feat(invites): add cancel() for events you host - #355
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Cancelling an event is the first `EventDetails` write this library can do, and it needs two things the read paths never did. Apple gates event edits behind a subscription feature, and a write that cannot prove the entitlement comes back `502 INTERNAL_ERROR` with nothing in it -- indistinguishable from an unsupported operation. The proof is a token from a gateway outside the container, which `entitlement.py` fetches and `cancel()` carries in the record's `hint` field. The grant lasts a week, so it is cached until shortly before Apple's own `cacheTill`. The `cloudkit.share` record keeps its own copy of `isCancelled` and does not follow the event: cancelling only the event leaves the share reading as live to guests. So both records go in one atomic modify. `cancel()` takes `cancelled=True` rather than being one-way, because Apple accepts both directions and an accidental cancel should be recoverable. Publishing does not ship. `isPublished` is a PCS-encrypted field, and Apple answers `BAD_REQUEST -- expected type ENCRYPTED_NUMBER_INT64` to every unencrypted encoding of it, so it waits on PCS support. A read says which flags are writable: the ones Apple sends without `isEncrypted: true`. Verified against a live account on a guest-free event: cancel and reinstate both take effect on the event and its share, the returned event's change tag can be passed straight back, and the token is fetched once across several writes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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WalkthroughThe PR adds subscription entitlement handling and a reversible ChangesInvites cancellation and entitlement access
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Mock fixture reads in the new tests to preserve the repository's fast, hermetic test contract. The remaining security concerns need confirmation before being treated as merge-blocking defects. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Caller
participant InvitesService
participant CloudKitInvitesClient
participant EntitlementGateway
participant CloudKit
Caller->>InvitesService: cancel(event)
InvitesService->>CloudKitInvitesClient: feature_access(CREATE_EVENT_FEATURE)
CloudKitInvitesClient->>EntitlementGateway: GET feature access
EntitlementGateway-->>CloudKitInvitesClient: FeatureAccess token
CloudKitInvitesClient-->>InvitesService: entitlement token
InvitesService->>CloudKit: atomic modify event and share cancellation
CloudKit-->>InvitesService: updated EventDetails record
InvitesService-->>Caller: cancelled Event
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In `@pyicloud/services/invites/service.py`:
- Around line 407-409: Validate service_root as HTTPS-only before constructing
or using the CloudKit client, and configure PyiCloudSession to reject redirects
that downgrade to non-HTTPS URLs before sending entitlement-bearing requests
such as the _raw.modify call. Preserve normal HTTPS request behavior and fail
closed for invalid roots or redirect targets.
In `@tests/test_invites.py`:
- Line 983: Update CancelTest.setUp() and
test_share_change_tag_reads_the_tag_off_the_share_record() to mock
load_invites_fixture() or provide equivalent in-memory payloads, ensuring the
new tests perform no fixture file I/O while preserving their existing test data
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Mock the fixture reads in these new tests.
CancelTest.setUp() reads a fixture from disk for every test. test_share_change_tag_reads_the_tag_off_the_share_record() reads a second fixture directly. Patch load_invites_fixture() or use in-memory payloads, so these new tests do not perform file I/O.
As per coding guidelines, "New tests must mock any file I/O."
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In `@tests/test_invites.py` at line 983, Update CancelTest.setUp() and
test_share_change_tag_reads_the_tag_off_the_share_record() to mock
load_invites_fixture() or provide equivalent in-memory payloads, ensuring the
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This is #333, which is still open — and I'd rather not resolve it one PR at a time.
load_invites_fixture() reads from disk, and 10 pre-existing tests in this same file already call it; the 2 I added follow that convention. The conftest guard permits it by construction rather than by oversight: it patches builtins.open, while Path.read_text() goes through io.open, a separate binding to the same function, so the patch never applies. That asymmetry is what #348 documents.
Mocking the loader in only the new tests would leave tests/test_invites.py inconsistent with itself while the guideline and the codebase still disagree. Once #333 settles which way that goes, the whole file should move together — and if the answer is that the fixtures must be mocked, that is a mechanical change across every test that reads one, not just these.
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@MrJarnould, thanks for the context.
The existing fixture reads and the builtins.open / io.open gap explain why this file currently permits the reads.
The current guideline still requires new tests to mock file I/O. However, a file-wide decision in #333 is the correct way to resolve this consistently. I will keep this finding open pending that decision rather than request an isolated change in this PR.
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Learning: In `tests/test_invites.py`, `load_invites_fixture()` uses `Path.read_text()`, which calls `io.open`. The test guard patches `builtins.open`, so it does not intercept these fixture reads. GitHub issue `#348` documents this guard gap, and GitHub issue `#333` tracks the policy decision for whether fixture reads in this test file must be mocked and updated consistently across the file.
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Cancelling an event is the first
EventDetailswrite this library can do, and it needs two things the read paths never did.The entitlement token
Apple gates event edits behind a subscription feature. A write that cannot prove the entitlement comes back
502 INTERNAL_ERRORwith an empty body — indistinguishable from an unsupported operation, which is what I assumed it was twice before capturing the web client.The proof is a token from
gatewayws.icloud.com/acsegateway/v4, a host outside the container and absent from the advertisedwebservicesmap, so it is named in the newentitlement.pyrather than resolved.cancel()sends it in the record'shintfield. The grant lasts a week, so it is cached until shortly before Apple's owncacheTill, and an account Apple will not let edit events getsInvitesEntitlementErrorbefore any request goes out.Two records, one modify
The
cloudkit.sharerecord keeps its own copy ofisCancelledand does not follow the event. Writing only the event leaves the share reading as live to guests, so both go in one atomic modify. If the share cannot be read the event is still cancelled, rather than nothing happening.Why it is a switch, not a verb
cancel(event, cancelled=False)reinstates. Apple accepts both directions, and an accidental cancel on a real event with real guests should be recoverable.Publishing is not in this PR
I set out to add
publish()too. It cannot work yet:isPublishedis PCS-encrypted, and Apple answersBAD_REQUEST — expected type ENCRYPTED_NUMBER_INT64to every unencrypted encoding I tried (plain int under that type, underINT64, with no type, withserver_crypto=true, and as base64 under both encrypted types). Writing the share's unencrypted copy alone is accepted but does not propagate, so it would leave the event stale — worse than not shipping.The rule turns out to be readable straight off the wire: a field Apple returns with
isEncrypted: trueneeds PCS to write.isCancelledandblockNewRSVPscarry no such marker;isPublished,isPrivateandtitledo. That is also why the web client can rename an event and this library cannot.Verification
Unit tests cover the operation shape, the hint placement, the token cache, the share-unreadable fallback, scope routing, and the error paths — 18 new tests, each checked against a mutated implementation to confirm it fails.
Live-verified against a real account on a purpose-made, guest-free event:
EventDetailsand thecloudkit.sharerecordEventcarries a change tag that can be passed straight back into a second call, as the README example doesNo writes were made against any event with guests.
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