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  • An annotation whose type URL is mistyped, or whose library was never registered, was dropped without a word, so the suppression or marker it was meant to carry never applied and nobody found out.
  • Built-in annotations were recognised by name suffix, so an unrelated tenant message whose name merely ended the same way could pass for one and silence findings it never meant to.
  • Default chosen for review: the warning never refuses the write, so annotations keep working while their library is still being drafted; libraries written earlier in the same batch count as known; and when a namespace's libraries fail to compile the warning still names every type that is not built in and says the libraries could not be checked.

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Changes write-time validation and how built-in annotations are detected across many rules; incorrect matching or advisory pool handling could alter which warnings fire or miss spoofed annotation types.

Overview
Entity writes now surface UNKNOWN_ANNOTATION_TYPE warnings (non-blocking) for any metadata annotation—including nested schema fields—whose type URL is not a known built-in message or a type declared by live tenant libraries in the namespace. Batch puts count type libraries earlier in the same batch as known, and when libraries fail to compile the warning still lists unresolved non-built-in URLs and notes that tenant types could not be checked.

Built-in annotation recognition moves from suffix matching on type_url to exact protobuf full name matching (any host) via a new BuiltinAnnotation helper, so tenant look-alikes cannot impersonate built-ins and silently change validation behavior.

The type-library gate gains deep entity walking (annotations_outside), per-batch namespace lookup caching, and an advisory path when descriptor pools cannot be built—annotation checks degrade to warnings instead of refusing the write in those cases. Docs in tenant-types.md describe the new annotation rules.

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  • rsworkspace/crates/trogon-atlas-server/src/service.rs
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The server now checks annotation types in entity metadata against built-in types and namespace libraries. Unresolved types produce validation warnings with annotation paths. Built-in annotation matching uses the parsed full message name.

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Annotation Type Validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Match built-in annotation types
rsworkspace/crates/trogon-atlas-server/src/annotation_type.rs, rsworkspace/crates/trogon-atlas-server/src/lib.rs, rsworkspace/crates/trogon-atlas-server/src/analysis.rs, rsworkspace/crates/trogon-atlas-server/src/service.rs, rsworkspace/crates/trogon-atlas-server/src/validation.rs
A shared matcher checks parsed annotation URLs by full message name. Existing built-in annotation checks use the matcher instead of URL suffix checks.
Find unresolved annotation types
rsworkspace/crates/trogon-atlas-server/src/type_libraries.rs
The type-library gate checks annotations against built-in and namespace libraries. It walks nested messages, lists, maps, and resolvable Any payloads, and records unresolved URLs with their paths.
Add annotation warnings to writes
rsworkspace/crates/trogon-atlas-server/src/validation.rs, rsworkspace/crates/trogon-atlas-server/src/service.rs, rsworkspace/crates/trogon-atlas-server/tests/unknown_annotation_types.rs, docs/explanation/tenant-types.md
PutEntity and BatchMutate include unknown-annotation findings in validation results. Tests cover library resolution and annotation paths. The documentation describes the checks and warnings.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant PutEntity
  participant TypeLibraryGate
  participant Validation
  PutEntity->>TypeLibraryGate: Check annotation URLs against available libraries
  TypeLibraryGate-->>PutEntity: Return unresolved URLs and paths
  PutEntity->>Validation: Convert unresolved annotations to findings
  Validation-->>PutEntity: Return warning findings
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Possibly related PRs

  • TrogonStack/atlas#298: Both changes handle annotation types during entity writes and modify PutEntity and BatchMutate behavior.

Suggested reviewers: enilsen16

Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review 18df0

Annotation-only writes can be refused during compiler outages, and large batches can become substantially slower. Fix those paths before merging; map warnings also need distinct paths so users can locate them.

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Title check Passed The title names the main change: a new validation warning (UNKNOWN_ANNOTATION_TYPE) when an annotation type URL is not known. The changeset adds this warning in validation.rs, type_libraries.rs, and s…
Description check Passed The description states the two problems the change fixes: mistyped or unregistered annotation types were dropped silently, and built-in annotations were matched by name suffix. It also lists the chose…
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The title names the main change: a new validation warning (UNKNOWN_ANNOTATION_TYPE) when an annotation type URL is not known. The changeset adds this warning in validation.rs, type_libraries.rs, and service.rs, and it also switches built-in annotation matching from suffix checks to full-name matching, which the title does not mention but which is a secondary change.

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The description states the two problems the change fixes: mistyped or unregistered annotation types were dropped silently, and built-in annotations were matched by name suffix. It also lists the chosen defaults: warn without refusing the write, count same-batch libraries as known, and report unchecked libraries when compilation fails. These points match the summary of the changed files.

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Changes write-path validation and how all annotation-driven rules detect builtins, which affects suppression behavior across validation and analysis; risk is mitigated by warnings-only admission and integration tests.

Overview
Entity writes now emit UNKNOWN_ANNOTATION_TYPE warnings when a metadata annotation’s type URL is not a built-in message or a tenant type from live libraries in the namespace (including schema.fields[].metadata). Warnings are non-blocking and appear on PutEntity / BatchMutate validation; libraries in the same batch count as known. If namespace libraries fail to compile, every non–built-in URL is still reported with a note that tenant types could not be checked.

Built-in annotation recognition is centralized in BuiltinAnnotation, matching the protobuf full message name (any URL host) instead of type_url suffixes, so look-alike tenant types no longer impersonate builtins or silently suppress rules.

Docs in tenant-types.md describe this enforcement alongside existing schema type checks.

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A mistyped annotation type URL was ignored without a word, so the suppression or marker it meant to carry silently never applied, and a look-alike name could pass for a built-in.

Signed-off-by: Yordis Prieto <yordis.prieto@gmail.com>
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Review comments at @rsworkspace/crates/trogon-atlas-server/src/service.rs:
- Around line 8298-8305: Group unresolved-annotation type lookups across batch
puts so `unknown_annotation_types` runs once per namespace per batch, reusing
its result for puts in that namespace instead of rescanning the store for each
put. Preserve the existing lookup inputs and per-put annotation handling.

Review comments at
@rsworkspace/crates/trogon-atlas-server/src/type_libraries.rs:
- Around line 596-602: Update the error match in the annotation type lookup so
DeadlineExceeded and Unavailable return UnknownAnnotationTypes with the built-in
warnings and libraries_unresolved set to true, like FailedPrecondition. Continue
propagating store failures and other statuses unchanged.
- Around line 863-865: Update the Value::Map traversal in the annotation path
walker to retain each map key and include it in the path passed for that value,
so warnings for different keys have distinct subject_field paths. Preserve the
existing value traversal behavior.

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  • docs/explanation/tenant-types.md
  • rsworkspace/crates/trogon-atlas-server/src/analysis.rs
  • rsworkspace/crates/trogon-atlas-server/src/annotation_type.rs
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A batch compiles each namespace's type libraries once. A compiler timeout leaves the built-in warnings and marks the libraries unresolved, and a map annotation path includes its key.

Signed-off-by: Yordis Prieto <yordis.prieto@gmail.com>

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