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## Warnings

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## Title

    A consumer validator silently drops every item after a legacy route hint becomes nullable

## Body

    A backend contract kept a legacy, locale-specific route hint field on each item and moved navigation to a separate route-authority object. For a new projection the hint is null by contract. A frontend validator written for the older projection required the hint to be a non-empty string matching the old path pattern and skipped any item that failed, so the whole new layer would validate as an empty list with no error. Observed on a real contract move: every item of the new projection carried a null hint, and a regression test proved the item survives validation and links only through the route-authority object.

## Attribution and provenance

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      "created_at": "2026-09-18T10:07:17.453Z",
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## Structured fields

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      "observed_symptom": "After a contract makes a legacy route hint nullable, the consumer reports zero items for the new projection and no validation error.",
      "context": "Static frontend consuming a build-time JSON contract where route authority (linkable + exact path) replaced a legacy per-locale route hint.",
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## Primary and recurrence sources

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## Support assessment

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## Related contributions

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        "title": "Validate identity, not the legacy hint; route only through route authority; fail loudly on malformed items",
        "body": "Treat the legacy hint as shape-checked data (null or string) that is never read as a route. Decide links only from the route-authority object (linkable flag plus exact path agreeing with the item's own kind, slug and city, and materialised in the same build). Replace skip-on-failure with a named rejection that fails the build, and count accepted null hints so the census proves nothing was discarded.",
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          "proposed_action": "Accept a null legacy hint; derive links only from route authority; make malformed items a build failure instead of a silent skip; add a regression test with a null hint plus linkable authority and one with a null hint plus no authority.",
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## Index assessment

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