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Every module supporting custom methods wrapped the registered callable in
a bare `except Exception`, logged a warning, and carried on into the
built-in implementation:
try:
return custom_method(data, file_path, format=format, **kwargs)
except Exception as e:
logger.warning(f"Custom method {method} failed: {e}, falling back to default")
That makes a registered method advisory. It can add behaviour, but it
cannot decline. For a gate, a validator or a policy check, declining is
the entire purpose: raising is how such a method says "do not produce
this output". Catching the exception and running the default produces
exactly the output the method was registered to prevent, and the only
trace is a warning.
Demonstrated with a verifier that rejects invalid RDF and deletes the
file. The fallback wrote it straight back.
`call_custom_method` in utils/custom_methods.py now holds the policy in
one place: an exception from a registered method propagates. Callers who
relied on the old behaviour can pass `fallback_on_custom_error=True`,
which restores warn-and-continue for that call and is consumed by the
policy rather than forwarded to the method.
The swallow was in six modules, not only the one the issue was filed
against, so all 58 sites are converted: export 13, ingest 13, normalize
13, parse 12, embeddings 4, kg 3. The rewrite is mechanical and uniform.
Sentinel comparison is by identity, so a custom method returning None, 0,
"" or an empty list is not mistaken for a failure.
13 tests in tests/utils/test_custom_method_can_refuse.py, including the
issue's own demonstration and a guard that no module still carries the
swallow. Across the six affected modules the failure set is identical to
upstream/main: 37 pre-existing failures before and after, none new, with
869 passing against 856 on the baseline.