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Revoking a collection grant silently failed when the grantee id carried surrounding whitespace, because grant and revoke derived the stored spelling differently.

grant wrote canonical_id.strip(). revoke and has_grant matched the raw argument. So passing one padded id to both calls granted query access that could not be taken back: the DELETE matched no rows, the call still returned the collection as if it had succeeded, and the CLI went on printing the grant as live.

Both ends now derive the storage spelling through one helper, _grantee_key, so they agree by construction rather than by two call sites happening to spell it the same way.

The scope of the normalisation is deliberate, and narrow

Whitespace only. has_grant decides which collections join search_agents in taosmd.api.search, so a wider rule (folding case, stripping a leading @) would serve content granted to one identity to a different identity that merely looks similar. This is a storage key, never an authorisation decision about two identities that look alike. The docstring says so at the definition, because the next person to touch it will be tempted to widen it.

Non-strings pass through untouched: revoke and has_grant accept any argument today and simply match nothing, and that stays true.

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Red first, run against unfixed master with the branch's test file dropped in:

test_revoke_matches_the_spelling_grant_stored      FAILED
test_has_grant_matches_the_spelling_grant_stored   FAILED
test_grantee_match_is_not_case_insensitive         passed
2 failed, 20 passed

The third one passing on master is the point of it: it is a control against an over-wide fix, so it is green on both trees by design and is evidence about the fix's boundary rather than about the defect. Only the first two discriminate.

Full suite on a trial merge with master f4626e9: 1464 passed, 12 skipped, exit 0 (baseline 1461; +3, which is this branch's tests).

Conflict markers clean. deleted-symbols-guard clean, exit 0. normalise-handle-gate clean, exit 0.

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Opened rather than self-merged. This is lead work and it should get the same review the lane PRs get.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Grant IDs now handle surrounding whitespace consistently when creating, looking up, and revoking collection grants.
    • Padded IDs can no longer remain active after revocation.
    • Matching remains case-sensitive, so differently cased IDs are treated as distinct.

…tored

grant() wrote canonical_id.strip(); revoke() and has_grant() matched the raw
argument. Handing the same padded id to grant and then revoke left the row in
place, and both the CLI and DELETE /collections/{id}/grants/{agent} reported
success while the grant stayed live.

Both ends now go through one _grantee_key(), so the write and the two reads
agree by construction. Whitespace only: has_grant decides which collections
join search_agents in api.search(), so folding case or stripping a leading @
would serve content granted to one identity to a different one. A test pins
that non-widening as well as the fix.
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Collection grant creation, revocation, and lookup now normalize surrounding whitespace through _grantee_key. Case-sensitive matching remains unchanged. Tests cover padded identifiers and differently cased identifiers. A changelog entry documents the behavior.

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Collection grantee normalization

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Normalize grantee identities
taosmd/collections.py
The collection store adds _grantee_key and uses it for grant creation, revocation, and lookup.
Validate grantee matching
tests/test_collections_store.py, changelog.d/collections-revoke-grantee-symmetry.md
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The PR makes grant, revoke, and lookup use the same narrow whitespace normalization, with no actionable merge-blocking risk remaining; an extra leading-whitespace test is optional follow-up.

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def _grantee_key(canonical_id: str) -> str:

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SUGGESTION: Return type annotation -> str is misleading when non-strings are passed

The function signature declares -> str, but the body returns canonical_id unchanged for any non-string input (e.g. None, int). The docstring documents this pass-through correctly, but the annotation contradicts it. A type checker will not flag callers passing non-strings, which masks the actual runtime behavior where those values flow into SQL queries as non-string parameters.

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def _grantee_key(canonical_id: str) -> str:
def _grantee_key(canonical_id: str) -> str | int | float | None:

or more precisely, using a union that covers the documented pass-through cases.


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174-194: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add coverage for leading whitespace.

The new tests use trailing padding only, such as "agent-a ". Add a case with both leading and trailing padding, such as " agent-a ", to verify the full surrounding-whitespace contract and prevent a future rstrip() implementation from passing these tests.

Proposed test extension
-    store.grant(col["id"], "agent-a ")
+    store.grant(col["id"], "  agent-a  ")
...
-    store.revoke(col["id"], "agent-a ")
+    store.revoke(col["id"], "  agent-a  ")
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In `@tests/test_collections_store.py` around lines 174 - 194, Extend the
grant/revoke and has_grant coverage around store.grant, store.revoke, and
store.has_grant to use an identifier with both leading and trailing whitespace,
such as “  agent-a  ”, while preserving assertions that the canonical identifier
matches and revocation removes access. Ensure the tests validate stripping
surrounding whitespace rather than only trailing whitespace.
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In `@tests/test_collections_store.py`:
- Around line 174-194: Extend the grant/revoke and has_grant coverage around
store.grant, store.revoke, and store.has_grant to use an identifier with both
leading and trailing whitespace, such as “  agent-a  ”, while preserving
assertions that the canonical identifier matches and revocation removes access.
Ensure the tests validate stripping surrounding whitespace rather than only
trailing whitespace.

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Triage of Kilo's single finding on this PR, recorded here rather than carded because the PR is still open and the fix belongs inside it. The finding is real. I am not applying it myself — this PR is mine and still wants a review that is not mine to give.

Confirmed: the annotation contradicts both the docstring and the body

taosmd/collections.py:136:

def _grantee_key(canonical_id: str) -> str:
    ...
    Non-strings pass through untouched: ``revoke``/``has_grant`` accept any
    argument today and simply match nothing, and that stays true.
    """
    return canonical_id.strip() if isinstance(canonical_id, str) else canonical_id

The signature promises str in and str out. The docstring promises the opposite for non-strings, and the isinstance guard exists solely to deliver it. All three cannot be right. Kilo's line number is exact.

Scope, measured rather than assumed

No type checker runs in CI — .github/workflows/ holds ci.yml and the three gate workflows, and there is no mypy, pyright or pyre config anywhere in the repo. Annotations are not enforced at runtime either, so this is a correctness-of-documentation problem, not a live defect. Nothing misbehaves today. All three call sites (:393, :403, :412) pass canonical_id straight through from the public methods.

One thing Kilo did not say, which I think matters more

The documented pass-through has no test. No test in tests/test_collections_store.py passes a non-string grantee to revoke or has_grant. So the sentence "Non-strings pass through untouched … and that stays true" is an unverified behavioural claim sitting next to an annotation that denies it. Whichever way this is resolved, one of the two should become checkable.

I should flag that my first grep for non-string call sites was sloppy and appeared to find three: the pattern allowed [, and col["id"] matches it. All three "hits" were ordinary string calls. The corrected answer is zero.

Recommendation

Widen the annotation to match the documented contract and pin the contract with a test — something like def _grantee_key(canonical_id: object) -> object:, plus one test asserting revoke/has_grant with a non-string argument matches nothing and does not raise. Narrowing the other way (dropping the isinstance guard and keeping -> str) is the alternative, but it would change what revoke does with a non-string from "match nothing" to "raise AttributeError", and the docstring argues deliberately against that. Your call.

Kilo raised nothing else here; qodo and gitar raised nothing on these lines. For the record, Kilo's five findings on the merged #331 were triaged in the same pass: four real (carded as tsk-nup2ny) and one a false positive that inverted what its card actually said.

jaylfc added 2 commits August 18, 2026 08:51
… promised but no test held

Kilo's review of #315 flagged that _grantee_key is annotated
(canonical_id: str) -> str while its docstring and isinstance guard both
promise non-strings pass through, and that the documented pass-through
had no test. Both halves were fair.

Measured on master and on this branch: None and an int reach the query
and match nothing on BOTH trees, and a list raises
sqlite3.ProgrammingError on BOTH. So the guard changes nothing for
callers; it prevents the symmetry fix from newly raising AttributeError
on .strip() for the values sqlite binds natively. Dropping the guard
fails the new test with exactly that AttributeError.

The docstring said those callers 'accept any argument today and simply
match nothing'. That was my own sentence and it overstated: a list has
never worked. Narrowed to what the two probes actually measured, and the
guard's scope is now asserted in both directions.
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Triaging Kilo's finding on _grantee_key (comment 5322796166). Both halves were fair, and one of them was my own overstatement.

The finding: the helper is annotated (canonical_id: str) -> str, while its docstring and its isinstance guard both promise non-strings pass through, and nothing tested that promise.

I measured it on both trees rather than reasoning about it. Same probe file, run against master (before the fix) and against this branch (after):

input master this branch
None reaches the query, matches nothing same
7 reaches the query, matches nothing same
["agent-a"] sqlite3.ProgrammingError same

So the guard changes nothing for callers. What it does is stop the symmetry fix from newly raising AttributeError on .strip() for the values sqlite binds natively, which would have been a behaviour change this PR does not intend to make. That is now pinned by test_grantee_key_preserves_the_pre_existing_non_string_behaviour, and the test discriminates: deleting the guard fails it with exactly that AttributeError, and restoring it passes.

The docstring also claimed those callers "accept any argument today and simply match nothing". That sentence was mine and it was wrong: a list has never worked, before or after. Narrowed to what the two probes actually measured, including the half that raises.

Branch was 62 commits behind, so master is merged in. master touched collections.py once in that range (#347, front matter) and nowhere near the grant paths; all three _grantee_key call sites verified present in the merged tree rather than assumed from a clean merge.

On the merged tree: 1666 passed, 12 skipped against a 1662 baseline, which is the three tests this PR already carried plus the new one. check_deleted_symbols, normalise_handle_gate, check_witness_token, check_trailing_newline and ruff check taosmd/ all clean, exit codes read directly rather than off the end of a pipe.

Still not self-merging this one. It is ready for a look whenever you have a moment.

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