fix(api): strengthen route list response parsing boundaries for non-RAG endpoints

[BigSimmo]

Summary

• Centralises validation of untrusted database list responses across the documents, ingestion batches/jobs, ingestion quality, and jobs API routes.
• Fails closed on malformed, null, or undefined dependency payloads while preserving explicit empty-array results, generic public error bodies, and owner-scoped redaction.
• Adds focused contract coverage for malformed rows, sensitive-data non-disclosure, nullish list payloads, and valid empty-list behavior.

Verification

• Exact head 8dbada735de1571334968d06ff1812cfcd28c0f3: PR required, unit coverage, build and bundle budget, static PR checks, lint, typecheck, safety/config checks, ingestion SAST, SAST, Gitleaks, Secret Scan, and the CI-managed Lighthouse budget passed.
• Focused regression coverage passed: null and undefined list payloads are rejected, while an explicit [] remains valid.
• Branch-review ledger integrity, outstanding-issues ledger integrity, and ledger write-discipline checks passed.

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RAG impact: no retrieval, ranking, candidate-selection, source-rendering, or answer-contract behavior change; this PR only strengthens non-RAG API response-boundary validation.

Risk and rollout

• Risk: Low. Valid array-shaped database responses are unchanged. Malformed or nullish dependency output now returns the existing standardised internal-error response instead of a misleading successful empty list.
• Rollback: Revert this PR. No schema migration, data rewrite, deployment configuration change, or destructive operation is involved.
• Provider or production effects: None were exercised during review. Existing auto-merge configuration was left untouched.

Clinical Governance Preflight

• Source-backed claims still require linked source verification before clinical use
• No patient-identifiable document workflow was introduced or expanded without explicit governance approval
• Supabase target remains Clinical KB Database (sjrfecxgysukkwxsowpy)
• Service-role keys and private document access remain server-only
• Demo/synthetic content remains clearly separated from real clinical sources
• Source metadata, review status, and outdated/unknown-source behavior remain conservative
• Deployment classification/TGA SaMD impact was checked when clinical decision-support behavior changed

Review outcome

• A distinct manual adversarial pass found no additional confirmed P0-P2 defect.
• CodeRabbit's nullish-payload finding was independently reproduced, fixed in 8dbada7, and its review thread is resolved.
• The branch is current with main and the merge tree is clean.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The API routes now validate Supabase list and status rows with Zod parsers before building responses. Contract tests cover malformed rows and verify standardized redacted 500 responses.

Changes

API row validation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Shared row parsing src/lib/api-list-response.ts	Added parseListRows and parseStatusRows. Invalid or non-array data produces a generic error. Valid rows preserve unknown fields.
Document and quality validation src/app/api/documents/route.ts, src/app/api/ingestion/quality/route.ts	Added Zod row schemas and replaced unchecked casts with validated parsing before projection, grouping, and review-item construction.
Status route validation and contracts src/app/api/jobs/route.ts, src/app/api/ingestion/jobs/route.ts, src/app/api/ingestion/batches/route.ts, tests/api-validation-contract.test.ts, docs/branch-review-records/...record.md	Applied status-row parsing to job routes. Added contract tests for malformed identifiers and statuses, including sensitive-value redaction checks. Recorded the review and validation results.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 89181

The change can incorrectly turn malformed service responses into successful empty lists, causing users to see missing documents, jobs, batches, or quality results without an error. Merge should wait for the parser fix and corresponding contract tests.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Supabase
  participant RowParser
  participant APIRoute
  participant Client
  Supabase->>RowParser: Return untrusted query rows
  RowParser->>RowParser: Validate with Zod
  RowParser-->>APIRoute: Return validated rows
  APIRoute->>Client: Return normal response
  RowParser-->>APIRoute: Throw generic error for malformed rows
  APIRoute->>Client: Return standardized redacted 500 response

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Possibly related PRs

• BigSimmo/Database#465: Adds related runtime validation for untrusted data in the ingestion quality route.
• BigSimmo/Database#1981: Adds related Zod validation for untrusted database or RPC rows.

Suggested labels: codex

Suggested reviewers: claude

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
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✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

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Inline comments:
In `@src/lib/api-list-response.ts`:
- Around line 26-30: Update parseListRows to pass data directly to
z.array(rowSchema).safeParse instead of coercing nullish values to an empty
array, so null and undefined produce the existing “Invalid list data.” error;
preserve empty-array behavior only through callers that explicitly provide []
and add contract coverage for both null and undefined inputs.

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• docs/branch-review-records/6897c4836aee66827e7eec71bfa16917161e501d15805774b5446fb4c393d383.record.md
• src/app/api/documents/route.ts
• src/app/api/ingestion/batches/route.ts
• src/app/api/ingestion/jobs/route.ts
• src/app/api/ingestion/quality/route.ts
• src/app/api/jobs/route.ts
• src/lib/api-list-response.ts
• tests/api-validation-contract.test.ts

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Codex review-and-fix summary

• Reviewed PR head: 8dbada735de1571334968d06ff1812cfcd28c0f3
• Base at merge: 4c52fe1dbbc921be769c31b36efbcdba798ba11b
• Resulting squash commit on main: 3f33068da16ef8a3235359ff974c9314cf79d758
• Branch and merge-tree state: the reviewed head was 7 commits ahead and 0 behind, with merge base equal to the latest main. The squash commit has the same tree as the reviewed head, and main now points to that commit.

Fixes and dispositions

• Confirmed and fixed one PR-introduced fail-open boundary: parseListRows converted null or undefined dependency payloads into successful empty arrays.
• parseListRows now rejects nullish payloads while retaining explicitly valid [] results.
• Added focused regression coverage for null, undefined, and explicit empty-array inputs in tests/api-list-response.test.ts.
• Re-reviewed malformed-row handling, generic external errors, owner-scope redaction, pagination/status behavior, and JSON response shapes. No additional confirmed P0-P2 defect remained.
• Updated the immutable branch-review ledger with the genuine fix; ledger integrity and write-discipline checks passed.

Independent review and threads

• Completed a distinct manual adversarial pass.
• Independently reproduced and validated CodeRabbit's nullish-payload finding before changing code.
• The single CodeRabbit review thread is resolved and marked addressed by commit 8dbada7.

Verification

Exact-head checks passed:

• Required: Gitleaks, PR required, and PR policy
• CI: focused and full unit coverage, build and bundle budget, static PR checks, lint, typecheck, safety/config, ingestion SAST, and CI-managed Lighthouse budget
• Security: SAST and Secret Scan
• Repository contracts: branch-review ledger, outstanding-issues ledger, documentation, formatting, and write-discipline guards

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Final state

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