fix: aligns exception and diagnostics behaviour across the API surface

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Pull Request

Description

Clarifies reader behavior when input is invalid before OpenAPI parsing begins. ReadResult.Diagnostic covers OpenAPI semantic errors; JSON/YAML syntax-level failures may throw before a result can be created.

Type of Change

• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected)
• Documentation update
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Changes Made

• Added XML remarks to IOpenApiReader read and fragment APIs.
• Documented JSON/YAML parser-level exception behavior on concrete reader entry points.
• Propagated the same contract to OpenApiModelFactory and OpenApiDocument convenience APIs.

Testing

• Unit tests added/updated
• Integration tests added/updated
• Manual testing performed
• All existing tests pass

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• I have made corresponding changes to the documentation
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• New and existing unit tests pass locally with my changes

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Additional Notes

Documentation-only change; no runtime behavior changes.

• Fixes OpenApiYamlReader.Read inconsistent behavior for errors #3056

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🔵 Needs a closer look

Async empty-stream handling and inconsistent parser-failure contracts remain unresolved.

Review details

Suppressed comments (6)

src/Microsoft.OpenApi/Models/OpenApiDocument.cs:786

• This wrapper delegates directly to OpenApiModelFactory.Parse, whose remarks explicitly state that parser failures occurring before a result can be created may throw. Omitting that caveat here gives OpenApiDocument.Parse a stronger and misleading contract than the implementation it exposes; mirror the factory wording in this public convenience API.

        /// OpenAPI semantic and parser errors are returned in the <see cref="ReadResult.Diagnostic"/>; a null or empty input string throws <see cref="ArgumentException"/>.
        /// </remarks>

src/Microsoft.OpenApi/Models/OpenApiDocument.cs:770

• LoadAsync does not follow this documented empty-input contract when format is omitted. PrepareStreamForReadingAsync classifies an empty stream as YAML, but the default settings register only JSON, so InternalLoadAsync calls GetReader("yaml") and throws NotSupportedException before the reader can create a diagnostic. Add the empty-stream handling to the async path (and cover OpenApiDocument.LoadAsync(new MemoryStream())) or narrow this remark.

        /// <remarks>
        /// OpenAPI semantic and parser errors are returned in the <see cref="ReadResult.Diagnostic"/>.
        /// </remarks>

src/Microsoft.OpenApi/Reader/OpenApiJsonReader.cs:47

• This is a runtime contract change, not a documentation-only update: the widened catch makes Read, ReadAsync, and ReadFragment return diagnostics for a null JSON root instead of propagating InvalidOperationException (and InternalLoad also changes empty-stream Load behavior). The new tests explicitly assert these changes, so please update the PR type/description and release notes to acknowledge the behavioral change, or revert the implementation if the change must remain documentation-only.

            catch (Exception ex) when (ex is JsonException or InvalidOperationException)
            {
                diagnostic.Errors.Add(CreateOpenApiError(ex, true));

src/Microsoft.OpenApi/Reader/OpenApiModelFactory.cs:125

• This contract is still violated by the async convenience path for an empty stream. With the default settings, PrepareStreamForReadingAsync infers YAML for an empty MemoryStream, and InternalLoadAsync calls settings.GetReader(format) before any empty-input diagnostic; because default settings register only JSON, OpenApiDocument.LoadAsync(new MemoryStream()) throws NotSupportedException instead of returning a ReadResult. Handle the empty stream before reader lookup (and add an async regression test) so this matches the synchronous path documented here.

        /// OpenAPI semantic and parser errors are returned in the <see cref="ReadResult.Diagnostic"/>.

src/Microsoft.OpenApi/Reader/OpenApiModelFactory.cs:242

• The generic overload has the same pre-result failure boundary as the non-generic Parse above, but its new remarks omit the caveat that parser failures may throw before a diagnostic can be created. This leaves the two public parsing APIs with inconsistent contracts; mirror the non-generic wording here.

        /// OpenAPI semantic and parser errors are returned in the <paramref name="diagnostic"/>.
        /// <see cref="ArgumentException"/> is thrown when <paramref name="input"/> is null or empty before parsing starts.

src/Microsoft.OpenApi/Reader/OpenApiModelFactory.cs:311

• This is a runtime contract change, not documentation-only: the previous ArgumentException for an empty stream is replaced with a successful ReadResult containing a diagnostic. The new JSON reader catches also change null-root stream calls from throwing to returning diagnostics. Please update the PR type/notes and compatibility assessment to reflect this behavior change rather than describing it as docs-only.

                var diagnostic = new OpenApiDiagnostic
                {
                    Format = format,
                };
                diagnostic.Errors.Add(new OpenApiError(null, $"Cannot parse the stream: {nameof(input)} is empty or contains no elements."));

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• Comments generated: 0 new
• Review effort level: Lite

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