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James Griffiths 1afa293dda fix(datasource/docker): adjust tag caching for private registries (#45348)
* fix(docker): adjust tag caching for private registries

Tag caching for private registries currently has two issues, observed in
issues #45249 and #40734:
1. `getTags` has no `cacheable` guard (unlike `getReleases`)
2. `getTags` caches `null` tag results

These two combined mean that regardless of `cachePrivatePackages`
settings, private registry tag lookups which fail due to transient/auth
errors are cached. This results in the cache being "poisoned" by
misconfigured jobs, with well-configured jobs unable to recover. This is
especially relevant for the hosted app where caching is shared by
different tenants.

This commit:
1. Aligns `getTags` caching with `getReleases`, ensuring caching
   behaviour is driven by `cachePrivatePackages`.
2. Prevents `null` tag results being cached, allowing for recovery
   regardless of `cachePrivatePackages` configuration.

Note that I have _not_ applied (2) to `getReleases`, because
1. `getReleases` has a slightly different contract in that it sets
   `fallback: true` to intentionally cache failures
2. I have not observed any actual failures in `getReleases` due to (20,
   so it hasn't been empirically proven as requiring a fix
3. `getTags` is internal so is a lower-risk change

Fixes
- #45249

Relates to
- #45249
- #40734

* refactor(docker): undefined for no-auth

Previously `getAuthHeaders()` used `null` as an auth-failed sentinel,
which was inconsistent with `withCache()`, and led to the original "fix"
where nulls were explicitly omitted from the cache.

Instead this implements the suggestion from https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate/pull/45348#issuecomment-5340524967
to uniformly return undefined for `getTags` auth errors, which allows
the cache to recognise failures itself. Then cacheability ends up being
conditional on dockerhub as always.

This also rectifies a mismatch between auth-failure signals, where other
functions like `_getImageConfig` were returning `undefined` when headers
were unavailable.

IMPORTANT: once this lands, since there aren't any cache invalidations,
the existing issue will still be observed until the cache TTL expires
and old `null` entries are evicted.

* fix: whoops, sort out the vacuous tests

I failed to realise caching isn't automatically orchestrated in these
tests. As an eagle-eyed observer [pointed out][1], this meant the tests
weren't actually exercising anything.

This commit fixes that by adding a new test block which does the cache
orchestration using a temp dir cache. I've also opted to add assertions
against the mock server's http trace counter directly to ensure the mock
really is/isn't being hit. This should also serve to make the tests fail
fast if the underlying impl flow (auth probe -> get tags) is adjusted in
the future.

I've also brought in some caching dependencies into the test file, but
those are used elsewhere too (e.g. `withCache` tests).

This time, I have actually verified the tests which we'd expect to fail
do fail against main. Note that the first 'caches tags for Docker Hub'
is expected to pass on both branches (the control test).

```
     ❯ getTags caching (3)
       ✓ caches tags for Docker Hub 21ms 249 MB heap used
       × does not cache tags for a private registry 20ms 212 MB heap used
       × does not cache failed lookups when cachePrivatePackages is enabled 15ms 215 MB heap used
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 FAIL  lib/modules/datasource/docker/index.spec.ts > modules/datasource/docker/index > getTags caching > does not cache tags for a private registry
AssertionError: expected [ '1.0.0' ] to deeply equal [ '1.0.0', '2.0.0' ]

- Expected
+ Received

  [
    "1.0.0",
-   "2.0.0",
  ]

 ❯ lib/modules/datasource/docker/index.spec.ts:3694:72
    3692|       expect(httpMock.getTrace()).toHaveLength(2);
    3693|
    3694|       expect(await ds.getTags('https://registry.company.com', 'node')).toEqual([
       |                                                                        ^
    3695|         '1.0.0',
    3696|         '2.0.0',

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 FAIL  lib/modules/datasource/docker/index.spec.ts > modules/datasource/docker/index > getTags caching > does not cache tags for a private registry
Error: *** Unused HTTP mocks ***

- GET https://registry.company.com/v2/node/tags/list

Requests done:

- GET https://registry.company.com/v2/node/tags/list?n=10000 [200]
- GET https://registry.company.com/v2/node/tags/list?n=10000 [200]

---

Renovate testing strategy requires that every HTTP request
has a corresponding mock.

This error occurs because some of the created mocks are unused.

In most cases, you simply need to remove them.

+++
 ❯ <test> lib/modules/datasource/docker/index.spec.ts:3675:9
    3673|     });
    3674|
    3675|     it('does not cache tags for a private registry', async () => {
       |         ^
    3676|       httpMock
    3677|         .scope('https://registry.company.com/v2')

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 FAIL  lib/modules/datasource/docker/index.spec.ts > modules/datasource/docker/index > getTags caching > does not cache failed lookups when cachePrivatePackages is enabled
AssertionError: expected null to be undefined

- Expected:
undefined

+ Received:
null

 ❯ lib/modules/datasource/docker/index.spec.ts:3717:9
    3715|       expect(
    3716|         await ds.getTags('https://registry.company.com', 'node'),
    3717|       ).toBeUndefined();
       |         ^
    3718|       expect(httpMock.getTrace()).toHaveLength(1);
    3719|

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 FAIL  lib/modules/datasource/docker/index.spec.ts > modules/datasource/docker/index > getTags caching > does not cache failed lookups when cachePrivatePackages is enabled
Error: *** Unused HTTP mocks ***

- GET https://registry.company.com/v2/node/tags/list

Requests done:

- GET https://registry.company.com/v2/node/tags/list?n=10000 [403]

---

Renovate testing strategy requires that every HTTP request
has a corresponding mock.

This error occurs because some of the created mocks are unused.

In most cases, you simply need to remove them.

+++
 ❯ <test> lib/modules/datasource/docker/index.spec.ts:3701:9
    3699|     });
    3700|
    3701|     it('does not cache failed lookups when cachePrivatePackages is enabled', async () => {
       |         ^
    3702|       GlobalConfig.set({ cachePrivatePackages: true });
    3703|

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 Test Files  1 failed (1)
      Tests  2 failed | 313 passed (315)
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[1]: https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate/pull/45348#pullrequestreview-5092478059

* oxlint-fix

---------

Co-authored-by: Jamie Tanna <jamie.tanna@mend.io>
2026-09-07 12:07:52 +00:00
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Datasources

Datasources are used in Renovate primarily to fetch released versions of packages.

Follow the class-based programming style

New datasources must follow the class-based programming style. Use the java-version datasource as a reference.

Add the datasource to the API in api.ts so that the new datasource is usable. If you find Unused HTTP mocks errors in the Vitest tests and your mocked URLs are correct, make sure the datasource is correctly registered.

getReleases

The minimum exported interface for a datasource is a function called getReleases that takes a lookup config as input.

The config has:

  • packageName: the package's full name including scope if present (e.g. @foo/bar)
  • registryUrls: an array of registry URLs to try

getReleases should return an object having:

  • releases: an array of strings of matched versions. This is the only mandatory field
  • deprecationMessage: a string description of the package's deprecation notice, if applicable
  • sourceUrl: a HTTP URL pointing to the source code (for example on GitHub)
  • homepage: a HTTP URL for the package's homepage. Ideally should be empty if the homepage and sourceUrl are the same
  • changelogUrl: a URL pointing to the package's changelog (could be a Markdown file, for example). If not present then Renovate will search the sourceUrl for a changelog file
  • tags: an object mapping tag → version, for example tags: { latest: '3.0.0' }. This is only used by the followTags function

getDigest

Datasources that support digests (like Docker digests and Git commit hashes) can export a getDigest function.

The getDigest function has two inputs:

  • config: the Renovate config for the package being updated, has the same fields as getReleases
  • newValue: the version or value to retrieve the digest for

The getDigest function returns a string output representing the digest value. If no digest is found, the getDigest function should return null.