fix(rest): honour a hook refusal's declared statusCode at the /api/v1/data error boundary (#7525)

.changeset/rest-hook-refusal-status-passthrough.md

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+'@objectstack/rest': patch
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+fix(rest): a hook refusal that declares its status as `statusCode` reaches the wire with that status, not `500 INTERNAL_ERROR` (#7525)
+
+**Observable behaviour change — read this if you alert or retry on `/api/v1/data` statuses.**
+A write refused by an engine lifecycle hook that declared an explicit status used
+to answer `500 INTERNAL_ERROR` with no `code`. It now answers the status the hook
+declared, carrying the hook's ADR-0112 `code`. Two refusals QA reproduced 2× each
+move from `500` to `409 RECORD_LOCKED` and `403 FORBIDDEN`. Monitoring that counted
+these as server faults will see a 5xx disappear and a 4xx appear, and a client
+retrying on 5xx will stop retrying a request that can never succeed.
+
+## What was wrong
+
+`mapDataError` — the error exit for the ~11 CRUD data routes, which bypass
+`resolveErrorResponse` entirely — opened its explicit-status passthrough on
+`typeof error.status === 'number'` and nothing else. An engine lifecycle hook
+declares its status as `statusCode`:
+
+```ts
+// plugin-approvals/src/lifecycle-hooks.ts
+err.code = 'RECORD_LOCKED'; err.statusCode = 409;   // a pending lockRecord approval
+err.code = 'FORBIDDEN';     err.statusCode = 403;   // a delegation row the caller does not own
+```
+
+so the refusal never entered that branch at all. It fell past every structured
+branch, matched no message heuristic, and left through `UNCLASSIFIED_FAULT` as
+`500 INTERNAL_ERROR` — for a deliberate, well-understood business refusal, with
+the correctly-shaped original sitting in the server log. The console never hit
+the record-lock case (the affordance is disabled while a lock is live); a direct
+API caller — script, integration, second-party client — got an unactionable 500.
+
+**#5582 is not the fix and could not have been.** It widened this same
+passthrough's *range* (4xx → 400-599) for producers that declared `status`. The
+loss here is one question earlier: *whether* a status was declared at all.
+
+## The fix, and why it is at the boundary
+
+`status` → `statusCode` → default is what **every other HTTP exit in this repo**
+already reads — `runtime`'s `HttpDispatcher.errorFromThrown` (#3867),
+`dispatcher-plugin.errorResponseBase`, `endpoint-executor`, `domains/actions`,
+`plugin-hono-server`'s user endpoints. `mapDataError` was the single exit that
+read one spelling, which is why one thrown error came back as `403` through a
+dispatcher route and as `500` through `/api/v1/data`. The gate is now a named
+`declaredHttpStatus(error)` helper asking the same 400-599 band over both
+spellings.
+
+Teaching the two approvals hooks to spell it `status` would have fixed two
+producers and left the boundary answering 500 for the next one — including
+`runtime`'s own `action-execution.ts` (`{ statusCode: 503 | 501 | 400 }`) and
+`metadata-protocol` (`{ statusCode: 404 }`). The hooks are unchanged.
+
+## What deliberately did NOT change
+
+- ⛔ **`declaresServerFault`'s own read is still `status`-only.** #5811 ruled that
+  a *disclosure* rule must not depend on a producer's spelling, and that is
+  untouched. This is *status resolution*, a different question, and the one call
+  site inside the passthrough hands the predicate the status this boundary just
+  resolved — otherwise a `{ statusCode: 5xx, code }` producer would take the 5xx
+  arm and then be told it declared no fault, dropping its code.
+- **The 5xx withhold is unconditional as before.** A `statusCode`-declared 5xx
+  gets `INTERNAL_ERROR_MESSAGE` plus its code; no producer prose crosses the
+  boundary, and the full text still reaches the operator.
+- **A hook that declares NO status is unchanged** — still judged by the
+  classifiers, still the terminal sanitised `500 INTERNAL_ERROR`. Promoting a
+  bare `code` to a 4xx would be consumer-side leniency; that belongs with #7463,
+  not here.
+- **The structured branches keep their precedence.** `OBJECT_NOT_FOUND`,
+  `DELETE_RESTRICTED`, `VALIDATION_FAILED` and the rest still sit above the
+  passthrough and still win, `statusCode` or not.
+- **`resolveErrorResponse` still reads `status` only.** It delegates to
+  `mapDataError` for everything it does not pass through, so both doors already
+  give one wire answer without a second copy of the two-spelling read.
+
+Coverage: `rest-hook-refusal-status-passthrough.test.ts` — 26 cases, including
+both reported requests walked in process on the real `PATCH /data/:object/:id`
+and `POST /data/:object` routes. Run against unmodified `main` the file is 15/26
+red; three further mutations cover the remaining 11, so no case is unfalsifiable.