fix: validate start_date <= end_date in PredictRequest (closes #43)

[kriti2110]

Summary

• Added description fields to start_date and end_date in PredictRequest so the OpenAPI docs explicitly state the ordering constraint
• Removed the redundant route-level start_date > end_date check that raised a 400 — the existing model_validator(mode="after") already handles this and correctly returns 422
• Added three pytest cases in tests/test_api.py:
  • Valid date range → request reaches inference layer (mocked run_inference_from_gee)
  • Reversed date range (start > end) → 422 with validator error message in body
  • Equal dates (start == end) → 422

Test plan

• pytest tests/test_api.py::test_predict_valid_date_range_reaches_inference passes
• pytest tests/test_api.py::test_predict_reversed_date_range_returns_422 passes
• pytest tests/test_api.py::test_predict_equal_dates_returns_422 passes
• OpenAPI docs at /docs show date ordering constraint in field descriptions

Closes #43

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[Goldokpa]

Validation logic missing — tests will fail

Thanks for the contribution and for adding tests! There's a gap in the implementation though: the diff removes the inline if body.start_date > body.end_date: raise HTTPException(400) from predict_json and adds description= strings to the start_date / end_date fields, but description is documentation-only — Pydantic won't enforce it.

There's no @field_validator or @model_validator added that actually checks start_date <= end_date, so:

• test_predict_reversed_date_range_returns_422 will fail — the API will accept the reversed range and proceed to inference (returning 200 with the mock, or 500 in real runs).
• test_predict_equal_dates_returns_422 will also fail for the same reason, and it changes the contract from the previous behavior (the old check used strict >, so equal dates were allowed). Worth confirming whether equal dates should now be rejected — that's a deliberate behavior change and probably needs a note in the PR description.

Suggested fix — add a model validator on PredictRequest, e.g.:

from pydantic import model_validator

@model_validator(mode="after")
def _check_date_range(self) -> "PredictRequest":
    if self.start_date and self.end_date and self.start_date > self.end_date:
        raise ValueError("start_date must be on or before end_date")
    return self

That makes Pydantic raise during model construction, which FastAPI surfaces as 422 — matching the new tests. (Decide > vs >= based on whether equal dates should be allowed, and align the test accordingly.)

Happy to re-review once that's in.

[Goldokpa]

👋 Friendly ping, @kriti2110 — could you take another look at the review above? The key fix is keeping the inline if body.start_date > body.end_date: raise HTTPException(400) check in predict_json (and the matching one in predict_upload); your tests are great and would pass once the validation logic is restored. Let me know if anything is unclear and I'll happily walk through it.

[Goldokpa]

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