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Stacked on #24.

OperationRouter mapped EntityNotFoundError to 404 and DuplicateEntityError to 409 with a body
of { error: message }, in a private method with no way in. AGENTS.md names the gap:

SimApi should eventually allow a service-wide error format. A GitHub-shaped or Stripe-shaped
error body then gets described once for a service.

Neither Stripe's { error: { type, code, message, param } } nor its 402 card_declined could be
expressed at all.

What this adds

formatError on SimApiProps takes a thrown error and returns the response.

const api = new SimApi({
  formatError: (error) =>
    error instanceof EntityNotFoundError
      ? Response.json(
          { error: { message: error.message, type: "invalid_request_error" } },
          { status: 404 },
        )
      : undefined,
});

It runs before the two supplied mappings, so a service shapes those as well as whatever the
simulation raises on its own behalf. Returning undefined declines an error and leaves it to them.

An error nothing shapes still escapes as a thrown error, exactly as today. A simulation that has not
been taught about a failure says so, in place of answering 500 and hiding it.

Two files came out of src/api.ts

The FTA gate is what forced the split. api.ts reached 50.33 against a cap of 50 when the second
hook went in, and it is at 48.53 now. Both seams are real ones and I would defend them without the
gate, but the gate is why they happened in this PR.

http/raw-operation.ts holds the builder for the third kind of operation, beside
resource-operation.ts and rest-resource-operations.ts where the other two already live.
RawHttpOperationHandler moves with it and is still exported from the package root.

http/resource-path.ts holds the collection-path check, which is pure string work the composition
root was carrying for no reason.

decodeNothing joins decodeJson in request-decoder.ts, shared by the raw builder and the
supplied operations, and stays out of the package's exports.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added support for custom API-wide error formatting, with fallback to existing error handling when needed.
    • Added raw HTTP operations that return complete responses directly.
    • Added stricter validation for resource paths.
    • Added support for operations that do not decode request bodies.
  • Documentation
    • Documented configuration and behavior for custom API error formatting.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved handling of operation errors and not-found errors, including correct propagation of unhandled errors.

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The change adds configurable HTTP error formatting, extracts raw HTTP operation creation, centralizes resource path validation, and reuses a no-op decoder for body-optional operations. The package exports the new formatter type and relocated raw operation handler type.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Error formatting flow
src/http/error-formatter.ts, src/http/operation-router.ts, src/http/error-formatter.test.ts, docs/rest-resources/README.md, src/index.ts
ErrorFormatter can return a Response or undefined. OperationRouter invokes it before existing mappings. Tests and documentation cover formatting, fallback mappings, and rethrown errors.
Raw operation and shared HTTP primitives
src/http/resource-path.ts, src/http/request-decoder.ts, src/http/rest-resource-operations.ts, src/http/raw-operation.ts
The HTTP layer adds validateResourcePath, decodeNothing, and rawOperation. Body-optional REST operations use the shared decoder.
SimApi integration and exports
src/api.ts, src/index.ts
SimApiProps accepts formatError. SimApi uses shared path validation and registers raw operations through rawOperation. RawHttpOperationHandler is exported from its new module.

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The PR is merge-ready after correcting the documentation example’s missing import; runtime behavior is not affected.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant SimApi
  participant OperationRouter
  participant ErrorFormatter
  SimApi->>OperationRouter: route operation error
  OperationRouter->>ErrorFormatter: format error
  alt formatter returns Response
    ErrorFormatter-->>OperationRouter: return Response
  else formatter returns undefined
    OperationRouter->>OperationRouter: apply existing mappings or rethrow
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```ts
const api = new SimApi({
formatError: (error) => {
if (error instanceof EntityNotFoundError) {

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Import EntityNotFoundError in the example.

The example uses EntityNotFoundError, but the documented import only includes SimApi. Copying the example produces an unresolved identifier error.

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-import { SimApi } from "`@kensio/simnaril`";
+import { EntityNotFoundError, SimApi } from "`@kensio/simnaril`";
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`OperationRouter` mapped `EntityNotFoundError` to 404 and
`DuplicateEntityError` to 409 with a body of `{ error: message }`, in a private
method with no way in. A real service has one envelope across every endpoint,
and neither Stripe's `{ error: { type, code, message, param } }` nor its 402
`card_declined` could be expressed at all.

`formatError` on `SimApiProps` takes a thrown error and returns the response.
It runs before the two supplied mappings, so a service shapes those as well as
whatever the simulation raises on its own behalf. Returning `undefined`
declines an error and leaves it to them, and an error nothing shapes still
escapes as a thrown error. A simulation that has not been taught about a
failure says so rather than answering 500 and hiding it.

Two files came out of `src/api.ts` on the way. The FTA gate is what forced the
split, and both seams are real ones.

`http/raw-operation.ts` holds the builder for the third kind of operation,
beside `resource-operation.ts` and `rest-resource-operations.ts` where the
other two already live. `RawHttpOperationHandler` moves with it.

`http/resource-path.ts` holds the collection-path check, which is pure string
work that the composition root was carrying for no reason.

`decodeNothing` joins `decodeJson` in `request-decoder.ts`, shared by the raw
builder and the supplied operations. It stays out of the package's exports.
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Valid, and fixed. The example used EntityNotFoundError and the page imports it nowhere, so copying the block gives a ReferenceError. The import line is now on it.

Checked the rest of docs/ for the same gap and there is none. Every other page shows an import when it introduces a new symbol, docs/resource-state/README.md doing exactly this for these two errors, so this example was the only one out of step.

Amended into the commit that added the example rather than added on top, since it is a typo in that commit's own code block.

While I was working on this you merged #23 and #24, and my earlier force-push had put this branch back on the pre-squash history, so its diff against main was showing all four blocks. Rebased onto the merged main, and it is one commit and ten files again. #26 is rebased on top. Both are pnpm check green on their own: 73 tests here, 81 there.

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