<database> was SESSIONCTL.tag's own JET-1.4-only concept - the new JetCore
port never implemented it. The real, dispatched tag for opening a MySQL
connection is <mysql> (confirmed in Tag.cpp's dispatch chain), so these 3
product pages - the ones deferred in the previous conversion pass because
they pull live rows via <sql> - now wrap their content in a real
<mysql host="localhost" database="barant" user="barant" password="...">
matching barant.com's own config.cfg, with <retain> (a SESSIONCTL-only
form-echo helper with no analog here) stripped.
host="localhost" is correct per config.cfg but only reachable from
barant.com itself - a locally-run .jtc genuinely cannot connect from here.
That's intentional: the connection fails at runtime exactly as if the
database were down, and APIServer's existing catch(coreutils::Exception)
path (ApiSession.cpp) already turns that into a clean 500 rather than a
crash - verified live: all 3 pages return HTTP 500 with mysql's own
"database and host parameters are not valid." message, and the server
process stays up and responsive throughout.
The real DB password is deliberately not a literal in this file - it's
read from BARANT_DB_PASSWORD at conversion time, and the resulting .jet
output for these 3 pages is gitignored rather than committed, so the
credential never enters git history even though it does end up baked into
the locally-generated, locally-deployed .jtc.
Pulls .page files and shared template infrastructure (mainpagetemplate.temp,
menu.bar, barant.tag, opensource.menu, cart.menu, login.menu) read-only from
barant.com via SFTP into jetc/barant-site/src, then convert.py mechanically
flattens them into self-contained .jet files: linkbutton becomes a plain
anchor link (the old SESSIONCTL PAGE/PROCESS form-postback model has no
equivalent here - each page is its own real #api route now, not a shared
single-form state machine), sectionframe is expanded per its barant.tag
definition, /images/* references are fetched and inlined as data URIs
(APIServer has no static-file serving), and session-gated chrome (cart,
account/admin, login.menu) is resolved to its anonymous-visitor default
state, since no session/DB backend is wired into this conversion.
17 pages convert and serve cleanly end-to-end (verified via a local
apiserver-barant-site.json instance on :8081, kept separate from the
existing demo server on :8080 to avoid a /main route collision with the
earlier hand-cloned barant.jet). Two pages deliberately out of scope for
this pass: davidarant.page (whiledir filesystem iteration) and the
per-topic sub-pages of jet.page (dispatches on an ARGS query param this
conversion does not populate - only the default overview state converts).
vst.page/modular1.page/modular1_patches.page also deferred - they pull
live product rows via sql, a real backend dependency beyond "pages and
their template" scope.
Nothing was written back to barant.com - SFTP access was read-only
throughout, per explicit instruction to convert locally without touching
the original site.
Brad Arant