[pbs-devel] [PATCH proxmox] client: fix optional data for errors

[Dominik Csapak <d.csapak@proxmox.com>]

previously we changed the internal type of the 'data' property
from Option<T> to T in the assumption the api always returns
'data:null'.

this is actually only the case when the api call succeeds. in an error
case there is no data property at all.

to fix this issue while behaving the same for 'data:null' we have to
revert to Option<T> for RawApiResponse but instead of always throwing an
error for 'data:null' in 'check' we now try there to deserialize from
Value::Null for T if there was no data. This will succeed for the Type
'()' which was the motivation for the original change.

The only downside is that the RawApiResponse now has a trait bound that
T is deserializeable, but was a requirement for using it anyway
(as there was no other way of constructing it)

Fixes: 271a55f ("client: remove option from inner RawApiResponse")
Signed-off-by: Dominik Csapak <d.csapak@proxmox.com>
---
 proxmox-client/src/lib.rs | 19 +++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/proxmox-client/src/lib.rs b/proxmox-client/src/lib.rs
index 9aa7144..8161cc0 100644
--- a/proxmox-client/src/lib.rs
+++ b/proxmox-client/src/lib.rs
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ impl HttpApiResponse {
 
     /// Expect that the API call did *not* return any data in the `data` field.
     pub fn nodata(self) -> Result<(), Error> {
-        let response = serde_json::from_slice::<RawApiResponse<Option<()>>>(&self.body)
+        let response = serde_json::from_slice::<RawApiResponse<()>>(&self.body)
             .map_err(|err| Error::bad_api("unexpected api response", err))?;
 
         if response.data.is_some() {
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ struct RawApiResponse<T> {
     message: Option<String>,
     #[serde(default, deserialize_with = "proxmox_login::parse::deserialize_bool")]
     success: Option<bool>,
-    data: T,
+    data: Option<T>,
 
     #[serde(default)]
     errors: HashMap<String, String>,
@@ -140,7 +140,10 @@ struct RawApiResponse<T> {
     attribs: HashMap<String, Value>,
 }
 
-impl<T> RawApiResponse<T> {
+impl<T> RawApiResponse<T>
+where
+    T: for<'de> Deserialize<'de>,
+{
     fn check_success(mut self) -> Result<Self, Error> {
         if self.success == Some(true) {
             return Ok(self);
@@ -163,8 +166,16 @@ impl<T> RawApiResponse<T> {
     fn check(self) -> Result<ApiResponseData<T>, Error> {
         let this = self.check_success()?;
 
+        // RawApiResponse has no data, but this also happens for Value::Null, and T
+        // might be deserializeable from that, so try here again
+        let data = match this.data {
+            Some(data) => data,
+            None => serde_json::from_value(Value::Null)
+                .map_err(|_| Error::BadApi("api returned no data".to_string(), None))?,
+        };
+
         Ok(ApiResponseData {
-            data: this.data,
+            data,
             attribs: this.attribs,
         })
     }
-- 
2.39.2