Leave Management and Service Refinements

Focused on expanding leave management features, improving audit service robustness, and making minor infrastructure adjustments.

Today was largely focused on refining existing services and expanding the leave management module. A significant part of the day involved building out the "get all leaves" endpoint. This included setting up the necessary routes, implementing the service logic, and adding a corresponding test in the VS Code rest client.

During the implementation of the "get all leaves" functionality, I also refactored the leave service. This involved enhancing the data returned by including employee details and improving null handling to ensure more robust data retrieval. Additionally, I updated the overall leave request structure to better align with the new requirements.

The audit service received attention as well, specifically around its transaction handling. I modified it to accept a transaction as a parameter, with a fallback to the direct database connection if no transaction is provided. This change was also accompanied by strong typing using a union of the database type and PgTransaction to improve type safety.

On the infrastructure side, I adjusted the JWT token expiration from two minutes to fifteen minutes, providing a more practical user experience. I also added a logger for SQL queries and exported the Database type, which will aid in debugging and maintaining consistency across the application.

Overall, the session was productive, solidifying key aspects of the leave management system, enhancing service robustness, and making practical improvements to the authentication and logging infrastructure.