Comments across the tree justified the code by pointing at a Rust
implementation that is no longer in the repository, citing files and line
numbers (config.rs:132, schema.rs:26-54, reader.rs:42) that cannot be
opened, plus crates and datasets that are equally gone. A reader could not
check any of it.
Every invariant those comments carried is kept and restated so it stands on
its own: the bytewise sort that decides which row survives a duplicate exam
number, the literal U+0300..U+036F range that must match the site's toAscii,
the trailing space in "SINH ", the BIFF and shared-string corrections, the
VACUUM-after-COMMIT rule, the deploy-from-main guard.
The reader's contract is now anchored to the frozen oracle in
parser/testdata, which still exists and is still checked, rather than to the
tool that originally produced it.
TestDDLMatchesRust becomes TestDDLIsFrozen: it compares against a copy of
the DDL inside the test and never read schema.rs, so both the name and the
failure message were misleading.
ToAscii no longer claims the d-replacement must precede lowercasing. Both
cases map to 'd' and ToLower runs last, so the order has no effect.
The repository now reads as the pipeline it is: crawler fetches, parser
converts, assembler verifies and publishes, with data/ and web/ as the stores
they hand work through. go-parser is renamed parser now that there is no other.
The assembler replaces build-db.js and assemble-site.js. It compiles the
parser, builds and verifies each database, compresses it, runs the Vite build
and assembles _site — one command, and the only place that knows the order.
It also closes a real hole: nothing previously asserted that a database reached
the site. An empty staging directory assembled happily, so every page rendered,
every query 404d and CI stayed green. The row-count and size guards could not
catch that, since they only run when a database was built at all.
Removing Node from the root forced the dataset list out of web/src/datasets.js,
which the assembler cannot import. datasets.json is now the registry both sides
read — JSON because Go and the browser both parse it without a dependency —
while presentation stays in the web app, keyed by id and cross-checked against
the registry so a half-added dataset fails instead of half-working.
Guards verified by making each one fail: a missing database, and an expected
row count one higher than the truth.
Both sources carried their download links as a hardcoded array, which is not a
crawl: the lists could drift from what the articles actually published, and
nothing would say so. A source now names the article and how to name what it
finds there, and internal/article reads the links out of that page at run time.
2016 takes its filenames straight from the URL. 2017 cannot — the CDN names are
inconsistent (Angiang.xls, 1BaRiaVungTau.xls, 23HaiPhong.xls) — so it derives
them from the province in the link text, transliterated to ASCII the same way
go-parser builds ho_ten_ascii.
Filenames stay load-bearing: go-parser sorts inputs bytewise and inserts
last-wins, so they decide which row survives a duplicate exam number. Saved
copies of both articles are committed as fixtures, and a test asserts that
reading them and applying each naming rule reproduces data/<id> exactly, in both
directions. Resolve also rejects a page that yields the wrong number of links or
two links that would write the same file, since either silently costs the
dataset files that only the row-count guard would notice afterwards.
Verified against the live 2017 article: a from-scratch crawl of all 63 files
leaves the committed data unchanged.
Move the frontend into web/, the repo's only npm workspace, and replace the
JS crawler with a Go module covering both remaining datasets. The crawler
writes to a .part file and renames on completion: writing straight to the
destination left truncated files that the skip-if-present check would then
skip forever.
Remove the 2017-old and 2017-old2 datasets. They were successive publications
of the same exam, kept side by side so the disagreement stayed inspectable;
the current 2017 supersedes them and they remain in git history.
Recover the 2016 crawler source from the Internet Archive's copy of the
aggregator article, whose original host no longer resolves. All 119 filenames
are verified against data/2016 in both directions, but no archive captured the
spreadsheets themselves, so the host still serving them is unconfirmed and
data/2016 remains the only confirmed copy.
Filenames are load-bearing throughout: go-parser sorts inputs bytewise and
inserts last-wins, so they decide which row survives a duplicate exam number.
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