs somewhere, and
dragging every new task down into the right one is a second gesture for something
you already knew when you typed it.

Two ways in, because they answer different moments. A field at the foot of each
section and each board column — standing there is enough, no syntax to know. And
`/section` in quick add, for the box at the top and for Today and Upcoming, where
you are not standing in a section at all.

The field goes through quick add rather than createTask, so a line written there
still parses its dates, priorities and labels.

The sigil needed care: '#' and '@' never turn up in a Danish task line by accident
and '/' turns up constantly. It has to follow whitespace and be followed
immediately by the name, which "km/t", "3/4" and "20 kr / stk" all fail. The bare
form is greedy, because "Kunder/Ordrer" is a real section name and the sigil is
inside it.

A section id from the client is checked against the project the task actually
landed in. A `#project` in the same line can move the task elsewhere, and the id
would otherwise follow it into a project that section does not belong to.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

internal/httpapi/tasks_handlers.go

@@ -475,6 +475,10 @@ type quickAddRequest struct {
 	// ProjectID is the view the user was looking at. A "#project" in the text
 	// wins over it: what somebody typed beats where they happened to be standing.
 	ProjectID string `json:"project_id,omitempty"`
+	// SectionID is the section the box was opened in, for the field that sits at
+	// the foot of one. Same rule as the project: a "/section" in the text wins,
+	// because typing it is a choice and standing there is a circumstance.
+	SectionID string `json:"section_id,omitempty"`
 }
 
 func (s *Server) handleQuickAdd(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
@@ -518,9 +522,31 @@ func (s *Server) handleQuickAdd(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		return
 	}
 
+	// Resolved after the project, because a section belongs to one project and the
+	// same name can exist in several. A name that matches nothing is reported the
+	// same way an unknown project is: the task is still created, in the project
+	// without a section, and the caller is told which word did not land.
+	sectionID, unknownSection := "", ""
+	// The section the box belongs to, unless the text names one. Checked against
+	// the project the task actually landed in, so a "#project" that moved it
+	// elsewhere cannot drag a section id from another project along with it.
+	if req.SectionID != "" {
+		if belongs, err := s.db.SectionInProject(r.Context(), req.SectionID, projectID); err == nil && belongs {
+			sectionID = req.SectionID
+		}
+	}
+	if parsed.Section != "" {
+		if id, err := s.db.SectionByName(r.Context(), projectID, parsed.Section); err == nil {
+			sectionID = id
+		} else {
+			unknownSection = parsed.Section
+		}
+	}
+
 	t := &store.Task{
-		ProjectID: projectID, Content: parsed.Content, Priority: parsed.Priority,
-		CreatedBy: user.ID, DueDate: parsed.DueDate, RecurrenceRule: parsed.Recurrence,
+		ProjectID: projectID, SectionID: sectionID, Content: parsed.Content,
+		Priority: parsed.Priority, CreatedBy: user.ID, DueDate: parsed.DueDate,
+		RecurrenceRule: parsed.Recurrence,
 	}
 	if parsed.DueDate != "" {
 		_, when, err := resolveDue(parsed.DueDate, parsed.DueTime, user.Timezone)
@@ -537,13 +563,14 @@ func (s *Server) handleQuickAdd(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 	s.activity(r, t.ProjectID, t.ID, "task.created", map[string]any{"content": t.Content})
 	s.publish(t.ProjectID, "task.created", toTaskJSON(*t))
 
-	if unknownProject != "" {
+	if unknownProject != "" || unknownSection != "" {
 		// Alongside the task rather than instead of it: the task was created, and
 		// this says what could not be honoured while creating it.
 		writeJSON(w, http.StatusCreated, struct {
 			taskJSON
-			UnknownProject string `json:"unknown_project"`
-		}{toTaskJSON(*t), unknownProject})
+			UnknownProject string `json:"unknown_project,omitempty"`
+			UnknownSection string `json:"unknown_section,omitempty"`
+		}{toTaskJSON(*t), unknownProject, unknownSection})
 		return
 	}
 	writeJSON(w, http.StatusCreated, toTaskJSON(*t))

internal/httpapi/tasks_test.go

@@ -1682,3 +1682,98 @@ func TestNotifications(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("unread = %v after marking everything read", after["unread"])
 	}
 }
+
+// Quick add can put a task straight into a section.
+//
+// A section belongs to one project, so the name is resolved after the project is
+// decided — and two projects may both have a "Produktion", which are different
+// sections. A name that matches nothing is reported the way an unknown project is:
+// the task is still created, and the caller is told which word did not land.
+func TestQuickAddPutsATaskInASection(t *testing.T) {
+	ts := newTestServer(t)
+	ts.bootstrap(t)
+
+	_, project := ts.do(t, "POST", "/api/v1/projects", map[string]any{"name": "Risteriet"})
+	projectID := project["id"].(string)
+	_, section := ts.do(t, "POST", "/api/v1/projects/"+projectID+"/sections",
+		map[string]any{"name": "Kunder/Ordrer"})
+	sectionID := section["id"].(string)
+
+	// The section name has a slash in it, which is also the sigil. The bare form is
+	// greedy, so the whole name comes across.
+	resp, task := ts.do(t, "POST", "/api/v1/tasks/quick-add",
+		map[string]any{"text": "Karpenhøj kaffe bestilling #Risteriet /Kunder/Ordrer"})
+	if resp.StatusCode != http.StatusCreated {
+		t.Fatalf("quick add: status %d, body %v", resp.StatusCode, task)
+	}
+	if task["section_id"] != sectionID {
+		t.Errorf("section_id = %v, want %v", task["section_id"], sectionID)
+	}
+	if task["content"] != "Karpenhøj kaffe bestilling" {
+		t.Errorf("content = %v — the sigils should be gone", task["content"])
+	}
+
+	// Case-insensitive, like the project sigil.
+	_, lower := ts.do(t, "POST", "/api/v1/tasks/quick-add",
+		map[string]any{"text": `nye poser #Risteriet /"kunder/ordrer"`})
+	if lower["section_id"] != sectionID {
+		t.Errorf("a differently-cased name did not resolve: %v", lower["section_id"])
+	}
+
+	// A name that matches nothing still creates the task, and says so.
+	_, missing := ts.do(t, "POST", "/api/v1/tasks/quick-add",
+		map[string]any{"text": "noget andet #Risteriet /Findesikke"})
+	if missing["section_id"] != nil && missing["section_id"] != "" {
+		t.Errorf("an unknown section should leave the task unsectioned: %v", missing["section_id"])
+	}
+	if missing["unknown_section"] != "Findesikke" {
+		t.Errorf("unknown_section = %v, want Findesikke", missing["unknown_section"])
+	}
+	if missing["content"] != "noget andet" {
+		t.Errorf("content = %v", missing["content"])
+	}
+
+	// A section in another project is a different section, and must not be found.
+	_, other := ts.do(t, "POST", "/api/v1/projects", map[string]any{"name": "Andet"})
+	ts.do(t, "POST", "/api/v1/projects/"+other["id"].(string)+"/sections",
+		map[string]any{"name": "Egen"})
+	_, crossed := ts.do(t, "POST", "/api/v1/tasks/quick-add",
+		map[string]any{"text": "forkert sted #Risteriet /Egen"})
+	if crossed["unknown_section"] != "Egen" {
+		t.Errorf("a section from another project was found: %v", crossed["section_id"])
+	}
+}
+
+// The field at the foot of a section passes the section it sits in, and a
+// "#project" in the same line can move the task out from under it.
+func TestQuickAddSectionIDIsCheckedAgainstTheProject(t *testing.T) {
+	ts := newTestServer(t)
+	ts.bootstrap(t)
+
+	_, here := ts.do(t, "POST", "/api/v1/projects", map[string]any{"name": "Her"})
+	hereID := here["id"].(string)
+	_, section := ts.do(t, "POST", "/api/v1/projects/"+hereID+"/sections",
+		map[string]any{"name": "Produktion"})
+	sectionID := section["id"].(string)
+
+	// Standing in the section is enough; no sigil needed.
+	_, plain := ts.do(t, "POST", "/api/v1/tasks/quick-add", map[string]any{
+		"text": "male gavlen", "project_id": hereID, "section_id": sectionID,
+	})
+	if plain["section_id"] != sectionID {
+		t.Errorf("section_id = %v, want %v", plain["section_id"], sectionID)
+	}
+
+	// A "#project" that moves the task must not drag the section id with it: that
+	// section belongs to the project being left behind.
+	ts.do(t, "POST", "/api/v1/projects", map[string]any{"name": "Andetsted"})
+	_, moved := ts.do(t, "POST", "/api/v1/tasks/quick-add", map[string]any{
+		"text": "male gavlen #Andetsted", "project_id": hereID, "section_id": sectionID,
+	})
+	if moved["section_id"] != nil && moved["section_id"] != "" {
+		t.Errorf("the section came along to another project: %v", moved["section_id"])
+	}
+	if moved["content"] != "male gavlen" {
+		t.Errorf("content = %v", moved["content"])
+	}
+}