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Introduce a client for the YouVersion API along with domain routes and service implementation to facilitate Bible text retrieval. This addition enhances the application's capability to access and serve Bible content.

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  • New Features

    • Added YouVersion integration for retrieving available Bible versions by language.
    • Added authenticated access to chapter text, including verse-level content.
    • Added validation for language, Bible, book, and chapter selections.
    • Added private five-minute caching for successful Bible data responses.
    • Added clear service-unavailable responses when YouVersion cannot be reached or configured.
  • Documentation

    • Added environment configuration examples for the YouVersion API URL and optional API key.

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This change adds YouVersion configuration, typed API schemas, a server-side client, chapter-text aggregation, authenticated Bible routes, standardized upstream errors, application registration, and unit and route tests.

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YouVersion integration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Contracts and configuration
.env.example, .env.test, src/env.ts, src/lib/types.ts, src/lib/services/youversion/youversion.types.ts, src/domains/youversion/youversion.types.ts
Adds YouVersion environment fields, typed response schemas, route validation schemas, and the YOUVERSION_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE error mapped to HTTP 502.
YouVersion client implementation
src/lib/services/youversion/youversion.client.ts, src/lib/services/youversion/youversion.client.test.ts
Adds HTTPS API requests with timeout handling, response validation, secret redaction, Bible retrieval, chapter metadata retrieval, passage retrieval, and chapter-text assembly.
Routes and application wiring
src/domains/youversion/youversion.route.ts, src/domains/youversion/youversion.service.ts, src/lib/services/youversion/youversion.errors.ts, src/app.ts, src/domains/youversion/youversion.route.test.ts
Adds authenticated GET /youversion/bibles and chapter-text routes, error responses, cache headers, service delegation, route registration, and route tests for authorization, validation, success, and upstream failures.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant YouVersionRoutes
  participant YouVersionService
  participant YouVersionClient
  participant YouVersionAPI
  Client->>YouVersionRoutes: request Bible list or chapter text
  YouVersionRoutes->>YouVersionService: pass validated parameters
  YouVersionService->>YouVersionClient: request YouVersion data
  YouVersionClient->>YouVersionAPI: send authenticated HTTPS request
  YouVersionAPI-->>YouVersionClient: return validated API payload
  YouVersionClient-->>YouVersionService: return Result
  YouVersionService-->>YouVersionRoutes: return Result
  YouVersionRoutes-->>Client: return JSON response or HTTP 502
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The default configuration can prevent the new Bible integration from working, and successful responses may omit Bibles or verses. These issues should be fixed before merge.

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In `@src/env.ts`:
- Line 159: Update the YOUVERSION_API_URL default in src/env.ts at lines 159-159
to use the versioned base URL ending in /v1, and update the corresponding
example value in .env.example at lines 73-73 to match.

In `@src/lib/services/youversion/youversion.client.ts`:
- Around line 187-189: Update getBibles() to follow the YouVersion pagination
token from each response, issuing subsequent requests with page_token until no
next_page_token remains, and combine all returned Bible records into the result.
Preserve the existing error propagation from youVersionGet and return the
complete list through the current response shape.
- Around line 259-277: The chapter-fetch flow must not return ok: true when any
passage request is rejected or passageResult.ok is false. Update the handling
around settled.status and passageResult so a failed verse causes the overall
chapter request to fail, or explicitly returns a partial-result contract
identifying every missing passage; preserve successful complete-chapter
behavior.
- Around line 249-251: Update the passage-fetching flow around getPassage and
Promise.allSettled to limit concurrent upstream requests rather than starting
one per verse, and add bounded retry handling for 429 responses using
Retry-After when available. Preserve the existing passageResults aggregation and
avoid unbounded retries; alternatively replace the per-verse requests with a
chapter-level passage request using the chapter reference.

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  • .env.example
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  • src/domains/youversion/youversion.service.ts
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// ── YouVersion (Bible text for the Reference column) ────────────────────────
// Base URL of the YouVersion API (no trailing slash). Defaults to production.
YOUVERSION_API_URL: z.string().url().default('https://api.youversion.com'),

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Use the documented versioned YouVersion REST base URL.

Both defaults omit /v1. The client appends paths such as /bibles directly, so the default configuration sends all operations to unversioned endpoints. The documented base is https://api.youversion.com/v1. (developers.youversion.com)

  • src/env.ts#L159-L159: change the schema default to https://api.youversion.com/v1.
  • .env.example#L73-L73: change the example value to the same versioned URL.
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  • src/env.ts#L159-L159 (this comment)
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In `@src/env.ts` at line 159, Update the YOUVERSION_API_URL default in src/env.ts
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Comment on lines +187 to +189
const result = await youVersionGet(pathWithQuery, youVersionBiblesResponseSchema);
if (!result.ok) return result;
return { ok: true, data: result.data.data };

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Fetch all pages or expose pagination.

The response schema accepts next_page_token, but getBibles() discards it and returns only the first page. The YouVersion API paginates collection endpoints. Languages with more results than one page will receive an incomplete Bible list with no continuation token. (developers.youversion.com)

Loop with page_token until no token remains, or return the pagination envelope through the route.

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In `@src/lib/services/youversion/youversion.client.ts` around lines 187 - 189,
Update getBibles() to follow the YouVersion pagination token from each response,
issuing subsequent requests with page_token until no next_page_token remains,
and combine all returned Bible records into the result. Preserve the existing
error propagation from youVersionGet and return the complete list through the
current response shape.

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Comment on lines +249 to +251
const passageResults = await Promise.allSettled(
verseMetas.map((vm) => getPassage(bibleId, vm.passage_id))
);

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Bound the passage-request concurrency.

This code starts one upstream request for every verse at the same time. A large chapter can create more than 100 concurrent requests from one route call. YouVersion applies per-key rate limits and returns 429 with Retry-After. (developers.youversion.com)

Use a concurrency limit and handle 429 with bounded retry behavior. Alternatively, fetch the chapter through the passage endpoint with a chapter reference such as GEN.1. (developers.youversion.com)

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In `@src/lib/services/youversion/youversion.client.ts` around lines 249 - 251,
Update the passage-fetching flow around getPassage and Promise.allSettled to
limit concurrent upstream requests rather than starting one per verse, and add
bounded retry handling for 429 responses using Retry-After when available.
Preserve the existing passageResults aggregation and avoid unbounded retries;
alternatively replace the per-verse requests with a chapter-level passage
request using the chapter reference.

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Comment on lines +259 to +277
if (settled.status === 'rejected') {
logger.warn({
message: 'YouVersion passage fetch rejected',
context: { bibleId, passageId: meta.passage_id, reason: String(settled.reason) },
});
continue;
}

const passageResult = settled.value;
if (!passageResult.ok) {
logger.warn({
message: 'YouVersion passage fetch failed',
context: {
bibleId,
passageId: meta.passage_id,
error: passageResult.error.message,
},
});
continue;

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Do not return incomplete chapter text as a successful response.

If any passage request fails, this code removes that verse and still returns ok: true. The consumer cannot determine whether the returned chapter is complete. A transient failure or rate limit can therefore produce missing Bible text as a valid response.

Fail the chapter request when any verse fails, or add an explicit partial-result contract that identifies every missing passage.

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In `@src/lib/services/youversion/youversion.client.ts` around lines 259 - 277, The
chapter-fetch flow must not return ok: true when any passage request is rejected
or passageResult.ok is false. Update the handling around settled.status and
passageResult so a failed verse causes the overall chapter request to fail, or
explicitly returns a partial-result contract identifying every missing passage;
preserve successful complete-chapter behavior.

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Reviewed alongside fluent-web#493. Verified locally on ft/youversion-serverside: typecheck clean, eslint clean on changed files, 24/24 tests pass.

The core goal is met and done well. The API key is server-held, redactSecrets scrubs anything echoed out of an upstream error body, clients only ever see the generic 502 message while detail is logged server-side, and the HTTPS check in youversion.client.ts runs before the key is attached to a request. Routes are correctly gated on authenticateUser + CONTENT_VIEW.

Requesting changes on two items — an inlined verseNumber: null that reaches clients, and a 429 retry path that cannot work as documented. Details inline.

Not anchorable inline

  • Test coverage gap. The feat: add pagination, concurrency limits, 429 retries, and strict error handling commit added no tests for pagination, concurrency, or 429 retry. youversion.client.test.ts covers config/HTTPS/non-2xx/redaction/network/JSON/schema/fan-out, but nothing exercises the three behaviours that commit introduced — which is why the Retry-After issue below went unnoticed.

Merge ordering

fluent-web#493 deletes the browser-side YouVersion path entirely and depends on these routes existing. This PR must deploy before fluent-web#493, or YouVersion reference text breaks in the interim.


// passage_id format: "GEN.1.5" — verse number is the third segment
const verseNumber = Number.parseInt(meta.passage_id.split('.')[2] ?? '0', 10);
if (verseNumber <= 0) continue;

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Must fix — verseNumber: null reaches the client.

NaN <= 0 is false, so a non-numeric third segment is not skipped here. The web code this replaces used if (verseNumber > 0), which excluded NaN correctly; inverting the guard to <= 0 dropped that protection.

I confirmed it by running this client against a mocked chapter meta containing a GEN.1.INTRO verse entry:

VERSES OBJECT:     [ { verseNumber: NaN, passageId: 'GEN.1.INTRO', ... }, { verseNumber: 1, ... } ]
SERIALIZED TO CLIENT: [{"verseNumber":null,"passageId":"GEN.1.INTRO",...},{"verseNumber":1,...}]

Two consequences:

  1. It violates the verseNumber: z.number().int() contract in youVersionBibleVerseSchema. The route doesn't validate responses, so this passes silently to fluent-web, where it becomes a null Map key in PericopeReferenceVerses.
  2. It corrupts the verses.sort((a, b) => a.verseNumber - b.verseNumber) a few lines below, since every comparison involving NaN returns false.

Suggested:

if (!Number.isInteger(verseNumber) || verseNumber <= 0) continue;


attempt++;
// Parse Retry-After from the error message if youVersionGet embedded it; fall back.
const retryAfterMatch = /Retry-After:\s*(\d+)/i.exec(result.error.message);

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Must fix — this Retry-After handling is dead code.

This greps Retry-After:\s*(\d+) out of result.error.message, but youVersionGet never reads response.headers.get('retry-after'). Its failure message for a non-2xx is only:

GET <target> — YouVersion returned HTTP 429 Too Many Requests in Xms; upstream body: <snippet>

There is no Retry-After: substring to match, so the regex can never fire and every retry silently falls back to DEFAULT_RETRY_DELAY_MS * attempt. The doc comments on this function ("honouring the upstream Retry-After header") and on getChapterText ("using Retry-After when available") both assert behaviour that does not exist.

Either read the header in youVersionGet and plumb it through a structured field on the error, or drop the regex and correct the comments.

Separately, is429 is detected via result.error.message.includes('HTTP 429'). Since the message embeds the upstream body snippet, an upstream error body that happens to contain that string would trigger a spurious retry. A structured status field on the error would fix both problems at once.

Comment thread src/lib/services/youversion/youversion.client.ts
Comment thread src/lib/services/youversion/youversion.client.ts
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AI_INBOUND_SERVICE_KEY=test-only-dummy-inbound-key
AQUIFER_API_URL=https://api.aquifer.bible
AQUIFER_API_KEY=test-only-dummy-aquifer-api-key
YOUVERSION_API_URL=https://api.youversion.com

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Minor: this omits the /v1 suffix, while env.ts defaults to https://api.youversion.com/v1 and .env.example documents the same. Harmless today because the tests mock fetch, but it will mislead anyone reading this as a reference value.

export type ChapterTextParam = z.infer<typeof chapterTextParamSchema>;

export const chapterTextQuerySchema = z.object({
bookId: z

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Minor / non-blocking: bookId is a query param on an otherwise path-based route (/bibles/{bibleId}/chapters/{chapterId}/text?bookId=GEN), even though the upstream call in getChapterMeta is genuinely /bibles/{id}/books/{bookId}/chapters/{n}.

The book is part of the resource identity, not a filter, so /bibles/{bibleId}/books/{bookId}/chapters/{chapterId}/text would read better and make the Cache-Control key match the resource. Worth settling now since this is a new public route and changing it later is a breaking change for fluent-web.

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