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LEDMatrix/test/test_web_error_detail.py
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 4e61d7248a refactor(web): one error-response path for api_v3 (#624)
* refactor(web): answer unhandled api_v3 errors from one blueprint handler

Fifty-three api_v3 routes ended in a copy of the same catch-all: log the
traceback, return {status, "An error occurred; see logs for details",
details: describe_exception(e)} with a 500. They are replaced by one
errorhandler on the api_v3 blueprint that returns exactly that body.

It lives on the blueprint rather than falling through to app.py's global
handler because the two answers differ: the global one adds
error_code: UNKNOWN_ERROR, and api_client.js sends a body with an
error_code to the error modal and one without to a plain toast. A
blueprint handler also gives tests that mount api_v3 on a bare Flask app
the same answer the real app gives.

Only handlers that were byte-for-byte that shape were removed (matched on
the AST, and each rewritten function re-parsed and compared). Handlers
with their own message, extra keys, operation-history records or cleanup
stay, as does execute_plugin_action's step-1 handler, which sits inside
an `except subprocess.TimeoutExpired` arm that would otherwise turn a
plugin's timeout into a 408.

HTTPExceptions raised inside a route go back as themselves in the global
handler's 4xx shape. Where a removed catch-all used to swallow one (only
delete_plugin_asset's non-silent get_json() is reachable), a malformed
request now gets its 415/400 instead of a 500.

Most of the diff is re-indentation from unwrapping the try blocks;
`git diff -w` shows the real change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(web): plugin action errors name the real failure, not UnboundLocalError

execute_plugin_action bound a local `logger` in its JSON-parsing arm,
which made `logger` local to the whole function. Every other
`logger.error` in it then raised UnboundLocalError, so a failing OAuth
step-1 script was reported as "UnboundLocalError: cannot access local
variable 'logger'" -- from the step-1 handler, and before the previous
commit from the route's outer catch-all too. Use the module logger.

Found by comparing every api_v3 route's forced-failure response before
and after the catch-all consolidation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor(web): drop the error category and exception-name code guessing

WebInterfaceError derived an ErrorCategory from every error code and put
it in each structured error body as `error_category`. Nothing reads it:
not the web UI (static/ and templates/), not the tests beyond the ones
pinning the mapping itself, and not any plugin in ledmatrix-plugins. The
enum, the inference table and the JSON key go.

from_exception() could also guess an error code from the exception's
class name ("Config" -> CONFIG_LOAD_FAILED, and so on). Every caller
passes a code, so the guess never ran; error_code is now required.

suggested_fixes stays: the error dialog in static/v3/js/utils/
error_handler.js lists them.

The REST reference loses error_category and says what an unanticipated
exception in an /api/v3 route answers.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor(web): one call for the from_exception error responses

Nine plugin routes built a structured error by hand:

    from src.web_interface.errors import WebInterfaceError
    error = WebInterfaceError.from_exception(e, ErrorCode.X)
    return error_response(error.error_code, error.message,
                          details=error.details, context=error.context,
                          status_code=500)

That is now exception_error_response(e, ErrorCode.X) in api_helpers, so
error_response() is the only structured-error entry point the routes
use. The three operation-history routes never passed the context, and
with_context=False keeps their bodies exactly as they were; a test
compares the helper against the hand-written pair for both forms.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(changelog): one api_v3 error-response path

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 15:53:19 -04:00

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"""Tests for surfacing the underlying error in web responses.
Regression under test: every failing endpoint returned "An error occurred; see
logs for details" and nothing else. On a device whose storage was failing that
sentence came back from the restart action, from /system/status, and from
/logs -- the log viewer itself -- because journalctl could not be executed. The
exception underneath said `[Errno 5] Input/output error: 'systemctl'`, which
names the fault outright, and nine handlers were discarding it entirely rather
than even logging it.
"""
import pytest
from src.web_interface.error_handler import describe_exception
class TestDescribeException:
def test_names_the_type_and_message(self):
detail = describe_exception(OSError(5, "Input/output error", "systemctl"))
assert detail == "OSError: [Errno 5] Input/output error: 'systemctl'"
def test_the_reported_failure_is_legible(self):
# The whole point: this string is the diagnosis.
assert "Input/output error" in describe_exception(
OSError(5, "Input/output error", "systemctl"))
def test_a_bare_exception_still_names_its_type(self):
# A PermissionError with no message still says more than "unknown".
assert describe_exception(PermissionError()) == "PermissionError"
assert describe_exception(Exception()) == "Exception"
def test_message_is_kept_when_present(self):
assert describe_exception(ValueError("bad port")) == "ValueError: bad port"
class TestCredentialRedaction:
"""Exception text quotes URLs, and plugins authenticate by query string."""
@pytest.mark.parametrize("secret_text,leaked", [
("failed: https://api.x.com/v1?api_key=SEC123&city=Tampa", "SEC123"),
("token=abcdef123456 was rejected", "abcdef123456"),
("connect failed password=hunter2", "hunter2"),
("GET /?access_token=zzz999", "zzz999"),
('{"secret": "topsecret"}', "topsecret"),
# requests quotes the URL it failed on, and both of these forms turn
# up in real client exceptions.
("401 for https://user:hunter2@example.com/api", "hunter2"),
("headers: {'Authorization': 'Bearer eyJ.SECRET.sig'}", "eyJ.SECRET.sig"),
("Authorization: Basic dXNlcjpwYXNzd29yZA==", "dXNlcjpwYXNzd29yZA=="),
("Proxy-Authorization: Bearer ptok999", "ptok999"),
# Any scheme, not a fixed list -- a list silently leaks whatever it
# does not name, and plugin APIs invent their own.
("Authorization: ApiKey SECRET123", "SECRET123"),
("Authorization: Negotiate YIIZnegotiateblob", "YIIZnegotiateblob"),
("Authorization: NTLM TlRMTVNTUAAB", "TlRMTVNTUAAB"),
("authorization: barecredential", "barecredential"),
])
def test_credentials_never_reach_the_response(self, secret_text, leaked):
detail = describe_exception(RuntimeError(secret_text))
assert leaked not in detail
assert "<redacted>" in detail
def test_the_parameter_name_survives_redaction(self):
# Knowing *which* credential was involved is part of the diagnosis.
detail = describe_exception(RuntimeError("https://x/y?api_key=SEC123"))
assert "api_key" in detail
def test_unknown_schemes_keep_their_name(self):
for scheme in ("ApiKey", "Negotiate", "NTLM", "AWS4-HMAC-SHA256"):
detail = describe_exception(
RuntimeError("Authorization: %s SECRETVALUE" % scheme))
assert scheme in detail, detail
assert "SECRETVALUE" not in detail, detail
def test_auth_scheme_and_username_survive(self):
# Which kind of credential, and whose, without the credential itself.
assert "Bearer" in describe_exception(
RuntimeError("Authorization: Bearer eyJ.SECRET.sig"))
assert "user" in describe_exception(
RuntimeError("https://user:hunter2@example.com"))
def test_non_secret_context_is_preserved(self):
detail = describe_exception(RuntimeError("https://api.x.com/v1?city=Tampa"))
assert "city=Tampa" in detail
assert "<redacted>" not in detail
class TestBounds:
def test_long_messages_are_truncated(self):
detail = describe_exception(ValueError("x" * 5000))
assert len(detail) <= 400
def test_newlines_are_collapsed_to_one_line(self):
detail = describe_exception(ValueError("line one\nline two\tthree"))
assert "\n" not in detail and "\t" not in detail
assert detail == "ValueError: line one line two three"
def test_custom_length_is_honoured(self):
assert len(describe_exception(ValueError("y" * 500), max_length=50)) <= 50
class TestHandlersCarryDetail:
"""The response shape callers actually see."""
def test_no_api_v3_handler_discards_its_exception(self):
"""Every generic-message handler must log a traceback and return detail.
Nine of them bound `e` and never used it, so the promised log entry was
never written either. Checking merely that *something* was logged is
too weak -- a `logger.info("failed")` would satisfy it while throwing
the exception away just as completely, so this asserts the two things
that actually make the failure diagnosable: an error-level record with
the traceback, and the sanitized detail in the response.
"""
import ast
# api_v3 is a package; the routes are spread across its modules.
import pathlib
src = "\n".join(
p.read_text() for p in
sorted(pathlib.Path("web_interface/blueprints/api_v3").glob("*.py")))
tree = ast.parse(src)
# This used to match one exact message string, so a handler that wrote
# its own wording was never checked. All thirteen Starlark routes did
# -- "Failed to browse repository" and friends -- and every one of them
# answered a 500 with no detail at all, which is how the app store
# spent three releases failing for reasons nobody could read. The rule
# is now the shape that matters: if it returns 5xx, it says why.
PRE_EXISTING = {
# Not part of this change. This set may shrink, never grow.
'backup_delete', 'backup_export', 'backup_list', 'backup_preview',
'backup_restore', 'backup_validate', 'checkout_branch',
'execute_system_action', 'get_git_branches', 'get_git_info',
'get_hardware_status', 'get_logs', 'get_system_status',
'get_system_version', 'scan_wifi_networks',
}
def enclosing_function(handler):
"""Innermost function containing `handler`."""
best = None
for fn in [n for n in ast.walk(tree)
if isinstance(n, (ast.FunctionDef, ast.AsyncFunctionDef))]:
if any(h is handler for h in ast.walk(fn)):
if best is None or fn.lineno > best.lineno:
best = fn
return best.name if best else '<module>'
def only_catches_importerror(handler):
"""An `except ImportError` arm and nothing else.
A missing optional dependency is a configuration fact, not a
crash: the module name is the whole diagnosis and it is already
in the response, so a stack trace would be noise. Detail is still
required -- only the traceback log is excused.
"""
t = handler.type
names = ([t] if isinstance(t, ast.Name)
else list(t.elts) if isinstance(t, ast.Tuple) else [])
return bool(names) and all(
isinstance(n, ast.Name) and n.id == 'ImportError' for n in names)
def returns_5xx(handler):
for r in [n for n in ast.walk(handler) if isinstance(n, ast.Return)]:
v = r.value
if isinstance(v, ast.Tuple) and len(v.elts) == 2:
code = v.elts[1]
if (isinstance(code, ast.Constant)
and isinstance(code.value, int)
and 500 <= code.value < 600):
return True
return False
def logs_a_traceback(handler):
"""An error/exception-level log call carrying exc_info."""
for call in [n for n in ast.walk(handler) if isinstance(n, ast.Call)]:
func = call.func
if not isinstance(func, ast.Attribute):
continue
if func.attr == "exception": # implies exc_info
return True
if func.attr not in ("error", "critical"):
continue
if any(kw.arg == "exc_info" and getattr(kw.value, "value", False) is True
for kw in call.keywords):
return True
return False
def describes_this_exception(node, bound):
"""A describe_exception(<bound>) call anywhere under `node`."""
for call in [n for n in ast.walk(node) if isinstance(n, ast.Call)]:
if not (isinstance(call.func, ast.Name)
and call.func.id == "describe_exception"):
continue
if bound is None:
return True # bare `except:` cannot name it; accept
if any(isinstance(a, ast.Name) and a.id == bound
for a in call.args):
return True
return False
def returns_the_detail(handler):
"""The detail must be inside what the handler actually returns.
Looking anywhere in the handler is too weak: a handler could
compute describe_exception(e), drop it on the floor, and return the
generic message with no details field, while still passing. So the
call has to appear within a `return` expression.
"""
returns = [n for n in ast.walk(handler) if isinstance(n, ast.Return)]
if not returns:
return False
return all(describes_this_exception(r, handler.name) for r in returns)
offenders = []
for h in [n for n in ast.walk(tree) if isinstance(n, ast.ExceptHandler)]:
if not returns_5xx(h):
continue
if enclosing_function(h) in PRE_EXISTING:
continue
missing = []
if not logs_a_traceback(h) and not only_catches_importerror(h):
missing.append("error-level log with exc_info")
if not returns_the_detail(h):
missing.append("describe_exception(e) in the response")
if missing:
offenders.append((h.lineno, missing))
assert not offenders, (
"handlers returning the generic message without %s: %r"
% ("both a traceback log and the detail", offenders))
def test_no_api_v3_route_copies_the_blueprint_handler(self):
"""The generic catch-all lives once, on the blueprint.
Fifty-three routes carried their own copy of it -- log with exc_info,
return {status, "An error occurred; see logs for details",
describe_exception(e)}, 500 -- until they were folded into
`_api_v3_unhandled_exception`. A new copy changes nothing a caller
sees, so nothing else would notice it; this does. A handler that says
something *different* (its own message, extra keys, cleanup) is fine.
"""
import ast
import pathlib
generic = "An error occurred; see logs for details"
copies = []
for path in sorted(pathlib.Path("web_interface/blueprints/api_v3").glob("*.py")):
tree = ast.parse(path.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
for fn in [n for n in ast.walk(tree) if isinstance(n, ast.FunctionDef)]:
for h in ast.walk(fn):
if not (isinstance(h, ast.ExceptHandler)
and isinstance(h.type, ast.Name)
and h.type.id == "Exception"):
continue
for r in [n for n in h.body if isinstance(n, ast.Return)]:
v = r.value
if not (isinstance(v, ast.Tuple) and len(v.elts) == 2
and isinstance(v.elts[0], ast.Call)
and getattr(v.elts[0].func, "id", None) == "jsonify"
and v.elts[0].args
and isinstance(v.elts[0].args[0], ast.Dict)):
continue
d = v.elts[0].args[0]
keys = {k.value for k in d.keys if isinstance(k, ast.Constant)}
message = [val.value for k, val in zip(d.keys, d.values)
if isinstance(k, ast.Constant) and k.value == "message"
and isinstance(val, ast.Constant)]
if keys == {"status", "message", "details"} and message == [generic]:
copies.append((path.name, fn.name))
# One is not a copy: execute_plugin_action's step-1 handler sits
# inside the route's `except subprocess.TimeoutExpired` arm, which
# would turn a plugin's own timeout into a 408 if this let it through.
assert copies == [("plugins.py", "execute_plugin_action")], (
"these handlers duplicate the api_v3 blueprint's errorhandler; "
"delete them and let the exception propagate: %r" % copies)
def test_client_errors_keep_their_own_status(self):
"""A 405 must not be reported as a server-side UNKNOWN_ERROR.
Werkzeug's HTTPExceptions subclass Exception, so the catch-all saw them
too: a GET on a POST-only route came back 500 "an error occurred",
which tells the caller nothing and blames the wrong side. Found while
probing a device whose POST-only config endpoints answered every GET
with UNKNOWN_ERROR.
"""
from flask import Flask, jsonify
from werkzeug.exceptions import HTTPException
app = Flask(__name__)
@app.errorhandler(Exception)
def handle(error):
if isinstance(error, HTTPException):
return jsonify({
"status": "error",
"error_code": (error.name or "HTTP_ERROR").upper().replace(" ", "_"),
"message": error.description,
}), error.code or 500
return jsonify({
"status": "error",
"error_code": "UNKNOWN_ERROR",
"message": "An error occurred; see logs for details",
"details": describe_exception(error),
}), 500
@app.route("/only-post", methods=["POST"])
def only_post():
return jsonify({"ok": True})
@app.route("/boom")
def boom():
raise OSError(5, "Input/output error", "systemctl")
client = app.test_client()
resp = client.get("/only-post")
assert resp.status_code == 405, "a wrong method must stay a 405"
assert resp.get_json()["error_code"] == "METHOD_NOT_ALLOWED"
# A genuine server fault still reports as one, with its detail.
resp = client.get("/boom")
assert resp.status_code == 500
assert "Input/output error" in resp.get_json()["details"]
def test_global_handler_reports_the_underlying_error(self):
from flask import Flask, jsonify
app = Flask(__name__)
@app.errorhandler(Exception)
def handle(error):
return jsonify({
"status": "error",
"error_code": "UNKNOWN_ERROR",
"message": "An error occurred; see logs for details",
"details": describe_exception(error),
}), 500
@app.route("/boom")
def boom():
raise OSError(5, "Input/output error", "systemctl")
client = app.test_client()
body = client.get("/boom").get_json()
assert body["error_code"] == "UNKNOWN_ERROR"
assert "Input/output error" in body["details"]