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fix(plugins): a malformed blocklist refresh keeps the last good list - #1569
The plugin blocklist is how the hosted registry withdraws a plugin: a listed plugin is turned off and can't be loaded or installed again. registry::parse_blocklist read any JSON that wasn't an array, or an object with a blocked array, as an empty list, and so did a list whose entries had no id. A refresh that received {}, {"blocked": {}} or {"blocked": [{}]} cleared every withdrawal. For the hosted registry, store::save_blocklist also wrote that body over the cached blocklist.json, so a later start began with no withdrawals too.
A blocklist of the wrong shape is an error: anything other than an array or an object whose blocked is an array, any entry whose id isn't a plugin id, and any entry whose sha256, when given, isn't a SHA-256 hash (either would match nothing). No sha256, or null, still withdraws every version. A refused entry is named by its position, and its reason is cut short, since it can quote what the network sent. save_blocklist parses before it writes or applies anything, so on an error the list in force and the cached file both stay as they were. That matches what already happens when the blocklist can't be fetched.
Only an explicitly empty list clears withdrawals: [] or {"blocked": []}.
One bad entry refuses the whole refresh instead of being skipped. Skipping would let a corrupted list drop withdrawals silently. Unknown fields in an entry are still ignored, so a later blocklist that adds fields to entries still reads.
A list of more than 100,000 entries is refused instead of being cut short, so withdrawals past the cap aren't lost and a bad entry past it isn't skipped.
A refused blocklist is reported: plugin.registry and plugin.installFromRegistry (fetch_registry) and the Plugin Manager warn that the blocklist couldn't be read, with the reason, and that the last blocklist read, if any, stays in force. Before, the callers dropped the error. They warn the same way when the hosted registry's blocklist can't be downloaded. The hosted registry always publishes one. Another registry may have none (it blocks nothing), so its failed download stays quiet.
A refreshed blocklist that isn't text is refused the same way, rather than read with its bad bytes replaced (an id holding one would match nothing).
plugin.registry and plugin.installFromRegistry say which plugins a newly withdrawn list turned off, in one notice, as the Plugin Manager already did.
A cached blocklist that can't be read at start is reported: one that isn't text, or one saved by an older version that this parser refuses, goes into load_installed's errors, which the app shows and the command line prints, rather than being ignored. Until the next fetch, no withdrawals apply from such a cache, where the good part of it used to. In Python, rustgis.load_plugins() returns this report. Session(plugins=True) still discards what it returns, as it does for every plugin load error.
Testing
blocked_plugins_are_unloaded_and_refused now also feeds the hosted registry's save_blocklist{}, {"blocked": {}}, {"blocked": null}, 1, an entry without an id, [1], a good entry followed by a bad one, a sha256 that isn't a hash, and an id that isn't a plugin id (two forms). Each one is refused, and the withdrawn plugin stays blocked. On main, {} succeeds and clears the list. [] and {"blocked": []} still read as empty lists.
New test cached_blocklist_survives_refused_refreshes: refused refreshes leave the cached hosted blocklist byte for byte, and a cache that can't be read is reported by load_installed.
registries_and_blocklists_are_read_defensively: a list of exactly 100,000 entries reads whole, and one more is refused. A very long id, or a very long string where an entry should be, gives a short error.
New engine test unreadable_plugin_blocklist_warns: plugin.registry against a local registry warns once when its blocklist is {"blocked": {}}, naming the blocklist and the reason, and says nothing when it is {"blocked": []}. The notice is a warning. It also checks that a blocklist that isn't text is refused with a warning, and that one withdrawing a loaded plugin names it in a notice and unloads it.
Plugin restrictions remain in effect when a blocklist refresh fails, rather than being cleared.
Invalid blocklists—including malformed data, unsupported formats, oversized lists, invalid entries, and non-text content—are rejected instead of being treated as empty or partially applied. Invalid cached blocklists and cache read errors are reported at startup.
An explicitly empty blocklist still clears existing restrictions.
Warnings explain when the last successfully read blocklist remains in force after parsing, saving, or text-decoding failures, and after fetch failures for the default registry. Fetch failures for other registries remain silent.
parse_blocklist read JSON of the wrong shape ({}, {"blocked": {}}, entries
without an id) as an empty list, so a refresh cleared every withdrawal and
overwrote the cached blocklist.json. It is now an error, which leaves the list
in force and the cache unchanged, as a failed fetch does; only [] or
{"blocked": []} clears it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Walkthrough
Blocklist parsing now rejects malformed shapes, oversized lists, and invalid entries. Cache loading reports invalid cached blocklists. Registry and UI paths report applicable blocklist failures while retaining the last successfully read list.
Changes: Blocklist parsing and failure reporting
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Summary
Strict parsing and refresh coverage crates/plugins/src/registry.rs, crates/plugins/src/store.rs, crates/plugins/src/tests.rs
The parser rejects unsupported shapes, lists over MAX_ENTRIES, and invalid entries. Cache loading reports invalid cached blocklists without applying them. Tests verify the size limit, preservation of existing blocks after failed updates, and acceptance of empty lists.
Registry browsing and installation pass the session to the fetch helper. The helper warns on save failures and on default-registry fetch failures. The UI reports applicable fetch, parse, and save failures. Tests check warning and withdrawal behavior.
opengeos/RustGIS#1461: Its is_current check uses blocklist contents, which this PR validates and preserves on refresh failures.
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Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 9bf27
The change rejects malformed blocklists while retaining an already active list and reporting applicable failures. Older malformed caches are deliberately refused at startup. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks.
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A rabbit checks the blocklist line by line, Rejects malformed entries at the sign. The last good list stays safely in its place, While clear warnings mark each failure case. Withdrawn plugins hop out of view, And tested limits keep the list true.
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Silent refusal (AGENTS.md: "Never silent"). The new error path makes save_blocklist refuse a malformed blocklist, but let _ = throws that error away. A registry that publishes a bad refresh now leaves its withdrawals unapplied with no notice to the user, which is the silent failure this PR is meant to prevent. fetch_registry is called from browse and install_from_registry, which both take &mut Session. Please return the refusal through session.notify (one notice, with the reason) or through the command's result. Confidence: high.
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Fixed in 437bfbf: fetch_registry now takes the session and warns, with the blocklist's address and the reason, that the plugins withdrawn before stay blocked. The Plugin Manager does the same (pluginsui.rs, native and web). New test unreadable_plugin_blocklist_warns: one warning for {"blocked": {}}, none for {"blocked": []}.
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Silent truncation..take(MAX_ENTRIES) keeps the first 100,000 entries and drops the rest with no error. Any withdrawal past that point is silently not applied, which breaks the "never silent" rule. This PR already makes the function refuse what it cannot read, so it should refuse an oversized list too. Confidence: medium (the cap is unlikely to be reached in practice, but the rule is explicit).
Suggested change
.take(MAX_ENTRIES)
if list.len() > MAX_ENTRIES{
returnErr(format!("the blocklist has {} entries; at most {MAX_ENTRIES} can be read", list.len()));
Three findings. Two inline comments posted; the third is in the summary below because its file is not in this PR's diff, so the inline comment could not be anchored.
Bugs
Refused refreshes are silently dropped in the engine (medium-high confidence, posted inline).crates/engine/src/cmd/plugins.rs:160 discards the new Err from save_blocklist with let _ =. A malformed blocklist now leaves withdrawals unapplied with no notice, which breaks AGENTS.md "Never silent". browse and install_from_registry both take &mut Session, so the refusal can reach session.notify.
Same problem in the Plugin Manager (high confidence, not posted inline).crates/ui-egui/src/pluginsui.rs:618 and :620 use unwrap_or_default(), which hides the refusal. This file is not in the PR diff, so GitHub rejected the inline comment. The fix is the same: report the reason through app.plugins.message or a notice, with the text wrapped in tl!/i18n::fmt.
Quality / AGENTS.md
Silent truncation (medium confidence, posted inline with a suggestion).crates/plugins/src/registry.rs:209 keeps .take(MAX_ENTRIES) and drops the rest. Withdrawals past 100,000 entries are silently not applied. Refusing an oversized list would match the rest of the function. The cap is unlikely to be reached, but the rule is explicit.
Test coverage. The new test in crates/plugins/src/tests.rs covers only the refused shapes. It does not cover the new truncation path or the notice behaviour, which will be needed once the refusal is reported.
Nits (left for the release quality pass)
The error wording is inconsistent: registry::parse says 'plugins' with single quotes, while parse_blocklist uses backticks for `blocked`.
Checked
I read the full diff, parse_blocklist, save_blocklist, load_installed, the engine and UI callers, and the docs in docs/plugins.md. The rejected shapes match the new tests. Refusal happens before any write, so the cached blocklist.json is never overwritten with a bad list. The offline startup path is unchanged for valid lists. docs/plugins.md does not describe the blocklist shape, so it needs no update.
Prior reviews: none were on this PR, so no earlier concerns were left alone.
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Review comments at @crates/plugins/src/registry.rs:
- Around line 208-211: Update parse_blocklist to reject lists whose length
exceeds MAX_ENTRIES before parsing or applying entries, and remove the
take(MAX_ENTRIES) truncation so oversized responses cannot be silently accepted.
Review comments at @crates/plugins/src/tests.rs:
- Around line 407-409: Extend the malformed-response cases in the test around
`save_blocklist` with a mixed-entry response containing a valid entry followed
by an invalid entry. Verify it remains rejected and the existing blocklist entry
remains intact.
- Around line 408-409: Update the failed-save loop around save_blocklist to
verify persisted cache contents remain unchanged, not just the in-memory result
from crate::blocked. Seed a valid blocklist cache in an isolated plugin
directory, then check that cache after each malformed save fails; preserve the
existing in-memory assertion.
- Around line 412-413: Add coverage through save_blocklist that verifies both
empty input forms clear a hosted withdrawal: in an isolated store, restore the
withdrawal before saving each form, then assert the plugin is no longer blocked.
Use an ID with no independent withdrawal so the assertion specifically exercises
hosted withdrawal clearing.
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Review follow-up. The engine's plugin.registry/installFromRegistry and the
Plugin Manager now warn that the plugins withdrawn before stay blocked when
a registry's blocklist is refused, instead of dropping the error. A list of
more than 100,000 entries is refused rather than cut short, so withdrawals
past the cap aren't lost and a bad entry past it isn't skipped.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Refused blocklists are reported: plugin.registry/plugin.installFromRegistry and the Plugin Manager (native and web) warn with the reason that the plugins withdrawn before stay blocked. Engine test unreadable_plugin_blocklist_warns checks lossy and clean input.
A list over 100,000 entries is refused, not cut short (tested at the cap and one over).
The 'blocked' error text now uses single quotes, as registry::parse does.
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Silent refusal of an oversized blocklist (Never silent). The fetch here is capped at 4 MiB, and registry::fetch returns Err("… is larger than 4 MB") for a longer body. The if let Ok(b) pattern drops that error, so the list is refused with no notice. The new warning only covers blocklists that fetch but fail to parse. The cap doesn't match the 100,000-entry limit either: realistic entries are roughly 40–100 bytes, so a list of about 40,000 entries or more hits the 4 MiB limit first, and the 100,000 limit this PR adds is never reached on this path. The Plugin Manager has the same gap (pluginsui.rs, Some(Err(_)) => {}).
Suggested fix: size the fetch to MAX_ENTRIES entries, and warn when the fetch fails with a size error. A test with a body over the limit should expect one warning. Confidence: high.
This re-raises the earlier "silent refusal" thread with new evidence: the fix covers parse errors, not the size path.
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Not changed here. A blocklist that can't be fetched has always left the list in force without a notice. That includes a 404, which is the normal case for a registry without a blocklist ("A registry without a blocklist blocks nothing"). registry::fetch returns only a message, not the status, so warning on fetch errors would also warn for every custom registry that has no blocklist. This PR covers blocklists that arrive but can't be read, which used to clear the list. Reporting failed fetches separately from missing blocklists would change registry::fetch's interface, so it's a separate change. On the caps: the 100,000-entry bound also applies to the cached blocklist.json read at start, which has no byte cap, so it isn't dead.
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Nit, outside this change's logic: this constant is also what the registry reader uses at registry.rs:154 (.take(MAX_ENTRIES)), which still drops registry entries past the cap with no notice. Same rule as the blocklist fix, so it can be handled in the release quality pass or in this PR. Confidence: medium that it matters, since the cap is unlikely to be reached in practice.
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Same gap in the Plugin Manager. The Some(Err(_)) => {} arm (line 637, unchanged) drops a blocklist that is too large to fetch: registry::fetch fails above the 4 MiB limit, see the note on cmd/plugins.rs. Nothing is shown and the list in force stays. The refusal should be reported with its reason, as the parse-error path at line 622 already is. Confidence: high.
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Same as the engine thread: Some(Err(_)) is also the no-blocklist case (a 404), so the arm stays as it was. This PR only reports blocklists that arrive and can't be read.
Oversized blocklist is refused silently (high). The new warning covers only blocklists that fail to parse. The fetch is capped at 4 MiB, and registry::fetch returns an error above that size. Both callers drop that error: if let Ok(b) in cmd/plugins.rs:160, and Some(Err(_)) => {} in pluginsui.rs:637. The 4 MiB cap is also smaller than the 100,000-entry cap this PR adds, so a list of roughly 40,000 or more realistic entries is refused without a notice. This re-raises the earlier "silent refusal" thread with new evidence. Inline comments posted on cmd/plugins.rs:160 and pluginsui.rs:622.
Startup drops an unreadable cached blocklist silently (medium-high).crates/plugins/src/store.rs:78 discards the parse error and does not add it to errors. The old parser accepted entries without an id and cached them verbatim. After an upgrade, a cache containing such an entry is refused at startup, so its withdrawals are silently lost until the next successful refresh. This file is not in the PR diff, so I could not anchor a comment to it. The startup caller's handling of load_installed's error list is also unverified.
Security
No issues found. The blocklist is still fetched over HTTPS, and the refusal happens before any write or apply.
Performance
No issues found.
Quality
Nit: the cap constant is shared with a silent truncation (medium).MAX_ENTRIES at registry.rs:15 is also used by the registry reader at registry.rs:154 (.take(MAX_ENTRIES)), which drops registry entries past the cap with no notice. This predates the PR. An inline comment is posted.
Nit (pre-existing):store::save_blocklist ignores the write_atomic result (store.rs:329). A failed cache write leaves the hosted list applied in memory while the offline cache goes stale, with no notice. This is the same silent-loss class, in a function this PR changes.
Nit: an entry with "id": "" is accepted and withdraws nothing, silently. Validating the id with valid_id would refuse it.
AGENTS.md
Compliant with the no-panic rule (the new unwraps are in tests only), the notice-and-test-both-ways rule (unreadable_plugin_blocklist_warns covers both), and the newer-format rule (an unreadable cache is kept unchanged, not overwritten).
The new i18n::fmt literal in pluginsui.rs follows the neighbouring code, which uses the same pattern without tl!.
Prior threads: I left 5 earlier concerns alone: the two test-coverage threads that the author answered, the entry-limit thread, the mixed-entry test thread, and the truncation thread, all of which are fixed or answered. I re-raised one (the silent refusal) because the reply does not cover the size path.
Inline comments: 3 posted (cmd/plugins.rs:160, pluginsui.rs:622, registry.rs:15). The store.rs finding is in this summary only because that file is not in the diff.
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On the oversized-blocklist finding: answered in the inline threads. A failed blocklist fetch, including a 404 for a registry without a blocklist, has always kept the list in force without a notice, and registry::fetch doesn't expose the status needed to tell the two apart. This PR is limited to blocklists that arrive but can't be read. The registry reader's entry cap predates this PR.
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Review comments at @crates/engine/src/cmd/plugins.rs:
- Around line 160-163: Update the blocklist handling around registry::fetch so
genuine request failures are reported through s.warn, while preserving the
intended behavior for registries that do not provide a blocklist; keep the
existing warning for save_blocklist failures.
- Around line 161-163: Update save_blocklist and its handling in the blocklist
flow to surface cache-write failures separately from parse failures. Ensure the
caller reports when the list was applied but could not be persisted, so the
warning accurately reflects the in-memory result and persistence failure.
Review comments at @crates/engine/src/tests.rs:
- Around line 12693-12696: Update unreadable_plugin_blocklist_warns to verify
the caller path preserves an existing blocklist withdrawal, not only that it
emits a notice: seed a blocked entry, run the registry flow, and assert the
entry remains blocked afterward. Isolate this test in a separate process if
needed to prevent shared blocklist state from affecting other tests.
- Around line 12693-12696: Update the matching-notice check in the `warned`
closure to assert that every notice containing “withdrawn before stay blocked”
has `Severity::Warning`, while preserving the existing count and both blocklist
test cases.
Review comments at @crates/plugins/src/registry.rs:
- Around line 209-210: Adjust the blocklist loading path containing the
list.len() > MAX_ENTRIES check so oversized cached blocklists are still applied
at startup, preserving withdrawals from their previously accepted entries. Keep
the size limit enforced for refreshed blocklists, rejecting oversized refreshes
rather than applying them.
Review comments at @crates/ui-egui/src/pluginsui.rs:
- Around line 622-628: Update the blocklist retrieval handling around `pulled`
so Browse warns when a registry download succeeds but an available blocklist
download fails, while treating registries with no blocklist as an expected
absence and not warning for them.
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Review follow-up. The hosted registry always publishes a blocklist, so failing
to download it means the list in force may be out of date: plugin.registry,
plugin.installFromRegistry and the Plugin Manager now warn. Another registry
may have no blocklist, so its failed download stays quiet. The engine test
also checks the notice is a warning.
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Silent discard of the cached blocklist at startup (Never silent). The new strict parser makes parse_blocklist fail in cases where it used to return a partial list, and the startup reader drops that failure without a word. crates/plugins/src/store.rs:78 (unchanged by this PR) does read_to_string(...).ok().and_then(|t| registry::parse_blocklist(&t).ok()), so a cache that now fails to parse is ignored entirely. Example: a cache written by an older version containing [{"id": "a"}, {"reason": "no id"}] kept a withdrawn before this PR, and now loads with no withdrawals at all, with no notice. The same happens to a cache over 100,000 entries, which the comment thread already accepts, but the silence is not covered by that answer.
Suggested direction: match on the parse result in load_installed, and push the reason into the errors it returns (e.g. format!("{}: {e}", path.display())), so the caller reports it, and add a test that writes a bad cache and asserts the error is reported. Confidence: high on the behaviour, medium on how often it happens (it needs an older cache that the new validation refuses, read on an offline start).
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Fixed in 7a442ad: load_installed puts a cached blocklist it can't read into the errors it returns, with the reason and that withdrawn plugins aren't blocked until the blocklist is fetched again. The desktop app shows those errors as notices and the command line prints them. New test cached_blocklist_survives_refused_refreshes checks the report for [{"id": "a"}, {"reason": "no id"}].
Startup silently discards the cached blocklist when it no longer parses. crates/plugins/src/store.rs:78 uses .ok() on the parse, so a cache the stricter parser refuses is ignored with no notice. Before this PR, a partly valid cache kept its valid entries. Posted inline on registry.rs:199. Confidence: high on the behaviour, medium on how often it occurs (it needs an older cache, read on an offline start).
Security
None found.
Performance
None found. The 100,000-entry check runs before any entry is converted, and the 4 MiB fetch cap bounds the body.
Quality (nits, left for the release quality pass)
The warning "the plugins withdrawn before stay blocked" reads oddly on a first run with no cache, when nothing was withdrawn before. Confidence: medium.
No test covers the hosted-registry warning branch (is_default in fetch_registry and pluginsui.rs). The new engine test only exercises a local registry, so the hosted path is untested. Confidence: medium.
AGENTS.md
No unwrap, expect or unsafe in non-test code. Wasm paths keep their let _ = (s, url) handling, and i18n::fmt translates its template, so the new Plugin Manager strings need no catalog entry.
Each lossy case now has a notice, and clean input gets none. The one gap is the startup path above.
Already raised, left alone: 14 earlier threads on this PR (the cap, the 4 MiB fetch warning, cache-write failures, the test ordering and store races, the custom-registry 404 case). The is_default gating in fetch_registry already covers the hosted 404 and oversize warning from the earlier fetch-path thread. I did not re-post any of them.
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Review comments at @crates/engine/src/cmd/plugins.rs:
- Around line 162-163: Update the blocklist download error handling around
registry::is_default(url) in both the command and Plugin Manager paths: keep an
absent optional blocklist silent, but distinguish other download failures and
warn when they occur for a custom registry. Preserve existing handling for
default registries.
Review comments at @crates/engine/src/tests.rs:
- Around line 12692-12695: Extend the test around the plugin.registry invocation
to cover a successful default-registry download followed by a failed blocklist
download; assert that this failure emits a warning, so removing the warning
causes the test to fail.
Review comments at @crates/ui-egui/src/pluginsui.rs:
- Around line 639-643: Update the warning in the
`rp::registry::is_default(®istry)` branch to avoid guaranteeing that
withdrawn plugins remain blocked; state that they may not be blocked unless a
previous blocklist is available.
- Around line 638-645: Plugin Manager tests do not cover plugin blocklist
download failures. Add tests for the failure path around
`rp::registry::is_default`: assert that a hosted registry emits a warning
containing the download error, and that a custom registry emits no warning.
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Review follow-up. A blocklist.json cached by an older version that the
stricter parser refuses is now reported in load_installed's errors (shown at
start by the app and the command line) instead of being ignored. A test checks
that refused refreshes leave the cache byte for byte. The warnings no longer
promise that earlier withdrawals stay blocked, which isn't true on a first run
or a fresh browser session: the last blocklist read, if any, stays in force.
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The startup cache: fixed. A cached blocklist that can't be read is reported in load_installed's errors, with a test.
The warning that read oddly on a first run: fixed. It now says the last blocklist read, if any, stays in force.
A test of the hosted-registry branch: left for the release quality pass. The hosted address is a constant, so testing it needs the network or a new seam to override it.
Bugs. None confirmed in the changed lines. I traced the refusal paths and checked the types and call sites:
save_blocklist parses before it writes the cache or applies anything, so a refused refresh leaves both the cache and the in-force list unchanged.
fetch_registry and the Plugin Manager poll both match the Result/Option types correctly, and Session::warn is used as intended.
Startup (store::load_installed) reports an unreadable cache through the existing errors path, which apps/rustgis/src/main.rs:543 turns into an error notice.
Security. No new issue. One deliberate trade-off to confirm, confidence medium: a single malformed entry in the hosted list now refuses the whole refresh. Every withdrawal in that list, including the newest one, then stays unapplied until the hosted list is fixed. The warning reports this, and the PR description says it is intended (fail closed rather than drop entries silently), so I'm not raising it as a defect.
Performance. None. The 100,000-entry cap bounds the work, and the 4 MiB fetch cap still applies on the network path.
Quality (small nits, for the release quality pass per AGENTS.md):
crates/plugins/src/store.rs, load_installed: the match with Ok(list) => { crate::set_blocklist(list); } reads more simply as if let Ok(list) = …. Confidence high, low impact.
crates/plugins/src/tests.rs, cached_blocklist_survives_refused_refreshes: set_dir is left pointing at a folder the test removes. Neighbouring tests do the same, so this is consistent with the file rather than a new problem.
AGENTS.md. Two low-confidence points:
apps/rustgis-cli/src/main.rs:692 prints plugin load errors, which now include a refused cache, with eprintln! only. AGENTS.md says eprintln! alone doesn't count as a report. This is the existing mechanism for all plugin load errors, so I'm not blaming this PR. Confidence low.
The startup notice says withdrawn plugins "aren't blocked until the blocklist is fetched again". On desktop the blocklist is refetched only from Plugin Manager Browse or install, and the message doesn't say so. Confidence low.
Earlier review threads. I reviewed all 19 threads in prior-reviews.json and re-raised none. Open ones I left alone include the silent cache-write failure, the test gaps for the hosted fetch-failure warning, and the "stays in force" wording on a fresh web session. The maintainer answered some of these and the rest have no new evidence.
Inline comments. I posted none. The only new points are a design trade-off and nits, which don't justify inline comments.
Tests. I did not run the test suite. This review is from reading the diff and the surrounding source.
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The whole-list refusal is intended, as the description says. The nits are left for the release quality pass: the if let in load_installed, set_dir cleanup in the store tests, and naming Browse in the startup notice. The CLI's eprintln! is the existing route for every plugin load error.
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Review comments at @crates/engine/src/tests.rs:
- Line 12693: Update the warning assertions around `s.notices_since(mark)` so
the malformed-fixture warning is required to contain both the blocklist URL and
the specific missing-`blocked`-list reason. Keep the warning-severity check and
ensure the assertions cannot silently pass when no matching warning exists.
Review comments at @crates/plugins/src/store.rs:
- Around line 85-86: Ensure errors collected in the cached blocklist path are
propagated to the Python caller during Session startup with plugins enabled;
locate the handling around the `errors.push` call in the store-loading flow and
preserve the existing error details.
- Line 86: Update the warning added through errors.push for a malformed cached
blocklist to use conditional wording that does not imply withdrawn plugins are
definitely unblocked; state that they may not be blocked, covering both fresh
processes and cases where a previously applied blocklist remains active.
- Line 80: Update the cache read around `std::fs::read_to_string(&cached)` to
report failures other than a missing cache, including the error reason; keep a
missing cache non-fatal and preserve the existing successful-read path.
Review comments at @crates/plugins/src/tests.rs:
- Around line 1231-1232: Update the test around `crate::store::load_installed`
to set an active withdrawal before loading the malformed cache, then assert the
withdrawal remains blocked afterward. Isolate the test from other users of the
process-global blocklist and restore its prior state so the check does not
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Review follow-up. Startup also reports a blocklist.json it can't read (not
text, or a read error), not only one it can't parse; a missing one is fine.
The report no longer claims withdrawn plugins aren't blocked, which isn't true
when a list is already in force. The engine test checks the warning names the
blocklist and the reason.
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No new findings. I read the full diff against the base-branch guidelines and checked the code it depends on: save_blocklist parses before it writes or applies anything, Blocked and the Session::warn/notices_given/Notice helpers exist with the signatures the diff uses, fetch_registry has only the two callers it was updated for, and the store-dir tests follow the store_lock() pattern. I did not build or run the tests; this was a read-only review.
Bugs: None new. The refused-refresh paths leave the in-memory list and the cached blocklist.json untouched, and an explicitly empty list still clears withdrawals. Confidence: high.
Security: None new. Withdrawal behaviour matches the PR description. The remaining fail-open cases are covered by earlier threads (see below). Confidence: high.
Performance: None. The 100,000-entry test builds about 1 MB of JSON, which is acceptable for a unit test. Confidence: high.
Quality: None new that need a comment. Confidence: high.
AGENTS.md: Nothing new. Engine notices use format!, which matches the engine's existing convention (it has no i18n layer). The Plugin Manager warnings use i18n::fmt. Each refusal path has a test that checks both the lossy input and the clean one, as the "Test both ways" rule asks. Confidence: high.
I left all 24 existing review threads alone, because their concerns are already raised and the code they point at has not changed in a way that reopens them. The still-open ones are: the registry reader's silent .take(MAX_ENTRIES) (registry.rs:154), silent fetch failures for custom registries, the ignored cache-write error in save_blocklist, the discarded errors in Session(plugins=True), and the 4 MiB fetch cap versus the 100,000-entry cap.
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- Around line 12696-12697: Update the clean-blocklist assertion using `said` and
`base` to inspect the unfiltered notices, rather than a pre-filtered subset, and
fail if any warning is unexpected or lacks the expected “stays in force”
wording. Preserve the check that the notices concern the blocklist and reflect
the clean-input behavior.
- Around line 12696-12697: Update the warning test around the said assertion to
cover a malformed blocklist input that produces a parser error distinct from the
missing-list error, and verify the warning forwards that error; retain the
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Review comments at @crates/plugins/src/store.rs:
- Around line 91-94: Update the cached-blocklist error handling in the code
around `cached.display()` so its warning remains visible at startup even when
other plugin-loading errors occur; use the startup reporting path that ensures
the warning is presented rather than hidden among those errors.
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- Around line 1234-1235: Extend the cache test for load_installed to cover a
filesystem read error: after removing the cache file, create a directory at the
cache path and assert that load_installed reports an error mentioning
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Silent turn-off on the command path (Never silent).save_blocklist returns Ok(names), where names are the plugins that the new list has just unloaded (apply_blocklist → unload_blocked). The .err() here throws the Ok value away, so a newly withdrawn plugin that was installed is turned off by plugin.registry / plugin.installFromRegistry with no notice. The Plugin Manager path (pluginsui.rs, the pulled loop) does report each name, so the two entry points disagree.
Suggested direction: keep the names and report them with one notice, e.g.
Ok(b) => match rustgis_plugins::store::save_blocklist(url,&String::from_utf8_lossy(&b)){Ok(names)if !names.is_empty() => {
s.notify(format!("{} plugin(s) were withdrawn from the registry and turned off: {}", names.len(), names.join(", ")),true);None}Ok(_) => None,Err(e) => Some(e),},
A test would need an installed plugin that the registry's blocklist withdraws, then asserting one error notice. Confidence: high that the names are dropped; medium that this is in scope, since the line is rewritten here.
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Fixed in 08efb83: fetch_registry keeps the names and gives one error notice with the count and the names, for example "1 plugin(s) were withdrawn from the plugin registry and turned off: …". New test registry_blocklists_say_what_they_refuse_and_turn_off loads a plugin, withdraws it through a local registry, and checks the notice and that the plugin is unloaded.
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Lossy text conversion on the refresh path.String::from_utf8_lossy turns invalid bytes into U+FFFD and the list is then accepted, so the refresh is applied without any notice. The startup path (store::load_installed) rejects the same bytes (read_to_string fails) and now reports them, so the two readers disagree. The same conversion is in cmd/plugins.rsfetch_registry. An id containing a replaced byte would silently match nothing, which is a withdrawal that never applies.
Suggested direction: refuse non-UTF-8 bodies through the same warning path as other refusals, for example on the native branch:
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Fixed in 08efb83: the engine and the Plugin Manager (native and web) decode the blocklist with std::str::from_utf8. A body that isn't text is refused through the usual warning ("it isn't text"), so the list in force stays, as at startup. The same new test checks this with a non-UTF-8 id.
Plugins turned off by a newly withdrawn list are not reported on the engine path. fetch_registry discards the Ok names from save_blocklist, so plugin.registry and plugin.installFromRegistry unload a plugin silently. The Plugin Manager does report it. Confidence: high. Inline comment posted at crates/engine/src/cmd/plugins.rs:161.
Security
None found in the changed lines.
Low-confidence note: the hosted blocklist fails closed on one bad entry. Until the list is fixed, no new withdrawal applies, not even the valid entries. This is a deliberate trade-off. Confidence: low.
Performance
None found. The 100,000-entry check runs after parsing, which is bounded by the 4 MiB fetch, and the cache has no byte cap (already noted in the thread).
Quality
Refresh bodies go through String::from_utf8_lossy (crates/ui-egui/src/pluginsui.rs:616 and cmd/plugins.rsfetch_registry), but startup rejects the same bytes. Invalid UTF-8 is therefore accepted silently on refresh and refused on startup. Confidence: medium. Inline comment posted at crates/ui-egui/src/pluginsui.rs:616.
AGENTS.md
Saved-files rule: the blocklist has no version, and unknown entry fields are still ignored. A newer RustGIS blocklist that adds a field (for example, a version-scoped withdrawal) would be read as if the field were absent, not refused. The PR keeps this behaviour on purpose, so this is a note on the rule rather than a defect. Confidence: low.
Every other AGENTS.md rule I checked is met: no unwraps in non-test code, the warnings go through Session::warn or i18n::fmt, both the lossy and clean paths have tests, and the engine and plugin tests are consistent with the existing isolation helpers.
Already raised (left alone)
I read 27 earlier threads and did not re-post any of them. The ones still open and unchanged are: the 4 MiB fetch cap versus the 100,000-entry cap; silent failure on custom-registry blocklist fetches; cache-write failures; Session(plugins=True) discarding errors; the .take(MAX_ENTRIES) in the registry reader; and the optional test-coverage requests. The thread on the cache-read silent failure is resolved by the fix and is not a new finding.
Test isolation
cached_blocklist_survives_refused_refreshes leaves the store folder pointing at a deleted temp directory. I checked that restoring None would point tests at the user's real plugins folder, so leaving it as it is is the safer choice. Not raised.
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…ne turned off
Review follow-up. A refreshed blocklist that isn't UTF-8 was read with its bad
bytes replaced, so an id holding one matched nothing; the engine and the Plugin
Manager now refuse it with the usual warning, as the startup reader does.
plugin.registry and plugin.installFromRegistry now say which plugins a newly
withdrawn list turned off, as the Plugin Manager already did.
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An entry whose sha256 can never match is still accepted, silently.blocked() compares sha256 by string equality (ignoring ASCII case), so a value that isn't 64 hex digits (a sha256: prefix, a truncated hash, an empty string) withdraws nothing, and no notice says so. That is the silent no-op this PR's "a bad entry refuses the whole refresh" rule is meant to prevent. Suggested fix: refuse such an entry in the same place as a missing id.
Suggested change
.map(|(i, v)| serde_json::from_value::<Blocked>(v).map_err(|e| format!("blocklist entry {}: {e}", i + 1)))
.map(|(i, v)| -> Result<Blocked,String>{
let b = serde_json::from_value::<Blocked>(v).map_err(|e| format!("blocklist entry {}: {e}", i + 1))?;
Err(format!("blocklist entry {}: sha256 isn't a SHA-256 hash", i + 1))
}
_ => Ok(b),
}
})
Confidence: medium. I did not verify how the hosted registry formats sha256; if it always publishes 64 hex digits, this is only a hardening. A regression test should go beside the [1] and {"reason": ...} cases in blocked_plugins_are_unloaded_and_refused.
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Fixed in a89e8e3: an entry whose sha256 isn't 64 hex digits (either case, since blocked ignores case) refuses the refresh like an entry without an id. Added "sha256": "sha256:abc" to the refused cases in blocked_plugins_are_unloaded_and_refused.
Bugs: No confirmed bugs in the changed logic. I checked that save_blocklist parses before it writes or applies anything, that load_installed only calls set_blocklist on a successful parse, that the Plugin Manager's UTF-8 path and the engine's fetch_registry both refuse non-text bodies, and that the wasm branches type-check by reading. I did not build or run the tests.
Security: None found. The new code adds no unsafe input handling; the blocklist is parsed by serde into typed fields.
Performance: None found. The 100,000-entry cap and the 4 MiB fetch limit bound the work.
Quality:
The engine's and Plugin Manager's "was withdrawn" notices use notify(..., true), which is Severity::Error. The Plugin Manager line predates this PR and the engine copies it. A withdrawal is an expected action, so Info or Warning would fit better. Confidence: medium. Per AGENTS.md this is a quality point for the release quality pass.
The engine test unreadable_plugin_blocklist_warns checks the count and text of the warning but not its severity. This is also quality-pass material.
Security/validation (inline comment posted):
crates/plugins/src/registry.rs:214: a sha256 that isn't 64 hex digits can never match in blocked(), so that entry withdraws nothing and nothing says so. This is the silent no-op the PR's own "one bad entry refuses the refresh" rule targets. Confidence: medium. I did not verify the hosted registry's hash format.
AGENTS.md:
No unwrap, expect, panic or unsafe in the non-test code. The new test code uses unwrap, which is allowed there.
Warnings and notices go through Session::notify and Session::warn, not eprintln!.
The Plugin Manager's messages use i18n::fmt. The engine's English notices match existing practice, since the engine has no tl! usage.
Refused lists are reported. Clean input produces no warning, and each refusal kind is tested both ways.
Prior reviews: 29 threads were already on this PR. I reposted none. I left alone the silent oversized-fetch and custom-registry concerns, the cache-write failure, and the other threads answered by the author. The author's replies on those are accepted.
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Review comments at @crates/engine/src/cmd/plugins.rs:
- Around line 165-166: Update the blocklist fetch error handling around
registry::is_default to distinguish an absent blocklist from other failures for
custom registries. Preserve the existing behavior for an absent blocklist, but
emit a warning through the established warning mechanism for other fetch
failures and continue with an empty blocklist.
- Line 174: Update the blocklist cache-write failure handling around `blocklist`
and `s.warn` to report that caching failed, while keeping the newly accepted
blocklist active for the current session. Keep this persistence failure distinct
from blocklist rejection handling.
Review comments at @crates/engine/src/tests.rs:
- Around line 12709-12724: Run
`registry_blocklists_say_what_they_refuse_and_turn_off` in an isolated
subprocess using the existing `isolate_process_test` helper, guarded for
non-WASM targets, and return from the parent test when isolation is requested.
Preserve the test’s existing assertions and blocklist behavior.
Review comments at @crates/ui-egui/src/pluginsui.rs:
- Around line 617-621: Update the wasm blocklist refresh and startup flow around
`pulled` to preserve and apply the last valid hosted blocklist before restoring
plugins. Handle malformed entries without discarding valid withdrawals, and
explicitly warn when no blocklist is available; retain the existing safeguards
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Review follow-up. An entry with a sha256 that isn't a SHA-256 hash (a prefix,
a cut-short hash) withdrew nothing without a word; it now refuses the
refresh like an entry without an id. The engine's two blocklist tests are one
test, so their process-wide blocklists don't race.
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The sha256 finding is fixed in a89e8e3. The notify(…, true) severity of the "withdrawn" notice is left for the release quality pass. The engine and the Plugin Manager use the same level now, which the Plugin Manager already had. unreadable_plugin_blocklist_warns does check severity: each matching notice must be a Warning.
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An entry with an invalid id is accepted silently and can never match. The new code refuses a sha256 that would match nothing, but not an id that would match nothing. blocked() compares id exactly, and a loaded plugin's id must pass valid_id(_, false) (manifest.rs:431), so an empty or non-conforming id ("", "Eng-X", "a b") is a silent no-op. That is the case this PR's "a bad entry refuses the whole refresh" rule is meant to catch. valid_id is already imported in this file.
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let b = serde_json::from_value::<Blocked>(v).map_err(|e| format!("blocklist entry {}: {e}", i + 1))?;
let b = serde_json::from_value::<Blocked>(v).map_err(|e| format!("blocklist entry {}: {e}", i + 1))?;
if !valid_id(&b.id,false){
returnErr(format!("blocklist entry {}: id isn't a plugin id", i + 1));
}
Confidence: medium (about 65%). It only matters for malformed hosted lists, so it is not urgent, but it is the same class of silent no-op the PR already guards against.
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Fixed in d761e57: an entry whose id isn't a plugin id (valid_id(_, false), the rule a plugin's own id must pass) refuses the refresh, and the error names the id. Added [{"id": "Unit Blocked"}] to the refused cases.
No new bugs found in the changed code. The refusal paths return before any write or apply, load_installed reports unreadable caches, and the wasm and native branches of pluginsui.rs both type-check against the signatures I read. I could not compile or run the tests here.
Security
None new. A malformed or oversized blocklist now fails closed: the list in force stays and the user is warned. Failures on custom registries stay silent by design; that was already raised in earlier threads.
Performance
Nothing worth raising. The 100,000-entry cap is checked before per-entry parsing.
Quality
registry.rs:215 (inline comment posted, confidence about 65%): an entry with an empty or non-conforming id is accepted and silently matches nothing. The PR already refuses a sha256 that would match nothing, so the same rule should apply to id. The suggested change uses valid_id(_, false), which is already imported.
cmd/plugins.rs:171 (confidence about 35%): the withdrawal notice passes true, which is Severity::Error, for a routine outcome. The Plugin Manager does the same at pluginsui.rs:633, so this is consistent with existing code, but a withdrawal is not an error. Nit for the release quality pass.
The PR description names an engine test registry_blocklists_say_what_they_refuse_and_turn_off, which is not in the diff. The diff's test is unreadable_plugin_blocklist_warns, and it covers the same cases. Update the description to match.
AGENTS.md
The Plugin Manager and engine now show new warning text, and the PR has no screenshot. AGENTS.md asks for screenshots of visible changes. This is low confidence (about 40%), since it is message text rather than layout.
The Plugin Manager still posts one notice per withdrawn plugin rather than one notice with a count (pluginsui.rs:630-635). This is unchanged code, so it is out of scope here.
Already raised, left alone: 20+ earlier threads cover the remaining points: the silent cache-write failure in save_blocklist, the silent custom-registry fetch failure and the 4 MiB fetch limit, Python Session(plugins=True) discarding errors, the startup fail-open until browse, the .take truncation in the registry reader, and test isolation and coverage questions. I did not re-raise any of them because the code they point at has not changed in a way that alters the problem.
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- Line 218: Update the Python session startup path for Session(plugins=True) to
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SHA-256 entries. Preserve the existing plugin-loading behavior while ensuring
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- Line 218: Update blocklist hash validation around is_sha256 so a malformed
cached entry does not discard valid withdrawals from the same cache; preserve
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Review follow-up. An entry whose id no plugin can have (empty, capitals,
spaces) matched nothing without a word; it now refuses the refresh, as an
entry whose sha256 isn't a hash does.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The id finding is fixed in d761e57. The PR description's test list now matches the code. The new text is in notices and warnings, with no layout change, so there are no screenshots. The notice severity is left for the release quality pass.
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Hostile input echoed in full into the refusal message (low severity).b.id is copied unbounded into the error. valid_id caps ids at 64 characters only for acceptance, not for this message. A custom registry's blocklist can be up to 4 MiB, and the cache has no byte cap, so one entry can put a multi-megabyte string into the warning or the startup error that the app shows. The entry's position already identifies it, so the id doesn't need echoing.
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returnErr(format!("blocklist entry {}: '{}' isn't a plugin id", i + 1, b.id));
returnErr(format!("blocklist entry {}: id isn't a plugin id", i + 1));
Confidence: about 70%. Both the id and the sha256 paths are otherwise bounded, so this is the one place a remote value is printed verbatim.
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Fixed in 9bf272e: the message no longer echoes the id. An entry's other refusal reasons (serde's, which can quote a value) are cut to 200 characters. Test: a 100,000-character id, and a 100,000-character string where an entry should be, each give a short error.
No new bugs found in the changed lines. I traced the refusal-before-write order in save_blocklist, the 100,000-entry boundary test against valid_id (which accepts "x"), the load_installed error arms, the fetch_registry branches, and the Plugin Manager's Job::Blocklist arms in both the native and wasm cfgs. The types and signatures check out. (High confidence in the absence of a bug in these paths; I could not compile or run the tests here.)
Security
Low: a blocklist id that fails valid_id is echoed in full into the refusal message (crates/plugins/src/registry.rs:217). A custom registry's blocklist can be up to 4 MiB, and the cache has no byte cap, so one entry can put a multi-megabyte string into a warning or startup error. Posted inline with a one-line suggestion. Confidence about 70%.
Performance
None found.
Quality (nits, grouped here rather than posted inline)
parse_blocklist is a pub fn whose doc links MAX_ENTRIES, which is now pub(crate). Rustdoc will warn about the private link. CI does not run rustdoc with -D warnings, so this is cosmetic. Confidence high that it warns.
cached_blocklist_survives_refused_refreshes sets the process-wide store folder to a temp directory and never resets it. Tests that run later under the store lock set their own, so this is unlikely to break anything. Confidence low.
AGENTS.md
Checked against the base-branch rules: no unwrap/expect/panic in non-test code, user-visible Plugin Manager text goes through i18n::fmt, engine notices follow the engine's existing untranslated pattern, warn/notify are used, the wasm build is not affected, and both the accept and refuse sides of each change have tests. No violations found.
Prior review threads: 5 open concerns left alone because they were already raised and answered by the author or a maintainer: the registry reader's .take(MAX_ENTRIES), the Plugin Manager's silent 404 arm, the web session blocklist, the Python Session(plugins=True) error discard, and the silent failed custom-registry fetch. The 4 MiB fetch cap versus the 100,000-entry limit (thread on cmd/plugins.rs:160) is also left alone; the default-registry failure path now warns, so only the non-default silent path remains. The remaining threads are resolved or were fixed in the pushed commits.
Change size
Compared: the whole PR against main (merge base f03a590 to PR head d761e57).
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Review comments at @crates/plugins/src/registry.rs:
- Around line 196-197: The parser accepts null SHA-256 values despite the
documented validation contract. Update the registry parser and the documentation
near MAX_ENTRIES to agree on when null is valid, preserving intentional unscoped
withdrawals while preventing null from unintentionally blocking every hash for
an ID during hosted refresh.
Review comments at @crates/plugins/src/tests.rs:
- Line 422: Extend the existing blocklist ID validation test with an ID that
starts with a valid lowercase character but contains an invalid interior space,
such as “unit blocked”; verify the hosted refresh rejects it and preserves the
existing withdrawal.
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Review follow-up. The refusal for an entry whose id isn't a plugin id no
longer echoes the id, and an entry's other refusal reasons are cut to 200
characters: both can quote what the network sent, which the command line
prints in full. The docs say a null sha256 withdraws every version, and the
tests add an id with a bad character inside.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The id echo is fixed in 9bf272e, along with the rustdoc link to the private MAX_ENTRIES, which is now plain text. The store folder is left pointing at the deleted temp folder, which is safer than resetting it to None, as the review notes.
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Silent loss on the Python default path (new with this PR, medium-high confidence, about 75%). Before this PR, a cache with one bad entry still applied its good withdrawals, because filter_map kept them. Now the whole cache is refused, so load_installed returns this error and nothing is applied. apps/rustgis-python/python/rustgis/__init__.py:762 calls load_plugins() inside Session(plugins=True) and discards its result. A fresh Python process therefore loads a plugin the cache withdrew, with no notice. The earlier answer, that Session(plugins=True) always discarded errors, is true of other errors. What is new is that this error now means no withdrawals at all, so it is worth another look. Either the Python session should report the errors it gets back from load_plugins() (for example through take_notices), or the PR should say in its description that Python users must call rustgis.load_plugins() themselves.
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Agreed that the stakes are higher now. A refused cache means no withdrawals until the next fetch, instead of the good part of the list. I've said so in the PR description, along with where Python callers get the report: rustgis.load_plugins() returns it, the cache error included. Making Session(plugins=True) raise or warn on what load_plugins() returns would change the Python API for every plugin load error, so it's still a separate change. The case also needs a cache saved by an older version holding an entry this version refuses. Every cache written from now on has passed the same checks.
I read the full diff, the prior review threads, and the surrounding source in registry.rs, store.rs, lib.rs, the Plugin Manager, and the Python session. The change is careful. The strict parser runs before any write or apply, and the notices are one per refusal with the reason. I posted one new inline comment. About 25 earlier threads already cover the remaining concerns, and I left those alone.
Bugs
None found in the changed logic. I checked the save order, the cache write, the valid_id and SHA-256 checks, the MAX_ENTRIES refusal, and the error-message truncation in the serde path.
Security
No new issues. The refusal messages cut serde's echo of network input at 200 characters, and the id error doesn't echo the id.
Performance
None worth raising. The per-entry to_ascii_lowercase() in parse_blocklist allocates, but on at most 100,000 entries that's negligible.
Quality
Nit: is_sha256(&h.to_ascii_lowercase()) could be h.len() == 64 && h.bytes().all(|b| b.is_ascii_hexdigit()), which avoids the allocation. Left for the release quality pass. Confidence: high that it's a nit.
AGENTS.md
Never silent, Python path (new evidence, about 75%):Session(plugins=True) discards load_plugins()'s result. Before this PR a cache with one bad entry still applied its good withdrawals. Now the whole cache is refused, so a fresh Python process can load a withdrawn plugin with no notice. This is posted inline at crates/plugins/src/store.rs:91.
Note, low confidence (about 40%): reason is a non-optional String, so a hosted entry with "reason": null now refuses the whole refresh. Before, that entry was dropped silently. This may be intended, but the PR doesn't mention it.
Already raised, left alone (about 25 threads): the take(MAX_ENTRIES) truncation in registry::parse; the silent 4 MiB failure on custom registries; the sha256: null contract; the ignored cache-write error; the web blocklist not persisting across sessions; the Session(plugins=True) discard, which I re-raised above with new evidence; the test-isolation and test-coverage requests; and the Plugin Manager's per-plugin notices.
Change size
Compared: the whole PR against main (merge base f03a590 to PR head 9bf272e).
"reason": null refuses the refresh like any other wrong-typed field. That's intended, as the hosted list always writes a string. The allocation in the hash check is left for the release quality pass. The Python note is now in the description.
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Summary
The plugin blocklist is how the hosted registry withdraws a plugin: a listed plugin is turned off and can't be loaded or installed again.
registry::parse_blocklistread any JSON that wasn't an array, or an object with ablockedarray, as an empty list, and so did a list whose entries had noid. A refresh that received{},{"blocked": {}}or{"blocked": [{}]}cleared every withdrawal. For the hosted registry,store::save_blocklistalso wrote that body over the cachedblocklist.json, so a later start began with no withdrawals too.blockedis an array, any entry whoseidisn't a plugin id, and any entry whosesha256, when given, isn't a SHA-256 hash (either would match nothing). Nosha256, ornull, still withdraws every version. A refused entry is named by its position, and its reason is cut short, since it can quote what the network sent.save_blocklistparses before it writes or applies anything, so on an error the list in force and the cached file both stay as they were. That matches what already happens when the blocklist can't be fetched.[]or{"blocked": []}.plugin.registryandplugin.installFromRegistry(fetch_registry) and the Plugin Manager warn that the blocklist couldn't be read, with the reason, and that the last blocklist read, if any, stays in force. Before, the callers dropped the error. They warn the same way when the hosted registry's blocklist can't be downloaded. The hosted registry always publishes one. Another registry may have none (it blocks nothing), so its failed download stays quiet.idholding one would match nothing).plugin.registryandplugin.installFromRegistrysay which plugins a newly withdrawn list turned off, in one notice, as the Plugin Manager already did.load_installed's errors, which the app shows and the command line prints, rather than being ignored. Until the next fetch, no withdrawals apply from such a cache, where the good part of it used to. In Python,rustgis.load_plugins()returns this report.Session(plugins=True)still discards what it returns, as it does for every plugin load error.Testing
blocked_plugins_are_unloaded_and_refusednow also feeds the hosted registry'ssave_blocklist{},{"blocked": {}},{"blocked": null},1, an entry without anid,[1], a good entry followed by a bad one, asha256that isn't a hash, and anidthat isn't a plugin id (two forms). Each one is refused, and the withdrawn plugin stays blocked. Onmain,{}succeeds and clears the list.[]and{"blocked": []}still read as empty lists.cached_blocklist_survives_refused_refreshes: refused refreshes leave the cached hosted blocklist byte for byte, and a cache that can't be read is reported byload_installed.registries_and_blocklists_are_read_defensively: a list of exactly 100,000 entries reads whole, and one more is refused. A very long id, or a very long string where an entry should be, gives a short error.unreadable_plugin_blocklist_warns:plugin.registryagainst a local registry warns once when its blocklist is{"blocked": {}}, naming the blocklist and the reason, and says nothing when it is{"blocked": []}. The notice is a warning. It also checks that a blocklist that isn't text is refused with a warning, and that one withdrawing a loaded plugin names it in a notice and unloads it.cargo clippy -p rustgis-plugins -p rustgis-engine -p rustgis-ui-egui --all-targets -- -D warnings,cargo test -p rustgis-pluginscargo xtask ci, thewasm32-unknown-unknownbuild ofrustgis-web, and the pre-commit hooks, on 9bf272e.Related issue
None: found while reviewing the plugin registry code.
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