RolesAndPermissionsSeeder grants every 'view *' permission via
Role::givePermissionTo() only -- it never grants permissions directly to a
user with User::givePermissionTo(). That is true for every seeded role,
including Admin.
User::getCategoryExclusionById() computed the allowed permission set as:
$userAllowed = $user->getDirectPermissions()->pluck('name')->toArray();
$roleAllowed = $user->getAllPermissions()->pluck('name')->toArray();
$allowed = array_intersect($roleAllowed, $userAllowed);
getAllPermissions() already includes permissions granted via the user's
role(s), so intersecting it with getDirectPermissions() (permissions
assigned directly to the user, bypassing roles) means $allowed is empty
for any user whose permissions come only from their role. Since every
seeded role works this way, this silently excluded every category root
for every user on a fresh install, and any subsequent Newznab/Torznab API
search or browse request returned zero results with no visible error.
Fix: use getAllPermissions() directly, since it already reflects both
role-granted and directly-granted permissions.
Added a regression test (test_role_only_permissions_are_not_excluded)
that mirrors the real seeder setup -- role-only permissions, nothing
granted directly to the user -- to make sure this doesn't regress.
DariusIII