fix: persist and display multimodal messages (image/audio attachments) (#1159)

Multimodal content (list of {type, text/image_url} blocks) couldn't be
stored in the DB Text column, causing silent persist failures. On reload
the frontend fell back to String() on the array, rendering
[object Object],[object Object] in the chat.

- Serialize list content as JSON in _persist_message()
- Deserialize back to list in _db_to_session() via _parse_msg_content()
- Extract text parts from multimodal arrays in sessions.js instead of
  String() coercion

core/session_manager.py

@@ -29,6 +29,21 @@ def _message_timestamp_iso(value: Optional[datetime]) -> Optional[str]:
     return value.isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
 
 
+def _parse_msg_content(raw):
+    """Parse message content from DB — deserialises JSON arrays back to lists
+    (multimodal content with image/audio attachments)."""
+    if isinstance(raw, list):
+        return raw
+    if isinstance(raw, str) and raw.startswith('[{') and '"type"' in raw:
+        try:
+            parsed = json.loads(raw)
+            if isinstance(parsed, list) and all(isinstance(p, dict) for p in parsed):
+                return parsed
+        except (json.JSONDecodeError, ValueError):
+            pass
+    return raw
+
+
 class SessionManager:
     """
     Manages chat sessions with database persistence.
@@ -119,7 +134,7 @@ class SessionManager:
                 meta.setdefault('timestamp', _message_timestamp_iso(db_msg.timestamp))
                 history.append(ChatMessage(
                     role=db_msg.role,
-                    content=db_msg.content,
+                    content=_parse_msg_content(db_msg.content),
                     metadata=meta,
                 ))
         else:
@@ -134,7 +149,7 @@ class SessionManager:
                 meta.setdefault('timestamp', _message_timestamp_iso(db_msg.timestamp))
                 history.append(ChatMessage(
                     role=db_msg.role,
-                    content=db_msg.content,
+                    content=_parse_msg_content(db_msg.content),
                     metadata=meta,
                 ))
 
@@ -192,11 +207,17 @@ class SessionManager:
             if message.metadata is None:
                 message.metadata = {}
             message.metadata.setdefault('timestamp', _message_timestamp_iso(msg_time))
+            # Multimodal content (image/audio attachments) is a list — serialize
+            # to JSON so the Text column can store it.  On reload, _db_to_session
+            # detects the JSON-array prefix and parses it back.
+            _content = message.content
+            if isinstance(_content, list):
+                _content = json.dumps(_content)
             db_message = DbChatMessage(
                 id=msg_id,
                 session_id=session_id,
                 role=message.role,
-                content=message.content,
+                content=_content,
                 meta_data=json.dumps(message.metadata) if message.metadata else None,
                 timestamp=msg_time,
             )

static/js/sessions.js

@@ -1610,7 +1610,15 @@ export async function selectSession(id, { keepSidebar = false } = {}) {
     } else if (msgHistory.length) {
       for (const msg of msgHistory) {
         const meta = msg.metadata ? { ...msg.metadata, _fromHistory: true } : null;
-        let displayContent = typeof msg.content === 'string' ? msg.content : (msg.content ? String(msg.content) : '');
+        let displayContent;
+        if (typeof msg.content === 'string') {
+          displayContent = msg.content;
+        } else if (Array.isArray(msg.content)) {
+          // Multimodal (image/audio attachments): extract text parts, skip binary
+          displayContent = msg.content.filter(p => p.type === 'text').map(p => p.text).join('\n').trim();
+        } else {
+          displayContent = '';
+        }
         // Clean up doc selection context for display
         if (msg.role === 'user') {
           // Hide "Continue where you left off" bubbles