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Problem

The model schema is a five-branch oneOf (one per kind), so a document carrying a knob its kind never resolves fails every branch, and the first error jsonschema reports is the root-level one:

models[1] ("grp"): schema validation failed at ``: value is not valid under any of the schemas listed in the 'oneOf' keyword

True, but it does not say which field is at fault — the operator has to diff the document against the published schema to discover it was retries/cost on a model group. Rejecting dead knobs is the failure the strict path exists to produce (#963), so it is worth naming.

models[1] ("grp"): schema validation failed at ``: `cost`, `retries` not accepted on a model group

How

validate_model keeps the schema as the authority on accept/reject and only enriches the message. The field list comes from Model::strip_kind_inapplicable — the same function the lenient etcd loader already uses to strip and report these knobs — so the strict and lenient paths cannot disagree about which knob is dead on which kind, and the per-kind policy stays in exactly one place.

Best-effort by construction: a document that fails for some other reason (unknown field, wrong type, missing requirement) may not deserialise into Model at all, and keeps the generic message. Accept/reject behavior is unchanged.

Masking

validate deliberately masks instance values because validation errors reach logs, the rejection buffer and admin 400 bodies, and resource documents carry credentials. Only field names are added here — static string literals from a fixed per-kind list, never values from the document. A test pins this by asserting the cost figures never appear in the message.

Tests

Three added, all in models::schema::tests:

  • model_dead_knob_error_names_the_field_and_kind — the three kinds that have dead knobs (model group, ensemble, semantic router) each name their field and their kind, and the generic oneOf text is gone.
  • model_non_dead_knob_failures_keep_the_generic_message — an unknown field on a direct model is not relabelled, and retries on a direct model still validates (it resolves there, so it is not dead).
  • model_dead_knob_error_carries_no_instance_values — the masking contract.

Verified discriminating: with the implementation reverted and the tests kept, both dead-knob tests fail; restored, all pass. cargo test -p aisix-core -p aisix-etcd green (718 tests), cargo fmt --all --check and cargo clippy -p aisix-core --all-targets -- -D warnings clean.

Found during v0.9.0 release QA.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved validation error messages by identifying fields that aren’t applicable to the selected model type.
    • Preserved generic error messages for other validation failures to avoid exposing instance-specific values.
    • Confirmed valid direct-model configurations continue to be accepted.

The model schema is a five-branch `oneOf`, so a document carrying a knob
its kind never resolves fails every branch, and the first error
jsonschema reports is the root-level "not valid under any of the schemas
listed in the 'oneOf' keyword". True, but it does not say which field is
at fault — the operator has to diff the document against the schema to
find out. That is the one failure the strict path exists to produce, so
it is worth naming:

  before: models[1] ("grp"): schema validation failed at ``: value is
          not valid under any of the schemas listed in the 'oneOf' keyword
  after:  models[1] ("grp"): schema validation failed at ``: `cost`,
          `retries` not accepted on a model group

The field list comes from Model::strip_kind_inapplicable — the same
function the lenient loader already uses to strip and report these knobs
— so the strict and lenient paths cannot disagree about which knob is
dead on which kind, and the policy stays in one place.

Best-effort by construction: a document that fails for any other reason
may not deserialise into Model at all and keeps the generic message.
Only field NAMES are added, never instance values, so the masking
contract in `validate` (resource documents carry credentials) still
holds — pinned by a test that asserts the cost figures never appear.
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The model validation path now enriches strict validation errors for kind-inapplicable fields. It preserves generic masked errors for unrelated failures. Tests cover routing, ensemble, semantic-router, direct-model, and value-leakage cases.

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crates/aisix-core/src/models/schema.rs
validate_model now deserializes models to identify dead knobs and reports their fields and model kind. Other validation failures remain masked. Tests cover enriched messages, applicable fields, generic failures, and instance-value protection.

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The PR improves strict model-validation errors by naming unsupported fields, but the current behavior can mask an unrelated validation failure when both occur together, leading operators to fix the wrong problem. Merge readiness requires preserving the generic error unless the dead knob is the sole failure.

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196-213: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Rewrite this public documentation as API reference text.

Lines 198-203 describe schema implementation details and internal shorthand. Document the validation behavior, enriched error condition, and masking guarantee instead.

As per coding guidelines, “Write model comments as public API reference text, avoid internal implementation shorthand, use inline code only for exact identifiers or literals.”

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In `@crates/aisix-core/src/models/schema.rs` around lines 196 - 213, Rewrite the
public documentation above model_one_of_strict as API reference text: describe
strict validation behavior, state that errors caused by kind-inapplicable fields
include the offending field names, and state that instance values remain masked.
Remove schema-branch details, internal loader references, and implementation
shorthand while retaining inline code only for exact identifiers or literals.

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Inline comments:
In `@crates/aisix-core/src/models/schema.rs`:
- Around line 219-243: The validation flow around Model deserialization and
strip_kind_inapplicable must retain the original err unless removing every field
in dead allows the document to validate successfully; only then construct the
specialized dead-knob SchemaError. Add a regression test covering a dead knob
combined with an independent serde-deserializable schema violation, asserting
the original validation error is preserved.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@crates/aisix-core/src/models/schema.rs`:
- Around line 196-213: Rewrite the public documentation above
model_one_of_strict as API reference text: describe strict validation behavior,
state that errors caused by kind-inapplicable fields include the offending field
names, and state that instance values remain masked. Remove schema-branch
details, internal loader references, and implementation shorthand while
retaining inline code only for exact identifiers or literals.
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Comment thread crates/aisix-core/src/models/schema.rs
Review caught a real defect in the first cut: the enrichment replaced
the error whenever a dead knob was present, without establishing that
the dead knob was what failed. A document carrying both a dead knob and
an independent violation reported the dead knob while `path` still
pointed at the other field — two different fields in one error:

  path="/display_name"  message="`retries` not accepted on a model group"

when the real, more useful error was "value is shorter than 1 character"
at that same path.

The message is now replaced only when re-validating the document with
exactly the dead fields removed passes. Probing the original document
minus those keys rather than re-serialising the parsed `Model`: a serde
round-trip drops unknown fields and materialises defaults, either of
which could make the probe pass while the real document still fails.

Regression test asserts the independent failure wins and keeps its own
path, and that the same document with the independent violation fixed
gets the dead knob named again.
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