[Feature] : API ENDPOINTS PR 2: Auth

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Feature: Auth and Token Management Endpoints (PR 2/6)

Executive Summary

This Pull Request is Part 2 of 6 in the initiative to introduce a fully-featured JSON REST API (superseding #1117).

Building directly upon the foundational middleware and models established in PR 1, this PR introduces the highly critical Authentication and Token Lifecycle Management Endpoints. It exposes secure APIs for CI clients and third-party integrations to dynamically generate, list, and revoke their own access tokens, enforcing the principle of least privilege through scoped access controls.

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Architectural Additions & Enhancements

1. Route Controllers (mod_api/routes/auth.py)

This PR mounts the authentication router at /api/v1/auth/tokens and introduces the following operations:

• POST / (Generate Token):
  • Securely provisions a new API token.
  • Features role-based access control: Standard users are strictly limited to the system:read scope, whereas Platform Administrators can request elevated scopes such as baselines:write.
  • Returns the plaintext token exactly once, alongside its scoped metadata.
• GET / (List Tokens):
  • Retrieves all active tokens owned by the authenticated user.
  • Administrators can optionally append ?all=true to view active tokens across the entire platform.
  • Ensures that token plaintexts are never exposed in list responses, only their safe identifiers and metadata.
• DELETE /<token_id> (Revoke Specific Token):
  • Immediately revokes a specified token.
  • Enforces strict boundary checks: Users cannot revoke tokens belonging to other users unless they possess administrative privileges.
• DELETE /current (Revoke Active Token):
  • A convenience endpoint allowing a client to cleanly self-revoke the token it is currently authenticated with.

2. Request & Response Validation (mod_api/schemas/auth.py)

• TokenCreateSchema: Validates incoming payloads for token generation, enforcing strict regex constraints on token names and validating requested scopes against system defaults.
• TokenResponseSchema: Defines the serialization contract for token representations, ensuring that hashed secrets never leak into JSON responses.

3. Blueprint Integration

• Hooks the auth_routes Blueprint into the main mod_api/__init__.py router, officially exposing the endpoints to the application.

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Testing & Quality Assurance

This PR maintains strict code quality and has been heavily tested in isolation:

• Unit & Integration Testing: Introduces 18 new granular tests in test_routes_auth.py specifically targeting token creation logic, RBAC boundary enforcement, and edge cases (e.g., duplicate names, invalid credentials). All 46 applicable tests pass perfectly.
• Linting & Type Safety: 100% CI compliance verified. isort (fixed), pydocstyle, pycodestyle, and mypy pass without errors.

Important Note on "Missing" Tests:
If you are comparing the test suite here to the original monolithic PR, you will notice that the global middleware tests (test_middleware_auth.py, test_middleware_rate_limit.py, etc.) are temporarily absent from this branch.

Why? Those middleware tests verify global behaviors by making HTTP requests to endpoints like /api/v1/system/queue. Because those endpoints have not been introduced yet (they belong to PR 3), including the middleware tests here would cause guaranteed 404 failures. They will be reintroduced in PR 3 once the required endpoints exist to test against.

Next Steps

Following the review and merge of this PR, PR 3 (System Status & Run Management) will be submitted. It will introduce the system queue and CI run management routes, along with the full suite of middleware integration tests.

[sonarqubecloud]

Quality Gate passed

Issues
2 New issues
0 Accepted issues

Measures
0 Security Hotspots
0.0% Coverage on New Code
0.0% Duplication on New Code

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[cfsmp3]

Missing tests:

• Rate limiter still untested (tests bypass it via TESTING + _rate_limit_store.clear()). The 5/15min create limit is unverified.
• H4 fix (500→JSON) still unverified — no test forces a real route 500.

Bug:

• Non-admins can still request tokens:manage scope (harmless given role gates, but loose).