Q184: the page, its sections, filters and selections survive page switches and restarts

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

tests/unit/view-state.test.ts

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+import { randomUUID } from "node:crypto";
+import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
+import { join } from "node:path";
+import { describe, expect, test } from "vitest";
+import { DatabaseConnection } from "../../src/main/database/connection";
+import { loadViewState, saveViewState } from "../../src/main/services/view-state";
+
+describe("view state", () => {
+  test("keeps each key's latest value, including keys with dots and colons, and forgets on null", () => {
+    const connection = new DatabaseConnection(join(tmpdir(), `ac-view-state-${randomUUID()}.db`));
+    const db = connection.db;
+    expect(loadViewState(db)).toEqual({});
+    saveViewState(db, "route", "work");
+    saveViewState(db, "org_1:work.view", "list");
+    saveViewState(db, "org_1:work.scope", { kind: "goal", id: "gol_1" });
+    saveViewState(db, "route", "settings");
+    expect(loadViewState(db)).toEqual({ route: "settings", "org_1:work.view": "list", "org_1:work.scope": { kind: "goal", id: "gol_1" } });
+    saveViewState(db, "org_1:work.scope", null);
+    expect(loadViewState(db)).toEqual({ route: "settings", "org_1:work.view": "list" });
+  });
+});