feat(cli): add icloud doctor for read-only service diagnostics - #336
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Apple advertises a `webservices` map at login and reshapes it over time: hosts move between partitions, keys appear, and endpoints get withdrawn. Which of those keys pyicloud actually relies on could previously only be recovered by grepping `get_webservice_url` calls spread across the service properties, which made two ordinary questions harder than they should be -- what is this library exposed to, and what stops working if Apple drops a given key. `pyicloud/endpoints.py` records all eleven, each with the service properties that depend on it and a short description. It is data rather than behaviour: `get_webservice_url()` deliberately does not consult it, since callers may legitimately resolve keys for services this library does not wrap. What keeps it honest is `test_inventory_matches_the_keys_the_library_resolves`, which scans the package source for resolved keys and fails in both directions -- a key resolved but unlisted understates the exposure, and a key listed but never resolved is stale. Both failure modes were verified by introducing each kind of drift and confirming the message names the offending key. The inventory makes one thing visible that was previously implicit: of the eleven keys, `ckdatabasews` alone backs four services, while `sharedstreams` and `uploadimagews` back a single Photos feature each. Note that the test reads the package source, which is the mechanism rather than an oversight; see timlaing#333 for the wider question of file access in tests. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The ckdatabasews test claimed a change that narrowed the entry "should fail rather than pass quietly", but asserted a superset of three of the four services, so dropping `invites` passed it. It now asserts the exact set. That was a symptom of a wider hole: the source scan enforced which keys appear in the inventory, but nothing enforced which services each key was attributed to, so half the data could rot unnoticed. A new test derives the mapping from the AST -- every resolver call sits inside the service property that needs it -- and compares it with what the inventory declares. It reproduces all eleven entries exactly today. Verified against three kinds of drift rather than assumed: dropping a service from an entry, misattributing a key to the wrong service, and a property starting to resolve a key it did not before. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
When a service stops working the question is always the same: is this my session, my configuration, or Apple's side? Answering it currently means elimination -- timlaing#316 took nine ruled-out hypotheses to reach a conclusion the service map could have stated directly. `icloud doctor` reports the local install, the stored session, and the webservices map Apple returned at login, compared against the inventory in pyicloud/endpoints.py. A missing key is reported as the services it takes down rather than as a key name, so the blast radius is readable without tracing calls. It is strictly read-only and never writes to the account. It reports what it can when there is no session, because that is itself one of the answers, and exits non-zero in that case since nothing was verified. pyicloud/diagnostics.py holds the comparison as pure data-to-data, so it is testable without CLI plumbing and usable by library callers. The version lookup moves there too, as part of the environment report, rather than being duplicated alongside app.py's copy. Verified live against a real account's 33-key map, not only against fixtures: the healthy case, a withdrawn single-feature host, a withdrawn CloudKit host, a needed key advertised without a url, an inactive host, and JSON mode. Two output defects only the live run exposed are fixed -- twenty-odd advertised services pyicloud does not wrap were burying the findings, and a malformed entry among them was losing its marker. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The findings named KeyError because that is what get_webservice_url() raised for an entry with no url. The sibling PR changes that to PyiCloudServiceNotActivatedException, which would have left this text wrong from the moment either merged. The wording now says what the condition means -- the key cannot be resolved -- which is true whichever exception the library raises, and is the part a reader actually needs. The classification is unchanged: Apple advertising a key broken stays worth reporting, because it is a different upstream state from not advertising it at all. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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WalkthroughAdds a static Apple webservice inventory, read-only diagnostics APIs, and a new ChangesDoctor diagnostics
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The PR adds a read-only diagnostics command. It is mergeable with owner awareness, but the new command tests should isolate file I/O with mocks to avoid environment-dependent or brittle test behavior. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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CLI->>Session: request doctor session
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In `@pyicloud/cli/commands/doctor.py`:
- Line 286: Update the findings assignment in the doctor command to call
diagnose_webservices only when api is non-null and session["authenticated"] is
true; otherwise return an empty findings tuple. Preserve the existing API
webservice diagnosis for authenticated sessions.
In `@pyicloud/diagnostics.py`:
- Line 201: Update the _describe_known call and its implementation to pass key
presence separately from entries.get(entry.key), so an explicitly advertised
None value is classified as MALFORMED while an absent key remains MISSING.
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- Line 4297: Update the new doctor tests around FakeAPI initialization to mock
the session-directory filesystem boundary, including _unique_session_dir(),
before constructing FakeAPI. Ensure the tests use the mocked directory and
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Mock the session-directory filesystem access.
FakeAPI() uses its default session directory, which calls _unique_session_dir() and creates a real directory. Mock this filesystem boundary in the new doctor tests so they do not perform file I/O.
As per coding guidelines, “New tests must mock any file I/O.”
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In `@tests/test_cmdline.py` at line 4297, Update the new doctor tests around
FakeAPI initialization to mock the session-directory filesystem boundary,
including _unique_session_dir(), before constructing FakeAPI. Ensure the tests
use the mocked directory and perform no real file I/O.
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This one I've left as it is, and I'd rather explain than quietly comply.
The observation is accurate: FakeAPI() resolves a session directory through _unique_session_dir(), which does path.mkdir(...). But that is how all 71 FakeAPI constructions in this module work, and the module does filesystem work at import time regardless — TEST_ROOT = Path(tempfile.mkdtemp(...)) at line 62, before any test runs. Mocking that boundary in the six new doctor tests alone would make them the odd ones out in their own file, for no change in what any of them verify.
The underlying tension is real, though, and it is already open as #333: CONTRIBUTING.md and AGENTS.md say new tests must mock file I/O, while the established practice here — seven modules, plus a documented tests/fixtures/ tree — reads fixtures and temp paths directly. I raised it there precisely because it produces review findings against code that matches existing practice, which is what happened here.
I'd rather settle it once in #333 and apply the outcome to the whole suite than fix it in one file. If the maintainer prefers the guideline read literally, I'm happy to do that conversion as its own PR — it would touch far more than these tests.
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@MrJarnould, thank you for the detailed context.
The new doctor tests do create session directories through FakeAPI() and _unique_session_dir(). The finding remains valid under the current guideline.
I agree that a local exception would be inconsistent with the existing suite. #333 is the correct place to decide the repository-wide policy. Keep this thread open until that decision changes the guideline or the tests.
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Two accuracy defects, both found in review. `diagnose_webservices()` was gated on `api` being non-null, but the session status is re-read after get_api() returns and the two can disagree. When they did, the report listed the map as OK while its own verdict said the map could not be checked. It is now gated on the status, so a report that says nothing was verified emits nothing. `entries.get(key)` returns None for an absent key and for one Apple advertised as null, and both were reported as "Apple is not advertising this key". The second is false: Apple did advertise it, with an unusable shape. Key presence is now passed separately, so an advertised null is MALFORMED. Both remain problems, so no exit code changes -- what changes is that the reader is pointed at the right upstream event. Both cases were uncovered before: the suite stayed green through each change until these tests were added, and each fails against the code it replaces. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Adding this after agreeing the shape with you on Discord.
When a service stops working the user's question is always the same: is this my session,
my configuration, or Apple's side? Today that is answered by elimination. In #316 the
reporter ruled out a stale session, an outdated client, a missing PCS handshake, the wrong
dsid, the wrong partition, minimal versus full service params, missing
Origin/Refererheaders, two backend pods and the shared zone before concluding the endpoint had been
withdrawn.
icloud doctoranswers it by looking instead:A missing key is reported as the services it takes down, not as a key name, which is
what #335's inventory is for. On a real account it also surfaces
sharedstreamsliving onp141-while everything else is onp51-/p49-— the partition detail that took a day toestablish in #316.
Layout
pyicloud/diagnostics.pypyicloud/cli/commands/doctor.pytests/test_diagnostics.pytests/test_cmdline.pyFive decisions worth reviewing
A leaf command, not a group. Every other command here mounts as a Typer group whose
bare form prints help.
doctoris registered withapp.command()instead, because it iswhat someone types when a service just broke and it should run rather than list
subcommands. This is a deliberate deviation from the pattern in
app.py— say the word andI will convert it.
Read-only, and it stays that way. Nothing here writes to the account. I considered an
opt-in tier that uploads and deletes a test asset, since a read-only doctor would not
have caught #316 on its own, and left it out: it would depend on #331's replacement upload
flow, which is still in review. Worth a separate conversation once that lands.
Not being logged in is a diagnosis, not an abort. The command reports the environment
and session sections rather than raising
CLIAbort, because "you are not logged in" is oneof the answers it exists to give. It still exits
1in that case: nothing was verified, andreporting that as success would mislead anything scripting the exit code.
A separate module from
endpoints.py. #335 states that the inventory is deliberatelydata rather than behaviour, so the analysis lives in
pyicloud/diagnostics.pyand reads it.That also keeps the comparison testable with no CLI plumbing and usable by library callers.
One change outside the feature.
_installed_version()moves fromapp.pyintodiagnostics.pyas part of the environment report, rather than a second copy being addedalongside it. That moves the patch target in
test_root_version_prints_installed_package_version, which is the only existing test thisPR touches. I preferred that to leaving a do-nothing wrapper behind purely to keep a patch
target alive, but it is a one-line revert if you disagree.
Malformed entries
Apple advertises
schoolwork: {}on my account — a key with nourl.get_webservice_url()indexes
["url"]directly, so resolving it raisesKeyErrorrather than the library's ownnot-activated error. The doctor reports it, marked inline as
schoolwork (no url).It is deliberately not a failure: pyicloud never resolves
schoolwork, and an emptyentry for a service this library does not wrap should not condemn the whole account. The
same shape on a key the library does need is a failure. Fixing
get_webservice_url()itself is out of scope here — this only makes the condition visible.
Type of change
Example of code:
Additional information
Testing. 865 tests pass on Python 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.13 and 3.14, run locally — the
workflows trigger only on
main, so a fork branch has no CI of its own until you approvethe run. Nineteen of those tests are new.
Unit tests alone were not the bar, because they only prove the classifier agrees with a map
I invented. I drove the real CLI against my own account's live 33-key map and then mutated
that map into each failure shape — 11/11 checks pass: the healthy case, a withdrawn
single-feature host (the #316 shape), a withdrawn
ckdatabasews, a needed key advertisedwithout a url, a host Apple marks inactive, and JSON mode including an assertion that no
reported URL carries a query string.
That run earned its keep. Two output defects existed that every unit test passed straight
over: the twenty-odd services a real account advertises but pyicloud does not wrap were
burying the actual findings under identical note lines, and once I trimmed those, a
malformed entry among them silently lost its marker. Both are fixed, and both were only
visible against a real account.
Deliberately left out, so the shape stays open to discussion:
call the hosts. That is the layer that would have caught upload_file() returns HTTP 410 Gone: Apple replaced the uploadimagews endpoint (captured replacement protocol) #316 directly, and it needs
per-service knowledge that will rot, so it deserves its own review.
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