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Isaac Connor 4d82e1d385 fix(api): answer 400 naming the field instead of 500 on an unknown filter
FilterComponent::buildFilter() checked the operator against an allow list
but never the field, so an unrecognised name went straight into the SQL:

  GET /api/events/index/MonitorName =:Monitor-1.json
  PDOException SQLSTATE[42S22]: Column not found: 1054
    Unknown column 'MonitorName' in 'where clause'   -> HTTP 500

A caller filtering on a monitor-scoped attribute (MonitorName, Monitor,
Rack, Experiment, Server, Storage) or simply mistyping a column got an
opaque 500 with a stack trace and nothing naming the offending field.

Take an optional list of permitted fields and reject anything else with
BadRequestException.  EventsController::index() passes the Events columns
from the model schema plus the two names it resolves itself: DateTime, the
pseudo-attribute it turns into an overlap test, and GroupId, served by the
Groups_Monitors join.  A field written Model.Field is checked on the column.
The two other callers of buildFilter pass no list and are unchanged.

The invalid-argument and invalid-operator paths threw a plain Exception,
which was also a 500 for what is bad input; they throw BadRequestException
now too.

Verified against a live install:

  MonitorName / Rack / NotAColumn     400, "Unknown filter field: <name>"
  DateTime >=/<= over a window        200, 7 rows, overlap intact
  Cause, Event.Cause, GroupId         200
  ?limit=2&sort=...&direction=desc    200, 2 rows, pagination unaffected

Plus an assert script over the validation itself, including that a caller
passing no list keeps the previous pass-through behaviour.

Filters sent as a query string rather than named parameters go through a
different branch, on raw $_REQUEST, and are deliberately left unvalidated:
that array also carries auth and cache-busting parameters, so rejecting
unknown names there would break existing callers.  ?MonitorName=x is still
a 500 and wants its own change.
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