fix(dashboard): re-authenticate on 401 instead of failing silently - #3115

Code Review

This pull request adds unauthorized request handling to the K8sClient by introducing an onUnauthorized callback that defaults to redirecting the user to the OAuth2 login flow upon receiving a 401 status code. Feedback highlights an issue where the unauthorizedHandled state flag is never reset after a successful request, which would prevent the onUnauthorized callback from being triggered again on subsequent session expirations.

NOT LGTM — the redirect logic itself is correct, but a security/UX-sensitive auth path is merging with no regression test even though the harness supports one.

What's right (verified at head):

• Both fetch sites in K8sClient (request and watch) now intercept 401, so all k8s API calls are covered.
• The redirect goes to /oauth2/start?rd=<encoded pathname+search+hash> — the oauth2-proxy sign-in convention — with the return destination preserved. Using a relative rd is the safe choice and avoids open-redirect rejection.
• window.location.assign is a real full-page navigation, correct for a dead session, with an SSR/non-browser guard.
• The unauthorizedHandled latch prevents redirect storms when many concurrent calls 401 at once.
• /oauth2/* endpoints are not fetched through K8sClient, so a 401 from oauth2-proxy itself can't cause a redirect loop.

Blocking:

• No test. The PR body says the k8s-client package "has no test harness yet", but the client is already unit-tested from the apps/console workspace (apps/console/src/__tests__/k8s-client/client.subresource.test.ts) via vi.stubGlobal("fetch", ...). A regression test is straightforward: inject a spy through onUnauthorized, return a 401 response, and assert the handler fires exactly once on 401, only once across two concurrent 401s, and never on a non-401. The onUnauthorized hook was added specifically to make this injectable — please add the test before merge.

Minor (non-blocking): apps/console/src/lib/config.ts loadConfig() does a raw k8s API fetch that bypasses K8sClient and swallows 401 silently — fine in practice (branding-only at startup, and the next K8sClient call triggers the redirect), just noting the path is uncovered. The bot note about unauthorizedHandled never resetting only matters for a custom non-navigating onUnauthorized, of which there are none today.

The failing Build check is unrelated to this TS change (separate analysis covers it).

Verdict

NOT LGTM

The default 401 redirect hardcodes the oauth2-proxy endpoint /oauth2/start, which does not exist in the token-proxy (oidc-enabled: false) deployment mode, so the re-auth path is wrong on a supported configuration.

Findings

[MAJOR] packages/system/dashboard/images/console/packages/k8s-client/src/client.ts:10 — 401 redirect target /oauth2/start is oauth2-proxy-only; broken in token-proxy mode

defaultOnUnauthorized unconditionally navigates to /oauth2/start?rd=…. The dashboard is fronted by two mutually-exclusive proxies selected by oidc-enabled in packages/system/dashboard/templates/gatekeeper.yaml:49 (auth-proxy = oauth2-proxy) vs :116 (token-proxy). /oauth2/start is an oauth2-proxy endpoint and exists only in the OIDC branch. The token-proxy (packages/system/dashboard/images/token-proxy/main.go:377-379) registers only /oauth2/sign_in, /oauth2/sign_out, /oauth2/userinfo — there is no /oauth2/start. Its login entry point is /oauth2/sign_in.

This is the first /oauth2/* reference the SPA introduces that token-proxy does not implement: the existing calls /oauth2/userinfo (apps/console/src/lib/config.ts:35) and /oauth2/sign_out (packages/ui/src/components/layout/Header.tsx:131) are both implemented by token-proxy, which is why the app has been mode-agnostic until now.

Runtime consequence in token-proxy mode (reasoned, not executed — needs a live cluster, out of scope for static review): a navigation to /oauth2/start matches only token-proxy's catch-all / handler (main.go:525). With no cookie it 302s to /oauth2/sign_in (main.go:527-528) — so re-auth is reached via an extra hop. But with a present-but-expired token cookie the catch-all does not re-verify the token (contrast the /userinfo handler at main.go:474), so it reverse-proxies /oauth2/start to the console upstream instead of re-authenticating — no sign-in page, and a repeat-401 loop is plausible. Either way the redirect relies on an undocumented catch-all fallback rather than the correct endpoint.

Fix options: make the redirect target mode-agnostic (e.g. point both proxies' re-auth at a shared path), or add a /oauth2/start alias in token-proxy that 302s to /oauth2/sign_in, or have the SPA discover the sign-in URL (it already fetches /oauth2/userinfo). If the maintainer confirms the token-proxy catch-all handles /oauth2/start acceptably in all cookie states, this can drop to MINOR — but that must be verified, not assumed.

[MINOR] packages/system/dashboard/images/console/packages/k8s-client/src/client.ts:35,43-47 — unauthorizedHandled latch never resets

The latch is set once per client instance and never cleared. For the shipped default handler this is harmless because window.location.assign triggers a full-page reload (fresh client, latch reset). But it is a latent trap for the newly-added onUnauthorized extension point: a custom handler doing in-SPA re-auth without a full reload fires exactly once for the client's lifetime, so a second session expiry is silently ignored. Add a comment documenting the reload assumption, or reset the latch after the handler runs.

Claim mismatches

[PARTIAL] "A unit regression test is a follow-up — the k8s-client workspace package has no test harness yet" — a regression test was in fact added in this PR, placed in the console app's vitest harness at apps/console/src/__tests__/k8s-client/client.unauthorized.test.ts (importing @cozystack/k8s-client). The PR body is stale on this point; update it.

Caveats

• Upgrade / fresh-install: no chart / values.yaml / migration / RBAC / CRD changes — this ships purely as dashboard source baked into the console image. Upgrade impact is a behaviour change on 401 (redirect vs. stale page): an improvement in OIDC mode, but the MAJOR above on the token-proxy path. Fresh install unaffected (no new deps/values). No existing 401-specific handling exists in the app (grep for status === 401 across apps/, packages/ returns none), so no graceful-401 path is preempted.
• Config matrix: the relevant corner is oidc-enabled true vs false — see the MAJOR. No Helm template toggles were touched.
• Test adequacy: the added test is non-vacuous — verified by mutation (neutralising both handleUnauthorized call sites at client.ts:82,276 → 4/6 tests went RED, the two negative tests stayed green). It covers 401-once, concurrent-401 latch, 403-negative, success-negative, watch-stream 401, and default-redirect. Full console suite 319 passed (46 files), tsc --noEmit clean, eslint clean on both changed files. Gap: the default-handler test asserts /oauth2/start unconditionally, so it encodes the OIDC-only assumption as "correct" and does not guard the token-proxy mode — the MAJOR is unguarded by tests.

Recommended follow-ups

• End-to-end verification of the 401 redirect in token-proxy mode (oidc-enabled: false) on a disposable dev cluster, covering both cookie-absent and expired-token-present states.

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Inline comments:
In
`@packages/system/dashboard/images/console/apps/console/src/__tests__/k8s-client/client.unauthorized.test.ts`:
- Around line 139-145: Update the test setup around the window.location mock to
stop replacing window.location with Object.defineProperty. Use
jsdom.reconfigure() to set the pathname, search, and hash, and mock the
navigation boundary through the existing location.assign behavior without
replacing the location object.

In `@packages/system/dashboard/images/console/packages/k8s-client/src/client.ts`:
- Around line 46-49: Update handleUnauthorized so failures from onUnauthorized
are caught rather than propagated, allowing the original K8sApiError from
request or watch to remain observable; add coverage for a throwing unauthorized
callback.

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Nitpick comments:
In
`@packages/system/dashboard/images/console/apps/console/src/__tests__/k8s-client/client.unauthorized.test.ts`:
- Around line 1-2: Move the unauthorized-client test covering K8sClient and
K8sApiError from the centralized app test directory into the k8s-client package
beside client.ts, preserving its existing test behavior and imports.

myasnikovdaniil NOT LGTM. The code is ready to merge, but the commit messages and the PR body are not.

Business context: when the dashboard session expires, the console should send the user back through sign-in instead of sitting on a stale page.

Both earlier change requests are closed at c0dc544. The regression test is in, and it is not vacuous: I mutated client.ts nine ways (either 401 hook removed, latch guard removed, request-path re-arm removed, === 401 widened to >= 400, target switched back to /oauth2/start, hash or encoding dropped from rd) and eight of them turn the suite red. /oauth2/sign_in works for both gatekeeper modes. token-proxy renders its form on any GET there regardless of the cookie, and oauth2-proxy runs with --skip-provider-button, so it goes straight to the provider. The latch re-arms on a 2xx from either fetch site.

Main has nothing that overlaps this. packages/k8s-client is unchanged between the merge base and current main, and the only 401 logic there is the retry opt-out in provider.tsx. On a trial merge with current main, typecheck, the full console suite (438 tests), eslint on both files and the console build all pass. The red E2E Tests run is kubernetes-previous and kubernetes-latest timing out on tenant node join with a stalled tenant cilium-operator, which a console-only change can't cause.

What blocks:

1. All four commits carry Assisted-By: Claude <[email protected]>. docs/agents/contributing.md accepts only Assisted-by: LLM and lists this exact line as a blocker. hack/check-commit-trailers.sh from main rejects all four commits with "attribution trailer value must be exactly LLM", so the Commit trailers job will fail on the next push too.

2. The commit bodies describe earlier states of this PR, and with squash off they land on main as written. e40460b says a unit regression test is a follow-up because the package has no test harness, while the next commit adds that test. 7e91698 describes the handling as "added in the previous commit, requested in review". 5cbd30c opens with "The default 401 handler navigated to /oauth2/start", a handler that only ever existed inside this PR. The easy fix is to fold 5cbd30c and c0dc544 into e40460b, so the fix commit targets /oauth2/sign_in from the start and keeps the reason (it's the one sign-in entry both gatekeeper modes serve). Then reword the test commit without the review references and set Assisted-by: LLM on both.

3. The PR body becomes the merge commit message, and it contradicts the code. It still says the client navigates to /oauth2/start?rd=<current-url>, but it goes to /oauth2/sign_in. It also still says the regression test is a follow-up, which the previous change request already flagged.

Non-blocking: the watch-path re-arm has no test, see the inline comment.

myasnikovdaniil I tidied the description and commit messages so they match the code, the trailers were already fixed. LGTM.

LGTM. Both earlier findings are addressed: re-auth now targets /oauth2/sign_in (verified against token-proxy and pinned oauth2-proxy v7.12.0) and the latch re-arms on a 2xx.

Non-blocking: no loop guard if re-auth succeeds but the apiserver keeps returning 401 (each cycle is a full reload, so the latch resets and nothing counts attempts); and in token-proxy mode rd is ignored, so the user lands on / after re-login. Merge still needs the API-owner review.