fix(zapscript): bound ZapScript length and stop re-parsing every token - #1385
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Nothing bounded the length of ZapScript text anywhere. RunParams.Text carried no validate tag, mapping Override was uncapped while Label was limited to 255, History.TokenValue is unconstrained text, and the MQTT, file, serial, barcode, optical, external drive and GMC readers passed their payload straight through. The only ceilings were the 4MB WebSocket and 1MB HTTP POST envelopes. Parse cost grows with the length of the text, so unbounded input is a way to occupy the single token worker that every reader queues through, and, once stored, to make every later history read expensive for the whole retention window. MaxScriptLength is 8192 bytes, well above an NTAG216's 888 and any hand-written script. It is applied at the four points untrusted text arrives: the JSON-RPC run method for both param shapes, the REST handler before IsRunAllowed parses the URL, a ZapLink response body, and handleQueuedToken as the backstop covering every reader at the one place they converge. An over-long token completes with an error and is not written to history, matching the empty-token case beside it. Refs #1375
runParamsForLog was passed as an argument to log.Debug().Msgf, so Go evaluated it before zerolog could apply the level check. It redacts the script, which parses it, so every run request paid for that parse whether or not debug logging was enabled. Refs #1375
RedactToken parsed the same text twice unconditionally, once inside RedactScript and once inside HasSensitiveScript, and three times when a credential was present. It has six call sites: handleQueuedToken calls it twice per scanned token on the service worker, and HandleHistory calls it once per row, so a 25-row page cost 50 to 75 parses of stored text. Credentials only ever appear in the profile and playtime.extend commands. A command name reaches the parse tree verbatim, since the grammar admits only [a-zA-Z0-9.] in a name and normalization is a lowercase, so a name absent from the source cannot appear in the result. Checking for those two names is therefore proof, not a heuristic, and lets the parse be skipped entirely for every other token. The check folds ASCII case in place rather than lowercasing a copy, because real media paths carry capitals and the copy would be the common case. RedactToken now derives both the redacted text and the sensitivity of the payload from one parse, on the rare path where a parse still happens. At the 8KB ingest bound, RedactToken drops from 11.4ms and 71MB per call to 6.7us and no allocation. One behaviour change: text that names neither command and does not parse is no longer replaced wholesale by the redacted-script placeholder. It cannot carry a credential, so it stays readable in logs and history, which is what redaction is there to allow. Text that does name one of the two commands still fails closed exactly as before. Refs #1375
BenchmarkScanToLaunch_DirectPath panicked on unstubbed Settings and RootDirs mocks, which made task bench unusable. A direct path reaches PathIsLauncher, which calls DataDir and the platform's root directories. Unrelated to the parse work in this branch; it predates it and reproduces on the previous go-zapscript release.
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 2 included reviews per hour; 0 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR adds an 8192-byte ZapScript limit across API, queue, mapping override, and ZapLink execution paths. It also optimizes credential detection and token redaction with expanded tests and benchmarks. ChangesZapScript length enforcement
Credential redaction optimization
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The change adds an 8,192-byte limit and reduces repeated parsing, but mapped scripts can still bypass that byte limit and impose excess parser work, while malformed text containing credential-command names can still be redacted with adjacent payload loss. The PR is not merge-ready until these bounded correctness and availability risks are fixed or explicitly accepted. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Client
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Client->>HandleRun: submit ZapScript
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In `@pkg/api/models/params.go`:
- Line 116: Apply zapscript.ValidateScriptLength to AddMappingParams.Override
and UpdateMappingParams.Override before either value is stored or passed to
gozapscript.NewParser, replacing reliance on the character-counting max=8192
validation for the script-length constraint. Preserve normal handling for empty
and valid overrides, and return the validation error for values exceeding the
UTF-8 byte limit.
In `@pkg/zapscript/redact.go`:
- Line 98: Update the pre-check in the redaction logic around containsFoldASCII
and the related HasSensitiveScript/RedactToken flow to detect credential names
only at ZapScript command starts and require a valid command-name boundary,
rather than matching arbitrary substrings. Preserve handling of genuine
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launch:/games/profile/"unterminated input so it is not treated as sensitive or
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| Match string `json:"match" validate:"required,oneof=exact partial regex"` | ||
| Pattern string `json:"pattern" validate:"required"` | ||
| Override string `json:"override"` | ||
| Override string `json:"override" validate:"max=8192"` |
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For github.com/go-playground/validator/v10 version 10.30.3, does the max validation tag on a Go string count UTF-8 bytes or Unicode runes? Provide official source evidence.
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For the go-playground/validator/v10 library (including version 10.30.3), the max validation tag for strings counts Unicode runes (characters), not UTF-8 bytes [1][2]. According to official library documentation, the max tag checks that "the string length is at most that number of characters" [1]. Because Go's built-in len function on a string returns the number of bytes, this validation behavior—which operates on the character (rune) count—is distinct from a simple byte-length check [3][4]. This behavior has been a point of user discussion, as users requiring byte-length validation (for constraints like database column limits or bcrypt password limits) have noted that max operates on runes rather than bytes [3][4].
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- 1: https://github.com/go-playground/validator/blob/v10.30.2/doc.go
- 2: https://github.com/go-playground/validator/blob/v6.8/doc.go
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In the go-playground/validator package (version 10.30.3), the max validation tag does not have a fixed global maximum character limit [1][2]. Instead, it allows you to define a custom limit via a parameter [1][3]. When using the max tag on a string field, it checks that the string length is at most the number of characters specified in the parameter [1][2]. The syntax for this validation is max=n, where n is the integer representing the maximum allowed character length [1][3]. For example: - max=10: Ensures the string length is at most 10 characters [1][2]. The doc.go file explicitly defines this behavior, stating that for strings, the max tag checks that the string length is "at most that number of characters" provided in the parameter [1][2]. This functionality has remained consistent across various versions of the library [4][5][3].
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- 1: https://github.com/go-playground/validator/blob/master/doc.go
- 2: https://github.com/go-playground/validator/blob/v10.30.2/doc.go
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Enforce the byte limit for mapping overrides.
AddMappingParams.Override and UpdateMappingParams.Override pass through max=8192, which counts Unicode characters, not UTF-8 bytes. The handlers store these values, and getMapping later supplies them to gozapscript.NewParser. An override with 8,192 three-byte characters can pass validation while exceeding zapscript.MaxScriptLength. Apply zapscript.ValidateScriptLength before storing or parsing the override.
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In `@pkg/api/models/params.go` at line 116, Apply zapscript.ValidateScriptLength
to AddMappingParams.Override and UpdateMappingParams.Override before either
value is stored or passed to gozapscript.NewParser, replacing reliance on the
character-counting max=8192 validation for the script-length constraint.
Preserve normal handling for empty and valid overrides, and return the
validation error for values exceeding the UTF-8 byte limit.
| // token scanned and on every history row read. | ||
| func mayCarryCredential(text string) bool { | ||
| for _, name := range credentialCommands { | ||
| if containsFoldASCII(text, name) { |
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Match credential commands only at command boundaries.
containsFoldASCII accepts profile inside an ordinary argument or a longer command name. For example, **launch:/games/profile/"unterminated matches this pre-check, fails parsing, and is then replaced with [redacted script]. HasSensitiveScript also marks it sensitive, and RedactToken drops its payload, although the text has no credential-bearing command.
Scan ZapScript command starts and validate the command-name boundary instead of matching arbitrary substrings. Add this malformed input as a regression case.
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In `@pkg/zapscript/redact.go` at line 98, Update the pre-check in the redaction
logic around containsFoldASCII and the related HasSensitiveScript/RedactToken
flow to detect credential names only at ZapScript command starts and require a
valid command-name boundary, rather than matching arbitrary substrings. Preserve
handling of genuine credential commands, and add a regression case for the
malformed launch:/games/profile/"unterminated input so it is not treated as
sensitive or redacted.
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v0.19.0 makes parsing linear in input length. Argument accumulation was quadratic, which is the other half of #1375: the length bound added earlier in this branch caps the worst case, but every parse under the cap still paid the quadratic cost until now. Parse time is 7.3ns per byte, flat from 888 bytes to 1MB. At the 8192 byte ingest bound one parse drops from roughly 5.6ms to 60us. It also removes a 4KB buffer allocated per parser, which matters because a scanned token is parsed more than once. On BenchmarkScanToLaunch the effect is 11% fewer allocations and 11% less memory per scan, with wall time unchanged: those benchmarks are dominated by MediaDB queries rather than parsing. The parse win shows up on long scripts and on allocation pressure, not on typical token latency. Closes #1375
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Core parsed each scanned token five to seven times, on the single worker
goroutine that gates every reader, and bounded the length of that text
nowhere. Addresses the Core half of #1375; the quadratic parse itself is
ZaparooProject/go-zapscript#75.
Length bound
RunParams.Textcarried novalidatetag, mappingOverridewasuncapped while
Labelwas limited to 255,History.TokenValueisunconstrained
text, and the MQTT, file, serial, barcode, optical,external drive and GMC readers pass their payload straight through. The
only ceilings were the 4MB WebSocket and 1MB HTTP POST envelopes.
zapscript.MaxScriptLengthis 8192 bytes — above an NTAG216's 888 andany hand-written script. It is checked at the four points untrusted text
arrives: the JSON-RPC
runmethod for both param shapes,HandleRunRestbefore
IsRunAllowedparses the URL, a ZapLink response body, andhandleQueuedTokenas the backstop covering every reader at the oneplace they converge. An over-long token completes with an error and is
never written to history, so it cannot make later reads expensive.
Parse count
RedactTokenparsed the same text twice unconditionally and three timeswhen a credential was present.
handleQueuedTokencalls it twice pertoken, and
HandleHistoryonce per row — 50 to 75 parses per 25-rowpage, which is where the reported 80s history read came from.
Credentials only appear in
profileandplaytime.extend. A commandname reaches the parse tree verbatim, since the grammar admits only
[a-zA-Z0-9.]in a name and normalization is a lowercase, so a nameabsent from the source cannot appear in the result. Checking for those
two names is proof rather than a heuristic, and lets the parse be skipped
for every other token. The check folds ASCII case in place instead of
lowercasing a copy, because real media paths carry capitals and the copy
would otherwise be the common case.
runParamsForLogwas an argument tolog.Debug().Msgf, so it wasevaluated before zerolog's level check could skip it — every
runrequest paid for that parse with debug logging off.
Results
RedactTokenat the 8KB bound, on a mixed-case media path:The old figures also show the quadratic directly: 4KB to 8KB is 3.8x the
time for 2x the input.
Behaviour change
Text that names neither credential command and does not parse is no
longer replaced wholesale by the
[redacted script]placeholder. Itcannot carry a credential, so it stays readable in logs and history,
which is what redaction exists to allow. Text that does name one of the
two commands still fails closed exactly as before, and
FuzzRedactScriptstill holds its invariant that no credential survives redaction.
Also
BenchmarkScanToLaunch_DirectPathpanicked on unstubbedSettingsandRootDirsmocks, which madetask benchunusable. Fixed in its owncommit; it predates this branch and reproduces on the current
go-zapscript release.
go-zapscript v0.19.0
The dependency bump is the last commit on this branch.
ZaparooProject/go-zapscript#75 makes parsing linear in input length: the
argument accumulator was quadratic, so every parse under the new cap
still paid that cost until now. Parse time is 7.3ns per byte, flat from
888 bytes to 1MB, and one parse of an 8192 byte script drops from roughly
5.6ms to 60us.
On
BenchmarkScanToLaunchthat is 11% fewer allocations and 11% lessmemory per scan with wall time unchanged, because those benchmarks are
dominated by MediaDB queries rather than parsing. The parse win lands on
long scripts and on allocation pressure, not on typical token latency.
Closes #1375
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