[spark-compete] Narrow bare except in two urlopen helpers (Telegram deleteWebhook + Spawner UI live health) to (URLError, OSError, TimeoutError, JSONDecodeError)

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"PYTHONPATH=src python3 -m unittest tests.test_cli -> baseline 576/577 pass (one preexisting unrelated failure in test_collect_hosted_security_payload_flags_openclaw_style_risks). No new failures from this change."
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QA write-up — for reviewer eyes

TL;DR. Two urllib.request.urlopen wrappers in cli.py catch generic Exception. A typo'd attribute or a NameError on an unimported symbol inside the try body gets folded into a misleading "Telegram rejected" failure entry or a "Spawner UI live health failed" detail string — and the operator looks at the remote endpoint instead of their own code. Narrow each catch to the exhaustive tuple for the operations inside the try.

Before

L8206 (clear_telegram_webhook_state):

try:
    with urllib.request.urlopen(request, timeout=...) as response:
        payload = json.loads(response.read().decode("utf-8"))
    ok = bool(payload.get("ok"))
    ...
except Exception as error:
    detail = revoke_all_error_detail(error)
    failures.append({"secret_id": secret_id, "error": detail})

L5063 (spawner UI live health):

try:
    request = urllib.request.Request(health_url, ...)
    with urllib.request.urlopen(request, timeout=...) as response:
        healthy = 200 <= int(response.status) < 300
        detail = f"Spawner UI live health {'OK' if healthy else 'failed'}: HTTP {response.status}"
except Exception as exc:
    healthy = False
    detail = f"Spawner UI live health failed: {exc}"

A NameError inside either try body gets stringified into the failure detail. The operator sees "Telegram rejected" or "Spawner UI live health failed" and assumes the remote is down.

After

except (urllib.error.URLError, OSError, json.JSONDecodeError, TimeoutError) as error:
    ...

except (urllib.error.URLError, OSError, TimeoutError) as exc:
    ...

URLError / OSError / TimeoutError cover urlopen's documented failure modes. JSONDecodeError covers the response-body parse (only the deleteWebhook site has that). Programming bugs propagate.

Smoke

$ PYTHONPATH=src python3 -c "
from spark_cli.cli import clear_telegram_webhook_state
r = clear_telegram_webhook_state([{'secret_id':'fake','token':'000:nope'}], dry_run=False)
print('ok=', r.get('ok'), 'failures=', len(r.get('failures',[])))
"
ok= False failures= 1

URLError still caught into the documented failure-entry shape. Full unittest sweep:

$ PYTHONPATH=src python3 -m unittest tests.test_cli
Ran 577 tests in 1.935s
FAILED (failures=1, skipped=1)

The one failure is test_collect_hosted_security_payload_flags_openclaw_style_risks — a preexisting failure on the baseline branch (confirmed by stashing the edit and rerunning). No new failures from this change.

What didn't change

One file, two lines. Each except body is byte-identical pre/post. The result/failures list shape for deleteWebhook and the healthy/detail tuple for the live-health path are unchanged. Network and parse failures still flow through the existing error-detail string.

Pattern-match: same shape as merged narrow-bare-except work in spark-researcher #39/#40, spark-character #4, spark-personality-chip-labs #3, and our own spark-cli #526.

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Reviewer preference: include test file in commit?

This PR currently keeps the smoke / reproducer outside the commit (see the Reproducer comment above, or the smoke commands in the packet's tests_or_smoke field).

If you'd prefer the test pinned into the PR diff as a permanent regression guard (e.g. tests/test_<short>.py), say the word and I'll add it. The default decision was "comment-only" to keep the diff focused on the fix per the maintainer's "focused branch on one root issue" rule, but happy to flip to in-commit if that's the lab convention.

No action needed if comment-only is fine.

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Reproducer script for mac-lab automation (inline)

A standalone reproducer for this fix is pasted below. Self-contained — no spark-internal state required beyond gh pr checkout.

How to run

gh pr checkout 527 --repo vibeforge1111/spark-cli
# Save the script below to /tmp/repro.py, then:
python3 /tmp/repro.py

Reproducer

#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""
Reproducer for vibeforge1111/spark-cli PR #527.
Verifies clear_telegram_webhook_state catches URLError into failures (not bare Exception).

Usage:
    gh pr checkout 527 --repo vibeforge1111/spark-cli
    python3 repro-spark-cli-527.py
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import os, sys

sys.path.insert(0, "src")
os.environ["PYTHONPATH"] = "src" + (":" + os.environ.get("PYTHONPATH", "") if os.environ.get("PYTHONPATH") else "")


def main() -> int:
    try:
        from spark_cli.cli import clear_telegram_webhook_state
    except ImportError as e:
        print(f"FAIL: cannot import clear_telegram_webhook_state: {e}", file=sys.stderr)
        return 2

    # Drive against an obviously-bad token; the URLError path should produce ok=False + failures>=1
    try:
        r = clear_telegram_webhook_state(
            [{"secret_id": "fake", "token": "000:nope-reproducer-pr527"}],
            dry_run=False,
        )
    except Exception as e:
        print(f"FAIL: function raised {type(e).__name__}: {e}")
        print("This means the narrow is too tight (caught exception escaped) OR a non-network bug surfaced.")
        return 1

    ok = r.get("ok")
    failures = r.get("failures", [])
    print(f"  result: ok={ok}, failures={len(failures)}")
    for f in failures[:3]:
        print(f"    failure entry: {f!r}")

    if ok is False and len(failures) >= 1:
        print("\nASSERT PASSED -- URLError caught into failures list (the narrow keeps the documented contract).")
        return 0
    print("\nASSERT FAILED -- expected ok=False with at least one failure entry.")
    return 1


if __name__ == "__main__":
    sys.exit(main())

Expected output

Exit code 0 = fix matches expected shape. Nonzero = fix missing or regression.

Mac-lab automated review can copy this fenced code block, execute it, and assert exit code 0 — without modifying the PR diff. If you'd prefer this committed as tests/test_<short>.py in the diff, see the "include test file in commit?" comment below — say the word and we'll add it.

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QA write-up — for reviewer eyes

Bug

Two urllib.request.urlopen wrappers in src/spark_cli/cli.py catch generic Exception and convert the error to a string. clear_telegram_webhook_state at L8206 wraps urlopen(deleteWebhook) + json.loads(response) and on any failure pushes a failure entry. The spawner-ui live-health path at L5063 wraps urlopen(health_url) and on any failure sets healthy=False with a detail string. The bare Exception in both sites catches KeyboardInterrupt and SystemExit alongside the intended network errors, and silently absorbs programming bugs in the surrounding code (a typo'd attribute reference, a NameError on an unimported symbol). Those bugs surface as a misleading 'Telegram rejected' failure or 'Spawner UI live health failed' string, sending the operator looking at the remote endpoint instead of their own code.

Expected behavior

Network failures (URLError, OSError, TimeoutError) and the json.loads parse failure (JSONDecodeError, where applicable) continue to be caught and reported via the existing error-detail string. Programming bugs and interrupts propagate so the operator gets a real traceback.

Fix

Replace except Exception as <name>: with a tuple narrow that matches the exhaustive set of exceptions raised by the operations inside each try body. For the deleteWebhook site: urllib.request.urlopen raises URLError (and its HTTPError subclass), OSError, TimeoutError; json.loads on the response body raises JSONDecodeError. For the spawner-ui health site: urlopen only (no JSON parse). The catch tuple is the only thing that changes; the except body is byte-identical.

Before / After

Two distinct urlopen wrappers, two except Exception as <name>: clauses changed to narrow tuples. clear_telegram_webhook_state L8206 -- Before: except Exception as error: After: except (urllib.error.URLError, OSError, json.JSONDecodeError, TimeoutError) as error:. spawner-ui health L5063 -- Before: except Exception as exc: After: except (urllib.error.URLError, OSError, TimeoutError) as exc:. Except bodies are byte-identical. Smoke pin: calling clear_telegram_webhook_state with a deliberately-unresolvable token still returns ok=False with a single failure entry (URLError caught) -- the documented network-error path still works after the narrow. Diff: cli.py +2/-2. Two lines changed total.

Repro

gh pr checkout 527
PYTHONPATH=src python3 -c "from spark_cli.cli import clear_telegram_webhook_state; r=clear_telegram_webhook_state([{'secret_id':'fake','token':'000:nope'}], dry_run=False); print('ok=',r.get('ok'),'failures=',len(r.get('failures',[])))" -> ok= False failures= 1
Inverse: hand-edit a NameError into the L8197 try body (e.g. reference `not_a_real_symbol`) and rerun. Before the narrow: the NameError gets stringified into a failure entry and ok=False with no traceback. After the narrow: NameError raises out of the function visibly.
PYTHONPATH=src python3 -m unittest tests.test_cli -> baseline 576/577 pass (one preexisting unrelated failure in test_collect_hosted_security_payload_flags_openclaw_style_risks). No new failures from this change.

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TL;DR

Two urlopen helpers (Telegram deleteWebhook + Spawner UI live health) swallow KeyboardInterrupt and programming bugs as generic Exception After the fix: Network failures (URLError, OSError, TimeoutError) and the json.loads parse failure (JSONDecodeError, where applicable) continue to be caught and reported via the existing error-detail string.

What changes

Files touched: src/spark_cli/cli.py.

Why this matters

This is the surface the operator hits when the failure happens; the fix lets them continue without a second debugging step.

Reproduction (operator-side)

1. gh pr checkout 527
2. PYTHONPATH=src python3 -c "from spark_cli.cli import clear_telegram_webhook_state; r=clear_telegram_webhook_state([{'secret_id':'fake','token':'000:nope'}], dry_run=False); print('ok=',r.get('ok'),'failures=',len(r.get('failures',[])))" -> ok= False failures= 1
3. Inverse: hand-edit a NameError into the L8197 try body (e.g. reference not_a_real_symbol) and rerun. Before the narrow: the NameError gets stringified into a failure entry and ok=False with no traceback. After the narrow: NameError raises out of the function visibly.
4. PYTHONPATH=src python3 -m unittest tests.test_cli -> baseline 576/577 pass (one preexisting unrelated failure in test_collect_hosted_security_payload_flags_openclaw_style_risks). No new failures from this change.

Verification

Review src/spark_cli/cli.py for the targeted change. Run the reproduction; expected outcome: Network failures (URLError, OSError, TimeoutError) and the json.loads parse failure (JSONDecodeError, where applicable) continue to be caught and reported via the existing error-detail string.