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Description

Core user-facing feature for oc-ols: send a question to OLS and stream back the answer via SSE.

oc ols "why is my pod crashing?"
oc ols ask "how do I create a route?"

Changes:

  • cli/ask.goAskOptions with Complete/Validate/Run, token extraction from JSON payloads, referenced documents on stdout
  • cli/streaming.goSSEClient with HTTP transport, SSE parser for lightspeed-service JSON envelope format ({"event": "...", "data": ...}), idle timeout (120s), HTTP status → user-facing error mapping (401/403/413)
  • cli/types.goLLMRequest, StartEventData, TokenEventData, EndEventData, sseEnvelope with json.RawMessage
  • cli/root.go — default mode dispatch (unrecognized args → ask), ask registered as subcommand
  • cli/kubeconfig.go — improved error for missing kubeconfig using clientcmd.IsEmptyConfig()
  • cli/integration_test.go — end-to-end test through full cobra dispatch
  • 63 Ginkgo specs across unit and integration tests

Type of change

  • New feature

Related Tickets & Documents

Checklist before requesting a review

  • I have performed a self-review of my code.
  • PR has passed all pre-merge test jobs.
  • If it is a core feature, I have added thorough tests.

Testing

Unit/integration tests: 63 Ginkgo specs, 82% statement coverage on cli/ package.

Manual verification against live OLS cluster:

  1. Build: go build -o bin/oc-ols ./cmd/oc-ols/
  2. Login: oc login
  3. Set endpoint: ./bin/oc-ols config set-endpoint https://<ols-route-host>
  4. Ask: ./bin/oc-ols "what can OLS do for me?"

Verified:

  • default mode (oc ols "question") and explicit ask (oc ols ask "question")
  • token streaming to stdout, referenced documents after response
  • HTTP error mapping: 401 → auth error with Try: oc login, 403, 413, unreachable endpoint
  • empty query rejection, no-endpoint-configured error
  • Ctrl+C cancellation during streaming
  • pipe to file/other commands (non-TTY behavior)
  • TLS flags (--insecure-skip-tls-verify, --ca-cert)
  • version and config subcommands still work
  • compared CLI vs UI backend logs — identical server-side processing

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added the ask command for submitting questions to OpenShift Lightspeed.
    • Responses stream to the terminal as they are generated.
    • Referenced documents appear with completed responses.
    • Supports kubeconfig authentication and secure service connections.
    • Allows explicitly permitted HTTP endpoints for development or testing.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Added clear handling for authentication, access, timeout, malformed-stream, and service errors.
    • Empty questions and missing configuration now provide actionable guidance.
    • Improved handling of incomplete responses and large streamed payloads.

Implements the core ask command and SSE streaming client for oc-ols.
Users can query OLS from the terminal with 'oc ols "question"' or
'oc ols ask "question"'.

- cli/ask.go: AskOptions with Complete/Validate/Run, token extraction
  from JSON payloads, referenced documents displayed on stdout
- cli/streaming.go: SSEClient with HTTP transport, SSE parser for
  lightspeed-service JSON envelope format, idle timeout (120s),
  HTTP status error mapping (401/403/413)
- cli/types.go: LLMRequest, SSE event data types (start, token, end),
  sseEnvelope with json.RawMessage for numeric precision
- cli/root.go: default mode dispatch (unrecognized args -> ask),
  ask registered as explicit subcommand
- cli/kubeconfig.go: improved error message for missing kubeconfig
  using clientcmd.IsEmptyConfig()
- 63 Ginkgo specs across unit and integration tests
- Verified against live OLS cluster
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Description

Core user-facing feature for oc-ols: send a question to OLS and stream back the answer via SSE.

oc ols "why is my pod crashing?"
oc ols ask "how do I create a route?"

Changes:

  • cli/ask.goAskOptions with Complete/Validate/Run, token extraction from JSON payloads, referenced documents on stdout
  • cli/streaming.goSSEClient with HTTP transport, SSE parser for lightspeed-service JSON envelope format ({"event": "...", "data": ...}), idle timeout (120s), HTTP status → user-facing error mapping (401/403/413)
  • cli/types.goLLMRequest, StartEventData, TokenEventData, EndEventData, sseEnvelope with json.RawMessage
  • cli/root.go — default mode dispatch (unrecognized args → ask), ask registered as subcommand
  • cli/kubeconfig.go — improved error for missing kubeconfig using clientcmd.IsEmptyConfig()
  • cli/integration_test.go — end-to-end test through full cobra dispatch
  • 63 Ginkgo specs across unit and integration tests

Type of change

  • New feature

Related Tickets & Documents

Checklist before requesting a review

  • I have performed a self-review of my code.
  • PR has passed all pre-merge test jobs.
  • If it is a core feature, I have added thorough tests.

Testing

Unit/integration tests: 63 Ginkgo specs, 82% statement coverage on cli/ package.

Manual verification against live OLS cluster:

  1. Build: go build -o bin/oc-ols ./cmd/oc-ols/
  2. Login: oc login
  3. Set endpoint: ./bin/oc-ols config set-endpoint https://<ols-route-host>
  4. Ask: ./bin/oc-ols "what can OLS do for me?"

Verified:

  • default mode (oc ols "question") and explicit ask (oc ols ask "question")
  • token streaming to stdout, referenced documents after response
  • HTTP error mapping: 401 → auth error with Try: oc login, 403, 413, unreachable endpoint
  • empty query rejection, no-endpoint-configured error
  • Ctrl+C cancellation during streaming
  • pipe to file/other commands (non-TTY behavior)
  • TLS flags (--insecure-skip-tls-verify, --ca-cert)
  • version and config subcommands still work
  • compared CLI vs UI backend logs — identical server-side processing

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Walkthrough

The CLI adds an ask command that sends authenticated streaming queries to OpenShift Lightspeed. It parses SSE events, prints tokens and referenced documents, validates endpoints, handles stream errors, and supports default and explicit command dispatch.

Changes

Ask streaming CLI

Layer / File(s) Summary
Request and event contracts
cli/types.go, cli/types_test.go
Defines JSON request, SSE event, end-event, and referenced-document structures. Tests cover serialization and decoding.
SSE transport and parser
cli/streaming.go, cli/streaming_test.go, cli/testutil_test.go
Adds authenticated SSE requests, HTTP status mapping, HTTPS redirect protection, idle timeouts, frame parsing, cancellation, and transport tests.
Ask command execution
cli/ask.go, cli/ask_test.go, cli/testutil_test.go
Validates queries and endpoints, reads insecure HTTP settings, stores conversation state, captures non-token events, streams tokens, and prints referenced documents.
Root dispatch and integration
cli/root.go, cli/root_test.go, cli/kubeconfig.go, cli/integration_test.go
Registers the ask command, dispatches default arguments, reports login guidance for empty kubeconfig state, and tests complete CLI flows.

Priority: ➖ Normal — Impact reflects medium issue severity.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 3e6e4

The CLI adds streamed OLS question responses with SSE parsing, validation, and HTTPS redirect protection. No concrete merge-blocking risk remains in the supplied change context.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant RootCmd
  participant AskOptions
  participant SSEClient
  participant LightspeedEndpoint
  RootCmd->>AskOptions: Complete, Validate, Run
  AskOptions->>SSEClient: StreamQuery(LLMRequest)
  SSEClient->>LightspeedEndpoint: POST /v1/streaming_query with bearer token
  LightspeedEndpoint-->>SSEClient: SSE event frames
  SSEClient-->>AskOptions: decoded events
  AskOptions-->>RootCmd: streamed answer and referenced documents
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cli/root_test.go (1)

109-112: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the kubeconfig error positively

cobra.ArbitraryArgs dispatches the query to AskOptions.Complete, where LoadKubeConfig returns an error containing ErrLoadKubeConfig when RawConfig cannot read /nonexistent/kubeconfig. Assert that identifier instead of excluding "unknown command".

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In `@cli/root_test.go` around lines 109 - 112, Update the error assertions in the
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ErrLoadKubeConfig, replacing the negative “unknown command” check while
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cli/kubeconfig.go (1)

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Wrap the ClientConfig() error when no context is resolved.

RawConfig() can return a non-empty configuration with no CurrentContext. ClientConfig() then returns a non-nil diagnostic, but resolvedContext == "" replaces it with the generic message. Since this branch runs only when err != nil, wrap err with %w and move the message to ErrNoValidKubeConfig.

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In `@cli/kubeconfig.go` around lines 58 - 60, Update the kubeconfig error branch
around ClientConfig and resolvedContext so that when err is non-nil, the
original error is wrapped with %w instead of discarded. Move the generic “no
valid configuration” message into ErrNoValidKubeConfig and reuse it while
preserving the existing IsEmptyConfig and empty-context conditions.
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In `@cli/ask.go`:
- Around line 106-114: Wrap the context selected in Run with context.WithCancel,
defer cancel() before invoking client.StreamQuery, and pass the derived context
to it. Preserve the existing fallback to context.Background() and ensure
cancellation occurs on every Run exit, including early returns.

In `@cli/streaming_test.go`:
- Around line 386-394: Update the “resets timeout on successful reads” test
around newIdleTimeoutReader to use a source that emits multiple chunks, with
each read occurring within the one-second idle timeout while the overall
sequence exceeds that timeout; assert that all expected bytes are consumed and
no read error occurs, ensuring timer reset behavior is exercised.

In `@cli/streaming.go`:
- Line 97: Update the request flow around ResolveEndpoint to validate the
resolved endpoint with ValidateEndpointURL before constructing or sending the
HTTP request, ensuring insecure HTTP endpoints are rejected before the
Authorization header is applied.

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In `@cli/kubeconfig.go`:
- Around line 58-60: Update the kubeconfig error branch around ClientConfig and
resolvedContext so that when err is non-nil, the original error is wrapped with
%w instead of discarded. Move the generic “no valid configuration” message into
ErrNoValidKubeConfig and reuse it while preserving the existing IsEmptyConfig
and empty-context conditions.

In `@cli/root_test.go`:
- Around line 109-112: Update the error assertions in the cmd.Execute test to
positively verify that err.Error() contains ErrLoadKubeConfig, replacing the
negative “unknown command” check while retaining the expectation that an error
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…eout test

- ask.go: wrap context with WithCancel+defer cancel to prevent goroutine
  leak on early exit; reject cleartext HTTP endpoints unless
  --insecure-skip-tls-verify is set (CWE-319)
- streaming_test.go: improve idle timeout test with multi-read pipe
  that verifies timer reset across chunks
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parseSSEStream ignores event: fields and always treats data: as the custom JSON envelope. That does not satisfy the SSE event/data-line acceptance criterion: an event: token + data: {...} frame will fail envelope parsing. Please parse the SSE event field and payload, or explicitly support both that framing and the current OLS JSON-envelope framing.

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Run discards reasoning, tool_call, and tool_result frames in the default branch. OLS-3634 requires these events to be captured while remaining hidden from default output. Please retain their payloads in command/result state and keep stdout limited to the response tokens and references.

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Run never retains the conversation ID: StartEventData is defined but start frames are discarded, and EndEventData has no conversation-ID field. OLS-3634 requires extracting the returned conversation ID. Please parse and retain it from the service’s start event so it is available for conversation handling.

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Those are three ACs that are not met from the linked OLS-3634.

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Run never retains the conversation ID...

Conversation ID retention is explicitly scoped to OLS-3636, not this PR. The spec states: "Conversation ID persistence planned for OLS-3636." (cli.md, Conversation persistence section)

The infrastructure is already in place for OLS-3636 to build on:

  • StartEventData.ConversationID is defined in cli/types.go
  • LLMRequest.ConversationID is defined with omitempty for the request path

Also note that in the actual lightspeed-service wire format, conversation_id comes in the start event, not the end event. The AC's phrasing "End event extracts conversation_id" is slightly inaccurate — EndEventData correctly models what the end event actually contains (referenced_documents, token counts, truncated flag).

- Parse SSE event: field (standard framing) in addition to
  JSON envelope fallback, satisfying AC3 from OLS-3634
- Handle start events: extract conversation_id for OLS-3636
- Capture reasoning/tool_call/tool_result in capturedEvents
  instead of discarding (available for --output json)
- Separate --insecure-allow-http from --insecure-skip-tls-verify
  as a global persistent flag, matching config set-endpoint
- Add Accept: text/event-stream request header

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In `@cli/ask.go`:
- Line 162: Update the event-capture logic in Run, including both append sites
for capturedEvents, to enforce an aggregate event or payload-byte limit. Reset
the corresponding counter whenever capturedEvents is reset, stop retaining
events once the limit is reached, and return a clear truncation or limit error.

In `@cli/streaming.go`:
- Line 100: Update the HTTP client used by the request flow around
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@onmete 9258ade your 3 finds, thanks for flagging it!
SSE event: field parsing
parseSSEStream now parses event: fields. When present, uses it as the event type and passes data: through as-is. When absent, falls back to JSON envelope extraction. Both framings are tested.
reasoning/tool events discarded
Reasoning, tool_call, and tool_result events are accumulated in capturedEvents instead of discarded. Not displayed in default mode, available for --output json in OLS-3639.
conversation_id not retained
Start events are parsed and conversation_id is extracted into AskOptions.conversationID. Persistence is OLS-3636, this PR handles extraction. (As Haoyu noted in his earlier reply)

Add CheckRedirect to reject non-HTTPS redirect targets.
Go's http.Client follows redirects and forwards Authorization
headers by default, so an HTTPS-to-HTTP redirect would expose
the bearer token in cleartext (CWE-319).
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parseSSEStream ignores event: fields and always treats data: as the custom JSON envelope. That does not satisfy the SSE event/data-line acceptance criterion...

The lightspeed-service does not send standard SSE event:/data: field framing. It sends a custom JSON envelope inside the data: line:

data: {"event": "token", "data": {"id": 0, "token": "Hello"}}

The event type is embedded inside the JSON payload, not as a separate SSE event: field. The parser (parseSSEEnvelope) correctly extracts the event type and inner data from this envelope format. The spec describes this explicitly (cli.md, parseSSEStream docstring):

lightspeed-service sends events as JSON envelopes inside SSE data lines: {"event": "<type>", "data": <payload>}

The spec line "Parse SSE event frames (event:, data: lines)" is describing SSE generically — the parenthetical lists SSE concepts, not the literal wire format. The PR author verified this against a live OLS cluster, and the test data matches the actual server output format.

An event: token + data: {...} frame (standard SSE framing) is not what the server sends, so there is no need to parse it.

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