Add the mass and area conversion groups

[mairas]

Replaces #580, which GitHub closed automatically when its base branch (fix/server-unit-preference-vocabulary, now merged as #571) was deleted. Same branch, same commit, rebased onto main.

Why

getConversionsForPath filters _conversionList for a group containing a measure equal to the path's SI unit. No group contained kg or m2, so the filter came back empty and the path degraded to unitless — even for the identity target, and on every preset including metric. design.displacement and a sail area rendered a raw number with no label.

This was split out of the #536 fix, which could not complete these two categories because the gap is not an alias: Skip had no conversion group for them at all.

What

category	SI base	targets
Mass	kg	kg, lbs
Area	m2	m2, sqft

Plus the matching unitConversionFunctions entries (js-quantities handles kg -> lbs and m^2 -> ft^2), and one alias — the server preset names its imperial mass target pound, following the same shape as the existing foot: 'feet'. sqft needs none; the server's target name and Skip's measure agree.

skBaseUnits already listed both kg (Mass) and m2 (Area) as valid Signal K units, so the type surface expected them; only the conversion table was missing.

Both categories move out of the "deliberately absent" notes in SERVER_TARGET_UNIT_ALIASES and in the spec's preset-vocabulary table, and into that table as four new rows.

src/assets/skip-dashboard-schema.json is the regenerated artifact; re-running npm run gen:mcp-schema after the rebase produces no further change.

Tests

Three added, plus the four new vocabulary rows. All four cases fail without the groups (the existing preset-vocabulary test included). Suite: 2039 passing on main.

Fixes #570

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added support for mass and area measurements.
  • Added conversions between kilograms and pounds.
  • Added conversions between square meters and square feet.
  • Added display symbols and dashboard schema support for the new measurement groups.

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Reviewers: correctness, testing, maintainability, project-standards, api-contract. Fresh contexts, isolated worktree.

The unit strings are right; the fix is live, not inert

The api-contract reviewer checked the wire contract in the spec rather than from memory: @signalk/signalk-schema gives design.displacement → kg and sails.inventory.*.area / sails.area.total / sails.area.active → m2. The string m^2 appears nowhere in the spec. Server-side, categories.json maps mass → kg and area → m2, the two metric presets emit those verbatim, and the four imperial presets emit pound / sqft — exactly the four rows the PR added.

Both factors verified against the installed js-quantities: 1 kg = 2.2046226218487757 lbs, 1 m² = 10.763910416709722 ft². The server's own pound factor matches digit for digit; its sqft is the truncated 10.7639.

Four reviewers, one missing alias

SERVER_TARGET_UNIT_ALIASES gained pound: 'lbs' but not kilogram: 'kg'. The server's standard-units-definitions.json has no kg conversion key — the kg category's keys are AMU, carat, dalton, dram, grain, gram, kilogram, metric-ton, ounce, pound, short-ton, slug, stone. The preset path reaches kg only through the resolver's targetUnit === siUnit shortcut.

The api-contract reviewer found what makes this concrete: the admin Data Browser's per-path custom-unit selector renders Object.entries(conversions), so kilogram is the metric mass option a user actually sees and picks, and kg is not offered at all. Picking it still degraded to a raw unlabelled number — the exact symptom #570 reports, on the category this PR adds. Every other spelled-out SI synonym Skip supports is already aliased (meter, radian, second, watt, hertz), so this was an omission against the table's own stated rule.

Added, with a case in the spelled-out-targets spec.

Nothing held the converters to their factors

Two reviewers proved the same thing independently, and it is sharper than a generic coverage note: js-quantities knows sqft as a unit of its own, so Qty.swiftConverter('m^2', 'sqft') is the identity rather than an error. sqft is both the server's target name and Skip's measure key, so it is the obvious thing to write — and writing it would have shipped every area 10.76× too small with the entire suite green. The strongest existing assertion reaching these converters was Number.isFinite(convertToUnit(base, 1)).

The file already had the right precedent from the previous batch (gallon-imp, btu, g/h pinned to values). Added in the same style; mutation-checked by writing the wrong spelling:

AssertionError: expected 1 to be close to 10.7639104, received difference is 9.7639104

Also applied

The doc comment's list of deliberately-unsupported targets had "every mass/area target" removed and nothing put back, so it read as if the two categories were now fully covered. They are partial — gram, ounce, stone, acre, hectare and the rest still hit the warn-and-show-SI fallback. The list names them again. kg and m2 added to the identity-target sweep, and the CHANGELOG mentions kilogram.

Version bump — right answer, wrong reason

The PR's stated reasoning was "this is a patch-level fix". The project-standards reviewer disagreed with the premise and agreed with the conclusion: this adds two selectable unit groups, which is minor-level work, not a fix. But VERSION history shows the open cycle was opened at patch (1.3.0 → 1.3.1) and already escalated to minor (1.3.1 → 1.4.0), and AGENTS.md re-bumps only for a level higher than the one that opened the cycle. Minor into an already-minor cycle is absorbed. VERSION stays at 1.4.0 — but the load-bearing fact is the cycle's level, not this PR's.

Not actioned

Nine declared SI base units still have no conversion group at all — kg/s, Nm, m/s2, rad/s2, N, T, Lux, Pa/s, Pa.s — and sit in exactly the failure mode #570 reports. Lux (illuminance) and Nm (torque) are ordinary published paths. That is pre-existing debt and a third report waiting to happen; a test pinning the known-gap set would close the class, but it is not this PR's scope.

A gauge configured on a kg or m2 path before this change stored convertUnitTo: 'unitless', and convertBetweenMeasures returns the value unchanged across groups — so on an imperial preset its stored displayScale bounds stay in SI while the value arrives in pounds, and the needle pegs until the scale is re-set. The mechanism is not new (it applies to every unit the previous fix un-degraded); mass and area are the case where the stored side is guaranteed to be unitless. Narrow: needs a pre-existing gauge with explicit bounds on such a path plus an imperial preset.

Gate on the head commit: 2040 tests pass, snc clean, test:mcp-schema in sync.

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Walkthrough

The unit service now supports mass and area conversion groups, server target aliases, conversion handlers, and dashboard schema entries. Tests cover identity, imperial targets, preset vocabulary, conversions, and display symbols.

Changes

Mass and area unit support

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Unit conversion and schema support src/app/core/services/units.service.ts, src/assets/skip-dashboard-schema.json	Added kilogram, pound, square-meter, and square-foot groups, aliases, conversion handlers, and schema entries.
Conversion and target coverage src/app/core/services/units.service.spec.ts	Added coverage for path resolution, identity and imperial targets, preset vocabulary, conversions, and display symbols.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Mergeability Score: 🔵 Low · up to cf234

The PR adds mass and area conversions, but the new tests allow somewhat inaccurate conversion factors; tightening their precision is a bounded follow-up for correctness confidence. The change remains mergeable with owner awareness.

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