feat: migrate-protovalidate

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draft to migrate protovalidate

1. buf.yaml and buf.gen.yaml migrate v2
2. migrate from protoc-gen-validate to protovalidate
3. apply a golangci-lint

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• Behavior Changes
  • Request validation is now consistent across tenant, data, permission, bundle, and watch operations. Existing patterns, length limits, and configured item-count limits remain, while some explicit checks for empty fields and required items within repeated fields have changed.
  • Zero-valued fields are ignored for certain optional fields. Validation failures continue to use the existing API error responses.
• Tests
  • Added coverage for invalid tenant IDs and permissions, including validation of bulk permission-check items, streamed entity lookups, relationship writes, and watch requests.

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Protobuf validation annotations and RPC request checks migrate to Protovalidate. Buf generation and module configuration move to v2. The Go toolchain version and related dependencies are updated. Other Go source edits change formatting or import order.

Changes

Validation and generation migration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Migrate protobuf validation contracts proto/buf.yaml, proto/base/v1/base.proto, proto/base/v1/service.proto	The protobuf files replace the previous validation annotations with Buf Validate annotations. Existing patterns, byte limits, and several required-field checks are retained; some empty-value and repeated-item rules change. The Buf module configuration now depends on Protovalidate.
Use Protovalidate in RPC servers internal/servers/*_server.go, internal/servers/server_behavior_test.go, go.mod	Bundle, data, permission, and watch server methods call protovalidate.Validate. Existing validation-error handling remains. Tests cover invalid requests, including invalid bulk and streaming requests.
Update Buf generation configuration buf.gen.yaml, buf.work.yaml	Buf generation moves to v2, adds proto as input, and switches generator commands to local invocations. The v1 workspace configuration is removed.
Update Go toolchain and source formatting go.mod, .github/workflows/*, internal/storage/postgres/*, pkg/database/postgres/xid8.go, pkg/dsl/parser/*, pkg/schema/*, pkg/telemetry/*, sdk/go/grpc/main.go	The Go version changes to 1.26.0 in go.mod; three workflows request Go 1.26.8. Dependencies are updated, and protoc-gen-validate is removed. Other Go source edits change formatting, import order, or redundant parentheses without changing behavior.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Refactor

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 3cca3

The empty tenant-name and delete-ID behavior was already present, and the checked-in descriptors carry the migrated validation rules. No new material merge risk is established; the change is ready for normal checks.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 3cca3

The inspected handlers retain validation before authorization and storage operations, and tenant-scoped transaction behavior is preserved. No introduced security bypass was established, but equivalent handling of all nested and zero-value inputs remains unproven.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — A validation regression could affect callers of shared permission and data RPCs, including authorization decisions and tenant-scoped relationship mutations. The inspected paths do not demonstrate newly gained cross-tenant authority or expanded service reachability.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The gRPC server still configures validator interceptors alongside the new handler-level validation. Unchanged generated validators contain BulkCheck parent tenant and metadata checks and explicit nil-element checks for data-write collections. These are counterevidence to a current wholesale loss of validation, not proof that every calling path is equivalent.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Establish validation parity for nested messages, repeated elements, oneof presence and zero values across transport and direct-handler paths. Before retiring legacy generated validators, explicitly migrate their remaining interceptor-dependent controls so regeneration cannot silently change enforcement ownership.

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- Line 3604: Update the validation rules for TenantCreateRequest.name and
TenantDeleteRequest.id to require at least one character, preserving the
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✅ Project coverage is 77.57%. Comparing base (93186e8) to head (3cca3b6).

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ignore_empty: false does not reject empty strings. In protoc-gen-validate it only means the other rules still run when the value is empty. The generated Validate for TenantCreateRequest.name checks max_bytes only, so an empty name passes. TenantDeleteRequest.Validate is a no-op, so an empty id passes. Adding min_len: 1 changes behavior. Please drop this suggestion.

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@junsazanami430u You are correct. ignore_empty: false does not reject empty strings by itself. It keeps the configured rules active for empty values.

TenantCreateRequest.name permits an empty string under its max_bytes rule. TenantDeleteRequest.Validate is a no-op, so an empty id also passes. Adding min_len: 1 would change behavior rather than preserve it.

I withdraw the suggestion. Thanks for the clarification.

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URL: https://github.com/Permify/permify/pull/3225

Timestamp: 2026-10-03T09:35:33.623Z
Learning: For the protoc-gen-validate to Protovalidate migration in Permify's `proto/base/v1/service.proto`, `ignore_empty: false` does not impose a non-empty string requirement; it means configured rules still run on empty values. The generated Go validator for `TenantCreateRequest.name` checks only `max_bytes`, so an empty name passes. `TenantDeleteRequest.Validate` is a no-op, so an empty id passes. Do not suggest adding `min_len: 1` to these fields as a behavior-preserving migration change.

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The patch coverage drop is from replacing request.Validate() with protovalidate.Validate(request). The 10 uncovered lines are those calls in handlers that the unit tests never enter: seven in data_server.go, two in permission_server.go, and one in watch_server.go. The validation-error branches were already untested. Project coverage is unchanged at 76.28%, above the 75% target. This is not a new untested behavior from the migration.

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- Around line 567-568: Update the Delete and DeleteRelationships cases in the
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Applied the nonempty TupleFilter for Delete and DeleteRelationships so an empty filter cannot mask tenant_id validation. I did not add an err.Error() contains "tenant_id" check. That couples the test to protovalidate wording, and the other methods in the same table already fail if tenant_id validation stops rejecting these inputs.

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@junsazanami430u Thanks for the update. The nonempty TupleFilter addresses the concern that empty-filter validation could mask tenant_id validation.

I agree that an err.Error() check for "tenant_id" is unnecessary here. The other table cases detect a regression in tenant-ID validation without depending on Protovalidate error wording. This matches the existing test guidance retrieved for this PR.

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File: internal/servers/server_behavior_test.go:571-572
Timestamp: 2026-10-03T12:33:08.847Z
Learning: In the Go tests in internal/servers/server_behavior_test.go, avoid assertions that match Protovalidate error wording. For TestDataServerValidation, use valid nonempty tuple filters in Delete and DeleteRelationships so empty-filter errors cannot mask tenant-ID validation.

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Learning: In the Go tests in internal/servers/server_behavior_test.go, avoid assertions that match Protovalidate error wording. For TestDataServerValidation, use valid nonempty tuple filters in Delete and DeleteRelationships so empty-filter errors cannot mask tenant-ID validation.

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Thanks @junsazanami430u! Merging it.

I'll follow up with the enforcement side myself (interceptor, the stale generated validators, status code mapping) plus the protovalidate/buf version conflict.