fix(highway): fall back for phrases without levels

[raphaelmorrissy]

What

Treat a non-empty phrases array with no authored levels as having no
difficulty ladder. The mastery filter now clears its filtered views so the
highway falls through to the arrangement's flat notes, chords, anchors, and
handshapes instead of rendering an empty chart.

Adds a focused regression test for metadata-only phrase lists.

Fixes #832

feedpak surface

• This PR does not change how the app reads/writes feedpaks (manifest keys, pack files, folder layout)
• …or it does, and the spec change landed first via the FEP process — FEP / spec PR: got-feedback/feedpak-spec#___ (once it merges, re-run this PR's checks and the gate goes green)

Testing

• npm run test:js — 1,134 passed
• focused highway tests — 27 passed
• node --check static/highway.js
• ESLint on changed JavaScript — 0 errors (one pre-existing max-lines warning)
• git diff --check

Checklist

• CHANGELOG.md [Unreleased] updated (user-visible changes)
• Tests added/updated for new behaviour
• Commits are DCO signed off (git commit -s)

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Fixed charts with metadata-only phrase lists rendering blank highways.
  • Mastery filtering now correctly displays notes, chords, anchors, and handshapes when phrase difficulty levels are unavailable.
  • Improved handling of incomplete or invalid phrase difficulty data.
  • Mastery controls remain disabled when phrases provide timing information without authored difficulty levels.

• Documentation

  • Added a changelog entry describing the highway rendering fix.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The highway mastery filter now distinguishes authored phrase levels from timing-only phrase metadata. It preserves flat arrangement data when no authored levels exist, safely handles malformed levels, disables mastery controls, and retains phrase timing metadata. Runtime tests cover metadata-only and mixed payloads.

Changes

Highway filtering

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Authored-level detection and fallback static/highway.js	_rebuildMasteryFilter() now detects nonempty authored levels and falls back to flat notes, chords, anchors, and handshapes when none exist. Missing or invalid levels values are normalized before filtering. Bundle and public phrase-data state use the same predicate.
Phrase metadata behavior static/highway.js	getPhrases() documentation states that timing windows remain available for metadata-only phrases while mastery controls remain disabled.
Runtime regression coverage tests/js/highway_filtered_notes.test.js, CHANGELOG.md	The tests execute the extracted helpers against metadata-only and mixed phrase payloads. They verify flat-array fallback, authored-level filtering, bundle state, and restaging. The changelog records the fix.

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

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 37224

This change makes metadata-only phrase lists fall back to the arrangement's flat content instead of rendering an empty chart, with focused regression coverage; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 42.86% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 7 functions across 2 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the highway fix for phrase data that lacks authored difficulty levels.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the problem, the implemented behavior, the linked issue, feedpak impact, testing, changelog update, test updates, and DCO status.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes satisfy issue #832 by detecting phrase data without authored levels, disabling mastery filtering, and falling back to flat notes, chords, anchors, and handshapes. The tests cover metadata-…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changelog, highway logic, and regression tests are directly related to issue #832. No unrelated code or feedpak format changes are present.

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Explanation

The changes satisfy issue #832 by detecting phrase data without authored levels, disabling mastery filtering, and falling back to flat notes, chords, anchors, and handshapes. The tests cover metadata-only and mixed phrase payloads while preserving authored-level filtering.

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Actionable comments posted: 2

🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

tests/js/highway_filtered_notes.test.js (1)

65-73: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Test the fallback behavior, not only its source text.

The regex passes if the guard exists but the fallback still assigns empty arrays or skips downstream transform refresh. It does not prove that metadata-only phrases preserve flat notes, chords, anchors, and handshapes. Add a behavioral test through the phrases/ready path with levels: [], then assert the public filtered views contain the flat arrangement data.

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In `@tests/js/highway_filtered_notes.test.js` around lines 65 - 73, The test
currently verifies only source text; add a behavioral case through the
phrases/ready path using a phrase with levels: [], then assert the public
filtered views preserve its flat notes, chords, anchors, and handshapes after
filtering and transform refresh. Keep the existing source assertions, and anchor
the new setup and checks to the visible phrases and ready interfaces.

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Inline comments:
In `@static/highway.js`:
- Line 1494: Update the mastery-slider state logic around hasPhraseLevels to use
the shared authored-level/ladder predicate instead of api.hasPhraseData(), so
metadata-only phrases disable the slider while preserving timing-only
getPhrases() behavior.
- Line 1493: Update the phrase-level check in _rebuildMasteryFilter to handle
missing or null p.levels before accessing length, preferably by normalizing
levels to an empty array at the payload boundary or guarding the read so ready
continues to draw and emit song:ready.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@tests/js/highway_filtered_notes.test.js`:
- Around line 65-73: The test currently verifies only source text; add a
behavioral case through the phrases/ready path using a phrase with levels: [],
then assert the public filtered views preserve its flat notes, chords, anchors,
and handshapes after filtering and transform refresh. Keep the existing source
assertions, and anchor the new setup and checks to the visible phrases and ready
interfaces.

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