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feat: enhance error handling for unexpected response bodies in SaaS gateway #1877

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56 changes: 48 additions & 8 deletions backend/src/microservices/gateways/saas-gateway.ts/base-saas-gateway.service.ts
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Expand Up @@ -37,9 +37,11 @@ export class BaseSaasGatewayService {
},
});

const responseBody = await this.bodyToJSON(res);
const { body: responseBody, parseFailure } = await this.readBody(res);
if (res.status >= 400) {
this.reportFailedRequest(method, patch, res.status, responseBody);
this.reportFailedRequest(method, patch, res.status, responseBody, parseFailure);
} else if (parseFailure) {
this.reportUnexpectedBody(method, patch, res, parseFailure);
}
return {
status: res.status,
Expand All @@ -63,8 +65,10 @@ export class BaseSaasGatewayService {
patch: string,
status: number,
body: Record<string, unknown>,
parseFailure?: string,
): void {
const message = `SaaS request ${method} ${patch} failed: HTTP ${status}${describeSaasErrorBody(body)}`;
const bodyNote = describeSaasErrorBody(body) || (parseFailure ? ` (${parseFailure})` : '');
const message = `SaaS request ${method} ${patch} failed: HTTP ${status}${bodyNote}`;
this.logger.warn(message);
const route = normalizeSaasPath(patch);
Sentry.withScope((scope) => {
Expand All @@ -77,14 +81,50 @@ export class BaseSaasGatewayService {
});
}

private async bodyToJSON(res: Response): Promise<Record<string, unknown>> {
if (!res.body) {
return {};
// A 2xx whose body is not JSON never came from a saas controller. The usual cause is
// SAAS_URL pointing at something else on the same host — e.g. the SPA's nginx, whose
// history-mode fallback answers 200 + index.html for any unknown path — or a redirect
// that fetch followed. Content type, final URL and a body snippet pin that down.
private reportUnexpectedBody(method: SaaSRequestMethod, patch: string, res: Response, parseFailure: string): void {
const contentType = res.headers.get('content-type') ?? 'none';
const message =
`SaaS request ${method} ${patch} returned HTTP ${res.status} but ${parseFailure} ` +
`(content-type: ${contentType}; final URL: ${res.url || 'n/a'}; redirected: ${res.redirected}) — ` +
`SAAS_URL (${this.baseSaaSUrl}) does not seem to reach the saas API`;
this.logger.error(message);
const route = normalizeSaasPath(patch);
Sentry.withScope((scope) => {
scope.setLevel('error');
scope.setTag('saas_method', method);
scope.setTag('saas_route', route);
scope.setTag('saas_status', String(res.status));
scope.setTag('saas_content_type', contentType);
scope.setFingerprint(['saas-request-non-json-body', method, route]);
Sentry.captureMessage(message);
});
}

// Parses the body as JSON; on failure returns `{}` (the historical contract every caller
// relies on) plus a short description of what was actually there, for the reports above.
private async readBody(res: Response): Promise<{ body: Record<string, unknown>; parseFailure?: string }> {
let text: string;
try {
text = await res.text();
} catch (error) {
return { body: {}, parseFailure: `body could not be read: ${getErrorMessage(error)}` };
}
if (!text.trim()) {
return { body: {}, parseFailure: 'the body is empty' };
}
try {
return await res.json();
const parsed: unknown = JSON.parse(text);
if (parsed !== null && typeof parsed === 'object') {
return { body: parsed as Record<string, unknown> };
}
return { body: {}, parseFailure: `the body is JSON but not an object (${typeof parsed})` };
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reject JSON arrays before the Record cast.

JSON.parse returns an array with typeof parsed === 'object'. This branch therefore returns an array as Record<string, unknown>, skips parseFailure, and does not trigger reportUnexpectedBody. This violates the SaaSResponse.body contract for an unusable JSON response.

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-			if (parsed !== null && typeof parsed === 'object') {
+			if (parsed !== null && typeof parsed === 'object' && !Array.isArray(parsed)) {
 				return { body: parsed as Record<string, unknown> };
 			}
-			return { body: {}, parseFailure: `the body is JSON but not an object (${typeof parsed})` };
+			const parsedType = parsed === null ? 'null' : Array.isArray(parsed) ? 'array' : typeof parsed;
+			return { body: {}, parseFailure: `the body is JSON but not an object (${parsedType})` };
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if (parsed !== null && typeof parsed === 'object') {
return { body: parsed as Record<string, unknown> };
}
return { body: {}, parseFailure: `the body is JSON but not an object (${typeof parsed})` };
if (parsed !== null && typeof parsed === 'object' && !Array.isArray(parsed)) {
return { body: parsed as Record<string, unknown> };
}
const parsedType = parsed === null ? 'null' : Array.isArray(parsed) ? 'array' : typeof parsed;
return { body: {}, parseFailure: `the body is JSON but not an object (${parsedType})` };
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In
`@backend/src/microservices/gateways/saas-gateway.ts/base-saas-gateway.service.ts`
around lines 121 - 124, Update the parsed-body validation in the response
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} catch (_error) {
return {};
const snippet = text.slice(0, 160).replace(/\s+/g, ' ');
return { body: {}, parseFailure: `the body is not JSON: "${snippet}"` };
}
}
}
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33 changes: 33 additions & 0 deletions backend/test/ava-tests/unit-tests/saas-company-gateway.test.ts
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Expand Up @@ -89,6 +89,39 @@
t.true(warnings.some((message) => message.includes('unexpected body') && message.includes('success')));
});

test.serial(
'200 with an HTML page (SAAS_URL hitting an SPA fallback) -> null, content type + snippet logged as error',
async (t) => {
stubFetch(
async () =>
new Response('<!doctype html><html><head><title>SiteNova</title></head><body></body></html>', {
status: 200,
headers: { 'content-type': 'text/html; charset=utf-8' },
}),
);
const gateway = new SaasCompanyGatewayService();
t.is(await gateway.getCompanyInfo(COMPANY_ID), null);
const errors = captured.filter((entry) => entry.level === 'error').map((entry) => entry.message);
t.true(
errors.some(
(message) =>
message.includes('HTTP 200') &&
message.includes('text/html') &&
message.includes('<!doctype html>') &&
message.includes('http://saas.unit.test'),
),
`expected content type, snippet and SAAS_URL in the error log, got: ${JSON.stringify(errors)}`,
);
},
);

test.serial('200 with an empty body -> null, reported as empty', async (t) => {
stubFetch(async () => new Response('', { status: 200 }));
const gateway = new SaasCompanyGatewayService();
t.is(await gateway.getCompanyInfo(COMPANY_ID), null);
t.true(captured.some((entry) => entry.level === 'error' && entry.message.includes('the body is empty')));
});

test.serial('fetch throwing (SAAS_URL unreachable) -> rethrows, and the target base URL is logged', async (t) => {
stubFetch(async () => {
throw new TypeError('fetch failed');
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