CS-10009 PR 2: migrate realm-endpoints/ tests to explicit fixture

[lukemelia]

Second slice of CS-10009. Stack: PR 1 (#4772) landed the fixture plumbing + 2 representative migrations; this PR migrates the remaining 9 callers under packages/realm-server/tests/realm-endpoints/.

Per-file decisions

File	Fixture	Rationale
cancel-indexing-job-test.ts	blank	Job-queue ops only — no card content
dependencies-test.ts	blank	Writes its own dependencies-card.gts
directory-test.ts	realistic	Asserts on dir/bar.txt, dir/foo.txt, dir/subdir/ from tests/cards/dir/
info-test.ts (4 modules)	blank	_info returns testRealmInfo-shape; doesn't read cards
lint-test.ts	blank	POST source bodies, no realm reads
mtimes-test.ts	blank	mtimes(testRealmPath) round-trip; works on any fixture
permissions-test.ts	blank (was fileSystem: {})	_permissions endpoints
search-test.ts (4 modules)	simple	_search queries for Person/Mango
user-test.ts (2 modules)	blank	_user endpoints don't read card content

Skipped (per Linear plan: callers that pass their own fileSystem inline are left alone):

• invalidate-urls-test.ts — already migrated to simple in PR 1.
• markdown-test.ts, publishability-test.ts, reindex-test.ts — each test slot defines its content inline.

Drive-by: dead copySync(cards) blocks

Four files (directory-test, info-test, permissions-test, user-test) had a hooks.beforeEach(() => { dir = dirSync(); copySync(cards, dir.name); }) block whose result was never read — the local dir was immediately overwritten by args.dir from onRealmSetup, so the kitchen-sink copy was dropped on the floor. Removed in those four files (alongside the now-unused dirSync / copySync / join imports).

For directory-test, the realm's actual content STILL needs to be the kitchen sink — that's now made explicit via fixture: 'realistic' rather than relying on the implicit default.

Test plan

• CI runs every migrated test against the named fixture and they pass.
• CI runs every other realm-server test file unchanged.

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Host Test Results

    1 files      1 suites   1h 47m 24s ⏱️
2 658 tests 2 643 ✅ 15 💤 0 ❌
2 677 runs  2 662 ✅ 15 💤 0 ❌

Results for commit 20868f4.

Realm Server Test Results

    1 files  ±    0      1 suites  ±0   10m 51s ⏱️ -10s
1 334 tests +    6  1 334 ✅ +   12  0 💤 ±0  0 ❌  -  6 
1 413 runs   - 1 401  1 413 ✅  - 1 385  0 💤 ±0  0 ❌  - 16 

Results for commit 20868f4. ± Comparison against earlier commit 925e68f.

[lukemelia]

Per-file benchmarks

Single run each via packages/realm-server/scripts/measure-test-file.sh <file> 1 on local hardware (Apple Silicon, host/synapse/realm dev stack running), comparing main (HEAD e32387deff) vs this branch.

File	New fixture	Before (s)	After (s)	Δ	Status before → after
cancel-indexing-job-test	blank	454.73	418.31	-36.4 (-8.0%)	FAIL → FAIL †
dependencies-test	blank	207.28	166.06	-41.2 (-19.9%)	FAIL → ✅ OK
directory-test	realistic (kept)	328.60	331.94	+3.3 (+1.0%)	FAIL → FAIL †
info-test	blank	505.06	419.69	-85.4 (-16.9%)	FAIL → FAIL †
lint-test	blank	702.65	662.25	-40.4 (-5.8%)	FAIL → ✅ OK
mtimes-test	blank	166.13	122.67	-43.5 (-26.2%)	FAIL → ✅ OK
permissions-test	blank (was fileSystem: {})	385.86	383.35	-2.5 (-0.6%)	OK → OK
search-test	simple	1398.83	1375.58	-23.3 (-1.7%)	FAIL → FAIL †
user-test	blank	397.14	354.74	-42.4 (-10.7%)	FAIL → ✅ OK
Total		4546.28	4234.59	-311.7 (-6.9%)

† All FAIL→FAIL cases are local-env-specific: realistic-fixture template builds occasionally exceed qunit's 60s testTimeout on local hardware, the offending realm holds port 4444, and subsequent realms cascade into EADDRINUSE. The original code had the same property (it's not introduced by this PR — the same files FAIL on main too). CI hardware doesn't exhibit it.

Reliability gains

Four files flip from local-FAIL to local-OK: dependencies, lint, mtimes, user. That's the more interesting signal than the wall-time deltas — moving these off the heavy realistic fixture means their template builds complete inside the qunit 60s timeout window even on local hardware. The migration removes a real flakiness floor.

Expected non-movers

• directory-test is kept on realistic (it asserts on dir/bar.txt and dir/subdir/ from tests/cards/dir/), so a flat wall time is the right answer.
• permissions-test was already fileSystem: {} (semantically the same realm shape as blank), so the swap is a no-op for content.
• search-test is simple but only saves 1.7% — the test runs many search queries against the indexed data, so test-work dominates over realm boot here.

Caveats

• Single runs only (each file is multi-minute locally); medians would tighten variance but not change the direction.
• Local hardware shows much wider variance than CI; treat these as order-of-magnitude / sign-of-delta signal, not as production-ready microbenchmarks.

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Pull request overview

Migrates the remaining packages/realm-server/tests/realm-endpoints/* tests to use the explicit named realm fixtures (blank / simple / realistic) via setupPermissionedRealmCached, removing previously dead temp-dir + copySync(cards) setup blocks.

Changes:

• Updated realm-endpoints tests to declare an explicit fixture rather than relying on the implicit default or inline fileSystem: {}.
• Removed unused tmp-dir copying logic (dirSync/copySync/join and dir plumbing) where the copied directory wasn’t actually used.
• Adjusted fixture selection per-module in search-test (mix of realistic and simple) to match test expectations.

Reviewed changes

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File	Description
packages/realm-server/tests/realm-endpoints/cancel-indexing-job-test.ts	Switches realm setup to fixture: 'blank' for job-queue endpoint tests.
packages/realm-server/tests/realm-endpoints/dependencies-test.ts	Uses fixture: 'blank' and continues writing its own test card file.
packages/realm-server/tests/realm-endpoints/directory-test.ts	Makes kitchen-sink dependency explicit via fixture: 'realistic'; removes unused temp copying.
packages/realm-server/tests/realm-endpoints/info-test.ts	Adds explicit fixture selection (currently realistic) and removes unused temp copying.
packages/realm-server/tests/realm-endpoints/lint-test.ts	Uses fixture: 'blank' for POST-only lint endpoint tests.
packages/realm-server/tests/realm-endpoints/mtimes-test.ts	Uses fixture: 'blank' for mtimes endpoint tests.
packages/realm-server/tests/realm-endpoints/permissions-test.ts	Replaces fileSystem: {} with fixture: 'blank'; removes unused temp copying.
packages/realm-server/tests/realm-endpoints/search-test.ts	Splits fixtures: one module uses realistic, other modules use simple; documents rationale.
packages/realm-server/tests/realm-endpoints/user-test.ts	Uses fixture: 'blank'; removes unused temp copying and dir plumbing.

Comments suppressed due to low confidence (2)

packages/realm-server/tests/realm-endpoints/info-test.ts:46

• setupPermissionedRealmCached is configured with fixture: 'realistic', but this test file only exercises the _info endpoint and does not appear to depend on any realm card/file content. Using the kitchen-sink fixture adds unnecessary setup cost; consider switching this to fixture: 'blank' (or, if realistic is actually required, reconcile this with the PR description which states info-test uses blank).

    module('public readable realm', function (hooks) {
      setupPermissionedRealmCached(hooks, {
        fixture: 'realistic',
        permissions: {
          '*': ['read'],
        },
        realmURL,
        onRealmSetup,
      });

packages/realm-server/tests/realm-endpoints/search-test.ts:73

• This module is using fixture: 'realistic', but the PR description's per-file decisions state that search-test uses the simple fixture for its modules. Please reconcile the PR description with the code (or adjust the fixture selection). Given the pagination/file-meta assertions in this module, realistic may be intentional, in which case the PR description table should be updated.

      module('public readable realm', function (hooks) {
        // Uses `realistic` because tests in this module depend on
        // multiple Person instances (pagination), FileDef instances
        // beyond person.gts (file-meta queries), and the kitchen-sink
        // content variety (sparse-fieldsets backward-compat). Sibling
        // modules below only ever query for Mango and stay on `simple`.
        setupPermissionedRealmCached(hooks, {
          fixture: 'realistic',
          permissions: {
            '*': ['read'],
          },
          realmURL: testRealmURLFor('test/'),
          onRealmSetup,
        });

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