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This pull request introduces several improvements to authentication, authorization, health checking, and test coverage in the API. The most significant changes include enforcing a fallback authorization policy, adding a /health endpoint, updating tests to reflect new authentication behavior, and improving Docker test reliability. These updates help standardize authentication flows, provide a health check for deployments, and ensure tests accurately validate the API's behavior.

Authentication & Authorization Enhancements:

  • The fallback authorization policy is now enforced using RequireAuthenticatedUser, replacing the previous default policy and custom middleware for handling unauthorized requests. This ensures all endpoints require authentication unless explicitly marked as anonymous, and responses to unauthorized requests now follow standard API key authentication challenge behavior. (AuthExtensions.cs)
  • The custom middleware that returned a 401 status and "Unauthorised" message for unauthenticated requests has been removed, relying instead on framework-level handling. (AuthExtensions.cs)

Health Check Endpoint:

  • A new /health endpoint was added to the API, returning a simple JSON object indicating the service status. This endpoint is accessible without authentication and is useful for deployment and monitoring purposes. (Program.cs, Elzik.Breef.Api.http) [1] [2]

Test Improvements:

  • Functional tests for unauthorized requests were updated to check for the correct API key authentication challenge in the response headers, and to expect an empty response body instead of a custom message. (BreefTestsBase.cs)
  • A new test suite was added to verify the /health endpoint returns the expected status and body. (HealthEndpointTests.cs)
  • Docker-based tests now wait for the /health endpoint to succeed before proceeding, improving reliability of integration tests. (BreefTestsDocker.cs)

Test Suite Maintenance:

  • Obsolete or redundant subreddit image URL tests were removed from the Reddit extractor test suite, streamlining unit test coverage. (SubRedditExtractorTests.cs)

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added a health check endpoint (GET /health) returning status "Healthy"
    • Added API collection examples for Breefs and Health
  • Improvements

    • Enforced global authorization with a fallback policy and standardized challenge responses for unauthenticated requests
  • Tests

    • Added functional test for the health endpoint and updated auth-related tests and container health checks
  • Bug Fixes

    • Removed inline unauthorised-response behavior so authentication flows use standard pipeline

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Walkthrough

Refactors authentication to use ASP.NET Core authorization with a fallback policy requiring authenticated users, removes custom inline 401 middleware, adds an anonymous GET /health endpoint returning { "status": "Healthy" }, and updates functional/unit tests and CI wait strategy accordingly.

Changes

Cohort / File(s) Summary
Auth configuration
src/Elzik.Breef.Api/Auth/AuthExtensions.cs
Replace services.AddAuthorization() with a configured policy named (RequireAuthenticated) set as the FallbackPolicy; remove inline middleware that returned 401 "Unauthorised".
Health endpoint
src/Elzik.Breef.Api/Program.cs
Add GET /health endpoint that allows anonymous access and returns 200 with JSON { "status": "Healthy" }.
HTTP collection
src/Elzik.Breef.Api/Elzik.Breef.Api.http
Add Breefs and Health request sections; update Breefs POST payload URL and add GET /health example.
Functional tests & infra
tests/Elzik.Breef.Api.Tests.Functional/BreefTestsBase.cs, tests/Elzik.Breef.Api.Tests.Functional/BreefTestsDocker.cs, tests/Elzik.Breef.Api.Tests.Functional/HealthEndpointTests.cs
Update Unauthorised test to assert WWW-Authenticate challenge (Scheme ApiKey, Parameter includes BREEF-API-KEY) and expect empty body; change Docker wait strategy to HTTP health check (/health -> 200); add new health endpoint functional test.
Unit test cleanup
tests/Elzik.Breef.Infrastructure.Tests.Unit/ContentExtractors/Reddit/SubRedditExtractorTests.cs
Remove test GetSubredditImageUrlAsync_ValidSubredditName_CallsCorrectAboutUrl(...).

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant Pipeline as ASP.NET Core Pipeline
  participant AuthZ as AuthorizationMiddleware
  participant Policy as FallbackPolicy (RequireAuthenticated)
  participant Health as /health endpoint
  participant App as Application Endpoint

  Client->>Pipeline: HTTP request /health
  Pipeline->>AuthZ: Authenticate & Authorize
  Note right of AuthZ: FallbackPolicy allows anonymous for /health
  AuthZ-->>Health: Forward to endpoint
  Health-->>Client: 200 { "status":"Healthy" }

  Client->>Pipeline: HTTP request /breefs
  Pipeline->>AuthZ: Authenticate & Authorize
  Note right of Policy: FallbackPolicy requires authenticated user
  alt Authenticated
    AuthZ-->>App: Forward to breefs handler
    App-->>Client: 200/201 ...
  else Unauthenticated
    AuthZ-->>Client: 401 with WWW-Authenticate: ApiKey param="BREEF-API-KEY"
  end
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  • Pay attention to AuthExtensions.cs to ensure the fallback policy doesn't inadvertently restrict intended anonymous endpoints.
  • Verify WWW-Authenticate challenge formatting matches tests and authentication handler behavior.
  • Confirm Docker wait-strategy change aligns with CI/container networking and test startup timing.

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Swapped custom auth for framework neat,
A health check hums, all green and spry,
Tests updated, containers sigh —
The Breef is bright beneath the sky.

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src/Elzik.Breef.Api/Program.cs (1)

138-139: Consider using PascalCase for consistency.

The anonymous object uses lowercase status, while the test's HealthResponse model uses PascalCase Status. Although ASP.NET Core's JSON deserialization is case-insensitive by default and the test works, using PascalCase would align better with C# naming conventions.

Apply this diff for consistency:

-        app.MapGet("/health", () => Results.Ok(new { status = "Healthy" }))
+        app.MapGet("/health", () => Results.Ok(new { Status = "Healthy" }))
src/Elzik.Breef.Api/Elzik.Breef.Api.http (1)

12-15: Optional: Remove unnecessary Content-Type header.

The Content-Type: application/json header is unnecessary for a GET request without a request body. While harmless, removing it would make the request cleaner.

Apply this diff:

 ### Health
 
 Get {{Elzik.Breef.Api_HostAddress}}/health
-Content-Type: application/json
tests/Elzik.Breef.Api.Tests.Functional/HealthEndpointTests.cs (1)

8-8: Consider adding a using directive for improved readability.

The fully qualified name Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Testing.WebApplicationFactory<Elzik.Breef.Api.Program> makes the class declaration lengthy. Adding a using directive at the top would improve readability.

Add this using directive at the top of the file:

 using Shouldly;
 using System.Net;
 using System.Net.Http.Json;
 using Xunit;
+using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Testing;

Then update the class declaration:

-    public class HealthEndpointTests : IClassFixture<Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Testing.WebApplicationFactory<Elzik.Breef.Api.Program>>
+    public class HealthEndpointTests : IClassFixture<WebApplicationFactory<Elzik.Breef.Api.Program>>
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tests/Elzik.Breef.Api.Tests.Functional/BreefTestsDocker.cs (1)

83-86: LGTM! Improved test reliability.

Switching to an HTTP health check wait strategy ensures the container is fully ready before tests execute, reducing flakiness.

tests/Elzik.Breef.Api.Tests.Functional/BreefTestsBase.cs (1)

76-82: LGTM! Test correctly validates framework authentication.

The test now properly validates the WWW-Authenticate challenge header and empty response body, aligning with the refactored authorization flow.

src/Elzik.Breef.Api/Auth/AuthExtensions.cs (1)

16-22: LGTM! Solid authorization pattern.

The fallback policy with RequireAuthenticatedUser() ensures secure-by-default behavior, where all endpoints require authentication unless explicitly marked with .AllowAnonymous(). This is a cleaner approach than custom middleware.

tests/Elzik.Breef.Api.Tests.Functional/HealthEndpointTests.cs (1)

17-28: LGTM! Well-structured health endpoint test.

The test properly validates the health endpoint's response status, deserialization, and content. Using WebApplicationFactory for in-memory testing is the right approach.

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src/Elzik.Breef.Api/Auth/AuthExtensions.cs (1)

17-23: Simplify authorization configuration by inlining the policy.

The "RequireAuthenticated" policy is not referenced anywhere else in the codebase, so it can be inlined directly into the fallback configuration rather than created as a named policy. This eliminates unnecessary indirection and simplifies the code.

-        var authBuilder = services.AddAuthorizationBuilder();
-        authBuilder.AddPolicy("RequireAuthenticated", p => p.RequireAuthenticatedUser());
-
-        services.Configure<AuthorizationOptions>(options =>
-        {
-            options.FallbackPolicy = options.GetPolicy("RequireAuthenticated");
-        });
+        services.AddAuthorization(options =>
+        {
+            options.FallbackPolicy = new AuthorizationPolicyBuilder()
+                .RequireAuthenticatedUser()
+                .Build();
+        });
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2-2: LGTM!

The namespace import is necessary for the authorization configuration below.

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@elzik elzik merged commit 1aeabe9 into main Oct 26, 2025
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@elzik elzik deleted the add-health-check branch October 26, 2025 11:55
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