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Resolves #70

version_urls.sort(reverse=True) performs a plain lexicographic sort, which returns the wrong 'latest' version for semver-style IDs (e.g. 2.10.0 sorts before 2.9.0 as strings, making 2.9.0 the 'latest').

This PR adds a _parse_version_key() helper that splits the trailing URL segment on non-digit characters and compares each part as an integer, yielding correct numeric ordering. Date-style versions (e.g. 2022.12.01) continue to work correctly.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Artifact versions are now ordered by their numeric components, improving results for versions that differ in the number of digits or use date-based formats.
    • Download-size and checksum failures now report as operating system errors, providing consistent error handling during downloads.

version_urls.sort(reverse=True) performs a plain lexicographic sort,
which returns the wrong 'latest' version for semver-style IDs:
  ['2.10.0', '2.9.0'] -> lexicographic latest is '2.9.0' (wrong)

Add _parse_version_key() which splits the trailing URL segment on
non-digit characters and compares each part as an integer, giving
correct numeric ordering with no new dependencies (re is stdlib).

Date-style versions (2022.12.01) continue to work correctly.

Closes #<BUG-05>
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The download API now sorts artifact versions by numeric components from the final URL segment. It also changes download error types, timestamp construction, and collection annotations. Tests cover version sorting formats and download response fixtures.

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Download handling
databusclient/api/download.py, tests/test_download.py
Size and checksum failures now raise OSError. Successful-download timestamps use UTC, and collection annotations use built-in generics. Test response fixtures initialize headers per instance.
Numeric version sorting
databusclient/api/download.py, tests/test_download.py
The API sorts artifact versions by numeric components parsed from the final URL segment. Tests cover hyphenated dates, dotted dates, numeric components, and a v prefix.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: integer-ctrl

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to e610a

When stable and prerelease artifacts are both available, a default download can select the prerelease instead of the stable release. Restore the intended ordering before merging.

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Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to e610a

Numeric version ordering fixes the stated selection error, but it can also change which server receives a version-metadata request and an optional API key. Whether artifact metadata is restricted to trusted servers remains unverified.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: Numeric ranking can select a different-origin version URL from the same artifact response. If such URLs are permitted in artifact metadata, the selected host receives the metadata request and any configured Databus API key. This is a conditional change in exposure, not a verified credential leak; the absence of a destination check predates the PR.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — For a mixed-origin artifact response, the changed ranking can redirect the one-version path to another listed metadata host. The immediate sensitive scope is a configured API key and the files downloaded into the caller's output directory; no new privilege or service boundary was identified.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — A version entry controlled by another party could become the selected metadata destination when its numeric suffix outranks a trusted entry. Exploitability is unresolved because no evidence establishes whether the artifact producer permits different-origin version entries.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The file worker limits Vault bearer-token exchange to configured hosts. That control does not establish a host restriction for the earlier version-metadata fetch or its API-key header.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Before fetching a selected version, validate its scheme and permitted metadata origin against the artifact source, and send the Databus API key only to approved credential audiences. Define permitted file-download origins separately if files may reside on other hosts.
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Thanks! I tested the implementation with ISO dates (e.g. 2026-09-17), CalVer (e.g. 2026.09.17), numeric (e.g. 10), dotted numeric (e.g. 2.10), stable SemVer (e.g. 2.10.0), and v-prefixed numeric versions (e.g. v2.10.0). All supported formats are sorted correctly. Prerelease identifiers such as dev or rc are not supported, but those are outside the intended scope.

To-do: Could you add tests for the above listed version formats?

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Sure, I’ll add tests covering all the listed version formats and ensure the expected sorting behavior is verified.

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- Line 1236: Update the version-key logic around the tuple conversion so
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_get_databus_versions_of_artifact,
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from databusclient.api.download import download as api_download

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- Around line 114-118: Update the version sort key used by
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assert _get_databus_versions_of_artifact(artifact, all_versions=True) == [
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Keep stable versions ahead of matching prereleases.

This test fails with the current parser. _parse_version_key maps 2.10.0 to (2, 10, 0) and 2.10.0-rc.1 to (2, 10, 0, 1). Descending sort puts the prerelease first, so all_versions=False selects it. Add an explicit prerelease ordering rule to the sort key.

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Review comment at @tests/test_download.py around lines 114 - 118:
Update the version sort key used by _get_databus_versions_of_artifact so stable
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preserve the existing version ordering for other versions and ensure
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assert sorted(versions, key=_parse_version_key, reverse=True) == expected


def test_get_databus_versions_sorts_stable_before_matching_prerelease():

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Please fix. There is a section about developing & contributing, see https://github.com/dbpedia/databus-python-client#development--contributing

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Thanks! I tested the implementation with ISO dates (e.g. 2026-09-17), CalVer (e.g. 2026.09.17), numeric (e.g. 10), dotted numeric (e.g. 2.10), stable SemVer (e.g. 2.10.0), and v-prefixed numeric versions (e.g. v2.10.0). All supported formats are sorted correctly. Prerelease identifiers such as dev or rc are not supported, but those are outside the intended scope.

To-do: Could you add tests for the above listed version formats?

Hi @Prakhar54-byte,

I don't know exactly why this small PR got out of hand. Maybe I under specified the requirement at the beginning. IMO you can reset to your first commit, introducing the version sorting. My request at this point was, to add some basic tests for the sorting method.

I explicitly mentioned, that prereleases such as dev or rc ar not supported for now because this needs deeper discussion on the Databus side.

Currently your code also contains commented out code, which is also not got habit.

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bug: lexicographic version sort returns wrong "latest" version for semver-style version IDs

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