product images added to the catalogue

models/product.go

@@ -62,6 +62,23 @@ type Products struct {
 	Pricingid         int     `json:"pricingid,omitempty"`
 	Productname       string  `json:"productname,omitempty"`
 	Productimage      string  `json:"productimage,omitempty"`
+
+	// Every photo the product has, as a JSON array of URLs.
+	//
+	// `Productimage` above stays the first of these and is left untouched: every
+	// existing reader — the store catalogue, the customer app, the POS catalogue
+	// pull, each order line — reads that column, and repointing them all at an
+	// array is a far larger change than giving the extra photos somewhere to live.
+	//
+	// Before this the import kept `Images[0]` and discarded the rest, so a product
+	// with ten photos in the global catalogue arrived in a shop with one. 90 of
+	// nestle's 123 products have more than one.
+	//
+	// Held as a string rather than a []string because GORM's raw scan-into-struct
+	// silently drops slice-kind destination fields — the same reason
+	// `catalogueProductColumns` casts its text[] columns to text.
+	Productimages     string  `json:"productimages,omitempty" gorm:"column:productimages;type:jsonb"`
+
 	Productdesc       string  `json:"productdesc,omitempty"`
 	Productsku        string  `json:"productsku,omitempty"`
 	Brandid           int     `json:"brandid,omitempty"`