[HALCONDEORO]

Why

A locality name sent directly as the site's numeric l parameter can be silently ignored. A search can then look locality-filtered while returning regional results. This change resolves listed locality names before constructing the search, and fails closed when a name cannot be resolved safely.

Changes

• Read locality IDs and labels from the search form, grouped by province.
• Match names without case, accent or whitespace differences, accepting an exact match or a unique prefix.
• Stop unknown or ambiguous names with exit 64 before requesting results.
• Reject an explicitly empty or whitespace-only --locality before any request.
• Preserve numeric-ID behavior. Omitting the flag still requests a regional search.
• Update help and documentation. Add tests and two mutation checks in read/mutants.d/genae-locality.txt.

Validation

Prepared independently against upstream main 7c1bc0c35846c4674abad00aa4749ebad1ee8994.

• Read tests: 467 passed, 20 subtests passed.
• All 20 Python package test runs: 2,399 passed, 43 subtests passed; both extra shell checks passed.
• Both added mutation checks fail as intended: 2 mutants, 2 killed. The full existing mutation suite was not completed locally.
• Zensical clean strict build passed; built-site check: 49 pages, 0 errors.
• git diff --check passed.

Tests use invented fixtures and fake transport. No live genealogy searches were made for this validation, and no personal or family records are included. Numeric IDs retain the existing pass-through behavior; this change does not validate that an arbitrary numeric ID exists.

No new dependencies. Adapted from the locality fix merged in HALCONDEORO#164, with mutation checks placed in upstream's per-change directory.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Genae searches now accept a listed locality name or numeric ID. Names are matched to the selected province, and the resolved locality is reported before results are shown.
• Bug Fixes
  • Locality searches now reject blank, unknown, ambiguous, or out-of-province values instead of searching with an invalid locality. When available, suggestions are provided for unmatched names.
  • Searches without a locality continue to return regional results; locality-specific results reflect the site’s available result details.
• Documentation
  • Updated the Genae search guide and changelog to describe locality names, validation, and error behavior.

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Walkthrough

Genae search now accepts a listed locality name or numeric ID. It validates the value against the selected province’s locality form, resolves it to an ID, and reports the resolved locality before requesting results.

Changes: Genae locality search

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Parse and resolve locality options read/gwt_genae.py, read/test_gwt_genae.py	The code parses locality options by province and resolves IDs or normalized exact name matches. Tests cover successful matches, missing options, unknown values, and ambiguous names.
Resolve localities before search requests read/gwt_read.py, read/test_gwt_genae.py, docs/read.md, CHANGELOG.md	The search command fetches and validates the locality form before requesting results. Tests cover errors, caching, and searches without a locality. The documentation and changelog describe the behavior.

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

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Search as cmd_genae_search
  participant Cache as Locality form cache
  participant Resolver as resolve_locality
  participant Results as Genae result blocks
  Search->>Cache: Fetch locality form
  Cache-->>Search: Return form
  Search->>Resolver: Resolve locality for province
  Resolver-->>Search: Return locality ID and label
  Search->>Results: Request result blocks with locality ID

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Possibly related PRs

• GeiserX/gramps-web-toolkit#141: Adds Genae search and its numeric locality parameter, which this change resolves and validates.

Suggested reviewers: geiserx

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 69dff

No concrete merge-blocking issue is identified in the locality-resolution changes. Merge after normal checks pass.

Pre-merge checks: 3 · 2

Failed checks: 2 warnings

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Description check		The description conflicts with the changes. It says unique prefixes are accepted and numeric IDs pass through without validation. It also omits the required shared-rules section and the guard and red …	Update the description to state that names require an exact folded match and numeric IDs must be listed for the province. Add the shared rule and its source, or write "none". For each new test, identify the guarded line and include the fail…
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 60.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 3 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly identifies the main change: resolving Genae locality names before a search.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Explanation

The description conflicts with the changes. It says unique prefixes are accepted and numeric IDs pass through without validation. It also omits the required shared-rules section and the guard and red output for each new test.

Resolution

Update the description to state that names require an exact folded match and numeric IDs must be listed for the province. Add the shared rule and its source, or write "none". For each new test, identify the guarded line and include the failure output with that line removed. Add the template checklist and confirm its conditions.

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Explanation

Docstring coverage is 60.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surviving functions are included; unchanged diff context and fully deleted functions are excluded. Analyzed 10 functions across 3 files. (2 skipped: 2 unsupported.)

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Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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[GeiserX]

The problem is real and the approach is right. Genae ignores an l it does not know and returns the whole province, so reading the locality list from the search form, folding names, and stopping with exit 64 (our usual usage-error code) is the right shape. One gated, cached GET of the form fits how the other readers fetch a form. Here is what we will change on this branch before merging, and why.

What we change

1. No prefix auto-pick.

   gramps-web-toolkit/read/gwt_genae.py

   Line 84 in e2ef7c6

   prefix = [] if exact else [(lid, label) for lid, label in listed if fold(label).startswith(folded)]

   accepts a unique prefix. If the town a user types is not listed but is the start of a listed one (invented example: Villa when only Villazul is listed), the search silently runs on the other town. That is the same silent mis-filter this PR fixes, and no test covers that branch. We will accept only an exact folded match. When there is none, the run exits 64 and lists the prefix matches as did you mean: <id> <name>.
2. Numeric ids get checked too.

   gramps-web-toolkit/read/gwt_read.py

   Line 361 in e2ef7c6

   if a.locality and not a.locality.isdigit():

   sends a digit string unchecked. An id the site does not list, or an id from another province (each option carries data-provincia), gives the same silent regional search. The form is already cached, so every non-empty --locality will go through it, and an id not listed under --province exits 64.
3. A changed form is not the user's typo. If the form parses but has nothing for the requested province (for example, the site renames its province codes), every name currently fails as "not a listed locality" with exit 64 (

   gramps-web-toolkit/read/gwt_genae.py

   Line 79 in e2ef7c6

   listed = localities.get(province, [])

   ). That case will exit 1 with "the site changed its form".
4. Show which town was searched. After resolving, the run prints locality<TAB><id><TAB><name>, so the evidence records the id a name became.
5. The form ignores --refresh.

   gramps-web-toolkit/read/gwt_read.py

   Line 362 in e2ef7c6

   _st, _rh, mbody, _cached = R.get(gwt_genae.LOCALITIES_URL, h, refresh=a.refresh,

   refetches the form on every refreshed search. That is one more gated request (about 20 s) for a list that rarely changes. The form will use the cache's own 7-day age.
6. Form request without hx-request. The form GET reused the search headers (

   gramps-web-toolkit/read/gwt_read.py

   Line 360 in e2ef7c6

   h = {'accept': gwt_genae.ACCEPT, 'accept-language': gwt_genae.LANGUAGE, 'hx-request': 'true'}

   ). An htmx server may answer that header with a fragment that has no <select>, and the reader would then treat it as a block. The form gets plain accept headers. The h = {...} line goes back to where it was, which also keeps the overlap with another open PR small.
7. Options parse in any attribute order. The regex at

   gramps-web-toolkit/read/gwt_genae.py

   Line 42 in e2ef7c6

   _OPTION = re.compile(r'<option value="(\d+)" data-provincia="(\w+)"[^>]*>(.*?)</option>', re.S)

   needs value= directly before data-provincia=. A harmless reorder on the site would make the form look empty, and the gate would read that as a block. Each <option> will now be read attribute by attribute.
8. Small ones. Hyphens fold like spaces (torre mayor matches Torre-Mayor). An ambiguous name lists ids with the labels, so two options with the same label can be told apart (

   gramps-web-toolkit/read/gwt_genae.py

   Line 90 in e2ef7c6

   % (value, province, ', '.join(sorted({label for _, label in found}))))

   ). A CHANGELOG [Unreleased] entry records the behaviour change: --locality '' used to search the whole province and now exits 64.

What we cut

• The blank check inside resolve_locality (

  gramps-web-toolkit/read/gwt_genae.py

  Line 75 in e2ef7c6

  if raw and not value:

  ). The CLI rejects a blank value before any request, so that branch never runs. We keep the CLI check and its tests.

What we leave as it is

• A form page that does not parse at all still stops as an unreadable page. That fails closed, the same way every reader treats a page it cannot read.

Each change has a test that fails on this PR's head. The mutant rows are updated for the new lines.

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Failed pre-merge checks:
- Description check:
Update the description to state that names require an exact folded match and
numeric IDs must be listed for the province. Add the shared rule and its source,
or write "none". For each new test, identify the guarded line and include the
failure output with that line removed. Add the template checklist and confirm
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Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage
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[GeiserX]

Merged as 4b46f93 with the changes from the review above (exact names only, numeric ids checked too). Thanks for catching the silent regional search.