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+# HTTP Adapter
+
+This document describes the internal HTTP adapter under
+`internal/adapters/inbound/httpapi`. The public endpoint contract belongs in
+[`docs/api.md`](../api.md).
+
+## Purpose
+
+The HTTP adapter turns feedapi route definitions into calls on the application
+service boundary. It owns route registration, query binding, request validation,
+forecast day-slice filtering, response envelopes, and template names.
+
+## Inputs and Outputs
+
+Inputs:
+
+- feedapi HTTP requests;
+- query parameters;
+- an implementation of the adapter-local `Service` interface.
+
+Outputs:
+
+- `endpoint.Definition` values registered by runtime composition;
+- `response.Envelope{Data: ...}` values for successful requests;
+- typed feedapi errors for invalid query parameters;
+- endpoint-specific template names for text rendering.
+
+## Boundaries
+
+The adapter may:
+
+- define routes and supported response formats;
+- bind and validate query parameters;
+- call the `Service` interface;
+- choose the presenter function for an endpoint;
+- filter forecast copies for `/today` and `/tomorrow`.
+
+The adapter must not:
+
+- execute SQL;
+- open databases;
+- mutate repository-returned models in place;
+- duplicate public API reference text;
+- move unit conversion or timezone presentation out of presenters.
+
+## Config Fields Used
+
+The HTTP adapter does not read config directly. Feedapi applies server and
+renderer configuration before requests reach these handlers. Template names are
+declared in endpoint definitions, but `templates.base_dir` is loaded by feedapi.
+
+## External Adapters Used
+
+- `feedapi/endpoint` for route definitions.
+- `feedapi/render` for declared output formats.
+- `feedapi/response` for success envelopes.
+- `feedapi/bind` and `feedapi/errors` for query validation failures.
+- `presenter` package for payload shaping.
+
+## State
+
+The adapter has no durable state. `forecastNow` is package-level state only to
+make forecast day filtering testable. Do not add request caches or cross-request
+mutable state here.
+
+## Route Registry
+
+`Definitions(svc)` returns all implemented route definitions. It includes:
+
+- observations;
+- active alerts;
+- current conditions;
+- weather stories;
+- forecast discussions;
+- hourly and narrative forecasts.
+
+Each route uses `endpoint.GET`, declares JSON/XML/text production, and names a
+text template. Feedapi owns routing, format negotiation, response rendering,
+middleware, and error normalization after definitions are registered.
+
+## Query Binding
+
+There are three binder shapes:
+
+- `bindQuery`: `format` and `units`;
+- `bindPrecisionQuery`: `format`, `units`, and `precision`;
+- `bindForecastPrecisionQuery`: `format`, `units`, `precision`, and timezone;
+- `bindTimezoneQuery`: `format`, `units`, and timezone.
+
+All binders use feedapi binding helpers with `RejectUnknown: true`. Supported
+common query values are lowercased and trimmed before binding where applicable.
+
+`precision` defaults to `0` and must be between `0` and `2`. Timezone parsing is
+available only through binders used by forecast, discussion, and weather story
+routes.
+
+## Timezone Parsing
+
+Timezone parsing accepts:
+
+- IANA names through `time.LoadLocation`;
+- configured aliases such as `Chicago` and `Stl`;
+- common US abbreviations handled as fixed zones;
+- signed UTC offsets.
+
+If both `tz` and `TZ` are provided, they must match case-insensitively.
+Invalid timezone input is converted to a feedapi invalid-parameter error.
+
+## Forecast Day Slices
+
+Forecast base routes return the latest run unchanged except for presentation.
+`/today` and `/tomorrow` routes call `filterForecastRunByDaySlice`.
+
+Filtering behavior:
+
+- nil runs remain nil;
+- missing timezone means UTC;
+- day selection is based on `forecastNow()` in the resolved timezone;
+- periods are included when `period.StartTime` falls on the target local date;
+- the run is shallow-copied and `Periods` is replaced with the filtered slice.
+
+The package variable `forecastNow` exists so endpoint tests can make day-slice
+behavior deterministic.
+
+## Failure Behavior
+
+Binder failures become feedapi invalid-parameter responses. Handler service
+errors are returned unchanged to feedapi for runtime normalization. Nil service
+payloads are presented as nil data, so response rendering can produce
+`data: null`.
+
+## Templates
+
+Endpoint definitions bind template names only. Template loading and rendering
+belong to feedapi. Template files live under `templates/` and are operator
+configuration through `templates.base_dir`.
+
+## Tests to Inspect Before Changing
+
+- `internal/adapters/inbound/httpapi/endpoints_test.go`
+- `internal/adapters/inbound/httpapi/presenter/payload_test.go` when changing
+  presenter interaction
+- `docs/api.md` when query behavior, route behavior, or payload behavior changes
+
+## Invariants
+
+- Preserve strict unknown-query rejection.
+- Keep route-specific query policy in binder functions.
+- Keep endpoint handlers thin: bind, call service, present, envelope.
+- Keep day-slice filtering in the HTTP adapter, not in the repository.
+- Preserve top-level `data` envelopes and nil-data behavior.
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+# Postgres Repository
+
+This document describes the outbound read adapter under
+`internal/adapters/outbound/postgres`. It documents repository behavior and
+storage assumptions without duplicating full schema documentation.
+
+## Purpose
+
+The Postgres repository implements `internal/app.Repository` against
+weatherfeeder-owned tables. It reconstructs latest weather resources from SQL
+rows and returns canonical weatherfeeder model values or application read
+models.
+
+## Inputs and Outputs
+
+Inputs:
+
+- a primary `*sql.DB` selected by runtime composition;
+- query contexts from application service calls;
+- weatherfeeder-populated Postgres rows.
+
+Outputs:
+
+- latest observation, forecast, discussion, weather story, alert, and current
+  conditions read models;
+- nil data with nil error when the latest resource does not exist;
+- contextual errors for query, scan, iteration, and JSON decode failures.
+
+## Boundaries
+
+The repository may:
+
+- own SQL text and query ordering;
+- scan rows into adapter-local row structs;
+- map SQL nulls to pointers or omitted zero values;
+- normalize timestamps to UTC;
+- reconstruct child slices in database order.
+
+The repository must not:
+
+- bind HTTP query parameters;
+- perform unit conversion or response rounding;
+- convert timestamps to requested presentation timezones;
+- render templates;
+- create or migrate weatherfeeder tables.
+
+## Config Fields Used
+
+The repository does not read config directly. Runtime composition supplies the
+primary `*sql.DB` selected from the first configured database entry.
+
+## External Adapters Used
+
+- `database/sql` for query execution and nullable scan types.
+- `github.com/lib/pq` through runtime driver registration.
+- `weatherfeeder/model` for canonical return values.
+- `internal/app` for the repository interface and current-conditions model.
+
+## State
+
+The repository stores only a database handle. It owns no durable data, no
+migrations, no polling state, and no retry queue.
+
+## Repository Contract
+
+`Repository` stores a `*sql.DB` and satisfies `app.Repository`.
+
+Every public method first checks that the repository and database are
+configured. A nil repository or nil database returns `postgres repository is not
+configured`.
+
+Missing parent rows map to `nil, nil`. This is how HTTP endpoints can return
+successful responses with `data: null`.
+
+## Route-to-Query Mapping
+
+- `LatestObservation`: latest row from `observations`, then present-weather
+  rows from `observation_present_weather`.
+- `CurrentConditions`: aggregates recent rows from `observations` using the
+  application-provided observation window.
+- `LatestAlertRun`: latest row from `alert_runs`, then child `alerts` and
+  `alert_references`.
+- `LatestHourlyForecast`: latest `forecasts` row where `product = 'hourly'`,
+  then child `forecast_periods`.
+- `LatestNarrativeForecast`: latest `forecasts` row where
+  `product = 'narrative'`, then child `forecast_periods`.
+- `LatestForecastDiscussion`: latest row from `forecast_discussions`, then
+  child `forecast_discussion_key_messages`.
+- `LatestWeatherStoryRun`: latest row from `weather_story_runs`, then child
+  `weather_stories`.
+- `LatestWeatherStory`: latest individual row from `weather_stories`.
+
+Latest parent rows are selected by descending weather timestamp and
+`event_emitted_at` where that tie-breaker is available in the query.
+
+## Child Loading and Ordering
+
+Child queries preserve stored order:
+
+- observation present weather by `weather_index`;
+- alerts by `alert_index`;
+- alert references by `alert_index`, then `reference_index`;
+- forecast periods by `period_index`;
+- discussion key messages by `message_index`;
+- weather stories by `story_index`.
+
+Alert references are attached after both alert and reference rows are loaded.
+References are grouped by alert index and attached to their corresponding alert.
+
+## Null and Timestamp Policy
+
+Row structs use `sql.Null*` types for nullable columns. Mapper helpers convert:
+
+- invalid strings to empty strings;
+- invalid booleans, floats, times, and WMO codes to nil pointers;
+- valid times to UTC.
+
+Required parent timestamps are normalized to UTC directly in mappers. Optional
+times go through `timePtr`, which also normalizes to UTC.
+
+Current conditions return nil when the aggregate sample count is zero.
+
+## JSON Decode Behavior
+
+Observation present-weather rows store raw JSON text. Empty or null text maps
+to an empty present-weather value. Invalid JSON returns a contextual decode
+error with the weather index.
+
+## Failure Behavior
+
+Repository methods wrap failures with operation context, for example:
+
+- `query latest observation`
+- `query forecast periods`
+- `scan forecast period row`
+- `iterate weather story rows`
+- `decode observation present weather row`
+
+This context should be preserved when adding new reads so operator logs and
+tests identify the failing operation.
+
+## Tests to Inspect Before Changing
+
+- `internal/adapters/outbound/postgres/repository_test.go`
+- `internal/app/service_test.go` for repository port expectations
+- endpoint tests when no-data behavior or returned model shape affects HTTP
+  responses
+
+## Invariants
+
+- Keep SQL and row structs in the Postgres adapter.
+- Keep weatherfeeder schema ownership outside `weatherapi`.
+- Preserve `nil, nil` no-data behavior for missing latest parent rows.
+- Preserve UTC normalization at the repository boundary.
+- Preserve child ordering from stored index columns.
+- Preserve contextual error wrapping for query, scan, iteration, and decode
+  failures.
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+# Presenters and Templates
+
+This document describes payload shaping in
+`internal/adapters/inbound/httpapi/presenter` and its relationship to text
+templates. Public response fields are documented in [`docs/api.md`](../api.md).
+
+## Purpose
+
+Presenters translate repository/application read models into response-ready
+payloads. They own unit conversion, numeric rounding, timezone conversion,
+optional field preservation, and copy semantics.
+
+## Inputs and Outputs
+
+Inputs:
+
+- weatherfeeder model values returned by the repository;
+- `app.CurrentConditions` values returned by the application service;
+- requested unit mode;
+- requested precision;
+- optional timezone location.
+
+Outputs:
+
+- JSON/XML/text-ready payload structs or canonical model copies;
+- nil payloads for nil inputs.
+
+## Boundaries
+
+Presenters may:
+
+- convert metric values to US-customary response fields;
+- round numeric values that are presentation values;
+- convert timestamps to a requested timezone;
+- copy slices and pointers before changing presentation values;
+- add template-only helper fields when they are not serialized.
+
+Presenters must not:
+
+- execute SQL;
+- call services or repositories;
+- parse HTTP query parameters;
+- load templates;
+- change canonical repository models in place.
+
+## Config Fields Used
+
+Presenters do not read config directly. They receive unit, precision, and
+timezone selections from HTTP binders. Text output depends indirectly on
+`templates.base_dir` because feedapi loads templates from that configured
+directory.
+
+## External Adapters Used
+
+- `weatherfeeder/model` for canonical weather payloads.
+- `weatherfeeder/standards` for current-condition text from WMO codes.
+- `internal/app` for the current-conditions read model.
+- Feedapi templates indirectly consume presenter output during text rendering.
+
+## State
+
+Presenters are stateless. Helper functions allocate copied values and return
+new payloads for each request.
+
+## Unit Conversion
+
+Metric mode generally returns weatherfeeder canonical model shapes or
+metric-named fields. US mode uses explicit US response structs for observations
+and forecasts and US-specific fields in current conditions.
+
+Conversion constants live in `constants.go`:
+
+- Celsius to Fahrenheit;
+- kilometers per hour to miles per hour;
+- meters to miles or feet;
+- pascals to inches of mercury;
+- millimeters to inches.
+
+Non-unit fields such as percentages, directions, text, IDs, and ordering values
+keep their existing values.
+
+## Precision
+
+`roundedPtr` and `roundFloat` round numeric presentation values. Precision `0`
+rounds to whole numbers. Positive precision uses powers of ten. Nil numeric
+pointers remain nil.
+
+Latitude and longitude are copied but not rounded by forecast presenters.
+
+## Timezone Conversion
+
+`inLocationTime` and `inLocationTimePtr` convert timestamps only when a
+timezone is supplied. Without a timezone, timestamps are preserved as returned
+by the repository.
+
+Timezone conversion is applied by forecast, discussion, and weather story
+presenters. Observations and current conditions do not currently receive
+timezone input from their routes.
+
+## Optional Fields and Copy Semantics
+
+Presenter helpers copy pointer values before changing them. Slices are copied
+before inclusion where needed. This preserves nil/omitempty behavior and avoids
+mutating repository-returned values.
+
+Nil input payloads return nil. Endpoint handlers wrap those nil payloads in a
+response envelope so renderers can produce `data: null`.
+
+## Endpoint Families
+
+- Observations: metric copy or US response shape, including present-weather
+  slice copy.
+- Current conditions: single response shape with either metric or US unit
+  fields populated, plus a template-only day/night text helper.
+- Alerts: pass-through of canonical alert runs, with nil preserved.
+- Forecasts: metric copy or US response shape, period copy, unit conversion,
+  precision, and timezone conversion.
+- Discussions: full or focused payload shapes, section copy, key-message copy,
+  timezone conversion.
+- Weather stories: run/story copy and timezone conversion.
+
+## Templates
+
+Text templates consume the same envelope data produced by presenters. Template
+files live under `templates/` and are loaded by feedapi from `templates.base_dir`.
+
+Presenter changes can break text output even when JSON and XML still compile.
+Check template field references before renaming or removing presenter fields.
+
+## Tests to Inspect Before Changing
+
+- `internal/adapters/inbound/httpapi/presenter/payload_test.go`
+- `internal/adapters/inbound/httpapi/endpoints_test.go` for rendered text and
+  envelope behavior
+- affected template files under `templates/`
+
+## Invariants
+
+- Keep unit conversion and rounding out of handlers and repositories.
+- Preserve nil pointer and optional field behavior.
+- Copy before converting, rounding, or timezone-shifting values.
+- Keep text-template helper fields out of JSON/XML when they are not API fields.
+- Update `docs/api.md` and templates when payload shape changes.
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+# Runtime Composition
+
+This document describes how the `weatherapi` executable wires configuration,
+database handles, application services, HTTP endpoints, renderers, and shutdown.
+It is development-facing; operator commands belong in
+[`docs/operations.md`](../operations.md), and configuration fields belong in
+[`docs/config.md`](../config.md).
+
+## Purpose
+
+`cmd/weatherapi/main.go` is the composition root. It should stay thin and only
+connect already-implemented packages. Endpoint logic, SQL, presentation logic,
+and business read behavior belong outside `cmd`.
+
+## Inputs and Outputs
+
+Inputs:
+
+- config path from `-config`, `WEATHERAPI_CONFIG`, or `config.yml`;
+- feedapi YAML config containing `server`, `databases`, and `templates`;
+- OS cancellation signals;
+- database handles opened by feedapi.
+
+Outputs:
+
+- a configured feedapi HTTP server;
+- registered `weatherapi` endpoint definitions;
+- process logs for fatal startup errors and database close errors.
+
+## Composition Flow
+
+The executable:
+
+1. sets standard logger flags with microsecond precision;
+2. resolves the config path;
+3. creates a context canceled by `os.Interrupt` or `SIGTERM`;
+4. loads config with `feedapi/config.Load`;
+5. requires at least one configured database;
+6. opens all configured databases with `feedapi/db.OpenAll`;
+7. selects the first configured database name as the primary store;
+8. constructs `postgres.Repository` with the primary `*sql.DB`;
+9. constructs `app.Service` over the repository;
+10. builds HTTP endpoint definitions with `httpapi.Definitions`;
+11. constructs a feedapi app with the DB registry and endpoints;
+12. starts feedapi with the signal-aware context.
+
+## Config Fields Used
+
+Runtime composition uses:
+
+- `server`: consumed by feedapi for HTTP runtime settings and default format;
+- `databases`: opened by feedapi, with the first entry selected as primary;
+- `templates`: consumed by feedapi for text-template loading.
+
+Do not duplicate the config field reference here. Keep it in
+[`docs/config.md`](../config.md).
+
+## External Adapters Used
+
+- `feedapi/config`: YAML loading.
+- `feedapi/db`: database registry and lifecycle.
+- `feedapi/app`: HTTP runtime construction and startup.
+- `internal/adapters/outbound/postgres`: weather read repository.
+- `internal/adapters/inbound/httpapi`: endpoint definition registry.
+- `github.com/lib/pq`: Postgres driver registration through blank import.
+
+## State and Lifecycle
+
+`weatherapi` owns no durable weather state. Runtime state is limited to loaded
+configuration, database pools, endpoint definitions, renderer/template
+registries managed by feedapi, and the running HTTP server.
+
+Database handles are closed with a deferred registry close. Close errors are
+logged but do not change response behavior because they occur during shutdown.
+
+## Failure Behavior
+
+`run` wraps startup errors with operation context:
+
+- `load config`
+- `config.databases requires at least one entry`
+- `open databases`
+- `select primary database`
+- `build app`
+
+Errors returned by `a.Start(ctx)` are returned to `main`, which logs a fatal
+`weatherapi failed: ...` message. Feedapi owns graceful HTTP shutdown after the
+context is canceled.
+
+## Tests to Inspect Before Changing
+
+- `internal/app/service_test.go` for service wiring expectations.
+- `internal/adapters/inbound/httpapi/endpoints_test.go` for endpoint registry
+  and runtime adapter expectations.
+- Full `go test ./...` when runtime wiring, config behavior, or feedapi
+  integration changes.
+
+## Invariants
+
+- Keep `cmd/weatherapi` as composition code only.
+- Preserve config path precedence: `-config`, `WEATHERAPI_CONFIG`, `config.yml`.
+- Preserve first configured database as the primary weather store.
+- Keep generic HTTP runtime behavior in feedapi.
+- Keep endpoint definitions in the HTTP adapter.
+- Keep SQL and row mapping in the Postgres adapter.