No view used sensitive_post_parameters, so once ADMINS is set the error
mail of a failing POST would carry the password or key in plain text.
The user create, edit and password views, the password change, the
compute forms, the host secrets, the VM's root password and its console
settings now mark their POST data sensitive.
The host pages lose their last inline scripts: the overview's charts
(host_graphs.js), the New pool, New network and New interface dialogs
(pool_dialog.js, network_dialog.js, interface_dialog.js), a network's
and a network filter's XML editors and dialogs (network_page.js,
nwfilter_page.js, nwfilters_page.js), the secrets page's labels
(secrets_page.js, its texts from the view as usage_texts) and a pool's
page with the ISO upload (storage_page.js). Their URLs and messages are
data attributes of the elements they belong to; the upload reads its
token and address from its form. No template has an inline script or
an inline event handler any more.
Deleting or detaching a disk, deleting a network card, forcing a VM off,
reverting or deleting a snapshot, stopping or deleting a pool, a
network, an interface, a filter or a secret, and the other actions that
ask first opened the browser's yes/no box (confirm()), and the ISO
upload told its mistakes in the browser's alert().
One dialog in the base page now asks for all of them: its title and
confirming button carry the button's own words, its body the button's
question, the confirming button red for a destructive action. Confirmed,
the button is clicked again, so its form sends what it did before. A
button inside another dialog (the flavors) hides that one while asking
and shows it again after; Cancel gives the focus back, and the
confirming button acts once. The ISO upload's mistakes show in its
dialog's error box, announced.
The host pages' dialogs (new network, fixed address, DHCP range,
bandwidth limit, new interface, new filter, filter rule, filter clone,
new storage pool, new secret, a secret's value) and the VM page's XML
review closed with a grey filled Cancel beside their action; the
redone dialogs use an outlined Cancel, so the action is the one filled
button.
- One searchable card: each secret's type, usage and UUID, whether it is
kept on disk or in memory and private, and the VMs and pools that use it,
linked. A row menu sets its value or deletes it; Delete is disabled while
the secret is in use, and its confirmation says what is not checked.
- One Set value dialog for every secret; its label and help follow the
type (Ceph key, CHAP password, passphrase), and it says a new passphrase
does not encrypt anew what the old one encrypted.
- New secret dialog: the usage's and value's labels and help follow the
type; the value is optional; Private and Ephemeral are switches with help.
- A secret is in use when a VM names it in a disk, a host device or its
vTPM, or a pool in its source, by UUID or by its usage within the usage
type, as they run and as saved. The vTPM, host devices and pools' saved
definitions were not checked before.
- A Ceph key is taken in base64, as `ceph auth get-key` prints it; any other
value is a password or passphrase stored as typed, spaces included.
- A new secret takes its value at once; a value refused leaves no secret.
- TLS and vTPM secrets can be created; the usage has no length limit.
- Every POST redirects; the list is read once and only with its users; a
secret, VM or pool gone meanwhile is left out.
- domain_trees() is shared by the in-use checks of secrets, network filters,
networks and pools; the storage page's Ceph secret picker reads the same
listing.
webvirtcloud.css still carried the upstream panel's rules for what
Bootstrap 5.3 has as utilities and components:
- the page's bottom space (body padding) is pb-5 on base.html's body,
and the console page no longer has to undo it;
- the VM page's action tabs (.action-button, .action-block with a
fixed 65px width) are text-center with a d-block icon; its tab panes
(#power ... #undefine, one rule each) mt-3;
- the bordered sub-tab panes (.tab-pane-bordered, a fixed #eee border
that dark themes could not change) border border-top-0 p-3;
- the search box and header buttons (.search, .btn-header) m-1 and
mt-1; the SSH key select (.keyselect) a form-select;
- the boot order list (.multipleselect, fixed size, #c0c0c0 border) a
list-group of form-check-input items; its unused .multipleselect-on
goes;
- table cells centred by a global rule are align-middle on each table.
Two rules against Bootstrap's behaviour go: menus opened on hover on
wide screens (Bootstrap opens them on a click, and keyboard and touch
users had no hover), and "a { outline: 0 }", which hid the keyboard
focus ring.
The paragraph and page-header margins and the 900px container stay
for a separate change: they set every page's layout.
Eleven host pages (overview, instances, storages, networks, interfaces,
nwfilters, secrets and their item pages) each carried their own copy of
the links to the host's sections, as a breadcrumb: the sections are
siblings, not a path, and on a phone the separators were left at the
start of wrapped lines. The item pages marked no section at all.
computes/host_nav.html is the one nav, labelled "Host sections": pills
that wrap, the page's section marked active, with aria-current="page"
on the section's own page and "true" on an item of it.
- The host graphs and the machine/bus lists connect inside their libvirt
error handling, so a down host gives empty answers instead of a 500 page
the polling script drops.
- The Secrets page lists vTPM secrets instead of failing on them, and a
secret without usage data shows an empty cell instead of "None".
- A TCP/TLS host takes a SASL password longer than 14 characters and a
login up to the Linux limit of 32.
- The compute edit page says "Edit Compute"; a host without VMs no longer
closes an extra page element; the memory graph is labelled MiB.
sortable.js 0.8.0 (abandoned since 2014) sorted only a table's first
body: in the grouped VM list the first host's row moved among its VMs
and the other hosts never sorted, and memory sorted as text ("1024 MB"
before "512 MB"). tablesort 5.7.1 sorts each table body on its own and
keeps a row marked data-sort-method="none" in place, so hosts stay in
name order with their row on top and their VMs sort below it. Memory,
vCPUs and volume sizes sort by their numbers (data-sort). Headers are
reachable by keyboard and carry aria-sort.
base.html loads tablesort for every table marked data-sortable; the
per-page sortable includes and sortable-theme-bootstrap.css go, so these
tables take the theme's table style like the others. The grouped list's
row numbers go (meaningless once sorted). The VM owners and VM logs
tables were marked sortable but never loaded the script; they stay
unsorted.
The Logs page now records every change an admin makes to a compute's
libvirt objects, with the compute's name in the host column:
- networks: add, start, stop, delete, autostart, DHCP range, fixed
addresses, QoS and XML edits;
- storage pools: add, start, stop, delete, autostart, from web and
API; volumes: add and delete (web and API), clone and ISO upload;
- host interfaces: add, start, stop, delete;
- secrets: add, set value (never the value), delete;
- network filters: add, clone, delete, XML edits, rules and
references.
A refused or failed change is a failed row with its reason (libvirt
text through safe_text). The volume clone and upload jobs write their
row when they end; a refused submission is a failed row at once. A
volume row names the volume libvirt created (a dir pool adds .qcow2 or
.img). Volume create or delete through the API on an inactive pool
(409) is a failed row.
Network filters: the rows read "Network filter f1: add" instead of
"f1 network filter is created", and their host is the compute's name
instead of its hostname. A duplicate name or UUID no longer raises a
bare exception, and a filter XML that cannot be parsed no longer ends
in UnboundLocalError.
Stopping a network cut the running VMs on it off, deleting one or a
secret kept the VMs that name it from starting, and stopping a pool
took the disks of running VMs away, all without a word. Each is now
refused with the VMs (and, for a secret, the pools) that need it:
stopping while a running VM uses it, deleting while a VM's definition
names it. A disk given by its file path does not need its pool's
definition. The API's pool stop is refused the same way.
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Twenty-five prompts asked only "Are you sure?", and on the storage page
one handler asked the same before every button, Start and Enable
included. Each destructive button now names its object and says what
happens: a stopped network cuts running VMs off, a deleted pool keeps
its files, a deleted volume loses its data, a reverted snapshot loses
the changes made since. Saves no longer ask, and disabled buttons lose
prompts they could not show. The VM QoS messages said to restart the
network where the VM has to be powered off and on.
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The usage list of the create-secret dialog came from the map that names
the usage types of existing secrets, so it offered none and tls too; the
form takes ceph, volume and iscsi only, and picking none or tls always
failed with "Select a valid choice". The dialog now lists the form's own
choices.
The edit dialog of a secret was filled with its current value, so every
readable secret's value was in the secrets page's HTML. A private
secret, or one with no value yet, cannot be read: its field held the
text "None", which is valid base64, and saving the dialog unchanged set
the secret to the three bytes it decodes to. The dialog now only writes
a new value: the field starts empty, is a password field and is
required. The page no longer reads secret values, and get_secret_value,
used only for that, is gone.
get_secret_value returned bytes, so the edit dialog showed b'cHc=' (the
bytes' repr) for the base64 value cHc=. Saving the dialog as shown fed
"b'cHc='" to b64decode, which dropped the quotes and the b and stored
other bytes: the secret silently changed (pw became m\xc1\xdc). The value
is now base64 text, and set_secret_value decodes with validate=True, so
a value that is not base64 is refused with a message instead. The field
had an invalid pattern ([a-zA-Z0-9]$+, ignored by browsers) and a 45
character limit; it takes base64 of any length.
An accessibility scan with every modal opened found 49 fields without a
name: the labels of the instance create forms (custom, template and each
flavor's modal), the interface, network, secret and storage pool modals
did not point at their fields. Each label now has a for= and its field an
id, prefixed per form (and per flavor), so a click on the label focuses
the field too. The "Advanced" collapse buttons and the memory and
processing bars are named.
The VCPU config select had id="vcpu_mode" in each of these forms, nine
times on the create page; the unique-ID test did not see it as the test
driver reports no CPU modes. The id goes (nothing used it), and the test
now renders that branch.
create_secret wrote the usage value into the secret XML with an f-string,
unchecked: a quote, "<" or "&" broke the XML or added to it. The page's
pattern ([a-z0-9. ]+) was the only check and refused real values: a
volume secret's path ("/") and an iSCSI IQN ("-", ":"). The XML is now
built with lxml, so the value is text whatever it holds, and the input
keeps only required and the form's 100 characters; libvirt reports a
value it does not take.
A live test creates a volume, an iSCSI and a Ceph secret with real
values through the page.
An accessibility scan (axe-core, WCAG 2 A/AA) of every page found 87
elements without a name. Icon-only buttons and links (the navbar's
administration menu on every page, the add/create buttons, the flavor
delete and back buttons) get a title, which is also their tooltip; the
labels of the language, architecture, chipset and filter selects point
at them; the memory bar is named. The shared delete confirmation page
had an empty <title> and heading, as no view passes "title": it says
"Delete <object>". The power-off form's aria-label was misspelled.
Rendered through every URL on libvirt's test driver, the pages had
duplicate IDs and markup browsers repaired silently:
- Each flavor modal's "Advanced" button toggled #flav-add-collapse, the
first modal's section; every modal now has its own. The flavor and
template copies of the custom tab's control IDs, and the template
tab's unused images input, are gone.
- The VM page's action icons and the XML editors were styled by
repeated IDs; they use classes.
- Modal forms opened inside modal-body and closed after modal-footer;
they wrap both. Stray end tags and duplicate attributes are removed,
paragraphs no longer hold modals or rows, table heads have a row, and
the create page closes its row and column.
- html lang is the active language instead of "en".
A test walks every URL as a superuser and fails on a repeated ID. The
console page still has no doctype: its full-height layout relies on
quirks mode and needs its own check.
131 test modules sat next to the code they test; instances alone had
51 of them beside views.py and utils.py. They move into a
tests/ package per app, and the JavaScript checks into
webvirtcloud/tests/js. Each non-empty tests.py becomes tests/test_views.py;
the empty generated stubs are removed.
Imports of the app's own modules become absolute, paths built from
__file__ go one level up, the live helper is instances.tests.livetest,
and coverage omits */tests/*. The suite discovers the same 960 tests as
before.
Super-linter ran from the unpinned :latest image and, because of
branches-ignore: [master], never on pull requests to master. Ruff now
checks syntax errors and pyflakes rules (E9, F) on every push and PR.
Fixes the existing findings: unused imports and variables, an unused
duplicate import in instances/tests.py, and the star import in
accounts/views.py. settings-dev.py keeps its star import of the base
settings.
