Week 073 — Item Updates Working, State Transitions Broken

Saves work. State changes don't.

Week of April 13, 2026

Progress

Basic item updates — changing the item name, reward amount, image — are now saving correctly through the new API.

State transitions are not. Reporting an item as lost returns a 500 error. Reporting it as returned silently succeeds on the client side but doesn't actually write to the database. The handlers for those state transitions are present but incomplete.

The client-side logic is working: it correctly detects whether a save includes a state change and routes accordingly.

Also found: the found page was broken by the API changes from earlier in the refactor. That surfaces now because item saving is being tested more systematically.

Next Week

Fix reportLost and reportReturned handlers.