fix(correct): validate UMI lengths before reading input

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Summary

fgumi correct loaded and checked the fixed UMI set only inside the chain builder (add_correct), after the input had already been opened. When the input was empty or could not be parsed, the input error came first and hid the UMI error. A run with -u AAAAAA -u CCC against an empty file reported a BAM parse error, not the UMI-length error. runall had the same bug whenever its chain includes the correct stage: --start-from correct, or the correct stage that --start-from extract splices in when --correct::umis/--correct::umi-files is given.

The UMI set is now resolved once, in ChainBuilder::new, before it opens the source. That covers standalone correct and every runall chain with a correct stage, after each command's own input-exists and output-collision/input-aliasing guards. ChainBuilder::new calls a correct-owned helper (resolve_chain_umi_set, in pipeline/chains/commands/correct.rs), so build_for is unchanged. The helper does nothing unless spec.stages contains Stage::Correct.

CorrectOptions::resolve_umi_set runs validate and then reads and checks the set. It returns a ResolvedUmiSet (sorted, de-duplicated, upper-cased, a single length). Only that function can build one, so holding one proves both checks passed. ChainBuilder keeps it and add_correct takes it. The set is therefore validated once, and each --umi-files path is opened once, so a FIFO or <(...) path is never drained twice. add_correct encodes the set and then drops the sequences. Its step config and metrics hook keep only the encoded set, not a copy of the whitelist. A direct ChainBuilder caller that adds the correct stage to a spec whose stages omit it falls back to resolving in add_correct, so add_correct stays safe to call directly. load_umi_sequences and the old read_umi_sequences are gone.

Also changed:

• Compressed UMI files. --umi-files may now be gzip- or BGZF-compressed, as in fgbio, where Io.readLines decompresses .gz paths. Compression is detected from the content with the shared fgumi_bam_io::classify_input and decoded with flate2, so the file name does not matter and the file is still read once.
• Streamed UMI files. Each UMI file is read and decompressed line by line rather than loaded whole, so memory follows the UMI set rather than the file. The first bad line ends the read and is reported by file and line number: a length mismatch (UMI file <path> line 4: UMI AC has length 2, but earlier UMIs have length 4; ...), a line that is not text, or a line that is not UTF-8. A BAM passed as --umi-files now fails on line 1 (... line 1 is not text (found byte 0x01); --umi-files must be plain or gzip-compressed text with one UMI per line.) instead of being decompressed in full. No size limit is imposed.
• Empty --umis values. An empty --umis value (e.g. --umis "" from an unset shell variable) is now an error: --umis contains an empty UMI. Before, it became a length-0 UMI that matched no read, so every record was dropped and the run still exited 0. --umis values are trimmed, like UMI-file lines. Blank file lines are still skipped. This is a deliberate departure from fgbio, which does neither.
• Error messages now name the flags, and the mixed-length error for --umis lists the lengths it found: All UMIs from --umis / --umi-files must have the same length; found lengths 3, 6. and No UMIs provided: --umis / --umi-files contain only blank lines. A UMI file that cannot be read reports Failed to read UMI file <path>, with the OS error as its cause.

Changes output for:

• correct when the UMI set is invalid and the input is empty or unreadable. The run now fails with the UMI error, not the input error. The same applies to runall chains that include the correct stage.
• The wording of the UMI-set errors.
• --umis "", which is now rejected.
• Gzip UMI files, which used to fail with invalid UTF-8.
• UMI files containing ASCII control bytes other than tab and carriage return, which are now rejected as not text.

Valid runs produce the same output and the same log lines. Chains without a correct stage are unaffected.

fgbio parity (e51a661)

• CorrectUmis.scala:168-176 builds and validates the UMI set at the top of execute, before SamSource(input) at :190. The constructor's Io.assertReadable(input) still comes first, so a missing input is reported before the UMI set. fgumi keeps that order.
• CorrectUmisTest.scala:106 runs with NoBam (an empty temp file) and fixed UMIs AAAAAA and CCC, and expects a ValidationException. fgbio checks only the exception type, so fgumi keeps its own message text.
• CorrectUmis.scala:170 reads --umi-files with Io.readLines, which decompresses .gz/.bgz/.bgzip paths.

Tests

• test_validation_different_length_umis (correct.rs) was vacuous: its bare is_err() passed on the empty-input parse error. It is now an rstest that asserts the exact error and that no output is written. Cases:
  • the fgbio NoBam port
  • a readable BAM (this case also passed before the fix)
  • mixed lengths split across --umis and --umi-files
  • a blank-only UMI file
  • --umis ""
  • a blank --umis value beside valid ones
• resolve_umi_set_merges_umis_and_umi_files, resolve_umi_set_reads_a_compressed_umi_file (gzip, gzip without a .gz name, and BGZF) and resolve_umi_set_names_an_unreadable_umi_file.
• resolve_umi_set_names_the_umi_file_line_with_a_length_mismatch, resolve_umi_set_rejects_a_bam_passed_as_a_umi_file, for_each_umi_in_stream_stops_at_the_first_invalid_line (an endless stream with a binary, non-UTF-8 or rejected early line must fail after reading under 1 MiB) and for_each_umi_in_stream_yields_trimmed_lines_with_line_numbers (plain, gzip, BGZF).
• correct_reads_a_umi_fifo_exactly_once (unix, with a 60 s bound, because a second open of a drained FIFO blocks). This is a regression guard: the old code also read the FIFO once, so the test does not tell the old and new code apart. It fails if the set is ever read in two places.
• test_build_for_ignores_correct_options_without_a_correct_stage (test_correct_command.rs): a simplex chain whose options bag carries a bad correct set builds and runs.
• runall tests: start_from_correct_rejects_mixed_length_umis_before_reading_input (empty and non-BAM inputs, with the set inline or split into a UMI file, whose error names the line) and start_from_extract_rejects_mixed_length_umis_before_reading_fastqs. Each asserts the exact last stderr line and that no output is written.

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Walkthrough

The correct command now normalizes and validates UMI sets before input access. ChainBuilder retains the resolved set for correction, with a fallback for direct callers. Tests cover plain text, gzip, and BGZF files; early validation; FIFO input; and chains without the correct stage.

Changes

UMI resolution and correction

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Resolve and validate UMI sets src/lib/commands/correct.rs	Resolution trims and uppercases values, skips blank file lines, sorts and deduplicates sequences, and rejects empty or mixed-length sets. It streams plain text, gzip, and BGZF files, and reports file paths, line numbers, and underlying I/O errors. Tests cover normalization, compression, invalid input, and early termination.
Preflight and apply correction src/lib/pipeline/chains/builder.rs, src/lib/pipeline/chains/commands/correct.rs	ChainBuilder::new resolves correct-stage options before opening input. add_correct uses the resolved set or resolves locally when needed, then encodes the sequences and checks UMI distances.
Verify early validation and input handling tests/integration/test_correct_command.rs, tests/integration/test_runall_command.rs	Integration tests cover FIFO whitelist input, a simplex-only chain that ignores unused correct options, and mixed-length UMI errors before BAM or FASTQ input parsing.

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Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ChainBuilder
  participant resolve_chain_umi_set
  participant CorrectOptions
  participant InputSource
  participant add_correct
  ChainBuilder->>resolve_chain_umi_set: Resolve correct-stage UMI set
  resolve_chain_umi_set->>CorrectOptions: Call resolve_umi_set
  CorrectOptions-->>resolve_chain_umi_set: Return ResolvedUmiSet or error
  resolve_chain_umi_set-->>ChainBuilder: Return resolved set or error
  ChainBuilder->>InputSource: Open input after successful resolution
  ChainBuilder->>add_correct: Pass resolved set
  add_correct->>add_correct: Encode UMIs and check distances

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Ordinary UMI files can be read without buffering the entire file. A pathological compressed file containing one very long line could still exhaust memory; this is a bounded merge risk to accept or address.

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