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Closes #108

Summary

ApiServer was constructed before the bootstrap's try block opened, so the two \RuntimeException throws in its constructor (an unreadable state file, or deserialised state that is not an array) escaped the error handler and surfaced as an uncaught PHP fatal instead of the structured JSON error every other failure in this server returns.

The whole request lifecycle now sits inside one failure boundary, and everything that boundary produces is guaranteed to be a valid HTTP response: a real status code, a single-line reason, and a JSON body that survives whatever bytes the failure carried.

Changes

Failure boundary

  • Added ApiServer::run(), a static entry point that wraps construction and handleRequest() in a single try/catch. The bootstrap tail is reduced to the SCRIPT_RUN_SKIP guard plus ApiServer::run(), so the failure boundary is now an ordinary method reachable from unit tests instead of a file-scope block that nothing could execute.
  • ApiServer::__construct() is now final, which is what makes new static() safe inside run(). Request and Response in the same file already seal their constructors.

Valid responses for every failure

  • Both state-file throws now carry an explicit 500, and a new ApiServer::errorResponse() normalises any throwable into a valid response: a code outside 100-599 (including the 0 that a codeless exception reports) becomes 500, and the reason phrase is collapsed to a single line with a fallback for an empty message, since the reason is written into the HTTP status line.
  • Response::__construct() now encodes array bodies with JSON_INVALID_UTF8_SUBSTITUTE. Without it, invalid UTF-8 makes json_encode() return false and the response carries an empty body under a JSON content type. This is reachable beyond the error path: Request::$body holds the raw bytes of php://input, so a client that posts a binary body already breaks GET /admin/requests.
  • Response::__construct() is deliberately left otherwise unvalidated. It is called from inside the catch, so a throwing constructor there would recreate the same class of uncaught fatal this change removes. Response::fromArray() already validates codes on the one path that accepts user input, and JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR was rejected for the same reason.

Keeping the response body parseable

  • State loading moved into ApiServer::loadState(), which installs a narrow error handler around the file_get_contents() and unserialize() calls and restores it in a finally. Both calls warn on failure, and with display_errors on (the built-in server's default without a php.ini) that warning is printed ahead of the JSON, leaving a body no consumer can parse. The warning text is captured rather than discarded and appended to the exception message, so the diagnostic still reaches the caller, inside the body instead of ahead of it.

Tests

  • Added 5 test methods to tests/phpunit/Unit/ApiServerTest.php, 15 test cases in total. A data-provider-driven testErrorResponse() covers 11 scenarios: code normalisation (missing, in range, at both bounds, below, above, negative), reason sanitisation (multi-line, empty, control characters only), and invalid UTF-8 in the message.
  • Four run() tests cover a state file holding a non-array payload, a state file that is not serialised data at all, an unreadable state file (skipped when the filesystem ignores permissions, as when running as root), and a failure raised while serving the request, which also asserts the state file is still flushed through the new entry point.
  • Line coverage went from 81.98% to 86.43%.

Verified end to end

Against the real built-in server with display_errors=1 and an unserialisable state file:

HTTP/1.1 500 Failed to load data from the server state file /tmp/api_server_state.verify.ser. unserialize(): Error at offset 0 of 22 bytes
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 194

{"error":"Failed to load data from the server state file \/tmp\/api_server_state.verify.ser. unserialize(): Error at offset 0 of 22 bytes"}

Before / After

BEFORE
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ bootstrap (file scope)                                     │
│                                                            │
│   $server = new ApiServer();                               │
│         │        reads + unserialises the state file,      │
│         │        OUTSIDE the try                           │
│         ▼                                                  │
│   ✗ \RuntimeException  ────────►  UNCAUGHT PHP FATAL       │
│                                   (no response body)       │
│                                                            │
│   try {                                                    │
│     $server->handleRequest();                              │
│   }                                                        │
│   catch (\Throwable $t) {                                  │
│     sendResponse(new Response($t->getCode(), ...));        │
│   }                    │                                   │
│                        ▼                                   │
│           code 0  ────►  "HTTP/1.1 0 ..."  invalid status  │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

AFTER
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ bootstrap (file scope)                                     │
│   ApiServer::run();                                        │
└───────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────┘
                            ▼
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ ApiServer::run()                                           │
│   try {                                                    │
│     $server = new static();                                │
│         │        construction is INSIDE the boundary       │
│         │        loadState() keeps its warnings out of     │
│         │        the response body                         │
│         ▼                                                  │
│     $server->handleRequest();                              │
│   }                                                        │
│   catch (\Throwable $t) {                                  │
│     sendResponse(errorResponse($t));                       │
│   }                    │                                   │
└────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────┘
                         ▼
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ ApiServer::errorResponse()                                 │
│   code    outside 100-599 (incl. 0)  ────►  500            │
│   reason  one line, "Unknown error" when empty             │
│   body    {"error": "..."}, invalid UTF-8 substituted      │
└────────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────────┘
                         ▼
         HTTP/1.1 500 Failed to load data from ...
         Content-Type: application/json

         {"error":"Failed to load data from ..."}

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved error handling when state files are invalid, malformed, unreadable, or cannot be loaded.
    • Server and request-processing failures now return consistent HTTP 500 responses with clearer, sanitized messages.
    • Invalid status codes and empty error messages are handled safely.
    • Error responses preserve useful details while providing a safe fallback for unknown errors and invalid text encoding.
    • Server startup and request handling now fail gracefully instead of producing inconsistent responses.

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Walkthrough

ApiServer now handles state-loading and request failures through ApiServer::run(). State-file failures return HTTP 500 responses. Error responses normalize status codes and reasons, preserve messages, and support invalid UTF-8 data. PHPUnit tests cover these paths and isolate state files.

Changes

ApiServer error handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
State failures and response normalization
apiserver/index.php
State loading failures now use status 500. Error responses validate status ranges, sanitize reason text, provide an Unknown error fallback, preserve the original message, and substitute invalid UTF-8 during JSON encoding.
Unified server bootstrap flow
apiserver/index.php
ApiServer::run() wraps construction and request handling in throwable handling. Script execution delegates to ApiServer::run().
Error handling validation
tests/phpunit/Unit/ApiServerTest.php
Tests validate normalized responses, invalid and unreadable state files, malformed state files, request failures, output handling, and test isolation.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 026e5

The change improves structured error handling, but two merge-readiness risks remain: some throwable status codes can generate invalid or misleading responses, and state-save failures may occur after the response is sent instead of returning a proper server error. The PR is not ready to merge until these cases are fixed.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Script
  participant ApiServer
  participant StateFile
  participant RequestHandler
  participant HttpResponse
  Script->>ApiServer: run()
  ApiServer->>StateFile: load persisted state
  StateFile-->>ApiServer: state or throwable
  ApiServer->>RequestHandler: handleRequest()
  RequestHandler-->>ApiServer: response or throwable
  ApiServer->>HttpResponse: send normalized error response
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: routing state-file failures through the bootstrap error handler.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes move construction into the throwable boundary and return structured JSON with normalized HTTP 500 handling for state-file failures [#108].
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The implementation and tests support the linked issue by improving failure handling, response normalization, and state-file error coverage.
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✅ Project coverage is 88.52%. Comparing base (1a8200f) to head (026e5f9).
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In `@apiserver/index.php`:
- Around line 91-99: Update the state-file loading logic in ApiServer to catch
warnings from both file_get_contents() and unserialize() within a narrow error
boundary, converting failures into the existing RuntimeException path so run()
preserves its JSON error response. Add a PHPUnit case in ApiServerTest for
malformed serialized state input, and remove any warning suppression there.
- Line 259: Update the error response construction around
Response::__construct() to encode the error payload with
JSON_INVALID_UTF8_SUBSTITUTE, ensuring malformed UTF-8 in $message still
produces a JSON body containing the replacement character; add a data-provider
case covering malformed input and assert the decoded response contains the
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281-283: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Restrict throwable-derived responses to error status codes.

errorResponse() always sends a JSON body. If the throwable code is outside 400599, normalize it to 500. This prevents invalid 1xx responses and misleading success or redirection responses. Update the code at lower bound test to expect 500.

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-    if ($code < 100 || $code > 599) {
+    if ($code < 400 || $code > 599) {
       $code = 500;
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In `@apiserver/index.php` around lines 281 - 283, Update the status-code
normalization in errorResponse() to accept only codes from 400 through 599,
converting any code below 400 or above 599 to 500; also update the lower-bound
code test to expect 500.

157-166: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Persist state before sending the response.

When file_put_contents() fails in ApiServer::__destruct(), PHP can append a warning after the JSON body because the destructor runs after run() sends the response. The failure cannot produce an HTTP 500 response.

Move state persistence out of __destruct() and complete it before sendResponse(). Add a run-level test that forces the final state write to fail.

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In `@apiserver/index.php` around lines 157 - 166, Move the final state persistence
out of ApiServer::__destruct() and invoke it from ApiServer::run() after request
handling but before sendResponse(), routing any file_put_contents failure
through the existing Throwable error-response path. Add a run-level test that
forces the final state write to fail and verifies the failure produces the
expected HTTP 500 response.
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In `@apiserver/index.php`:
- Around line 281-283: Update the status-code normalization in errorResponse()
to accept only codes from 400 through 599, converting any code below 400 or
above 599 to 500; also update the lower-bound code test to expect 500.
- Around line 157-166: Move the final state persistence out of
ApiServer::__destruct() and invoke it from ApiServer::run() after request
handling but before sendResponse(), routing any file_put_contents failure
through the existing Throwable error-response path. Add a run-level test that
forces the final state write to fail and verifies the failure produces the
expected HTTP 500 response.

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