Fix (P2): document the real unconfigured-token contract and pin it with a test

The const.py comment claimed an empty stored token yields a client that
answers 401 until configured, but NestQuestApiClient raises ValueError
at construction for an empty/whitespace token. Keep the fail-fast guard,
correct the documentation to state the actual contract (default token is
the empty string; options flow validates non-empty; the coordinator must
configure a token first or handle the construction error), and add a
test pinning that client_from_entry with an unconfigured entry raises at
construction instead of building a client that can only 401.

custom_components/nestquest/core/const.py

@@ -109,10 +109,17 @@ DEFAULT_AUTOMATION_ENABLED = True
 # (``NESTQUEST_PANEL_TOKEN`` on the API side).  Both are stored on the
 # entry like every other setting — options first, then the entry-data
 # copy, then defaults.  The TOKEN IS A SECRET: it is never logged, never
-# echoed into error messages, and never committed.  No invented default
-# token ships (an empty stored token means "not configured yet", and the
-# panel plane answers 401 until a real one is saved) — mirroring the API
-# service's fail-closed stance (api/config.py: no default token exists).
+# echoed into error messages, and never committed.  The shipped default
+# token IS the empty string (DEFAULT_PANEL_TOKEN) — an entry with no
+# configured token is therefore NOT a working client: the options flow
+# validates that a saved token is non-empty (the user-facing guard), and
+# NestQuestApiClient fails fast at construction on an empty/whitespace
+# token (api_client.py).  So a caller building the client from a bare
+# entry must either ensure a token is configured first or handle the
+# construction ValueError and surface an "API not configured" state —
+# an unconfigured entry never yields a client that can only 401.
+# This mirrors the API service's fail-closed stance (api/config.py: no
+# default token exists).
 CONF_API_BASE_URL = "api_base_url"
 DEFAULT_API_BASE_URL = "http://127.0.0.1:8000"
 CONF_PANEL_TOKEN = "panel_token"

tests/test_api_client.py

@@ -399,6 +399,34 @@ def test_client_from_entry_reads_config_and_shared_session(monkeypatch) -> None:
     assert client._panel_token == "entry-token"
 
 
+def test_client_from_entry_unconfigured_token_raises_at_construction(
+    monkeypatch,
+) -> None:
+    """An entry with NO configured token (the shipped default) raises
+    ValueError AT CONSTRUCTION — the client's fail-fast guard — rather
+    than silently building a client that can only 401 (the documented
+    contract: the options flow's non-empty validation is the user-facing
+    guard; the coordinator must ensure a token is configured first or
+    handle the construction error as "API not configured")."""
+    fake_module = types.ModuleType("homeassistant.helpers.aiohttp_client")
+    fake_module.async_get_clientsession = lambda hass: object()
+    monkeypatch.setitem(
+        sys.modules, "homeassistant.helpers.aiohttp_client", fake_module
+    )
+    entry = make_config_entry(
+        options={CONF_API_BASE_URL: DEFAULT_API_BASE_URL},
+    )
+    assert resolve_api_config(entry)[1] == DEFAULT_PANEL_TOKEN == ""
+
+    with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="panel_token must be a non-empty"):
+        api_client.client_from_entry(object(), entry)
+
+    # Same for a whitespace-only stored token: whitespace is not a token.
+    entry_ws = make_config_entry(options={CONF_PANEL_TOKEN: "   "})
+    with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="panel_token must be a non-empty"):
+        api_client.client_from_entry(object(), entry_ws)
+
+
 async def test_client_logs_nothing() -> None:
     """The client emits no log records at all (the token must never
     reach a log line), success or failure."""