HTTP API: 404 for a chat id the list of chats leaves out (closes #5)

The chat client keeps contact records that GET /api/v1/chats does not
list, such as the bot's own profile (1 on a new profile) and a contact
it creates itself (2), and reads or sends in them when asked. The
message endpoints now look the id up, through chatID in
internal/api/chats.go, in the same list the chats endpoint answers
with, and answer 404 for any id not in it. The webhook endpoints can
call chatID too.

Model: opus-5-5

README.md

@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ A message has:
   it.
 
 A `count` other than a whole number from 1 to 100 gets `400`, and an
-`id` that is not one of the bot's chats gets `404`.
+`id` that `GET /api/v1/chats` does not list gets `404`.
 
 ### `POST /api/v1/chats/{id}/messages`
 
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
 Nothing is sent, and the answer is:
 
 - `400` if the body is not JSON of that shape, or `text` is empty;
-- `404` if `id` is not one of the bot's chats;
+- `404` if `GET /api/v1/chats` does not list `id`;
 - `409` if the contact cannot receive messages: they have deleted their
   chat with the bot (`contact_deleted` is `true`), or have not finished
   connecting;

internal/api/api_test.go

@@ -29,11 +29,13 @@ const (
 var errChat = errors.New("sqlite: database is locked at /var/lib/simplexcalc")
 
 // fakeClient stands in for the chat client. It answers with contacts,
-// items or sent, or with err, and remembers what it was asked.
+// items or sent, or with an error: contactsErr from Contacts, err from
+// the others. It remembers what it was asked.
 type fakeClient struct {
 	contacts    []simplex.Contact
 	items       []simplex.ChatItem
 	sent        simplex.ChatItem
+	contactsErr error
 	err         error
 
 	userID, contactID int64
@@ -48,7 +50,7 @@ func (f *fakeClient) Contacts(
 	f.userID = userID
 	_, f.hadDeadline = ctx.Deadline()
 
-	return f.contacts, f.err
+	return f.contacts, f.contactsErr
 }
 
 func (f *fakeClient) ChatItems(
@@ -269,7 +271,7 @@ func TestHeaders(t *testing.T) {
 		{&fakeClient{}, chatsPath, bearer},
 		{&fakeClient{}, chatsPath, ""},
 		{&fakeClient{}, "/nothing", bearer},
-		{&fakeClient{err: errChat}, chatsPath, bearer},
+		{&fakeClient{contactsErr: errChat}, chatsPath, bearer},
 	} {
 		rec := request(t, newAPI(credential, tc.client),
 			http.MethodGet, tc.path, tc.auth)

internal/api/chats.go

@@ -2,32 +2,31 @@ package api
 
 import (
 	"cmp"
+	"context"
 	"net/http"
 	"slices"
+	"strconv"
+
+	"github.com/go-chi/chi/v5"
 )
 
-// handleChats lists the bot's chats, ordered by id. The bot talks to
+// noSuchChat answers a request naming a chat the bot does not have.
-// people only one to one, so its chats are its contacts, and a chat's
+const noSuchChat = "no such chat"
-// id is its contact's.
+
-func (h *handlers) handleChats() http.HandlerFunc {
+// chat is how the API shows a chat. The bot talks to people only one to
-	type chat struct {
+// one, so its chats are its contacts, and a chat's id is its contact's.
+type chat struct {
 	ID             int64  `json:"id"`
 	DisplayName    string `json:"display_name"`
 	ContactDeleted bool   `json:"contact_deleted"`
-	}
+}
 
-	type response struct {
+// chats returns the bot's chats, ordered by id. GET /api/v1/chats
-		Chats []chat `json:"chats"`
+// answers with this list, and chatID accepts only an id in it.
-	}
+func (h *handlers) chats(ctx context.Context) ([]chat, error) {
-
+	contacts, err := h.client.Contacts(ctx, h.userID)
-	return func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
-		contacts, err := h.client.Contacts(r.Context(), h.userID)
 	if err != nil {
-			h.log.Error("listing the chats", "error", err)
+		return nil, err
-			h.respondError(w, http.StatusInternalServerError,
-				"the chats could not be read")
-
-			return
 	}
 
 	chats := make([]chat, 0, len(contacts))
@@ -41,6 +40,58 @@ func (h *handlers) handleChats() http.HandlerFunc {
 
 	slices.SortFunc(chats, func(a, b chat) int { return cmp.Compare(a.ID, b.ID) })
 
+	return chats, nil
+}
+
+// handleChats lists the bot's chats.
+func (h *handlers) handleChats() http.HandlerFunc {
+	type response struct {
+		Chats []chat `json:"chats"`
+	}
+
+	return func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		chats, err := h.chats(r.Context())
+		if err != nil {
+			h.log.Error("listing the chats", "error", err)
+			h.respondError(w, http.StatusInternalServerError,
+				"the chats could not be read")
+
+			return
+		}
+
 		h.respond(w, http.StatusOK, response{Chats: chats})
 	}
 }
+
+// chatID returns the chat id in the request's path, if it is one of the
+// bot's chats. Otherwise it answers the request itself, 404, or 500 if
+// the chats could not be read, and returns false.
+//
+// The id is looked up rather than passed to the chat client, which also
+// keeps contact records that are not chats, such as the bot's own
+// profile, and would read or send in them.
+func (h *handlers) chatID(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) (int64, bool) {
+	id, err := strconv.ParseInt(chi.URLParam(r, "id"), 10, 64)
+	if err != nil {
+		h.respondError(w, http.StatusNotFound, noSuchChat)
+
+		return 0, false
+	}
+
+	chats, err := h.chats(r.Context())
+	if err != nil {
+		h.log.Error("looking up a chat", "error", err)
+		h.respondError(w, http.StatusInternalServerError,
+			"the chats could not be read")
+
+		return 0, false
+	}
+
+	if !slices.ContainsFunc(chats, func(c chat) bool { return c.ID == id }) {
+		h.respondError(w, http.StatusNotFound, noSuchChat)
+
+		return 0, false
+	}
+
+	return id, true
+}

internal/api/chats_test.go

@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ func TestNoChats(t *testing.T) {
 func TestChatsFailure(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 
-	rec := request(t, newAPI(credential, &fakeClient{err: errChat}),
+	rec := request(t, newAPI(credential, &fakeClient{contactsErr: errChat}),
 		http.MethodGet, chatsPath, bearer)
 
 	want := `{"error":"the chats could not be read"}` + "\n"

internal/api/messages.go

@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ import (
 	"strconv"
 	"time"
 
-	"github.com/go-chi/chi/v5"
 	"sneak.berlin/go/simplexcalc/internal/simplex"
 )
 
@@ -18,9 +17,6 @@ const (
 	// request for its messages reads.
 	defaultCount = 20
 	maxCount     = 100
-
-	// noSuchChat answers a request naming a chat the bot does not have.
-	noSuchChat = "no such chat"
 )
 
 // message is how the API shows a message, wherever it shows one.
@@ -69,10 +65,8 @@ func (h *handlers) handleMessages() http.HandlerFunc {
 	}
 
 	return func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
-		contactID, ok := chatID(r)
+		contactID, ok := h.chatID(w, r)
 		if !ok {
-			h.respondError(w, http.StatusNotFound, noSuchChat)
-
 			return
 		}
 
@@ -116,10 +110,8 @@ func (h *handlers) handleSend() http.HandlerFunc {
 	}
 
 	return func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
-		contactID, ok := chatID(r)
+		contactID, ok := h.chatID(w, r)
 		if !ok {
-			h.respondError(w, http.StatusNotFound, noSuchChat)
-
 			return
 		}
 
@@ -170,9 +162,9 @@ func (h *handlers) handleSend() http.HandlerFunc {
 }
 
 // respondChatError answers a request the chat client did not serve: 404
-// for a chat the bot does not have, 409 for a contact who cannot receive
+// for a contact removed after chatID found it, 409 for one who cannot
-// messages, 413 for a text too long to send, and 500 with sentence for
+// receive messages, 413 for a text too long to send, and 500 with
-// anything else, which is logged as what.
+// sentence for anything else, which is logged as what.
 func (h *handlers) respondChatError(
 	w http.ResponseWriter, err error, what, sentence string,
 ) {
@@ -189,14 +181,6 @@ func (h *handlers) respondChatError(
 	}
 }
 
-// chatID returns the chat id in the request's path, and false if it is
-// not one: a chat's id is its contact's, a positive whole number.
-func chatID(r *http.Request) (int64, bool) {
-	id, err := strconv.ParseInt(chi.URLParam(r, "id"), 10, 64)
-
-	return id, err == nil && id > 0
-}
-
 // messageCount returns the request's count, defaultCount if it has none,
 // and false if it is anything but a whole number from 1 to maxCount. The
 // query is parsed here because r.URL.Query drops a pair it cannot

internal/api/messages_test.go

@@ -17,6 +17,12 @@ const (
 	notJSON    = `{"error":"the body must be JSON such as {\"text\":\"hello\"}"}` + "\n"
 )
 
+// oneChat returns the bot's contacts in these tests: one, whose chat is
+// the one messagesPath names.
+func oneChat() []simplex.Contact {
+	return []simplex.Contact{{ContactID: 3, Status: "active"}}
+}
+
 // chatItem is a chat item decoded from a record shaped as the chat
 // client sends it, reduced to the fields the API reads.
 func chatItem(t *testing.T, record string) simplex.ChatItem {
@@ -54,7 +60,7 @@ func post(
 func TestMessages(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 
-	client := &fakeClient{items: []simplex.ChatItem{
+	client := &fakeClient{contacts: oneChat(), items: []simplex.ChatItem{
 		chatItem(t, `{"meta":{"itemId":7,"itemTs":"2026-09-29T03:13:46.521359978Z"},
 			"content":{"type":"rcvChatFeature","feature":"calls"}}`),
 		chatItem(t, `{"meta":{"itemId":9,"itemTs":"2026-09-29T03:14:34Z"},
@@ -91,7 +97,7 @@ func TestMessages(t *testing.T) {
 func TestNoMessages(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 
-	rec := request(t, newAPI(credential, &fakeClient{}),
+	rec := request(t, newAPI(credential, &fakeClient{contacts: oneChat()}),
 		http.MethodGet, messagesPath, bearer)
 
 	want := `{"messages":[]}` + "\n"
@@ -101,7 +107,7 @@ func TestNoMessages(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 // TestMessagesCount: count is a whole number from 1 to 100, and 20 when
-// absent. Anything else is refused before the chat client is asked.
+// absent. Anything else is refused before the chat's items are read.
 func TestMessagesCount(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 
@@ -122,7 +128,7 @@ func TestMessagesCount(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Run(query, func(t *testing.T) {
 			t.Parallel()
 
-			client := &fakeClient{}
+			client := &fakeClient{contacts: oneChat()}
 			rec := request(t, newAPI(credential, client),
 				http.MethodGet, messagesPath+query, bearer)
 
@@ -145,14 +151,18 @@ func TestMessagesCount(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-// TestNoSuchChat: a chat id that is not a positive whole number gets 404
+// TestNoSuchChat: an id that GET /api/v1/chats does not list gets 404,
-// without asking the chat client, and so does one it has no contact
+// whether reading messages or sending one, and nothing is read or sent.
-// for, whether reading messages or sending one.
+// That includes 1 and 2, contact records the chat client keeps on a new
+// profile and would read or send in. A contact the chat client no
+// longer has when asked also gets 404.
 func TestNoSuchChat(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 
-	for _, id := range []string{"tester", "0", "-3", "3.5", "99999999999999999999"} {
+	for _, id := range []string{
-		client := &fakeClient{}
+		"1", "2", "4", "tester", "0", "-3", "3.5", "99999999999999999999",
+	} {
+		client := &fakeClient{contacts: oneChat()}
 		srv := newAPI(credential, client)
 		path := "/api/v1/chats/" + id + "/messages"
 
@@ -167,11 +177,11 @@ func TestNoSuchChat(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 
 		if client.contactID != 0 {
-			t.Errorf("chat %q: the chat client was asked", id)
+			t.Errorf("chat %q: the chat was read or sent to", id)
 		}
 	}
 
-	srv := newAPI(credential, &fakeClient{err: simplex.ErrNoContact})
+	srv := newAPI(credential, &fakeClient{contacts: oneChat(), err: simplex.ErrNoContact})
 
 	for _, rec := range []*httptest.ResponseRecorder{
 		request(t, srv, http.MethodGet, messagesPath, bearer),
@@ -184,12 +194,36 @@ func TestNoSuchChat(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+// TestChatLookupFailure: when the chats cannot be read to look the id
+// up, the answer is 500 and nothing is read or sent.
+func TestChatLookupFailure(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	client := &fakeClient{contactsErr: errChat}
+	srv := newAPI(credential, client)
+
+	want := `{"error":"the chats could not be read"}` + "\n"
+
+	for _, rec := range []*httptest.ResponseRecorder{
+		request(t, srv, http.MethodGet, messagesPath, bearer),
+		post(t, srv, messagesPath, `{"text":"hello"}`),
+	} {
+		if rec.Code != http.StatusInternalServerError || rec.Body.String() != want {
+			t.Errorf("response = %d %q, want 500 %q", rec.Code, rec.Body.String(), want)
+		}
+	}
+
+	if client.contactID != 0 {
+		t.Error("the chat was read or sent to")
+	}
+}
+
 // TestMessagesFailure: when the chat client fails, the answer says so in
 // a chosen sentence, never in the error's own text.
 func TestMessagesFailure(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 
-	rec := request(t, newAPI(credential, &fakeClient{err: errChat}),
+	rec := request(t, newAPI(credential, &fakeClient{contacts: oneChat(), err: errChat}),
 		http.MethodGet, messagesPath, bearer)
 
 	want := `{"error":"the messages could not be read"}` + "\n"
@@ -203,7 +237,7 @@ func TestMessagesFailure(t *testing.T) {
 func TestSend(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 
-	client := &fakeClient{sent: chatItem(t, `{"meta":{"itemId":12,
+	client := &fakeClient{contacts: oneChat(), sent: chatItem(t, `{"meta":{"itemId":12,
 		"itemTs":"2026-09-29T03:14:43.519552587Z"},"content":{"type":"sndMsgContent",
 		"msgContent":{"type":"text","text":"hello"}}}`)}
 
@@ -250,7 +284,7 @@ func TestSendBadBody(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Run(name, func(t *testing.T) {
 			t.Parallel()
 
-			client := &fakeClient{}
+			client := &fakeClient{contacts: oneChat()}
 			rec := post(t, newAPI(credential, client), messagesPath, tc.body)
 
 			if rec.Code != tc.status || rec.Body.String() != tc.answer {
@@ -277,19 +311,19 @@ func TestSendRefused(t *testing.T) {
 		answer string
 	}{
 		"contact deleted": {
-			&fakeClient{err: simplex.ErrContactNotReady},
+			&fakeClient{contacts: oneChat(), err: simplex.ErrContactNotReady},
 			http.StatusConflict, `{"error":"the contact cannot receive messages"}`,
 		},
 		"text too long": {
-			&fakeClient{err: simplex.ErrMessageTooLarge},
+			&fakeClient{contacts: oneChat(), err: simplex.ErrMessageTooLarge},
 			http.StatusRequestEntityTooLarge, `{"error":"the text is too long"}`,
 		},
 		"anything else": {
-			&fakeClient{err: errChat},
+			&fakeClient{contacts: oneChat(), err: errChat},
 			http.StatusInternalServerError, `{"error":"the message could not be sent"}`,
 		},
 		"no message in the answer": {
-			&fakeClient{sent: chatItem(t, `{"meta":{"itemId":13},
+			&fakeClient{contacts: oneChat(), sent: chatItem(t, `{"meta":{"itemId":13},
 				"content":{"type":"sndDirectEvent"}}`)},
 			http.StatusInternalServerError,
 			`{"error":"the chat client's answer could not be read"}`,