fix: omit <Transforms> element when no transforms are specified - #542
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When addReference is called without transforms (or with an empty transforms array), createReferences previously always emitted an empty <Transforms></Transforms> element. This is invalid under SMPTE ST 430-3 §8.2, which requires the Transforms field to be absent when no transformations apply. Changes: - Make `transforms` optional on the Reference interface - Remove the addReference guard that threw on empty/absent transforms - Guard <Transforms> emission in createReferences so the element is only written when at least one transform is present - Apply C14N fallback in getCanonXml for the empty-transforms case so sign and verify use the same canonical form (matching the existing loadReference behavior) Closes node-saml#540
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 2 included reviews per hour; 1 remains after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughReferences now support absent or empty transforms. Signature generation omits the ChangesReference transform handling
Priority: ⬇️ Low — Defer this XML signature compatibility fix because it is a focused change to optional transforms and canonicalization, with low stated issue severity. Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Severity of issue fixed: Low Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to References without transforms now omit the optional Transforms element and use canonicalization fallback. The remaining risk is limited to incomplete regression coverage for a prior multi-match XPath namespace scenario. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant SignatureGeneration
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SignatureGeneration->>getCanonXml: canonicalize referenced DOM node without transforms
getCanonXml->>DigestAlgorithm: provide canonical XML
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SignatureVerification->>getCanonXml: canonicalize referenced DOM node
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1077-1100: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winTest the empty-array input explicitly.
This test covers an omitted
transformsproperty only. The API also promises identical serialization fortransforms: [].Add a second case, or parameterize this test, with
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In `@src/signed-xml.ts`:
- Line 434: Update the ancestor-namespace lookup in addAllReferences to pass the
current matched node to findAncestorNs instead of ref.xpath, ensuring each
reference uses its own namespace scope. Add a test covering multiple matched
nodes under different namespace declarations and verify their generated
signature validates successfully.
In `@test/signature-unit-tests.spec.ts`:
- Around line 911-912: Update the assertions around ref.transforms to avoid
non-null assertions: assert the complete expected transform list directly using
the existing transform value, while preserving the expectation that it contains
exactly one canonicalization transform.
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In `@test/signature-unit-tests.spec.ts`:
- Around line 1077-1100: Extend the “omits Transforms element when no transforms
are specified” test to also call addReference with transforms explicitly set to
an empty array. Preserve the existing assertion that the generated signature
contains no Transforms element, either by adding a second case or parameterizing
the test.
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Using ! on optional properties triggers the no-non-null-assertion ESLint rule. Collapsing the two separate length/index checks into a single deep.equal is also more readable.
…test The previous test only verified that a missing transforms property suppresses the <Transforms> element. Parameterize the test to also cover transforms: [], which the API treats identically.
…ing xpath getCanonReferenceXml passed ref.xpath to findAncestorNs, which always uses docSubset[0] — the first XPath match. When addAllReferences creates multiple references for the same xpath pattern and those matched elements live under different ancestor namespace scopes, every reference beyond the first was digested with the wrong namespace context, producing a signature that verifiers would reject. Fix: add findAncestorNsForNode(element) to utils and call it with the node already in scope instead of re-executing the XPath. Also extract the shared deduplication/filtering logic into buildAncestorNsForElement to avoid code duplication between the two public helpers. Adds a regression test: two <item> elements under sibling <section> elements that each declare a different namespace prefix. The fix makes sign+verify round-trip correctly; the old code would fail verification for the second reference.
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In `@test/signature-unit-tests.spec.ts`:
- Around line 1166-1174: Replace the loop creating separate item references with
one addReference call whose XPath selects both item elements, while preserving
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Resolve conflict in src/utils.ts: master (node-saml#541) rewrote the body of findAncestorNs to filter against all subset namespace prefixes via findSubsetNSPrefixes, while this branch extracted that same body into the shared helper buildAncestorNsForElement. Kept the extraction and ported master's fix into the helper, so findAncestorNsForNode — used for per-node reference canonicalization — also gets the all-prefixes filtering. Master deleted findNSPrefix, which the extracted helper still referenced. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Making `transforms` optional was a breaking change for consumers: `Reference` is public via `export * from "./types"`, so anyone reading `ref.transforms` hit TS18048 "possibly undefined". Keep the property required and normalize an omitted list to `[]` in addReference instead — `addReference` already accepted `Partial<Reference>`, so callers could always omit it. The empty array still suppresses the Transforms element, so the feature is unchanged. Also: - Isolate the ancestor-namespace regression test by giving it explicit transforms. As written it threw "transforms must contain at least one transform algorithm" on master, failing before it reached the code under test; it now fails there with the real digest mismatch. - Collapse the duplicated comment blocks in getCanonXml, and drop the JSDoc from the internal buildAncestorNsForElement helper, per AGENTS.md. - Drop the unused `doc` parameter from getCanonReferenceXml. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
findAncestorNsForNode was a pass-through over buildAncestorNsForElement with a single caller and no test usage. Keep one function instead of two. Also document the omitted/empty transforms case in README, including the requirement that an enveloped signature list the enveloped-signature transform explicitly. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`export * from "./types"` and `export * from "./utils"` published every module-level export automatically, so adding any helper to utils.ts silently widened the package's public API. The lists are deliberately exhaustive: they reproduce the existing surface exactly, verified as 40 symbols with identical kinds, origins and type signatures before and after. Narrowing it is a separate, semver-major change that can now be reviewed on its own. `findChilds` needs an eslint-disable because it is deprecated and naming it explicitly trips deprecation/deprecation, which the wildcard never did. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@msheby , I've pushed some changes here, one in particular is to make sure we don't expand the public surface area. Let me know what you think. |
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These also look good to me. |
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findAncestorNs throws "Document subset must be list of elements" when the subset xpath selects attributes or text nodes, and nothing exercised it. The xpath is a plain string, so a caller reaches this without any cast. The guard is load-bearing rather than decorative: bypassing it hands the non-element to findSubsetNSPrefixes, whose `.attributes` is null there, so the caller gets "Cannot read properties of null" instead of a usable message. The test fails with exactly that TypeError if the guard is removed. Also reformat src/types.ts, which master left unformatted after the prettier 3.1 -> 3.9 bump in 711ca97 changed union wrapping. Unrelated to this branch; master is currently lint-red for the same reason. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…skipping The `if (isDomNode.isElementNode(node))` guard left a branch no test could honestly reach: all three call sites already establish element-ness, the signing path via assertIsElementNode() and both verification paths via element-only xpaths. It was reachable only by misuse — `idAttributes` is public and mutable, so a JavaScript caller can empty it and hand a text node to the public validateElementAgainstReferences(), skipping the getAttribute() that would otherwise reject it. That path failed closed either way, but the guard turned it into "No references passed validation", which says nothing about the real problem. Assert instead, matching how this file already handles the same question, so the caller gets "Value is not of type ELEMENT_NODE". Covers that path with a test written against what JavaScript allows rather than what the types permit. Patch coverage is now 100% on both lines and branches, with the branch gone rather than papered over. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The non-element test pinned "Value is not of type ELEMENT_NODE", which @xmldom/is-dom-node builds from an enum key. Rewording it upstream would have broken us for a reason unrelated to what the test is about. The property that matters is that a non-element is never reported as covered by a validated reference, so assert the refusal itself. Also drop a comment in utils.ts that restated the loop beneath it; the reason already sits in findSubsetNSPrefixes next to its spec link. And point the findChilds export note at issue node-saml#550 now that one exists. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
… transform computeSignature() inserts the Signature before digesting, so a reference that encloses it digests an unfinished Signature whose SignatureValue is still empty. That digest can never be reproduced during verification. We accepted this config and emitted a signature nobody could verify. Refuse instead. The check fires only when every transform on the reference is one of the four W3C canonicalization algorithms, whose semantics are fixed by spec: they render the node-set and remove nothing, so the Signature provably survives. A chain containing enveloped-signature is fine, and a chain containing a caller-registered transform defers to the caller, who may well strip the Signature themselves. So there are no false positives. Five existing tests were signing exactly this broken config and asserting structural properties without ever verifying the result; each now declares the enveloped-signature transform a real caller would need. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The guard kept its own copy of the four W3C canonicalization URIs alongside CanonicalizationAlgorithms. Two lists, and forgetting to update the second one failed open: a chain using the missed algorithm stopped being checked, so the broken config it was meant to catch would sail through. Whether a transform can drop nodes is a property of the algorithm, so put it there. `removesNodes` is optional, so existing custom implementations still compile and simply defer as before, but one that declares `false` now opts into the check, and a new built-in inherits it with no second place to edit. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
BREAKING CHANGE: custom canonicalization and transform algorithms must declare `removesNodes`. Declare `false` only if the algorithm returns the node-set it was given; declare `true` if it filters nodes at all, which also preserves the existing behaviour. Leaving it optional kept a third state where an implementer who never knew the field existed silently opted out of the check that rejects a reference enclosing the signature. That is a default deciding something security-relevant on their behalf, which is the shape this project sets out to avoid. The runtime still tests `=== false` rather than trusting the type, since registering an algorithm is reachable from JavaScript and an undeclared value must defer rather than reject wrongly. Covers the README examples, which teach custom algorithms as plain JavaScript where the compiler cannot prompt for the field. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three defects in the previous commit, found in review. The runtime read `removesNodes === false`, so an omitted or non-boolean value made the check defer. That reinstated at runtime exactly the silent opt-out requiring the field was meant to remove, and it is JavaScript callers — the ones the type cannot reach — who land there. Reproduced: a JS custom canonicalizer with no declaration signed a reference that checkSignature() then rejected. It now throws unless the algorithm declares a boolean. `readonly removesNodes = false` inferred the literal type `false`, so a subclass adding node filtering could not declare `true`. Annotated as `boolean` in each built-in. The README and the interface doc had the consequences backwards: a wrong `true` skips the check and can sign something unverifiable, while a wrong `false` rejects a reference that would have worked. The doc also called `true` conservative when it is the permissive answer. The check runs where the value is consumed, so an undeclared algorithm on a reference that does not enclose the signature still works; it throws only where the declaration would change the outcome. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Checking the declaration inside the predicate that `.every()` consumes made enforcement depend on transform order: an undeclared algorithm was rejected before enveloped-signature but skipped after it, because `.every()` stops at the first transform that removes nodes. Same chain, opposite outcomes. Validation belongs where algorithms are instantiated, not in a boolean a caller may short-circuit past. findCanonicalizationAlgorithm() now checks it, so every algorithm we construct is validated once, and the enclosing-reference check resolves the whole chain before testing it. This makes enforcement consistent rather than only reaching the enveloped case: an undeclared algorithm now fails wherever it is used, including on verification, which is the right direction for a check that decides whether a signature can be trusted. Registrations that are never used stay unaffected. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The interface doc and README both described the field in terms of computeSignature(), which understated it: validation happens as an algorithm is instantiated, so checkSignature() throws on a missing or non-boolean value as well. Anyone with a custom algorithm meets this on both paths, and the README teaches those in plain JavaScript where the type cannot prompt them. Adds the matching verification regression. It first asserts a correctly declared verifier accepts the document, so the rejection that follows is attributable to the misconfigured registry rather than to a bad signature. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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addReferenceis called without transforms (or with an empty transforms array),createReferencespreviously always emitted an empty<Transforms></Transforms>element. This is invalid under SMPTE ST 430-3 §8.2, which requires theTransformsfield to be absent when no transformations apply.Changes:
transformsoptional on theReferenceinterfaceaddReferenceguard that threw on empty/absent transforms<Transforms>emission increateReferencesso the element is only written when at least one transform is presentgetCanonXmlfor the empty-transforms case so sign and verify use the same canonical form (matching the existingloadReferencebehavior)Closes #540
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Transformselement when no transforms are configured.Bug Fixes