fix(search): complete the query error surface across every endpoint

Four pieces of the same surface:

whoosh-compat's emit() documents a two-part host contract: both a parse
diagnostic and the QueryEmitError/UnsupportedQueryError pair are
user-input errors. Only the latter half was caught; QueryEmitError now
maps to SearchQueryError too. Messages pass through a cleanup that
strips the library's DIVERGENCES.md references and replaces the
fast=True host-configuration advice with user language, so no
library-internal vocabulary reaches a searching user.

The bulk selection paths (bulk edit, the legacy bulk endpoint, bulk
download) reached the backend with no SearchQueryError handler, so a
bad date or number in a selection filter raised straight to a DRF 500.
They now share the search list endpoint's exact mapping (a new
search_query_error_messages helper flattens MultipleSearchQueryErrors
in one place), returning the same 400 body for the same bad query.

QueryParserError means a whoosh-compat parser bug, not user-fixable
input, per its own contract; the list endpoint's blanket handler was
converting it to a generic 400. It now re-raises and surfaces as a 500
that monitoring can see.

All behavior is pinned test-first: bulk edit and bulk download API
tests assert 400s naming the bad value (previously unhandled
exceptions), a unit test pins the QueryEmitError mapping, three
parametrized checks assert no internal vocabulary leaks for the
unsupported query shapes, and a mocked parser-bug test asserts the 500.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WMsn6DgzbvSqh1pwy66VVF
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Trenton Holmes
2026-08-19 13:36:53 -07:00
committed by stumpylog
co-authored by Claude Fable 5
parent 98edd75220
commit efb6e4b0f1
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@@ -855,6 +855,29 @@ class TestDocumentSearchApi(DirectoriesMixin, APITestCase):
results = response.data["results"]
self.assertEqual({r["id"] for r in results}, {1, 2})
@mock.patch("documents.search._backend.parse_user_query")
def test_search_parser_bug_surfaces_as_500_not_400(self, m) -> None:
"""
GIVEN:
- The query parser itself fails (a whoosh-compat bug, per
QueryParserError's own contract: not user-fixable input)
WHEN:
- Any search request runs
THEN:
- The error surfaces as a 500 monitoring can see, never a 400
blaming the user for a library defect
"""
from whoosh_compat.errors import QueryParserError
m.side_effect = QueryParserError("synthetic parser bug")
self.client.raise_request_exception = False
response = self.client.get("/api/documents/?query=anything")
self.assertEqual(
response.status_code,
status.HTTP_500_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR,
)
@mock.patch("documents.search._backend.TantivyBackend.autocomplete")
def test_search_autocomplete_limits(self, m) -> None:
"""