feat(jans-cedarling): accept an issuer base url and derive the OpenID configuration endpoint

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This PR proposes accepting an issuer base url on a trusted issuer and deriving its OpenID configuration endpoint from it, closing #11088. We include this PR work along with a full history of your repo at https://eastagiletracker.com/projects/396. You can sign in with your GitHub ID to claim ownership of the project.

What changes

A trusted issuer currently has to name its discovery document in full. Without openid_configuration_endpoint (or its configuration_endpoint alias) the policy store fails to load, in both the per-file trusted-issuers/*.json format and the embedded trusted_issuers map. #11088 asks for the issuer's base url to be accepted instead, with the endpoint derived by appending .well-known/openid-configuration, and that is what this does.

issuer is now accepted wherever the endpoint is. The derivation keeps any path the issuer carries, so https://host/realms/jans resolves to https://host/realms/jans/.well-known/openid-configuration, and a trailing slash does not produce a doubled separator. An explicitly configured endpoint keeps precedence when both fields are present, so no existing policy store changes behaviour; the only contract change is that one of the two fields is now required instead of openid_configuration_endpoint alone, which schema/policy_store_schema.json now expresses as an anyOf. An issuer that is not a valid url is reported as an invalid issuer rather than as a missing endpoint, so the message points at the field the operator actually wrote.

Reproducing on main

On main at b31f402, restoring just the embedded-format parser under the added tests shows the current behaviour:

$ git checkout main -- jans-cedarling/cedarling/src/common/policy_store/legacy_store/mod.rs
$ cargo test -p cedarling issuer

---- common::policy_store::legacy_store::test::test_trusted_issuer_derives_endpoint_from_issuer stdout ----
should parse: Error("error parsing policy store 'test': error parsing trusted issuers: missing field `openid_configuration_endpoint`", line: 0, column: 0)

failures:
    common::policy_store::legacy_store::test::test_trusted_issuer_derives_endpoint_from_issuer
    common::policy_store::legacy_store::test::test_trusted_issuer_invalid_issuer_url

test result: FAILED. 147 passed; 2 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 806 filtered out

The same holds for the per-file format: a trusted-issuers/*.json declaring only issuer is rejected with MissingRequiredField { field: "openid_configuration_endpoint" }.

Verification

Eight tests were added, and each of them fails on the tree above and passes with the change. Four cover IssuerParser::parse_issuer, which is the function PolicyStoreManager::convert_trusted_issuers calls for every per-file issuer, and four go through a full serde_json::from_str::<LegacyAgamaPolicyStore> of a policy store, which is the embedded-format path used at bootstrap. Between them they cover the derivation, an issuer with a path and a trailing slash, precedence when both fields are given, an invalid issuer url, and the unchanged case where neither field is present.

cargo test -p cedarling was run on the untouched tree first and again after the change: 951 passed / 0 failed before, 959 passed / 0 failed after, so nothing that was green went red. cargo clippy -p cedarling --all-targets -- -D warnings is clean, and cargo fmt --check reports no difference in any file this PR touches. The schema change was checked against the shipped example with python -m jsonschema -i schema/minimal_policy_store.json schema/policy_store_schema.json, which still validates, and the four TrustedIssuer shapes (endpoint only, issuer only, both, neither) validate and fail as intended.

One thing worth flagging for a reviewer rather than folding into this PR: the token-to-issuer match still normalises to the endpoint's origin, so an issuer that carries a path is matched on its host alone. That behaviour is unchanged here, but the new field makes path-carrying issuers easier to configure, so it may be worth a separate look.

There is no user-facing behaviour change for existing configurations, so the documentation update is limited to describing the new field in the two trusted-issuer sections of the policy store reference.

How this was managed

This work was tracked on a board imported from this repository's own issues and pull requests, on the story for #11088: https://eastagiletracker.com/projects/396/stories/319078 — the board it sits on is at https://eastagiletracker.com/projects/396.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Trusted issuers can use an issuer base URL to automatically discover OpenID configuration.
  • Existing URL paths are preserved when deriving discovery endpoints.
  • Explicit discovery endpoints take precedence over derived endpoints.
• Bug Fixes
  • Added validation for HTTPS issuer URLs without query or fragment components.
  • Added clear errors for missing, invalid, null, or incorrectly typed issuer and endpoint values.
• Documentation
  • Updated policy store documentation and schema with the new issuer option and requirements.

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Walkthrough

Trusted issuer configuration now accepts an issuer base URL. Cedarling derives the OIDC discovery endpoint when no explicit endpoint exists, preserves issuer paths, validates invalid values, and gives explicit endpoints precedence.

Changes

Trusted issuer OIDC resolution

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Trusted issuer schema and documentation jans-cedarling/schema/policy_store_schema.json, docs/cedarling/reference/cedarling-policy-store.md	The schema and documentation accept either openid_configuration_endpoint or issuer. They document endpoint precedence, path preservation, and URL restrictions.
OIDC endpoint resolution jans-cedarling/cedarling/src/common/policy_store.rs, jans-cedarling/cedarling/src/common/policy_store/errors.rs, jans-cedarling/cedarling/src/common/policy_store/issuer_parser.rs	The parser derives discovery endpoints from issuer URLs, validates endpoint types and issuer URLs, and reports dedicated errors. Tests cover derivation, path preservation, precedence, and invalid values.
Legacy trusted issuer deserialization jans-cedarling/cedarling/src/common/policy_store/legacy_store/mod.rs, jans-cedarling/cedarling/src/common/policy_store/legacy_store/test.rs	Legacy deserialization distinguishes absent and null endpoints, accepts issuer fallback, preserves explicit endpoint precedence, and tests missing and invalid inputs.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 08e5d

The PR adds issuer-based discovery derivation, but the schema still rejects the existing configuration_endpoint alias that the parser accepts, so valid trusted-issuer configurations can fail validation. This compatibility issue should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

Possibly related PRs

• JanssenProject/jans#12833: Modifies the same TrustedIssuer schema.
• JanssenProject/jans#13592: Introduces the legacy trusted-issuer parsing extended by this change.
• JanssenProject/jans#14209: Modifies trusted-issuer parsing and endpoint fallback behavior.

Suggested labels: kind-feature, area-documentation, comp-docs, comp-jans-cedarling

Suggested reviewers: haileyesus2433, dagregi, olehbozhok

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Inline comments:
In `@jans-cedarling/cedarling/src/common/policy_store.rs`:
- Around line 213-217: Update derive_oidc_endpoint in
jans-cedarling/cedarling/src/common/policy_store.rs:213-217 to parse and
validate the issuer as HTTPS with no query or fragment before appending the
discovery path. Constrain the issuer schema in
jans-cedarling/schema/policy_store_schema.json:205-209, document these
requirements in docs/cedarling/reference/cedarling-policy-store.md:231-231, and
add rejection tests for HTTP, query, and fragment values in
issuer_parser.rs:394-470 and legacy_store/test.rs:384-443.

In `@jans-cedarling/cedarling/src/common/policy_store/issuer_parser.rs`:
- Around line 402-410: Update the affected tests in
jans-cedarling/cedarling/src/common/policy_store/issuer_parser.rs at lines
402-410, 420-428, and 439-447 to replace is_ok assertions followed by unwrap
with result.expect using descriptive messages, and add descriptive messages to
each assert_eq. In
jans-cedarling/cedarling/src/common/policy_store/legacy_store/test.rs lines
392-410, add descriptive messages to every equality assertion; preserve the
existing test behavior.
- Around line 83-118: Distinguish omitted endpoints from present non-string
values in issuer_parser.rs lines 83-118, returning the existing endpoint
validation error instead of falling back to issuer; preserve explicit null
presence during deserialization in legacy_store/mod.rs lines 103-134. Add null
and numeric endpoint failure tests with a valid issuer in issuer_parser.rs lines
430-470, and an explicit-null failure test in legacy_store/test.rs lines
398-443.

In `@jans-cedarling/cedarling/src/common/policy_store/legacy_store/mod.rs`:
- Around line 115-134: Update LegacyTrustedIssuer’s TryFrom implementation to
use a private thiserror-based error enum instead of String, with variants
retaining the url::ParseError, the selected configuration field, and the
rejected URL. Map both Url::parse and derive_oidc_endpoint failures into the
appropriate typed variant, preserve the missing-field error, and keep each
rendered error message under 100 characters.

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228-231: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Keep the legacy endpoint alias valid in the schema contract.

A trusted issuer that provides only configuration_endpoint is accepted by the parser and documented as backward compatible. The new anyOf rejects that configuration because it requires only openid_configuration_endpoint or issuer.

• jans-cedarling/schema/policy_store_schema.json#L228-L231: Declare configuration_endpoint as a string URI alias and add it as an anyOf alternative.
• docs/cedarling/reference/cedarling-policy-store.md#L230-L231: State that one of openid_configuration_endpoint, configuration_endpoint, or issuer is required.

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In `@jans-cedarling/schema/policy_store_schema.json` around lines 228 - 231,
Update jans-cedarling/schema/policy_store_schema.json to define
configuration_endpoint as a string URI property and add it as an anyOf
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In `@jans-cedarling/schema/policy_store_schema.json`:
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define configuration_endpoint as a string URI property and add it as an anyOf
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