feat(api): gate the REST contract against a committed baseline - #2468
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Closes scope items 2, 3, 4 and 6 of #2112, leaving the issue complete. make openapi-diff compares api/aicr/v1/server.yaml against the committed snapshot server.baseline.yaml with the pinned oasdiff, and fails on removed endpoints, removed or narrowed fields, newly required request fields, and removed enum values. Additive change passes. It sits in make qualify beside api-diff, which guards the Go SDK the same way. oasdiff is pinned as a binary rather than imported. As a library it pulls in cloud.google.com/go, viper, kin-openapi and more, and Go does not separate test-only dependencies from the module graph -- all of it would land in the SBOM and the vulnerability surface of the shipped binary for a gate that never runs in production. tools/api-diff already established the binary-tool shape for exactly this job. The baseline is a committed snapshot rather than the previous release, which is where this departs from api-diff. The v1 collapse (#2464) is unreleased, so comparing against v0.20.0 reports 28 breaking changes that are all one already-merged decision. The gate would ship pre-loaded with noise that clears itself at v0.21, having taught everyone to skim it first. Exceptions follow api-diff's contract, including the half that makes such a list safe: an acknowledgement matching no reported change FAILS, because a stale entry silently pre-approves the break returning. Entries are matched by rule id and operation path -- id alone would let one endpoint's exception cover the same break anywhere. The scheduled ADR-022 removals in v0.22 and v0.23 are the expected occupants, which is what the acceptance criteria mean by representing a transition explicitly rather than disabling the gate. openapi-diff_test.sh pins every branch of the verdict to an exact exit code. Writing it found two defects in the script: a malformed exceptions file was read as "no exceptions" because yq returns null rather than erroring on a scalar document, and a stale acknowledgement exited before reporting an unacknowledged break that was also present -- hiding the more urgent of the two behind the less. Both fixed; both now covered. openapi_validity_test.go answers the question the diff cannot. A dangling $ref, an orphaned component or a duplicate operationId exists in both baseline and spec, so the diff sees no change and passes while every generated client is wrong. It also guards the baseline against truncation, which would make the gate report no breaking changes for whatever the truncated file omits -- an early version of make openapi-baseline did exactly that, hence the test. Every gate here was verified by breaking what it protects: removed endpoint, removed enum value, optional parameter become required, additive parameter (must pass), dangling ref, orphan, duplicate operationId, truncated baseline. Also corrects docs/contributor/api-server.md, which still described TestOpenAPIV1BundleRecipeContract under its pre-collapse name and claimed kind: Recipe posts return 200. That PR made it a rejection. Signed-off-by: Mark Chmarny <mark@chmarny.com>
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The tests/Test job failed on the first push, correctly. make test runs test-shell, which runs tools/openapi-diff_test.sh, and that test fails in CI when oasdiff is missing rather than skipping -- so an unwired tool surfaces as a red build instead of a gate that silently never runs. CI just exercised that design on its author. oasdiff now flows the same route as apidiff: exported by load-versions from .settings.yaml, passed by the qualification workflow, installed by the go-test action. It installs BEFORE make test, unlike apidiff, because test-shell exercises the real binary rather than a stub. make openapi-diff then runs alongside make api-diff. The input is required rather than optional. apidiff_version defaults to empty and skips its steps, which is reasonable for a check that only runs in one workflow; the same default here would let a caller silently drop the REST gate while its own test still demanded the tool. Verified all three states: CI with oasdiff passes, CI without it fails with a named cause, and a local run without it skips with instructions. Signed-off-by: Mark Chmarny <mark@chmarny.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds a generated OpenAPI baseline and exception configuration. New tests validate references, components, operations, responses, and baseline integrity. The Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The PR adds automated REST contract and specification-validity gates. It is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up for two bounded issues: valid extension fields may be reported incorrectly, and baseline regeneration should validate the temporary specification before replacement. Suggested reviewers: 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4✅ Passed checks (4 passed)
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In `@api/aicr/v1/server.baseline.yaml`:
- Around line 499-505: Remove the self-referential query-parameter and
ZIP-response references from the POST /v1/bundle description, including the
sentence directing readers to POST /v1/bundle for details. Apply the change to
the source API definition and regenerate the corresponding baseline snapshot.
- Line 1067: Update the Error.details schema in server.yaml to use the OpenAPI
3.1 type array [object, "null"] instead of nullable: true, then regenerate
server.baseline.yaml so the generated baseline reflects the same nullability
definition.
In `@DEVELOPMENT.md`:
- Line 27: Update the Development Tools table in DEVELOPMENT.md to add an
oasdiff entry, documenting the pinned binary required by the openapi-diff check
and keeping the prerequisites consistent with make tools-setup.
In `@Makefile`:
- Around line 380-381: Update the awk extraction command in the
baseline-generation recipe to exit non-zero when no openapi: marker is found,
preventing replacement of the committed baseline with only its header; preserve
the existing extraction behavior when the marker is present.
- Line 386: Update the qualify target’s ## help description to mention the
OpenAPI contract check performed by openapi-diff, while preserving the existing
listed checks and target dependencies.
In `@pkg/server/openapi_validity_test.go`:
- Around line 98-111: Extend the component-group iteration in the orphan check
to include headers and requestBodies alongside schemas, parameters, and
responses. Add and use a componentReferenced helper for membership checks so a
component counts as referenced when refs contains either its exact reference or
a subschema reference with that component reference as a prefix.
In `@tools/openapi-diff`:
- Around line 88-91: Use a distinct exit status for invalid JSON emitted by
oasdiff instead of EXIT_EXCEPTIONS_MALFORMED, preserving that constant
exclusively for malformed exceptions files and keeping the existing
malformed-output log and early exit behavior.
- Line 102: Update the level filters in the three OpenAPI gate queries,
including the one assigning breaking_count, to include findings at level 2 or
higher instead of only level 3. Add coverage for a removed request parameter and
ensure the report and stale-acknowledgement checks use the same threshold.
In `@tools/openapi-diff_test.sh`:
- Around line 171-187: Make both Python fixture mutations in the case 2 and case
8 setup fail the script when the heredoc command exits nonzero, so failed anchor
assertions cannot leave the baseline unchanged and produce a false PASS. Add
explicit status checks immediately after each heredoc while preserving the
existing fixture-edit logic.
In `@tools/setup-tools`:
- Line 1030: Update the oasdiff setup condition around command_exists so it
skips installation only when the installed binary’s embedded module version
exactly matches OASDIFF_VERSION and UPGRADE is not true; otherwise reinstall or
continue through the existing setup path.
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Ten findings. The first is the one that mattered: the gate had a hole in the
rule class it exists to cover.
oasdiff breaking grades its findings -- ERR is level 3, WARN is level 2 -- and
the script filtered to level 3. request-parameter-removed and
request-property-removed are level 2, so removing a query parameter from an
endpoint made the gate report "0 breaking changes" and pass. Verified before
fixing by deleting the Nodes parameter from GET /v1/recipe: exit 0. Both levels
are breaking here, all three queries now say level >= 2, and the same deletion
is a permanent test case.
The rest, in the order they can bite:
- The test's fixture edits ran with set -e off and their status discarded. A
moved anchor left spec.yaml identical to the baseline, the gate passed, and
the case reported PASS having tested nothing. require_fixture_edit now
fails on both a non-zero script and an unchanged file. Its first statement
must capture $?, because `local name=` would overwrite it -- which it did
in the first version, leaving the branch unreachable.
- make openapi-baseline used awk that succeeds when no openapi: key exists,
replacing the baseline with its comment header. A header-only baseline
reports no breaking changes for everything it omits. Now exits non-zero and
leaves the file and tmp untouched.
- setup-tools skipped install whenever an oasdiff binary existed, while
check-tools demands an exact module version. A stale binary meant setup
reported success and the gate ran on a different version.
- EXIT_EXCEPTIONS_MALFORMED was reused for unreadable oasdiff output, sending
a reader to the wrong file. Unreadable output is now 13.
- The orphan check listed three component groups by hand and missed headers,
which the document declares five of. It now walks every declared group, and
matches subschema pointers, so a component reached only through
#/components/schemas/X/properties/y is not reported as an orphan.
- qualify's help text still ended at "API compatibility"; DEVELOPMENT.md's
tool table did not list oasdiff.
Two spec bugs, both /v2 residue or 3.0 habits:
- POST /v1/bundle's description told the reader to see POST /v1/bundle for
query parameters. It described the /v2 route before the collapse and now
points at itself, giving a client author nothing.
- Error.details used nullable: true. OpenAPI 3.1 has no such keyword; null is
expressed in the type, so a null details field did not validate against
what the server emits. Now type: [object, "null"].
Every fix is mutation-checked: removed request parameter fails, a failed
fixture edit fails, a spec without openapi: refuses to write, and an orphaned
header is reported.
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In `@Makefile`:
- Around line 380-384: Update the Makefile baseline-generation rule after the
temporary file is produced: validate the complete
api/aicr/v1/server.baseline.yaml.tmp OpenAPI document before replacing the
committed baseline, and on validation failure remove the temporary file and
abort without running mv. Preserve the existing missing-openapi guard and
successful replacement path.
In `@pkg/server/openapi_validity_test.go`:
- Around line 102-104: Update the component-group validation in the orphan check
to report an error when a declared components kind cannot be asserted to
map[string]any, then continue processing other groups. Preserve validation of
valid groups and ensure documents containing malformed groups fail instead of
silently skipping them.
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The openapi: guard proved a marker existed, not that the result was a document
oasdiff could read: a spec malformed below that line still produced a file that
replaced the baseline. The generated file is now validated with the actual
consumer -- an oasdiff self-diff loads and parses it -- and is deleted on
failure. Verified by corrupting the spec below the marker: the target refuses,
the committed baseline is untouched, and no tmp is left behind. Regeneration
from a healthy spec is still byte-identical.
The orphan check skipped any components.<kind> whose value was not a map, so a
document with one valid group and one malformed group passed with half of it
never inspected. It now reports the malformed group and continues. Verified by
adding components.examples as a sequence: 'components.examples is
[]interface {}, want an object'.
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Pushed On the Vault KMS E2E failureNot caused by this PR — it is a transient network fault, with evidence: A connection reset fetching the Sigstore TUF root from a CDN. Nothing here touches attestation, signing, TUF or networking — the change set is the OpenAPI spec, its baseline, I checked the ordering rather than assuming, because it did pass on the previous commit of this branch and fail on the next, which is exactly the pattern a real regression makes:
The push above re-runs it. If it goes green, that settles it; if it fails the same way again I will treat it as real and dig further rather than re-running until it passes. HousekeepingThere was an empty pending review under my account on this PR — zero comments, never submitted. GitHub allows one pending review per user per PR, so it was silently rejecting every new review comment with Worth flagging because the same thing exists on #2466, except that one does contain the MAJOR finding about documented error responses. That one needs submitting or dismissing rather than deleting, and it is yours to decide. |
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In `@Makefile`:
- Around line 389-390: Update the Makefile target around the oasdiff invocation
to run oasdiff validate against api/aicr/v1/server.baseline.yaml.tmp instead of
performing a self-diff with breaking. Preserve the existing error handling and
cleanup block so the temporary baseline is still removed on validation failure
or success.
In `@pkg/server/openapi_validity_test.go`:
- Around line 107-108: Update the components group loop in the OpenAPI validity
test to skip keys prefixed with x- before type assertion or orphan checking,
allowing extension values of any JSON type. Add a regression test covering
scalar and object component extensions and preserving validation of standard
component groups.
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Summary
Gates the REST contract against a committed baseline with the pinned
oasdiff. Closes scope items 2, 3, 4 and 6 of #2112 — with #2466's item 7 and #2464's item 1, the issue is complete.Motivation / Context
REST is one of the four surfaces ROADMAP §1 freezes at v1. Until now nothing failed CI when the contract changed: #2464 removed five endpoints and eleven schemas and every gate stayed green.
make openapi-difffails on removed endpoints, removed or narrowed fields, newly required request fields, and removed enum values. Additive change passes. It runs inmake qualifybesideapi-diff, which guards the Go SDK the same way.Fixes: N/A
Related: #2112, #2370, #2113
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Component(s) Affected
cmd/aicrd,pkg/server).github/)docs/,examples/)Implementation Notes
oasdiff is pinned as a binary, not imported
As a library it pulls in
cloud.google.com/go, viper, pflag, goldmark and kin-openapi. Go does not separate test-only dependencies from the module graph, so all of that would land in the SBOM and the vulnerability surface of the shipped binary — for a gate that never runs in production.tools/api-diffalready established the binary-tool shape for exactly this job, so this follows it: pinned in.settings.yaml, installed bytools/setup-tools, verified bytools/check-tools.The baseline is a committed snapshot, not the previous release
This is the one place it departs from
api-diff, and the reason is concrete: the v1 collapse is unreleased, so comparing against v0.20.0 reports 28 breaking changes that are all one already-merged decision. The gate would ship pre-loaded with noise that clears itself at v0.21, having first taught everyone to skim it.Exceptions, including the half that makes them safe
An acknowledgement that matches no reported change fails the gate — a stale entry silently pre-approves the break returning, which is the failure the file exists to prevent. Same contract as
pkg/client/v1/api-diff-exceptions.yaml. Entries match on rule id and operation path; id alone would let one endpoint's exception cover the same class of break anywhere.The scheduled ADR-022 removals in v0.22 (#2416) and v0.23 (#2417) are the expected occupants — that is what "represented explicitly rather than disabling the gate" means in the acceptance criteria.
Writing the tests found two defects in the script
Both would have made the gate quietly wrong:
yq '.acknowledgements'returns null rather than erroring on a scalar document, so a typo'd file silently changed the verdict. Now the type is asserted.A second gate, for what the diff cannot see
openapi_validity_test.goanswers "is the contract coherent", not "did it change". A dangling$ref, an orphaned component, or a duplicateoperationIdexists in both baseline and spec — the diff sees no change and passes while every generated client is wrong. It also guards the baseline against truncation, which would make the diff report no breaking changes for whatever the truncated file omits. An early version ofmake openapi-baselinedid truncate, which is why the test exists.Testing
Every gate was verified by breaking what it protects, then restoring:
$refoperationIdmake openapi-baselineis idempotent: regenerating from an unchanged spec is byte-identical.Risk Assessment
Adds a gate and a pinned tool. No production code changes. Contributors need
make tools-setupforoasdiff; the shell test skips locally with a clear message when it is missing and fails in CI, where the gate must actually run.Note
Also corrects
docs/contributor/api-server.md, which still describedTestOpenAPIV1BundleRecipeContractunder its pre-collapse name and claimedkind: Recipeposts return 200 — #2464 made that a rejection. A doc bug I shipped there.Checklist
make testwith-race)make lint)git commit -S)