[BUG]: Unhandled Exception in POST /templates/create

[Acuspeedster]

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🐛 Unhandled Exception in POST /templates/create

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name: 🐛 Bug Report
about: Create a report to help us improve FireForm.
title: "[BUG]: POST /templates/create leaks FileNotFoundError as 500"
labels: bug
assignees: ''

⚡️ Describe the Bug

If the client supplies a non-existent pdf_path, commonforms.prepare_form() raises FileNotFoundError.

No try/except exists in the route handler, so FastAPI returns:

• 500 Internal Server Error
• Generic response body
• Full traceback logged

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📉 Expected Behavior

• Return 404 with meaningful message for bad path
• Return 422 for generic processing errors
• Structured JSON via AppError

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🕵️ Possible Fix

Wrap controller call in try/except:

• Catch FileNotFoundError → AppError 404
• Catch generic Exception → AppError 422

[Acuspeedster]

pr #146 closes this issue.

[Acuspeedster]

@marcvergees for example this issue he is making redundant prs.