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T4299: GraphQL: Static query validation and max cost limiting
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Calculate the total query cost from the query AST. This will block big queries
before executing them.

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jayeshv retitled this revision from Add basic rate limiting to Add a basic query cost validator.Jul 5 2022, 6:44 AM
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Author: Jayesh Velayudhan <jayesh@softwareheritage.org>
Date:   Mon Jul 4 10:41:16 2022 +0200

    Add a basic query cost validator
    
    Use default query validator from ariadne
    Add a cost of 2 for a connections and 1 for a node
    Reject the query from executing if the total cost is
    greater than the max limit (set to 200 at the moment).
    
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Author: Jayesh Velayudhan <jayesh@softwareheritage.org>
Date:   Mon Jul 4 10:41:16 2022 +0200

    Add a basic query cost validator
    
    Use default query validator from ariadne
    Add a cost of 2 for a connections and 1 for a node
    Reject the query from executing if the total cost is
    greater than the max limit (set to 200 at the moment).
    
    Related to T4299

See https://jenkins.softwareheritage.org/job/DGQL/job/tests-on-diff/87/ for more details.

These @cost directives will be ignored by parsers that don't support it, right?

These @cost directives will be ignored by parsers that don't support it, right?

These @cost directives will be ignored by parsers that don't support it, right?

It is an add on. A parser must ignore any unknown directive and the schema will still be valid.

An issue I have is with calculating cost for connections. As of now, I have hard coded that to 2 for every connection. But I don't really like this.

My initial ideas was to calculate cost by multiplying the value of 'first' (number of nodes requested) with the unit node cost (1)
But this doesn't make sense as a connection query is not 'n' times complex to retrieve (it is a constant in most cases). Do you have some thoughts here?

An issue I have is with calculating cost for connections. As of now, I have hard coded that to 2 for every connection. But I don't really like this.

Why?

My initial ideas was to calculate cost by multiplying the value of 'first' (number of nodes requested) with the unit node cost (1)
But this doesn't make sense as a connection query is not 'n' times complex to retrieve (it is a constant in most cases). Do you have some thoughts here?

Isn't it how GitHub does it, though? (Not that I like it...)

An issue I have is with calculating cost for connections. As of now, I have hard coded that to 2 for every connection. But I don't really like this.

Why?

It is a bit unfair, if you request 5 nodes or 50 nodes, it costs you the same. No incentive for retrieving minimal data.

My initial ideas was to calculate cost by multiplying the value of 'first' (number of nodes requested) with the unit node cost (1)
But this doesn't make sense as a connection query is not 'n' times complex to retrieve (it is a constant in most cases). Do you have some thoughts here?

Isn't it how GitHub does it, though? (Not that I like it...)

Yes, one idea is to have big numbers. say, 1000 for a single node and 100 for one node in connection. It is not perfect either.
Maybe that is a possible future improvement.

An issue I have is with calculating cost for connections. As of now, I have hard coded that to 2 for every connection. But I don't really like this.

Why?

It is a bit unfair, if you request 5 nodes or 50 nodes, it costs you the same. No incentive for retrieving minimal data.

But there is also a per-node cost of 1, so that's the incensentive, right?

But there is also a per-node cost of 1, so that's the incensentive, right?

No, every connection, irrespective of the number of nodes we retrieve will cost 2 units.
Every direct node retrieval (say get an origin using URL) will cost 1 unit.

For every node in a connection to cost 1 unit, we have to use a multiplier (that was my original idea). The issue here is,
reverting n nodes in a connection will cost n units and 2*n will cost double.
Isn't it too bad?. From a backed point of view retrieving n or 2*n nodes will cost almost the same resources.

Where is this "2*n" coming from? Is this by assuming every connection multiplies by a factor of 2?

If so, why have this factor at all?

Oh wait I get it. Doing a connection with n nodes costs c*n (for a constant c you implicitly decided to be 1), then fetching each of these nodes also costs n, so it's c*n+n.

Yeah that makes sense to me.

Oh wait I get it. Doing a connection with n nodes costs c*n (for a constant c you implicitly decided to be 1), then fetching each of these nodes also costs n, so it's c*n+n.

Yeah that makes sense to me.

Yes, I am trying to add some functional tests to make it a bit clearer.

vlorentz retitled this revision from Add a basic query cost validator to [WIP] Add a basic query cost validator.Aug 10 2022, 11:33 AM
jayeshv retitled this revision from [WIP] Add a basic query cost validator to [WIP] Add a static query cost calculator to reject malicious quries.Aug 30 2022, 3:23 PM
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Author: Jayesh Velayudhan <jayesh@softwareheritage.org>
Date:   Mon Aug 29 13:37:18 2022 +0200

    Add a static query cost calculator to reject malicious quries
    
    Calculate the total query cost from the query AST. This will block big queries
    before executing them.
    
    Related to T4299

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Author: Jayesh Velayudhan <jayesh@softwareheritage.org>
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    Add a static query cost calculator to reject malicious quries
    
    Calculate the total query cost from the query AST. This will block big queries
    before executing them.
    
    Related to T4299

See https://jenkins.softwareheritage.org/job/DGQL/job/tests-on-diff/138/ for more details.

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Author: Jayesh Velayudhan <jayesh@softwareheritage.org>
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    Add a static query cost calculator to reject malicious quries
    
    Calculate the total query cost from the query AST. This will block big queries
    before executing them.
    
    Related to T4299

See https://jenkins.softwareheritage.org/job/DGQL/job/tests-on-diff/139/ for more details.

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Author: Jayesh Velayudhan <jayesh@softwareheritage.org>
Date:   Mon Aug 29 13:37:18 2022 +0200

    Add a static query cost calculator to reject malicious quries
    
    Calculate the total query cost from the query AST. This will block big queries
    before executing them.
    
    Related to T4299

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Date:   Mon Aug 29 13:37:18 2022 +0200

    Add a static query cost calculator to reject malicious quries
    
    Calculate the total query cost from the query AST. This will block big queries
    before executing them.
    
    Related to T4299

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Author: Jayesh Velayudhan <jayesh@softwareheritage.org>
Date:   Mon Aug 29 13:37:18 2022 +0200

    Add a static query cost calculator to reject malicious quries
    
    Calculate the total query cost from the query AST. This will block big queries
    before executing them.
    
    Related to T4299

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Author: Jayesh Velayudhan <jayesh@softwareheritage.org>
Date:   Mon Aug 29 13:37:18 2022 +0200

    Add a static query cost calculator to reject malicious quries
    
    Calculate the total query cost from the query AST. This will block big queries
    before executing them.
    
    Related to T4299

Link to build: https://jenkins.softwareheritage.org/job/DGQL/job/tests-on-diff/215/
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Author: Jayesh Velayudhan <jayesh@softwareheritage.org>
Date:   Mon Aug 29 13:37:18 2022 +0200

    Add a static query cost calculator to reject malicious quries
    
    Calculate the total query cost from the query AST. This will block big queries
    before executing them.
    
    Related to T4299

Link to build: https://jenkins.softwareheritage.org/job/DGQL/job/tests-on-diff/226/
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Support query variables with the cost validator

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Author: Jayesh Velayudhan <jayesh@softwareheritage.org>
Date:   Mon Aug 29 13:37:18 2022 +0200

    Add a static query cost calculator to reject malicious quries
    
    Calculate the total query cost from the query AST. This will block big queries
    before executing them.
    
    Related to T4299

See https://jenkins.softwareheritage.org/job/DGQL/job/tests-on-diff/227/ for more details.

jayeshv retitled this revision from [WIP] Add a static query cost calculator to reject malicious quries to Add a static query cost calculator to reject malicious quries.Nov 18 2022, 3:01 PM

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    Add a static query cost calculator to reject malicious quries
    
    Calculate the total query cost from the query AST. This will block big queries
    before executing them.
    
    Related to T4299

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    Add a static query cost calculator to reject malicious quries
    
    Calculate the total query cost from the query AST. This will block big queries
    before executing them.
    
    Related to T4299

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    Add a static query cost calculator to reject malicious quries
    
    Calculate the total query cost from the query AST. This will block big queries
    before executing them.
    
    Related to T4299

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    Add a static query cost calculator to reject malicious quries
    
    Calculate the total query cost from the query AST. This will block big queries
    before executing them.
    
    Related to T4299

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    Add a static query cost calculator to reject malicious quries
    
    Calculate the total query cost from the query AST. This will block big queries
    before executing them.
    
    Related to T4299

See https://jenkins.softwareheritage.org/job/DGQL/job/tests-on-diff/283/ for more details.

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    Add a static query cost calculator to reject malicious quries
    
    Calculate the total query cost from the query AST. This will block big queries
    before executing them.
    
    Related to T4299

See https://jenkins.softwareheritage.org/job/DGQL/job/tests-on-diff/284/ for more details.

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Author: Jayesh Velayudhan <jayesh@softwareheritage.org>
Date:   Mon Aug 29 13:37:18 2022 +0200

    Add a static query cost calculator to reject malicious quries
    
    Calculate the total query cost from the query AST. This will block big queries
    before executing them.
    
    Related to T4299

See https://jenkins.softwareheritage.org/job/DGQL/job/tests-on-diff/285/ for more details.