feat(validation): add a strict validate_inputs action for user input

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.sisyphus/
.ansible/
__pycache__/
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[defaults]
hash_behaviour = merge
roles_path = roles
action_plugins = plugins/action
interpreter_python = auto_silent
deprecation_warnings = False
host_key_checking = False
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"""Strict validation of user-facing variable dicts against role argument specs.
Each spec file's ``argument_specs.inputs.options`` declares top-level variables. Every one the host
defines is checked without Ansible's lenient coercion: a string is never a list, bool or dict. A dict
option whose only sub-option is named ``<name>`` is a collection keyed by name; each entry is checked
against that sub-option, and a null entry means the entry is not managed. Messages name the key path
and the types involved but never a value, so secrets cannot leak into job output.
"""
from collections.abc import Mapping
from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
from ansible.parsing.vault import EncryptedString
from ansible.plugins.action import ActionBase
KEYED = "<name>"
SPEC_KEYS = {"type", "required", "default", "choices", "elements", "options", "description", "no_log"}
UNRESOLVED = object()
# Numbers pass where a string is declared and digit strings where an int is: the roles read those
# through `| string` and `| int` unchanged. A string posing as a list, bool or dict never passes.
TYPES = {
"str": lambda v: isinstance(v, (str, int, float, EncryptedString)) and not isinstance(v, bool),
"int": lambda v: (isinstance(v, int) and not isinstance(v, bool)) or (isinstance(v, str) and v.isdigit()),
"float": lambda v: isinstance(v, (int, float)) and not isinstance(v, bool),
"bool": lambda v: isinstance(v, bool),
"list": lambda v: isinstance(v, list),
"dict": lambda v: isinstance(v, Mapping),
"raw": lambda _: True,
}
def _kind(value):
if value is None:
return "null"
# bool before int: bool is an int subclass.
for name, cls in (("bool", bool), ("dict", Mapping), ("str", (str, EncryptedString)), ("int", int),
("float", float), ("list", list)):
if isinstance(value, cls):
return name
return type(value).__name__
def _check_spec(options, path):
for key, spec in options.items():
unknown = set(spec) - SPEC_KEYS
if unknown:
raise AnsibleError(f"{path}.{key}: unsupported spec attributes {', '.join(sorted(unknown))}")
if spec.get("type", "str") not in TYPES:
raise AnsibleError(f"{path}.{key}: unsupported spec type {spec['type']}")
if "options" in spec:
_check_spec(spec["options"], f"{path}.{key}")
class _Validator:
def __init__(self, templar):
self.templar = templar
self.errors = []
def resolve(self, value):
# Task vars arrive untemplated. Render one node at a time so a vaulted leaf is never decrypted;
# a node that cannot render here (no vault secret, a runtime-only variable) is left unchecked.
if isinstance(value, str) and self.templar.is_template(value):
try:
return self.templar.template(value)
except AnsibleError:
return UNRESOLVED
return value
def check(self, spec, value, path):
value = self.resolve(value)
if value is UNRESOLVED:
return
kind = spec.get("type", "str")
if not TYPES[kind](value):
self.errors.append(f"{path}: expected {kind}, got {_kind(value)}")
return
if "choices" in spec and value not in spec["choices"]:
shown = "" if spec.get("no_log") else f", got {value!r}"
self.errors.append(f"{path}: must be one of {', '.join(map(str, spec['choices']))}{shown}")
if kind == "dict" and "options" in spec:
self.check_options(spec["options"], value, path)
elif kind == "list" and "elements" in spec:
element = {"type": spec["elements"]}
if "options" in spec:
element["options"] = spec["options"]
for index, item in enumerate(value):
self.check(element, item, f"{path}[{index}]")
def check_options(self, options, value, path):
if set(options) == {KEYED}:
for name, entry in value.items():
if entry is not None:
self.check(options[KEYED], entry, f"{path}.{name}")
return
for key in value:
if key not in options:
self.errors.append(f"{path}.{key}: unsupported key, {path} accepts {', '.join(sorted(options))}")
for key, spec in options.items():
if key in value:
self.check(spec, value[key], f"{path}.{key}")
elif spec.get("required"):
self.errors.append(f"{path}.{key}: required key is missing")
class ActionModule(ActionBase):
_requires_connection = False
def run(self, tmp=None, task_vars=None):
result = super().run(tmp, task_vars)
task_vars = task_vars or {}
validator = _Validator(self._templar)
for path in self._task.args["specs"]:
options = self._loader.load_from_file(path)["argument_specs"]["inputs"]["options"]
_check_spec(options, path)
for name, spec in options.items():
if name in task_vars:
validator.check(spec, task_vars[name], name)
elif spec.get("required"):
validator.errors.append(f"{name}: required variable is not defined")
if validator.errors:
result.update(failed=True, errors=validator.errors,
msg="Invalid input variables:\n" + "\n".join(validator.errors))
else:
result.update(changed=False, msg="All input variables are valid")
return result
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---
- name: "Validate the fixture ({{ inf.name }})"
block:
- name: "Run the validator ({{ inf.name }})"
validate_inputs:
specs:
- "{{ playbook_dir }}/fixture_spec.yml"
vars:
fixture: "{{ inf.value }}"
register: inputs_result
rescue:
- name: "Keep the failed result ({{ inf.name }})"
ansible.builtin.set_fact:
inputs_result: "{{ ansible_failed_result }}"
- name: "Assert the reported violations ({{ inf.name }})"
ansible.builtin.assert:
that:
- (inputs_result.errors | default([])) | sort == inf.expect | sort
- "'topsecret-value' not in (inputs_result | to_json)"
fail_msg: "[inputs {{ inf.name }}] expected {{ inf.expect }}, got {{ inputs_result.errors | default([]) }}"
success_msg: "[inputs {{ inf.name }}] OK"
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---
argument_specs:
inputs:
options:
fixture:
type: dict
options:
name:
type: str
required: true
enabled:
type: bool
count:
type: int
servers:
type: list
elements: str
kind:
type: str
choices: [a, b]
secret:
type: str
no_log: true
disks:
type: list
elements: dict
options:
size:
type: int
required: true
users:
type: dict
options:
"<name>":
type: dict
options:
password:
type: str
no_log: true
keys:
type: list
elements: str
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---
# Vaulted with a discarded password: the validator must handle a value it cannot decrypt.
fixture:
name: web01
secret: !vault |
$ANSIBLE_VAULT;1.1;AES256
62363835313830363035333361613236373662303039376639396136336438616331336565393631
6637376163346430386663393661386561316537306662350a663563326164376164396230616361
33646564346532643735396239626133333162353839666135343030643836313938363466383439
3130353636666365310a353064373139323836373163336563353861356333316534386238333664
3663
servers: !vault |
$ANSIBLE_VAULT;1.1;AES256
65626131373433633432363261356534613135386461626535393539656631323531346661643233
3961366535643630386462303038636231373239343130310a343565336461633532316136643139
30306461616232663763633630353661376130323536346637633964373239343664303533396236
6165623262633131330a303965643439626335663130376237393362363231346537643334633163
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---
inputs_fixtures:
- name: valid
value:
name: web01
enabled: true
count: "3"
servers: [10.0.0.1, 10.0.0.2]
kind: a
disks:
- size: 30
users:
alice:
password: pw
keys: [ssh-ed25519 AAAA alice]
retired: ~
expect: []
- name: list-for-dict
value:
name: web01
users:
- name: alice
expect: ["fixture.users: expected dict, got list"]
- name: comma-string-for-list
value:
name: web01
servers: 10.0.0.1,10.0.0.2
expect: ["fixture.servers: expected list, got str"]
- name: yes-string-for-bool
value:
name: web01
enabled: "yes"
expect: ["fixture.enabled: expected bool, got str"]
- name: typo-key
value:
name: web01
userz: {}
expect: ["fixture.userz: unsupported key, fixture accepts count, disks, enabled, kind, name, secret, servers, users"]
- name: wrong-element-type
value:
name: web01
disks:
- size: 30
- size: big
expect: ["fixture.disks[1].size: expected int, got str"]
- name: missing-required
value:
enabled: false
expect: ["fixture.name: required key is missing"]
- name: choice-mismatch
value:
name: web01
kind: c
expect: ["fixture.kind: must be one of a, b, got 'c'"]
- name: secrets-never-echoed
value:
name: web01
secret: [topsecret-value]
users:
alice:
password: [topsecret-value]
expect:
- "fixture.secret: expected str, got list"
- "fixture.users.alice.password: expected str, got list"
- name: keyed-entry-not-a-dict
value:
name: web01
users:
alice: pw
expect: ["fixture.users.alice: expected dict, got str"]
- name: two-violations-at-once
value:
name: web01
enabled: "true"
userz: {}
expect:
- "fixture.userz: unsupported key, fixture accepts count, disks, enabled, kind, name, secret, servers, users"
- "fixture.enabled: expected bool, got str"
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---
# Run: ansible-playbook tests/inputs/test_inputs.yml
- name: Strict input validator fixture tests
hosts: localhost
gather_facts: false
connection: local
vars_files:
- inputs_fixtures.yml
tasks:
- name: Run each input fixture
ansible.builtin.include_tasks: _assert_inputs.yml
loop: "{{ inputs_fixtures }}"
loop_control:
loop_var: inf
label: "{{ inf.name }}"
- name: Validate a host var holding values that cannot be decrypted
block:
- name: Run the validator on the vaulted host var
validate_inputs:
specs:
- "{{ playbook_dir }}/fixture_spec.yml"
register: inputs_vault_result
rescue:
- name: Keep the failed vault result
ansible.builtin.set_fact:
inputs_vault_result: "{{ ansible_failed_result }}"
- name: Assert a vaulted string passes and a vaulted non-list is reported
ansible.builtin.assert:
that:
- >-
inputs_vault_result.errors | default([]) == ['fixture.servers: expected list, got str']
fail_msg: "[inputs vault] got {{ inputs_vault_result.errors | default([]) }}"
success_msg: "[inputs vault] OK"