fix: allow custom models to source from a local directory

[pangwangshu]

Summary

• TextEmbedding.add_custom_model (and friends) take a ModelSource(hf=...) value, but that field is always treated as a HuggingFace repo id — snapshot_download rejects a local path, and the only fallback is the GCS/url source, so a ModelSource(hf="/path/to/local-model") failed with Could not load model ... from any source. This made it impossible to test a custom model without first publishing it to the Hub.
• ModelManagement.download_model now checks whether hf resolves to an existing local directory before attempting a hub download. If it does, that directory is used as-is (after checking model_file and additional_files are present, raising a clear error naming what's missing otherwise); if not, behavior is unchanged and it's treated as a repo id.
• ~ in the path is expanded, so ModelSource(hf="~/models/my-model") also works.
• Documented the new local-directory form in the README next to the existing custom-model example.

Fixes #532

Test plan

• New offline unit tests in tests/test_common.py: local directory used as-is (no hub call), ~ expansion, additional_files resolved relative to the directory, missing-files raises a descriptive ValueError, and a plain repo id (that doesn't happen to name a directory) still goes through the hub as before.
• New end-to-end test in tests/test_custom_models.py: registers a custom model pointing at a real downloaded model's local snapshot directory and verifies the embeddings match the original model bit-for-bit.
• tests/test_common.py + tests/test_custom_models.py: 19 passed.
• tests/test_text_onnx_embeddings.py: 9 passed (no regression on the normal hub-download path).
• ruff check clean.

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Walkthrough

The change allows ModelSource(hf=...) to reference a local model directory. The model manager expands the path, validates the model and additional files, and uses the directory without downloading. Tests cover local source resolution, repository IDs, missing files, path traversal, and custom text model loading. The README documents local-directory usage.

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This change enables loading custom models directly from local directories, but symlinked required files could cause loaders to read content outside the configured model directory when model paths or directory contents are not fully trusted. The PR is mergeable with explicit owner awareness and follow-up to enforce physical-path containment where untrusted configuration is possible.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: allowing custom models to use local directories as sources.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description accurately explains local-directory support, path validation, repository behavior, documentation, and test coverage.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The implementation satisfies issue #532 by allowing custom-model Hugging Face sources to use local directories, including validation and testing.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The code, documentation, and tests are directly related to local-directory support for custom models. No unrelated changes are evident.

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In `@fastembed/common/model_management.py`:
- Line 316: Update the required-file validation around missing_files to
lexically normalize each required path, reject absolute paths and any path
escaping model_dir via .. components, and require the resulting path to be a
file with is_file(). Do not resolve the final path so Hugging Face snapshot
symlinks remain supported, and add regression coverage for ../model.onnx and an
absolute model_file.

In `@README.md`:
- Around line 87-91: Add the required imports for TextEmbedding, ModelSource,
and PoolingType immediately before the local-directory example so the standalone
snippet runs without undefined names.

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Updated in 4ad4e3f:

• Fixed the path-traversal issue in `resolve_local_source` — required files are now validated to stay within the local directory, rejecting both `../` traversal and absolute paths (regression test added).
• Added the missing imports to the local-directory README example.
• Rebased onto `upstream/main` to drop 6 unrelated commits (HF_ENDPOINT forwarding) that had leaked into this branch's history from earlier unrelated work on my fork — those aren't part of this fix's scope (and are already covered by feat: support HF_ENDPOINT environment variable for model downloads #667). The PR now contains a single commit scoped to [Feature]: HF source for custom models should allow local directory #532.