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PR 2 — fix: safely handle correlation ID lookup in non-web mode (Fixes #126)

Branch fix/126-non-web-correlation, commit b649242.

Problem. json_logging.get_correlation_id() delegates to _request_util, which init_non_web() never creates. The
call raised AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get_correlation_id'.

Reproduced on master: the three accessor tests fail with that exact error, after init_non_web() with JSON enabled
and disabled, and before any init.

Change. get_correlation_id() returns EMPTY_VALUE when _request_util is None, and the docstring says so. Web-mode
behaviour, including an explicit request=, is unchanged.

Tests. tests/test_non_web_correlation.py (5 tests). Three fail on master and pass now. Two are controls: non-web
JSON output keeps its schema with no correlation_id, and web mode still honours an explicit request.

Local results.

  • Full unit suite, Python 3.9–3.13: 40 passed each (35 on master + 5 new).
  • Blocking flake8: 0.
  • Mutation: removing the guard makes the three accessor tests fail again.

Compatibility. The only change is no longer raising in non-web mode. No output changes.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Correlation ID retrieval now safely returns - before request utilities are initialized and after non-web initialization, instead of raising an error.
    • Non-web JSON logs remain unchanged when no correlation ID is available.
    • Web requests continue to honor explicitly provided correlation IDs.
  • Documentation

    • Added an unreleased changelog entry describing the updated correlation ID behavior.

Review update (round 2)

  • Head 8538661: the test module restores the framework logger state around every test (see fix: prevent fabricated correlation IDs outside active requests #127).
  • Verified: 40/40 on Python 3.9-3.13; blocking flake8 clean; removing the guard fails 3 tests; the web-mode
    request= behaviour and the non-web schema tests are unchanged.
  • No production code changed in this round.

Review update (round 3, head 3a43f1a)

I re-verified this PR independently.

  • get_correlation_id() returns - before any init and after init_non_web(), with JSON enabled or disabled, including when a request object is passed explicitly.
  • Web mode still returns the supplied header ID.
  • The non-web JSON output still has no correlation_id field.
  • The logger-state checker finds 0 leaks.
  • Mutation check: removing the guard makes the 3 accessor tests fail again.

I found no functional defect. The one change this round removes the unused import io that the LlamaPReview bot flagged in review (flake8 F401). There is no behaviour change.

Results: 40/40 on Python 3.9–3.13; blocking flake8 0; GitHub Actions 10/10 on 3a43f1a.

Rebase and Python 3.14 validation (2026-10-20)

README API clarification and final verification (2026-10-20)

  • Addressed LlamaPReview documentation suggestion in README.md §2.3: before initialization and after init_non_web(), get_correlation_id() returns EMPTY_VALUE ("-") without generating an HTTP correlation ID.
  • The earlier CodeRabbit test-isolation finding is fixed at 34178bb.
  • 15/15 CI checks passed on exact PR head 49c83d2, workflow run #39513417351, including Python 3.14.
  • No production-code changes after the original accessor guard.

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get_correlation_id() now returns EMPTY_VALUE when request utilities are not initialized. Tests cover non-web and pre-initialization calls, non-web JSON output, and web-mode request IDs.

Changes: Correlation ID fallback

Layer / File(s) Summary
Implement and verify fallback
json_logging/__init__.py, tests/test_non_web_correlation.py, CHANGELOG.md
The accessor returns EMPTY_VALUE when _request_util is unset. Tests cover pre-initialization and non-web calls, non-web log output, and web-mode request IDs. The changelog records the behavior.

Priority: ⚪ Pending latest changes

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 34178

The production fallback is correct, but two localized test fixes are needed to prevent logging-state leakage and properly protect non-web initialization behavior.

Security architecture risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 34178

The fallback replaces an initialization-related exception with the existing empty-value marker. Initialized web requests retain their existing lookup behavior. No material security risk was identified in the changed behavior.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The changed runtime outcome is bounded to callers invoking the accessor while request utilities are unset. The branch adds no state mutation, privileged operation, or cross-service interaction.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The logger-restoration entrypoint is a pytest fixture rather than a production API. It snapshots selected logging state for each test and restores it after yielding; the logging-output test also removes its added handler in a finally block. Restoration does not cover all logger state or mutations within existing handlers, limiting test isolation without demonstrating a production security effect.
Pre-merge checks: Passed 4 · Failed 1

Failed Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Docstring Coverage Warning Docstring coverage is 42.86% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 7 functions across 2 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
Passed Passed checks: 4 passed
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Description Check Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: safe correlation ID lookup in non-web mode.
Linked Issues check Passed Issue #126 requires a stable documented non-web result, a regression test, preserved non-web logging, preserved web behavior, unchanged schema and initialization semantics, and passing checks. At head…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The changes stay within issue #126. The production change adds only the missing request-utility guard. The tests verify the requested contract and compatibility behavior. Logger-state restoration supp…
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Explanation

Issue #126 requires a stable documented non-web result, a regression test, preserved non-web logging, preserved web behavior, unchanged schema and initialization semantics, and passing checks. At head 34178bb, get_correlation_id() returns EMPTY_VALUE when _request_util is None, and its docstring documents the pre-initialization and init_non_web() behavior. tests/test_non_web_correlation.py covers both non-web JSON settings, pre-initialization, repeated access without ID generation, non-web JSON schema, and an explicit web request. The supplied results report passing tests and blocking lint checks.

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Explanation

The changes stay within issue #126. The production change adds only the missing request-utility guard. The tests verify the requested contract and compatibility behavior. Logger-state restoration supports test isolation, and the changelog records the fix. No ambient correlation feature, schema change, or unrelated production behavior is shown.

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LlamaPReview — No blocking issues found

Safe to merge: the accessor now returns the documented '-' sentinel when no request utility exists (after init_non_web() or before any init) instead of raising AttributeError, while web-mode correlation and the JSON log schema are unchanged by construction.

2 non-blocking findings retained — highest: Unused io import in new test module; --exit-zero style run means it cannot fail the gate.

Review details and evidence
Priority File Finding Evidence
P2 tests/test_non_web_correlation.py Unused io import in new test module; --exit-zero style run means it cannot fail the gate. needs verification
P2 review context README API note not added; behavior documented only in docstring and changelog. needs verification

Finding details

P2 · Unused io import in new test module; --exit-zero style run means it cannot fail the gate.

tests/test_non_web_correlation.py

The added test module imports io and never references it; the same file uses json, logging, pytest and both helpers. Consequence is limited to lint noise: the blocking CI step selects only E9,F63,F7,F82, and the style run uses --exit-zero, so this cannot fail the gate and does not affect merge. Its status is nonblocking.

Owner action: Owner action (optional, any later test-touching PR): drop the io import.

Verification boundary: needs verification; scope: changed region.

Conceptual guidance (not a committable GitHub suggestion):

import json
import logging

P2 · README API note not added; behavior documented only in docstring and changelog.

review context

The behavior is documented twice inside the PR (accessor docstring: returns EMPTY_VALUE after init_non_web() or before any init; CHANGELOG Unreleased entry), but the fetched README slices expose only a "Get current correlation-id" table-of-contents entry and non-web/web usage examples, with no explicit non-web return-value contract. This is a documentation-completeness observation, not an observed defect: the acceptance criterion "follows the approved, documented contract" is satisfied by the in-code contract plus changelog, and no caller or output depends on the README text.

Owner action: Optional owner action: add one line under README section 2.3 stating the non-web return value.

Verification boundary: needs verification; scope: bounded reviewed context.

Material unknowns

  • Exact pre-existing README section 2.3 body wording about non-web correlation support. Affects only whether the optional README note is worth doing, not whether the code change is correct; a different wording would not turn it into a blocker.
    • Check: Optionally read README section 2.3 and decide whether to add the non-web return-value line.

LlamaPReview checks

  • Read the complete PR-head file .github/workflows/code_quality.yml.
  • Inspected matching PR-head repository snippets in README.md.
  • Read bounded PR-head context from README.md.
  • Read bounded PR-head context from json_logging/__init__.py.
  • Read bounded PR-head context from json_logging/util.py.
  • Reviewed changed regions in tests/test_non_web_correlation.py.

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json_logging.get_correlation_id() delegated to the request utility, which
init_non_web() never creates. Calling it after init_non_web(), or before any
init, raised AttributeError ('NoneType' object has no attribute
'get_correlation_id').

Non-web logging has no HTTP request, so there is no correlation ID to read.
The accessor now returns json_logging.EMPTY_VALUE in that case. Web-mode
behaviour is unchanged, including an explicitly passed request.

Fixes #126
Measured after this module: flask-request-logger was left with a handler and
parent=None by the web-mode test that calls init_flask() and
init_request_instrument(). An autouse fixture snapshots and restores the
request loggers and werkzeug around every test, so the module no longer
changes state other tests can see.

Verified: 40/40 on Python 3.9-3.13, blocking flake8 clean, removing the
non-web guard still fails 3 tests.

Refs #126
Reported in review (flake8 F401). No behaviour change.
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- Line 38: Update the test fixture around undo_imports_from_package to capture
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🟡 Minor · Restore every mutated logger and handler formatter. · test_non_web_correlation.py:15-41

tests/test_non_web_correlation.py:15-41
🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Restore every mutated logger and handler formatter.

JSON-enabled initialization changes handlers on every registered logger. The fixture restores only selected logger attributes and handler lists. It does not restore each handler's formatter or newly registered logger entries. A later in-process test can therefore receive JSON formatting from a handler that previously used another formatter.

Snapshot and restore the complete logger registry, logger settings, and handler formatters, or isolate this module in a subprocess.

Suggested fix
 @pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
 def restore_framework_logger_state():
     """Restore process-global logging defaults and per-logger state changed by initialization."""
     default_formatter = logging._defaultFormatter
-    names = ("flask-request-logger", "connexion-request-logger", "quart-request-logger",
-             "werkzeug", "non-web-test")
-    saved = {}
-    for name in names:
-        logger = logging.getLogger(name)
-        saved[name] = (list(logger.handlers), logger.level, logger.parent, logger.propagate, logger.disabled)
+    logger_registry = logging.Logger.manager.loggerDict.copy()
+    saved = {}
+    for logger in logger_registry.values():
+        if isinstance(logger, logging.Logger):
+            saved[logger] = (
+                list(logger.handlers),
+                logger.level,
+                logger.parent,
+                logger.propagate,
+                logger.disabled,
+                {handler: handler.formatter for handler in logger.handlers},
+            )
     yield
     logging._defaultFormatter = default_formatter
-    for name, (handlers, level, parent, propagate, disabled) in saved.items():
-        logger = logging.getLogger(name)
+    logging.Logger.manager.loggerDict.clear()
+    logging.Logger.manager.loggerDict.update(logger_registry)
+    for logger, (handlers, level, parent, propagate, disabled, formatters) in saved.items():
         logger.handlers = handlers
         logger.setLevel(level)
         logger.parent = parent
         logger.propagate = propagate
         logger.disabled = disabled
+        for handler, formatter in formatters.items():
+            handler.setFormatter(formatter)
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Review comment at @tests/test_non_web_correlation.py around lines 15 - 41:
Update restore_framework_logger_state to snapshot and restore the complete
logger registry, all logger settings, each existing handler’s formatter, and
newly registered or removed logger entries instead of limiting restoration to
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57-77: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Attach the handler before init_non_web()

init_non_web() configures handlers that already exist. This test adds its handler afterward and assigns JSONLogFormatter directly, so it can pass even if initialization stops configuring existing handlers. Create and attach the handler before initialization, then remove the explicit formatter assignment.

Suggested fix
     import json_logging
-    json_logging.init_non_web(enable_json=True)
 
     logger = logging.getLogger("non-web-test")
     logger.setLevel(logging.INFO)
     logger.propagate = False
     handler = FormattedMessageCollectorHandler()
-    handler.setFormatter(json_logging.JSONLogFormatter())
     logger.addHandler(handler)
     try:
+        json_logging.init_non_web(enable_json=True)
         logger.info("hello %s", "world")
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Review comment at @tests/test_non_web_correlation.py around lines 57 - 77:
Update test_non_web_json_logging_output_is_unchanged so the
FormattedMessageCollectorHandler is attached to the logger before calling
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- Around line 15-41: Update restore_framework_logger_state to snapshot and
restore the complete logger registry, all logger settings, each existing
handler’s formatter, and newly registered or removed logger entries instead of
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- Around line 57-77: Update test_non_web_json_logging_output_is_unchanged so the
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suppagoddo added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 21, 2026
Bump the version to 1.6.0 and collect the changelog into a 1.6.0 section
covering every change merged since 1.5.1:

- Added: json_logging.EXCLUDED_FIELDS (#129, fixes #98)
- Fixed: FastAPI request-context propagation (#123, fixes #124); outside-request
  correlation IDs in Flask, Quart and Connexion (#127, fixes #125); non-web
  get_correlation_id() (#128, fixes #126); Sanic 24+ logging config (#133)
- Documentation: FastAPI/Uvicorn startup (#130, fixes #106); Gunicorn and
  Flask example (#131, fixes #25)
- Compatibility: default output unchanged unless EXCLUDED_FIELDS is set; the
  framework behaviour changes; Python 3.9+ FastAPI context path; CI coverage

The previous 'other integrations unchanged' and 'no change to the JSON schema'
statements are replaced, since they do not hold for the whole release. The
date is added when the release is cut. No library code change.
suppagoddo added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 21, 2026
* chore(release): prepare json-logging 1.6.0

Bump the version to 1.6.0 and collect the changelog into a 1.6.0 section
covering every change merged since 1.5.1:

- Added: json_logging.EXCLUDED_FIELDS (#129, fixes #98)
- Fixed: FastAPI request-context propagation (#123, fixes #124); outside-request
  correlation IDs in Flask, Quart and Connexion (#127, fixes #125); non-web
  get_correlation_id() (#128, fixes #126); Sanic 24+ logging config (#133)
- Documentation: FastAPI/Uvicorn startup (#130, fixes #106); Gunicorn and
  Flask example (#131, fixes #25)
- Compatibility: default output unchanged unless EXCLUDED_FIELDS is set; the
  framework behaviour changes; Python 3.9+ FastAPI context path; CI coverage

The previous 'other integrations unchanged' and 'no change to the JSON schema'
statements are replaced, since they do not hold for the whole release. The
date is added when the release is cut. No library code change.

* chore(release): credit Bob T. and Udit Agrawal in 1.6.0 metadata
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fix: get_correlation_id() raises AttributeError after init_non_web()

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