Previous commit (8ace5f4) passed `return: ["id", "url"]` to APIv3
Attachment.get. APIv3 expects `return` as a comma-separated string
("id,url"); arrays are v4 syntax. Civi caught the type mismatch but
its error-rendering pathway then crashed on htmlentities() (which
was passed the offending array), producing a 500 with an HTML error
page rather than a clean JSON error.
Fix: pass return as "id,url" and add sequential:1 (canonical v3 client
shape — values come back as an array). The civi3 helper already
normalizes either response shape, but sequential matches what real
APIv3 clients send.
Logs to confirm after deploy:
- Success: no "[staff/report] Attachment.get (v3) failed" warning.
- File links resolve directly without bouncing off the
/civicrm/webform-mw/file extension route.
APIv4 Attachment isn't exposed on this Civi install (confirmed in the
June 2026 upload-spike notes), so the Attachment.get call we shipped at
63e73e7 silently returned nothing and we fell through to the bare
/civicrm/file URL — which crashes Civi on a null fcs JWT decode.
APIv3 Attachment.get IS exposed and returns the signed URL with fcs
baked in (verified against id=150 in the user's API Explorer):
"url": "https://.../civicrm/file?reset=1&id=150&fcs=<JWT>"
Changes:
- lib/civicrm.ts: add a civi3() helper that calls /civicrm/ajax/rest with
AuthX headers, normalizing v3's array-or-keyed-object values shape into
a plain array.
- app/api/staff/report/route.ts: replace the dead v4 Attachment.get with
civi3("Attachment", "get", { id: {IN: [...]}, return: ["id","url"] }).
Each file's url goes into the value payload as before, so the frontend
needs no change.
Fallback chain remains intact: if Attachment.get fails (auth, endpoint
unavailable, etc.) the frontend still uses the /civicrm/webform-mw/file
extension route from b65bc6d/41467bd.
Civi serves uploaded files at /civicrm/file?id=X&eid=Y&fcs=<JWT>; the fcs
is a JWT signed with the site key. Without it, Civi's file handler crashes
on a null JWT decode (Firebase\JWT\JWT::decode argument null). We don't
have the site key on the Next.js side, so let Civi mint the URLs for us.
Backend (/api/staff/report):
- Add file_name selects for org-side file fields (Certificate of
Incorporation and friends) so org files have names alongside URLs.
- Collect every file id referenced by activity and org custom fields.
- Call APIv4 Attachment.get with select: ["id", "url"] to fetch signed
URLs in one round trip. Build a urlByFileId map.
- Org-side file values are now wrapped in { id, file_name, url } shape
matching the activity-side files (previously bare file ids that the
frontend couldn't render).
- Activity-side file values gain a url property from the map.
- If Attachment.get doesn't expose url on this Civi version, the call is
caught and we fall through to bare URLs without fcs (no regression).
Frontend (FieldValue):
- Prefer v.url when present, normalizing absolute and relative shapes
against CIVI_BASE_URL.
- Fall back to /civicrm/file?reset=1&id=X if url wasn't provided.
Joel Brock