fix(common): raise instead of exiting when a PAON, UPRN or USRN is missing

[robbrad]

The defect

check_paon() caught its own ValueError and called exit(1):

try:
    if paon is None:
        raise ValueError("Invalid house number")
    return True
except Exception as ex:
    print(f"Exception encountered: {ex}")
    print("Please check the provided house number.")
    exit(1)

The Home Assistant integration runs the scraper in-process (async_add_executor_job(self.ukbcd.run)), and SystemExit is a BaseException, so HouseholdBinCoordinator._async_update_data's except Exception at __init__.py:456 cannot catch it. A missing or mistyped house number took the update coroutine down instead of surfacing as an update error. It was also untestable — the old test had to catch SystemExit and could not assert on the message.

check_uprn() and check_usrn() had the same shape with the opposite failure: they swallowed the ValueError entirely, printed to stdout and returned None, so an absent UPRN fell through to a confusing failure further downstream.

The fix

All three validators now raise ValueError, with no print and no exit. This matches check_postcode() directly above them, which has always raised, and it matches the contract CONTRIBUTING.md:213 already documents: "if the parameter is used but no value is given, they will throw an exception." No doc change was needed — the code now does what the docs said.

check_paon() also now rejects "" as check_uprn/check_usrn already did. The HA config flow registers the house-number field as vol.Required("number") = cv.string (config_flow.py:307), and cv.string accepts an empty string, so a blank house number previously passed validation and failed obscurely later; now it reports itself.

Behaviour change

Anything relying on the process exiting, or on check_uprn/check_usrn returning None, now sees a ValueError. I checked every caller — ~50 for check_paon, ~200 for check_uprn:

• Return value: only SouthHollandDistrictCouncil consumes one (if not check_uprn(user_uprn): raise ValueError(...)). Still correct; its guard is now simply unreachable. Left as-is to keep the diff to the validators.
• Guarded calls: HaringeyCouncil and SloughBoroughCouncil are the only councils whose input.json entry omits the value a validator checks. In both, the call sits inside if user_uprn: / elif user_paon:, so the argument is already truthy and nothing changes.
• Empty values: no check_paon caller has an empty house_number in input.json (checked programmatically across all 351 entries).
• Mocks: the two council tests that touch a validator (test_ceredigion_county_council, test_gloucester_city_council) patch it out entirely.
• Exit codes: nothing in the repo asserts on the CLI's exit code. The only test pinning the old semantics was test_check_paon_invalid, updated here.

For the CLI, a missing -n now produces a traceback rather than a friendly message and exit 1. That is already what an invalid postcode does, since check_postcode raises and collect_data.run() has no top-level handler — so this makes the three validators consistent with the existing convention rather than introducing a new one.

CardiffCouncil.py:83,148 and SouthTynesideCouncil.py:67 have their own bare exit(1) calls with the same problem. Left alone to keep this PR to the shared validators; worth a follow-up.

Test plan

Verified locally:

• poetry run pytest uk_bin_collection/tests custom_components/uk_bin_collection/tests --ignore=uk_bin_collection/tests/step_defs/ -q → 480 passed, 0 failed. (The playbook's usual sandbox-only failures — test_check_postcode_*, test_create_webdriver_local — pass here; this machine has a real UK connection and a local Chrome.)
• New offline tests in test_common_functions.py: each validator parametrized over None and "", asserting ValueError, the message, and that nothing is printed to stdout.
• New regression test test_coordinator_surfaces_validator_error_as_update_failed in the HA suite, driving a real check_paon(None) through HouseholdBinCoordinator._async_update_data and asserting it arrives as UpdateFailed with the message intact. I confirmed this test actually guards the regression: with check_paon temporarily reverted to exit(1), it fails with SystemExit: 1 escaping the coordinator — the exact production symptom.
• Live suite, --local_browser True, on three affected councils: GatesheadCouncil, PowysCouncil, SouthHollandDistrictCouncil — 3 passed. (Gateshead and Powys are check_paon callers; South Holland is the one caller that consumes check_uprn's return value.)
• poetry run black on all three changed files.

Not verified: the other ~245 councils that call these validators were not run live. The change only alters the failure path for a None/"" argument, and the three councils above exercise the success path through both check_paon and check_uprn, but I have not run the full suite.

⚠️ CI note (playbook §2): this PR touches no councils/*.py file, so the -k list is empty and the integration job will run the entire live suite (~350 councils). Expect a long run with the usual crop of IP-block failures — those are not regressions from this change.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Invalid or missing house numbers and property or street reference values now produce clear validation errors instead of unexpectedly terminating processing.
  • Error messages identify the invalid value, and validation failures are surfaced consistently when collection data is updated.
  • Valid values continue to pass validation as before.

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📝 Walkthrough

The PAON, UPRN, and USRN validators now raise field-specific ValueError exceptions for None and empty-string inputs. Tests verify these errors, the absence of printed diagnostics, and coordinator reporting of a PAON validation failure.

Changes: Input validation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Validator behavior and tests uk_bin_collection/uk_bin_collection/common.py, uk_bin_collection/tests/test_common_functions.py	The validators raise field-specific ValueError exceptions for None and empty-string inputs. Tests check the messages and verify that no output is printed.
Coordinator error reporting custom_components/uk_bin_collection/tests/test_init.py	A coordinator test invokes check_paon(None) during data collection and verifies that the resulting UpdateFailed message contains “Invalid house number.”

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

Change: Bug fix

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Blank-looking house numbers or identifiers can pass validation. This is a bounded issue that can be fixed before merge or accepted for follow-up.

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reject whitespace-only values in all three validators. A value such as " " passes each missing-value check, so each validator returns True without a usable house number or identifier. The form exposes these fields as strings, and the contributor contract says a used parameter with no value should raise an exception. (github.com)

• uk_bin_collection/uk_bin_collection/common.py#L62-L62: reject whitespace-only string PAON values.
• uk_bin_collection/uk_bin_collection/common.py#L73-L73: reject whitespace-only string UPRN values.
• uk_bin_collection/uk_bin_collection/common.py#L84-L84: reject whitespace-only string USRN values.

Check .strip() only for strings so the change does not reject non-string values such as numeric 0. Add a whitespace-only case to each parameterized test. Based on learnings, whitespace-only identifiers and user input represent missing values.

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Update all three validators in common.py, at lines 62-62, 73-73, and 84-84:
reject whitespace-only string values for PAON, UPRN, and USRN by checking
stripped content only when the value is a string, preserving acceptance of
non-string values such as numeric 0. Add a whitespace-only case to each
corresponding parameterized test.

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