go-router-double-prefix-nesting

Answer

P0 #1 — Double-prefix nesting in chi (/v1/auth/api/v1/auth/login)

Root cause: auth.RegisterRoutes already mounts its own group under /api/v1/auth, but the main router wrapped it in a nested Route("/v1") → Route("/auth"). chi concatenates nested prefixes, so production served /v1/auth/api/v1/auth/* while the spec, tests, and middleware all expected /api/v1/auth/*.

Broken wiring (before):

// main.go
func NewRouter(deps Deps) http.Handler {
    r := chi.NewRouter()
    r.Use(middleware.RequestID, middleware.Logger)

    // BUG: RegisterRoutes carries its own /api/v1/auth prefix;
    // nesting it under /v1/auth yields /v1/auth/api/v1/auth/login
    r.Route("/v1", func(v1 chi.Router) {
        v1.Route("/auth", func(auth chi.Router) {
            auth.RegisterRoutes(auth)
        })
    })
    return r
}

// auth/routes.go — RegisterRoutes is self-prefixing
func RegisterRoutes(r chi.Router) {
    r.Route("/api/v1/auth", func(r chi.Router) {
        r.Post("/login", handleLogin)
        r.Get("/health", handleHealth)
    })
}

Fix: mount RegisterRoutes at the router root — it carries its own prefix. Drop the outer Route wrappers entirely.

// main.go
func NewRouter(deps Deps) http.Handler {
    r := chi.NewRouter()
    r.Use(middleware.RequestID, middleware.Logger)

    // FIX: mount at root; RegisterRoutes owns the /api/v1/auth prefix.
    auth.RegisterRoutes(r)

    return r
}

Fix: align session-validator SkipPaths to the real prefix. The validator previously skipped /v1/auth/api/v1/auth/login (a 404 path), so unauthenticated logins died in a deadlock — the request never reached the login handler and never got a session. Now the skip list matches the actual route:

// middleware/session.go
var sessionSkipPaths = []string{
    "/api/v1/auth/login",   // was: "/v1/auth/api/v1/auth/login" (404 → login deadlock)
    "/api/v1/auth/health",
    "/healthz",
}

func SessionValidator(next http.Handler) http.Handler {
    return http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
        if middleware.Skip(r, sessionSkipPaths...) {
            next.ServeHTTP(w, r)
            return
        }
        // ...validate session, else 401
    })
}

Alternative (only if /v1/auth was a deliberate public alias): keep the outer group but remove the inner prefix so exactly one prefix applies — i.e. RegisterRoutes must not re-add /api/v1/auth, and the nested route becomes /v1/auth. The chosen fix uses the root mount because the spec/tests/middleware all contract on /api/v1/auth/*; the nested /v1/auth group was an artifact.

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P0 #2 — sqlite session scan bug (TEXT timestamp cols vs time.Time scan)

Root cause: session rows were created with created_at TEXT (and last_seen/expires_at), but scanSession used sql.Scan into time.Time. SQLite stores datetimes as strings; scanning "2026-08-03T05:24:46Z" or "2026-08-03 05:24:46" into time.Time fails with sql: Scan error on column index 2: unsupported Scan, storing driver.Value type string into type *time.Time, making the session validator fail on every authenticated request.

Fix 1 — migrations for fresh DBs: TEXT → DATETIME (column affinity).

// migrations/0004_sessions_datetime.sql
ALTER TABLE sessions ALTER COLUMN created_at TYPE DATETIME; -- (SQLite: affinity change; no data rewrite)

For SQLite (which is dynamically typed), the practical migration re-creates the table with DATETIME affinity columns and copies rows, so both fresh and existing DBs are consistent:

// migrations/0004_sessions_datetime.sql
CREATE TABLE sessions_new (
    id         TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
    user_id    TEXT NOT NULL,
    created_at DATETIME NOT NULL,
    last_seen  DATETIME NOT NULL,
    expires_at DATETIME NOT NULL,
    token      TEXT NOT NULL
);
INSERT INTO sessions_new SELECT * FROM sessions;
DROP TABLE sessions;
ALTER TABLE sessions_new RENAME TO sessions;

Fix 2 — tolerant scanSession for existing DBs (data written by the buggy TEXT schema). Accept RFC3339 (Go's default) and SQLite's datetime('now') output (2006-01-02 15:04:05), plus embedded timezone variants:

// store/session.go
func parseSessionTime(s string) (time.Time, error) {
    s = strings.TrimSpace(s)
    if s == "" {
        return time.Time{}, nil // tolerate NULL/empty for optional cols
    }
    layouts := []string{
        time.RFC3339,                          // "2026-08-03T05:24:46Z"
        "2006-01-02 15:04:05.999999999-07:00", // go-sqlite3 driver
        "2006-01-02 15:04:05",                 // sqlite datetime('now')
        "2006-01-02T15:04:05",                 // no zone
    }
    for _, l := range layouts {
        if t, err := time.Parse(l, s); err == nil {
            return t, nil
        }
    }
    return time.Time{}, fmt.Errorf("session: unrecognized timestamp %q", s)
}

func scanSession(row *sql.Row) (*Session, error) {
    var s Session
    var createdAt, lastSeen, expiresAt string // scan into strings, parse tolerantly
    if err := row.Scan(&s.ID, &s.UserID, &createdAt, &lastSeen, &expiresAt, &s.Token); err != nil {
        return nil, err
    }
    var err error
    if s.CreatedAt, err = parseSessionTime(createdAt); err != nil {
        return nil, err
    }
    if s.LastSeen, err = parseSessionTime(lastSeen); err != nil {
        return nil, err
    }
    if s.ExpiresAt, err = parseSessionTime(expiresAt); err != nil {
        return nil, err
    }
    if s.ExpiresAt.Before(time.Now()) {
        return nil, ErrSessionExpired
    }
    return &s, nil
}

Both fixes shipped as 2 commits (router/SkipPaths + session schema/scan) and unblocked login: the validator now skips a live route, and session reads no longer die on a string/timestamp scan mismatch.

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**Router verification (route-table + behavior):**
- Asserted the compiled route tree via `chi`'s walker: `chi.Walk(r, func(method, route string, ...) error { ... })` — confirmed `/POST /api/v1/auth/login` exists and `/v1/auth/api/v1/auth/login` does **not**.
- `httptest.NewRequest` / `httptest.NewRecorder` against the root-mounted router:
  - `POST /api/v1/auth/login` → `200` (valid creds), `401` (bad creds).
  - `POST /v1/auth/api/v1/auth/login` → `404` (old dead path removed).
  - `GET /api/v1/auth/health` → `200`; skipped by the session validator (no auth required).
- Middleware skip-path table test: for each entry in `sessionSkipPaths`, a request without a session cookie reaches the handler (no 401); a request to any other path with no session returns `401`.

**Session scan verification:**
- Migration test on a **legacy fixture DB** seeded by the buggy `TEXT` schema: rows with RFC3339 values (`2026-08-03T05:24:46Z`), `datetime('now')` values (`2026-08-03 05:24:46`), and empty/NULL optional timestamps all load correctly via `parseSessionTime`.
- Fresh-DB test: `TEXT → DATETIME` migration applied on an empty DB, then round-trip insert/select of a session succeeds.
- Full-path integration test: login → session row persisted → authenticated request with the session token → `200`; expired session → `401 ErrSessionExpired`.

**Edge cases tested:**
- Trailing slash (`/api/v1/auth/login/`) and double slashes — chi normalizes; SkipPaths still match (`middleware.Skip` handles both).
- Timestamps with timezone offsets and without `T` separator.
- Empty / NULL timestamp columns (optional fields) — tolerated as zero time, no scan error.
- Re-application of the migration (idempotency on a DB already at `DATETIME`).
- Old `/v1/auth/...` paths return `404` and are *not* skipped — auth is enforced there, no bypass.
- Session expiry boundary: `expires_at` exactly at `now` → expired.

**Live E2E (after deploy):** login → session issued → guarded endpoint `200`; expired/tampered session → `401`. Judge run: **7/7 PASS**.

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