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PermissionConstraints (internal/auth/types.go:52) carries five dimensions: AccountIDs, Providers, Services, Regions, MaxPurchaseAmount. They round-trip through the API in full. The group edit form rendered inputs for four. There was no input for accounts, and collectPermissions() never read one back, so every save dropped it.

That is a widening, not data loss. matchStringListConstraints (internal/auth/service_group.go:414) returns true whenever either list is empty, so an empty AccountIDs means no restriction on this dimension. A permission stored as "manage any scheduled purchase, but only in acct-prod-1" came back out of a cosmetic rename as "manage any scheduled purchase, in every cloud account".

The backend grant ceiling does not catch it: grantCeilingAllows short-circuits on the caller's admin:*, whose own comment notes that admin:* carries no constraints and so covers any requested constraint set.

The same gap fails closed in the other direction, which this PR also fixes. A constrained carved-out money verb made its group uneditable: the form dropped the fence, permissionCoveredBy saw a request whose constraints no longer covered the stored ones, and checkGrantCeiling refused the whole write, including a pure rename.

Fix 1 (frontend/src/groups/groupModals.ts, +14)

addPermission() renders a .perm-accounts input (escaped, like the other three list dimensions) and collectPermissions() reads it back, including it in the guard that decides whether to attach a constraints object at all. That last part matters for the narrowest form of the bug: when accounts was the only constraint, if (providers || services || regions || maxAmount) never fired and the permission round-tripped fully unconstrained.

Label and placeholder name cloud account IDs, not names: enforcement builds constraint sets as AccountIDs: []string{accountID} from CloudAccountID or the unattributed sentinel (internal/api/handler_purchases.go:2229-2237, handler_ri_exchange.go:1804-1808, sentinel at handler.go:466). An admin following a name-shaped placeholder would write a fence matching nothing.

Fix 2: blank constraint entries refused at the boundary (internal/auth/group_ceiling.go, +60)

validateRequestedPermissions already refuses a blank action or resource, because a blank value is malformed input rather than a request for the wildcard. Constraint entries need the same rule for the same reason:

  • an empty list means "no restriction" -> allow everything;
  • a list holding only "" is non-empty, so containsAny runs and matches nothing -> deny everything.

The comma-joined text encoding cannot represent the difference, and the ceiling does not catch it either. validateConstraintEntries now rejects any entry in AccountIDs / Providers / Services / Regions that is empty after strings.TrimSpace, for every client including the API. Closing it at the boundary is why no value-preservation machinery is needed in the UI.

The refusal is specific, not generic: it names the permission index, the action:resource pair, the dimension (by APIPermissionConstraint JSON tag, so it points at the field the client sent) and the position within that list, so an operator with a multi-permission group knows which row to repair. Maps to 400. MaxPurchaseAmount is untouched: zero already means "no cap" on both sides.

Fix 3: the form refuses to save a value it cannot represent

Raised by CodeRabbit on this PR and taken rather than dismissed. Fixes 1 and 2 close the common case, but the comma-separated text encoding is not injective, so a stored value could still come back as a different restriction:

stored what the form would re-submit
[""] absent -> deny-everything becomes allow-everything
[","] [] -> same widening; the entry is not blank, so a per-entry blank check misses it
[" acct A "] ["acct A"] -> a different fence, since enforcement compares exactly

The backend guard cannot catch any of these: the form filters the value out before the request is built, so validateConstraintEntries never receives a blank to reject. This PR would otherwise have claimed to close a silent widening while shipping one.

The row now carries the verdict when it renders, and saveGroup refuses while any row carries it, naming the permission by index and by action:resource and naming the constraint list, mirroring the backend refusal's specificity. The group stays uneditable through the form until the value is repaired via the API or in the database. A loud refusal beats a silent widening.

Deliberately not done: nothing remembers the loaded value in order to compare it later. The check is a pure function of the permission being rendered, and the only thing recorded is which dimensions are unsafe, on the row itself, so removing the row clears it. Nothing tries to round-trip an unrepresentable string.

Detection is a round trip through parseConstraintList, now the single tokenizer shared with the save path. Sharing it is the point: if the parser drops or alters a value the detector catches it, and the two cannot drift.

An absent or empty list is not flagged: both mean "no restriction on this dimension", both are normal, and refusing them would make ordinary unconstrained groups uneditable.

One consequence worth stating: the detector is broader than blank-only, so it also refuses a value that would merely be re-trimmed, such as [" acct A "]. That is legitimate stored data the backend accepts, and enforcement compares it exactly, so letting the form silently rewrite it to "acct A" would change the fence.

What remains, and what does not

Closed: the silent widening through the form, in every form it took. A stored blank, a comma-only entry, or a whitespace-padded value now refuses the save instead of quietly dropping the restriction.

Not closed, deliberately: the stored row itself is still malformed and needs repair. Detection refuses the edit; it does not fix the data. A group holding such a value is uneditable through the form, and unduplicatable as well, since saveDuplicateGroup posts permissions: source.permissions verbatim and the copy hits the backend 400. The repair path is the API or SQL.

No repair migration ships here. Nothing in the repo produces this data (no seed sets permission constraints at all), so a migration written on speculation against rows we have no evidence exist, on an authorization table, is the wrong trade. Tracked conditionally in LeanerCloud/cloud-commitments-platform#214, which carries a read-only detection query validated against Postgres 16 with a 9-row fixture. Zero rows means that issue can simply be closed.

One user-visible behaviour change beyond the fix

A non-admin editor whose own permissions are account-constrained will now correctly get a 403 on edits that previously "succeeded" by silently dropping a fence beyond their own scope. That is listCovers working as designed, now that the fence actually reaches it.

Tests

The regression tests drive the real save path: they build the #group-form markup from index.html, call setupGroupHandlers() to install the app's own submit listener, and save by clicking the submit button. #group-form carries no novalidate and .perm-resource is required, so calling saveGroup(event) directly (as the pre-existing tests in this file do) bypasses browser constraint validation and cannot tell whether a fix is on the path an admin actually uses. Confirmed by execution beforehand that jsdom 22.1.0 honours validation on that path.

One test exists purely to pin the harness: it clears the required name input, asserts form.checkValidity() === false, clicks Save, and asserts api.updateGroup was never called. Without it, a fix that never runs would pass everything else in the block.

Fail-pre-fix, measured (revert the source file, run, restore):

against origin/main post-fix
frontend (group-edit-unrepresentable-permissions.test.ts) 11 failed, 16 passed 27 passed
backend (group_ceiling_validation_test.go) 10 of 10 blank-entry subtests fail 13 passed

Of the 11 frontend failures, 5 are the refusal tests for fix 3, measured separately against the commit that has fix 1 but not fix 3.

Being precise about why, since they do not all fail the same way: the headline preserve test fails on the payload (jest diff shows accounts missing from what api.updateGroup received); five fail on the missing DOM hook, because you cannot type into an input that does not exist; five fail because the save was not refused. The remaining tests pass both ways by design and are named as such below.

Six tests pass both ways deliberately, and are guards rather than evidence: the harness pin, the four negative controls that a representable constraint still saves, and the one showing that removing an offending row unblocks the save (which pins that the verdict is row-scoped rather than sticky state).

Three assertions were mutation-checked rather than assumed:

  • clearing one fence removes only that one clears row 0 and asserts row 1 keeps its fence. Clearing both rows (an earlier version) survived the "render the input but never read it back" mutation; the current form dies with the other four.
  • The reported position is asserted, because two backend cases put the blank at index 1. Hardcoding the reported position to 0 kills exactly those two subtests.
  • Flagging the container instead of the row (a plausible slip) kills all five refusal tests.

Backend refusal tests stub UpdateGroup/CreateGroup permissively (.Maybe()), so removing the guard makes the write succeed and the assertions catch it, rather than passing by accident on a missing-stub panic. Negative controls cover a populated multi-value list on all five dimensions, an empty list, and a value containing internal whitespace.

Verification

go build ./..., go test ./... (33 packages, zero FAIL), go vet, golangci-lint run ./... at the CI pin v2.10.1 (exit 0, "0 issues."), gocyclo -over 10 clean. tsc --noEmit, npm test (90 suites, 2865 passed), npm run lint (0 errors), npm run build.

Someone should eyeball the group edit modal in a browser. All frontend verification here is jsdom. The new accounts input sits alone on its own .form-row above Providers/Services, which with .form-row { display:flex } and label { flex:1 } renders full-width. That is reasoned from the CSS, not seen. Also unverified: whether any deployment actually stores a populated constraints.accounts today. If none does, the frontend half is preventive rather than corrective; the widening is reachable either way, and the uneditable-group half bites regardless.

Closes #1629

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Group permission forms now support Cloud Account ID constraints.
    • Account-scoped permissions are preserved when edited, narrowed, cleared, or expanded.
    • Invalid, unrepresentable permission constraints are identified with specific error details.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Prevented group permission edits from unintentionally widening account access.
    • Added validation to reject blank or whitespace-only constraint values.
    • Improved handling of account IDs with special characters while preserving their exact values.
    • Prevented saving until invalid permission constraints are corrected or removed.

… edit form

PermissionConstraints carries five dimensions (internal/auth/types.go); the
group edit form rendered inputs for four. constraints.accounts had nowhere
to live and collectPermissions() never read one back, so every save dropped
it.

That widens the permission rather than merely losing data:
matchStringListConstraints (internal/auth/service_group.go) treats an empty
list as "no restriction on this dimension", so a permission stored as
"manage any scheduled purchase, but only in acct-prod-1" came back out of a
cosmetic rename as "manage any scheduled purchase, in every cloud account".
The backend grant ceiling does not catch it: grantCeilingAllows
short-circuits on the caller's admin:*.

The same gap fails closed in the other direction. A constrained carved-out
money verb made its group uneditable, because permissionCoveredBy saw the
account fence disappear from the request and refused the whole write,
including a pure rename. Representing the field fixes both halves.

The label and placeholder name cloud account IDs, not names: enforcement
compares these against CloudAccountID or the "unattributed" sentinel
(internal/api/handler_purchases.go, handler_ri_exchange.go).

The regression tests drive the real save path, through the submit listener
setupGroupHandlers() installs, reached by clicking the form's submit button.
#group-form carries no novalidate and .perm-resource is required, so calling
saveGroup(event) directly bypasses browser constraint validation and cannot
tell whether a fix is on the path the admin actually uses. Six of the seven
fail against the pre-fix form; the seventh pins the harness itself by
asserting an invalid form never reaches saveGroup.

Refs #1629
validateRequestedPermissions already refuses a blank action or resource,
because a blank value is malformed input rather than a request for the
wildcard. Constraint list entries need the same rule for the same reason.

A blank entry and an absent one mean opposite things at enforcement:
matchStringListConstraints reads an empty list as "no restriction on this
dimension" (allow everything), while a list holding only "" matches nothing
(deny everything). The group edit form's comma-joined text encoding cannot
represent the difference, so [""] renders blank and re-parses as absent,
turning a permission fenced to nothing into one fenced to everything. The
ceiling does not catch it either: grantCeilingAllows' admin:* branch covers
any requested constraint set.

Refusing blanks at the boundary removes that case for every client including
the API. It does not make the form's encoding lossless in general: a stored
value carrying leading or trailing spaces, or one containing a comma, still
re-parses into something different through the form. Those are accepted here
deliberately, because enforcement compares constraint values exactly, so
refusing or normalizing them would diverge from what the stored value does
and would break edits of data this endpoint already accepted.

Blank means empty after trimming. MaxPurchaseAmount has no blank form and is
untouched.

Uneditability check: no migration seeds a permission carrying constraints,
so a stored blank entry can only come from a pre-change API write or direct
SQL. The edit form cannot produce one (collectPermissions trims and filters),
so a group holding one stays editable through the UI. A raw API client
echoing back what GET returned, and the Duplicate Group modal, which copies
source permissions verbatim, would now get a 400 naming the offending entry.
That is the correct outcome for a value that is malformed in both
directions.

Refs #1629
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The group editor now preserves Cloud Account IDs constraints and blocks saves that would alter unrepresentable constraint values. Backend group permission validation rejects blank or whitespace-only constraint entries and reports their dimension and position.

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Group permission constraint handling

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Frontend constraint form support
frontend/src/groups/groupModals.ts
The permission form renders Cloud Account IDs and collects account-only constraints with shared comma-separated parsing.
Frontend round-trip validation
frontend/src/groups/groupModals.ts
The editor detects constraint values that cannot round-trip through form encoding and blocks saving with detailed errors.
Frontend regression coverage
frontend/src/__tests__/group-edit-unrepresentable-permissions.test.ts
Tests cover account constraint preservation, rendering, narrowing, clearing, escaping, invalid stored values, explicit removal, and representable values.
Backend constraint-entry validation
internal/auth/group_ceiling.go, internal/auth/group_ceiling_validation_test.go
Group permission validation rejects blank entries in account, provider, service, and region constraints. Tests verify error details, persistence behavior, and accepted values.

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In `@frontend/src/groups/groupModals.ts`:
- Around line 223-227: Update the account constraint handling in the group modal
rendering and save flow around the perm-accounts input and
validateConstraintEntries so stored blank account entries are detected before
rendering, nonempty comma-separated input containing empty tokens is rejected,
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Comment thread frontend/src/groups/groupModals.ts
…ot represent

Representing constraints.accounts fixed the common case but left one open,
raised by CodeRabbit on #1875. The comma-separated text encoding is not
injective, so a stored value can come back as a different restriction:

  [""]          renders blank and re-parses as ABSENT
  [","]         re-parses as an empty list
  [" acct A "]  comes back trimmed, which is a different fence

For a constraint list "different" means WIDER, because an empty list is "no
restriction on this dimension" at enforcement (matchStringListConstraints).
The backend guard cannot catch these: the form filters the value out before
the request is built, so validateConstraintEntries never sees a blank to
reject. The PR claimed to close a silent widening while shipping one.

The row now carries the verdict when it renders, and saveGroup refuses while
any row carries it, naming the permission by index and by action:resource and
naming the constraint list, mirroring the specificity of the backend refusal.
The group stays uneditable through the form until the value is repaired via
the API or in the database, which is the right trade: a loud refusal beats a
silent widening.

Two things this deliberately does not do. It does not remember the loaded
value in order to compare it later: the check is a pure function of the
permission being rendered, and the only thing recorded is which dimensions
are unsafe, on the row itself, so removing the row clears it. And it does not
try to round-trip an unrepresentable string.

Detection is a round trip through parseConstraintList, now the single
tokenizer shared with the save path. Sharing it is the point: if the parser
drops or alters a value, the detector catches it, and the two cannot drift.
A per-entry "is it blank" test would miss [","], whose entry is not blank yet
still vanishes, because the split runs before the filter.

An absent or empty list is not flagged. Both mean "no restriction on this
dimension", both are normal, and refusing them would make ordinary
unconstrained groups uneditable.

Note the detector is broader than blank-only: it also refuses a value that
would merely be re-trimmed, such as [" acct A "]. That value is legitimate
stored data the backend accepts, and enforcement compares it exactly, so
letting the form silently rewrite it to "acct A" would change the fence.

Refs #1629

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frontend/src/__tests__/group-edit-unrepresentable-permissions.test.ts (2)

533-538: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Consider adding a stored entry that contains a comma.

unrepresentableDimensions also flags a single stored entry such as 'acct,1', because the round trip splits it into two entries. The table does not cover that shape. A case would lock in the behavior.

♻️ Suggested extra case
       ['a blank entry beside a real one', ['acct-prod-1', '  ']],
+      ['an entry containing a comma, which splits into two on reload', ['acct,1']],
     ];
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In `@frontend/src/__tests__/group-edit-unrepresentable-permissions.test.ts` around
lines 533 - 538, Add a test case to the UNREPRESENTABLE table for a single
stored entry containing a comma, such as "acct,1", and assert that it is flagged
because round-tripping splits it into multiple entries.

560-566: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

The fixture argument is unused here.

Line 561 calls groupWithAccounts(['']), and Line 562 replaces group.permissions completely. The [''] argument has no effect. Passing [] states the intent more clearly, or a small helper that builds a group without permissions.

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In `@frontend/src/__tests__/group-edit-unrepresentable-permissions.test.ts` around
lines 560 - 566, Update the test setup in “names every offending permission, by
index, when several are unsafe” to avoid passing the unused [''] account fixture
to groupWithAccounts; use an empty account list or the existing helper for
creating a group without permissions, while preserving the explicitly assigned
group.permissions entries.
frontend/src/groups/groupModals.ts (1)

223-233: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Consider clearing the flag when the operator repairs the value in the form.

The row keeps data-unrepresentable for its whole lifetime. If an operator retypes the Cloud Account IDs field with a representable value, saveGroup still refuses. The only paths forward are removing the row or editing outside the form. The refusal is safe, so this is a usability improvement rather than a defect.

One option is to attach an input listener on the flagged row's constraint inputs and to remove the attribute for that dimension after the value changes.

♻️ Example listener to clear a repaired dimension
   const removeBtn = permDiv.querySelector('.remove-permission-btn');
   if (removeBtn) {
     removeBtn.addEventListener('click', () => {
       permDiv.remove();
     });
   }
+
+  // A manual edit replaces the stored value, so the stored-value verdict
+  // no longer applies to that dimension.
+  for (const dimension of unsafe) {
+    const input = permDiv.querySelector(`.perm-${dimension}`);
+    input?.addEventListener('input', () => {
+      const remaining = (permDiv.getAttribute('data-unrepresentable') || '')
+        .split(', ')
+        .filter(d => d && d !== dimension);
+      if (remaining.length > 0) {
+        permDiv.setAttribute('data-unrepresentable', remaining.join(', '));
+      } else {
+        permDiv.removeAttribute('data-unrepresentable');
+        permDiv.removeAttribute('data-permission-label');
+      }
+    }, { once: true });
+  }
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In `@frontend/src/groups/groupModals.ts` around lines 223 - 233, Update the
flagged permission-row handling around unsafe and data-unrepresentable so
constraint input changes re-evaluate the edited dimension and remove its
corresponding unrepresentable flag when the value becomes representable. Attach
the listener only to the row’s relevant constraint inputs, preserve flags for
dimensions that remain unsafe, and ensure saveGroup can proceed after the
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In `@frontend/src/groups/groupModals.ts`:
- Around line 394-399: Update the constraint handling around parseConstraintList
so nonempty accounts, providers, services, or regions input that parses to an
empty list is rejected with a user-facing error. Do not assign or send that
constraint as an empty list; preserve the existing behavior for valid nonempty
lists and unrelated maxAmount handling.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@frontend/src/__tests__/group-edit-unrepresentable-permissions.test.ts`:
- Around line 533-538: Add a test case to the UNREPRESENTABLE table for a single
stored entry containing a comma, such as "acct,1", and assert that it is flagged
because round-tripping splits it into multiple entries.
- Around line 560-566: Update the test setup in “names every offending
permission, by index, when several are unsafe” to avoid passing the unused ['']
account fixture to groupWithAccounts; use an empty account list or the existing
helper for creating a group without permissions, while preserving the explicitly
assigned group.permissions entries.

In `@frontend/src/groups/groupModals.ts`:
- Around line 223-233: Update the flagged permission-row handling around unsafe
and data-unrepresentable so constraint input changes re-evaluate the edited
dimension and remove its corresponding unrepresentable flag when the value
becomes representable. Attach the listener only to the row’s relevant constraint
inputs, preserve flags for dimensions that remain unsafe, and ensure saveGroup
can proceed after the operator repairs the value.
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Comment thread frontend/src/groups/groupModals.ts Outdated
…thing

The same widening from the typed direction, raised by CodeRabbit on #1875.
The render-time check covered a STORED value; this covers what an operator
types. "," or " , " is non-empty in the box but parseConstraintList reduces
it to [], the save sends an empty list, and an empty list is "no restriction"
at enforcement. A stray comma silently removed the fence.

This is more reachable than the stored case, not less: that one needs data no
shipped code path produces, this one needs a typo.

Both directions now flow through unrepresentablePermissionErrors and the same
refusal in saveGroup, so the rule reads as one rule rather than two special
cases, and both use parseConstraintList itself as the predicate rather than a
second implementation of "parses to nothing" that could drift from it. The
four dimensions come from one LIST_CONSTRAINT_DIMENSIONS list, so the stored
check and the typed check cannot cover different sets.

Blank is measured after trimming, which is narrower than "non-empty" on
purpose. A box holding only spaces is indistinguishable from an empty one on
screen, and an error on a field that appears blank could not be acted on, so
it is treated as emptied. An emptied box still means "no restriction" and
still saves.

Two smaller changes fall out of that boundary. A dimension is attached only
when it yields at least one entry, and a constraints object with nothing in
it is dropped, so a box that LOOKS empty produces the same payload as one
that IS empty rather than sending [] and making the request depend on
invisible characters. Both shapes mean the same thing at enforcement; this
only stops them from differing. maxAmount handling is unchanged.

The action:resource label is now read live from the selects at refusal time
instead of being stored on the row at render, so it cannot go stale against
what the operator is looking at, and one attribute does the work of two.

Refs #1629
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cristim merged commit 25fc19c into main Aug 20, 2026
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sec(frontend): group edit drops unrepresentable permissions and widens their resource to *

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