Week 064 — reportFound Logic

Old code, discovered to be doing something strange.

Week of February 9, 2026

Progress

Tuesday through Thursday were rest days. Work resumed Monday and Friday on the ItemService->reportFound() method.

The method contained a recursive call for the owner-found case — calling reportFound from within reportFound. The purpose wasn't clear from the code, and after tracing it, the conclusion was that there was no good reason for it. The actual difference between owner-found and non-owner-found is simpler: when the owner finds their own item, no notifications need to go out and no reward allocation needs to happen. The state change itself is the same; the side effects differ. The recursive call was removed.

Next Week

Continue with ItemService refactoring and complete the reportFound/reportReturned paths.