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The admin sandbox list kept its own copy of the stored lifecycle vocabulary, AdminStoredLifecycle, for ?lifecycle= filters. It trimmed and lowercased the input, accepted the two tombstone values (deleted, cleanup_required) and otherwise parsed SandboxLifecycle, which is what StoredSandboxLifecycle does. The copy existed because that type lived in a crate the api used only in its tests, and a test pinned the two parses together.

The base PR moves StoredSandboxLifecycle into pplx-space-sandbox-store, which the api already depends on. Merging this makes the filter and parse_lifecycles use it directly, and deletes the copy, its tombstone list and the test that pinned the two parses. The SQL still binds as_str() of each value.

Behaviour-free: the accepted inputs, their normalization, the binds and the error for an unknown value are unchanged. That error is still built at the route, so its status and message stay as they were. The route's tests checked only that the message contains unknown lifecycle, not the item it names. A new test pins the whole body and checks that mixed-case, space-padded stored values are accepted, now that no copy is there to compare with.

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At this head, on a Linux build host:

  • pplx-space-api and pplx-space-sandbox-store tests at CI's test profile (opt-level 0), with Postgres and Redis running: 2621 of 2622 pass. routes::e2b::tests::detail_reports_authoritative_federated_ownership_not_metadata fails on a JSON snapshot's key order when only these packages are built, the same way on main; it passes in Pull CI's full run.
  • The retired cleanup_required filter value: the_lifecycle_filter_takes_a_retired_value_as_no_lifecycle checks it parses to no lifecycle, and the route test checks that ?lifecycle=%20Cleanup_Required, unpaged and with a cursor, answers 200 with nothing listed. Removing the retired-value skip fails both.
  • The new route test seeds started, stopped, suspended, deleted and cleanup_required rows and checks that the unpaged and the cursor lists return exactly the matching ones for a mixed-case, space-padded filter.
  • Mutation check: letting the route skip an unknown value instead of rejecting it fails the new test and malformed_list_parameters_answer_400; dropping the second parsed filter value fails the new test.
  • pplx-space-sandbox-store's own parse tests now sweep every stored lifecycle as stored and padded in upper case, and refuse delete, cleanup-required and live, the coverage the deleted copy's test gave. Skipping the trim fails the sweep.
  • fmt and clippy on pplx-space-api and pplx-space-sandbox-store pass.

Before the rebases onto main:

  • workspace clippy through ci/scripts/run-rust-checks.sh and cargo arch: pass, no required findings.
  • The full test inventory, both groups: every pplx-space-api test passed. Tests in 8 untouched crates that need process, namespace or cgroup operations the host's container blocks failed there, as they do on the base commit.
  • On a local Kind stack, GET /admin/api/v1/sandboxes: ?lifecycle=started,deleted and ?lifecycle=%20Started%20,DELETED return the started sandbox; ?lifecycle=started,napping answers 400 {"error":"unknown lifecycle \"napping\""}; ?lifecycle=%20STARTED%20,%20NAPPING%20 answers 400 naming " NAPPING " as sent; the paged form returns the same row.

Severity and risk

Severity: does not apply; a deletion of duplicated code.

Risk: if the two parses had ever disagreed, a filter value accepted before could now be refused or the reverse; the deleted test pinned them equal, and the new route test pins the accepted spellings and the error. Roll back by reverting this commit.

Stack

Based on main, which has #1553: cleanup_required is no longer a StoredSandboxLifecycle, and the admin filter still takes it for one release. That acceptance lived in AdminStoredLifecycle, which this PR deletes, so it moves, with its comment and test, into parse_lifecycles in routes/admin/sandbox_list.rs. There it parses to no lifecycle: a filter naming only cleanup_required binds an empty list and matches no row, as #1553's comment says. Before, the filter bound the string, so a row still holding it would have been listed.

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Why: The lifecycle-filter change removes an existing regression check. Confirm its replacement coverage before merging.

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The admin sandbox filter now uses StoredSandboxLifecycle instead of a local lifecycle type and parser. The route skips cleanup_required and parses other lifecycle values with StoredSandboxLifecycle. Tests cover unknown-value errors, case-insensitive stored lifecycle values, and retired-value behavior in paged and unpaged lists.

Possibly related PRs

  • perplexityai/SPACE#1553: Removes cleanup_required from StoredSandboxLifecycle and keeps the retired value separate in the admin filter.
Merge Risk: High · up to 24d28

The lifecycle-filter change removes an existing regression check. Confirm its replacement coverage before merging.

Security architecture risk: Minimal · up to 24d28

The change does not expand administrative access or weaken lifecycle filtering. A retired-only filter returns no rows in both pagination modes. If stray rows contain the retired value, the change narrows results rather than exposing additional records.

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No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The changed input affects sandbox selection within the existing privileged admin listing capability. Discarding a retired value can only remove lifecycle matches; it does not grant a new caller access or expand the selected organization scope.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Caller-controlled lifecycle text passes through retired-value handling and typed parsing, then reaches SQL as bound canonical strings rather than SQL syntax. Unknown non-retired values fail parsing instead of silently removing the filter.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — A retired-only request cannot fall through to the unfiltered path that includes node-reported rows without sandbox records. The explicit Some(empty) representation preserves that containment boundary.
Pre-merge checks: Passed 5 · Failed 1

Failed Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Bug Fixes Name A Regression Test Warning The PR fixes the retired lifecycle filter for a stray cleanup_required row. The base filter would return that row; the new filter excludes it. Validation describes the new route test but does not na… Name the_lifecycle_filter_refuses_an_unknown_value_by_name in Validation and state that its stray-row assertion fails without the fix and passes with it.
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Weakened Safeguards Are Justified Passed The description explains that the deleted test compared two parsers and that the duplicate parser was removed. The diff adds stored-lifecycle and route tests for the remaining parser and retired value…
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The description explains that the deleted test compared two parsers and that the duplicate parser was removed. The diff adds stored-lifecycle and route tests for the remaining parser and retired value. No review-guidance files changed.

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The PR fixes the retired lifecycle filter for a stray cleanup_required row. The base filter would return that row; the new filter excludes it. Validation describes the new route test but does not name it.

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Name the_lifecycle_filter_refuses_an_unknown_value_by_name in Validation and state that its stray-row assertion fails without the fix and passes with it.

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crates/l40_api/api/src/routes/admin/sandbox_list/tests.rs: 1

370-379: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Assert the rows selected by mixed-case lifecycle filters

If the route drops Deleted or Cleanup_Required after parsing, both new requests can still return 200 while omitting matching rows. Seed matching and nonmatching lifecycles, then assert the returned IDs for both the unpaged and cursor requests.

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Review comment at @crates/l40_api/api/src/routes/admin/sandbox_list/tests.rs
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Update the test containing the mixed-case lifecycle query loop to seed rows with
matching and nonmatching lifecycles, then assert the returned sandbox IDs for
both the unpaged and cursor requests. Keep the existing status checks and verify
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loop to seed rows with matching and nonmatching lifecycles, then assert the
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The admin sandbox list kept its own copy of the stored lifecycle
vocabulary, `AdminStoredLifecycle`, for `?lifecycle=` filters. It trimmed
and lowercased the input, accepted the tombstone `deleted` and otherwise
parsed `SandboxLifecycle`, which is what `StoredSandboxLifecycle` does,
and also took the retired `cleanup_required`, which no row stores. The
copy existed because that type lived in a crate the api used only in its
tests, and a test pinned the two parses together.

`StoredSandboxLifecycle` now lives in `pplx-space-sandbox-store`, which
the api already depends on, so the filter and `parse_lifecycles` use it
directly and the copy goes, with its tombstone list and the test that
pinned the two parses. The retired list moves to `parse_lifecycles`, and
that test's check that `cleanup_required` is still taken moves with it.
The SQL still binds `as_str()` of each value.

Behaviour-free for every stored value: the accepted inputs, their
normalization, the binds, and the error for an unknown value are
unchanged. `cleanup_required` is still accepted, normalized the same way,
for the release #1553 promised, but `StoredSandboxLifecycle` has no such
value, so `parse_lifecycles` drops it instead of binding it: a filter
naming only it binds an empty list and matches no row. That error is
still built at the route, so its status and message stay as they were.
The route's tests checked only that the message contains `unknown
lifecycle`, not the item it names. A new test pins the whole body and
checks that mixed-case, space-padded stored values are accepted, now that
no copy is there to compare with. It also seeds rows in matching and
non-matching lifecycles, a `deleted` tombstone and a stray
`cleanup_required` row among them, and checks that the unpaged and the
cursor lists return exactly the matching ones, and that a filter naming
only `Cleanup_Required` returns none.
The admin list's copy of the stored lifecycle parse went with its test,
which swept every stored value in padded upper case and refused near
misses. The type's own tests checked two spellings. They now sweep every
value as stored and padded in upper case, and refuse `delete`,
`cleanup-required` and `live` as well as the empty string.
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Coverage for the deleted the_lifecycle_filter_takes_exactly_the_stored_lifecycles (controllers/sandbox/list_page/admin/tests.rs). It tested AdminStoredLifecycle, which this PR deletes. The filter now calls StoredSandboxLifecycle::from_str directly (parse_lifecycles in routes/admin/sandbox_list.rs), so each assertion moves to that parser or to the route:

Old assertion Where it is now
Every stored value parses, as stored and as UPPER, to itself every_stored_value_parses_as_stored_and_padded_in_upper_case (sandbox-store lifecycle/tests.rs), over StoredSandboxLifecycle::all(); end to end, the_lifecycle_filter_refuses_an_unknown_value_by_name (routes/admin/sandbox_list/tests.rs) filters %20STARTED%20,Deleted and lists exactly those rows, in both page shapes
The retired Cleanup_Required is still taken the_lifecycle_filter_takes_a_retired_value_as_no_lifecycle (parses to no lifecycle, and adds nothing beside deleted); the route test answers 200 with no rows for it, even with a row that holds it
cleanup_required is not a StoredSandboxLifecycle the same retired-value test (unwrap_err)
"", delete, cleanup-required, live are refused parse_rejects_garbage_values (lifecycle/tests.rs) refuses all four plus not-a-lifecycle; the route test answers 400 naming the item for napping, NAPPING, cleanup-required and an empty item

The only assertions not carried over are the ones about AdminStoredLifecycle itself, which no longer exists.

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Approving. This uses the shared stored-lifecycle parser without changing accepted values or error responses. The retired value is still accepted, but it cannot match a stray stored row.

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