📅 2025-11-20 — Session: Debugged and Enhanced Backend Paper API
🕒 19:35–19:40
🏷️ Labels: Python, Backend Development, API, Debugging, Regex
📂 Project: Dev
Session Goal
The primary objective of this session was to debug and enhance the backend system responsible for handling paper-related API endpoints, specifically focusing on the ‘/api/papers’ endpoint.
Key Activities
- Implemented code to read backend Python files and safely print their content for analysis.
- Conducted a regex-based search to identify and extract functions related to the ‘/api/papers’ endpoint.
- Utilized regular expressions to locate function definitions and occurrences within the codebase.
- Investigated the backend server’s response to identify issues with empty paper listings, diagnosing potential root causes and applying server patches.
Achievements
- Successfully extracted and analyzed functions handling the ‘/api/papers’ endpoint.
- Improved the backend’s response handling by identifying and addressing issues causing empty paper listings.
- Applied server patches to enhance diagnostics and prevent transient issues.
Pending Tasks
- Further testing is required to ensure the robustness of the applied patches and the stability of the backend server’s response to paper API requests.