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Kpa-clawbot d7fe24e2db Fix channel filter on Packets page (UI + API) — #812 (#816)
Closes #812

## Root causes

**Server (`/api/packets?channel=…` returned identical totals):**
The handler in `cmd/server/routes.go` never read the `channel` query
parameter into `PacketQuery`, so it was silently ignored by both the
SQLite path (`db.go::buildTransmissionWhere`) and the in-memory path
(`store.go::filterPackets`). The codebase already had everything else in
place — the `channel_hash` column with an index from #762, decoded
`channel` / `channelHashHex` fields on each packet — it just wasn't
wired up.

**UI (`/#/packets` had no channel filter):**
`public/packets.js` rendered observer / type / time-window / region
filters but no channel control, and didn't read `?channel=` from the
URL.

## Fix

### Server
- New `Channel` field on `PacketQuery`; `handlePackets` reads
`r.URL.Query().Get("channel")`.
- DB path filters by the indexed `channel_hash` column (exact match).
- In-memory path: helper `packetMatchesChannel` matches
`decoded.channel` (plaintext, e.g. `#test`, `public`) or `enc_<HEX>`
against `channelHashHex` for undecryptable GRP_TXT. Uses cached
`ParsedDecoded()` so it's O(1) after first parse. Fast-path index guards
and the grouped-cache key updated to include channel.
- Regression test (`channel_filter_test.go`): `channel=#test` returns ≥1
GRP_TXT packet and fewer than baseline; `channel=nonexistentchannel`
returns `total=0`.

### UI
- New `<select id="fChannel">` populated from `/api/channels`.
- Round-trips via `?channel=…` on the URL hash (read on init, written on
change).
- Pre-seeds the current value as an option so encrypted hashes not in
`/api/channels` still display as selected on reload.
- On change, calls `loadPackets()` so the server-side filter applies
before pagination.

## Perf

Filter adds at most one cached map lookup per packet (DB path uses
indexed column, store path uses `ParsedDecoded()` cache). Staging
baseline 149–190 ms for `?channel=#test&limit=50`; the new comparison is
negligible. Target ≤ 500 ms preserved.

## Tests
`cd cmd/server && go test ./... -count=1 -timeout 120s` → PASS.

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Co-authored-by: you <you@example.com>
2026-04-20 21:46:34 -07:00
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