- Changed user field from Optional[User] to required User type
- Ensures user object is always included in login response
- Pydantic now properly serializes the complete user object
- Frontend can now successfully retrieve response.user for localStorage
- Fix password encoding: Convert password to UTF-8 bytes for LDAP protocol compatibility
- Add 'user' field to TokenResponse schema for frontend compatibility
- Update login endpoint to populate user object in response
- Resolves 'Invalid Protocol Password' error on LDAP login attempts
The issue was that frontend expected response.user but backend only returned
individual fields (user_id, username, role), causing localStorage assignment to fail.
- Extend ItemCreate schema with optional extracted_image_bytes (base64) and image_processing (dict)
- Update create_item endpoint to call _auto_save_photo_from_extraction after item creation
- Decode base64 image bytes and pass crop_bounds, rotation_degrees to helper
- Don't block item creation if photo save fails (log warning instead)
- Item returned with photo_path, photo_thumbnail_path populated if save succeeded
- Full backward compatibility: old clients without image fields work unchanged
- Add 5 integration tests covering all scenarios:
- Create item WITH image_processing → photo auto-saved
- Create item WITHOUT image_processing → no photo (backward compatible)
- Create item WITH invalid image_processing → item created, photo skipped
- Create item WITH crop_bounds=None → item created, photo skipped
- Create item WITH bytes but NO processing metadata → item created, photo skipped
- All 158 backend tests passing, zero regressions
