feat: Add structured error codes for stack unavailability

[KyleAMathews]

Summary

Adds a machine-readable error code to all 503 responses when the Electric stack cannot respond to requests. This enables clients to programmatically detect stack unavailability without parsing error message strings.

Changes

• New Module: Electric.Shapes.Api.ErrorCode with single STACK_UNAVAILABLE error code
• Updated Response: Added error_code field to Response struct
• Updated StatusMonitor: Now returns structured error information with both message and error code
• Updated API error handling: All stack unavailability errors now include error code and are marked as known errors
• Simple tests: Test file covering error code functionality

Error Response Format

Before

{
  "message": "Timeout waiting for database connection pool (snapshot) to be ready"
}

After

{
  "message": "Timeout waiting for database connection pool (snapshot) to be ready",
  "code": "STACK_UNAVAILABLE"
}

Design Decisions

• Single error code: All stack unavailability scenarios use the same STACK_UNAVAILABLE code. The message already provides component-specific details.
• No retry metadata: Retry timing is handled by the RETRY-AFTER header (being added in another PR). The error code is only for high-level categorization.
• Simple and clean: Just adds a code field - no additional metadata like component, retryable, or backoff_ms.

Benefits

For Clients

• Programmatic detection: Reliably detect stack unavailability without string parsing
• Better error handling: Can differentiate between stack unavailable (503 with code) vs other errors (503 without code)
• Future-proof: Easy to add more error codes for other scenarios (client errors, etc.)

For Operations

• Better monitoring: Track stack unavailability errors separately from other 503s
• Cleaner metrics: Count STACK_UNAVAILABLE errors as a single category

For Support

• Clearer bug reports: Users can provide error code
• Consistent categorization: All stack unavailability issues have the same code

Example Client Usage

async function fetchShape(url: string): Promise<Response> {
  const response = await fetch(url);

  if (response.status === 503) {
    const error = await response.json();

    if (error.code === 'STACK_UNAVAILABLE') {
      // Stack is unavailable - check RETRY-AFTER header for retry timing
      const retryAfter = response.headers.get('retry-after');
      console.log(`Stack unavailable: ${error.message}`);
      console.log(`Retry after: ${retryAfter}`);
      
      // Implement retry logic based on RETRY-AFTER header
      // ...
    }
  }

  return response;
}

Backwards Compatibility

✅ Fully backwards compatible - all changes are additive:

• Error messages unchanged
• HTTP status codes unchanged
• Existing timeout_message/1 function preserved
• Error code is an additional field

Clients that don't check for error codes will continue to work using HTTP status codes and message parsing.

Testing

• All existing tests pass
• New test file covers error code functionality
• Updated existing test to verify error code presence in responses
• Verified error code appears in all stack unavailability scenarios

Test Plan

• [x] Verify STACK_UNAVAILABLE code is returned in all stack 503 responses
• [x] Verify error code field is only added when error_code is provided
• [x] Test StatusMonitor timeout error detection
• [x] Verify backwards compatibility (existing tests still pass)
• [ ] Manual testing of various stack unavailability scenarios (can be done during review/staging)

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[KyleAMathews]

Closing this PR and converting it to issue #3469 for further discussion and implementation planning.