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Summary

Identity handlers raised IdentityFetchError for every failure. A caller could not tell a scope the user never granted (permanent: fall back or get a new token) from an endpoint that failed (transient: retry). The only way to tell them apart was matching message text.

This PR follows the proposal in #127:

  1. Add IdentityScopeNotGrantedError, a subclass of IdentityFetchError. Existing except IdentityFetchError code keeps working.
  2. Carry the granted scope string on IdentityMaterial, so a handler can see what the token endpoint granted.
  3. Teach Typeform and Slack to raise the new error. Any other provider never raises it until it is taught its own error format.

Typeform

Typeform's documented errors give the same 403 for a missing scope and an invalid token, so the response cannot be used. The handler checks the granted scopes before the request instead:

  • Grant known (non-blank scope): the scopes are split with config.scope_separator and expanded with config.resolve_implicit_scopes. If accounts:read is absent, the handler raises IdentityScopeNotGrantedError without a request.
  • Grant unknown (None or blank scope): the handler makes the request as before. Any failure raises IdentityFetchError.

The handler does not guess a grant from ProviderConfig.scopes. A token from storage, from a refresh, or from an older config can hold accounts:read while the current config does not list it. A guess there would turn a working token into a false permanent error.

The handler now also raises IdentityFetchError when the response body is not a JSON object. Before, it raised a raw AttributeError.

Slack

The Sign-in-with-Slack userInfo call reports a missing scope as ok=false, error="missing_scope". That now raises IdentityScopeNotGrantedError. Other ok=false errors still raise IdentityFetchError. On the workspace-bot path, team.info's missing_scope stays recoverable through auth.test. A note at that site records this.

Not in this PR

  • Atlassian needs no change. Since feat(atlassian): derive identity without requiring read:me #129 it degrades to a tenancy-only profile when read:me is missing.
  • A scope attribute on the exception. Slack cannot name the missing scope, so this waits until a caller needs it.
  • Reading an RFC 6750 WWW-Authenticate: error="insufficient_scope" header for other providers. It is not yet confirmed which providers send it.

Changes

  • src/apron_auth/errors.py, src/apron_auth/__init__.py: the new exception, exported. IdentityFetchError's docstring now says the failure may be transient.
  • src/apron_auth/models.py: IdentityMaterial.scope, copied from TokenSet.scope. TokenSet.scope is documented as delimited by the provider's separator, not always by spaces.
  • src/apron_auth/client.py: the fetch_identity docstring lists the granted scopes as part of the narrowed material.
  • src/apron_auth/providers/typeform.py: the scope check and the JSON object guard.
  • src/apron_auth/providers/slack.py: the missing_scope mapping and a named constant.
  • README.md: the error table lists both identity errors.
  • Tests cover: known grant without the scope (no request), blank and unknown grant (request made), unknown grant with 403 (generic error), comma separator, implicit scope, 403 with the scope granted (generic error), non-object JSON, Slack missing_scope and other errors, and passthrough of the error from OAuthClient.fetch_identity.

Closes #127

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Identity handlers can access the scopes granted with a token; scope information is treated as unknown when it is missing or blank.
    • Added a specific error for identity requests that cannot succeed because a required scope was not granted. It is distinct from potentially transient identity-fetch failures and is available from the package.
    • Slack and Typeform identity checks distinguish known missing scopes from other fetch errors. Typeform checks known granted scopes before making an identity request.
  • Documentation
    • Clarified how identity-fetch failures, missing scopes and provider-delimited scope values are represented.

Identity handlers raised IdentityFetchError for every failure. A caller
could not tell a scope the user never granted from an endpoint that was
down. The first needs a fallback or re-consent. The second needs a
retry.

Add IdentityScopeNotGrantedError as a subclass of IdentityFetchError,
so existing except clauses still catch it. A provider handler raises it
only where it can identify a missing scope.

Refs #127
An identity handler could not see which scopes the token endpoint
granted. It could not tell a token that lacks the identity scope from
a token the provider rejected for another reason.

Add the granted scope string to IdentityMaterial and copy it from
TokenSet.scope. The string keeps the provider's own separator, so a
handler parses it with the configured scope separator.

Refs #127
Typeform's /me endpoint needs the accounts:read scope. Typeform answers
a missing scope and an invalid token with the same 403, so the handler
raised the generic error for both.

When the token's granted scopes are known, expand them with the
configured implicit scopes and raise IdentityScopeNotGrantedError
before the request if accounts:read is absent. A missing or blank scope
string means the grant is unknown. In that case the handler makes the
request as before, so any failure still raises IdentityFetchError. Also
raise IdentityFetchError for a response body that is not a JSON object.

Refs #127
The Sign-in-with-Slack userInfo call reports a scope the token lacks as
ok=false with error missing_scope. The handler raised the generic
error for it, the same as for a revoked or invalid token.

Raise IdentityScopeNotGrantedError for missing_scope. Every other
ok=false error still raises IdentityFetchError.

Refs #127
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Walkthrough

Identity material now includes granted scopes. The error hierarchy distinguishes known missing identity scopes from other identity-fetch failures. Typeform checks known grants before requesting identity, and Slack maps missing_scope responses to the new error.

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Identity scope handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Scope data and error contract
src/apron_auth/models.py, src/apron_auth/errors.py, src/apron_auth/__init__.py, src/apron_auth/client.py, README.md, tests/test_errors.py, tests/test_models.py
IdentityMaterial carries the provider-delimited scope from TokenSet. The package exports IdentityScopeNotGrantedError, a subclass of IdentityFetchError. Documentation and tests describe the scope field and error hierarchy.
Typeform scope checks
src/apron_auth/providers/typeform.py, tests/providers/test_typeform.py, tests/test_client.py
Typeform raises IdentityScopeNotGrantedError before making a request when known grants lack accounts:read, including grants resolved through implicit scopes. Unknown grants proceed to the request. Tests also cover HTTP failures and non-object JSON responses.
Slack missing-scope errors
src/apron_auth/providers/slack.py, tests/providers/test_slack.py
Slack raises IdentityScopeNotGrantedError for an OIDC missing_scope response. Other Slack errors remain IdentityFetchError, and the workspace lookup continues to fall back to auth.test.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 85058

The PR lets identity handlers distinguish known missing scopes from other fetch failures, with Typeform checks and Slack error mapping. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains in the supplied review context.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 85058

The reviewed changes preserve existing credential boundaries and provider enforcement. Missing-scope errors remain compatible with existing exception handling, unknown grants are not guessed, and Slack’s existing workspace recovery path is preserved. No material security risk was found in the changed design.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The shared handler interface exposes grant metadata to configured identity handlers, while the changed built-in decisions affect Typeform and Slack identity lookups for the supplied bearer token. The inspected changes do not add cross-tenant lookup, broader token authority, or a new identity source.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The handler boundary continues to withhold refresh tokens, opaque caller context, and the full token-response metadata. The added scope field does not widen that boundary to the complete TokenSet or introduce another credential.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Within the inspected paths, scope checking does not introduce a shared-state transition: it operates on frozen identity material and local scope sets. Identity-fetch failures do not mutate token data or commit a partial identity, and HTTP clients remain scoped by asynchronous context managers.
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- Around line 607-608: Re-pad the IdentityFetchError and
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The IdentityScopeNotGrantedError row is wider than the table's first
column, so the raw Markdown no longer lined up. Re-pad every row to the
new column width. The rendered table is unchanged.

Refs #127
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Distinguish "identity scope not granted" from "identity fetch failed"

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