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ChuckBuildsandClaude Opus 5 8c1171444c fix(web): say what actually went wrong instead of "unknown"
Every failing endpoint returned "An error occurred; see logs for
details" and nothing else. That is survivable until the logs are the
thing you cannot reach: a device whose SD card was failing answered the
restart action, /system/status and /logs with that same sentence -- the
log viewer included, because journalctl could not be executed -- while
the exception underneath said

    [Errno 5] Input/output error: 'systemctl'

which names the fault outright. The only endpoint that helped was
/health, and only because it happens to pass a subprocess's stderr
through. Diagnosis came down to guessing which endpoint leaked something.

Add describe_exception(), returning "TypeName: message" on one line, and
populate the `details` field that the response schema has always had and
nothing ever filled. The type alone carries information -- a bare
PermissionError says more than any generic sentence.

Exception text is not automatically safe to echo: a requests error
quotes the URL it failed on, and plugins that authenticate by query
string put their key there. Credential values are redacted while the
parameter name is kept, since knowing which credential was involved is
part of the diagnosis. Length is capped and newlines collapsed so a
parser's context cannot flood a JSON field.

Nine handlers in api_v3 bound the exception and never used it, so the
promised log entry was never written either -- "see logs for details"
was false, not merely unhelpful. Those now log with a traceback and
carry the detail. The other 60 already logged and are unchanged; they
can adopt the helper as they are touched.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Udr6MfaFLUPhX5Fgo67Jf5
2026-08-10 11:08:44 -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"),
])
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_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):
# Nine of them bound `e` and never used it, so the promised log entry
# was never written either.
import ast
import re
src = open("web_interface/blueprints/api_v3.py").read()
tree = ast.parse(src)
generic = "An error occurred; see logs for details"
silent = []
for h in [n for n in ast.walk(tree) if isinstance(n, ast.ExceptHandler)]:
seg = ast.get_source_segment(src, h) or ""
if generic not in seg:
continue
if not re.search(
r"\b(logger|logging|current_app\.logger)\s*\.\s*"
r"(error|exception|warning|critical|info)\b", seg):
silent.append(h.lineno)
assert not silent, (
"handlers returning the generic message without logging: %r" % silent)
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"]