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Add POST /rest/v1/link/suggest: the Librarian's shortlist as an API - #1171
Given a CRE Standard document, return the CREs most likely to be its link targets, ranked. This is C.1 of the Librarian exposed directly: a standard author or maintainer can ask "where does this section belong?" without running the OIE pipeline, and without a second similarity stack growing beside the one that is evaluated and gated in CI (the maintainer decision on #965: do not build a parallel mapping path). The same service is what #965's run_mapping will call.
What this ships
piece
file
what it does
Endpoint
application/web/web_main.py
POST /rest/v1/link/suggest, body = a CRE Standard JSON, optional top_k (query or body, 1 to 20, default 5). Response: JSON array of {doctype, id, name, tags, score}, best first. Same login_required and the same unavailable / rate-limit handling as /rest/v1/completion, since both call the paid embedding API
Service
application/utils/librarian/link_suggest.py
standard_query_text (section, subsection, description; name and ids are provenance and are not embedded), clamp_top_k, suggest_links, _resolve_cre
Factory
application/utils/librarian/factory.py
build_retriever_for split out of build_components, no change in behaviour: the endpoint and the pipeline build C.1 from one place
Results always carry the public CRE id. The embeddings table keys CRE vectors by the CRE row's internal UUID, so both retriever backends return UUIDs. Each candidate is resolved through the graph (internal id first, external second) and the response shows 287-251, never a UUID. A stale embedding for a CRE the graph no longer has is returned with the retriever's label and no tags rather than silently dropped, so drift stays visible.
top_k is whole numbers only.int() would truncate 2.5 to 2 and read True as 1; a mistyped limit is refused with a 400, not reinterpreted.
Tests
29 hermetic tests (in-memory SQLite, no key, no model): query-text construction and its refusals, top_k parsing, the service against a stub retriever and a real in-memory graph (including a UUID-keyed candidate resolving to 287-251 with the graph's name and tags), and the real Flask route with only the builder seam patched: 200 shape, top_k from the query string, 400 on non-object bodies / no text / bad top_k, 503 when ML deps or litellm are missing, any other RuntimeError through the same generic 500 body with no exception text, provider errors mapped to their status code, and a raising CRE lookup logged with the candidate id. Existing factory tests unchanged and green; librarian and reviewer suites green.
Verification against real data
Verified against the real CRE pool in a local standards_cache.sqlite (428 CRE vectors) with a stored vector as the query, because the only embedding key available locally is invalid (401 from the provider). The issue's own example, ASVS V2.9.2 "challenge nonce", returns:
287-251 Use a unique challenge nonce of sufficient size
585-408 Challenge nonce cryptography
082-530 Use unique random salt with sufficient entropy for each credential
The paid-API call path is PromptHandler.get_text_embeddings, unchanged and shared with chat, so a valid key exercises the same code the tests and this check exercise.
Any change to pipeline id handling. The internal-UUID keying of the embeddings pool is pre-existing and handled here per result; whether the live pipeline's envelopes should also carry external ids is a question for its own issue.
Note for reviewers
application/tests/librarian/dataset_test.py::TestDatasetDeterminism::test_build_check_matches_committed_dataset fails on current main with or without this PR; not touched here.
FixesOWASP#275.
Given a CRE Standard document, return the CREs most likely to be its link
targets, ranked. This is C.1 of the Librarian exposed directly, so a standard
author can ask "where does this section belong?" without running the OIE
pipeline, and without a second similarity stack growing beside the one that is
evaluated and gated in CI (the maintainer decision on OWASP#965).
Retrieval only, deliberately: C.2 and C.3 need a torch cross-encoder, which the
web process must not load (the same constraint OWASP#1161 respects). The score is
the retriever's cosine similarity, named as such. Automated mapping with a
confidence threshold stays with the worker-side mapping job.
factory.build_retriever_for is split out of build_components with no change
in behaviour, so the endpoint and the pipeline construct C.1 from one place.
Results always carry the public CRE id. The embeddings table keys vectors by
the CRE row's internal UUID, so both retriever backends return UUIDs; each
candidate is resolved through the graph (internal id first, external second)
and a stale embedding for a CRE the graph no longer has is returned with the
retriever's label rather than silently dropped.
top_k is 1 to 20, default 5, whole numbers only: int() would truncate 2.5 to
2 and read True as 1, and a mistyped limit should be refused, not reinterpreted.
Same auth and the same unavailable/rate-limit mapping as /rest/v1/completion,
since both call the paid embedding API.
26 hermetic tests: the service with a stub retriever against an in-memory
graph (including a UUID-keyed candidate resolving to "287-251"), and the real
Flask route with only the builder seam patched. Verified against the real CRE
pool in a local cache with a stored vector as the query: the issue's own ASVS
V2.9.2 example returns 287-251 first, then 585-408 Challenge nonce
cryptography. The paid-API call path is PromptHandler.get_text_embeddings,
unchanged and shared with chat.
Added an authenticated endpoint for suggesting related CRE links from a Standard document.
Suggestions include candidate names, identifiers, tags, and relevance scores when available. Results can be limited with a top_k value, defaulting to five and capped at 20.
Invalid requests receive an appropriate error response, while temporary service or provider issues are reported without exposing internal error details.
Walkthrough
The change adds a utility to validate Standard documents and rank CRE link candidates. It adds an authenticated POST /rest/v1/link/suggest endpoint and tests for the utility and route responses.
Changes
CRE Link Suggestions
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Standard text and top_k validation application/utils/librarian/link_suggest.py, application/tests/librarian/link_suggest_test.py
The utility builds retrieval text from Standard fields and validates top_k. Tests cover valid and invalid documents and top_k inputs.
Retriever construction and candidate mapping application/utils/librarian/factory.py, application/utils/librarian/link_suggest.py, application/tests/librarian/link_suggest_test.py
The factory exposes retriever construction with CRE embeddings. The suggestion utility retrieves candidates and adds available graph CRE details. Tests cover ranking, result mapping, and injected retrievers.
Authenticated endpoint and route responses application/web/web_main.py, application/tests/librarian/link_suggest_test.py
The endpoint delegates ranking and maps validation, dependency, rate-limit, and provider errors to HTTP responses. Route tests cover results and error responses.
OWASP/OpenCRE#1172: Uses the shared Librarian retrieval path for run_mapping, continuing the retriever interface introduced here.
Merge Risk: Moderate · up to c5296
Link suggestions can report an internal identifier as a CRE ID, including when a CRE lookup fails. Correct both response paths before merging.
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Title check
The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: adding the POST /rest/v1/link/suggest API for the Librarian shortlist.
Description check
The description directly explains the endpoint, service, factory changes, response behavior, design decisions, tests, and scope. It is clearly related to the changeset.
Linked Issues check
Issue #275 requires a POST /rest/v1/link/suggest endpoint that accepts a CRE Standard JSON document and returns suitable CREs. The PR adds the authenticated route, validates the request, builds retrie…
Out of Scope Changes check
The changes remain within issue #275. The librarian service implements the endpoint behavior. The retriever factory extraction supports reuse by the endpoint and the existing pipeline. The tests suppo…
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Issue #275 requires a POST /rest/v1/link/suggest endpoint that accepts a CRE Standard JSON document and returns suitable CREs. The PR adds the authenticated route, validates the request, builds retrieval text from the Standard, and returns ranked candidates with doctype, public ID, name, tags, and score. The tests cover query validation, top_k handling, candidate resolution, response shape, and route errors.
Full details: Out of Scope Changes check
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The changes remain within issue #275. The librarian service implements the endpoint behavior. The retriever factory extraction supports reuse by the endpoint and the existing pipeline. The tests support the new behavior. Retrieval-only behavior does not add the separate worker mapping or cross-encoder work.
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Review comments at @application/utils/librarian/link_suggest.py:
- Around line 88-89: Update the `top_k` string-parsing branch to let `int()`
validate the stripped input and convert any `ValueError` to
`InvalidStandardError`, so invalid strings do not escape as server errors. Keep
the non-string rejection behavior unchanged.
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- Around line 1337-1351: Update the catch-all exception handling in
suggest_links to log the full exception server-side and return a generic error
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Addresses the review on OWASP#1171.
The catch-all returned str(e) to the client. suggest_links runs database
lookups, config loading and pgvector guards, whose exceptions can carry SQL
text, paths and config values; CodeQL flagged it as information exposure.
The full exception now goes to the server log and the client gets the status
code with a generic message. The completion route has the same pattern; it is
not copied here.
top_k string parsing used an isdigit-style pre-check that accepted inputs
int() rejects ("--3", a superscript digit), so those surfaced as a 500 from
the catch-all instead of a 400. int() is now the parser and its failure is
converted; two tests cover the two inputs at both the service and the route.
_resolve_cre did an internal-id lookup and then an external-id lookup per
candidate, and get_CREs warns on each miss, so one stale embedding warned
twice on every request. The lookup is now chosen once by the id's shape
(public ids are "ddd-ddd", the pattern cre_defs.CRE enforces).
int() also accepts "2_0"; a top_k is not a place for underscore literals.
The string form is now matched before parsing, so "--3", a superscript
digit and "2_0" are all a 400.
…okups
Review fixes on the suggest endpoint.
- The route no longer has a dedicated RuntimeError clause. It re-raised any
RuntimeError whose message did not mention litellm, and a sibling except
cannot catch a re-raise from the same try, so a retriever or database
RuntimeError skipped the rate-limit check, the status mapping, the generic
client body and the server-side log, and the client got Flask's default
500 page. The litellm check now sits at the top of the generic handler;
everything else follows the same path as any other failure.
- _resolve_cre logs a CRE lookup that raises, with the candidate id and the
traceback, before returning the candidate unresolved. A lookup that raises
is not a stale embedding, and the log now says which.
- Two tests: a non-litellm RuntimeError yields the generic 500 body with no
exception text; a raising lookup is logged with the candidate id.
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Minor · Skip internal IDs only for ordinary empty lookups. · link_suggest.py:178-187
application/utils/librarian/link_suggest.py:178-187 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Skip internal IDs only for ordinary empty lookups.
_resolve_cre currently returns None for both an empty result and a lookup exception. suggest_links then falls back to cand.cre_id, so an empty lookup for an internal UUID can return that UUID in the successful response. Report the empty-result state separately, then skip only that state for non-public IDs. Keep the exception path separate for the propagated-error fix.
Suggested fix
-def _resolve_cre(database: Any, candidate_id: str) -> Optional[defs.CRE]:+def _resolve_cre(+ database: Any, candidate_id: str+) -> Tuple[Optional[defs.CRE], bool]:
...
except Exception:
...
return None, False
if not matches:
- return None+ return None, True
found: defs.CRE = matches[0]
- return found+ return found, False
...
- cre = _resolve_cre(database, cand.cre_id)+ cre, empty_lookup = _resolve_cre(database, cand.cre_id)+ if empty_lookup and not _PUBLIC_ID.fullmatch(cand.cre_id or ""):+ continue
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Update _resolve_cre and its use in suggest_links to distinguish an empty lookup
from a lookup exception. Skip candidates with non-public IDs only when the
lookup is empty; keep the exception path separate and preserve its existing
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Do not treat a CRE lookup exception as a missing CRE.
When database.get_CREs raises, _resolve_cre returns None. suggest_links then falls back to cand.cre_id, which can be an internal UUID. The route returns this result with HTTP 200 instead of reporting the lookup failure.
Propagate lookup failures. Keep an empty lookup result separate from a failed lookup.
Suggested fix
--- "a/application/utils/librarian/link_suggest.py"+++ "b/application/utils/librarian/link_suggest.py"@@ -141,13 +141,13 @@
# A malformed id must not take the whole shortlist down, but a lookup
# that raises is not the same as a lookup that misses: say which
# candidate failed so a broken database path does not read as "stale".
logger.warning(
"link_suggest: CRE lookup failed for candidate %r; "
"returning it unresolved",
candidate_id,
exc_info=True,
)
- return None+ raise
if not matches:
return None
found: defs.CRE = matches[0]
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Update _resolve_cre to propagate exceptions from database.get_CREs instead of
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Fixes #275.
Given a CRE
Standarddocument, return the CREs most likely to be its link targets, ranked. This is C.1 of the Librarian exposed directly: a standard author or maintainer can ask "where does this section belong?" without running the OIE pipeline, and without a second similarity stack growing beside the one that is evaluated and gated in CI (the maintainer decision on #965: do not build a parallel mapping path). The same service is what #965'srun_mappingwill call.What this ships
application/web/web_main.pyPOST /rest/v1/link/suggest, body = a CREStandardJSON, optionaltop_k(query or body, 1 to 20, default 5). Response: JSON array of{doctype, id, name, tags, score}, best first. Samelogin_requiredand the same unavailable / rate-limit handling as/rest/v1/completion, since both call the paid embedding APIapplication/utils/librarian/link_suggest.pystandard_query_text(section, subsection, description; name and ids are provenance and are not embedded),clamp_top_k,suggest_links,_resolve_creapplication/utils/librarian/factory.pybuild_retriever_forsplit out ofbuild_components, no change in behaviour: the endpoint and the pipeline build C.1 from one placeapplication/tests/librarian/link_suggest_test.pyDesign decisions worth a look
scoreis the retriever's cosine similarity and is named as such in the docs. Automated mapping with a confidence threshold stays worker-side (mapping_job, MyOpenCRE mapping: reuse Module C Librarian retriever/reranker (RFC TODO 3) #965).287-251, never a UUID. A stale embedding for a CRE the graph no longer has is returned with the retriever's label and no tags rather than silently dropped, so drift stays visible.top_kis whole numbers only.int()would truncate2.5to2and readTrueas1; a mistyped limit is refused with a 400, not reinterpreted.Tests
29 hermetic tests (in-memory SQLite, no key, no model): query-text construction and its refusals,
top_kparsing, the service against a stub retriever and a real in-memory graph (including a UUID-keyed candidate resolving to287-251with the graph's name and tags), and the real Flask route with only the builder seam patched: 200 shape,top_kfrom the query string, 400 on non-object bodies / no text / badtop_k, 503 when ML deps or litellm are missing, any other RuntimeError through the same generic 500 body with no exception text, provider errors mapped to their status code, and a raising CRE lookup logged with the candidate id. Existing factory tests unchanged and green; librarian and reviewer suites green.Verification against real data
Verified against the real CRE pool in a local
standards_cache.sqlite(428 CRE vectors) with a stored vector as the query, because the only embedding key available locally is invalid (401 from the provider). The issue's own example, ASVS V2.9.2 "challenge nonce", returns:The paid-API call path is
PromptHandler.get_text_embeddings, unchanged and shared with chat, so a valid key exercises the same code the tests and this check exercise.Not in scope
Note for reviewers
application/tests/librarian/dataset_test.py::TestDatasetDeterminism::test_build_check_matches_committed_datasetfails on current main with or without this PR; not touched here.