The last hardcoded client-side knowledge of the canonical convention
was the upload-zone regex in browse:
var UPLOAD_SCOPES = /\/(working|staging|incoming)(\/|$)/i;
Now declared in the cascade:
Schema:
drop_target: true|false leaf-only; describes THIS dir
(not propagated to descendants)
Lookup:
zddc.DropTargetAt(root, dir) bool
Surfaced to clients:
Directory listings carry an X-ZDDC-Drop-Target: true response
header when the cascade declares this leaf as an upload zone.
No header = no drop target.
Defaults populated:
working / working/* / staging / archive/<party>/incoming
all carry drop_target: true. Operators can extend (e.g. drop
files on archive/<party>/received via override) or disable
(e.g. drop_target: false at a specific staging subtree) without
touching code.
Browse migration:
loader.fetchServerChildren reads the response header and stamps
state.scopeDropTarget on every listing fetch. upload.js's
currentScopeAllows now reads that flag instead of regex-
matching the URL. Initial value is false in init.js so a
listing failure (offline / server doesn't emit the header)
safely defaults to "no drop zone".
Phase 4a closes the most visible asymmetry between server-side and
client-side cascade knowledge. The remaining client hardcodes
(browse grid-mode regex, archive source heuristics, shared/nav
stage strip) follow the same pattern when needed — Phase 4b/c/d.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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