Regalamiunsorriso/faceai

FaceAI Scaffold

This folder scaffolds the new FaceAI app described in the integration plan.

It includes:

• a Vue frontend for the FaceAI upload and polling flow
• a Node/Express backend for session exchange, queueing, and return handoff
• a dedicated processor runner that consumes matcher jobs from Redis and executes face_matcher
• a local legacy simulator so the launch and return flow can be tested without the old Java site
• a Dockerized PHP Apache stack for exercising the real www/faceai_handoff.php and www/faceai_return.php bridge files

Structure

faceai/
  apps/
    backend/
    frontend/
    processor/
  docker/
    Dockerfile

Runtime Topology

The scaffold currently expects four runtime roles:

• faceai: public HTTP service on port 3001, serving the built Vue app and the authenticated API
• processor: background matcher runner consuming BullMQ jobs from Redis and executing the Linux face_matcher binary
• redis: short-lived queue and search-state store
• legacy-php: local-only PHP Apache simulator for exercising the real bridge files under www/

For hosted deployment, the long-lived application topology is faceai + processor + redis. The PHP simulator stays local-only and the real legacy site remains on its existing stack.

What The End-To-End Local Test Covers

The local simulator exercises the exact flow the plan is aiming for:

1. a legacy-like race page loads the original www/_js/rus-ecom-240621.js script and shows a Face ID button instead of tipoPuntoFoto
2. clicking it hits the real PHP handoff bridge at www/faceai_handoff.php
3. the backend signs a short-lived handoff token and redirects to the Vue app
4. the Vue app exchanges the token for its own FaceAI session cookie
5. the user uploads a selfie and starts a Redis-backed race-scoped search
6. the frontend polls until the job completes
7. FaceAI requests a signed return URL
8. the browser is redirected back to the real PHP return bridge at www/faceai_return.php
9. the PHP bridge fetches the signed result from FaceAI and renders a filtered legacy-like race page

Local Testing With The Legacy PHP Simulator

This is the recommended local test path because it exercises the public site, the processor, Redis, and the real PHP bridge files together.

Prerequisites

• Docker Desktop or another Docker Engine with Compose support
• local npm dependencies installed in this faceai/ workspace

Start The Stack

From this folder:

npm install
npm run build
docker compose up --build

The checked-in docker-compose.yml starts:

• FaceAI public site on http://localhost:3001
• processor runner on the internal Compose network
• Redis on the internal Compose network
• PHP Apache serving ../www on http://localhost:8080

The local stack also mounts:

• ../test_pkl into both the public FaceAI container and the processor container as the shared read-only PKL dataset root
• ./logs into both the public FaceAI container and the processor container as the persistent diagnostics directory
• ../www into the PHP container so the real bridge files are used

The processor service is built from docker/processor.Dockerfile using the repository root as Docker build context. That image copies only the checked-in Unix face_matcher into the image, so the matcher is baked into the processor runtime without bringing along the other Unix or Windows binaries.

Persistent Logs

The checked-in local Compose stack now mirrors the relevant Node service logs to both Docker stdout/stderr and faceai/logs on the host.

After docker compose up --build, inspect:

• faceai/logs/backend.log for backend startup and API-side failures
• faceai/logs/processor.log for worker startup, queue processing, and uncaught processor errors
• faceai/logs/searches/<searchId>/worker.log for the per-search processor trace
• faceai/logs/searches/<searchId>/matcher.log for the native face_matcher output

This keeps the useful processor diagnostics outside the Docker-managed runtime volume so they survive container rebuilds and can be inspected directly from the workspace.

Because the service entrypoints now mirror output instead of redirecting it away, the same startup and runtime messages are also visible through docker logs regalami-faceai, docker logs regalami-faceai-processor, and Portainer's container log viewer.

The current bundled Linux face_matcher binary is a PyInstaller build that requires GLIBC_2.38 or newer and the libxcb.so.1 runtime library. The checked-in local processor image satisfies that requirement.

Run The Browser Test

Open:

http://localhost:8080/faceai_simulator.php?raceId=202&lang=it

That page simulates the legacy race page, loads the original race-page JavaScript from www/_js/rus-ecom-240621.js, lets the script replace the visible tipoPuntoFoto selector with the new Face ID button, and launches the real PHP handoff bridge at www/faceai_handoff.php.

Expected Local Flow

Use the page above and verify this sequence:

1. the simulator page renders on port 8080
2. the visible checkpoint selector is replaced with the Face ID launch button
3. clicking Face ID redirects through faceai_handoff.php into http://localhost:3001/auth/callback?token=...
4. the FaceAI app establishes its session and loads the upload flow
5. uploading a selfie creates a queued search that the processor picks up
6. when polling completes, FaceAI redirects back to http://localhost:8080/faceai_return.php?...
7. the PHP return page renders the filtered photo list from the FaceAI result payload

Rebuild Notes

If you change frontend code and want Docker to serve the updated UI, rebuild first with:

npm run build

If you want to stop and remove the local containers afterward, run:

docker compose down

Automated End-To-End Test

The workspace now includes a Playwright suite that drives the PHP simulator, the FaceAI app, and the processor end to end.

From this folder, run:

npm install
npm run test:e2e:install
npm run test:e2e

The suite will:

• build the frontend bundle
• start docker compose up --build -d
• open http://localhost:8080/faceai_simulator.php?raceId=202&lang=it
• click the Face ID launch button injected by www/_js/rus-ecom-240621.js
• upload test_pkl/test_images/DSC_1960.JPG
• wait for the processor to complete and for FaceAI to redirect to faceai_return.php
• assert the filtered legacy result contains the expected 6 matches and includes DSC_1960.JPG
• validate faceai/logs/backend.log, faceai/logs/processor.log, and the per-search worker.log and matcher.log for the run
• stop the Compose stack automatically when the suite finishes

The default deterministic fixture can be overridden with environment variables if the dataset changes:

FACEAI_E2E_SELFIE=DSC_1960.JPG
FACEAI_E2E_EXPECTED_MATCH_COUNT=6

If you want to keep the local containers running after the test for manual inspection, set:

FACEAI_E2E_KEEP_STACK=1

Live Site Playwright Checks

The faceai/ workspace now also includes a separate Playwright project for the live site. It is isolated from the Docker-backed simulator suite and is intended to verify that production login still works and that a real race page loads correctly after authentication.

Set these environment variables before running it:

LIVE_SITE_BASE_URL=https://www.regalamiunsorriso.it
LIVE_SITE_LOGIN_URL=https://www.regalamiunsorriso.it/login_clienti-it.html
LIVE_SITE_RACE_URL=https://www.regalamiunsorriso.it/42%20HALF%20MARATHON%20FIRENZE_gara-1018545---96-1.html
LIVE_SITE_USERNAME=your-login
LIVE_SITE_PASSWORD=your-password

Then run:

npm run test:live:install
npm run test:live

What it does:

• opens the live login page
• signs in with the supplied credentials
• persists authenticated Playwright storage state under tests/live-site/.auth/user.json
• opens the configured live race URL
• verifies the account UI is present and the race search form renders correctly

Optional live FaceAI checks can also be enabled with:

LIVE_FACEAI_BASE_URL=https://ai.regalamiunsorriso.it
LIVE_SITE_PORTRAIT_PATH=../test_pkl/live/test_portrait_1.png
LIVE_SITE_RUN_UPLOAD_FLOW=1

When enabled, the live suite also:

• validates that the legacy Face ID handoff URL includes the race storage metadata expected by FaceAI
• opens the real FaceAI app and asserts that the legacy header stylesheets load from the live legacy site without injecting cross-origin Font Awesome assets
• confirms the app does not emit the MISSING_RACE_STORAGE invalid-race error on launch
• uploads the supplied portrait image, waits for the search to complete, and requires a redirect back to the legacy result page with rendered results

Processor Troubleshooting

If the processor logs show an error like spawn /opt/face-recognition/face_matcher ENOENT, the problem is not the upload flow itself. It means the running processor cannot see the matcher binary at the configured FACEAI_MATCHER_BINARY path.

With the current checked-in Dockerfiles, only the Unix face_matcher is copied into the processor image from the repository source tree during docker build. The runtime container no longer needs a host bind mount for /opt/face-recognition.

Published images now get that binary because the Forgejo container workflow builds a dedicated processor image from the repository root, which lets faceai/docker/processor.Dockerfile copy:

bin/Face_Recognition_Unix/face_matcher

If a running processor still reports ENOENT, the deployed image was built before this change or the build did not include the checked-in matcher directory.

Optional Backend And Frontend Dev Loop

If you only want to iterate on the app without the PHP simulator, you can still run the public site and the processor separately. The queue-backed flow now requires Redis and the processor, so npm run dev alone is no longer the full stack.

One workable loop is:

npm install
docker compose up redis -d
npm run dev

Then start the processor in a second shell, either with its own local environment or by keeping the Compose-managed processor service running.

Docker Compose Deployment For The Public Site And Matcher Runner

The checked-in docker-compose.yml is for local integration testing because it also includes the PHP simulator and local bind mounts. For hosted deployment, keep the same three-service application topology but remove legacy-php and replace the local mounts with the real production paths on the host.

The public FaceAI site and the matcher runner can both use the same application image. The difference is only the process command:

• npm run start for the public site
• npm run start:processor for the matcher runner

If that shared image also embeds or mounts the current Linux face_matcher build, make sure the base OS provides GLIBC_2.38 or newer and includes libxcb1. A Debian Trixie-based image with that package installed satisfies the requirement; a Bookworm-based image does not.

Production Compose Example

This example assumes:

• FaceAI runtime files, logs, and matcher binaries live under /var/docker/faceai on the host
• the NAS export is already mounted on the host at /mnt/nas12 via /etc/fstab, for example 192.168.10.247:/public /mnt/nas12 nfs rw,noatime 0 0
• the race dataset root is available on the host at /mnt/nas12/nas2/RUS

Replace the registry path and secrets with the real deployment values.

services:
  faceai:
    image: forgejo.maddoscientisto.net/maddo/faceai-client:latest
    container_name: regalami-faceai
    restart: unless-stopped
    command:
      - node
      - docker/run-with-log-file.mjs
      - /data/logs/backend.log
      - npm
      - run
      - start
    environment:
      NODE_ENV: production
      PORT: 3001
      FACEAI_FRONTEND_URL: https://ai.regalamiunsorriso.it
      FACEAI_PUBLIC_BASE_URL: https://ai.regalamiunsorriso.it
      FACEAI_LEGACY_RETURN_URL: https://www.regalamiunsorriso.it/faceai_return.php
      FACEAI_SHARED_SECRET: disagio-spaghetti-science-lol-boh
      FACEAI_SESSION_COOKIE: rus_faceai_session
      FACEAI_REDIS_URL: redis://redis:6379
      FACEAI_QUEUE_NAME: faceai-searches
      FACEAI_RUNTIME_ROOT: /data/runtime
      FACEAI_UPLOAD_ROOT: /data/runtime/uploads
      FACEAI_LOG_ROOT: /data/logs
      FACEAI_PKL_ROOT: /data/pkl
      FACEAI_PROCESSOR_HEARTBEAT_GRACE_MS: 20000
      FACEAI_ENABLE_LOCAL_LEGACY_STATIC: 0
    volumes:
      - /mnt/storage/data/faceai/runtime:/data/runtime
      - /mnt/storage/data/faceai/logs:/data/logs
      - /mnt/nas12/nas2/RUS:/data/pkl:ro
    ports:
      - "3001:3001"
    healthcheck:
      test: ["CMD", "node", "-e", "fetch('http://127.0.0.1:3001/health').then(async (response) => { const payload = await response.json().catch(() => ({})); if (!response.ok || payload.ok !== true) { console.error(JSON.stringify(payload)); process.exit(1); } }).catch((error) => { console.error(error.stack || error.message); process.exit(1); })"]
      interval: 10s
      timeout: 5s
      retries: 6
      start_period: 20s
    depends_on:
      redis:
        condition: service_healthy

  processor:
    image: forgejo.maddoscientisto.net/maddo/faceai-processor:latest
    container_name: regalami-faceai-processor
    restart: unless-stopped
    command:
      - node
      - docker/run-with-log-file.mjs
      - /data/logs/processor.log
      - npm
      - run
      - start:processor
    environment:
      NODE_ENV: production
      FACEAI_REDIS_URL: redis://redis:6379
      FACEAI_QUEUE_NAME: faceai-searches
      FACEAI_RUNTIME_ROOT: /data/runtime
      FACEAI_LOG_ROOT: /data/logs
      FACEAI_PKL_ROOT: /data/pkl
      FACEAI_MATCHER_BINARY: /app/bin/face_matcher
      FACEAI_PROCESSOR_HEARTBEAT_INTERVAL_MS: 5000
      FACEAI_PROCESSOR_HEARTBEAT_TTL_SECONDS: 20
      FACEAI_WORKER_CONCURRENCY: 2
      FACEAI_WORKER_TIMEOUT_MS: 300000
    volumes:
      - /mnt/storage/data/faceai/runtime:/data/runtime
      - /mnt/storage/data/faceai/logs:/data/logs
      - /mnt/nas12/nas2/RUS:/data/pkl:ro
    depends_on:
      redis:
        condition: service_healthy

  redis:
    image: redis:7-alpine
    container_name: regalami-faceai-redis
    restart: unless-stopped
    command: redis-server --appendonly no
    healthcheck:
      test: ["CMD", "redis-cli", "ping"]
      interval: 5s
      timeout: 3s
      retries: 12

This pattern assumes a reverse proxy on the host publishes https://ai.regalamiunsorriso.it and forwards to 127.0.0.1:3001. The processor is internal-only and does not expose any public port.

The NAS-backed dataset bind mount stays read-only in both containers. That keeps the application aligned with the local Compose contract, where both services can inspect the same PKL tree but neither service can modify the underlying race data.

Required Runtime Configuration

Shared application settings:

Variable	Required	Example	Purpose
NODE_ENV	yes	production	disables development defaults
FACEAI_REDIS_URL	yes	redis://redis:6379	queue and search-state backend
FACEAI_QUEUE_NAME	optional	faceai-searches	BullMQ queue name
FACEAI_RUNTIME_ROOT	yes	/data/runtime	shared writable runtime root between site and processor
FACEAI_LOG_ROOT	recommended	/data/logs	persistent host-mounted diagnostics root for backend, processor, and per-search logs
FACEAI_SHARED_SECRET	yes	long random secret	trust boundary between FaceAI and the legacy bridge

Public site settings:

Variable	Required	Example	Purpose
PORT	optional	3001	internal listen port
FACEAI_FRONTEND_URL	yes	https://ai.regalamiunsorriso.it	URL used when the legacy bridge redirects into the app
FACEAI_PUBLIC_BASE_URL	yes	https://ai.regalamiunsorriso.it	public base URL used for local links and return flow generation
FACEAI_LEGACY_RETURN_URL	yes	https://www.regalamiunsorriso.it/faceai_return.php	legacy endpoint that receives the signed FaceAI result handoff
FACEAI_LEGACY_HOME_URL	recommended	https://www.regalamiunsorriso.it/	fallback destination used when FaceAI has no valid session and needs to return the browser to the legacy site
FACEAI_SESSION_COOKIE	optional	rus_faceai_session	cookie name for the FaceAI session
FACEAI_UPLOAD_ROOT	optional	/data/runtime/uploads	upload directory inside the shared runtime volume
FACEAI_ENABLE_LOCAL_LEGACY_STATIC	recommended	0	disables development-only static serving of local legacy assets

Processor settings:

Variable	Required	Example	Purpose
FACEAI_PKL_ROOT	yes	/data/pkl	mounted race-to-PKL dataset root
FACEAI_MATCHER_BINARY	yes	/app/bin/face_matcher	matcher executable baked into the processor image
FACEAI_WORKER_CONCURRENCY	optional	2	BullMQ worker concurrency
FACEAI_WORKER_TIMEOUT_MS	optional	300000	matcher timeout in milliseconds

The mounted PKL root is expected to use this structure:

/data/pkl/
  2026/
    04.APRILE/
      PISA/
        any-file-name.pkl

The public FaceAI site mounts the same path read-only so it can check availability during session bootstrap and refuse uploads immediately when the race has no .pkl data.

Do not enable FACEAI_ENABLE_LOCAL_LEGACY_STATIC in production. That mode exists only for local simulator flows.

Legacy-Side Configuration That Must Match

The deployment will not work correctly unless the legacy bridge is configured consistently.

The legacy site must:

• redirect users into FACEAI_FRONTEND_URL with a valid signed handoff token
• use the same FACEAI_SHARED_SECRET as the FaceAI deployment
• expose the configured FACEAI_LEGACY_RETURN_URL
• validate the signed return token and fetch the result payload from FaceAI

The shared secret is the trust boundary between the legacy site and FaceAI. Treat it like any other production secret and inject it through the platform secret store, not through source control.

Reverse Proxy Expectations

The app should sit behind HTTPS. In practice that means:

• publish only the public FaceAI host name externally
• forward the original host and scheme headers from the proxy
• keep the container bound to localhost or a private network if possible
• allow normal browser redirects between the legacy site and the FaceAI host

Post-Deploy Validation

After the Compose stack is up, validate at least the following:

1. GET /health returns {"ok":true} through the public FaceAI host.
2. The legacy handoff endpoint redirects to https://faceai.../auth/callback?token=....
3. FaceAI can exchange the token and establish a session.
4. A search is enqueued in Redis and picked up by the processor.
5. Completing a search produces a redirect URL that points to FACEAI_LEGACY_RETURN_URL.
6. The legacy return endpoint can resolve the signed result and render the filtered race page.

Current Production Limitations

This scaffold can now be deployed with the public site, processor, and Redis, but it still has important limitations:

• search state is short-lived in Redis and is not backed by a durable database
• runtime uploads and matcher output still need an agreed production retention and cleanup policy
• the PKL mount contract is now defined, but final NAS operations and cleanup policy still need to be hardened
• the backend currently sets the FaceAI session cookie with secure: false, which should be hardened before final public rollout
• the local simulator endpoints under /dev/* are still present in the app and should be treated as non-production scaffolding
• the processor CSV parser is still based on the current scaffolded matcher output assumptions

So the Compose deployment is appropriate for hosted integration and controlled production-like rollout, but not yet for the final hardened architecture described in the integration plan.

Environment

Defaults are already set for local development, but these can be overridden:

PORT=3001
FACEAI_FRONTEND_URL=http://localhost:5173
FACEAI_PUBLIC_BASE_URL=http://localhost:3001
FACEAI_LEGACY_RETURN_URL=http://localhost:3001/dev/legacy/return
FACEAI_LEGACY_HOME_URL=http://localhost:8080/index.jsp
FACEAI_SHARED_SECRET=change-me
FACEAI_SESSION_COOKIE=rus_faceai_session
FACEAI_REDIS_URL=redis://redis:6379
FACEAI_QUEUE_NAME=faceai-searches
FACEAI_RUNTIME_ROOT=/data/runtime
FACEAI_UPLOAD_ROOT=/data/runtime/uploads
FACEAI_LOG_ROOT=/data/logs
FACEAI_PKL_ROOT=/data/pkl
FACEAI_MATCHER_BINARY=/opt/face-recognition/face_matcher

If you want FaceAI to return through the new PHP bridge prepared under www, point FACEAI_LEGACY_RETURN_URL to that endpoint instead, for example http://localhost/faceai_return.php or the equivalent URL in your local PHP setup.

In the provided Docker Compose stack, that wiring is already done with:

FACEAI_LEGACY_RETURN_URL=http://localhost:8080/faceai_return.php
FACEAI_LEGACY_HOME_URL=http://localhost:8080/index.jsp

The log wiring is also already done in the checked-in Compose file with a host bind mount for ./logs:/data/logs, so both the backend and the processor write persistent diagnostics into the workspace while also remaining visible through Docker and Portainer container logs.

The Compose contract now also includes an HTTP healthcheck on the public FaceAI service and a Redis readiness check. That makes docker compose ps meaningful during rollout: faceai only becomes healthy after GET /health returns {"ok":true}, and both the public site and the processor wait for Redis readiness before their own startup sequence begins.

The local PHP simulator also needs the legacy bridge feature flag enabled:

FACEAI_FEATURE_ENABLED=1

The checked-in docker-compose.yml now sets that on the legacy-php service so the simulator can launch the FaceAI handoff flow locally.

Notes

• Search orchestration now uses Redis and a dedicated processor worker.
• The checked-in Compose file is meant for local integration testing, not as-is production use.
• The local legacy simulator is intentionally backend-driven so the handoff can be tested without compiling the existing Java application.
• www/faceai_simulator.php exists only for local testing. It does not replace the actual JSP race page.
• The final legacy integration still needs a real signed identity source and a real return-filter implementation on the old site.