fix(starlark): the store authenticated with a key nothing writes (#541)

#535 restored the thirteen routes, so the store stopped answering 404 --
and still would not load. Confirmed against a running device before
anything was changed: /repository/browse answers 200 with 1000 apps in
27s, so the routes are fine. Two things underneath them are not.

**The store never used the token the user configured.** The three
repository routes read `github_token` off config.json. Nothing writes
that key -- it is not in config.template.json, no setting offers it, and
it appears nowhere else in the codebase. The configured token goes to
config_secrets.json as `github.api_token`, which PluginStoreManager
loads and every other GitHub caller uses. So the store could never be
authenticated: 60 requests/hour, on the same per-IP budget 48 installed
plugins spend on update checks, while the 5000 the user had already
configured sat unused. On the device, /plugins/store/github-status
reported authenticated with a limit of 5000 at the same moment
/starlark/repository/browse reported 60, with 18 left. The store going
blank was that 60 running out.

**Every failure looked identical.** list_all_apps_cached turned any
listing failure -- rate limit, DNS, timeout, non-200 -- into an empty
app list, and the route sent that out as `status: success`, so a rate
limit and an empty repository drew the same blank grid with no error
anywhere. It now returns the reason, the route answers 502 with it, and
a failure is no longer cached as an empty repository for two hours.

The guard for a bad response was itself a crash: _make_request catches
`(json.JSONDecodeError, ValueError)` but `json` was never imported, so
evaluating the tuple raises NameError and the guard written for exactly
this case never ran. Reachable whenever something on the path answers
with HTML -- a captive portal, a proxy page, a DNS-hijacking router.

Seventeen handlers answered 5xx with no detail at all.
test_no_api_v3_handler_discards_its_exception is meant to prevent that
across api_v3, but it matched one exact message string, and all thirteen
Starlark routes wrote their own wording. The guard now keys on the shape
that matters: if it returns 5xx, it says why. The 15 pre-existing
non-Starlark functions are listed as a set that may shrink, never grow.

**The listing was capped at 1000 and did not say so.** The contents API
truncates a directory silently; tronbyt/apps has 1075 app directories,
so the store showed a truncated repository and looked complete doing it.
Now listed via the git trees API, which reports `truncated`, with the
contents API kept as a fallback.

Not addressed: the 27-second cold load -- 1075 manifests fetched five at
a time behind skeleton placeholders -- which is probably the largest part
of what "does not load" feels like, and wants its own change.

25 new tests.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Chuck
2026-09-08 20:04:27 -04:00
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co-authored by Claude Opus 5
parent 968b953a51
commit 26769ee37f
4 changed files with 589 additions and 61 deletions
@@ -393,3 +393,358 @@ class TestTheManifestStaysRelocatable:
def test_it_matches_the_default_a_reader_falls_back_to(self, starlark_dir, tmp_path):
"""Stored and defaulted values must mean the same thing."""
assert self._install(tmp_path)['star_file'] == 'demo.star'
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# The store loaded, then stopped loading, and nothing anywhere said why.
#
# #535 restored the routes, so the 404 was gone -- but two failure modes
# underneath it produce the same blank grid, and neither could be read from
# outside. On the device this was diagnosed on, /repository/browse answered
# 200 with 1000 apps in 27s while GitHub reported 18 of 60 unauthenticated
# requests remaining, with 48 installed plugins checking for updates against
# the same budget. When that budget runs out the store goes blank and says
# nothing at all.
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
def _repository_module():
"""Load tronbyte_repository.py the way the blueprint does."""
import importlib.util
import sys
from pathlib import Path
path = (Path(__file__).resolve().parents[2]
/ 'plugin-repos' / 'starlark-apps' / 'tronbyte_repository.py')
spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location('_tronbyte_repo_under_test', path)
module = importlib.util.module_from_spec(spec)
sys.modules['_tronbyte_repo_under_test'] = module
spec.loader.exec_module(module)
return module
class _Resp:
"""Enough of requests.Response for the paths under test."""
def __init__(self, status_code=200, payload=None, headers=None, raises=None):
self.status_code = status_code
self._payload = payload
self.headers = headers or {}
self._raises = raises
def json(self):
if self._raises is not None:
raise self._raises
return self._payload
class TestTheJsonGuardIsNotItselfACrash:
"""`except (json.JSONDecodeError, ValueError)` with no `import json`.
Evaluating that tuple raises NameError, so the guard written for exactly
this case never ran: a non-JSON body -- a captive portal, a proxy error
page, a DNS-hijacking router answering for api.github.com -- came out as
a 500 instead of the None the caller was written to handle.
"""
def test_a_non_json_body_returns_none(self):
repo = _repository_module().TronbyteRepository()
repo.session.get = lambda *a, **k: _Resp(
raises=ValueError("Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)"))
assert repo._make_request("https://api.github.com/anything") is None
def test_it_says_the_response_was_not_json(self):
repo = _repository_module().TronbyteRepository()
repo.session.get = lambda *a, **k: _Resp(raises=ValueError("nope"))
repo._make_request("https://api.github.com/anything")
assert 'JSON' in (repo.last_error or ''), repo.last_error
class TestAnExhaustedRateLimitSaysSo:
"""60 requests/hour unauthenticated, shared with every update check."""
def test_the_message_names_the_rate_limit(self):
repo = _repository_module().TronbyteRepository()
repo.session.get = lambda *a, **k: _Resp(
status_code=403,
headers={'X-RateLimit-Remaining': '0', 'X-RateLimit-Limit': '60'})
assert repo._make_request("https://api.github.com/anything") is None
assert 'rate limit' in (repo.last_error or '').lower(), repo.last_error
def test_it_mentions_being_unauthenticated_when_there_is_no_token(self):
repo = _repository_module().TronbyteRepository()
repo.session.get = lambda *a, **k: _Resp(
status_code=403,
headers={'X-RateLimit-Remaining': '0', 'X-RateLimit-Limit': '60'})
repo._make_request("https://api.github.com/anything")
assert 'unauthenticated' in (repo.last_error or ''), repo.last_error
def test_a_plain_403_is_not_reported_as_a_rate_limit(self):
repo = _repository_module().TronbyteRepository()
repo.session.get = lambda *a, **k: _Resp(
status_code=403, headers={'X-RateLimit-Remaining': '57'})
repo._make_request("https://api.github.com/anything")
assert 'rate limit' not in (repo.last_error or '').lower(), repo.last_error
class TestAFailedFetchIsNotAnEmptyRepository:
"""list_all_apps_cached turned every failure into an empty app list.
The route then reported that as a success, so a rate limit, a DNS failure
and a genuinely empty repository were all drawn as the same blank grid.
"""
def test_the_reason_comes_back_with_the_empty_list(self):
module = _repository_module()
repo = module.TronbyteRepository()
repo.list_apps = lambda: (False, None, "GitHub API rate limit exceeded")
result = repo.list_all_apps_cached()
assert result['count'] == 0
assert 'rate limit' in result['error'].lower(), result
def test_a_failure_is_not_cached_as_an_empty_repository(self):
module = _repository_module()
repo = module.TronbyteRepository()
repo.list_apps = lambda: (False, None, "boom")
repo.list_all_apps_cached()
assert module._apps_cache['data'] is None, \
"a failed fetch was cached, so the store stays empty for 2 hours"
def test_a_successful_fetch_reports_no_error(self):
module = _repository_module()
repo = module.TronbyteRepository()
repo.list_apps = lambda: (True, [{'id': 'a', 'path': 'apps/a'}], None)
repo._fetch_raw_file = lambda *a, **k: "name: A\nsummary: s\n"
assert repo.list_all_apps_cached().get('error') is None
class TestTheStoreReportsWhyItIsEmpty:
"""The route's half of the same failure."""
@pytest.fixture
def failing_repo(self):
repo = MagicMock()
repo.return_value.list_all_apps_cached.return_value = {
'apps': [], 'categories': [], 'authors': [], 'count': 0,
'cached': False,
'error': 'GitHub API rate limit exceeded (60 requests/hour, '
'unauthenticated).',
}
repo.return_value.get_rate_limit_info.return_value = {'remaining': 0}
with patch('web_interface.blueprints.api_v3._get_tronbyte_repository_class',
return_value=repo):
yield repo
def test_browse_does_not_call_a_failure_a_success(self, client, failing_repo):
body = client.get('/api/v3/starlark/repository/browse').get_json()
assert body['status'] == 'error', body
def test_browse_answers_502_not_200(self, client, failing_repo):
resp = client.get('/api/v3/starlark/repository/browse')
assert resp.status_code == 502, resp.get_json()
def test_the_reason_reaches_the_page(self, client, failing_repo):
body = client.get('/api/v3/starlark/repository/browse').get_json()
assert 'rate limit' in body['message'].lower(), body
def test_categories_reports_it_too(self, client, failing_repo):
resp = client.get('/api/v3/starlark/repository/categories')
assert resp.status_code == 502
assert 'rate limit' in resp.get_json()['message'].lower()
@pytest.fixture
def working_repo(self):
repo = MagicMock()
repo.return_value.list_all_apps_cached.return_value = {
'apps': [{'id': 'quoteoftheday'}], 'categories': [], 'authors': [],
'count': 1, 'cached': False, 'error': None,
}
repo.return_value.get_rate_limit_info.return_value = {'remaining': 57}
with patch('web_interface.blueprints.api_v3._get_tronbyte_repository_class',
return_value=repo):
yield repo
def test_a_working_fetch_is_still_a_success(self, client, working_repo):
resp = client.get('/api/v3/starlark/repository/browse')
assert resp.status_code == 200
assert resp.get_json()['status'] == 'success'
class TestACrashCarriesItsDetail:
"""Seventeen Starlark handlers answered 5xx with no detail at all."""
def test_browse_returns_the_exception_detail(self, client):
with patch('web_interface.blueprints.api_v3._get_tronbyte_repository_class',
side_effect=ImportError("No module named 'yaml'")):
body = client.get('/api/v3/starlark/repository/browse').get_json()
assert 'yaml' in body.get('details', ''), body
def test_status_returns_the_exception_detail(self, client):
with patch('web_interface.blueprints.api_v3._get_starlark_plugin',
side_effect=RuntimeError("plugin manager is not attached")):
body = client.get('/api/v3/starlark/status').get_json()
assert 'plugin manager is not attached' in body.get('details', ''), body
class TestTheListingIsNotCappedAtOneThousand:
"""The contents API caps a directory at 1000 entries and does not say so.
tronbyt/apps returns exactly 1000 through that endpoint, which is the cap
rather than the app count -- the store looked complete while showing a
truncated repository.
"""
def _repo_with_tree(self, module, count):
repo = module.TronbyteRepository()
entries = [{'path': 'app%04d' % i, 'type': 'tree'} for i in range(count)]
def fake_request(url, timeout=10):
if url.endswith('/git/trees/main'):
return {'tree': [{'path': 'apps', 'type': 'tree', 'sha': 'deadbeef'}]}
if url.endswith('/git/trees/deadbeef'):
return {'tree': entries, 'truncated': False}
raise AssertionError("unexpected request: %s" % url)
repo._make_request = fake_request
return repo
def test_more_than_a_thousand_apps_are_listed(self):
module = _repository_module()
repo = self._repo_with_tree(module, 1400)
ok, apps, err = repo.list_apps()
assert ok, err
assert len(apps) == 1400
def test_the_path_is_still_the_one_manifest_fetches_use(self):
module = _repository_module()
repo = self._repo_with_tree(module, 3)
_, apps, _ = repo.list_apps()
assert apps[0]['path'] == 'apps/app0000', apps[0]
def test_dotfiles_and_files_are_skipped(self):
module = _repository_module()
repo = module.TronbyteRepository()
def fake_request(url, timeout=10):
if url.endswith('/git/trees/main'):
return {'tree': [{'path': 'apps', 'type': 'tree', 'sha': 'x'}]}
return {'tree': [{'path': '.github', 'type': 'tree'},
{'path': 'realapp', 'type': 'tree'},
{'path': 'README.md', 'type': 'blob'}]}
repo._make_request = fake_request
_, apps, _ = repo.list_apps()
assert [a['id'] for a in apps] == ['realapp']
def test_it_falls_back_to_the_contents_api(self):
"""A trees outage must not take the store down with it."""
module = _repository_module()
repo = module.TronbyteRepository()
def fake_request(url, timeout=10):
if '/git/trees/' in url:
repo.last_error = "GitHub API error 500"
return None
return [{'name': 'fallbackapp', 'path': 'apps/fallbackapp', 'type': 'dir'}]
repo._make_request = fake_request
ok, apps, err = repo.list_apps()
assert ok, err
assert [a['id'] for a in apps] == ['fallbackapp']
def test_both_paths_failing_reports_the_reason(self):
module = _repository_module()
repo = module.TronbyteRepository()
def fake_request(url, timeout=10):
repo.last_error = "Timed out reaching GitHub"
return None
repo._make_request = fake_request
ok, apps, err = repo.list_apps()
assert not ok
assert 'Timed out' in err, err
class TestTheStoreUsesTheTokenTheUserConfigured:
"""The store authenticated with a key nothing ever writes.
The three repository routes read `github_token` off config.json. Nothing
writes that key: config.template.json has no such field, no setting
offers it, and the token the user actually configures goes to
config_secrets.json as `github.api_token`, which PluginStoreManager loads
and every other GitHub caller uses.
So the store ran unauthenticated at 60 requests/hour on the same per-IP
budget as 48 plugins' update checks, while the configured token sat
unused raising that same budget to 5000. On the device this was found on,
/plugins/store/github-status reported `authenticated: true` with a
rate_limit of 5000 while /starlark/repository/browse reported a limit of
60 -- the store going blank was that 60 running out.
"""
def test_the_store_managers_token_is_used(self):
from web_interface.blueprints import api_v3 as mod
with patch.object(mod.api_v3, 'plugin_store_manager',
MagicMock(github_token='ghp_configured')):
assert mod._starlark_github_token() == 'ghp_configured'
def test_a_hand_edited_config_key_still_works(self):
from web_interface.blueprints import api_v3 as mod
cfg = MagicMock()
cfg.load_config.return_value = {'github_token': 'ghp_by_hand'}
with patch.object(mod.api_v3, 'plugin_store_manager',
MagicMock(github_token=None)), \
patch.object(mod.api_v3, 'config_manager', cfg):
assert mod._starlark_github_token() == 'ghp_by_hand'
def test_no_token_anywhere_is_not_an_error(self):
from web_interface.blueprints import api_v3 as mod
cfg = MagicMock()
cfg.load_config.return_value = {}
with patch.object(mod.api_v3, 'plugin_store_manager',
MagicMock(github_token=None)), \
patch.object(mod.api_v3, 'config_manager', cfg):
assert mod._starlark_github_token() is None
def test_an_unreadable_config_does_not_take_the_store_down(self):
from web_interface.blueprints import api_v3 as mod
cfg = MagicMock()
cfg.load_config.side_effect = OSError("config.json is unreadable")
with patch.object(mod.api_v3, 'plugin_store_manager',
MagicMock(github_token=None)), \
patch.object(mod.api_v3, 'config_manager', cfg):
assert mod._starlark_github_token() is None
def test_browse_hands_the_token_to_the_repository(self, client):
from web_interface.blueprints import api_v3 as mod
repo = MagicMock()
repo.return_value.list_all_apps_cached.return_value = {
'apps': [], 'categories': [], 'authors': [], 'count': 0,
'cached': False, 'error': None,
}
repo.return_value.get_rate_limit_info.return_value = {'remaining': 4999}
with patch.object(mod.api_v3, 'plugin_store_manager',
MagicMock(github_token='ghp_configured')), \
patch('web_interface.blueprints.api_v3._get_tronbyte_repository_class',
return_value=repo):
client.get('/api/v3/starlark/repository/browse')
repo.assert_called_once_with(github_token='ghp_configured')