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BUG: malformed includes raises NoMethodError

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
ruby
Domain
api

Research direction

Start at JSONAPI::RequestParser#parse_include_directives and trace the places where CSV.parse_line is called in the 0.9 and 0.10 code paths. Reproduce the array input from include[]=memberships, then verify malformed input no longer raises an unhandled NoMethodError and is surfaced as a JSONAPI::Exceptions error.

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Bug reports:

The CSV gem raises a NoMethodError when passed an array

e.g. CSV.parse_line(["memberships"]) raises

private method `gets' called for ["memberships"]:Array

And JR in 0.9.x and 0.10.x in a few places uses CSV.parse_line but only rescues CSV::MalformedCSVError

making a request like v1/users/:id?include[]=memberships with call e.g. JSONAPI::RequestParser#parse_include_directives with ["memberships"] and raise an unhandled error.

My proposal is 1) encapsulate wherever CSV.parse_line is called and 2) ensure any errors are handled and raises as JSONAPI::Exceptions

I could possibly make PRs to 0.9 and 0.10

(We're still on 0.9 due to bugs changes in handling of polymorphic types and plain old resources, but I'd like to help however I can)

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