test(nextly): pin what relationship expansion and callerMayPerform answer for a read - #1877
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…swer for a read Two of the functions that decide whether a caller may read an entity had no test naming them, so a change to either while folding them into a shared read decision could not be seen. These cases pin today's answer cell by cell. callerMayPerform (unit): no identity refuses; a session defers to RBAC; a key without the grant refuses; a key with it follows the entity rule in every form; a super-admin owner gives the key no bypass; with no RBAC service a session is refused and a key holding the grant is admitted. Relationship expansion (integration): a key without read-<target> is populated where the target has no rule or its rule admits, which the direct read refuses; a super-admin session bypasses a refusing rule and a super-admin owner's key does not; a throwing rule withholds.
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Addressed the CodeRabbit nitpick (review 5191373480) in ac70d6e. Both test preambles referred to work around the code rather than the code: a future merge of the read checks into a shared decision, and which other test files do or do not name these functions. Both are reworded to say only what each file pins and why:
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When an API key has read-refs but lacks read-pages, this assertion requires relationship expansion to return the page even though the adjacent direct read correctly refuses the same row. That turns an authorization inconsistency into required behavior and would make the suite reject a fix that applies the target's read gate; expect the relationship to be withheld instead.
AGENTS.md reference: packages/nextly/AGENTS.md:L35-L37
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Agreed, and addressed in ce210ae.
Pinning that row made an authorization inconsistency look like required behaviour, so I took it to the founder rather than choosing on my own. The ruling (recorded as decision:relationship-expansion-requires-target-grant-for-api-keys): a scoped API key sees related rows only from collections its own scope grants read-<target> on. Session callers are unchanged, and the target collection access rule still decides for them without a per-collection grant.
In this PR, which pins behaviour only and changes no product code:
- Removed the two cases that required a key without
read-pagesto be shown the related page: the no-rule case and the admit half of the admits/refuses case. - Kept only key cases that hold under either answer: a refusing rule withholds, and a key owned by a super-admin gets no bypass.
- Session cases are unchanged. The preamble now scopes "never asks for read-" to session callers.
The expansion fix itself is a separate security PR. It will pin the ruled behaviour with a test that fails first, and correct packages/nextly/AGENTS.md, which currently says expansion gives one answer on every door.
Measured on the new head:
- Integration file: 5 passed.
check-typesuncached: passed. Comment convention check: exit 0. fallow: pass, 0 introduced.- Break-verify: every remaining case failed under its mutant (absent rule falls to DB grants, super-admin bypass removed, bypass extended to keys, throwing rule admits, key branch admits regardless of rule). Files restored byte-identical.
- The earlier mutant "expansion requires read- of a key" no longer applies, because it is now the ruled fix.
…either way The relationship characterization test required a scoped API key without read-<target> to be shown the target's rows. That is an inconsistency with the direct read of the same row, not behaviour to keep, so it is no longer pinned: the two populate cases for such a key are removed. What remains for a key holds whether or not expansion also asks for the target grant: a refusing rule withholds, and a super-admin owner lends no bypass. The session cases are unchanged.
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For a session caller with no read-pages grant, this expectation requires relationship expansion to populate a rule-less pages target even though a direct collection read falls through to database permissions and refuses that caller. This locks in the cross-door authorization inconsistency the package contract says must not exist, so the suite would reject correcting judgeTarget to match the canonical read gate; expect the target to be withheld instead.
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Agreed, and addressed in 37d1cf2.
Measured before changing anything, on one fixture: a session holding no grants is refused a permission-checked direct read of a rule-less pages collection (403), while refs expanded at depth 1 on a route-authorized read populates the same row. With routeAuthorized: true the direct read is served too, so the inconsistency is specifically against the permission-checked door.
Put to the founder, who ruled that when the target declares no read rule, expansion asks the same permission check the direct read asks, for session callers as well as keys; where a rule exists it still decides for sessions. The case pinning the admit is removed, and the preamble now names only the answers that hold under either behaviour. The behaviour change itself ships as its own security PR, which pins the ruled answers with tests that fail first on current main.
Integration file: 4 passed; remaining mutants I3 to I6 each still fail their cases. Not resolving this thread.
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When getRBACService returns undefined because the container is uninitialized or its lookup throws, this expectation requires a scoped key to be admitted solely from its coarse grant, even though the unavailable service may hold a code-defined read: false rule and callerMayPerform explicitly promises to deny when RBAC is unreachable. Pinning true therefore preserves a fail-open authorization path and makes the suite reject adding the cheap service-availability guard; expect false here, as the adjacent session case does.
AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L303-L306
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Agreed, and addressed in 37d1cf2.
Confirmed in the code: with getRBACService() undefined, apiKeyWriteAllowed reads no rule (rbac?.getRegisteredAccess is undefined) and returns true on the grant alone, although the callerMayPerform docblock says an unreachable RBAC service answers false. An unregistered RBAC service denying on every gate was already ruled by the founder as its own change, so pinning true here would reject that fix. The case is removed; the adjacent session refusal stays pinned.
Unit file: 7 passed; mutants U1 and U2 still fail their cases. Not resolving this thread.
A session with no grant populating a rule-less target, and a key admitted by its grant alone when no RBAC service is registered, are both ruled to change. Pinning them would make the suite reject those fixes, so the cases are removed and the preamble names what remains.
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Both tests reuse a scope that lacks read-pages, so an implementation that denies on the target grant before evaluating either access.read or the scoped-key/super-admin carve-out makes both assertions pass without exercising the behavior their names claim to protect. Add positive-control cases with a read-pages grant (and explicit empty key roles) so ignoring a refusing rule or granting an owner-derived super-admin bypass actually turns the suite red.
AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L216-L233
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Both key cases used a scope without read-pages, so an implementation refusing on the missing grant, before it evaluates access.read or reaches the super-admin carve-out, answered both correctly without reaching the behaviour their names claim. Nothing separated the rule deciding from the grant deciding. Three cases hold read-pages as well, with the key's roles passed as an explicit empty list so the owner's roles cannot stand in for them through scope.roles ?? user.roles. One requires the target to be POPULATED, which every existing case accepts an implementation withholding every target from every key.
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Addressed in You are right, and the demonstration is cleaner than I expected. Both key cases used a scope lacking What was addedA second scope holding
The roles argument is an explicit Break-verified, and the first mutant is the findingEach applied at exactly one site under a count assertion, the file restored byte-identical afterwards ( Mutant A — every target withheld from every scoped key ( One failure, and it is the new case. Both pre-existing key cases passed. That is the gap stated as a measurement rather than an argument: the file as it stood could not tell a correct implementation from one that shows a key nothing at all, because every assertion in it was satisfied by withholding. Mutant B — the owner-derived bypass reaches the key ( Both halves fail, which is the expected shape: the existing case catches this one already, and the grant-holding case pins that the refusal is the carve-out rather than the absent grant. Not changedNo product code, and no changeset — still test-only, as the PR body says. The cells the founder ruled to change are still unpinned; a key HOLDING the grant is a different cell from the ones removed earlier, and nothing in the ruling touches it. The module docblock now states the two-halves reasoning, so the next reader is not left to rediscover why the without-grant cases are insufficient alone. Gates: integration file 7/7 · One disclosure: this push used @codex please review this PR Generated by Claude Code |
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When the owner is a super-admin, this case still passes solely because keyHolding("create") is rejected by the missing-read-grant check before any owner bypass could run. A plausible regression that returns true for user.roles.includes("super-admin") immediately after the grant check leaves all 7 tests green. Give this key the read grant, explicitly set its own roles to [], and install a refusing read rule so the expected refusal actually distinguishes the scoped-key carve-out from the grant check.
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AccessControlFunction permits Promise<boolean>, but every function in this purported “each form” matrix returns synchronously. Removing the await from codeAccessAllows so it compares a returned promise directly with true leaves all 7 tests green, while every async rule that resolves to true would then be denied. Add at least an asynchronously admitting rule as the positive control so the suite distinguishes awaiting the rule from treating its promise as the verdict.
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This “declares no read rule” case only covers getRegisteredAccess returning undefined; it never covers a collection that has an access object for another operation, such as { update: false }. Making the API-key branch deny whenever a registered object lacks the requested member leaves this characterization file and the existing route-agreement suite green, but would refuse a read-scoped key merely because the collection configures writes. Register an unrelated rule here and retain the expected true result to cover the operation-level fallback.
AGENTS.md reference: packages/nextly/AGENTS.md:L46-L48
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What
Characterization tests for two of the functions that decide whether a caller may read a collection or single. No test named either one before:
callerMayPerform(auth/authenticated-scope.ts), which was exercised only throughPluginRouteCaller.can().callerMayReadTarget/judgeTargetincollection-relationship-service.ts).This PR is test-only: no product code changes and no changeset.
Why
Seven separate functions each decide "may this caller read this entity". The planned next step folds them into one shared read decision with no behaviour change, and that promise can only be checked where each function's answers are pinned by tests. These two were not.
A cell is pinned only where its answer is behaviour to keep. Review turned up three cells that are not, and each was put to the founder and ruled to change. Those cells are deliberately not pinned (see below).
What is pinned
callerMayPerform, reading an entity (unit test; the RBAC stub says yes to every session question):true/falseand function allow/deny; a throw refusesRelationship expansion of a target (integration test, real instance):
read-<target>, target rule refusesNot pinned, because each is ruled to change:
read-<target>on a target whose rule is absent or admits. Expansion shows that key the rows today while the direct read refuses them. Ruled: a key must holdread-<target>to see related rows.callerMayPerformfor a key holding the grant when no RBAC service is registered. Today the grant alone admits it, although the function's own contract is to deny when RBAC is unreachable. Ruled: an unregistered RBAC service denies on every gate.The first two land together as one security fix, and the third as its own change. Each pins the ruled behaviour with a test that fails first.
Also not pinned: expansion with no RBAC service registered. Every instance
createTestNextlybuilds registers one.Break-verified
Each mutation was applied by exact-once match, run against its test file, and restored byte-identical. Re-run after the cells above were removed.
Dropped, because each is now a ruled fix rather than a break: "expansion requires
read-<target>of a key" (I1), "an absent rule falls through to DB grants" (I2), and "no RBAC service fails closed for a key" (U3).Gates
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