[tarantool-patches] Re: [PATCH] httpc: add checking of headers in httpc:request

[Roman <roman.habibov@tarantool.org>]

> 1. Firstly, I think, that the patch should be in C in
> lua/httpc.c and affect only function luaT_httpc_request. It
> will prevent creation of additional table 'res', maybe
> will look even shorter, and evidently will be more efficient.
> It is not so complex logic so as to write it in Lua, IMO.
>
Done.

commit beb0562425dd5062af5d18ae202f0f4434cb5108
Author: Roman Khabibov <roman.habibov@tarantool.org>
Date:   Wed Dec 26 17:49:34 2018 +0300

     httpc: add checking of headers in httpc:request

     Add preprocessing of the request headers. Each header must be nil, 
'string' or 'table'
     with '__tostring' metamethod.

     Closes #3679

diff --git a/src/lua/httpc.c b/src/lua/httpc.c
index 5f4e2e912..16a435ef1 100644
--- a/src/lua/httpc.c
+++ b/src/lua/httpc.c
@@ -173,6 +173,15 @@ luaT_httpc_request(lua_State *L)
      if (!lua_isnil(L, -1)) {
          lua_pushnil(L);
          while (lua_next(L, -2) != 0) {
+            int header_type = lua_type(L, -1);
+            if (header_type != LUA_TSTRING) {
+                if (header_type != LUA_TTABLE) {
+                    return luaL_error(L, "cannot convert header to a 
string");
+                } else if (luaL_getmetafield(L, -1, "__tostring") == 
LUA_TNIL) {
+                    return luaL_error(L, "cannot convert header to a 
string");
+                }
+                lua_pop(L, 1);
+            }
              if (httpc_set_header(req, "%s: %s",
                           lua_tostring(L, -2),
                           lua_tostring(L, -1)) < 0) {
diff --git a/test/app-tap/http_client.test.lua 
b/test/app-tap/http_client.test.lua
index 10a3728f8..d1fde5009 100755
--- a/test/app-tap/http_client.test.lua
+++ b/test/app-tap/http_client.test.lua
@@ -205,6 +205,80 @@ local function test_errors(test)
      test:is(r.status, 595, "GET: response on bad url")
  end

+-- gh-3679 allow only headers can be converted to string
+local function test_request_headers(test, url, opts)
+    local exp_err = 'cannot convert header to a string'
+    local cases = {
+        {
+            'string header',
+            opts = {headers = {aaa = 'aaa'}},
+            exp_err = nil,
+        },
+        {
+            'header with __tostring() metamethod',
+            opts = {headers = {aaa = setmetatable({}, {
+                __tostring = function(self)
+                    return 'aaa'
+                end})}},
+            exp_err = nil,
+            postrequest_check = function(opts)
+                assert(type(opts.headers.aaa) == 'table',
+                    '"aaa" header was modified in http_client')
+            end,
+        },
+        {
+            'boolean header',
+            opts = {headers = {aaa = true}},
+            exp_err = exp_err,
+        },
+        {
+            'number header',
+            opts = {headers = {aaa = 10}},
+            exp_err = exp_err,
+        },
+        {
+            'cdata header (box.NULL)',
+            opts = {headers = {aaa = box.NULL}},
+            exp_err = exp_err,
+        },
+        {
+            'cdata<uint64_t> header',
+            opts = {headers = {aaa = 10ULL}},
+            exp_err = exp_err,
+        },
+        {
+            'table header w/o metatable',
+            opts = {headers = {aaa = {}}},
+            exp_err = exp_err,
+        },
+        {
+            'table header w/o __tostring() metamethod',
+            opts = {headers = {aaa = setmetatable({}, {})}},
+            exp_err = exp_err,
+        },
+    }
+    test:plan(#cases)
+
+    local http = client:new()
+
+    for _, case in ipairs(cases) do
+        local opts = merge(table.copy(opts), case.opts)
+        local ok, err = pcall(http.get, http, url, opts)
+        if case.postrequest_check ~= nil then
+            case.postrequest_check(opts)
+        end
+        if case.exp_err == nil then
+            -- expect success
+            test:ok(ok, case[1])
+        else
+            -- expect fail
+            assert(type(err) == 'string')
+            err = err:gsub('^builtin/[a-z._]+.lua:[0-9]+: ', '')
+            test:is_deeply({ok, err}, {false, case.exp_err}, case[1])
+        end
+    end
+end
+
  local function test_headers(test, url, opts)
      test:plan(19)
      local http = client:new()
@@ -397,12 +471,13 @@ local function test_concurrent(test, url, opts)
  end

  function run_tests(test, sock_family, sock_addr)
-    test:plan(9)
+    test:plan(10)
      local server, url, opts = start_server(test, sock_family, sock_addr)
      test:test("http.client", test_http_client, url, opts)
      test:test("cancel and errinj", test_cancel_and_errinj, url .. 
'long_query', opts)
      test:test("basic http post/get", test_post_and_get, url, opts)
      test:test("errors", test_errors)
+    test:test("request_headers", test_request_headers, url, opts)
      test:test("headers", test_headers, url, opts)
      test:test("special methods", test_special_methods, url, opts)
      if sock_family == 'AF_UNIX' and jit.os ~= "Linux" then