---
id: TST-PFM-DJE-144
title: Invalid value field paths
kind: unit
product_area: platform
module: data-job-engine
revision: 1
status: draft
source_sha:
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  macroservice-libraries: 54536a441935c6e09fdb7f96f0bec71c52ba4e03
  services-crm: a8d1364f1dd44b723bb5f9acba12f983e9ec8d69
  services-membership: 5994c270e8a37a30f848e99ba5b5ee6b87c08893
  react-console: baf6dae382d6f41dce976c7f848667ccc37e076f
repository: services-crm
files:
  - modules/data-jobs/tests/unit/services/operations/invalid-value-field-paths.spec.js
implements: []
environment: local
implementation_state: implemented
latest_result: not-run
latest_run_at: null
latest_run_ref: null
conformance: not-verified
estimated_minutes: 1
isolation: In-memory fixtures and restored dependency doubles.
evidence:
  - 'services-crm:modules/data-jobs/tests/unit/services/operations/invalid-value-field-paths.spec.js'
assertion_inventory:
  - the fields an invalid value’s rejection names
  - an e-mail address the contact’s own rules refuse
  - 'is that item’s invalid value, at the path of the address the rule refused'
  - keeps the rule’s sentence as the message
  - a line the contact import’s validation refuses for two fields
  - 'names both fields, each once'
  - a refusal that names an element by its position in brackets
  - 'names it as the API does, by a dotted position'
  - a whole-record refusal of a collection
  - 'names the collection, which is the field the rule refused'
  - a refusal that names no field
  - carries no field paths rather than a guess
  - carries none for a refusal of the request rather than of a field
registration_note: Registration describes existing source; the suite is not executed by this documentation job.
---

# Invalid value field paths

## Verification Boundary

The suite checks an isolated production calculation, declaration or adapter. The structured assertion inventory records the checks present at the pinned revision.

## What This Suite Proves

The existing checks exercise invalid value field paths. The specification bindings identify the narrower outcomes supported by those assertions.

## What It Does Not Prove

An isolated check does not establish a deployed workflow, database enforcement or complete feature acceptance.

## Real Dependencies and Test Doubles

The production function or declaration is exercised with in-memory inputs and dependency doubles. This boundary does not require a live database.

## Must Not Be Doubled

The production function under examination and its returned decisions remain real; replacing their answers defeats the check.