Three issues raised by @lunny in review of #36008 are addressed:
1. Duplicate permission checks removed
The /projects route group is already wrapped with reqRepoReader and
reqRepoWriter in api.go. The inline CanRead/CanWrite checks at the
top of all 10 handlers were unreachable dead code.
2. AddOrUpdateIssueToColumn replaced with IssueAssignOrRemoveProject
The custom function introduced in #36008 was missing a db.WithTx
transaction wrapper, the CommentTypeProject audit comment written by
the UI, and the CanBeAccessedByOwnerRepo cross-repo ownership guard.
AddIssueToProjectColumn now delegates to the existing
IssueAssignOrRemoveProject which provides all three.
3. ListProjectColumns pagination implemented correctly
Added CountColumns and GetColumnsPaginated (using
db.SetSessionPagination) to the project model. The handler uses
utils.GetListOptions and sets X-Total-Count via
ctx.SetTotalCountHeader per API contribution guidelines.
Integration tests cover full list, page 1, page 2, and 404.
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>