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Replaced incorrect empty string equality test with isEmpty() and reordered null test to prevent null pointer exception.

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Fixes #999

What does this PR do?

generateTenantToken in Client.java was using == to check for empty string, which is incorrect. Replaced with .isEmpty().

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added support for retrieving detailed server version information, including package version, commit date, and commit identifier.
    • Added a Java usage example for retrieving server version details.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved tenant token generation by reliably detecting empty API-key values.
    • Preserved validation for signing secrets, search rules, and UUID-formatted API-key identifiers.

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📝 Walkthrough

The client now retrieves structured server-version metadata through a new public method. Tenant-token validation uses content-based empty-string checks and UUID validation for apiKeyUid. Integration coverage and a Java usage sample were added.

Changes: Client API and server-version retrieval

Layer / File(s) Summary
Structured server-version retrieval
src/main/java/com/meilisearch/sdk/model/ServerVersion.java, src/main/java/com/meilisearch/sdk/InstanceHandler.java, src/main/java/com/meilisearch/sdk/Client.java, src/test/java/com/meilisearch/integration/InstanceTest.java, .code-samples.meilisearch.yaml
The client exposes getServerVersion(). InstanceHandler requests /version and returns a ServerVersion object. The model contains version metadata and formatted string output. An integration test and Java sample cover the method.

Tenant-token validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Tenant-token string checks
src/main/java/com/meilisearch/sdk/Client.java
Empty API-key and API-key UID strings are detected with isEmpty(). apiKeyUid is also checked for UUID validity. Signing-secret and search-rule validation remain in place.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant InstanceHandler
  participant Meilisearch
  Client->>InstanceHandler: getServerVersion()
  InstanceHandler->>Meilisearch: GET /version
  Meilisearch-->>InstanceHandler: version metadata
  InstanceHandler-->>Client: ServerVersion
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 88660

Clients using Jackson may be unable to retrieve the new structured server version. Fix deserialization and test that configuration before merging.

Security architecture risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 88660

The new version method uses the existing endpoint and credentials. Tenant-token generation preserves the documented signing-key fallback and existing signing controls. No material security risk introduced or worsened by this PR was identified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The added version API does not widen destination or credential scope: it addresses the same configured instance with the same authorization handling. Its metadata was already exposed through the raw getVersion response.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Token callers still supply the UID, search rules and optional signing key. Signing uses either that explicit key or the configured client key; the PR introduces no remote key lookup or additional signing authority. The empty-value fallback already existed before this change.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The token-generation path adds no persistence, reservation, retry or recovery workflow: it signs synchronously and returns a token or throws. Caller-mutable options and the JVM-wide UTC timezone assignment exist in both revisions, rather than being new lifecycle or shared-state changes.
Pre-merge checks: Passed 4 · Failed 1

Failed Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Out of Scope Changes check Warning The supplied change summary includes a new public Client.getServerVersion() API, InstanceHandler version retrieval, a new ServerVersion model, a code sample, and an integration test. These chang… Remove the server-version API, model, sample, and integration-test changes from this pull request, or move them to a separate pull request with its own issue scope.
Passed Passed checks: 4 passed
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Description Check Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check Passed The title accurately describes the tenant-token validation fixes in the pull request, including the empty-string comparison and null pointer prevention.
Linked Issues check Passed Issue #999 requires generateTenantToken to detect empty strings by content. The supplied change summary states that tenant-token validation now uses isEmpty() for API-key values. It also states th…
Docstring Coverage Passed Docstring coverage is 88.89% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 9 functions across 4 files. (1 skipped: 1 u…
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Issue #999 requires generateTenantToken to detect empty strings by content. The supplied change summary states that tenant-token validation now uses isEmpty() for API-key values. It also states that apiKeyUid is checked for null before emptiness and UUID validation. The required empty-string behavior is implemented.

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Docstring coverage is 88.89% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 9 functions across 4 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

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The supplied change summary includes a new public Client.getServerVersion() API, InstanceHandler version retrieval, a new ServerVersion model, a code sample, and an integration test. These changes do not support issue #999, which only concerns empty-string comparison in generateTenantToken.

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Remove the server-version API, model, sample, and integration-test changes from this pull request, or move them to a separate pull request with its own issue scope.

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src/main/java/com/meilisearch/sdk/Client.java: 1

527-531: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Cover empty-option fallback with a configured client key.

testGenerateTenantTokenWithEmptyApiKey uses a client with no configured API key and expects MeilisearchException. That assertion also passes when the new fallback is broken. Configure a valid client key, set the option to a distinct empty string such as new String(""), and assert that token generation succeeds.

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Review comment at @src/main/java/com/meilisearch/sdk/Client.java around lines
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Update testGenerateTenantTokenWithEmptyApiKey to configure a valid client API
key and pass a distinct empty String instance as the option, then assert
tenant-token generation succeeds and uses the configured client key fallback.

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Review comments at @src/main/java/com/meilisearch/sdk/Client.java:
- Around line 527-531: Update testGenerateTenantTokenWithEmptyApiKey to
configure a valid client API key and pass a distinct empty String instance as
the option, then assert tenant-token generation succeeds and uses the configured
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Review comments at @src/main/java/com/meilisearch/sdk/model/ServerVersion.java:
- Line 7: Make ServerVersion deserializable by Jackson by adding an explicit
creator constructor with JsonProperty names for commitSha, commitDate, and
pkgVersion, replacing the Lombok-only constructor. Add a Jackson-focused test
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import lombok.Getter;
import lombok.ToString;

@AllArgsConstructor

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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rg -n 'addConstructorProperties|lombok.config|ParameterNamesModule|INFER_CREATOR|ConstructorProperties|class ServerVersion|class JacksonJsonHandler' . --glob '!target/**'
sed -n '1,100p' src/main/java/com/meilisearch/sdk/model/ServerVersion.java
sed -n '1,105p' src/main/java/com/meilisearch/sdk/json/JacksonJsonHandler.java

Repository: meilisearch/meilisearch-java

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printf '%s\n' '--- relevant declarations and usages ---'
rg -n -F --glob '!target/**' -e 'lombok' -e 'jackson' -e 'maven-compiler' -e 'parameters' -e 'ServerVersion' -e 'getServerVersion' -e 'JacksonJsonHandler' .
printf '%s\n' '--- root build descriptor ---'
sed -n '1,260p' pom.xml
printf '%s\n' '--- Jackson-specific tests ---'
sed -n '1,240p' src/test/java/com/meilisearch/sdk/json/JacksonJsonHandlerTest.java
printf '%s\n' '--- version call and model callers ---'
sed -n '1,150p' src/main/java/com/meilisearch/sdk/InstanceHandler.java
rg -n -F --glob '*.java' -- 'ServerVersion' src/main src/test

Repository: meilisearch/meilisearch-java

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printf '%s\n' '--- integration test base and instance test ---'
nl -ba src/test/java/com/meilisearch/integration/classes/AbstractIT.java | sed -n '1,90p'
nl -ba src/test/java/com/meilisearch/integration/InstanceTest.java | sed -n '1,110p'
printf '%s\n' '--- response binding ---'
nl -ba src/main/java/com/meilisearch/sdk/HttpClient.java | sed -n '20,85p'
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Make ServerVersion constructible by JacksonJsonHandler.

Client.getServerVersion() reaches JacksonJsonHandler.decode(), which calls ObjectMapper.readValue for ServerVersion.class. ServerVersion has only Lombok’s generated all-arguments constructor. The build does not enable constructor parameter names, and no constructor metadata is configured. A normal /version response can therefore fail to deserialize.

Add an explicit Jackson creator with property names, or equivalent constructor metadata. The current InstanceTest does not exercise this path because it calls setUp(), not setUpJacksonClient(). Add a Jackson-focused test that decodes a version response and asserts commitSha, commitDate, and pkgVersion.

Suggested constructor fix
--- "a/src/main/java/com/meilisearch/sdk/model/ServerVersion.java"
+++ "b/src/main/java/com/meilisearch/sdk/model/ServerVersion.java"
@@ -1,16 +1,26 @@
 package com.meilisearch.sdk.model;
 
-import lombok.AllArgsConstructor;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonCreator;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonProperty;
 import lombok.Getter;
 import lombok.ToString;
 
-@AllArgsConstructor
 @Getter
 public class ServerVersion {
     private final String commitSha;
     private final String commitDate;
     private final String pkgVersion;
 
+    @JsonCreator
+    public ServerVersion(
+            @JsonProperty("commitSha") String commitSha,
+            @JsonProperty("commitDate") String commitDate,
+            @JsonProperty("pkgVersion") String pkgVersion) {
+        this.commitSha = commitSha;
+        this.commitDate = commitDate;
+        this.pkgVersion = pkgVersion;
+    }
+
     public String toString() {
         return String.format("v%s - %s (sha %s)", pkgVersion, commitDate, commitSha);
     }
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Review comment at @src/main/java/com/meilisearch/sdk/model/ServerVersion.java at
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Make ServerVersion deserializable by Jackson by adding an explicit creator
constructor with JsonProperty names for commitSha, commitDate, and pkgVersion,
replacing the Lombok-only constructor. Add a Jackson-focused test using
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