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Normalize auth, rate limit and server errors across forges - #205
Adds three common errors that errors.Is matches on GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, Bitbucket, Gerrit and Tangled, alongside the existing forge.ErrNotFound:
Error
Matches
forges.ErrUnauthorized
401, 403
forges.ErrRateLimited
429, plus GitHub's 403 rate limit responses
forges.ErrServerError
5xx
Messages don't change, and the original error stays in the chain, so errors.As on *github.ErrorResponse, *gitlab.ErrorResponse or *forges.HTTPError still works.
How each backend gets there
Bitbucket, Gerrit, Tangled: these already return *forges.HTTPError, so a new HTTPError.Is method covers them.
Gitea: the existing wrapErr now classifies by response status.
GitHub, GitLab: each gets a small wrapErr in a new errors.go, applied where an SDK call's error is returned. That's most of the diff: about 200 one-line changes, with no change to control flow. The existing 404 and AcceptedError checks still run first, against the raw error.
GitHub rate limits: go-github reports 403 rate limits as RateLimitError and AbuseRateLimitError, and these map to ErrRateLimited, not ErrUnauthorized. TwoFactorAuthError (a 401) maps to ErrUnauthorized.
forges.ClassifyStatus(status, err) is the new exported helper behind these. It's public so that backends outside this repo can use it too.
Other fixes
I listed every returned error in the GitHub, GitLab and Gitea backends and traced it to the call that produced it. That turned up two paths that would otherwise have been missed:
Bitbucket PullRequests.Diff didn't check the response status, so a 401 or 500 body came back as if it were the diff, with a nil error. It now returns HTTPError.
GitLab Secrets.Set returned the error from its create fallback unwrapped.
Not covered
GitHub CI.GetJobLog fetches the log with a plain http.Get from the redirect URL and doesn't check the status. That request goes to blob storage rather than the forge API. Building an HTTPError there would put the signed URL into error messages, so I left it alone.
Rate limits outside GitHub: only a 429 counts. A 403 from another forge is ErrUnauthorized, as the issue describes.
Testing
errors_test.go in the root package covers the status table, HTTPError.Is, and that messages and wrapped types are kept.
Each backend has its own test against a fake server through the public Forge interface. GitHub, GitLab and Gitea run a range of services, including the helpers that add context with %w.
GitHub cases include primary and secondary rate limits, 2FA, and a non-JSON 502. A 422 stays unclassified.
The GitLab tests build the client with retries off to stay fast. I also ran them once with the default client, which retries 429 and 5xx, and they passed.
Disabling classification in each backend makes these tests fail. So do removing HTTPError.Is, the two GitHub special cases, the Bitbucket status check, or the wrapping of the GitLab secret and user lookup errors.
gofmt, go vet on the root package and backends, go test -race ./..., go test -tags=tinygo ./gitlab, and the GOOS=js and GOOS=wasip1 builds pass. I didn't run the TinyGo compiler jobs or golangci-lint locally.
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New Features
Errors from supported code hosting services can be identified as unauthorized, rate-limited, or server errors based on their HTTP status. Existing not-found handling remains available.
Classified errors preserve their original details and causes, supporting further inspection and troubleshooting.
Bug Fixes
Pull-request diff requests now return consistent error information for not-found and other HTTP failures.
Documentation
Added guidance and examples for checking error categories and their associated status codes.
The shared package adds unauthorized, rate-limited, and server-error sentinels. GitHub, GitLab, and Gitea classify provider errors, while Bitbucket adds HTTP error handling for pull-request diffs. Tests cover status classification across providers, and the README documents the common errors.
Changes: Shared error classification
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Status sentinels and classification forge.go, errors_test.go
Adds status sentinels and ClassifyStatus. HTTPError.Is also matches sentinels by status. Tests check classification and preservation of the original error and its type.
Adds GitHub-specific classification for rate-limit, two-factor, and HTTP response errors. GitHub API methods route non-not-found errors through the helper while retaining existing special cases. Job-log requests classify unsuccessful responses without exposing the signed URL.
Adds classification for GitLab errors with HTTP responses and applies it across GitLab API methods. Existing not-found and other status handling remains in place.
Other provider integration and documentation gitea/errors.go, gitea/errors_test.go, bitbucket/prs.go, bitbucket/errors_test.go, gerrit/errors_test.go, tangled/errors_test.go, radicle/errors_test.go, README.md
Gitea uses the shared classifier when a response exists. Bitbucket diff errors include response details. Tests cover status classification for Bitbucket, Gerrit, Gitea, Tangled, and Radicle. The README describes the error sentinels and errors.Is usage.
sequenceDiagram
participant ProviderAPI
participant Adapter
participant ClassifyStatus
participant Caller
ProviderAPI->>Adapter: Return API error and response status
Adapter->>ClassifyStatus: Pass status and original error
ClassifyStatus-->>Adapter: Return classified error
Adapter-->>Caller: Return error preserving original details
Caller->>Caller: Check errors.Is
git-pkgs/forge#199: Adds HTTPError handling for Radicle failures. This change also enables HTTPError.Is to match shared status sentinels.
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Merge Risk: Low · up to bb45c
The README should qualify when forge-specific error details remain available. This documentation issue does not block merging.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to bb45c
The shared classification preserves underlying errors and existing failure branches in the inspected adapters. A signed job-log URL can still appear in transport-error output, but that disclosure path predates this PR. The remaining disclosure issue and limited visibility into downstream error-handling policies keep risk above minimal.
Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
inferred — The evidenced disclosure concerns the signed URL for a requested job log. A recipient of error output could potentially reuse that URL while it remains valid. Broader account-token, tenant-wide, or infrastructure authority is not established by this finding.
Security Findings and Attack Paths
observed — The retained information-disclosure finding remains: download transport errors can contain the signed request URL or redirect details, and the CLI forwards those errors without sanitization. The full PR base already returned http.Get errors through the same consumer. The inspected comparison therefore establishes a pre-existing disclosure path, not an introduced or materially expanded PR architecture concern.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — The new job-log HTTP-status error deliberately excludes the signed URL and discards the rejected response body. That protection applies to completed HTTP responses, not to request-construction or transport errors, which remain directly returned. The original provider-error chain is intentionally preserved elsewhere and should not be treated as sanitized diagnostic data.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
inferred — No new automatic mutation retry was identified in repository consumers. External applications could use the new rate-limit or server-error matches to retry operations, but classification alone does not establish that an operation failed before committing. External retry and recovery policies remain outside the available evidence.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — Consider a URL-redacting diagnostic boundary for job-log request and transport failures, including nested redirect causes, with coverage that distinguishes HTTP-status failures from transport failures. Preserve necessary error-matching semantics without exposing bearer URLs in routine output.
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The GetJobLog change classifies HTTP errors from the redirected blob-storage request. The issue concerns forge API errors, and the current PR description explicitly says this storage request is not …
Remove the GetJobLog blob-storage status-classification change and its tests, or link an issue that includes this behavior in scope.
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Docstring coverage is 21.43% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…
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The title clearly summarizes the main change: normalizing authentication, rate-limit, and server-error classifications across forge providers.
Linked Issues check
[#20] The change adds ErrUnauthorized, ErrRateLimited, ErrServerError, and status-based errors.Is matching. The backend wrappers cover GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, Bitbucket, Gerrit, and Tangled. Gi…
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[#20] The change adds ErrUnauthorized, ErrRateLimited, ErrServerError, and status-based errors.Is matching. The backend wrappers cover GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, Bitbucket, Gerrit, and Tangled. GitHub rate-limit errors receive the required special handling. The reported tests cover status mappings and error-chain behavior.
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The GetJobLog change classifies HTTP errors from the redirected blob-storage request. The issue concerns forge API errors, and the current PR description explicitly says this storage request is not covered. github/ci.go nevertheless checks the storage response and calls forge.ClassifyStatus; the added tests cover this path.
Resolution
Remove the GetJobLog blob-storage status-classification change and its tests, or link an issue that includes this behavior in scope.
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Thanks, this is the right shape: HTTPError.Is for the backends that already return it, and a thin wrapErr at the SDK boundary for the rest. Two things before merging.
Radicle landed on main after this branch was cut. radicle/radicle.go returns *forges.HTTPError, so it picks up the classification as soon as this is rebased, but it would be the only HTTPError backend without a test. Please rebase on main and add a radicle/errors_test.go along the lines of tangled/errors_test.go.
GetJobLog in github/ci.go should check the status of the log fetch, the same way this PR fixes Bitbucket Diff. At the moment a 403 or 500 from blob storage is returned as the log with a nil error. The signed URL doesn't need to appear in the error: on a non-2xx, close the body and return forge.ClassifyStatus(status, fmt.Errorf("fetching job log: HTTP %d", status)). While there, build the request with http.NewRequestWithContext so it uses ctx. Add a test for it next to the other GitHub cases.
Only forge.ErrNotFound was mapped by every provider, so callers had to know
each SDK's error types to tell an expired token from a rate limit or an outage.
Add forge.ErrUnauthorized (401 and 403), forge.ErrRateLimited (429) and
forge.ErrServerError (5xx), which errors.Is matches on all six backends:
- HTTPError gains an Is method, which covers Bitbucket, Gerrit and Tangled.
- forge.ClassifyStatus attaches a sentinel to an SDK error without changing
its message or hiding its type, so errors.As on the SDK's error still works.
- GitHub and GitLab get a wrapErr helper, applied wherever an SDK call's error
is returned. GitHub's 403 rate limit responses, which go-github reports as
RateLimitError and AbuseRateLimitError, map to ErrRateLimited and not to
ErrUnauthorized.
- Gitea's existing wrapErr now classifies too.
Fix two error paths that would otherwise have been missed. Bitbucket's
PullRequests.Diff never checked the response status, so a 401 or 500 body was
returned as if it were the diff. GitLab's Secrets.Set returned the error from
its create fallback unwrapped.
Fixesgit-pkgs#20
GetJobLog now closes the body and returns a classified error when the log
fetch is not 2xx, without putting the signed URL in the message, and builds
the request with the caller's context. Radicle gets an errors test like the
other HTTPError backends.
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Failures map to common errors on every forge, so callers can check the kind of failure without knowing which forge they're using. The original error stays in the chain for callers that need forge-specific details:
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Qualify the original-error guarantee.
For an HTTP 404, github.Issues().Get returns bare ErrNotFound instead of wrapping the SDK error. Radicle also returns bare ErrNotFound. Callers therefore cannot use errors.As to recover forge-specific details for those failures. State that the original error remains available only on paths that preserve it, or change the 404 paths to wrap it. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Rebased on main and added radicle/errors_test.go. GetJobLog now checks the log status, closes the body and returns ClassifyStatus with the URL left out, and uses NewRequestWithContext, with tests next to the other GitHub cases: NopeCharon@bb45cde
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Fixes #20
Summary
Adds three common errors that
errors.Ismatches on GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, Bitbucket, Gerrit and Tangled, alongside the existingforge.ErrNotFound:forges.ErrUnauthorizedforges.ErrRateLimitedforges.ErrServerErrorMessages don't change, and the original error stays in the chain, so
errors.Ason*github.ErrorResponse,*gitlab.ErrorResponseor*forges.HTTPErrorstill works.How each backend gets there
*forges.HTTPError, so a newHTTPError.Ismethod covers them.wrapErrnow classifies by response status.wrapErrin a newerrors.go, applied where an SDK call's error is returned. That's most of the diff: about 200 one-line changes, with no change to control flow. The existing 404 andAcceptedErrorchecks still run first, against the raw error.RateLimitErrorandAbuseRateLimitError, and these map toErrRateLimited, notErrUnauthorized.TwoFactorAuthError(a 401) maps toErrUnauthorized.forges.ClassifyStatus(status, err)is the new exported helper behind these. It's public so that backends outside this repo can use it too.Other fixes
I listed every returned error in the GitHub, GitLab and Gitea backends and traced it to the call that produced it. That turned up two paths that would otherwise have been missed:
PullRequests.Diffdidn't check the response status, so a 401 or 500 body came back as if it were the diff, with a nil error. It now returnsHTTPError.Secrets.Setreturned the error from its create fallback unwrapped.Not covered
CI.GetJobLogfetches the log with a plainhttp.Getfrom the redirect URL and doesn't check the status. That request goes to blob storage rather than the forge API. Building anHTTPErrorthere would put the signed URL into error messages, so I left it alone.ErrUnauthorized, as the issue describes.Testing
errors_test.goin the root package covers the status table,HTTPError.Is, and that messages and wrapped types are kept.Forgeinterface. GitHub, GitLab and Gitea run a range of services, including the helpers that add context with%w.HTTPError.Is, the two GitHub special cases, the Bitbucket status check, or the wrapping of the GitLab secret and user lookup errors.gofmt,go veton the root package and backends,go test -race ./...,go test -tags=tinygo ./gitlab, and theGOOS=jsandGOOS=wasip1builds pass. I didn't run the TinyGo compiler jobs orgolangci-lintlocally.Summary by CodeRabbit