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DAP000: separate refused-with-diagnostics from skipped-silently - #211

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The DAP000 scorecard had two buckets — "unsupported API" and "skipped due to diagnostics" — and the second was not true of everything in it. A call-site can be dropped with nothing said at all, and those were counted as though a diagnostic had explained them.

On the Dapper test suite, the old line read:

handled 533 of 725 enabled call-sites (82 unsupported API, 110 skipped due to diagnostics)

and now reads:

handled 533 of 725 enabled call-sites (82 unsupported API, 75 refused with diagnostics, 35 skipped silently)

A third of the skips had no explanation attached. The instrument we have been steering by since #185 said otherwise, which makes every ❓ row in parity.md that rested on "the harness didn't flag it" unreliable.

Where the 35 come from

What is in here

SkippedSourceState gains Diagnosed, set at each of the four bail paths; the count splits three ways; DAP000's message and argument list grow by one. CommandDefinitionOverloads is added as a pinned fixture so the count moves if that behaviour changes.

Every golden .txt shifts with the message. DAP004 asserts DAP000's arguments explicitly, so it gains the new one.

What is deliberately not in here

Driving the silent count to zero. That needs a diagnostic at each of those sites — DAP001 for the analyzer-invisible overloads, and something new for the parse-time guards — which is a separate change with its own design questions (does the analyzer learn to inspect CommandDefinition, or does the generator report directly?). This PR makes the number visible so it can be driven down and then kept at zero.

Suites green on net8.0 (367) and net48 (360); solution builds clean.

The scorecard had two buckets, "unsupported API" and "skipped due to
diagnostics", and the second was not true of everything in it. A call-site can
be dropped with nothing said at all, and those were being counted as though a
diagnostic had explained them.

Measured on the Dapper suite, the old line read "82 unsupported API, 110
skipped due to diagnostics". It now reads "82 unsupported API, 75 refused with
diagnostics, 35 skipped silently" - so a third of the skips had no explanation
attached, and the instrument we have been steering by said otherwise.

Three sources, all now visible rather than inferred:

- CommandDefinition overloads. The analyzer only inspects call-sites with a
  string `sql` parameter (or one marked [Sql]); these carry the SQL inside the
  struct, so it never validates them and never reports. The generator sees them
  - it filters by method name - so they are counted, just not explained.
  IsVisibleToAnalyzer mirrors that entry condition so the generator can tell
  which of its skips anything will have reported.
- the self-binding guards from #197 and #198 (multi-exec over an expandable
  member; expandable alongside an output parameter). Documented in the fixture
  comments, invisible to consumers.
- GetRowParser's concreteType overload.

Adds CommandDefinitionOverloads as a pinned fixture, so the count moves if that
changes. Every golden .txt shifts with the message, and DAP004 asserts DAP000's
arguments explicitly, so it gains the new one.

Not fixed here: driving the silent count to zero. That needs a diagnostic at
each of those sites, which is a separate change - this one makes the number
visible so it can be driven down and kept there.
… it (#212)

The parity table's statuses were remembered rather than checked, and the two I
probed by hand this week were both understated. This replaces the guessing for
the question that can be answered mechanically - "what does Dapper.AOT do with
this overload?" - and leaves parity.md the judgement it is actually good for:
impact, complexity, and decisions like the runtime-registration non-goal.

The dispatch decision turns out to depend only on the method symbol, never on
the call-site, so IsDapperMethod gains a symbol overload and the test classifies
all 110 public SqlMapper extension methods without synthesising a single call.
No database, no harness, runs in a second.

The five dispositions, and what they found:

  candidate                      40  generation is attempted
  unsupported API (diagnosed)    16  refused, DAP001 names it
  unsupported API (undiagnosed)  13  refused, nothing says so
  skipped silently               27  dropped mute - vanilla under JIT, runtime
                                     failure under AOT, no build-time signal
  not inspected                   9  outside the name filter: AsList, Parse,
                                     GetTypeName and friends, which is correct -
                                     they need no interception

So 40 of 110 overloads give a consumer nothing to act on, almost all of them
CommandDefinition-shaped. That is the finding; fixing it is separate work.

The report is checked in and compared on every run, so an overload added
upstream fails the test rather than passing unnoticed, and a row moving into
'skipped silently' shows up in a diff.

Bounded deliberately: this says what happens to an *overload*, not to every call
of one - a supported overload can still be refused at a call-site for reasons of
its own. And it says nothing about behaviour; only the Dapper suite does that.
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