CREATE EXTERNAL ENTITY accepts non-existent OData client without validation

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Description

CREATE EXTERNAL ENTITY does not validate that the referenced OData client exists. An entity can be created pointing to a non-existent client.

Reproduction

CREATE EXTERNAL ENTITY MyModule.FakeEntity (
  Name: String(200)
) FROM MyModule.NonExistentODataClient ENTITY_SET 'Products';

Expected: Error "OData client not found".
Actual: Entity created successfully with no validation.

Environment

• mxcli: v0.7.0-257-ga07e7e0

Related

• docs: add manual test case documentation for all MDL command areas #386 (integration test 17.3)

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Issue Triage

Summary:
The issue reports that CREATE EXTERNAL ENTITY does not validate the existence of the referenced OData client, allowing creation of entities that point to a non‑existent client.

Checklist (bug report)

Required info	Present?	Details
mxcli version	✅	v0.7.0-257-ga07e7e0
Mendix version	❌	Not mentioned
Scenario (what was tried)	✅	MDL CREATE EXTERNAL ENTITY statement
Expected output	✅	Error “OData client not found”
Experienced output	✅	Entity created successfully, no validation
AI bug report (mxcli diag --bundle or session log)	❌	Not provided

Missing information:

• The Mendix version of the project you’re working with (e.g., 10.x, 9.x).
• A diagnostic bundle or session log from mxcli diag --bundle (or at least the relevant log excerpt) to help reproduce the issue.

Could you please add those details? Thanks for the report!

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Reproducing test cases: integration-test-cases.md §17.3