feat(audit): ask a booted GitLab what its own REST API is - #650
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds live GitLab API introspection, a persisted API record, validation commands, Docker-based generation, CI checks, tests, and documentation. It also refreshes repository statistics and documents an unrelated client-go routing bug. ChangesLive GitLab API record
Upstream bug documentation
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Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change has two bounded issues: lint may reject the introspection script, and interrupting generation produces a misleading error. Both should be straightforward to fix. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Maintainer
participant gen_api_live
participant GitLabDocker
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Maintainer->>gen_api_live: Run generation command
gen_api_live->>GitLabDocker: Boot image and wait for Rails
gen_api_live->>GitLabDocker: Run embedded introspection script
GitLabDocker-->>gen_api_live: Return raw API JSON and image digest
gen_api_live->>apilive: Validate and write live API record
Maintainer->>gen_api_live: Run check command
gen_api_live->>apilive: Read record and validate floors and freshness
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In `@cmd/gen_api_live/introspect.rb`:
- Line 323: Update the rescue clause around table.const_get to rescue only
StandardError, removing the redundant NameError entry and preserving the
existing error-handling behavior.
In `@cmd/gen_api_live/main.go`:
- Around line 312-315: In the readiness loop, check ctx.Err() immediately after
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Ruby NameError superclass StandardError rescue RuboCop Lint/ShadowedException
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The RuboCop rule Lint/ShadowedException is designed to identify and flag redundant exception handling code where a more specific exception is "shadowed" (effectively unreachable or unnecessarily wrapped) by a less specific exception being rescued earlier [1][2]. In Ruby, NameError is a direct subclass of StandardError [3][4]. Because Ruby matches exception rescue clauses from top to bottom, if you attempt to rescue both in the same block, order matters [5][6]. Why this triggers a Lint/ShadowedException offense: 1. Redundancy: If you rescue StandardError before NameError, all instances of NameError (and its subclasses like NoMethodError) are already caught by the StandardError rescue block [1][4]. The subsequent, more specific rescue for NameError is redundant because it will never be reached [1][7]. 2. Improper Hierarchy: If you try to rescue them in the same list (e.g., rescue StandardError, NameError), the more specific exception is technically covered by the parent class [1]. RuboCop flags this because the logic remains identical whether or not the redundant, specific exception is included [1]. How to fix it: - If you intend to handle NameError differently than other StandardErrors, you must rescue it first [1][7]. - If you do not need specific handling for NameError, remove it from your rescue list entirely, as rescuing StandardError already covers it [1][7]. Example of the issue: # Bad: NameError is shadowed by StandardError begin #... rescue StandardError => e #... rescue NameError => e #... end # Good: Specific exceptions first begin #... rescue NameError => e #... rescue StandardError => e #... end It is worth noting that because NameError is a subclass of StandardError, a bare rescue (e.g., rescue => e) will also catch NameError by default [8][4]. This is a common point of contention in Ruby, as many developers do not expect a bare rescue to catch programming errors like NameError or NoMethodError, but that is the current default behavior of the language [8][4].
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- 1: https://www.rubydoc.info/gems/rubocop/RuboCop/Cop/Lint/ShadowedException
- 2: https://msp-greg.github.io/rubocop/RuboCop/Cop/Lint/ShadowedException.html
- 3: https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/master/Exception.html
- 4: https://blog.appsignal.com/2018/04/10/rescuing-exceptions-in-ruby.html
- 5: https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/master/syntax/exceptions_rdoc.html
- 6: https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/master/language/exceptions_md.html
- 7: GitHub issue 10861 in rubocop/rubocop (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 8: https://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/21279
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Remove NameError from the rescue list.
NameError is a subclass of StandardError, so rescue StandardError, NameError is redundant. StandardError already catches the NameError raised by table.const_get. The repository enables Lint/ShadowedException.
♻️ Proposed fix
- rescue StandardError, NameError
+ rescue StandardError
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In `@cmd/gen_api_live/introspect.rb` at line 323, Update the rescue clause around
table.const_get to rescue only StandardError, removing the redundant NameError
entry and preserving the existing error-handling behavior.
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| out, _ := exec.CommandContext(ctx, "docker", "logs", "--tail", "20", containerName).CombinedOutput() | ||
| return fmt.Errorf("the container stopped before the application was ready:\n%s", strings.TrimSpace(string(out))) | ||
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Report cancellation before checking container state.
When the context ends, the failed docker exec is followed by running(ctx). Because running invokes docker inspect with the same cancelled context, it returns false, and the loop reports the container stopped before the application was ready instead of the cancellation error. Check ctx.Err() before the running(ctx) branch.
♻️ Proposed adjustment
+ if ctx.Err() != nil {
+ return fmt.Errorf("waiting for the application: %w", ctx.Err())
+ }
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| if !running(ctx) { | |
| out, _ := exec.CommandContext(ctx, "docker", "logs", "--tail", "20", containerName).CombinedOutput() | |
| return fmt.Errorf("the container stopped before the application was ready:\n%s", strings.TrimSpace(string(out))) | |
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| if ctx.Err() != nil { | |
| return fmt.Errorf("waiting for the application: %w", ctx.Err()) | |
| } | |
| if !running(ctx) { | |
| out, _ := exec.CommandContext(ctx, "docker", "logs", "--tail", "20", containerName).CombinedOutput() | |
| return fmt.Errorf("the container stopped before the application was ready:\n%s", strings.TrimSpace(string(out))) | |
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In `@cmd/gen_api_live/main.go` around lines 312 - 315, In the readiness loop,
check ctx.Err() immediately after the failed docker exec and before calling
running(ctx), returning the context cancellation error when present. Preserve
the existing container-stopped error path for non-cancellation failures.
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…routes The only written explanation of this defect lived in the declaration table of `audit_1to1 -check-endpoints`, which is a table of documentation excuses that a real routing table makes obsolete. Everything else in that table can go with it; this entry cannot, because it is knowledge about the request this server makes rather than about GitLab's prose. client-go declares its four Sidekiq routes with a leading slash, so the path joins onto /api/v4 as //sidekiq/queue_metrics. That it is a defect rather than a convention is measurable: of the 699 route declarations in v3.0.0, 695 carry no leading slash and the four that do are all in that one file. The malformed paths are already visible in this repository's own committed record of what it sends, and the sidekiq test registers its mock handler under the double slash because that is what arrives. Nothing is broken today: gitlab.com answers the double slash with a 308 to the collapsed path. A self-managed front end is not obliged to, which is why the entry exists before anyone is bitten by it.
Every oracle this repository holds about GitLab's REST API is a reading of text. gen_api_shapes fetches the OpenAPI document GitLab generates from its Grape definitions; gen_api_exposes scans that Grape source for the condition each field is sent under. Both are downstream of the object that actually decides what a request returns, which is the Rails application with its classes loaded, and both lose the same thing: a name that is not written down. GeoSiteStatus is the case that settles it. It exposes its fields by iterating a constant assembled from two method calls, so the source says "expose the loop variable" and the names exist only after the class loads. A scanner reads 26 fields there; GitLab sends 606. ApplicationSetting is 81 against 680, MemberRole 5 against 50. That is not a hole a better parser closes, and an AST would not close it either: the value is computed, not written. So this asks the application. gen_api_live boots a released gitlab-ee image, runs one Ruby script inside it, and writes a committed record every audit then reads with no Docker and no network. The boot is a generator and never a gate, which is the division gen_graphql_schema already keeps: an audit that needed a container could not run in CI or on a contributor's machine. Measured against the scanned record with inheritance resolved: 551 of 582 entities agree exactly, 31 do not, and in those the instance holds 1935 fields the scan never saw, 1806 of them unconditional. It finds 914 conditions where the scan finds 388. It sees 2110 routes where the OpenAPI record has 1847 operations, and 1425 of them name the entity they render, with params carrying type, requiredness and default rather than bare names. And it reads the licensed feature table as values, where the scanner's own source concedes it cannot read the lists built by concatenation. It needs no licence and no fixtures: a licence gates feature_available? when a request is served, not when a class is defined, so the Enterprise classes load either way. A boot is forty seconds once the image is pulled. One thing evaluation does not give, so the script reads it from source: a Grape condition is a Proc, which knows where it was written but not what it says. The script reads those lines back from inside the same image, and 873 of the 914 conditions arrive both located and quoted. Two limits are recorded rather than papered over. The record is one released version where the scanned record is pinned to master, so a field merged after the release is in that one and not this one; for a 1:1 surface that is the right direction, since an endpoint nobody can call yet is not a gap. And it cannot correct a wrong annotation: GET /keys is annotated APIEntitiesUserWithAdmin and serves an SSH key with a user under it, and reading the annotation from the running router gives the same wrong answer as reading it from the document. Only calling the endpoint settles that. Two defects were found and fixed by comparing the first run against measurements taken by hand rather than by trusting it. The `:entity` annotation is a Class 1087 times, a Hash 790 times and an Array 54 times, and reading only the Class shape while stringifying the rest reported 1465 entities where 1425 exist. And the feature table's STARTER list was omitted, which the scanned reader maps to premium.
… tests SonarCloud on this pull request, ten times over one rule and twice over two others. The rule is S4036: every call named the program "docker" and let the operating system resolve it against PATH again, a dozen times across a boot that can take twenty minutes. The lookup this command already did at the start threw the resolved path away. It is kept now, as a dockerPath, and every invocation goes through one constructor, so the program a run executes is decided once and cannot change underneath it. The blank import in script.go says why go:embed needs it, and the Ruby that reads a lambda's source walks a slice with its offset instead of a range of indices into the file, which is shorter and clamps at the end of the file on its own. The introspection it produces is unchanged, so the committed record still describes what this script would extract. The coverage the gate also failed on was the boot itself, at 8.6% of its statements: it needed docker, so nothing ran it. It is now driven end to end against a stand-in that records what it was asked, which is the only way to see the order that actually breaks, a copy before the application is up or a teardown skipped by an early return. The package goes from 55.8% to 76.7%, and the cases that need the stand-in skip on Windows and say why.
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SonarCloud's new-code coverage on this pull request, 79.6% against a threshold of 80, with waitForRails the last function under it. Both of its endings say something a maintainer reads at three in the morning and neither had a test: the twenty-minute expiry, which reports that the container is up and the application is not answering, a different problem from a container that died; and the interrupt, which ends the wait instead of sitting out the rest of the twenty minutes. The timeout and the poll interval become variables so a test can reach them, each restored by the test that moves it. The cancellation is on a timer rather than up front, because an already-cancelled context makes the first docker call fail and the wait would then report the container as stopped, which is the other ending. waitForRails goes from 70% to 100% and the package from 76.7% to 79.1%.
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Every oracle this repository holds about GitLab's REST API is a reading of text.
gen_api_shapesfetches the OpenAPI document GitLab generates from its Grape definitions;gen_api_exposesscans that Grape source for the condition each field is sent under. Both sit downstream of the object that actually decides what a request returns, which is the Rails application with its classes loaded, and both lose the same thing: a name that is not written down.GeoSiteStatusis the case that settles it. It exposes its fields by iterating a constant assembled from two method calls, so the source says "expose the loop variable" and the names exist only once the class has loaded. A scanner reads 26 fields there and GitLab sends 606.ApplicationSettingis 81 against 680,MemberRole5 against 50. An AST would not help: the value is computed, not written.So this asks the application.
gen_api_liveboots a releasedgitlab-eeimage, runs one Ruby script inside it, and writes a committed record that every audit then reads with no Docker and no network. The boot is a generator and never a gate, which is the divisiongen_graphql_schemaalready keeps: an audit that needed a container could not run in CI or on a contributor's machine.What it buys, measured against the scanned record with inheritance resolved:
Params arrive with type, requiredness and default rather than as bare names, which lets an audit ask two questions it cannot ask today: whether a required param is ever sent, and whether a name we send is one the endpoint declares.
It needs no licence and no fixtures. A licence gates
feature_available?when a request is served, not when a class is defined, so the Enterprise classes load either way. A boot is forty seconds once the image is pulled.One thing evaluation does not give, so the script reads it from source: a Grape condition is a
Proc, which knows where it was written but not what it says. The script reads those lines back from inside the same image, and 873 of the 914 conditions arrive both located and quoted.Two limits are recorded rather than papered over. The record is one released version where the scanned record is pinned to master, so a field merged after the release is in that one and not this one; for a 1:1 surface that is the right direction, since an endpoint nobody can call yet is not a gap. And it cannot correct a wrong annotation:
GET /keysis annotatedAPIEntitiesUserWithAdminand serves an SSH key with a user under it, and reading the annotation from the running router gives the same wrong answer as reading it from the document. Only calling the endpoint settles that, and that is a separate piece of work.Two defects in my own first run were found by comparing it against measurements taken by hand rather than by trusting it. The
:entityannotation is aClass1087 times, aHash790 times and anArray54 times; reading only theClassshape and stringifying the rest reported 1465 entities where 1425 exist, with 54 stringified arrays that named nothing and 15 models nested in an array never looked into. And the feature table'sSTARTERlist was omitted, which the scanned reader maps to premium. Both are fixed and the counts now reproduce exactly.This does not delete anything yet. It is the oracle the replacements need, and porting
shapes.go,typed_shapes.go,published.goandsent.goonto it is the next change;gen_api_shapesgoes with that one rather than before it.