Cover routes-for-location spec test gaps

[ARCoder181105]

Closes #1230

Adds the spec cases the routes-for-location suite was missing. Tests only.

• references.situations: the alert-collection branch had no coverage — a route-scoped alert now
  has to surface as a situation reference.
• Default search radius: previously only inferred from the span tests, now pinned directly, so a
  change to the no-query default fails a test.
• maxCount=0: asserts the fieldErrors message the spec quotes, not just the 400.

Remaining spec cases (span precedence, query radius, randomized truncation, text search,
candidate cap, clamping, out-of-range, missing lat/lon) were already covered.

Stacked on #1357 and #1358 — this branch is built on top of both, so the diff will shrink to
just this change once they merge.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Tests
  • Expanded coverage for routes-for-location responses, including alert references and route-scoped situations.
  • Verified bounding-box sizing and the default 600-meter search radius.
  • Confirmed the default maximum result count of 10.
  • Added validation coverage for zero, negative, and invalid maximum-count values, including exact error messages.

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Walkthrough

The routes-for-location tests now cover route-scoped situation references, the 600-meter default radius, radius comparisons, default maxCount=10, and exact validation messages for invalid maxCount values.

Changes

Routes-for-location endpoint behavior

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Conditional situation references internal/restapi/routes_for_location_handler_test.go	The tests construct a route-scoped alert and verify that its situation reference is included by default and suppressed when includeReferences=false.
Radius and bounding-box coverage internal/restapi/routes_for_location_handler_test.go	The tests verify the current 600-meter default radius and compare omitted, explicit 600-meter, and 500-meter radius results.
maxCount validation coverage internal/restapi/routes_for_location_handler_test.go	The tests extract structured field errors and validate zero, negative, and unparseable maxCount values with exact messages.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 26721

This tests-only change has no actionable merge-blocking risk; only a minor documentation cleanup remains before normal review completion.

Possibly related PRs

• OneBusAway/maglev#1275: Both changes test bounding-box sizing and radius behavior.
• OneBusAway/maglev#1347: Both changes test GTFS situation references in REST responses.
• OneBusAway/maglev#1362: The related changes cover routes-for-location defaults and reference behavior.

Suggested labels: LGTM

Suggested reviewers: burma-shave

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the routes-for-location specification test coverage changes.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The tests address the linked issue's routes-for-location edge cases, including references, bounding-box sizing, default radius, and maxCount validation.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes are limited to routes-for-location specification tests and do not introduce unrelated code.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.

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Inline comments:
In `@internal/restapi/routes_for_location_handler_test.go`:
- Around line 38-94: The situation-reference test currently verifies only the
populated path, not suppression. In
TestRoutesForLocationHandlerSituationReferences, after adding the route-scoped
alert, issue a request with includeReferences=false and assert
References.Situations does not contain test-alert-routes-for-location, while
retaining the existing default-request assertion to prove the alert source is
populated.

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[Ahmedhossamdev]

Test coverage is solid and the behavior changes match Java (default maxCount
10 with the 50 clamp, includeReferences gating, and the exact maxCount error
message all check out against RoutesForLocationAction.java and against the
hosted Java API). Gate is green.

One thing to fix before merge: the default-radius test pins 600m, but Java's
no-query default is 500m and the hosted Java returns exactly the radius=500
set for a no-parameter request. Change DefaultSearchRadiusInMeters to 500 and
the test then pins the right value. Note the diff is not test-only: it also
carries the maxCount default and includeReferences behavior changes.

[aaronbrethorst]

Code review

Found 1 issue:

1. TestRoutesForLocationDefaultRadiusMatches600Meters pins the no-query default radius at 600m and documents that as the spec value, but the spec this PR is closing to (routes-for-location: Complete test coverage for edge cases #1230) says the fallback is "500m vs 10km based on the presence of a query" — and the hosted Java API returns radius=500 for a no-parameter request. models.DefaultSearchRadiusInMeters = 600 is the current (wrong) value, so this test locks in the divergence and will have to be edited again when the constant is corrected. The 10km query fallback (QuerySearchRadiusInMeters) already matches the spec, which makes 600 look like a typo rather than an intentional choice. Either fix the constant to 500 in this PR and pin that, or rename the test/comment so it reads as "current behavior" instead of "the spec default".

maglev/internal/restapi/routes_for_location_handler_test.go

Lines 181 to 208 in 1824d6d

	// TestRoutesForLocationDefaultRadiusMatches600Meters pins the no-query default
	// radius (600m) by equivalence rather than a hardcoded distance: this RABA stop
	// has a neighboring stop whose routes only enter the box between 500m and 600m,
	// so a request with no radius/span must match radius=600 exactly and return
	// strictly more routes than radius=500.
	func TestRoutesForLocationDefaultRadiusMatches600Meters(t *testing.T) {
	const lat, lon = 40.618458, -122.37598
	routeIDsFor := func(t *testing.T, params string) []string {
	t.Helper()
	api := createTestApi(t)
	_, model := callAPIHandler[RoutesResponse](t, api,
	fmt.Sprintf("/api/where/routes-for-location.json?key=TEST&lat=%v&lon=%v&maxCount=50%s", lat, lon, params))
	ids := make([]string, 0, len(model.Data.List))
	for _, route := range model.Data.List {
	ids = append(ids, route.ID)
	}
	return ids
	}
	defaultIDs := routeIDsFor(t, "")
	radius500IDs := routeIDsFor(t, "&radius=500")
	radius600IDs := routeIDsFor(t, "&radius=600")
	assert.ElementsMatch(t, radius600IDs, defaultIDs, "no radius/span must match radius=600 exactly")
	assert.Subset(t, defaultIDs, radius500IDs, "every radius=500 route must still be within the default radius")
	assert.Greater(t, len(defaultIDs), len(radius500IDs), "the default radius must include routes radius=500 misses")

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[aaronbrethorst]

The tests here are genuinely good, which is why I want to get one detail right
before it lands.

What works well: TestRoutesForLocationHandlerSituationReferences seeds a real
route-scoped alert and asserts on its actual ID, and then re-requests with
includeReferences=false to prove suppression against a populated source
rather than an empty one — that second half is the part most people skip, and
it's what makes the assertion mean something. And pinning the radius by
equivalence (default == radius=600, default ⊃ radius=500) instead of
hardcoding a distance is a nice technique; it fails for the right reason.

The blocker — TestRoutesForLocationDefaultRadiusMatches600Meters
(internal/restapi/routes_for_location_handler_test.go:182-208):

The test and its doc comment pin 600m as "the no-query default radius," but
600 looks like a bug, not the spec. Issue #1230 — the issue this PR is closing —
says the fallback is "500m vs 10km based on the presence of a query," and
@Ahmedhossamdev verified the hosted Java API returns exactly the radius=500
set for a no-parameter request. QuerySearchRadiusInMeters = 10000 already
matches the 10km half, which makes DefaultSearchRadiusInMeters = 600 the odd
one out. Locking 600 in with a test named Matches600Meters makes it harder
to fix later, because the fix now also has to argue with a test that says the
current value is correct.

One correction to the suggestion in the thread, though: please don't just
change the constant to 500 in this PR.
models.DefaultSearchRadiusInMeters is shared — internal/gtfs/location_params.go:30
uses it as the BoundsFromParams fallback, so flipping it silently changes the
default search area for stops-for-location and trips-for-location too. That's a
real behavior change across three endpoints and deserves its own PR and its own
tests, not a drive-by in a test-coverage change.

So what I'd like here is the narrow version: drop the 600m test from this PR
(or keep it and reword the name and comment to say it pins current behavior,
not the spec, with a TODO referencing a new issue), and open a separate issue
for the 500-vs-600 discrepancy noting the shared-constant blast radius. I'm
happy to take that follow-up PR.

Two smaller notes, neither blocking:

• TestRoutesForLocationHandlerMaxCountZeroFieldErrorMessage sits right next to
  the existing TestRoutesForLocationHandlerMaxCountLessThanOrEqualZero, which
  already covers maxCount=0. CONTRIBUTING.md prefers table-driven tests for
  multiple cases of the same handler — folding the message assertion into the
  existing test would read better.
• Its comment says "the spec quotes" that message, but testdata/openapi.yml
  has no fieldErrors schema; the string only exists in
  internal/utils/api.go. Worth softening the wording.

Also, ordering: this is stacked on #1357 and #1358. I've approved both, so once
they land, rebase and this is a short round trip.

[ARCoder181105]

On opening a separate issue for the default radius: #1227 already tracks this. I closed it on 2026-08-01 accepting the global constant, and @burma-shave noted the deviation would instead be recorded in the spec's Implementation Decisions section. That entry never landed — the live wiki page still states 500m, and its Implementation Decisions section only covers query matching.

So it is either reopening #1227 or filing a new issue that supersedes it. Happy to do whichever you prefer.

Blast radius for whichever lands: models.DefaultSearchRadiusInMeters is the BoundsFromParams fallback (internal/gtfs/location_params.go:30), so changing it to 500 also moves the default search area for stops-for-location and trips-for-location, along with their fixture tests.

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In `@internal/restapi/routes_for_location_handler_test.go`:
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current Maglev behavior.

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Pushed two commits addressing this.

TestRoutesForLocationDefaultRadiusMatches600Meters → renamed to
TestRoutesForLocationDefaultRadiusMatchesCurrentConstant, comment now says
explicitly this pins current behavior (models.DefaultSearchRadiusInMeters),
not the spec, with the 500m wiki/hosted-Java value noted and a link to #1227.
Assertions unchanged — verified locally that flipping the constant to 500
makes the test fail, so it's not vacuous. (1c6edbe)

Folded the three maxCount tests into one table-driven test, each case
carrying the expected fieldErrors message. (2672197)

On "the spec quotes" wording — one correction: the wiki page does quote
"must be greater than zero" in extension 1a, so the comment wasn't wrong,
just ambiguous about which spec. Reworded to name the wiki page directly;
testdata/openapi.yml is the one with no fieldErrors schema.

Also flagged, separately: TestRoutesForLocationHandlerSituationReferences
pins references.situations being populated here, but the wiki says that
array is empty for this endpoint and has no Implementation Decisions entry
for it. Comment now notes it's current behavior from 4e09c1c (applied across
all non-trip handlers), not something the spec documents. Left the
assertions as-is per the same reasoning as the radius test.

On the issue: commented separately that #1227 already tracks the 600-vs-500
gap, closed 2026-08-01 as an accepted deviation with a note that it'd be
recorded in Implementation Decisions — never happened. Asked there whether
to reopen or file a new one.

#1357 and #1358 are merged, so this is genuinely tests-only now.

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