fix(server): validate configured base URLs

[ting-hong-shieh]

What

• validate each configured client's resolved upstream endpoint during deployment construction
• require an absolute http or https URL with a host
• use the existing backend-specific endpoint joining before validation
• add config-level invalid URL cases and a process-level --dry-run regression test

Why

An invalid base_url passed --dry-run and failed only when the first request tried to build its upstream HTTP request. Construction now rejects the same resolved endpoint that request-time code would use, without contacting the upstream.

Closes #398

Validation

• cargo test -p switchyard-server rejects_non_http_base_urls_during_construction -- --nocapture — passed
• cargo test -p switchyard-server --test cli dry_run_rejects_invalid_base_url -- --nocapture — passed
• cargo test -p switchyard-server — passed
• cargo fmt --all --check — passed
• cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings — passed
• cargo test --workspace — passed with loopback access enabled for the repository's local mock servers
• git diff --check — passed

No live provider calls or secrets were used.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Added validation for backend endpoint URLs, requiring absolute HTTP or HTTPS URLs with a valid host.
  • Improved configuration error reporting for malformed, relative, or unsupported endpoint URLs.
  • Added command-line coverage to ensure invalid URLs cause dry-run startup failures.

[ting-hong-shieh]

Before / after CLI snapshot

I ran the same invalid deployment through the real switchyard-server --dry-run binary at the PR base (b256d936) and current head (be133106).

Relevant input:

[llm_clients.invalid]
format = "openai_chat"
base_url = "not a url"

Before (b256d936):

exit_code: 0
stdout: server OK: test-route
stderr:

The malformed URL passed construction and dry-run validation.

After (be133106):

exit_code: 1
stdout:
stderr: invalid server config <config>: llm client invalid base_url must resolve to an absolute HTTP(S) URL: relative URL without a base

This was a local dry run. No socket was bound and no provider call or credential was involved.

[coderabbitai]

Walkthrough

The server now validates resolved backend endpoint URLs during configuration. It rejects malformed, relative, hostless, and non-HTTP(S) URLs. Configuration and CLI tests cover the validation and dry-run failure paths.

Changes

Backend URL validation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Endpoint validation and configuration tests crates/switchyard-server/Cargo.toml, crates/switchyard-server/src/config.rs	The server adds reqwest and validates resolved endpoint URLs during build_backend. Tests cover malformed, relative, FTP, and hostless URL cases.
Dry-run regression coverage crates/switchyard-server/tests/cli.rs	The CLI integration test verifies that an invalid base_url causes --dry-run to fail and reports the configuration error.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Mergeability Score: 🟡 Moderate · up to be133

An unused configured client can still contain an invalid base URL and allow deployment construction or --dry-run to succeed until the client is first used. Validate every configured client before merge.

Poem

I’m a rabbit checking URLs,
No crooked path slips through.
Dry-run thumps its warning drum,
Config tests guard it too.
Hop, hop—valid links only!

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the primary change: validating configured server base URLs.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes reject invalid absolute HTTP(S) client URLs during construction, identify the client, preserve dry-run no-network behavior, and add regression tests for issue #398.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The dependency, validation logic, unit coverage, and CLI regression test directly support the linked issue and stated objectives.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.

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Inline comments:
In `@crates/switchyard-server/src/config.rs`:
- Around line 803-809: Update ServerConfig::build_clients to validate every
entry in self.llm_clients before processing targets, including clients not
referenced by any target, while preserving the existing build_backend flow. Add
a regression case covering an invalid unreferenced LLM client.

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