namespace JobTrackerApi.Services
{
public enum PipelineCategory
{
Active,
Success,
Closed,
}
public sealed record PipelineStage(string Key, int Order, PipelineCategory Category);
///
/// Canonical job-application pipeline: the single source of truth for the ordered set of
/// statuses, their grouping, and how free-text/legacy values normalize onto them.
/// Status remains a free-text column so custom values are never destroyed; this only
/// canonicalizes casing and known synonyms.
///
public static class JobPipeline
{
public const string DefaultStatus = "Applied";
public static readonly IReadOnlyList Stages = new List
{
new("Applied", 1, PipelineCategory.Active),
new("Waiting", 2, PipelineCategory.Active),
new("Interview", 3, PipelineCategory.Active),
new("Offer", 4, PipelineCategory.Success),
new("Rejected", 5, PipelineCategory.Closed),
new("Ghosted", 6, PipelineCategory.Closed),
};
private static readonly Dictionary Canonical =
Stages.ToDictionary(s => s.Key, s => s.Key, StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
// Legacy/synonym spellings that should collapse onto a canonical stage.
private static readonly Dictionary Aliases = new(StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase)
{
["interviewing"] = "Interview",
["interviews"] = "Interview",
["interviewed"] = "Interview",
["in interview"] = "Interview",
["awaiting response"] = "Waiting",
["awaiting"] = "Waiting",
["in progress"] = "Waiting",
["pending"] = "Waiting",
["no response"] = "Ghosted",
["no reply"] = "Ghosted",
["declined"] = "Rejected",
};
///
/// Returns the canonical status for a raw value: trims, matches a stage case-insensitively,
/// or maps a known synonym. Unknown non-empty values are preserved (trimmed) so custom
/// statuses survive. Empty/whitespace becomes the default stage.
///
public static string Normalize(string? status)
{
var trimmed = (status ?? string.Empty).Trim();
if (trimmed.Length == 0) return DefaultStatus;
if (Canonical.TryGetValue(trimmed, out var canonical)) return canonical;
if (Aliases.TryGetValue(trimmed, out var alias)) return alias;
return trimmed;
}
public static bool IsCanonical(string? status)
=> !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(status) && Canonical.ContainsKey(status.Trim());
public static int OrderOf(string? status)
{
var normalized = Normalize(status);
var stage = Stages.FirstOrDefault(s => string.Equals(s.Key, normalized, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase));
return stage?.Order ?? int.MaxValue; // custom statuses sort last
}
}
}