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Closes #794.

Stacked on #793 (792/…zero-length-rejects), since it changes the create_source_read signature that #793's duplex loop consumes. Base will need re-targeting to main once #793 merges.

The divergence

A mapped read that reaches a quality-weighted consensus caller with absent base qualities (BAM QUAL of *, encoded as 0xFF per base) is structurally invalid input — it cannot be weighted by the model. fgbio treats it as a hard error: UmiConsensusCaller.toSourceRead throws IllegalArgumentException("The input read is missing base qualities") (UmiConsensusCaller.scala:267-270). fgumi instead dropped the read silently, folding it under ZeroLengthAfterTrimming.

Silent dropping is the dangerous behavior: if an upstream tool strips QUAL from a lane, fgumi quietly degrades every affected molecule's depth — worst case for duplex/cfDNA rare-variant work — with no signal to the user. The right classification is invalid input → abort, not biological filter → reject-and-count.

The fix

create_source_read now returns Result<Option<SourceRead>>:

  • Err — absent qualities (all 0xFF) or a quality string whose length does not match the sequence. Structurally invalid; the run aborts with a message naming the read.
  • Ok(None) — the read trims to zero length (ZeroPostAfterTrimming). A legitimate biological filter, unchanged.
  • Ok(Some) — a usable source read.

The two production callers — the vanilla process_subgroup and the duplex process_group X/Y source construction — propagate the error with ?. Codec is unaffected: it builds source reads through its own toSourceReadForCodec, not this path.

Per the discussion on the issue, this is not gated behind a flag — absent qualities always error, matching fgbio.

Tests

TDD; the driving test was confirmed to fail (consensus_reads returned Ok, silently dropping the read) before the fix.

  • test_absent_base_qualities_abort_consensus (unit, vanilla) — a molecule with an absent-quality read must make consensus_reads return Err, driving the whole path rather than just create_source_read.
  • test_absent_base_qualities_abort_duplex_consensus (unit, duplex) — the same through the duplex path, where create_source_read is reached via the single-strand caller.
  • test_reads_without_base_qualities (unit) — the fgbio-port test, whose name always said "Exception when reads lack base qualities", now asserts create_source_read returns Err rather than None.
  • The zero-length-after-trimming path (Ok(None)) is unchanged and still verified by fix(duplex): count and route reads that trim to zero length #793's tests.

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cargo ci-fmt, cargo ci-lint, cargo ci-test all clean.

Risk: consensus output changes for reads with absent or invalid qualities, pinned by fgbio-compatible tests; unsafe changes none; memory, queue, and backpressure changes none.

  • create_source_read now errors on absent or length-mismatched qualities.
  • Zero-length records and reads trimmed to zero length remain valid rejection paths.
  • Vanilla and duplex callers propagate errors and record zero-length rejects.
  • Tests cover vanilla, duplex, fgbio compatibility, and legal zero-length records.

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The change makes absent or invalid BAM qualities fatal during source-read creation. It retains legal zero-length trimming as a filterable result and records duplex zero-length rejects in statistics and optional reject output.

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Consensus input handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Fallible source-read validation
crates/fgumi-consensus/src/vanilla_caller.rs
create_source_read returns Result<Option<SourceRead>>. Absent or mismatched qualities return errors. Legal zero-length records return Ok(None). Subgroup processing propagates errors.
Duplex zero-length rejection accounting
crates/fgumi-consensus/src/duplex_caller.rs
X and Y reads use fallible source-read conversion. Zero-length reads are counted and optionally preserved in input order for reject output.
Validation and regression coverage
crates/fgumi-consensus/src/vanilla_caller.rs, crates/fgumi-consensus/src/duplex_caller.rs
Tests cover absent-quality errors, consensus abortion, zero-length filtering, rejection statistics, byte preservation, and nested result handling.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to aa1e4

The change makes absent or mismatched base qualities fail explicitly, but valid zero-length records can still be reported as length errors and abort consensus; this should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant InputRecords
  participant create_source_read
  participant ConsensusCaller
  participant RejectAccounting
  InputRecords->>create_source_read: Convert BAM record
  create_source_read-->>ConsensusCaller: SourceRead or zero-length result
  create_source_read-->>ConsensusCaller: Quality validation error
  ConsensusCaller->>RejectAccounting: Record zero-length reject
  ConsensusCaller-->>InputRecords: Abort on quality error or continue consensus processing
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Possibly related issues

  • Issue 792: The duplex zero-length accounting changes directly address the issue's read-count and reject-handling objectives.
  • Issue 791: The changes touch the same duplex rejection and statistics path, but they do not address MinorityAlignment attribution.

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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy issue #794 by aborting on absent qualities while preserving zero-length trimming as a rejection path.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The code and tests remain focused on absent-quality errors, zero-length trimming, propagation, and rejection accounting.

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608-614: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Test-only to_source_read_from_record does not guard absent (0xFF) qualities like the production path now does.

create_source_read now errors when all quality bytes are 0xFF (line 1061). This #[cfg(test)]-only sibling, used by call_duplex_from_ss_pair in the test module, still only checks length and does not check for the all-0xFF case, so it would silently treat an absent-quality read as valid high-quality evidence. No current test exercises this path with 0xFF quals, so impact is limited today, but add the same guard for parity if this bridge is ever exercised with such input.

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In `@crates/fgumi-consensus/src/vanilla_caller.rs` around lines 608 - 614, Update
the test-only to_source_read_from_record quality validation to reject reads
whose quality scores are all 0xFF, matching create_source_read. Preserve the
existing empty and length-mismatch checks, and return None for absent-quality
reads before they are used as evidence.

554-560: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Two stale comments describe create_source_read's old contract. Both say create_source_read "returns None for reads with absent qualities or that trim to zero length." After this PR, absent qualities return Err, not None; only trimming to zero length still returns None.

  • crates/fgumi-consensus/src/vanilla_caller.rs#L554-L560: update record_zero_length_after_trimming's doc comment to drop "with absent qualities or" and state it only returns None for reads that trim to zero length.
  • crates/fgumi-consensus/src/duplex_caller.rs#L2024-L2030: update the comment above the X-partition source-read loop the same way.
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In `@crates/fgumi-consensus/src/vanilla_caller.rs` around lines 554 - 560, Update
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record_zero_length_after_trimming within
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X-partition source-read loop in crates/fgumi-consensus/src/duplex_caller.rs
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trim to zero length, removing the absent-qualities claim.

1043-1055: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Handle legal zero-length SEQ=* records before quality validation.

When l_seq == 0, both sequence and quality slices are empty, so the current guard errors even though their lengths match. process_subgroup calls this function before unmapped filtering, which can abort --allow-unmapped consensus runs. Return Ok(None) for read_len == 0 before the all-0xFF check, and add a regression test.

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In `@crates/fgumi-consensus/src/vanilla_caller.rs` around lines 1043 - 1055,
Update the function containing the bases and qualities validation to return
Ok(None) immediately when read_len is zero, before the quality-length and
all-0xFF checks, while preserving existing validation for non-empty reads. Add a
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In `@crates/fgumi-consensus/src/vanilla_caller.rs`:
- Around line 608-614: Update the test-only to_source_read_from_record quality
validation to reject reads whose quality scores are all 0xFF, matching
create_source_read. Preserve the existing empty and length-mismatch checks, and
return None for absent-quality reads before they are used as evidence.
- Around line 554-560: Update the stale create_source_read contract comments: in
record_zero_length_after_trimming within
crates/fgumi-consensus/src/vanilla_caller.rs (lines 554-560) and above the
X-partition source-read loop in crates/fgumi-consensus/src/duplex_caller.rs
(lines 2024-2030), state that create_source_read returns None only when reads
trim to zero length, removing the absent-qualities claim.
- Around line 1043-1055: Update the function containing the bases and qualities
validation to return Ok(None) immediately when read_len is zero, before the
quality-length and all-0xFF checks, while preserving existing validation for
non-empty reads. Add a regression test covering legal zero-length SEQ=* records,
including the --allow-unmapped processing path.

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Addressed the outside-diff findings from the latest review (rebased onto the updated 792/... base, so this is now a single commit):

  • Legal zero-length SEQ=* records (vanilla_caller.rs create_source_read): now returns Ok(None) for read_len == 0 before the quality checks, so an empty record routes as ZeroLengthAfterTrimming instead of tripping the length-mismatch bail (which would abort --allow-unmapped runs). Added a regression test.
  • Test-only to_source_read_from_record: added the same all-0xFF absent-qualities guard as the production path so the bridge cannot treat absent-quality reads as high-quality evidence.
  • Stale contract comments: updated record_zero_length_after_trimming (vanilla_caller.rs) and the X-partition source-read loop (duplex_caller.rs) to state create_source_read returns None only for reads that trim to zero length; absent qualities now return Err.

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1037-1147: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Validate qualities in the CODEC source-read path

to_source_read_for_codec_raw bypasses create_source_read and copies all-0xFF qualities into production SourceReads. Validate quality length and absent-quality encoding before both CODEC consensus calls, then propagate the error.

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In `@crates/fgumi-consensus/src/vanilla_caller.rs` around lines 1037 - 1147,
Update to_source_read_for_codec_raw to validate that quality length matches the
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Rebased onto the updated base (#793) to resolve the merge conflict — the stale duplicate of the "count and route zero length" commit is dropped, leaving just the absent-base-qualities change.

The rebase preserves the intended routing: `create_source_read` returns `Err` for absent base qualities (propagated via `?` in `process_subgroup`, so the run aborts) and `Ok(None)` for zero-length-after-trimming (counted through the inherited `record_zero_length_after_trimming` helper). Both paths stay covered by `test_absent_base_qualities_abort_consensus` and `test_zero_length_record_is_not_treated_as_absent_qualities`.

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A mapped read that reaches a quality-weighted consensus caller with no
base qualities (BAM QUAL of '*', encoded as 0xFF per base) is
structurally invalid input, not a biological filter: it cannot be
weighted by the model. fgumi dropped such reads silently, folding them
under ZeroLengthAfterTrimming, which can quietly degrade a molecule's
depth when an upstream tool strips QUAL — with no signal to the user.

create_source_read now returns Result<Option<SourceRead>>: Err on absent
or length-mismatched qualities (the run aborts, naming the read), Ok(None)
on the legitimate zero-length-after-trimming path, Ok(Some) otherwise.
The vanilla and duplex production callers propagate the error; codec
builds source reads through its own path and is unaffected. This matches
fgbio, whose toSourceRead throws on missing base qualities.

BREAKING CHANGE: inputs containing mapped reads with absent base
qualities now abort consensus calling instead of silently dropping those
reads.

Closes #794
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A mapped read that reaches a quality-weighted consensus caller with no
base qualities (BAM QUAL of '*', encoded as 0xFF per base) is
structurally invalid input, not a biological filter: it cannot be
weighted by the model. fgumi dropped such reads silently, folding them
under ZeroLengthAfterTrimming, which can quietly degrade a molecule's
depth when an upstream tool strips QUAL — with no signal to the user.

create_source_read now returns Result<Option<SourceRead>>: Err on absent
or length-mismatched qualities (the run aborts, naming the read), Ok(None)
on the legitimate zero-length-after-trimming path, Ok(Some) otherwise.
The vanilla and duplex production callers propagate the error; codec
builds source reads through its own path and is unaffected. This matches
fgbio, whose toSourceRead throws on missing base qualities.

BREAKING CHANGE: inputs containing mapped reads with absent base
qualities now abort consensus calling instead of silently dropping those
reads.

Closes #794
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A mapped read that reaches a quality-weighted consensus caller with no
base qualities (BAM QUAL of '*', encoded as 0xFF per base) is
structurally invalid input, not a biological filter: it cannot be
weighted by the model. fgumi dropped such reads silently, folding them
under ZeroLengthAfterTrimming, which can quietly degrade a molecule's
depth when an upstream tool strips QUAL — with no signal to the user.

create_source_read now returns Result<Option<SourceRead>>: Err on absent
or length-mismatched qualities (the run aborts, naming the read), Ok(None)
on the legitimate zero-length-after-trimming path, Ok(Some) otherwise.
The vanilla and duplex production callers propagate the error; codec
builds source reads through its own path and is unaffected. This matches
fgbio, whose toSourceRead throws on missing base qualities.

BREAKING CHANGE: inputs containing mapped reads with absent base
qualities now abort consensus calling instead of silently dropping those
reads.

Closes #794
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* fix(duplex): count and route reads that trim to zero length

The duplex path built its X/Y SourceRead vectors with a bare filter_map,
silently discarding every read create_source_read rejected (a read that
quality-trims to zero, or has absent qualities). Those reads reached
neither --stats nor --rejects, so raw_reads_rejected under-counted.

Capture the dropped raw records and hand them to the single-strand
sub-caller via a new record_zero_length_after_trimming, so #758's
existing per-molecule drain folds them into the duplex statistics and
rejects buffer symmetrically. This matches fgbio, whose base toSourceRead
rejects a zero-length read as ZeroPostAfterTrimming on the duplex caller's
own writer and counter (UmiConsensusCaller.toSourceRead).

Closes #792

* fix(duplex): split whole-group rejection reasons first-writer-wins (#795)

On a whole-group rejection downstream of the single-strand filter, reads
already rejected as MinorityAlignment were re-attributed entirely to the
duplex whole-group reason. fgbio keeps the single-strand reason on those
records (first-writer-wins) and applies the whole-group reason only to
the survivors; the reject total agreed but the --stats per-reason split
did not.

The rejects BAM carries no per-record reason (records are byte-for-byte
with input), so this is a --stats attribution fix at the drain site. New
reattribute_single_strand_rejections moves the single-strand-rejected
reads out of the whole-group reason bucket and into their own, a reason
move that leaves the reject total unchanged so --rejects still
reconciles with raw_reads_rejected.

Closes #791

* fix(consensus)!: error on reads with absent base qualities (#796)

A mapped read that reaches a quality-weighted consensus caller with no
base qualities (BAM QUAL of '*', encoded as 0xFF per base) is
structurally invalid input, not a biological filter: it cannot be
weighted by the model. fgumi dropped such reads silently, folding them
under ZeroLengthAfterTrimming, which can quietly degrade a molecule's
depth when an upstream tool strips QUAL — with no signal to the user.

create_source_read now returns Result<Option<SourceRead>>: Err on absent
or length-mismatched qualities (the run aborts, naming the read), Ok(None)
on the legitimate zero-length-after-trimming path, Ok(Some) otherwise.
The vanilla and duplex production callers propagate the error; codec
builds source reads through its own path and is unaffected. This matches
fgbio, whose toSourceRead throws on missing base qualities.

BREAKING CHANGE: inputs containing mapped reads with absent base
qualities now abort consensus calling instead of silently dropping those
reads.

Closes #794

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