Initial commit: VMware vSphere API simulator scaffold.

Add the FastAPI app, PostgreSQL migrations, Docker/Helm packaging, API
contracts, docs, client examples, and the unit/integration/compatibility
test suite for local client and tooling labs without a real vCenter.

tests/unit/test_contract_model.py

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+"""Determinism and validation checks for normalized contracts."""
+
+import json
+from datetime import UTC, datetime
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import pytest
+from hypothesis import given
+from hypothesis import strategies as st
+from pydantic import ValidationError
+
+from app.contracts.model import Snapshot, canonical_json
+from app.contracts.normalize import normalize_snapshot
+from app.contracts.source import ApiViewerParser
+
+pytestmark = pytest.mark.pve_stub
+
+FIXTURE = Path(__file__).parents[1] / "fixtures" / "api-viewer" / "pve-9.2.3-version.json"
+RETRIEVED_AT = datetime(2026, 7, 12, 20, 8, 59, tzinfo=UTC)
+
+
+def make_snapshot() -> Snapshot:
+    raw = FIXTURE.read_bytes()
+    parsed = ApiViewerParser().parse(raw)
+    snapshot, _ = normalize_snapshot(
+        parsed, raw=raw, source_version="9.2.3", retrieved_at=RETRIEVED_AT
+    )
+    return snapshot
+
+
+def test_normalization_is_deterministic_and_round_trips() -> None:
+    first = make_snapshot()
+    second = make_snapshot()
+
+    assert first.canonical_bytes() == second.canonical_bytes()
+    assert first.checksum() == second.checksum()
+    assert Snapshot.model_validate_json(first.canonical_bytes()) == first
+    assert first.paths[0].methods[0].checksum == second.paths[0].methods[0].checksum
+
+
+def test_snapshot_validates_declared_counts() -> None:
+    data = make_snapshot().model_dump(mode="json")
+    data["method_count"] = 99
+
+    with pytest.raises(ValidationError, match="method_count"):
+        Snapshot.model_validate(data)
+
+
+def test_unknown_schema_fields_are_retained() -> None:
+    raw = json.dumps(
+        [
+            {
+                "path": "/future",
+                "info": {
+                    "GET": {
+                        "name": "future",
+                        "returns": {"type": "string", "futureKeyword": {"x": 1}},
+                    }
+                },
+            }
+        ]
+    ).encode()
+    snapshot, _ = normalize_snapshot(
+        ApiViewerParser().parse(raw),
+        raw=raw,
+        source_version="test",
+        retrieved_at=RETRIEVED_AT,
+    )
+
+    assert snapshot.paths[0].methods[0].returns.extra["futureKeyword"] == {"x": 1}
+
+
+def test_nullable_source_collections_normalize_as_empty() -> None:
+    raw = (
+        b'[{"path":"/nullable","info":{"GET":{"parameters":{"properties":null},'
+        b'"returns":{"type":"string","enum":null}}}}]'
+    )
+    snapshot, _ = normalize_snapshot(
+        ApiViewerParser().parse(raw),
+        raw=raw,
+        source_version="test",
+        retrieved_at=RETRIEVED_AT,
+    )
+
+    method = snapshot.paths[0].methods[0]
+    assert method.parameters == ()
+    assert method.returns.enum == ()
+
+
+@given(st.dictionaries(st.text(min_size=1), st.integers(), max_size=10))
+def test_canonical_json_is_independent_of_mapping_order(values: dict[str, int]) -> None:
+    reversed_values = dict(reversed(tuple(values.items())))
+
+    assert canonical_json(values) == canonical_json(reversed_values)