[ANE-Bot] Fix pubspec.yaml parse failure on valid dependency forms

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Overview

fossa analyze fails the whole Dart pubspec.yaml parse — and with it the Pub strategy — when the manifest uses dependency forms that are valid per the pub dependency spec but that FromJSON PubSpecDepSource (src/Strategy/Dart/PubSpec.hs) rejects:

• a bare dependency with no value (pkg:, meaning "any version") → Error in $.dependencies['pkg']: failed parsing pub package's source!
• a map with only version: → Error in $.dependencies['pkg']: empty
• the hosted: <url> string shorthand introduced in Dart 2.15 → empty
• a hosted: map without a version: (the parser required all of version, hosted.name, hosted.url) → empty
• a git: map without a ref: (e.g. git: {url: ..., path: ...}) → empty

The empty failures happen because all four parsers in the asum reject the object and the parse falls through to Aeson's empty; the bare-name case hits the catch-all parseJSON _.

The fix rewrites the instance: Null parses as a hosted dependency with no version, and an object commits to a source kind by which key it carries (git/sdk/path, falling back to hosted only when none of them is present) — so a malformed value under a source key fails the parse instead of falling through to another kind. The git branch makes ref optional; the hosted branch accepts version/hosted in any combination (with hosted as either the url shorthand or a name/url map) but still requires at least one of the two keys, so genuinely malformed entries keep failing. Failure messages for invalid input name the expected fields instead of empty.

This pattern recorded 1,137 occurrences over the last 7 days on the fossa-cli-dashboard error patterns widget, including on the current v3.18.2 release.

Internal parser fix — no user-visible schema, CLI flag, or documented-behavior change, so the docs/schema/subcommand checklist items don't apply. Changelog.md has an ## Unreleased entry since parse behavior is externally visible.

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Acceptance criteria

pubspec.yaml files using any of the five forms above analyze successfully instead of failing with Aeson exception: ... empty / failed parsing pub package's source!. Genuinely malformed dependency values (a list, or a bad value under git/sdk/path such as git: 123) still fail, now with a message naming the expected fields.

Testing plan

1. cabal run unit-tests -- --match "Dart" — test/Dart/testdata/pubspec.yaml now contains all five previously-failing forms, and the parse spec asserts each parses to the expected source; a second case asserts a malformed keyed source (git: 123 alongside version:) still fails to parse. On master the suite fails with AesonException "Error in $.dependencies['pkg_bare']: failed parsing pub package's source!" (verified); with this fix all 19 Dart examples pass (verified).
2. Manual: cabal build, then in a directory containing a pubspec.yaml with e.g.

   name: repro
   dependencies:
     build_runner:
     some_pkg:
       version: ^2.0.0
     other_pkg:
       hosted: https://custom.pub.dev
       version: ^1.2.0

   run fossa analyze --output. Previously this fails with the Aeson exception; with this fix the three dependencies are reported.
3. fourmolu --mode check (clean) and hlint (no hints) on the changed files. Full unit-test suite: 1479 examples, 33 failures — all pre-existing environmental failures (FirstPartyScan/Lernie/VSI/BerkeleyDB/Conan vendored-binary suites absent in this environment), none in Dart or strategy code.

Risks

The hosted fallback accepts any object carrying version or hosted; committing to git/sdk/path by key first keeps those specific forms taking precedence and keeps malformed values under those keys as parse errors. A dependency object with none of git/sdk/path/version/hosted still fails the parse, preserving detection of malformed manifests.

Metrics

The affected error pattern is tracked on the fossa-cli-dashboard error patterns widget; its volume should drop for releases containing this fix.

References

• Datadog fossa-cli-dashboard, Error patterns widget
• Dart pub dependency syntax (hosted shorthand: Dart 2.15 release notes)

Checklist

• I added tests for this PR's change (or explained in the PR description why tests don't make sense).
• If this PR introduced a user-visible change, I added documentation into docs/.
• If this PR added docs, I added links as appropriate to the user manual's ToC in docs/README.ms and gave consideration to how discoverable or not my documentation is.
• If this change is externally visible, I updated Changelog.md. If this PR did not mark a release, I added my changes into an ## Unreleased section at the top.
• If I made changes to .fossa.yml or fossa-deps.{json.yml}, I updated docs/references/files/*.schema.json AND I have updated example files used by fossa init command. You may also need to update these if you have added/removed new dependency type (e.g. pip) or analysis target type (e.g. poetry).
• If I made changes to a subcommand's options, I updated docs/references/subcommands/<subcommand>.md.

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Walkthrough

The Dart pubspec.yaml parser now accepts null dependencies, hosted dependencies with optional fields, hosted URL shorthand, Git URLs, and Git maps without a ref. SDK and path parsing remain supported. The test fixture and expected dependency map cover these forms. The changelog documents the fix.

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 45b60

The change enables valid Dart dependency forms, but malformed git dependencies may currently be accepted and misclassified as hosted dependencies instead of producing an error. Merge should wait until parser selection is made key-specific and a regression test confirms invalid values still fail.

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Inline comments:
In `@src/Strategy/Dart/PubSpec.hs`:
- Line 16: Qualify the Data.Foldable import as Foldable and update the for_
usage in the surrounding code to call Foldable.for_, preserving the existing
iteration behavior.
- Around line 74-92: The PubSpec dependency parser must select the source parser
based on the present source key before parsing its value, preventing invalid
keyed values such as a numeric git source from falling through to
parseHostedSource. Update parseJSON for Yaml.Object and add a regression test
asserting decodeEither' returns Left for this case.

In `@test/Dart/testdata/pubspec.yaml`:
- Around line 26-28: Update the pkg_hosted_url dependency fixture in
pubspec.yaml so its SDK constraint is at least >=2.15.0, or replace the
shorthand hosted URL with the verbose hosted map form to preserve compatibility.

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