Favorites and Recent Items

OxiCloud includes two per-user tracking features backed by PostgreSQL:

• Favorites for pinning files and folders you want to reach quickly
• Recent items for tracking the files and folders you accessed most recently

Both features are enabled when the instance has a database connection.

Favorites

API

All routes live under /api/favorites and require authentication.

Method	Path	Description
GET	/api/favorites/	List all favorites for the current user
POST	/api/favorites/{item_type}/{item_id}	Add a file or folder to favorites
DELETE	/api/favorites/{item_type}/{item_id}	Remove a favorite

item_type must be either file or folder.

Behavior

• Adding the same item twice is idempotent
• Results are ordered by created_at DESC
• User identity comes from the JWT, not the request body

Storage model

Favorites are stored in auth.user_favorites with a uniqueness constraint on (user_id, item_id, item_type).

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS auth.user_favorites (
    id         SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
    user_id    VARCHAR(36) NOT NULL REFERENCES auth.users(id) ON DELETE CASCADE,
    item_id    TEXT NOT NULL,
    item_type  TEXT NOT NULL,
    created_at TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
    UNIQUE(user_id, item_id, item_type)
);

Recent Items

API

All routes live under /api/recent and require authentication.

Method	Path	Description
GET	/api/recent/	List recent items, optionally with ?limit=N
POST	/api/recent/{item_type}/{item_id}	Record an access
DELETE	/api/recent/{item_type}/{item_id}	Remove one item from history
DELETE	/api/recent/clear	Clear all recent items

Behavior

• Default maximum per user: 50 items
• Re-accessing an item updates its accessed_at timestamp
• Old items are automatically pruned after inserts
• Results are ordered by accessed_at DESC

Storage model

Recent items are stored in auth.user_recent_files.

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS auth.user_recent_files (
    id          SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
    user_id     VARCHAR(36) NOT NULL REFERENCES auth.users(id) ON DELETE CASCADE,
    item_id     TEXT NOT NULL,
    item_type   TEXT NOT NULL,
    accessed_at TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
    UNIQUE(user_id, item_id, item_type)
);

Example

# Add a file to favorites
curl -X POST -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  "https://oxicloud.example.com/api/favorites/file/abc-123"

# List recent items
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  "https://oxicloud.example.com/api/recent/?limit=10"

# Clear recent history
curl -X DELETE -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  "https://oxicloud.example.com/api/recent/clear"

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