Announce no metadata on pull-through links

A package not yet in the repository is linked as
<file>?redirect=<upstream URL>, and the link announced its PEP 658
metadata. pip asks for that metadata by appending ".metadata" to the
whole URL, so it lands in the redirect parameter and the path still names
the package. Once another client has fetched the package, the content app
finds it by that path and answers the metadata request with the package
itself, and pip fails its hash check. The pull-through handler's
workaround for pip's URL is never reached in that case, because the path
lookup comes first.

Pull-through links no longer announce metadata; installers then read it
from the package they download. Once the package is in the repository, its
local link announces the metadata again, and that link has no query string.
The metadata is still served through a pull-through link for clients
holding an older page.

fixes #1453

Author: aevnsvi

CHANGES/1453.bugfix

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Stopped announcing PEP 658 metadata on pull-through links, whose ?redirect= query made pip ask for the metadata at the package's own path: once the package was cached, pip got the package in place of its metadata and failed its hash check.

pulp_python/app/pypi/views.py

@@ -378,7 +378,12 @@ def parse_package(release_package):
                 "url": d_url,
                 "sha256": release_package.digests.get("sha256", ""),
                 "requires_python": release_package.requires_python,
-                "metadata_sha256": (release_package.metadata_digests or {}).get("sha256"),
+                # No PEP 658 metadata for a file served through this redirect link: pip asks for
+                # it by appending ".metadata" to the whole URL, which leaves the path naming the
+                # file itself. Once the file is in the repository, a client holding this link is
+                # served the file by its path and gets it in place of the metadata. Installers
+                # fall back to the metadata inside the file they download anyway.
+                "metadata_sha256": None,
                 "size": release_package.size,
                 "upload_time": release_package.upload_time,
                 "version": release_package.version,

pulp_python/tests/functional/api/test_full_mirror.py

@@ -208,36 +208,43 @@ def test_pull_through_filtering_bad_names(python_remote_factory, python_distribu
 @pytest.mark.parallel
 def test_pull_through_metadata(python_remote_factory, python_distribution_factory):
     """
-    Tests that metadata is correctly served when using pull-through.
+    Tests that a pull-through link announces no metadata, but the metadata is still served.
 
-    So when requesting the metadata url according to PEP 658 you should just need to add .metadata
-    to the end of the url path. Since pull-through includes a redirect query parameter we need to
-    test adding .metadata to the end of the url path vs adding it to the end of redirect query.
+    pip asks for PEP 658 metadata by appending ".metadata" to the end of the url, which puts it
+    into the redirect query parameter and leaves the path naming the package. Once the package
+    is in a repository, that request is answered with the package by its path, so the link must
+    not announce metadata. A client holding an older page still gets the metadata either way.
     """
     remote = python_remote_factory(includes=["pytz"])
     distro = python_distribution_factory(remote=remote.pulp_href)
 
     url = f"{distro.base_url}simple/pytz/"
     project_page = ProjectPage.from_response(requests.get(url), "pytz")
+    upstream_page = ProjectPage.from_response(
+        requests.get(urljoin(PYPI_URL, "simple/pytz/")), "pytz"
+    )
     filename1 = "pytz-2023.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl"
     filename2 = "pytz-2023.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl"
     package1 = next(p for p in project_page.packages if p.filename == filename1)
     package2 = next(p for p in project_page.packages if p.filename == filename2)
-    assert package1.has_metadata
-    assert package2.has_metadata
+    assert "?redirect=" in package1.url
+    assert not package1.has_metadata
+    assert not package2.has_metadata
+    upstream1 = next(p for p in upstream_page.packages if p.filename == filename1)
+    upstream2 = next(p for p in upstream_page.packages if p.filename == filename2)
 
-    # The correct way to get the metadata url: add to path (uv does this)
+    # Adding .metadata to the url path (uv does this)
     parts1 = urlsplit(package1.url)
     url1 = urlunsplit((parts1[0], parts1[1], parts1[2] + ".metadata", parts1[3], parts1[4]))
     r = requests.get(url1)
     assert r.status_code == 200
-    assert sha256(r.content).hexdigest() == package1.metadata_digests["sha256"]
+    assert sha256(r.content).hexdigest() == upstream1.metadata_digests["sha256"]
 
-    # The incorrect way to get the metadata url: add to end of string (pip does this)
+    # Adding .metadata to the end of the url (pip does this)
     url2 = package2.url + ".metadata"
     r = requests.get(url2)
     assert r.status_code == 200
-    assert sha256(r.content).hexdigest() == package2.metadata_digests["sha256"]
+    assert sha256(r.content).hexdigest() == upstream2.metadata_digests["sha256"]
 
 
 @pytest.mark.parallel
@@ -247,7 +254,7 @@ def test_pull_through_metadata_with_repo(
     python_distribution_factory,
     pulpcore_bindings,
 ):
-    """Tests that metadata is correctly saved when using pull-through with a repository."""
+    """Tests that metadata is correctly saved and announced when using pull-through with a repo."""
     remote = python_remote_factory(url=PYPI_URL, includes=["pip"])
     repo = python_repo_factory()
     distro = python_distribution_factory(repository=repo.pulp_href, remote=remote.pulp_href)
@@ -256,32 +263,36 @@ def test_pull_through_metadata_with_repo(
     project_page = ProjectPage.from_response(requests.get(pip_url), "pip")
     filename = "pip-26.0.1-py3-none-any.whl"
     package = next(p for p in project_page.packages if p.filename == filename)
-    assert package.has_metadata
     assert "?redirect=" in package.url
+    assert not package.has_metadata
+    upstream_page = ProjectPage.from_response(requests.get(urljoin(PYPI_URL, "simple/pip/")), "pip")
+    upstream = next(p for p in upstream_page.packages if p.filename == filename)
+    metadata_sha256 = upstream.metadata_digests["sha256"]
 
     # Retrieve the metadata and assert the content was not saved to the repository
     parts = urlsplit(package.url)
     url = urlunsplit((parts[0], parts[1], parts[2] + ".metadata", parts[3], parts[4]))
     r = requests.get(url)
     assert r.status_code == 200
-    assert sha256(r.content).hexdigest() == package.metadata_digests["sha256"]
+    assert sha256(r.content).hexdigest() == metadata_sha256
     project_page = ProjectPage.from_response(requests.get(pip_url), "pip")
     package = next(p for p in project_page.packages if p.filename == filename)
-    assert package.has_metadata
     assert "?redirect=" in package.url
+    assert not package.has_metadata
 
     # Now retrieve the package and assert the content was saved with metadata
     r = requests.get(package.url)
     assert r.status_code == 200
     pa = pulpcore_bindings.ArtifactsApi.list(sha256=package.digests["sha256"])
     assert pa.count == 1
-    ma = pulpcore_bindings.ArtifactsApi.list(sha256=package.metadata_digests["sha256"])
+    ma = pulpcore_bindings.ArtifactsApi.list(sha256=metadata_sha256)
     assert ma.count == 1
 
-    # Check the simple page is updated to point to the local repository
+    # Check the simple page is updated to point to the local repository, with the metadata
     project_page = ProjectPage.from_response(requests.get(pip_url), "pip")
     package = next(p for p in project_page.packages if p.filename == filename)
     assert "?redirect=" not in package.url
+    assert package.metadata_digests["sha256"] == metadata_sha256
     r = requests.get(package.metadata_url)
     assert r.status_code == 200
-    assert sha256(r.content).hexdigest() == package.metadata_digests["sha256"]
+    assert sha256(r.content).hexdigest() == metadata_sha256