feat(jsonProtection): scan JSON documents inside multipart attachments - #3180
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jsonProtection assumed the whole body was one JSON document, so a JSON document carried in a MIME part was never inspected: a multipart body is not JSON, so it simply failed parsing with 400. Introduce MultipartUtil.unitsOf(Message), which yields the inspectable documents of a message - one unit per part for a multipart body and a single reassembled unit for XOP/MTOM, reusing the existing split() and XOPReconstitutor. jsonProtection inspects each JSON unit; the parser and every limit check are unchanged. The common non-multipart case keeps streaming straight off the body stream, so no body is buffered into a byte[] unless it actually has to be split. Add the otherContentTypes attribute (REJECT by default, preserving today's behaviour) which applies equally to a non-JSON body and to a non-JSON part, so SKIP lets an image pass either way. Rejections now name the offending part and point at that attribute. A part without a Content-Type defaults to text/plain per RFC 2045 and is therefore not JSON, while a whole body without one is still parsed, as before. xmlProtection has the same gap and follows separately: #3179 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to The change adds JSON validation for multipart attachments, but deflate-encoded multipart requests can be fully expanded in memory before the configured per-part limit applies, creating a service-availability risk. Merge should wait for an independent decoded-size bound or explicit owner acceptance; deployments using SKIP should also recognize that client-declared media types determine which parts bypass validation. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Request
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Request->>JsonProtectionInterceptor: handle request
JsonProtectionInterceptor->>MultipartUtil: traverse multipart parts
MultipartUtil->>JsonProtectionInterceptor: provide part header
JsonProtectionInterceptor-->>MultipartUtil: INSPECT, SKIP, or STOP
MultipartUtil->>JsonProtectionScanner: scan JSON body or part
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In `@core/src/main/java/com/predic8/membrane/core/multipart/MultipartUtil.java`:
- Line 69: Update MultipartUtil.split and its caller to enforce maxSize while
extracting multipart data, checking the cumulative or per-part budget before
buffering/materializing each part and stopping oversized input early. Ensure
SKIP/REJECT handling occurs without first buffering non-JSON oversized parts,
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The multipart path added in the previous commit split every part into a List<Part>, materialising the whole body. That matters because ChunkedBody.getContentAsStream() genuinely streams: for a chunked upload the body was not previously in memory, and jsonProtection returned 400 from the first token without reading it. Inspecting parts turned that cheap rejection into an unbounded buffer. Replace unitsOf with MultipartUtil.forEachPart, which decides from each part's header - before any body byte is read - whether to INSPECT, SKIP, or STOP, and holds at most one part body at a time. Skipped parts are discarded via MultipartStream.discardBodyData() and never allocated, and an inspected part is read through a size-capped stream that fails as soon as the limit is passed rather than after the part is materialised. jsonProtection passes its own maxSize as the per-part cap, so the attribute keeps its documented per-document meaning. A non-JSON part is now rejected from its header alone, so the offending body is never buffered under either otherContentTypes policy. Nested multipart and unsupported Content-Transfer-Encodings are likewise rejected from the header instead of after the read. Deliberately not a cumulative budget across the whole body: that would reject three legitimate 20 MB documents under a 50 MB per-document limit. The whole-request cap belongs to the existing limit plugin, which maxSize's documentation now points at. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@core/src/main/java/com/predic8/membrane/core/multipart/MultipartUtil.java`:
- Around line 84-87: Update the XOP handling around reconstituteXOP and
attachment-part reading so maxPartSize is enforced during buffering, both for
each attachment and for the reconstituted XML body, before handler.decide or
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forEachPart reconstituted XOP/MTOM messages before consulting the handler, which escaped maxPartSize entirely: XOPReconstitutor buffers every part via split() into a HashMap and then base64-encodes each attachment - a 4/3 inflation - into a second buffer. All of that happened before the handler could decide anything. The work was also unused. XOP is an XML packaging format: the reconstitutor bails unless the root is application/xop+xml, and it stamps the inner type parameter (text/xml or application/soap+xml) on the result. So the reassembled document is never JSON, and jsonProtection paid full reconstitution cost only to skip or reject it. Drop the branch. XOP messages are now traversed as raw parts, bounded like any other multipart. The outcome for jsonProtection is unchanged - skip under SKIP, reject under REJECT - only the content type cited in the rejection changes from text/xml to application/xop+xml. Callers that genuinely need the reassembled document, such as schema validation, keep using XOPReconstitutor directly; bounding that is a separate concern and would change those callers' semantics. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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293-293: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winAssert the offending part name.
This test creates the part with name
logo, but it checks onlyis not JSON. It would pass if the interceptor stopped includinglogoin the rejection detail. Add an assertion for the part-level error contract.As per coding guidelines, tests must test observable behavior, including documented invariants.
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326-326: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winAssert that skip paths leave no response.
partWithoutContentTypeIsNotJsonandxopRequestIsSkippedWhenConfiguredassert onlyCONTINUE. They do not detect an implementation that returnsCONTINUEafter setting an error response. Store the exchange and assertnullresponse, as the other skip tests do.As per coding guidelines, tests must test observable behavior, including documented invariants.
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- Line 293: Update JsonProtectionInterceptorTest to assert that the parsed
rejection detail includes the offending part name “logo” in addition to the
existing “is not JSON” check, preserving coverage of the part-level error
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- Line 326: Update the skip-path tests partWithoutContentTypeIsNotJson and
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CONTINUE, and additionally verify that the response remains null, matching the
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Three assertions that were missing on paths this branch introduced: - The non-JSON rejection now happens in decide(), so the part name comes from Part.nameOf(Header) rather than from a materialised Part. Nothing covered that, so a regression there would have gone unnoticed. Assert the detail names the offending part. - partWithoutContentTypeIsNotJson and xopRequestIsSkippedWhenConfigured asserted only the outcome. A skipped part leaving a stale error response on the exchange would be a real bug, and it is the contract the other skip tests already check. Assert the response stays null; the XOP test now binds its exchange so it can. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The interceptor was config holder, HTTP handler and streaming JSON scanner in one class. Move the scanning into JsonProtectionScanner over an immutable JsonLimits record, so the limits can be tested without an Exchange or Router. While moving: - Add JsonProtectionException.at(message, parser), replacing ~12 repetitions of the message/line/column triple. - Drop the depth counter (always contexts.size()) and the currentContext variable, and merge the two identical maxDepth checks into a push() helper. - Collapse ObjContext/ArrContext into one member counter; the object variant only adds the __proto__ and key-length checks. Both are static now. - Resolve the maxKeyLength/maxStringLength clamp in JsonLimits instead of mutating the setter-backed field, which made getMaxKeyLength() report a value that was never configured. The four unreachable token ids that had their own "Not handled." case now share the default branch, whose message previously had the id concatenation stuck inside the string literal. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The anonymous PartHandler needed a one-element Outcome[] to assign from, and the part name was a tri-state String: null for the whole body, "" for an unnamed part, non-empty for a named one. It also decided what an absent Content-Type means, threaded through four helpers. Extract JsonPartHandler with an outcome field, and an Origin record that answers both questions it was carrying: whether an absent Content-Type still means JSON, and how a rejection names the offending part. An unnamed part is now simply a null name, so the empty-string sentinel is gone. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Use Request.isGETRequest() instead of comparing the method literal, and fetch the request once. - getLongDescription() as a text block; the rendered HTML is unchanged. - Drop the ObjectMapper: only createParser() was used, and of the two configured features only STRICT_DUPLICATE_DETECTION applies to a streaming parse - FAIL_ON_READING_DUP_TREE_KEY is a databind tree feature and was inert here. A plain JsonFactory does the job and drops the databind dependency. - Keep the cause when converting PartTooLargeException to IOException. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ed part split() and forEachPart() were two copies of the same MultipartStream loop. Express split() as a forEachPart() that inspects every part, via a new explicit- boundary overload. Two behavioural consequences for split(), both intended: a part that is itself multipart is now rejected rather than returned, and Content-Transfer-Encoding is checked before the body is read rather than after. Its only other caller (AbstractModelInputRequest) reads flat multipart/form-data uploads. An oversized part used to surface as a bare IOException that unwound past inspectParts() into the interceptor's generic catch, so that rejection alone lost the part name every other part-level error carries. PartTooLargeException is now a public IOException carrying the offending part's header, and jsonProtection reports it like any other part-level violation. Also narrow the catch in inspect() from Throwable to Exception: the scanner keeps its own explicit stack, so no nesting depth can overflow the JVM's, and a response cannot be reliably produced after an OutOfMemoryError anyway. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Around line 441-444: Update the text block in JsonProtectionInterceptor to add
a trailing space before the line-continuation backslashes on the lines
describing the non-GET verb and token counting, preserving the intended rendered
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getLongDescription() rendered "if the HTTP verb is notGET" and "opening bracket countsas a token". The two fragments were concatenated without a separating space; the text block introduced in the previous commit reproduced the defect faithfully, which is what made it visible. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The content type was passed alongside an Origin everywhere it was used - to decide whether the unit holds JSON and to word the rejection - so it belongs in Origin itself. inspect(), rejectNonJson() and holdsJson() each lose a parameter, and the two factories are now named for the cases they cover, body(header) and part(header). The plain-body branch of handleRequest fits on one line again as a result. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The violation log line sat inside if (shouldProvideDetails()), which decides whether the client gets a ProblemDetails body. In production that switch is off by design, so the gateway also stopped reporting rejections above debug level - in exactly the deployment where an operator needs to see them. Log once, unconditionally, at info: an attack or validation detection is ops-tunable, not a warning. The six log.debug() calls in front of each createErrorResponse() go away with it; they carried the same message without the location. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
MultipartUtil held two unrelated APIs: split(), which buffers every part into a List, and forEachPart(), which streams parts to a handler that decides from each header whether the body is needed at all. The streaming one had brought four nested types with it, so a class named *Util ended up owning a callback protocol - callers wrote MultipartUtil.PartHandler and caught MultipartUtil.PartTooLargeException, where the qualifier says nothing. Move forEachPart and its internals to PartScanner, and give the exception its own file: the project keeps exceptions top-level almost without exception (47 own-file against 4 public nested). PartAction and PartHandler stay nested, now in the class that owns them - public nested enums and single-method callbacks tied to one method are the established convention here. MultipartUtil drops from 259 to 114 lines and keeps isMultipart and split. The tests follow the split: MultipartUtilTest keeps the split contract, PartScannerTest takes the traversal. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace the isGETRequest() short-circuit with isBodyEmpty(), matching the idiom already used by XMLProtectionInterceptor. Move the check inside the existing try/catch so a ReadingBodyException gets the same structured 400 response as other failures. Update the class Javadoc accordingly and add a test for a bodyless GET still passing through. Note: Request.shouldNotContainBody() still unconditionally empties GET bodies at the framework level, so this alone doesn't yet make GET-with-body validation observable end-to-end; that gap is tracked in #3182. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Problem
jsonProtectionassumed the whole message body is one JSON document, so a JSON document carried inside a MIME part was never inspected — a multipart body is not JSON, so it just failed parsing with a 400. The JSON part of amultipart/form-dataupload went unchecked.Change
MultipartUtil.unitsOf(Message)— a new utility returning the inspectable documents of a message: one unit for a plain body, one per part for multipart, and a single reassembled unit for XOP/MTOM. It reuses the existingsplit()andXOPReconstitutor, and yields the existingParttype, so callers treat "the whole body" and "one attachment" with the same code. Nested multipart is rejected rather than recursed into.JsonProtectionInterceptorinspects each JSON unit.parseJsonand every limit check are untouched — only the plumbing around them changed.The common non-multipart case still streams straight off
getBodyAsStreamDecoded(), so no body is buffered into abyte[]unless it actually has to be split.New
otherContentTypesattribute —REJECT(default) orSKIP, with identical meaning whether the unit is the whole body or one MIME part:SKIPis what lets a user allow e.g. animage/png— both as a plain body and as one part of a form upload — without disabling the plugin.Rejections now name the offending part (
In part 'data': Exceeded maxDepth.) and the non-JSON message points at the way out; a rejection on a five-part upload was previously undebuggable.Compatibility
Defaults preserve today's behaviour: a non-JSON body is still rejected with 400 from the parse failure — deliberately not changed to 415, since existing configs and the tutorial IT depend on 400.
One deliberate asymmetry: a whole body without a
Content-Typeis still parsed, so clients that post JSON without declaring it keep being checked; a MIME part without one defaults totext/plainper RFC 2045 and is therefore not JSON — otherwise plain form fields would 400 every upload.Tests
MultipartUtilTest—unitsOffor a plain body, a multipart body, an XOP message, and nested multipart.JsonProtectionInterceptorTest— JSON part exceedingmaxDepthrejected and named; benign multipart passes; every JSON part inspected; non-JSON part rejected by default and skipped underSKIP; multipart body not modified; part-vs-bodyContent-Typeasymmetry; nested multipart rejected.33/33 in
JsonProtectionInterceptorTest(12 new, 21 pre-existing unchanged), 13/13 inMultipartUtilTest, and the fullmultipart(30) andinterceptor.json(84) packages green.JsonProtectionTutorialTestwas not run — it needs a full distribution rebuild and only postscontentType(JSON), the path the unchanged unit tests cover.Follow-up
xmlProtectionhas the same gap plus a second one (MTOM rejected although it would already work), tracked in #3179. It additionally needs aMultipartUtil.joinforremoveDTDwrite-back. Once there are two implementations, the shared unit loop and theotherContentTypesattribute get extracted into a template-method base class — deliberately not done here, with only one subclass to generalise from.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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