New SearchDropdown component that provides a live typeahead dropdown
in the navbar searching both cosplayers (persons) and albums.
- Fires API calls on every keystroke (no debounce) to existing /api/person and /api/album
- Version counter discards stale responses
- Minimum 2 characters before searching
- Keyboard navigation (arrows, enter, escape)
- Blur delay for click-to-navigate
- Thumbnail support with fallback avatars/icons
- Loading and empty states

@@ -125,3 +125,3 @@
         }
 
-        if (searchOptionsDto.Page < 1 || searchOptionsDto.PageSize < 1) {
+        if (searchOptionsDto.Page < 0 || searchOptionsDto.PageSize < 1) {

@@ -97,18 +97,10 @@ namespace Lactose.Controllers {
         /// Gets all users.
         /// </summary>
         /// <returns>A list of all users.</returns>
+        [Authorize(Roles = "Admin")]

@@ -53,0 +55,4 @@
+    /// Populated by <see cref="Repositories.PersonRepository.SearchQuery"/> — do not rely on this outside that context.
+    /// </summary>
+    [NotMapped]
+    public int TotalVisibleAlbums { get; set; }

@@ -36,4 +34,0 @@
-    /// </summary>
-    /// <param name="album">The album to map.</param>
-    /// <returns>An AlbumPreviewDto object.</returns>
-    public static AlbumPreviewDto ToAlbumPreviewDto(this Album album) => new AlbumPreviewDto {

@@ -82,2 +82,2 @@
-        if(pagingOptions.Page < 0 || pagingOptions.PageSize < 0) return BadRequest();
-        
+
+        if(pagingOptions.Page < 0 || pagingOptions.PageSize < 1) return BadRequest();

@@ -75,3 +76,4 @@
         var uid         = authService.GetUserData(User)?.Id;
         var accessLevel = authService.GetUserData(User)?.AccessLevel ?? EAccessLevel.User;
 
+        if (pagedSearch.Page < 0 || pagedSearch.PageSize < 1) { return BadRequest(); }

@@ -71,3 +71,3 @@
         pagedSearch.Search ??= string.Empty;
         if(pagedSearch.Page < 0) { return BadRequest("Page must be greater than 0"); }
-        if(pagedSearch.PageSize < 0) { return BadRequest("PageSize must be greater than 0"); }
+        if(pagedSearch.PageSize < 1) { return BadRequest("PageSize must be greater than 0"); }

@@ -48,0 +74,4 @@
+            ).ToList();
+
+        // Project to DTOs
+        var dtos = pagedAlbums.Select(a => new AlbumPreviewDto {

@@ -75,35 +75,25 @@ public class AlbumController(
     /// <param name="pagingOptions">Pagination, search, sort, and filter parameters.</param>
     /// <returns>A list of album previews accessible to the user.</returns>
     [HttpGet]
+    [AllowAnonymous]

@@ -36,2 +36,3 @@
     [Authorize(Roles = "Admin")]
-    public ActionResult<PastJobsResponse> GetPast([FromQuery] int page = 1, [FromQuery] int pageSize = 5) {
+    public ActionResult<PastJobsResponse> GetPast([FromQuery] int page = 0, [FromQuery] int pageSize = 5) {
+        if (page < 0 || pageSize < 1 || pageSize > 250) { return BadRequest(); }

@@ -98,20 +98,22 @@ public class PersonController(
     /// <param name="pagedSearch">Pagination, search, and sort parameters.</param>
     /// <returns>A paginated list of person previews.</returns>
     [HttpGet]
+    [AllowAnonymous]

@@ -71,3 +70,3 @@
+    public ActionResult<List<TagDto>> GetAll([FromQuery] PagedSearchParametersDto pagedSearch) {
         pagedSearch.Search ??= string.Empty;
         if(pagedSearch.Page < 0) { return BadRequest("Page must be greater than 0"); }
-        if(pagedSearch.PageSize < 0) { return BadRequest("PageSize must be greater than 0"); }