Implement RegisterEntity generic API endpoint

[JAORMX]

Summary

Implements the RegisterEntity gRPC endpoint to provide a unified, synchronous API for registering any entity type (repositories, releases, artifacts, pull requests) in Minder.

This PR extracts common entity creation logic into a reusable EntityCreator service that eliminates code duplication between synchronous and asynchronous entity registration flows.

Key Changes

Core Implementation

• RegisterEntity RPC Handler - New generic endpoint at POST /api/v1/entity
• EntityCreator Service - Unified entity creation service (internal/entities/service/entity_creator.go)
  • Handles property fetching, validation, provider registration, database persistence
  • Used by both sync (RegisterEntity) and async (webhook) flows
  • Implements cleanup on failure (webhook deregistration)
• Pluggable Validator Framework - RepositoryValidator with extensible design
• Proto Update - Changed identifier_property from string to google.protobuf.Struct for type safety

Refactoring

• RepositoryService.CreateRepository() - Reduced from ~90 lines to ~30 lines
• addOriginatingEntityStrategy.GetEntity() - Reduced from ~80 lines to ~30 lines
• Eliminated ~170 lines of duplicated entity creation logic

Security Improvements

• Input validation: max 100 properties, max 200 char keys
• Context cancellation protection in cleanup operations
• Improved error wrapping with context for debugging

Test Coverage

Added 27 new tests across 5 test files:

• ✅ entity_creator_simple_test.go - Provider validation tests (4 tests)
• ✅ repository_validator_test.go - Validator logic tests (6 tests)
• ✅ handlers_entity_instances_test.go - RegisterEntity handler tests (12 tests)
• ✅ service_integration_test.go - RepositoryService integration tests (5 tests)

All tests passing ✅

Benefits

1. Unified API - Single endpoint for all entity types instead of entity-specific RPCs
2. Code Simplification - Reduced duplication between entity-specific services
3. Extensibility - Easy to add new entity types without new RPCs
4. Consistency - Standardized entity creation patterns across the codebase
5. Testability - Clearer separation of concerns enables better testing

Backward Compatibility

✅ Fully backward compatible

• Existing RegisterRepository RPC continues to work unchanged
• All existing tests for other functionality pass
• New functionality is additive, not breaking

Code Review Notes

Both automated code quality and security reviews were conducted:

• ✅ Clean architecture with proper separation of concerns
• ✅ No critical security vulnerabilities
• ✅ Proper transaction management with cleanup
• ✅ Authorization configured via proto options
• ⚠️ Legacy RepositoryService tests will need updating (they test old implementation details)

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[evankanderson]

Sorry about the delay, it took a little while to go over the related code and understand what was going on here.

Despite the number of comments, I'm pretty bullish on this change -- thanks for doing it!

[evankanderson]

Why is entityCreator separate from entityService?

In particular, it seems like we might want sub-interfaces like EntityCreator and EntityReader for mocks / other parts, but it feels like there should be a rolled-up interface that can do all the CRUD operations.

[JAORMX]

They serve different purposes - EntityCreator orchestrates the full creation lifecycle (fetch → validate → register webhook → persist → events), while EntityService handles reads (list, get, delete). Creation is complex enough that separating them felt cleaner, but we could create a rolled-up interface if you prefer.

[JAORMX]

OK, I somehow missed that you had reviewed this! I'll get back to this. Sorry about that

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[evankanderson]

Thanks again for getting back to this. I'll have a little research on whether properties needs to be a Struct and should have an answer tomorrow. I'll also see about guarding the RegisterEntity on existing providers so we can call it unconditionally, which seems like a bit of a nice simplicity win.

[evankanderson]

Thinking about it, if we move the validation into the provider, SupportsEntity could actually do the validation if we pass extra parameters to it. Right now, we're trying to cram both the GitHub and GitLab registration into a single validator, but I'm wondering if it makes more sense to have a common library that both call (so, for example, if there's another variation where registration doesn't make sense in forgejo, like "mirrored", that could go in the forgejo code rather than needing to extend the core for that case).

[JAORMX]

That's a good evolution path. For now I've implemented the registry pattern you suggested, but having providers contribute their own validators during setup would let forgejo handle 'mirrored' repos without touching core. Could be a natural extension once we have more providers with unique validation needs.

[evankanderson]

A few comments; I'm happy to put together a PR for:

• update SupportsEntity / add an EntityCreationOptions function to the providers to vary by type.
• Ensure the same no-op DeregisterEntity behavior for providers that implement it if the resource isn't ever registered.
• Add a DefaultProviderImpl base for existing providers.

If that would help with simplifying the logic here.

[evankanderson]

I think this is fine, but there are a couple ways to simplify at the cost of precision:

1. You could check the size of the RegisterEntityRequest. Since proto doesn't provide a way to e.g. reference one field's content in another (like yaml &reference), this is an upper bound on the map's size.
2. Additionally, gRPC has a default 4MB MaxRecvMsgSize option, which applies before the deserialization and will prevent truly enormous messages from exhausting the server memory. I agree that 32KB of properties is probably more than sufficient, but the gRPC limit is a nice backup.

[evankanderson]

Given that this path with nil options needs to work, can we remove the need for options from CreateEntity altogether?

[JAORMX]

Options are needed for originated entities (artifacts, pull requests) that need to pass the parent entity ID via OriginatingEntityID. The nil check provides sensible defaults for the common case (direct RegisterEntity calls), but internal code can override when needed (e.g., AddOriginatingEntityStrategy passes the parent repo ID).

[evankanderson]

FYI, I found this pattern elsewhere, and I plan to fix it so that we can write this as:

return nil, fmt.Errorf("unable to register entity: %w", err)

And then the interceptor wrapper will use errors.As to extract a NiceStatus if it's in the wrapping chain.

There's nothing to do here at the moment, though.

[evankanderson]

Can we just give Deregister the same behavior requirement as Register? (I'll check that and PR that tomorrow-ish if needed.)

[JAORMX]

Yes, that would be cleaner! If you're adding that requirement to Deregister, we can remove the nil check here. Deregister returning (nil, nil) for unsupported entities would be consistent with Register.

[evankanderson]

Given the check on line 181, do we need this one as well?

[evankanderson]

(Alternatively, this could be a switch for now, but I'd love to figure out how to make this provider responsibility in the future...)

[JAORMX]

Both checks are needed - line 185 checks if the caller wants reconciliation (opts.PublishReconciliationEvent), line 203 enforces that only repos can actually trigger it. Without line 203, a caller could mistakenly set PublishReconciliationEvent: true for artifacts and we'd try to create a repo reconciler message with an artifact ID. Agree this should eventually be provider responsibility - providers could have a PublishReconciliationEvent(entity) method.

[evankanderson]

I would simplify this (in combination with the simplication of ValidatorHandle) by using slices.DeleteFunc:

Suggested change

	entries := r.validators[handle.entityType]
	for i, entry := range entries {
	if entry.id == handle.id {
	// Remove by creating a new slice without this element
	r.validators[handle.entityType] = append(entries[:i], entries[i+1:]...)
	return
	}
	}
	entries := r.validators[handle.entityType]
	for k, typeValidators := range r.validators {
	r.validators[k] = slices.DeleteFunc(typeValidators, func(v validatorEntry) bool {
	return v.id == handle.id
	})
	}

[coveralls]

coverage: 58.008% (-0.3%) from 58.311%
when pulling f279976 on JAORMX:feature/implement-register-entity
into 7c76bb2 on mindersec:main.