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Summary

A review of the client surfaced a set of verified correctness and security
bugs, plus some gaps against current Python packaging practice. This PR fixes
them and adds regression coverage.

It also repairs the Test workflow, which was already failing on main
before these changes: falkordb/falkordb:edge no longer emits the Results
root operation in GRAPH.EXPLAIN / GRAPH.PROFILE output and renamed Join
to Union, breaking 15 tests that asserted on exact plan text.

Warning

Breaking change: ssl_check_hostname now defaults to True. TLS users
whose certificate CN/SAN does not match the host they connect to must pass
ssl_check_hostname=False explicitly. This matches the redis-py 7.x default.

Changes

Security

  • Cypher injection via parameters. stringify_param_value() fell back to
    str() for unrecognized types, so a value whose __str__ returned Cypher was
    spliced verbatim into the query header. Verified live: a crafted object
    rendering as 1 CREATE (:PWNED) // actually created a node. Replaced the
    fallback with a strict type whitelist that raises TypeError.
  • Remote denial of service via NUL byte. graph.query("RETURN $p", {"p": "a\x00b"})
    succeeded, then the server died seconds later with a Rust NulError panic
    (CString::new(...).unwrap()) in its background telemetry thread; the panic
    payload decoded to exactly the client-generated header. quote_string() now
    rejects NUL with ValueError. This needs a server-side fix too — the client
    change only stops this client from triggering it, and I'll open an issue upstream.
  • Credential stripping. Cluster detection mutated the live pool's
    connection_kwargs in place, removing credentials from every subsequent
    connection made from that pool. Now copies the dict.
  • TLS downgrade in from_url(). A rediss:// URL produced a client that
    reconnected without TLS, because ssl was never derived from the parsed
    pool.
  • TLS hostname verification is on by default (see warning above).

Correctness

  • AsyncGraph dropped the coroutine from schema.refresh() instead of awaiting
    it, so recovery from SchemaVersionMismatchException never refreshed the
    schema and the retry re-read a stale cache.
  • call_procedure() appended to the caller's args list, corrupting it on reuse.
  • parse_scalar() indexed its dispatch table with an unvalidated, server-supplied
    type id — a new scalar type raised IndexError. Now falls back to the
    unknown-type parser and reports via warnings.warn instead of sys.stderr.
  • ExecutionPlan measured indentation from whole-line length rather than leading
    spaces, so any change in operation-name width shifted the parsed tree. Also
    fixed empty plans, an unguarded None regex match, dead code after return [],
    and assert used for input validation (which vanishes under python -O).
  • Path.__str__ compared an Edge.src_node (a Node) against an int node id —
    never equal — so every path printed with its edges reversed. tests/test_path.py
    had encoded that reversed output as its expectation.
  • Blanket except Exception: pass around index/constraint discovery narrowed to
    ResponseError.
  • Statistics helpers annotated -> int returned float.
  • The async cluster probe leaked a client per construction and passed the
    caller's retry/credential_provider/redis_connect_func into a throwaway
    connection.
  • Node, Edge, Path and Operation defined __eq__ without __hash__,
    making them unhashable; added __hash__ and __repr__.

Additions

  • py.typed — the package was fully annotated but shipped no PEP 561
    marker, so mypy silently ignored its types downstream. Verified present in the
    built wheel.
  • Parameter typesbytes, datetime, date, time and Decimal are now
    serialized correctly instead of falling through str(). Non-finite floats and
    invalid map keys raise instead of producing an unparsable header.
  • QueryResult.__iter__ / __len__ for direct iteration over results.
  • Deprecated redis-py cluster arguments (read_from_replicas,
    cluster_error_retry_attempts) are only forwarded when the caller diverges
    from redis-py's defaults, silencing a DeprecationWarning on every cluster
    connection; load_balancing_strategy is exposed as the replacement.
  • Ruff select expanded to F, E, W, I, UP, B, SIM, PERF, RUF, ASYNC; typing
    modernized to PEP 585/604 throughout.

Testing

  • tests/test_helpers.py (new) — parameter serialization: injection attempts,
    NUL rejection, bytes, temporals, Decimal, non-finite floats, map-key validation.
  • tests/test_regressions.py (new) — one server-free test per bug fixed above.
  • tests/plan_utils.py (new) — asserts plan shape (the tree of operation names)
    rather than rendered server text, since operation arguments are opaque output
    the client only passes through. This is what makes the suite survive server
    version drift.
  • test_slowlog skips rather than raising IndexError when the server's slowlog
    is empty, which happens on fast hardware.

Verified against falkordb/falkordb:edge on Python 3.10, 3.12 and 3.14:

121 passed, 2 skipped, 2 xpassed     # was 15 failed, 85 passed on main
ruff format --check .  → 43 files already formatted
ruff check .           → All checks passed
mypy falkordb/         → no issues in 20 source files
pyspelling             → passed

Python 3.10 was checked explicitly: an earlier PERF401 autofix produced a
nested async comprehension, which is a SyntaxError before 3.11.

Memory / Performance Impact

N/A — no C/Rust or graph-engine changes. The async cluster probe now closes the
throwaway client it creates, removing a per-construction connection leak.

Related Issues

None.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added safer query parameter serialization and identifier validation.
    • Added TLS hostname verification by default and improved TLS settings for URL-based connections.
    • Added cluster load-balancing configuration.
    • Query results now support iteration and len().
    • Added clearer representations and hashing for graph entities and paths.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved handling of existing indexes, unsupported values, warnings, execution plans, and path formatting.
    • Preserved connection settings and prevented unintended input mutation.
  • Documentation

    • Expanded guidance for parameters, connections, closing clients, TLS, and async behavior.

gkorland and others added 6 commits August 12, 2026 21:45
The Test workflow on main was already failing: falkordb:edge no longer
emits the `Results` root operation in GRAPH.EXPLAIN / GRAPH.PROFILE
output, and renamed `Join` to `Union`, so 15 tests asserting on exact
plan text broke.

Operation arguments are opaque server output that the client only
passes through, so pin the plan *shape* (the tree of operation names)
rather than the rendered server text. New tests/plan_utils.py provides
plan_root(), strip_results_op(), assert_plan_shape() and friends,
which tolerate the optional root op and alias Join to Union.

test_merge now asserts operation counts plus tree/index consistency
instead of a literal plan, since MERGE plans gained a Commit root.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
stringify_param_value() fell through to str() for any type it did not
recognize. Two exploitable consequences:

* Cypher injection. A value whose __str__ returns Cypher was spliced
  verbatim into the query header; passing an object rendering as
  `1 CREATE (:PWNED) //` was verified to actually create a node.
* Remote denial of service. A NUL byte in a string parameter reached
  the server's query header and crashed it moments later with a Rust
  NulError panic (CString::new(...).unwrap()) in its telemetry thread.

Replace the str() fallback with a strict type whitelist that raises
TypeError for anything unsupported, and reject NUL bytes in
quote_string() with ValueError.

The same fallback silently mis-serialized common types, so add proper
support while here:

* bytes are decoded and quoted rather than emitted as `b'...'`
* datetime, date and time become quoted ISO-8601 strings
* Decimal is accepted alongside float
* bool is matched before int, since bool subclasses int
* NaN and Infinity raise ValueError; they have no Cypher literal

Map keys are validated too: empty keys and keys containing a backtick
now raise ValueError instead of producing an unparsable header.

The NUL-byte crash needs an upstream server-side fix as well; this
change only prevents this client from triggering it.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Several connection-setup problems, in rough order of severity:

* ssl_check_hostname defaulted to False, so TLS connections accepted a
  certificate issued for any host, defeating verification against an
  active attacker. Default to True, matching redis-py 7.x. BREAKING:
  callers relying on a certificate whose CN/SAN does not match their
  host must now pass ssl_check_hostname=False explicitly.
* from_url() silently downgraded TLS: a rediss:// URL produced a client
  that reconnected without TLS, because `ssl` was never derived from
  the parsed pool. Derive it from the pool's connection class.
* Cluster detection mutated the live connection pool's
  connection_kwargs in place, stripping credentials from every
  subsequent connection made from that pool. Copy the dict instead.
* The async cluster probe passed the caller's retry,
  credential_provider and redis_connect_func into a throwaway client
  and never closed it, leaking a connection per client construction.
  Strip those keys and close the probe in a finally block.
* read_from_replicas and cluster_error_retry_attempts are deprecated in
  redis-py 5.3/6.0 and were forwarded unconditionally, emitting a
  DeprecationWarning on every cluster connection. Forward them only
  when the caller diverges from redis-py's own defaults, and expose
  load_balancing_strategy as the supported replacement.

close()/aclose() now suppress RedisError so teardown cannot mask the
original exception.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Correctness bugs found while reviewing the client:

* AsyncGraph dropped the coroutine returned by schema.refresh() instead
  of awaiting it, so recovery from SchemaVersionMismatchException never
  actually refreshed the schema and the retry re-read a stale cache.
* call_procedure() appended to the caller's args list, corrupting it
  for reuse. Copy the list.
* Blanket `except Exception: pass` around index/constraint discovery
  swallowed real failures; narrow to ResponseError.
* parse_scalar() indexed PARSE_SCALAR_TYPES with an unvalidated,
  server-supplied type id, so a new scalar type raised IndexError.
  Fall back to the unknown-type parser, and report it via
  warnings.warn(RuntimeWarning) rather than writing to sys.stderr.
* Statistics helpers annotated as int returned float; add an integer
  accessor and use it for the ten count metrics.
* ExecutionPlan measured indentation with a whole-line length rather
  than leading spaces, so any change in operation-name width shifted
  the parsed tree. Empty plans, a None regex match and a dead branch
  after `return []` were also mishandled; asserts used for input
  validation are now ValueError, so they survive python -O.
* Path.__str__ compared an Edge's src_node (a Node) with an int node
  id, which is never equal, so every path printed with its edges
  reversed. tests/test_path.py had encoded that reversed output as the
  expected value. Empty paths now render as `<>` instead of raising.

Node, Edge, Path and Operation define __eq__ but not __hash__, making
them unhashable; add __hash__ alongside a useful __repr__.

QueryResult gains __iter__ and __len__ so results can be iterated
directly.

tests/test_regressions.py covers each of the above without a server.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
* Add falkordb/py.typed. The package was fully annotated but shipped no
  PEP 561 marker, so mypy silently ignored the types in downstream
  projects. Verified present in the built wheel.
* Expand ruff's select to F, E, W, I, UP, B, SIM, PERF, RUF and ASYNC,
  and apply the resulting fixes: PEP 585/604 typing throughout (safe
  given requires-python >= 3.10), contextlib.suppress over try/except/
  pass, and assorted comprehension and correctness lints. Tests ignore
  B017 and B011, which are idiomatic there.
* test_slowlog skips instead of raising IndexError when the server's
  slowlog is empty, which happens on fast hardware because entries are
  only recorded above a latency threshold.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
README gains sections on parameterized queries (including the types the
client now accepts), context-manager/close() usage, and TLS, whose
hostname verification default changed.

AGENTS.md drifted from the tree: it documented a falkordb/lite/
directory that does not exist and named the async client AsyncFalkorDB
when the class is FalkorDB. Correct both, list py.typed and
tests/plan_utils.py, and record the known sync/async parity gaps.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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The client updates connection configuration, query parameter validation, asynchronous schema handling, result parsing, graph models, execution plans, tests, lint rules, and documentation.

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Connection lifecycle and cluster configuration
falkordb/..., tests/test_connection_args.py, README.md
Synchronous and asynchronous clients preserve TLS settings, close cluster probes, and forward conditional cluster options.
Query parameters, schemas, and constraints
falkordb/helpers.py, falkordb/graph.py, falkordb/asyncio/graph.py, tests/test_helpers.py, tests/test_regressions.py
Parameter serialization validates supported values and identifiers. Procedure arguments are copied. Existing-index handling suppresses only matching response errors.
Query result parsing and statistics
falkordb/query_result.py, falkordb/asyncio/query_result.py, tests/test_regressions.py
Unknown scalar types produce redacted runtime warnings. Query results support iteration and length queries. Mutation counts use integer statistics.
Graph models and execution plans
falkordb/node.py, falkordb/edge.py, falkordb/path.py, falkordb/execution_plan.py, tests/test_regressions.py
Models gain representations and hashes. Path rendering handles empty paths and raw edge source IDs. Execution plans validate input and parse profile data more precisely.
Validation and project support
tests/plan_helpers.py, tests/*, pyproject.toml, AGENTS.md, README.md, .github/wordlist.txt
Tests improve structural diagnostics and regression coverage. Ruff rules and project documentation are updated.

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test_merge asserted the MERGE plan contained two Node By Index Scan
operations, but FalkorDB builds indices asynchronously: if the index is
not yet operational when the plan is produced, the planner emits
Node By Label Scan instead. The test therefore failed intermittently,
which it did on the Python 3.12 CI job while the other four versions
passed.

Both variants contain exactly two scans, so count scans by suffix via a
new plan_utils.count_scans() helper and drop the dependency on which
kind the planner picked.

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Follow-up backlog (not addressed here)

The review turned up a few sync/async parity gaps that are larger than this PR
and are better handled separately:

  • No async sentinel support. There is no falkordb/asyncio/sentinel.py, so
    an AsyncFalkorDB pointed at a sentinel silently talks to the sentinel
    rather than the master. This one is arguably a bug rather than a gap.
  • AsyncFalkorDB.__init__ is missing 8 parameters the sync client accepts
    (dynamic_startup_nodes, url, ssl_ca_path, ssl_password,
    ssl_validate_ocsp, …).
  • Is_Cluster does blocking network I/O during async construction, stalling
    the event loop. Fixing it properly needs lazy or async detection, i.e. an API
    change.
  • The async client class is named FalkorDB, not AsyncFalkorDB, contrary
    to what AGENTS.md described. I corrected the docs to match the code here,
    but the rename may be the better long-term call.
  • AsyncQueryResult exposes mutable header/result_set/graph attributes
    where the sync side uses read-only properties.
  • Path.nodes()/edges() are methods, not properties, inconsistent with the
    rest of the models; left alone to avoid breaking the existing API.

Happy to open issues for any of these.

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60-75: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Preserve custom TLS settings in both cluster constructors.

When callers provide custom CA, hostname, or client-certificate settings, forward the supported TLS values from connection_kwargs to RedisCluster in falkordb/cluster.py and falkordb/asyncio/cluster.py. Otherwise, cluster nodes use default TLS settings and can reject the connection.

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In `@falkordb/cluster.py` around lines 60 - 75, Preserve custom TLS configuration
by forwarding supported CA, hostname, and client-certificate values from
connection_kwargs into the RedisCluster constructors. Update the constructor
call in falkordb/cluster.py at lines 60-75 and the corresponding async
constructor in falkordb/asyncio/cluster.py at lines 84-97, ensuring both
synchronous and asynchronous cluster nodes receive these settings instead of
defaulting.
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Inline comments:
In `@AGENTS.md`:
- Around line 66-71: Expand AGENTS.md with a dedicated agent contract covering
the agent’s purpose, expected inputs, outputs, and concrete usage examples;
preserve the existing project-structure guidance. If no agent is intended, move
that guidance to another appropriate documentation file instead.

In `@falkordb/cluster.py`:
- Around line 25-26: Expose load_balancing_strategy in the synchronous FalkorDB
constructor in falkordb/cluster.py:25-26 and forward it to Cluster_Conn. Apply
the same constructor and forwarding change to the asynchronous FalkorDB in
falkordb/asyncio/cluster.py:52-56, preserving existing behavior for callers that
omit the option.

In `@falkordb/edge.py`:
- Around line 142-153: Update Edge.__hash__ to use the same identity rule as
Edge.__eq__, ensuring any equal edges always produce identical hashes regardless
of relation or differing IDs. Add tests covering distinct equal Edge instances
as set members and dictionary keys, including the ID-based equality cases.

In `@falkordb/graph.py`:
- Line 250: Reject NUL bytes in normalized identifier keys before Cypher
interpolation: update _build_params_header in falkordb/graph.py (lines 250-250)
to validate top-level parameter names, and update the nested map-key handling in
falkordb/helpers.py (lines 45-74) to validate normalized nested keys. Preserve
existing parameter-value validation and error behavior.

In `@falkordb/node.py`:
- Around line 121-131: Update Node.__eq__/__hash__ and Edge.__eq__/__hash__
together so objects considered equal, including unset or differing IDs, always
produce identical hashes; preserve equality semantics while removing
ID-dependent hashing where necessary. In falkordb/node.py lines 121-131, change
the Node hashing/equality implementation; falkordb/path.py lines 130-137
requires no direct change if contained model hashes satisfy the contract,
otherwise remove Path.__hash__.

In `@falkordb/query_result.py`:
- Around line 98-104: Remove the raw value interpolation from the unknown-scalar
RuntimeWarning in falkordb/query_result.py lines 98-104 and
falkordb/asyncio/query_result.py lines 98-104, while retaining the warning
context and upgrade guidance. Update both query-result fallback paths
consistently.

In `@tests/test_explain.py`:
- Around line 61-63: In both tests/test_explain.py:61-63 and
tests/test_async_explain.py:74-76, reset or clear the graph before calling
create_node_range_index in the explain test setup. Do not suppress every
Exception; instead, allow setup failures to surface or narrowly suppress only
the duplicate-index ResponseError when appropriate.

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In `@falkordb/cluster.py`:
- Around line 60-75: Preserve custom TLS configuration by forwarding supported
CA, hostname, and client-certificate values from connection_kwargs into the
RedisCluster constructors. Update the constructor call in falkordb/cluster.py at
lines 60-75 and the corresponding async constructor in
falkordb/asyncio/cluster.py at lines 84-97, ensuring both synchronous and
asynchronous cluster nodes receive these settings instead of defaulting.
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Comment on lines +66 to +71
py.typed # PEP 561 marker — ships inline type information
asyncio/ # Async mirror (see below)
lite/ # Lightweight variant
tests/
test_*.py # Sync tests
test_async_*.py # Async tests (mirror sync tests)
plan_utils.py # Helpers for version-agnostic execution-plan assertions

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Add the required agent contract.

AGENTS.md documents project structure, but it does not define an agent's purpose, inputs, outputs, or usage examples. Add these sections, or move the project guidance to another file if no agent is intended.

As per coding guidelines, "AGENTS.md: Define agents in a dedicated AGENTS.md file with clear documentation of agent purpose, inputs, outputs, and usage examples."

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In `@AGENTS.md` around lines 66 - 71, Expand AGENTS.md with a dedicated agent
contract covering the agent’s purpose, expected inputs, outputs, and concrete
usage examples; preserve the existing project-structure guidance. If no agent is
intended, move that guidance to another appropriate documentation file instead.

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load_balancing_strategy=None,
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Expose load_balancing_strategy through FalkorDB.

Both helpers accept load_balancing_strategy. Neither public FalkorDB.__init__ accepts or forwards it. Client users cannot configure the new option.

  • falkordb/cluster.py#L25-L26: Add the option to the synchronous FalkorDB constructor and pass it to Cluster_Conn.
  • falkordb/asyncio/cluster.py#L52-L56: Add the option to the asynchronous FalkorDB constructor and pass it to Cluster_Conn.
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  • falkordb/cluster.py#L25-L26 (this comment)
  • falkordb/asyncio/cluster.py#L52-L56
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In `@falkordb/cluster.py` around lines 25 - 26, Expose load_balancing_strategy in
the synchronous FalkorDB constructor in falkordb/cluster.py:25-26 and forward it
to Cluster_Conn. Apply the same constructor and forwarding change to the
asynchronous FalkorDB in falkordb/asyncio/cluster.py:52-56, preserving existing
behavior for callers that omit the option.

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def __hash__(self) -> int:
"""
Hash the edge so it can be used in sets and as a dict key.

return True
Only the edge id and relationship type take part, properties are
mutable and equality tolerates a differing id, so the hash is
deliberately coarse.

Returns:
int: The edge hash.
"""
return hash((self.id, self.relation))

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Make __hash__ consistent with __eq__.

Edge.__eq__ treats two edges with the same non-None ID as equal, even when their relations differ. This hash includes the relation. Equality can also succeed when only one edge has an ID. Equal edges can therefore have different hashes.

Define one identity rule for equality and derive the hash from that rule. Add tests with two distinct but equal Edge instances in a set and as dictionary keys.

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rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@falkordb/edge.py` around lines 142 - 153, Update Edge.__hash__ to use the
same identity rule as Edge.__eq__, ensuring any equal edges always produce
identical hashes regardless of relation or differing IDs. Add tests covering
distinct equal Edge instances as set members and dictionary keys, including the
ID-based equality cases.

Comment thread falkordb/graph.py
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Comment thread falkordb/query_result.py
Comment thread tests/test_explain.py Outdated
codecov flagged the new connection and statistics code as untested. Add
server-free coverage for it:

* tests/test_connection_args.py builds Cluster_Conn and Is_Cluster
  against a stub pool and a recording RedisCluster, asserting the
  caller's connection_kwargs keep their credentials, that deprecated
  redis-py arguments are omitted at their defaults and forwarded
  otherwise, and that the async cluster probe closes itself and does
  not inherit asyncio-specific retry/credential objects.
* test_regressions.py gains checks that count statistics are int rather
  than float, that run_time_ms stays a float, that a missing statistic
  is 0, and that QueryResult supports len() and iteration, plus an
  async parity check for the same statistics.

Verified these fail against the pre-fix code: 7 of the 8 connection
tests and 2 of the statistics tests.

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gkorland and others added 2 commits August 13, 2026 14:04
main landed overlapping work on the same areas, resolved as follows.

Execution-plan tests: main's tests/plan_helpers.py supersedes the
tests/plan_utils.py added here. It handles both engine root operations
(Results and Commit) rather than only Results, and additionally asserts
the client parsed the reply faithfully. Took main's helper and its
rewritten explain/profile/graph tests wholesale and deleted plan_utils.

Async cluster probe: kept both fixes, they address different failures.
main filters connection_kwargs through the sync Redis.__init__
signature, which drops internal state redis-py keeps there. That does
not help with retry/credential_provider/redis_connect_func, which are
valid parameter *names* on the sync client, so the asyncio objects
would still be passed through and yield un-awaited coroutines. The
explicit strip therefore stays, and runs before the signature filter.

main's Cluster_Conn still popped from the live connection pool; the
copy added here is preserved.

The wider ruff rule set enabled here applies to main's new files, so
this also fixes 24 new lint errors in them: PEP 585/604 typing in
plan_helpers.py, yoda conditions, an explicit zip() strict= (True where
the lengths are already asserted equal, False where the assertion below
reports the mismatch), and percent formatting.

The two explain tests wrapped index creation in `except Exception:
pass`, which hid genuine setup failures. Narrowed to the duplicate-index
ResponseError, which is the only error a re-run should tolerate.

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Review of #273 found the parameter hardening was incomplete and the new
model hashes broke the hash/equality contract.

NUL bytes were rejected in parameter *values*, but not in parameter
names or nested map keys. Both are interpolated into the query header
between backticks, so `{"a\x00b": 1}` still put a NUL in the header and
could crash the server exactly as a NUL value did. The three checks
identifiers need — non-empty, no backtick, no NUL — were also
duplicated between graph.py and helpers.py, so extract
quote_identifier() and use it for both.

Node.__hash__ and Edge.__hash__ included the id, but __eq__ treats an
object with an unset id as equal to an otherwise identical one that has
it. Equal objects therefore hashed differently and were missed by set
and dict lookups; verified over every id/label/relation/property
combination. Hash only what equality always compares. Edge equality
short-circuited on a matching id alone, which left no invariant at all,
so it now also requires the relation to match — two edges with one id
and different relationship types do not describe the same edge.

The unknown-scalar warning embedded the raw value. Warnings reach
stderr, which deployments commonly ship to a log aggregator, so this
could disclose query data; report the scalar type id instead. Making
the fallback an explicit branch also resolves the CodeQL "use of the
return value of a procedure" alert on parse_scalar.

Cluster_Conn accepted load_balancing_strategy but neither FalkorDB
constructor exposed it, leaving it unreachable. Wire it through both,
and pass these arguments by keyword: the sync helper takes
dynamic_startup_nodes and url that the async one does not, so the two
positional orders differ and silently drift.

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Merged main (resolving the conflicts) and worked through the review. Thanks — two of these were real gaps in the hardening this PR set out to do.

Fixed

Reject NUL bytes in every Cypher identifier key (graph.py, helpers.py) — correct, and the more important of the two. NUL was rejected in parameter values but not in parameter names or nested map keys, both of which are interpolated into the header between backticks:

>>> Graph._build_params_header(g, {"a\x00b": 1})
'CYPHER `a\x00b`=1 '     # same header NUL that crashes the server

The three identifier checks (non-empty, no backtick, no NUL) were duplicated across the two files, so they are now one quote_identifier() helper used by both. Covered for top-level names, nested map keys and bytes keys.

Make __hash__ consistent with __eq__ (node.py, edge.py) — correct, and both were constructible:

Node(node_id=1, labels="A") == Node(labels="A")   # True, hashes differed
len({with_id, without_id})                        # 2

Hashes now use only what equality always compares — labels for Node, relation for Edge — so the id, which equality deliberately tolerates being unset, no longer participates. Edge.__eq__ short-circuited on a matching id alone, which left no invariant to hash on, so it now also requires the relation to match; two edges with the same id but different relationship types don't describe the same edge. Verified exhaustively over every id/label/relation/property combination (288 pairs, 0 violations), and Path inherits the fix.

Do not include raw query values in warnings (query_result.py ×2) — agreed, the message now identifies the scalar type id instead of echoing the value.

Use of the return value of a procedure (CodeQL, query_result.py) — made the unknown-scalar fallback an explicit branch rather than selecting __parse_unknown as a value parser.

Expose load_balancing_strategy through FalkorDB — correct, it was unreachable. Wired through both constructors. While doing so I switched these call sites to keyword arguments: the sync helper takes dynamic_startup_nodes and url that the async one doesn't, so the two positional orders differ and were a live drift hazard.

Reset the graph before creating the index (test_explain.py, test_async_explain.py) — the except Exception: pass now matches only the duplicate-index ResponseError, so genuine setup failures surface.

Not fixed

Add the required agent contract (AGENTS.md) — skipping. AGENTS.md here is the repository's conventions file for coding agents (build commands, project layout, sync/async parity rules), not a definition of an agent with inputs and outputs, so the guideline doesn't apply. I did correct its actual drift in this PR: it documented a falkordb/lite/ directory that doesn't exist.

Docstring coverage 62% — the uncovered symbols are overwhelmingly test functions, whose names and bodies are self-describing; the public API in falkordb/ is documented.

On the merge

main landed overlapping work, resolved as follows:

  • tests/plan_helpers.py supersedes my tests/plan_utils.py — it handles both engine root operations (Results and Commit) rather than only Results, and additionally asserts the client parsed the reply faithfully. Took main's helper and its rewritten tests wholesale; deleted plan_utils.py.
  • Async cluster probe: kept both fixes, they address different failures. main filters connection_kwargs through the sync Redis.__init__ signature, which drops internal state redis-py stores there. That does not cover retry/credential_provider/redis_connect_func — I checked, all three are valid parameter names on the sync client, so the asyncio objects would still pass the filter and yield un-awaited coroutines. The explicit strip runs first, then the signature filter.
  • main's Cluster_Conn still popped from the live connection pool, so the copy from this PR is preserved.
  • The wider ruff rule set here applies to main's new files, so this also clears 24 new lint errors in them.

All 13 checks are green, and the PR is mergeable again.

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Pull request overview

This PR hardens the FalkorDB Python client against parameter-based Cypher injection and other security footguns, fixes several correctness issues (sync + async), and modernizes typing/linting while adding regression coverage to keep behavior stable across server output drift.

Changes:

  • Tightens Cypher parameter/header serialization (type whitelist, identifier validation, NUL rejection) and documents safe parameter usage.
  • Fixes correctness issues across schema refresh (async), execution-plan parsing, model hashing/repr/printing, and cluster/TLS connection handling.
  • Adds regression/unit tests and updates plan assertion helpers to be resilient to server plan-text changes.

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File Description
tests/test_regressions.py Adds server-free regression tests for fixed bugs.
tests/test_path.py Updates expected path string direction to match corrected rendering.
tests/test_helpers.py Adds unit tests for parameter serialization and injection/NUL handling.
tests/test_graph.py Minor assertion ordering updates; keeps behavior coverage.
tests/test_explain.py Narrows swallowed exceptions to ResponseError in test setup.
tests/test_edge.py Minor assertion ordering updates.
tests/test_constraints.py Minor assertion ordering update.
tests/test_connection_args.py Adds connection-construction tests for cluster probe/copying kwargs and deprecation-warning behavior.
tests/test_async_graph.py Mirrors sync test assertion ordering updates.
tests/test_async_explain.py Mirrors sync explain test narrowing to ResponseError.
tests/test_async_constraints.py Mirrors sync constraint assertion ordering update.
tests/plan_helpers.py Improves plan-shape assertions and modernizes typing.
README.md Documents safe parameters, connection management, and TLS hostname verification behavior.
pyproject.toml Expands Ruff rule selection and adds per-test ignores.
falkordb/sentinel.py Uses next(iter(...)) for sentinel service name selection.
falkordb/query_result.py Adds warnings for unknown scalar types, iterable/sized results, and int-typed statistics helpers.
falkordb/py.typed Adds PEP 561 marker so downstream type-checkers see shipped typing.
falkordb/path.py Fixes path string direction, adds empty-path handling, hash, and repr; modernizes typing.
falkordb/node.py Adds repr/hash and modernizes typing.
falkordb/helpers.py Adds stricter parameter serialization and identifier validation, including NUL rejection.
falkordb/graph.py Uses identifier validation for param headers, avoids mutating caller args, narrows swallowed errors, and modernizes typing.
falkordb/falkordb.py Enables TLS hostname verification by default, fixes from_url TLS carry-through, adds load balancing strategy arg, and uses keyword args for cluster helper.
falkordb/execution_plan.py Fixes indentation parsing, empty-plan handling, safer profile-stat parsing, and adds hash/repr.
falkordb/edge.py Adds repr/hash, adjusts equality semantics, and modernizes typing.
falkordb/cluster.py Avoids mutating pool kwargs and conditionally forwards deprecated cluster args.
falkordb/asyncio/query_result.py Mirrors sync scalar warnings, iterable/sized results, and int statistics helpers; keeps Py3.10 compatibility.
falkordb/asyncio/graph.py Fixes awaiting schema refresh and avoids mutating caller args; modernizes typing.
falkordb/asyncio/falkordb.py Mirrors sync TLS hostname default + from_url TLS carry-through + cluster kwargs forwarding.
falkordb/asyncio/cluster.py Closes sync probe client, avoids async-only kwargs leakage, avoids mutating pool kwargs, and conditionally forwards deprecated args.
AGENTS.md Updates project-structure docs and parity notes.
.github/wordlist.txt Updates spelling wordlist for new terminology.

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Comment thread falkordb/graph.py
Comment on lines 624 to 628
# create required range indices
try:
# an already-existing index is reported as a ResponseError and is fine
# to ignore, connection/auth errors must not be swallowed
with contextlib.suppress(ResponseError):
self.create_node_range_index(label, *properties)
Comment thread falkordb/graph.py
Comment on lines 650 to 654
# create required range indices
try:
# an already-existing index is reported as a ResponseError and is fine
# to ignore, connection/auth errors must not be swallowed
with contextlib.suppress(ResponseError):
self.create_edge_range_index(relation, *properties)
Comment thread falkordb/helpers.py Outdated
Comment on lines +127 to +135
if isinstance(value, (float, Decimal)):
as_float = float(value)
if not math.isfinite(as_float):
raise ValueError(
f"{value!r} is not a valid Cypher parameter: NaN and Infinity "
"have no Cypher literal representation"
)
return repr(as_float)

Comment thread AGENTS.md Outdated
Decimal parameters were coerced through float(), which silently rounded
values beyond a double's precision and rejected large-but-finite values
such as Decimal("1E+400") as "Infinity". Decimals are now rendered from
their own string form after an is_finite() check, so the server decides
what it can hold and reports overflow itself.

Unique-constraint creation suppressed every ResponseError raised while
creating the range index it depends on, though the comment claimed only
the already-indexed case was ignored. The new ignore_existing_index
context manager matches that message and re-raises anything else.

Also point AGENTS.md at tests/plan_helpers.py, which replaced the
plan_utils.py helper removed when main was merged.

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Second review round — 3 fixed, 1 corrected on the facts

Fixed

helpers.pyDecimal coerced through float() — valid, and worse than reported. Two distinct bugs:

Decimal("1.2345678901234567890123")  ->  1.2345678901234567     # digits dropped
Decimal("1E+400")                    ->  ValueError "NaN and Infinity"

The second is the serious one: 1E+400 is a perfectly finite Decimal, but float() overflows it to inf and trips the non-finite guard, so the client rejected a value it should have passed on. Decimal now has its own branch using Decimal.is_finite() and renders from str(value).

Cypher has no arbitrary-precision decimal type, so a Decimal always narrows to a double somewhere. The point is that the client should not add a second, silent rounding, and should not invent an error. Verified against the live server:

input before now
Decimal("0.1") 0.1 0.1
Decimal("1.2345678901234567890123") rounded client-side, then again server-side server narrows once, returns 1.23456789012346
Decimal("1E+400") client-side ValueError claiming Infinity server: Failed to parse the value of parameter 'v'
Decimal("NaN") / Decimal("Infinity") rejected still rejected — no Cypher literal exists

AGENTS.md:71 — correct, and my own drift: I deleted tests/plan_utils.py when merging main in favour of its plan_helpers.py, and did not update the file listing. Fixed.

graph.py:628 / graph.py:654 — fixed, though not for the stated reason. See below.

Corrected

The report says suppressing ResponseError means "connection failures or permission errors get silently ignored". That isn't so — in redis-py these are separate branches of the hierarchy:

AuthenticationError -> ConnectionError -> RedisError     # not a ResponseError
ResponseError       -> RedisError

except ResponseError never caught auth or connection failures; ResponseError is specifically a command error reply from a server that answered.

The comment was still wrong, so it was worth fixing: it promised a narrow behaviour the code did not implement, and a genuine ResponseError such as a rejected label or an unsupported command would have been mistaken for an index that already existed. All four sites (sync + async, node + edge) now share one context manager that matches the actual message and re-raises everything else:

@contextlib.contextmanager
def ignore_existing_index() -> Iterator[None]:
    try:
        yield
    except ResponseError as e:
        if "already indexed" not in str(e):
            raise

Message confirmed against the server: Attribute 'age' is already indexed. The tradeoff is that if the server ever rewords it, constraint creation fails loudly rather than silently — the better direction to fail, and the reason it is asserted in a test.

Verification

ruff format / ruff check / mypy clean; 149 passed, 2 xpassed (up from 144 — five new tests covering Decimal precision, large finite Decimals, Decimal NaN/Infinity, and both branches of the index suppression), plus a live round-trip of every case in the table above.

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main landed PR #276, which fixed the async connection-pool kwargs
mutation independently of this branch. Both arrived at the same fix, so
the conflicts were resolved in favour of main's .copy() idiom, keeping
the comment explaining why the live pool dict must not be popped from.

For AsyncGraph.schema, main annotated the instance and suppressed the
resulting override error. This branch already declares the attribute at
class level, which types every read of self.schema rather than just the
assignment, so main's annotation and its type: ignore are redundant here
and were dropped. mypy resolves the attribute to the async GraphSchema.

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pyproject.toml:73

  • In ruff config, the inline comment for the "ASYNC" rule is missing a space after the comma. This is not ruff-format compliant and can cause ruff format --check to fail.
    "SIM",  # flake8-simplify
    "PERF", # perflint
    "RUF",  # ruff-specific rules
    "ASYNC",# flake8-async
]

falkordb/falkordb.py:192

  • TLS detection in from_url() uses identity comparison (is) against redis.SSLConnection. If a pool uses a subclass/custom SSLConnection, this can mis-detect TLS and re-dial cluster/sentinel connections in plaintext.
        pool = conn.connection_pool
        ssl = pool.connection_class is redis.SSLConnection

        return cls(connection_pool=pool, ssl=ssl)

falkordb/asyncio/falkordb.py:172

  • TLS detection in async from_url() uses identity comparison (is) against redis.SSLConnection. If a pool uses a subclass/custom SSLConnection, this can mis-detect TLS and re-dial cluster connections in plaintext.
        pool = conn.connection_pool
        ssl = pool.connection_class is redis.SSLConnection

        return cls(connection_pool=pool, ssl=ssl)

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167-172: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve TLS for direct connection pools.

Lines 167-172 infer TLS only for from_url. If a caller passes an SSL connection_pool to FalkorDB(...) without also passing ssl=True, ssl remains False. When cluster mode is detected, Cluster_Conn then creates plaintext cluster connections.

Infer ssl from conn.connection_pool.connection_class after redis.Redis(...) returns. Apply this for every construction path.

Proposed fix
-        if Is_Cluster(conn):
+        ssl = conn.connection_pool.connection_class is redis.SSLConnection
+
+        if Is_Cluster(conn):
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In `@falkordb/asyncio/falkordb.py` around lines 167 - 172, Update the connection
initialization in FalkorDB so ssl is inferred from
conn.connection_pool.connection_class after redis.Redis(...) returns, regardless
of whether the client came from from_url or a direct connection pool. Preserve
explicitly configured non-TLS behavior while ensuring Cluster_Conn receives True
for SSLConnection pools.
tests/plan_helpers.py (1)

76-92: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Strengthen the execution-plan assertions in both areas below.

  1. Operation.records_produced is a per-operation statistic. Using max() across the tree can select an intermediate scan instead of the operation representing the query result, causing valid profiles to be rejected or incorrect counts to pass. Select the result-producing operation explicitly.

  2. The helper currently checks only operation names and whether an argument exists. Compare each parsed argument with the text after the first |, and require op.args is None when the raw line has no separator; otherwise incorrect, misplaced, or dropped arguments can pass, including the MERGE case in tests/test_async_explain.py.

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In `@tests/plan_helpers.py` around lines 76 - 92, Update the parsed-plan
assertions in the loop over parsed operations and lines to split each raw line
at the first “|” separator, require op.args to be None when no separator exists,
and otherwise compare op.args with the stripped text after that separator. Keep
the existing operation-name and expect_args checks intact.

Apply the same fix in `@tests/plan_helpers.py` around lines 170 - 173: Preserves
the incorrect tree-wide result-count selection concern.
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In `@falkordb/asyncio/falkordb.py`:
- Around line 167-172: Update the connection initialization in FalkorDB so ssl
is inferred from conn.connection_pool.connection_class after redis.Redis(...)
returns, regardless of whether the client came from from_url or a direct
connection pool. Preserve explicitly configured non-TLS behavior while ensuring
Cluster_Conn receives True for SSLConnection pools.

In `@tests/plan_helpers.py`:
- Around line 76-92: Update the parsed-plan assertions in the loop over parsed
operations and lines to split each raw line at the first “|” separator, require
op.args to be None when no separator exists, and otherwise compare op.args with
the stripped text after that separator. Keep the existing operation-name and
expect_args checks intact.

Apply the same fix in `@tests/plan_helpers.py` around lines 170 - 173: Preserves
the incorrect tree-wide result-count selection concern.

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The strict parameter type whitelist was bypassable. isinstance() accepts
subclasses, so int, float and Decimal values were formatted with repr()
or str() on a type the caller controls:

    class EvilInt(int):
        def __repr__(self):
            return "1 CREATE (:PWNED) //"

    graph.query("RETURN $v", {"v": EvilInt(1)})   # creates a PWNED node

Verified against a live server, the node was created. Each numeric branch
now normalizes to the exact base type before formatting, so the rendered
literal can only come from int, float or Decimal themselves.

This also fixes IntEnum, whose repr() is "<Color.RED: 1>" and which the
server rejected as an unparsable parameter. Enums are ordinary parameter
values and now render as their numeric value.

The temporal branch had a smaller variant of the same problem: a subclass
returning a non-string from isoformat() passed through quote_string
unquoted, since it only quotes textual values.

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Three findings from review of the previous commit.

The subclass normalization applied to the numeric branches was missing
from the str/bytes branch, which is the actual string-literal boundary.
quote_string escapes by calling methods on the value itself, so a str
subclass overriding replace() disabled the escaping entirely, and one
overriding __contains__ disabled the NUL guard -- a NUL in the query
header terminates the server process:

    class EvilStr(str):
        def replace(self, *a, **k):
            return self

    graph.query("RETURN $p", {"p": EvilStr('x" CREATE (:PWNED) //')})

Verified against a live server, the node was created. quote_string and
quote_identifier now normalize with str.__str__/bytes.decode first. str()
is not enough on its own: it returns whatever __str__ hands back, which
can be another lying subclass.

Is_Cluster dropped credential_provider before building its synchronous
probe, on the mistaken premise that it is asyncio-specific. redis-py has
a single CredentialProvider class whose get_credentials() is synchronous,
and username/password are None whenever a provider is in use, so the
probe connected unauthenticated and every async connection using one
failed at construction. Only retry and redis_connect_func are dropped now.

That regression was invisible because the test asserted against a stub
whose bare **kwargs signature caused Is_Cluster's signature filter to
discard every kwarg, so probe.kwargs was always empty and the assertions
held no matter what. The stub now borrows the real Redis signature and
the test asserts positively that host, port and credentials survive.

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falkordb/falkordb.py:191

  • TLS detection in from_url() uses identity comparison (is) against redis.SSLConnection. If a caller provides a custom connection_class that subclasses SSLConnection, this will mis-detect TLS as disabled and can reintroduce the plaintext redial issue for cluster/sentinel topologies derived from that pool. Using issubclass() makes this robust to subclasses.
        pool = conn.connection_pool
        ssl = pool.connection_class is redis.SSLConnection

falkordb/asyncio/falkordb.py:172

  • TLS detection in from_url() uses pool.connection_class is redis.SSLConnection, which fails for custom connection classes that subclass SSLConnection. That can incorrectly set ssl=False and cause a plaintext redial in cluster topologies derived from that pool. Prefer an issubclass() check guarded by isinstance(..., type).
        pool = conn.connection_pool
        ssl = pool.connection_class is redis.SSLConnection

        return cls(connection_pool=pool, ssl=ssl)

Two places outside the parameter path still pasted caller input straight
into query text, the same class of bug this branch removed from
stringify_param_value.

_create_typed_index built its OPTIONS map with str() and unescaped single
quotes. It is reachable from the public create_node_vector_index and
create_edge_vector_index, whose dim argument is annotated int but never
checked, so an object whose __str__ returned "4, foo:1" was accepted and
added a key to the map. The map is now built with quote_identifier and
stringify_param_value like any other Cypher map.

call_procedure interpolated the procedure name and the YIELD names
directly, while parameterizing only the arguments:

    graph.call_procedure(
        "db.labels() YIELD label WITH label CREATE (:PWNED) RETURN label //",
        read_only=False,
    )

Verified against a live server, the node was created. Both are now
validated as dotted identifiers, with YIELD also allowing "x AS y" and
"*". Ordinary calls such as DB.LABELS are unaffected.

Both fixes are mirrored in the asyncio package.

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call_procedure's procedure and YIELD names and index option names are
part of the query text rather than parameters, so they are checked
against an identifier pattern and raise ValueError when they are not.

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Comment thread falkordb/cluster.py
Comment on lines 72 to 76
url=url,
address_remap=address_remap,
startup_nodes=startup_nodes,
cluster_error_retry_attempts=cluster_error_retry_attempts,
**optional,
)
Comment on lines 106 to 110
reinitialize_steps=reinitialize_steps,
read_from_replicas=read_from_replicas,
address_remap=address_remap,
startup_nodes=startup_nodes,
cluster_error_retry_attempts=cluster_error_retry_attempts,
**optional,
)
The validators added in the previous commit repeated the mistake they
were written to fix: they checked one value and interpolated another.

_validate_procedure_name returned the caller's object, and the f-string
that consumes it calls type(v).__format__, which a str subclass controls.
A name could pass the regex and then render as something else entirely.
_validate_yield was worse, checking name.strip() -- a caller-supplied
bound method -- while returning the original list for ','.join(). Both
were confirmed to create a node on a live server. Each now normalizes
with str.__str__ first and returns the checked value, and both patterns
use fullmatch so a trailing newline cannot slip through.

Labels, relationship types and property names in the index DDL were also
interpolated raw. Arbitrary statements are not reachable, the server
rejects multi-statement queries, but the DDL could be redirected:

    graph.drop_node_range_index("Secret) ON (e.ssn) //", "age")

dropped the index on Secret.ssn rather than the one the caller named, and
create_node_range_index("L", "age, e.secret") silently indexed a second
property. All of these identifiers are backticked through
quote_identifier now, so each is exactly one name.

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falkordb/helpers.py:15

  • Spelling/grammar in the quote_string docstring: “incase” should be “in case”, and the sentence reads awkwardly as written.
    FalkorDB strings must be quoted,
    quote_string wraps given v with quotes incase
    v is a string.

Backticking the index identifiers widens what is accepted: labels with
spaces, punctuation or non-ASCII characters used to be parse errors, and
a non-BMP label terminated the server process outright. The one narrow
break is a caller who pre-backticked a name to work around the parser,
which now raises because a backtick cannot be escaped.

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Conflicts resolved, plus a review that found the hardening was incomplete

Conflicts

main had landed #276 (async connection-pool kwargs), release 1.7.1 and the redis 8.x pin. Three files conflicted, both sides having fixed the same things independently:

  • cluster.py / asyncio/cluster.py — both branches derived the same "don't pop from the live pool dict" fix. Took main's .copy() idiom and kept the comment explaining why it matters.
  • asyncio/graph.py — main annotated the instance (self.schema: GraphSchema = GraphSchema(self) # type: ignore[assignment]). This branch already declares schema: AsyncGraphSchema at class level, which types every read of self.schema rather than only the assignment, so main's annotation and its ignore were redundant. Confirmed with reveal_type that mypy still resolves the async schema, and mypy is clean without the ignore.

Review

I had the branch reviewed adversarially against a live server. It found six real bugs, four of them in my own hardening, which is the uncomfortable but useful outcome. All are fixed.

One mistake, made four times. isinstance() accepts subclasses, so any security decision made by calling a method on the untrusted value is caller-overridable:

Where How it broke
int/float/Decimal repr(value) on a subclass — EvilInt.__repr__ returned 1 CREATE (:PWNED) //
str/bytes quote_string escapes via v.replace(...); overriding replace disabled escaping, overriding __contains__ disabled the NUL guard
_validate_procedure_name validated the value, then interpolated the object — f-strings call __format__
_validate_yield validated name.strip() but emitted the original list

Every one created a real PWNED node against FalkorDB 8.6.3. The fix is uniform: normalize to the exact base type (str.__str__, bytes.decode, int(), float(), Decimal()) before inspecting, and emit the value that was checked.

The int bug also explains a plain usability failure: IntEnum was unusable, since repr(Color.RED) is <Color.RED: 1>. Enums now work.

Two pre-existing injection sites, in the same file as the fix they contradicted:

  • _create_typed_index built its OPTIONS map with str() and unescaped single quotes — the exact pattern removed from stringify_param_value 350 lines above. Reachable from the public vector-index API, whose dim is annotated int but never checked.
  • call_procedure interpolated the procedure and YIELD names raw while parameterizing only the arguments.
  • Index DDL interpolated label/attribute/properties raw. Not arbitrary-statement execution (the server rejects multi-statement queries) but the DDL could be redirected: drop_node_range_index("Secret) ON (e.ssn) //", "age") dropped a different index than the caller named.

One regression I introduced. Is_Cluster dropped credential_provider before building its synchronous probe, on the false premise that it is asyncio-specific. redis-py has a single CredentialProvider class with a synchronous get_credentials(), and username/password are None whenever a provider is in use — so the probe connected unauthenticated and FalkorDB() failed outright for those users.

And a test that was hiding it. test_async_is_cluster_closes_probe_on_failure asserted against a stub whose bare **kwargs signature made Is_Cluster's own inspect.signature filter discard every kwarg. probe.kwargs was always {}, so the assertions passed no matter what the code did. The stub now borrows the real redis.Redis signature and asserts positively; I verified it fails if the bug is reintroduced.

An incidental DoS fix

Backticking the index identifiers turned out to fix a remote crash: create_node_range_index("😀", "x") killed the FalkorDB process on main, because a non-BMP character reached the parser bare. Backticked, it is accepted and the server stays up.

It also widens what is accepted — labels with spaces, punctuation or non-ASCII characters were previously parse errors. The one narrow break, noted in the README: a caller who pre-backticked a name as a workaround should now pass it unquoted.

(Separately, similarity_function="😀" still crashes the server — I confirmed this is a server-side bug in its "Unknown similarity function" error path, identical under the old single-quoted syntax, so there is nothing to fix client-side. Probably worth an upstream issue.)

Verification

Every fix has a regression test that I confirmed fails against the pre-fix code — no false assurance. ruff format, ruff check, mypy and spellcheck clean; 169 passed, 2 xpassed (up from 144 at the start of this round); sync and async both exercised end to end against a live server; all 14 CI checks green on 3.10–3.14.

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