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shopdb-flask/plugins/knowledgebase/api/routes.py
cproudlock 151d7c4f44 Anyone not signed in holds the guest role
Whether somebody with no account may see something was being answered one
feature at a time: a securesend_allow_guests setting, an enable flag per kiosk,
and very nearly a third for guides - each with its own settings page, its own
vocabulary and its own hand-written branch inside a route. Every one of them
answered a permissions question, and this app already administers permissions
per role.

So a caller with no token is not nobody: they hold the seeded `guest` role.
require_permission consults it when there is no identity, which is the entire
mechanism. The role is seeded holding NOTHING, so an upgrade opens no door; a
site opens one by ticking a box in the same grid it uses for every other role,
and closes it the same way. Revocation is read on every request rather than
cached, because taking guest access away is what somebody does the moment they
realise what they opened, and it has to bite immediately.

The redundant @jwt_required() above require_permission is gone from 184 routes.
It was belt-and-braces before; now it is actively wrong, because it refuses a
request with no token before the permission check can have an opinion, so a
grant would appear to do nothing.

What a guest may hold is bounded. Any .view or .read permission is grantable.
A WRITE has to be blessed by whoever owns it, through the new
get_guest_grantable_permissions hook (contract 0.21.0), and Secure Send is the
only case that exists: sending a password to a vendor is the one write this
product means to offer somebody who never signs in. Everything else is refused
by the API and greyed out in the grid rather than warned about - a checkbox
that quietly makes deleting an asset anonymous is not a warning anybody reads
twice. A guest write records no creator: the trail says when and from where,
never who, and that is the reason for the bar.

GE-Enforce and Slides gained read permissions so they can be opened to guests
without handing out the manage right. Their read routes accept either through
require_any_permission, so nothing an existing manager could reach has moved.

The navigation endpoint now returns only what the caller can actually reach.
Without that a signed-out visitor gets a sidebar of the whole app where every
link bounces off the login page, which reads as a broken site rather than as a
closed door. A nav item may name several permissions; holding any one is
enough, which is what GE-Enforce and Slides need now that a viewer and a
manager hold different strings.

Two things this found on the way: current_user is a LocalProxy, so
`current_user is None` is False for a request with nobody behind it - harmless
under a required JWT, an AttributeError the moment verification became
optional. And an image pasted into a guide before its first save was never
attached to it, so it was visible to editors and invisible to every reader;
saving now attaches it, and `flask guides fix-images` repairs what is stored.

The guides guest setting written earlier today is gone. Granting guides.view to
the guest role replaces it, which is the point.
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"""Knowledge Base API endpoints."""
from flask import Blueprint, request
from flask_jwt_extended import jwt_required
from shopdb.api import (
db,
Application,
success_response,
error_response,
paginated_response,
ErrorCodes,
get_pagination_params,
paginate_query,
)
from ..models import KnowledgeBase
from shopdb.api import require_permission, apply_import_timestamps
knowledgebase_bp = Blueprint('knowledgebase', __name__)
def _visible_articles():
"""Active articles whose topic is not a retired application.
An article about a decommissioned application is not something anyone should
find by browsing or searching: it describes a thing that is no longer in
service, and presenting it alongside live documentation reads as though it
were current.
An article with NO topic still shows. Not every article is about an
application, and a null topic is not a retired one.
Expressed as a subquery rather than a join because the topic sort below joins
Application itself, and two joins onto the same table in one query collide.
"""
retired = db.session.query(Application.appid).filter(
Application.isactive.is_(False))
return KnowledgeBase.query.filter(
KnowledgeBase.isactive.is_(True),
db.or_(KnowledgeBase.appid.is_(None),
KnowledgeBase.appid.notin_(retired)))
def _search_clause(search):
"""Articles containing EVERY word of the search, each word in the title, the
keywords, or the topic's name, in any order.
A single `ilike('%CMM Community%')` needs the whole phrase contiguous in ONE
field. An article tagged 'community' under the CMM topic has 'CMM' only in
its topic's name and 'Community' only in its keywords, so it matched nothing
and the search came back empty. Splitting the query and requiring each word
somewhere is what people mean when they type two words.
Kept in step with `_word_match` in shopdb/core/api/search.py, which does the
same job for global search. Two copies because the core helper is internal
and not on the plugin contract surface (ADR-001).
Active applications only for the topic. A retired application is not a topic
anyone should be offered: matching its name surfaced its articles and printed
the retired app as their subject, which reads as though it were still in
service.
"""
words = [w for w in search.split() if w] or ['']
return db.and_(*[
db.or_(
KnowledgeBase.shortdescription.ilike(f'%{w}%'),
KnowledgeBase.keywords.ilike(f'%{w}%'),
KnowledgeBase.appid.in_(
db.session.query(Application.appid).filter(
Application.appname.ilike(f'%{w}%'),
Application.isactive.is_(True))),
)
for w in words
])
@knowledgebase_bp.route('', methods=['GET'])
@jwt_required(optional=True)
def list_articles():
"""List all knowledge base articles."""
page, per_page = get_pagination_params(request)
query = _visible_articles()
# The topic is matched via an appid subquery instead of a join so it does not
# collide with the sort=='topic' join below; articles with no app just miss
# that clause and still match on title/keywords.
if search := request.args.get('search'):
query = query.filter(_search_clause(search))
# Filter by topic/application
if appid := request.args.get('appid'):
query = query.filter(KnowledgeBase.appid == int(appid))
# Exact-match natural-key lookups for idempotent import. linkurl is the
# stable natural key; shortdescription (the title) is offered as a fallback.
if exactlinkurl := request.args.get('linkurl'):
query = query.filter(KnowledgeBase.linkurl == exactlinkurl)
if exacttitle := request.args.get('shortdescription'):
query = query.filter(KnowledgeBase.shortdescription == exacttitle)
# Sort options
sort = request.args.get('sort', 'clicks')
order = request.args.get('order', 'desc')
if sort == 'clicks':
query = query.order_by(
KnowledgeBase.clicks.desc() if order == 'desc' else KnowledgeBase.clicks.asc(),
KnowledgeBase.lastupdated.desc()
)
elif sort == 'topic':
query = query.join(Application).order_by(
Application.appname.desc() if order == 'desc' else Application.appname.asc()
)
elif sort == 'description':
query = query.order_by(
KnowledgeBase.shortdescription.desc() if order == 'desc' else KnowledgeBase.shortdescription.asc()
)
elif sort == 'lastupdated':
query = query.order_by(
KnowledgeBase.lastupdated.desc() if order == 'desc' else KnowledgeBase.lastupdated.asc()
)
else:
query = query.order_by(KnowledgeBase.clicks.desc())
items, total = paginate_query(query, page, per_page)
data = []
for article in items:
article_dict = article.to_dict()
if article.application:
article_dict['application'] = {
'appid': article.application.appid,
'appname': article.application.appname
}
else:
article_dict['application'] = None
data.append(article_dict)
return paginated_response(data, page, per_page, total)
@knowledgebase_bp.route('/stats', methods=['GET'])
@jwt_required(optional=True)
def get_stats():
"""Get knowledge base statistics."""
# Counted over the same set the list shows. A total that includes articles
# nobody can see is a total nobody can reconcile.
visible = _visible_articles()
total_clicks = sum(article.clicks or 0 for article in visible)
total_articles = visible.count()
return success_response({
'totalclicks': int(total_clicks),
'totalarticles': total_articles
})
@knowledgebase_bp.route('/<int:link_id>', methods=['GET'])
@jwt_required(optional=True)
def get_article(link_id: int):
"""Get a single knowledge base article."""
article = db.session.get(KnowledgeBase, link_id)
if not article or not article.isactive:
return error_response(ErrorCodes.NOT_FOUND, 'Article not found', http_code=404)
data = article.to_dict()
if article.application:
data['application'] = {
'appid': article.application.appid,
'appname': article.application.appname
}
else:
data['application'] = None
return success_response(data)
@knowledgebase_bp.route('/<int:link_id>/click', methods=['POST'])
@jwt_required(optional=True)
def track_click(link_id: int):
"""Increment click counter and return the URL to redirect to."""
article = db.session.get(KnowledgeBase, link_id)
if not article or not article.isactive:
return error_response(ErrorCodes.NOT_FOUND, 'Article not found', http_code=404)
article.increment_clicks()
db.session.commit()
return success_response({
'linkurl': article.linkurl,
'clicks': article.clicks
})
@knowledgebase_bp.route('', methods=['POST'])
@require_permission('kb.create')
def create_article():
"""Create a new knowledge base article."""
data = request.get_json()
if not data or not data.get('shortdescription'):
return error_response(ErrorCodes.VALIDATION_ERROR, 'shortdescription is required')
if not data.get('linkurl'):
return error_response(ErrorCodes.VALIDATION_ERROR, 'linkurl is required')
# Validate application if provided
if data.get('appid'):
app = db.session.get(Application, data['appid'])
if not app:
return error_response(ErrorCodes.NOT_FOUND, 'Application not found', http_code=404)
article = KnowledgeBase(
shortdescription=data['shortdescription'],
linkurl=data['linkurl'],
appid=data.get('appid'),
keywords=data.get('keywords'),
clicks=0
)
db.session.add(article)
apply_import_timestamps(article, data)
db.session.commit()
return success_response(article.to_dict(), message='Article created', http_code=201)
@knowledgebase_bp.route('/<int:link_id>', methods=['PUT'])
@require_permission('kb.edit')
def update_article(link_id: int):
"""Update a knowledge base article."""
article = db.session.get(KnowledgeBase, link_id)
if not article:
return error_response(ErrorCodes.NOT_FOUND, 'Article not found', http_code=404)
data = request.get_json()
if not data:
return error_response(ErrorCodes.VALIDATION_ERROR, 'No data provided')
# Validate application if being changed
if 'appid' in data and data['appid']:
app = db.session.get(Application, data['appid'])
if not app:
return error_response(ErrorCodes.NOT_FOUND, 'Application not found', http_code=404)
fields = ['shortdescription', 'linkurl', 'appid', 'keywords', 'isactive']
for key in fields:
if key in data:
setattr(article, key, data[key])
apply_import_timestamps(article, data)
db.session.commit()
return success_response(article.to_dict(), message='Article updated')
@knowledgebase_bp.route('/<int:link_id>', methods=['DELETE'])
@require_permission('kb.delete')
def delete_article(link_id: int):
"""Delete (deactivate) a knowledge base article."""
article = db.session.get(KnowledgeBase, link_id)
if not article:
return error_response(ErrorCodes.NOT_FOUND, 'Article not found', http_code=404)
article.isactive = False
db.session.commit()
return success_response(message='Article deleted')