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shopdb-flask/scripts/gen_openapi.py
cproudlock ad335cfc9e api: document the twenty-two routes that were serving traffic in silence
The inventory is hand-maintained, and should stay that way - its value is the
prose, and what an endpoint is FOR cannot be derived from the code. An audit of
all 372 documented operations found zero phantom routes and zero wrong parameter
names, so the maintenance is in good order.

What hand-maintenance cannot do is notice a route somebody added. Twenty-two
were undocumented: the entire backups plugin surface, every one of the dashboard
card endpoints added with contract 0.19.0, the GE-Enforce publish preflight, the
employee SSO resolver, the protocol update verbs, and the four /api/docs routes -
so the spec did not describe how to fetch the spec.

Coverage is now a test. It walks the live url_map and fails when a served route
has no entry, which means adding an endpoint includes describing it, in the same
commit, while the author still knows what it is for. The reverse direction is
checked too: a documented route that no longer exists sends a reader to a 404.

Writing that test found one more thing. The inventory writes multi-verb routes
as "PUT|PATCH", and neither the parity check nor the generator split on the pipe
- so those operations were absent from the published spec entirely, with nothing
reporting it. The spec now carries all 394 operations the code serves, which is
the first time the two numbers have matched.

The generator's own docstring claimed the inventory could be regenerated. It
cannot; nothing generates it. That sentence is why nobody noticed it was falling
behind.
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"""Generate docs/openapi.json from docs/api-inventory.json.
The inventory is a list of {surface, endpoints:[{method,path,auth,params,purpose,
example}]} objects (one per API surface). It is HAND-MAINTAINED - nothing
generates it, and the docstring here used to imply otherwise. That is deliberate:
its value is the prose, and what an endpoint is FOR cannot be derived from the
code. Coverage is enforced instead, by tests/test_api_inventory_parity.py, which
fails when a served route has no entry.
So: describe the endpoint in api-inventory.json, then re-run this. Served
interactively at /api/docs (see shopdb/core/api/docs.py).
venv/bin/python scripts/gen_openapi.py
"""
import json
import os
import re
HERE = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
REPO = os.path.dirname(HERE)
INVENTORY = os.path.join(REPO, 'docs', 'api-inventory.json')
OUT = os.path.join(REPO, 'docs', 'openapi.json')
VERBS = ('get', 'post', 'put', 'patch', 'delete', 'head', 'options')
def _servers():
"""Servers block for the spec: the relative mount, plus this site's own URL
if one was supplied.
SHOPDB_PUBLIC_URL is read from the environment rather than stored, because
the generated spec is published to a public wiki - a site URL baked into the
generator ends up in everyone's documentation, including sites it is wrong
for.
"""
servers = []
siteurl = (os.environ.get('SHOPDB_PUBLIC_URL') or '').strip().rstrip('/')
if siteurl:
servers.append({'url': siteurl, 'description': 'this site'})
servers.append({'url': '/', 'description': 'relative to the deployed mount'})
return servers
def _product_version():
"""Read __version__ out of shopdb/__init__.py without importing the app.
Importing shopdb here would pull in Flask, the plugin loader and a database
configuration, none of which this generator needs.
"""
here = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
init = os.path.join(here, 'shopdb', '__init__.py')
with open(init, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as handle:
match = re.search(r"^__version__ = '([^']+)'", handle.read(), re.M)
if not match:
raise SystemExit('could not read __version__ from ' + init)
return match.group(1)
def _norm_path(p):
# Flask <int:id> / <id> -> OpenAPI {id}
return re.sub(r'<(?:[^:>]+:)?([^>]+)>', r'{\1}', p or '')
def _security(auth):
"""OpenAPI security for one endpoint's documented auth string.
`jwt-optional` is the interesting case, and the common one - 121 endpoints.
It means "works logged out, returns more when logged in", which OpenAPI
expresses as a list containing BOTH the empty requirement and the scheme.
Publishing those as bearer-required told every reader, human and machine,
that a public endpoint needs a token.
"""
a = (auth or '').lower()
if 'optional' in a:
return [{}, {'bearerAuth': []}]
if a in ('none', 'public', '') or a.startswith('none') or a.startswith('public'):
return []
if 'api-key' in a or 'api_key' in a or 'x-api-key' in a:
return [{'apiKeyAuth': []}]
return [{'bearerAuth': []}]
def _path_parameters(rawpath):
"""Path parameters, typed from the Flask converter that declared them.
The generator emitted no `parameters` at all, which makes the document
invalid OpenAPI 3.1 - and breaks its only machine consumer outright, because
a tool built from an operation with no parameters has nowhere to put the id
the caller supplied, so it is dropped in silence.
"""
parameters = []
for converter, name in re.findall(r'<(?:([^:>]+):)?([^>]+)>', rawpath or ''):
schema = {'type': 'integer'} if converter in ('int',) else {'type': 'string'}
if converter == 'float':
schema = {'type': 'number'}
if converter == 'path':
schema = {'type': 'string', 'description': 'may contain slashes'}
parameters.append({
'name': name,
'in': 'path',
'required': True,
'schema': schema,
})
return parameters
def _request_body(verb, entry):
"""A JSON body for the verbs that take one.
The inventory describes bodies in prose, not as schemas, so this does not
invent field names it cannot verify - it declares an object and carries the
prose. That is honest, and it is the difference between a machine client
that can send a body and one that cannot send anything at all.
"""
if verb not in ('post', 'put', 'patch'):
return None
described = entry.get('params') or ''
return {
'required': verb in ('post', 'put'),
'content': {
'application/json': {
'schema': {
'type': 'object',
'additionalProperties': True,
'description': described or 'See the endpoint description.',
}
}
},
}
def _responses(security, parameters):
"""The envelope, plus the failures a caller has to handle.
One hardcoded 200 was the whole response section, so a generated client had
no idea any call could fail, and 19 operations that do not return the
envelope at all were documented as if they did.
"""
responses = {
'200': {
'description': 'Success. Body is the success_response envelope: '
'{status, data, meta}.',
'content': {'application/json': {
'$ref': '#/components/schemas/SuccessEnvelope'}},
},
'default': {
'description': 'Error. Body is the error envelope; the code and '
'message are nested under data.error.',
'content': {'application/json': {
'$ref': '#/components/schemas/ErrorEnvelope'}},
},
}
# An endpoint that can be called without a token cannot answer 401.
if security and security != [{}]:
requires = not any(item == {} for item in security)
if requires:
responses['401'] = {'description': 'Missing or invalid credentials.'}
responses['403'] = {'description': 'Authenticated, but not permitted.'}
if parameters:
responses['404'] = {'description': 'No such record.'}
return responses
def _summary(text, fallback):
"""A summary that ends on a word.
Cutting at a fixed 120 characters truncated 95 of them mid-word, which is
what a tool picker shows a user as the whole description of the call.
"""
source = (text or fallback or '').strip()
if len(source) <= 120:
return source
head = source[:120]
cut = head.rfind(' ')
# Trailing connectives read worse than a clean cut: "servicelevel +..."
# promises a continuation the reader will never see.
return (head[:cut] if cut > 40 else head).rstrip(' ,;:.+-/&|(') + '...'
def build(surfaces):
paths = {}
tags = []
for s in surfaces:
tags.append({'name': s['surface']})
for e in s.get('endpoints', []):
# 'PUT|PATCH' is how the inventory writes a multi-verb route.
# Without the pipe here, neither verb matched VERBS and the
# operation vanished from the spec without a word.
for verb in re.split(r'[\/,|]', (e.get('method') or 'GET')):
verb = verb.strip().lower()
if verb not in VERBS:
continue
path = _norm_path(e.get('path'))
if not path:
continue
desc = []
if e.get('purpose'):
desc.append(e['purpose'])
if e.get('auth'):
desc.append('\n\n**Auth:** ' + e['auth'])
if e.get('params'):
desc.append('\n\n**Params:** ' + e['params'])
if e.get('example'):
desc.append('\n\n**Example:**\n```\n' + e['example'] + '\n```')
security = _security(e.get('auth'))
parameters = _path_parameters(e.get('path'))
operation = {
'tags': [s['surface']],
'summary': _summary(e.get('purpose'), path),
'description': ''.join(desc),
'security': security,
'responses': _responses(security, parameters),
}
if parameters:
operation['parameters'] = parameters
body = _request_body(verb, e)
if body:
operation['requestBody'] = body
paths.setdefault(path, {})[verb] = operation
return {
'openapi': '3.1.0',
'info': {
'title': 'ShopDB Flask API',
# Read from the code, not restated. A hardcoded copy here had
# already drifted a release behind, and the same mistake in the
# installer script shipped an exe stamped with the wrong version.
'version': _product_version(),
'description': (
'Asset-management API (core + plugins). Responses use a '
'`success_response` envelope: `{status, data, meta}`. Auth: Bearer '
'JWT (login or a managed PAT) for `jwt`/`admin`/`permission:*`; '
'`X-API-Key` for collector/managed-token endpoints; public endpoints '
'need neither.'),
},
# One site's production hostname was hardcoded here, so every generated
# spec published it to the public wiki and offered a second site a
# server it cannot reach. The relative mount is the only server this
# generator can honestly name; a site that wants its own in the spec
# sets SHOPDB_PUBLIC_URL when regenerating.
'servers': _servers(),
'components': {
'schemas': {
# The envelope every JSON endpoint returns. Worth spelling out
# because the error shape nests one level deeper than most
# people assume, and code written against the assumption reads
# undefined on every error it tries to report.
'SuccessEnvelope': {
'type': 'object',
'properties': {
'status': {'type': 'string', 'enum': ['success']},
'data': {'description': 'The payload. Shape is per endpoint.'},
'meta': {
'type': 'object',
'properties': {
'timestamp': {'type': 'string', 'format': 'date-time'},
'requestid': {'type': 'string'},
'pagination': {
'type': 'object',
'properties': {
'page': {'type': 'integer'},
'perpage': {'type': 'integer'},
'total': {'type': 'integer'},
'pages': {'type': 'integer'},
},
},
},
},
},
'required': ['status'],
},
'ErrorEnvelope': {
'type': 'object',
'properties': {
'status': {'type': 'string', 'enum': ['error']},
'data': {
'type': 'object',
'properties': {
'error': {
'type': 'object',
'properties': {
'code': {'type': 'string'},
'message': {'type': 'string'},
'details': {'type': 'object'},
},
'required': ['code', 'message'],
},
},
'required': ['error'],
},
'meta': {'type': 'object'},
},
'required': ['status', 'data'],
},
},
'securitySchemes': {
'bearerAuth': {'type': 'http', 'scheme': 'bearer', 'bearerFormat': 'JWT',
'description': 'Login token or a managed Personal Access Token (scoped).'},
'apiKeyAuth': {'type': 'apiKey', 'in': 'header', 'name': 'X-API-Key',
'description': 'Managed service token (e.g. collector.ingest, geenforce.fetch).'},
}},
'tags': tags,
'paths': paths,
}
def main():
surfaces = json.load(open(INVENTORY))
spec = build(surfaces)
json.dump(spec, open(OUT, 'w'), indent=1)
ops = sum(len(v) for v in spec['paths'].values())
print('wrote %s: %d paths, %d operations from %d surfaces'
% (OUT, len(spec['paths']), ops, len(surfaces)))
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()