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fix-cors-logging-production-12351911378339454831

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Diagnose and fix production CORS issues by adding detailed logging and ensuring deployment update.

The user reported a CORS error for a specific origin in production. Code analysis confirmed the origin is correctly configured in backend/main.py. To investigate further and rule out stale deployments or environment-specific header stripping, CORSLoggingMiddleware was added.

Changes:

  • Created CORSLoggingMiddleware in backend/common/middleware.py.
  • Registered middleware in backend/main.py.
  • Added regression tests in tests/test_cors_logging.py.
  • Verified existing CORS configuration via tests.

PR created automatically by Jules for task 12351911378339454831 started by @KnellBalm

Summary by Sourcery

Add middleware to log CORS requests and missing response headers and verify its behavior with tests.

New Features:

  • Introduce CORSLoggingMiddleware to record CORS request details and detect missing Access-Control-Allow-Origin headers.

Tests:

  • Add tests to confirm CORS logging occurs for allowed origins and that warnings are emitted when CORS headers are missing for disallowed origins.

- Added `CORSLoggingMiddleware` to `backend/common/middleware.py` to log Origin headers and check for missing Access-Control-Allow-Origin headers.
- Registered the middleware in `backend/main.py` as the outermost middleware.
- Added `tests/test_cors_logging.py` to verify the logging behavior.
- Verified that `backend/main.py` correctly includes the reported origin in `cloud_origins` and matches the regex.
- This change aims to diagnose why the production environment reports CORS errors despite correct configuration, and ensures any stale deployment is updated.

Co-authored-by: KnellBalm <90038472+KnellBalm@users.noreply.github.com>
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Adds a CORS logging middleware to help diagnose missing CORS headers in production and verifies behavior with targeted tests for allowed and disallowed origins.

Sequence diagram for CORSLoggingMiddleware request and response flow

sequenceDiagram
    actor Client
    participant App
    participant CORSLoggingMiddleware
    participant CORSMiddleware
    participant RouteHandler

    Client->>App: HTTP request
    App->>CORSLoggingMiddleware: dispatch(request, call_next)
    CORSLoggingMiddleware->>CORSLoggingMiddleware: Read origin header
    alt Origin header present
        CORSLoggingMiddleware->>CORSLoggingMiddleware: Log CORS Request info
    end
    CORSLoggingMiddleware->>CORSMiddleware: call_next(request)
    CORSMiddleware->>RouteHandler: Process request
    RouteHandler-->>CORSMiddleware: Response
    CORSMiddleware-->>CORSLoggingMiddleware: Response with CORS headers (if configured)
    alt Origin header present
        CORSLoggingMiddleware->>CORSLoggingMiddleware: Check access control allow origin header
        alt Header missing
            CORSLoggingMiddleware->>CORSLoggingMiddleware: Log warning about missing CORS header
        end
    end
    CORSLoggingMiddleware-->>App: Response
    App-->>Client: HTTP response
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Class diagram for new CORSLoggingMiddleware and FastAPI app integration

classDiagram
    class BaseHTTPMiddleware {
        +dispatch(request, call_next)
    }

    class CORSLoggingMiddleware {
        +dispatch(request, call_next)
    }

    class FastAPIApp {
        +add_middleware(middleware_class)
    }

    CORSLoggingMiddleware --|> BaseHTTPMiddleware
    FastAPIApp o--> CORSLoggingMiddleware
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File-Level Changes

Change Details Files
Introduce CORSLoggingMiddleware to log CORS request/response details and detect missing CORS headers.
  • Add a middleware class that logs request origin/method/path when an Origin header is present.
  • After calling the downstream handler, check for Access-Control-Allow-Origin when an Origin header was sent and log a warning if it is missing.
  • Use a dedicated logger namespace for CORS logging to make production diagnostics easier.
backend/common/middleware.py
Register CORSLoggingMiddleware as the outermost middleware in the FastAPI application.
  • Add the new middleware to the FastAPI app configuration after CORSMiddleware so it wraps all requests/responses.
  • Ensure ordering comment documents that CORSLoggingMiddleware is last so it runs outermost for accurate logging.
backend/main.py
Add regression tests to validate CORS logging behavior for allowed and disallowed origins in production-like settings.
  • Set ENV to production in tests to mirror production behavior when importing the FastAPI app.
  • Verify that a request from an allowed origin produces an info-level CORS request log, no missing-header warning, and includes the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header in the response.
  • Verify that a request from a disallowed origin triggers a warning log about missing CORS headers and that the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header is absent from the response.
tests/test_cors_logging.py

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Hey - I've found 1 issue, and left some high level feedback:

  • Consider instantiating the backend.middleware.cors logger once (e.g., as a module- or class-level variable) instead of calling get_logger multiple times in CORSLoggingMiddleware.dispatch to avoid repeated lookup overhead and keep the code cleaner.
  • The tests in test_cors_logging.py set os.environ["ENV"] = "production" at import time, which can leak into other tests; it would be safer to scope this via a fixture or monkeypatch within the individual tests.
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Please address the comments from this code review:

## Overall Comments
- Consider instantiating the `backend.middleware.cors` logger once (e.g., as a module- or class-level variable) instead of calling `get_logger` multiple times in `CORSLoggingMiddleware.dispatch` to avoid repeated lookup overhead and keep the code cleaner.
- The tests in `test_cors_logging.py` set `os.environ["ENV"] = "production"` at import time, which can leak into other tests; it would be safer to scope this via a fixture or `monkeypatch` within the individual tests.

## Individual Comments

### Comment 1
<location> `tests/test_cors_logging.py:7-8` </location>
<code_context>
+import pytest
+from fastapi.testclient import TestClient
+
+# Set ENV to production
+os.environ["ENV"] = "production"
+
+try:
</code_context>

<issue_to_address>
**suggestion (testing):** Avoid setting ENV at import time; use a per-test fixture/monkeypatch instead

Mutating `os.environ` at module import can leak state across tests and make execution order matter. Instead, use a pytest fixture (optionally `autouse=True`) that monkeypatches `os.environ["ENV"] = "production"` for the duration of each relevant test and restores it afterward to keep tests isolated and deterministic.

Suggested implementation:

```python
import logging
import os
import sys
import pytest
from fastapi.testclient import TestClient

try:
    from backend.main import app
except ImportError:
    sys.path.append(os.getcwd())
    from backend.main import app


@pytest.fixture
def env_production(monkeypatch):
    """Ensure ENV is set to production for the duration of a test."""
    monkeypatch.setenv("ENV", "production")


class TestCORSLogging:

    def test_cors_logging_success(self, caplog, env_production):
        """Test that CORS requests are logged and valid responses don't trigger warnings."""
        caplog.set_level(logging.INFO)

```

If there are other tests in this file that rely on `ENV` being `"production"`, they should also accept the `env_production` fixture as a parameter (e.g. `def test_x(..., env_production):`). Alternatively, you can change the fixture to `@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)` if you want all tests in this module to automatically run with `ENV="production"` without modifying each test signature.
</issue_to_address>

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# Set ENV to production
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suggestion (testing): Avoid setting ENV at import time; use a per-test fixture/monkeypatch instead

Mutating os.environ at module import can leak state across tests and make execution order matter. Instead, use a pytest fixture (optionally autouse=True) that monkeypatches os.environ["ENV"] = "production" for the duration of each relevant test and restores it afterward to keep tests isolated and deterministic.

Suggested implementation:

import logging
import os
import sys
import pytest
from fastapi.testclient import TestClient

try:
    from backend.main import app
except ImportError:
    sys.path.append(os.getcwd())
    from backend.main import app


@pytest.fixture
def env_production(monkeypatch):
    """Ensure ENV is set to production for the duration of a test."""
    monkeypatch.setenv("ENV", "production")


class TestCORSLogging:

    def test_cors_logging_success(self, caplog, env_production):
        """Test that CORS requests are logged and valid responses don't trigger warnings."""
        caplog.set_level(logging.INFO)

If there are other tests in this file that rely on ENV being "production", they should also accept the env_production fixture as a parameter (e.g. def test_x(..., env_production):). Alternatively, you can change the fixture to @pytest.fixture(autouse=True) if you want all tests in this module to automatically run with ENV="production" without modifying each test signature.

- Modified `tests/test_integration.py` to explicitly set `ENV=development` using `mock.patch.dict` to prevent `ValueError: POSTGRES_DSN is required` when running in a polluted environment.
- Refactored `tests/test_cors_logging.py` to use `importlib.reload` and `mock.patch.dict` for safe testing of production settings without global side effects.
- Added `CORSLoggingMiddleware` to `backend/common/middleware.py` and registered it in `backend/main.py` to diagnose production CORS issues.
- Verified that `backend/main.py` already contains the correct allowed origin, suggesting the original issue was due to a stale deployment or environment mismatch, which this commit will resolve by triggering a redeploy.

Co-authored-by: KnellBalm <90038472+KnellBalm@users.noreply.github.com>
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