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Paul Rastoin 4f8aaeaab0 refactor(navigation-menu-item): validate universal properties instead of ids (#23566)
Follow-up to the discussion on #23485 and closes
https://github.com/twentyhq/twenty/issues/23484.

`FlatNavigationMenuItemValidatorService` receives
`UniversalFlatEntityValidationArgs<'navigationMenuItem'>`, so the entity
it validates is a `UniversalFlatNavigationMenuItem`: `viewId`,
`pageLayoutId` and `targetObjectMetadataId` do not exist at that scope.
The validator read the right universal keys but passed them through a
bag of booleans named after the ids (`hasViewId`, `hasPageLayoutId`,
...) and then reported the id names in its errors. Nothing tied a
message to the property it checked, so fixing one message string leaves
the other five wrong.

## Changes

- Replace the private `validateNavigationMenuItemType` boolean bag with
`validateNavigationMenuItemTypeRequiredProperties({
flatNavigationMenuItem })` under
`flat-navigation-menu-item/validators/utils/`, in line with
`validateAgentRequiredProperties` and
`validateNavigationMenuItemPageLayoutReferenceCrossEntity`. It takes the
universal entity, so a message can only name a property that exists at
that scope.
- The util is an explicit `switch` on `NavigationMenuItemType` closed by
`assertUnreachable`, so adding a type fails to compile until its
contract is declared.
- Each case validates its own properties instead of checking presence
generically:
  - `FOLDER`: non blank `name`
- `OBJECT`, `VIEW`, `PAGE_LAYOUT`:
`targetObjectMetadataUniversalIdentifier` / `viewUniversalIdentifier` /
`pageLayoutUniversalIdentifier` must be valid uuids
- `RECORD`: `targetRecordId` and
`targetObjectMetadataUniversalIdentifier`, both uuids, reported
separately
  - `LINK`: `link` must pass `isValidUrl`
- Both call sites spread the result; the update path passes the merged
`{ ...from, ...update }` entity, which removes the redundant `name`
re-merge.

`targetRecordId` stays an id: it points at workspace record data rather
than metadata, so it has no universal counterpart.

## Behaviour

- Errors name the universal property (`viewUniversalIdentifier`) instead
of the id (`viewId`).
- Blank strings are now uniformly treated as missing; creation
previously accepted `link: " "`.
- `RECORD` reports each missing property separately instead of one
merged error.
- Values that are present but malformed are now rejected: non uuid
identifiers and links that are not urls. Standard application
identifiers are all v4 uuids and the create/update inputs already carry
`@IsUUID`, so this only tightens the app manifest path.

## Verification

- Unit tests for the util cover each type valid and invalid, blank
names, non url links and non uuid identifiers (23 tests pass alongside
the sibling suite)
- `nx typecheck twenty-server` clean
- oxlint (type-aware) and oxfmt clean on the changed files

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