Collecting backend/tests/ fails outright on a clean checkout:
backend/tests/test_profile_duplicate_names.py:19: in <module>
from database import Base, VoiceProfile as DBVoiceProfile
E ImportError: attempted relative import beyond top-level package
pytest stops at the collection error, so the whole backend suite runs zero
tests rather than the ~142 it otherwise would.
There are two causes stacked on top of each other.
First, a real cycle in production code. routes/profiles.py, routes/history.py
and routes/stories.py each import safe_content_disposition from ..app, while
app.py builds the FastAPI instance at module scope (app = create_app() on
import), which registers those same routers. Importing any of those three
route modules first therefore re-enters a partially initialised app and dies
with "cannot import name 'router' from partially initialized module". It only
works today because app.py always happens to be imported first.
safe_content_disposition is a pure helper over urllib.parse.quote with no
application state, so it moves to backend/utils/http.py. app.py re-exports it
so any external caller importing it from the old location keeps working.
Second, the test reached for modules through a sys.path hack
(sys.path.insert(parent) + "from database import ...") rather than the
"from backend.X import ..." style the rest of the suite uses. That flat import
makes database/models.py's "from ..utils.capture_chords import ..." point
outside the package. It also aimed at the wrong module: it wants the service
layer, which raises ValueError, not the route handler, which converts that
into an HTTPException.
Result: the full suite goes from 0 collected to 148 passed. The one remaining
failure, test_progress.py::test_hf_progress_tracker, is pre-existing and
unrelated (tqdm patching) - it reproduces identically on an unpatched tree.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Both speak surfaces built their GenerationRequest with a hardcoded "en"
fallback and never consulted the resolved profile, so a profile created
with language="fr" was still synthesised as English unless the caller
passed language= explicitly.
This hurts the MCP path most: an agent calling voicebox.speak has no way
to know the bound profile's language, so it cannot pass the argument
either. Every agent-triggered generation on a non-English profile came
out with an English accent.
The fallback chain is now explicit argument -> resolved profile's
language -> "en", which matches how engine and personality already
consult the resolved binding. The "en" backstop is kept so profiles with
no language set behave exactly as before.
Adds backend/tests/test_speak_language.py covering both surfaces: the
fallback, explicit-argument precedence, and the unchanged "en" default.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
