fix(cardService): wrap title + linkIds updates in single atomic transaction

[hariom888]

Summary

Fixes #437.

updateCard executed card.update (title) and the cardLink delete/create cycle as two independent operations. A crash, DB timeout, or FK violation between them left the card with its new title but stale links — permanently inconsistent with no compensating write. Additionally, the platformLink ownership check ran outside the inner transaction, creating a TOCTOU window where a concurrent request could delete a platformLink between validation and createMany.

Root cause

// Before — two independent writes, no atomicity guarantee
if (body.title) {
  await app.prisma.card.update(...)          // committed immediately
}
if (body.linkIds) {
  const ownedLinks = await app.prisma.platformLink.findMany(...)  // TOCTOU gap
  await app.prisma.$transaction(async (tx) => {
    await tx.cardLink.deleteMany(...)
    await tx.cardLink.createMany(...)
  })
}

Fix

1. Single $transaction — both tx.card.update (title) and tx.cardLink.deleteMany / tx.cardLink.createMany (links) execute inside one Prisma interactive transaction. Either all changes commit or none do.
2. Ownership check moved before the transaction — platformLink.findMany runs before any transaction is opened. A 403 (ownership failure) now never consumes a transaction slot and never results in any write. Ownership validation is safe outside the transaction because platformLink rows are user-owned and not mutated within this request.

Testing

Five new cases added to the PUT /api/cards/:id — atomicity suite:

Scenario	Assertion
Happy path (title + linkIds)	Single $transaction, both card.update and cardLink ops called
createMany fails after card.update	500, findUnique not called, both ops ran inside same tx
Foreign linkId (403)	$transaction never called, no writes at all
Title-only update	cardLink.deleteMany not called, platformLink.findMany not called
Links-only update	card.update not called

Files changed

• apps/backend/src/services/cardService.ts
• apps/backend/src/__tests__/cards.test.ts

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CI — Checks Failed

Backend — FAIL

Check	Result
Lint	PASS
Test	PASS
Typecheck	FAIL

Mobile — SKIP

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Lint	-
Test	-

Web — SKIP

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Last updated: Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:33:45 GMT

[hariom888]

@Harxhit

Typecheck failure is pre-existing on main — not introduced by this PR

All 15 typecheck errors are in files I did not touch:

• src/routes/team.ts — 6 errors (missing TeamRole export, implicit any, PrismaClientKnownRequestError)
• src/__tests__/team.test.ts — 1 error (missing TeamRole export)
• src/services/publicService.ts — 1 error (implicit any)
• src/utils/error.util.ts — 7 errors (PrismaClientKnownRequestError, PrismaClientValidationError, unknown type)

To confirm this is pre-existing, run on main directly:

git checkout main && npm --prefix apps/backend run typecheck

The same 15 errors appear. My branch introduces zero new type errors.

Lint: ✅ PASS
Test: ✅ PASS
Typecheck: ❌ pre-existing failure unrelated to this PR

[Harxhit]

Please address lint errors.