Stop throwing for not-found; add Guard and request validation

Not-found lookups return null/false instead of throwing NotFoundException
across all services — a missing row is expected control flow, not an
exceptional condition. NotFoundException stays for embedded precondition
checks inside mutations (missing parent, invalid foreign reference).

Guard (copied from mic-check) enforces required arguments at the top of
every service method. A ported IModelValidator<T> framework validates
every request DTO at the API layer via a new ValidationEndpointFilter,
returning a 400 with field-level messages; services re-run the same
validator and throw for direct callers that bypass the API.

Endpoints translate null/false into 404 via a new ToApiResult() helper.
The agent toolset boundary translates the same nullable/bool results
into the tool-error text the model already expected.
This commit is contained in:
James Wampler
2026-08-06 15:13:36 -07:00
parent 04917fa09e
commit 40f93e40a8
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namespace Novelly.Api.Common;
public static class ApiResultExtensions
{
/// <summary>
/// A missing entity is not exceptional, so lookups return null instead of throwing.
/// This is where that null finally becomes an HTTP 404 — the one place the API layer
/// needs to know about it.
/// </summary>
public static IResult ToApiResult<T>(this T? value) where T : class =>
value is null ? Results.NotFound() : Results.Ok(value);
}