fix(oauth): preserve provider error detail on refresh token failure

[Anatolii Yatsuk (tolik0)]

What

When an OAuth refresh request is rejected, AbstractOauth2Authenticator._make_handled_request raised an AirbyteTracedException whose user-facing message was one fixed sentence, and it threw away the provider's own diagnostic. _wrap_refresh_token_exception had already parsed the error body with exception.response.json() in order to decide whether the failure was a refresh-token failure, and then discarded that parsed body.

That matters most for Microsoft Entra, where the body carries an AADSTS code that separates root causes needing completely different fixes:

• AADSTS50173 — the grant was revoked, typically because the user changed or reset their password. Re-authenticating is the fix.
• AADSTS7000218 / AADSTS700025 — the app registration's client type or client credential is misconfigured. Re-authenticating does not help; the app registration has to change.
• AADSTS50076 / AADSTS50078 / AADSTS700082 — Conditional Access requires an interactive sign-in or MFA. Again a different fix, and one the workspace admin has to make.

Today all three collapse into the same string. Across 300 sampled production failure summaries for source-bing-ads, zero contain an AADSTS code, so support has no way to tell these apart from the failure summary. See airbytehq/oncall#12835.

How

• The error body is parsed once, in _make_handled_request, and passed into _wrap_refresh_token_exception through a new optional response_content argument, so the response is no longer parsed twice. The argument defaults to None and the method parses on demand when it is absent, so existing callers keep working.
• internal_message carries the full provider response (HTTP <status>: <body>, truncated at 1000 characters), so the whole payload lands in the logs.
• The user-facing message deliberately keeps the existing actionable sentence as its lead: "Refresh token was rejected by the OAuth provider (invalid, expired, or already used). Re-authenticate this source's credentials in its connection settings." Only after that is a short provider detail appended, as Provider error: <error>: <error_description>, built from the standard OAuth 2.0 error and error_description fields, collapsed to a single line and truncated at 200 characters. Two hundred characters is enough to keep the AADSTS<code> and the beginning of its description, since Entra puts the code at the front of error_description, while staying short enough that the failure summary is still readable. No raw provider blob becomes the primary message, and when the body has no usable error / error_description the message is byte-for-byte what it was before.
• Bodies that are empty, non-JSON, or valid JSON but not an object now resolve to "no parsed content" rather than raising. Previously a JSON array body would have hit AttributeError on .get(...) inside the already-failing error path.
• Everything surfaced, in both the user-facing and the internal message, is run through filter_secrets, and the authenticator's own refresh token and client secret are redacted explicitly on top of that, in case a provider echoes submitted credentials back in its payload. Only response bodies are read, so request headers, including Authorization, are never echoed.

No changelog entry or version bump is included: CONTRIBUTING.md states releases are drafted automatically by semantic-pr-release-drafter from the PR title, and the package version is computed by poetry-dynamic-versioning. CHANGELOG.md is frozen and points at GitHub Release Notes.

Test plan

New tests in unit_tests/sources/streams/http/requests_native_auth/test_requests_native_auth.py:

• a parametrized test over the three Entra failure modes above, asserting that the AADSTS code and the full response body reach internal_message while message still starts with the re-authenticate guidance and then carries the provider code on a single line;
• truncation of an oversized error_description;
• redaction, using a payload that echoes the refresh token and client secret back;
• empty, HTML, and JSON-array bodies falling back to the raw RequestException instead of raising something new;
• a provider whose body has no error / error_description, asserting the user-facing message is exactly the unchanged sentence.

The existing test_refresh_access_token_wrapped assertion on message was relaxed from equality to startswith, since the wrapped case now appends Provider error: invalid_grant.

This repo is Poetry-managed, so uv run pytest cannot resolve the dev dependencies; the tests were run with the project's Poetry virtualenv:

$ python -m pytest unit_tests/sources/streams/http/requests_native_auth/ -q
======================== 49 passed, 3 warnings in 0.86s ========================

$ python -m pytest unit_tests/sources/declarative/auth -q
======================= 166 passed, 3 warnings in 34.80s =======================

$ ruff check airbyte_cdk/sources/streams/http/requests_native_auth/abstract_oauth.py unit_tests/sources/streams/http/requests_native_auth/test_requests_native_auth.py
All checks passed!

$ ruff format --check airbyte_cdk/sources/streams/http/requests_native_auth/abstract_oauth.py unit_tests/sources/streams/http/requests_native_auth/test_requests_native_auth.py
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$ mypy --config-file mypy.ini airbyte_cdk/sources/streams/http/requests_native_auth/abstract_oauth.py
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Update — 2026-09-03 (added by ZaneHyattAB on Anatolii Yatsuk (@tolik0)'s behalf)

Anatolii Yatsuk (@tolik0) is out, and this PR now carries commit 6d5e37c9 applying
Baz (@bazarnov)'s review feedback. Everything above is Anatolii Yatsuk (@tolik0)'s original text,
left as written. The points below supersede it where they conflict; the
original wording is kept for context rather than rewritten.

1. The user-facing detail is now the first line of error_description
   only, capped at 120 characters (was: single-line collapse, 200
   characters). Entra appends Trace ID, Correlation ID and Timestamp on
   later lines and embeds per-request issue dates in the first sentence, so
   collapsing whitespace pulled per-request GUIDs into the message. Every
   attempt then produced a distinct ~375-character string, which defeats
   grouping by failure summary — the capability this PR exists to provide.
   After the change the message is a stable ~295 characters per error code,
   with the full body still in internal_message.

2. AADSTS700082 is regrouped. It is
   ExpiredOrRevokedGrantInactiveToken — refresh-token expiry after
   inactivity — so it belongs with the expired/revoked group above, not with
   Conditional Access.

3. Reachability caveat added. On the declarative defaults
   source-bing-ads runs ((400,) / "error" /
   ("invalid_grant", "invalid_permissions")), invalid_client
   (AADSTS7000218, AADSTS700025) and interaction_required
   (AADSTS50078) never reach this path and surface as raw HTTP errors.

4. Only string values are read, so a provider nesting the error object no
   longer renders a dict repr into the message.

5. The redaction test now actually tests the redaction. It uses distinct
   credential values and calls update_secrets([]) first, because secrets
   registered by earlier tests were masking the credentials on their own —
   the previous test passed even with the explicit pair redaction disabled.
   Verified by disabling that redaction and confirming the test fails.

6. New declarative-authenticator test at
   unit_tests/sources/declarative/auth/test_oauth.py, covering the path
   manifest-only connectors such as source-bing-ads actually run.

Retracted: the "300 sampled production failure summaries" figure above is
not sourced in airbytehq/oncall#12835 and should not be relied on. The
verified claim is narrower: a deliberately revoked Bing Ads token on 3.0.7
produced a 95-line check log containing zero AADSTS codes, and the same
token on a preview build of this PR surfaced the code.

Validation on 6d5e37c9: 216 targeted tests pass, ruff and mypy clean.
Additionally validated end to end in Airbyte Cloud on a genuinely revoked
token — see airbytehq/oncall#12835.

Anatolii Yatsuk (@tolik0), please adjust or fold this in as you see fit when you're back.

Update — 2026-09-09: provider detail is now the code only (1216c9d2)

Supersedes the <error>: <error_description> format in "How" above (single line, 200 characters) and point 1 of the 2026-09-03 update (first line, 120 characters). Neither was deterministic for every Entra code: AADSTS700082 carries the token issue timestamp in its first sentence, so no line rule or character cap can make it stable (analysis).

What ships in 1216c9d2:

• The user-facing detail is Provider error: <error>[: <provider code>], where the code is ^[A-Za-z]{3,}\d{4,}\b matched against the start of error_description (e.g. AADSTS700082). No description prose is ever appended, so the same failure produces a byte-identical message on every attempt (rationale).
• Providers whose error_description is prose (Google, Salesforce, GitLab, Airtable, Harvest, ...) get Provider error: <error> only; the full body is still in internal_message, now redacted as well.
• _PROVIDER_ERROR_DETAIL_MAX_LENGTH is 64 (both error and the code are provider-controlled). The cap test asserts the literal length so the constant is pinned.
• New tests: first-sentence timestamp with no later lines, \r\n trace id under the cap, the same code with two different issue dates asserting equal message, and a word-boundary check for the code pattern.

Residual theoretical case, no change requested: a provider whose error_description leads with a hex/GUID-like token would surface that token as the "code"; none of the providers with fixtures in the monorepo does, and the value is still redacted and capped.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved OAuth refresh-token error messages by showing concise provider error codes and relevant details.
  • Redacted refresh tokens, client secrets, and other credentials from both user-facing and diagnostic messages.
  • Prevented lengthy provider responses, trace IDs, and timestamps from cluttering user-facing errors.
  • Improved handling of non-JSON error responses by preserving the underlying request error.

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[Baz (bazarnov)]

Thanks for the change, and for the end-to-end validation on a revoked Bing Ads token. Review only, nothing pushed to the branch; the inline suggestions below are validated as a whole on commit de26718 (merge of main + the suggested edits, CI run on #1144).

Verified:

• Adequacy: source-bing-ads sets no refresh_token_error_*, so it runs on the declarative defaults (400,) / "error" / ("invalid_grant", "invalid_permissions") (model_to_component_factory.py#L3068), which is exactly the path Microsoft's 400 invalid_grant with AADSTS50173 takes. The code reaches the failure summary, the full body reaches internal_message.
• Compatibility: _wrap_refresh_token_exception only gains an optional kwarg; no connector in airbytehq/airbyte overrides it or _make_handled_request, and nothing asserts on the exact previous message. Not a breaking change.
• Redaction order is sound (filter_secrets first, then the authenticator's own refresh token and client secret, before truncation), and only the response body is ever read.
• The new tests are discriminating: 6 of the 9 cases fail on main, including the JSON-array body that previously raised AttributeError inside the error handler.

Suggested changes (inline):

1. Keep only the first line of error_description and cap at 120. Entra appends Trace ID, Correlation ID, Timestamp and issue dates to the description, so today the same failure produces a different user-facing message on every attempt (up to 375 characters, GUIDs inside), which defeats grouping by failure summary - the reason this PR exists. With the change it is one string per failure class, about 295 characters at most, and the full body is still in internal_message.
2. Docstring: AADSTS700082 is refresh-token expiry due to inactivity, not Conditional Access (reference-error-codes); the PR description carries the same grouping.
3. Tests: the redaction test uses credential values equal to their field names and is satisfied by a secret leaked from an earlier test (add_to_secrets("token")); the trailing_marker comment is not true for the AADSTS7000218 fixture (181 characters, under the cap). Worth adding the declarative-authenticator path that manifest connectors actually run; a ready-made test is in the commit above (unit_tests/sources/declarative/auth/test_oauth.py).

Notes for merge and follow-up:

• Under the defaults, invalid_client (AADSTS7000218 / AADSTS700025, the latter arriving as HTTP 401) and interaction_required (AADSTS50078) do not enter this path for source-bing-ads; they surface as the raw HTTP error. If those need the same treatment, set refresh_token_error_status_codes / refresh_token_error_values in the connector manifest.
• source-bing-ads pins source-declarative-manifest:7.25.1; this fix and #1130 (v7.28.3) reach users only after the next CDK patch release and a base-image bump of the connector.
• The "300 sampled production failure summaries" figure in the description is not in the oncall thread; worth citing the query or softening.
• The PR is still a draft.

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[Baz (bazarnov)]

Re-review of 1216c9d with main merged locally (clean - the three commits since the base do not touch the OAuth code). Review only, nothing pushed to the branch, no approval on this one by design.

Verified on this head:

• All five earlier threads are addressed; resolving them. The first-line/120 rule from my round is superseded by the code-only detail, and that is the right call: AADSTS700082 carries the token issue timestamp in its first sentence, so no line rule or character cap could make it deterministic (analysis).
• Independent mutation check against the two touched modules, one mutant at a time: drop \b >> 1 failed; unanchor the pattern (.search, no ^) >> 1 failed; drop _redact_credentials from the detail >> 2 failed; cap 64 >> 2000 >> 1 failed; first-line prose instead of the code >> 4 failed; drop the error token >> 12 failed. Every guard is pinned by at least one test.
• Fleet check in airbytehq/airbyte: the only provider whose error_description leads with a code is Microsoft Entra (AADSTS<n>:). Google, Salesforce, GitLab, Airtable and Harvest return prose, so they degrade to Provider error: invalid_grant - one string per failure. No connector sets refresh_token_error_key to anything but error (gitlab, airtable only set it explicitly), so the ungated error read is bounded to the two default literals today. Nothing asserts on the exact wrapped message; nothing overrides _wrap_refresh_token_exception.
• Redaction precedes truncation in both builders, and internal_message is now redacted where the previous e.response.text[:1000] was not.
• CI: all required checks green on 1216c9d. Check: destination-motherduck fails on every CDK PR (MotherDuck sandbox token), non-required.
• Local: 86 passed in the two modules, ruff 0.11.5 clean. The 9 errors in TestSingleUseRefreshTokenOauth2Authenticator are a local fixture-resolution problem identical on main; CI runs them green.

One item left, description only:

• The PR description still documents the two superseded formats: "How" describes <error>: <error_description> collapsed at 200 characters, and point 1 of the 2026-09-03 update describes the first line at 120. A short third note saying the detail is now <error>[: <provider code>], capped at 64, with no prose fallback (rationale) would make the description match what ships.

Notes:

• Residual theoretical case: a provider whose error_description leads with a hex or GUID-like token would surface that token as the "code" (pattern). None of the providers with fixtures in the monorepo does this, and the value is still redacted and capped, so no change requested - recording it for the next reader.
• Still a draft. #1145 edits the same test module in the SingleUseRefreshToken region plus oauth.py; no overlap with this diff.

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☑️ Resolved (description only, no push). Re: the re-review of 1216c9d2 — added an "Update — 2026-09-09" section to the description stating that the detail is now Provider error: <error>[: <provider code>], capped at 64, with no prose fallback, superseding both the 200-char single-line format in "How" and the first-line/120 note. The residual hex/GUID-leading-token case is recorded there too. The original text above it is left as written.

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OAuth refresh-token error handling now parses response bodies once, redacts credentials, limits provider details, and separates user-facing messages from internal response information. Tests cover provider-code extraction, deterministic output, malformed bodies, truncation, and credential redaction.

Changes

OAuth error handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Response parsing and redaction airbyte_cdk/sources/streams/http/requests_native_auth/abstract_oauth.py	Adds safe response parsing, credential redaction, truncation, provider-code extraction, and redacted internal response formatting. Refresh-token handling reuses the parsed response content.
Declarative authenticator validation unit_tests/sources/declarative/auth/test_oauth.py	Validates provider-code exposure, credential redaction, internal trace information, and configuration error handling.
Native OAuth behavior validation unit_tests/sources/streams/http/requests_native_auth/test_requests_native_auth.py	Tests provider-code matching, prose exclusion, deterministic messages, length limits, credential redaction, malformed responses, and fallback behavior.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 1216c

OAuth refresh failures now preserve redacted provider diagnostics, but the added tests leave shared secret-filter state changed, which can cause order-dependent test behavior. This is a low merge-readiness risk.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Oauth2Authenticator
  participant _make_handled_request
  participant _parse_error_response_content
  participant _build_provider_error_detail
  participant AirbyteTracedException
  Oauth2Authenticator->>_make_handled_request: Handle failed token refresh request
  _make_handled_request->>_parse_error_response_content: Parse response body once
  _make_handled_request->>_build_provider_error_detail: Extract redacted provider detail
  _make_handled_request->>AirbyteTracedException: Raise user-facing and internal messages

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790-790: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Global secret state is cleared in tests and never restored. update_secrets([]) replaces module-level state in airbyte_cdk.utils.airbyte_secrets_utils, so the effect outlives each test. The current definition order is safe, but a different order could change behavior of tests that assert on filter_secrets. Would a shared autouse fixture that saves and restores the list make these resets local, wdyt?

• unit_tests/sources/streams/http/requests_native_auth/test_requests_native_auth.py#L790-L790: move the reset into a fixture that restores the previous secret list after the test.
• unit_tests/sources/streams/http/requests_native_auth/test_requests_native_auth.py#L907-L907: use the same fixture instead of the inline reset.
• unit_tests/sources/streams/http/requests_native_auth/test_requests_native_auth.py#L942-L942: use the same fixture instead of the inline reset.
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🚫 Not fixing. Re: CodeRabbit's nitpick about update_secrets([]) leaving module-level secret state cleared. Real but trivial: the resets exist precisely because earlier tests register secrets via add_to_secrets and would otherwise mask the credentials on their own, and the clearing only removes masking, which makes downstream filter_secrets assertions stricter rather than looser. The PR is scoped to the reviewed changes (the pushes here were limited to what Baz (@bazarnov) asked for), so a save/restore autouse fixture is left as a possible follow-up for Anatolii Yatsuk (@tolik0) if wanted.

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