feat(mcp): add a single vocabulary for tool failures - #12428
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Adds lib/errors.py: the exception types the sub-servers raise for a failure they can describe -- an API rejection, a task that never finished, bad credentials, a Hub outage -- and render_tool_error, the one place any of them becomes text a client reads. Nothing imports it yet. The wrapper that turns these into an MCP error on every tool, and the servers that raise them, follow in this stack.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAdds a centralized error model and renderer for Prowler MCP Server failures. It supports structured API, task, authentication, Hub, HTTPX, and unexpected errors, with JSON:API parsing, upstream body handling, retry warnings, and comprehensive tests. ChangesError handling
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Mergeability Score: 🟡 Moderate · up to The new failure handling currently has two correctness gaps: malformed upstream error data can prevent a useful failure message from being rendered, and failed write requests may not warn that retrying could repeat an operation. The PR is not merge-ready until these bounded issues are fixed or explicitly accepted. Possibly related PRs
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In `@mcp_server/prowler_mcp_server/lib/errors.py`:
- Around line 68-74: Update the error-construction method containing source.get
and the detail/title assignments to normalize source to a dictionary before
reading pointer or parameter, and retain only string values for detail and
title; non-string or malformed values should become absent so render() remains
safe. Add regression cases in the existing error tests covering null/non-object
source and non-string detail/title inputs.
- Around line 257-265: Update the HTTPStatusError handling branch to append the
existing _UNKNOWN_OUTCOME warning for POST, PUT, PATCH, or DELETE requests with
non-4xx responses, while preserving the GET and 4xx exclusions used by the
ProwlerAPIError branch. Add a regression test covering a POST HTTP 500 response
and its warning.
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mcp_server/prowler_mcp_server/lib/errors.pymcp_server/tests/lib/__init__.pymcp_server/tests/lib/test_errors.py
| source = error.get("source", {}) | ||
| return cls( | ||
| detail=error.get("detail"), | ||
| title=error.get("title"), | ||
| pointer=source.get("pointer"), | ||
| parameter=source.get("parameter"), | ||
| ) |
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Keep malformed JSON:API error members tolerant.
Line 68 raises AttributeError when an upstream error has "source": null or another non-object value. Lines 70-73 also preserve non-string detail or title values. A later call to render() can then make "; ".join(...) raise TypeError.
Normalize source to a dictionary and retain only string display fields. Add regression cases for malformed source, detail, and title values in mcp_server/tests/lib/test_errors.py.
Proposed fix
- source = error.get("source", {})
+ source = error.get("source")
+ if not isinstance(source, dict):
+ source = {}
+ detail = error.get("detail")
+ title = error.get("title")
+ pointer = source.get("pointer")
+ parameter = source.get("parameter")
return cls(
- detail=error.get("detail"),
- title=error.get("title"),
- pointer=source.get("pointer"),
- parameter=source.get("parameter"),
+ detail=detail if isinstance(detail, str) else None,
+ title=title if isinstance(title, str) else None,
+ pointer=pointer if isinstance(pointer, str) else None,
+ parameter=parameter if isinstance(parameter, str) else None,
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| source = error.get("source", {}) | |
| return cls( | |
| detail=error.get("detail"), | |
| title=error.get("title"), | |
| pointer=source.get("pointer"), | |
| parameter=source.get("parameter"), | |
| ) | |
| source = error.get("source") | |
| if not isinstance(source, dict): | |
| source = {} | |
| detail = error.get("detail") | |
| title = error.get("title") | |
| pointer = source.get("pointer") | |
| parameter = source.get("parameter") | |
| return cls( | |
| detail=detail if isinstance(detail, str) else None, | |
| title=title if isinstance(title, str) else None, | |
| pointer=pointer if isinstance(pointer, str) else None, | |
| parameter=parameter if isinstance(parameter, str) else None, | |
| ) |
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In `@mcp_server/prowler_mcp_server/lib/errors.py` around lines 68 - 74, Update the
error-construction method containing source.get and the detail/title assignments
to normalize source to a dictionary before reading pointer or parameter, and
retain only string values for detail and title; non-string or malformed values
should become absent so render() remains safe. Add regression cases in the
existing error tests covering null/non-object source and non-string detail/title
inputs.
| if isinstance(error, httpx.HTTPStatusError): | ||
| # An upstream that is not the Prowler API, such as the external-URL fetch. | ||
| request = error.request | ||
| message = ( | ||
| f"{request.method} {request.url} failed with HTTP " | ||
| f"{error.response.status_code}." | ||
| ) | ||
| detail = _upstream_detail(error.response.text) | ||
| return f"{message} {detail}" if detail else message |
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Warn after an HTTPX write receives an uncertain server failure.
A POST, PUT, PATCH, or DELETE that receives a non-4xx HTTPStatusError can have completed before the upstream returned its error. This branch omits _UNKNOWN_OUTCOME, so a client can retry a completed write.
Use the same GET and 4xx exclusion as the ProwlerAPIError branch. Add a regression test for a POST HTTP 500 response.
Proposed fix
if isinstance(error, httpx.HTTPStatusError):
# An upstream that is not the Prowler API, such as the external-URL fetch.
request = error.request
+ status_code = error.response.status_code
message = (
f"{request.method} {request.url} failed with HTTP "
- f"{error.response.status_code}."
+ f"{status_code}."
)
detail = _upstream_detail(error.response.text)
- return f"{message} {detail}" if detail else message
+ message = f"{message} {detail}" if detail else message
+ if request.method == "GET" or 400 <= status_code < 500:
+ return message
+ return message + unknownThe PR objective requires retry warnings for potentially completed write operations.
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| if isinstance(error, httpx.HTTPStatusError): | |
| # An upstream that is not the Prowler API, such as the external-URL fetch. | |
| request = error.request | |
| message = ( | |
| f"{request.method} {request.url} failed with HTTP " | |
| f"{error.response.status_code}." | |
| ) | |
| detail = _upstream_detail(error.response.text) | |
| return f"{message} {detail}" if detail else message | |
| if isinstance(error, httpx.HTTPStatusError): | |
| # An upstream that is not the Prowler API, such as the external-URL fetch. | |
| request = error.request | |
| status_code = error.response.status_code | |
| message = ( | |
| f"{request.method} {request.url} failed with HTTP " | |
| f"{status_code}." | |
| ) | |
| detail = _upstream_detail(error.response.text) | |
| message = f"{message} {detail}" if detail else message | |
| if request.method == "GET" or 400 <= status_code < 500: | |
| return message | |
| return message + unknown |
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In `@mcp_server/prowler_mcp_server/lib/errors.py` around lines 257 - 265, Update
the HTTPStatusError handling branch to append the existing _UNKNOWN_OUTCOME
warning for POST, PUT, PATCH, or DELETE requests with non-4xx responses, while
preserving the GET and 4xx exclusions used by the ProwlerAPIError branch. Add a
regression test covering a POST HTTP 500 response and its warning.
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Context
Stack 1 of N — nothing imports this yet, so nothing changes behaviour.
The MCP Server reports failures in at least four different shapes today:
{"error": ...},{"success": False}, a raw exception escaping the tool, and aToolError. A client cannot tell any of the first three from success — at the MCP protocol level a returned payload isisError: false, so the model is told the call worked and only finds out otherwise if it happens to inspect the right key.Fixing that needs one vocabulary of failures and one way to render them before any tool can be moved onto it. This PR is only that vocabulary. The wrapper that applies it, and the per-surface conversions, follow in the stack above.
Description
Adds
mcp_server/prowler_mcp_server/lib/errors.py(289 lines) and its tests (311 lines). No existing file is touched.The exception types — each exists because it answers a question the caller cannot answer from a status code alone:
ProwlerAPIErrorrejectedis true for 4xx), so it changed nothing. Carries method, path and every JSON:API error.ProwlerTaskErrorProwlerAuthErrorProwlerHubErrorProwlerAPIError.ApiErrorDetail+parse_jsonapi_errorskeep the wholeerrorsarray rather than the firstdetail. The API answers a rejected write with one error per invalid field, so this is what turns "the request was invalid" into "these two fields were, and here is which".render_tool_errorturns any of them into one plain sentence — the call, the status, and what the API said, with the field named when it named one:Nothing is added that the status code already implies. The single exception is a request that could have changed something and never came back with a verdict — a 5xx or a timeout on a write — which gets
It may have been carried out anyway, so check the current state before retrying.An agent otherwise reads any failure as "nothing happened" and sends the write again.The module lives in
lib/rather than beside the API client because the Hub and documentation sub-servers must raise and render these without importingprowler_app.Steps to review
The tests are the specification —
mcp_server/tests/lib/test_errors.pyasserts on the exact text a model would read, because that text is the entire contract (aToolErrorcarries nothing else). Reading them first is the fastest way in.Then the two judgement calls worth arguing with:
render_tool_errorsuppresses it for a 4xx and for anyGET, on the grounds that neither changed anything. Everything else gets it.ValueErrorbranch. Anything that is not one of the types above is described as a bug in this server. That is deliberate — a model factory rejecting an API payload is a bug — but it means aValueErrorraised as a refusal would be mislabelled. The stack above removes those;ProwlerAuthErrorsubclassesValueErrorso existing handlers keep working in the meantime.Checklist
MCP Server
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