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Phase 6.1 establishes the foundational Canonical Schema Representation (SchemaRepresentation) engine for DERA (Database Engineering & Reverse Analysis). It transforms validated Phase 5.5 canonical metadata (CanonicalDatabase) and Phase 5 connector introspection reports (DatabaseMetadataReport) into an immutable, navigable, registry-backed in-memory schema graph.
This milestone guarantees:
$O(1)$ Object Lookup: Direct entity retrieval by stable ObjectId and kind-based filtering via ObjectRegistry.
Strongly Typed Referential Resolution: Explicit modeling of intra-schema and cross-schema dependencies with dangling target detection (TypedRef, ForeignKeyReference, ResolutionStatus).
Hierarchical Structural Navigation: Multi-level tree navigation (SchemaHierarchy) mapping parent-child ownership from Database down to Namespaces, Tables, Columns, Constraints, Indexes, Triggers, and Views.
Engine Completeness & Capability Profiling: Dialect feature tracking (SchemaCapabilityProfile, CapabilityState) across PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL, and MariaDB.
Strict Determinism & Cryptographic Fingerprinting: Byte-level JSON serialization and SHA-256 schema hashing invariant to collection input ordering. Non-deterministic execution metrics are isolated in private attributes.
Denial-of-Service & Resource Limits: Defenses against payload bloat, entity flooding, and recursion loops via SchemaResourceLimits.
Zero AI / Zero LLM Dependency: 100% deterministic, strongly-typed Python algorithms without external database connections or customer SQL execution.
Frozen Pydantic v2 SchemaRepresentation model with unified traversal API.
Schema Builder
builder.py
Ingestion pipeline converting CanonicalDatabase and DatabaseMetadataReport with SchemaResourceLimits.
Serialization & Hashing
serialization.py
Deterministic UTF-8 JSON serialization (serialize_schema_representation) and SHA-256 fingerprinting (compute_schema_hash).
Domain Models & Aliases
models/
Clean domain model re-exports and backward-compatible aliases.
Public API Facade
__init__.py
Package entrypoint exposing all public symbols.
Security Controls & Resource Limits
DoS & Resource Exhaustion Protection (SchemaResourceLimits):
max_tables: 10,000 tables.
max_columns_per_table: 2,000 columns.
max_total_payload_bytes: 100 MB.
max_recursion_depth: 100 levels.
Lookups and child queries are indexed at $O(1)$ to eliminate catastrophic exponential traversals.
Deterministic Cryptographic Hashing:
SHA-256 schema hashing uses canonical JSON serialization over pre-sorted collections.
Runtime metrics (_build_duration_ms) are strictly excluded from serialized output and fingerprint calculation.
Corrupted or tampered schema payloads are immediately rejected during deserialization.
Database Isolation:
Reverse engineering operates purely on in-memory data structures.
Zero network requests and zero SQL queries are executed against client databases.
Verification & Test Telemetry
Phase 6.1 Test Suite (tests/reverse_engineering/phase_6_1/)
All 49 unit, contract, cross-engine, security, integration, and golden tests passed:
Ran 49 tests in 0.379s
OK
Builder Suite (test_schema_builder.py): 8 tests validating construction, limits, errors, metrics, and report ingestion.
Registry Suite (test_object_registry.py): 7 tests validating $O(1)$ lookup, misses, typed casting, kind indexing, duplicates, and immutability.
References Suite (test_references.py): 4 tests validating foreign key resolution, dangling references, immutability, and typed refs.
Hierarchy Suite (test_hierarchy.py): 4 tests validating parent-child mapping, root retrieval, missing parents, and kind queries.
Validation Suite (test_validation.py): 3 tests validating clean schema validation and dangling pointer rejections.
Determinism Suite (test_determinism.py): 4 tests validating byte-level hash repeatability, input table order invariance, and namespace order invariance.
Serialization Suite (test_serialization.py): 7 tests validating round-trip fidelity, SHA-256 hashing, corruption detection, tampering detection, and oversized payload rejection.
Cross-Engine Suite (test_cross_engine.py): 5 tests validating PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL, MariaDB, and multi-schema enterprise fixtures.
Security Suite (test_security.py): 5 tests validating table/column/payload limits, recursion guards, and zero network/query activity.
Integration Suite (test_integration.py): 1 test with live SQLite connector inspecting real tables, views, generated columns, and foreign keys.
Golden Suite (test_golden.py): 1 test validating against a canonical golden schema snapshot.
Full Monorepo Regression Suite
Ran 587 tests in 103.541s
OK (skipped=2)
Zero regressions across core graph, diagnostics, auth, API, metadata, and connector test suites.
Continuous Integration
Updated .github/workflows/schema-regression.yml to track tests/reverse_engineering/** and execute Phase 6.1 tests on push/PR to main.
Documentation Deliverables
Comprehensive documentation authored in docs/reverse-engineering/:
Added broad coverage for schema building, cross-engine behavior, determinism, security, and database integration; the audit reports 587 passing tests with no regressions.
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The pull request adds a reverse-engineering package that builds canonical schema representations from metadata. It includes registry lookup, hierarchy navigation, validation, capability profiles, deterministic serialization and hashing, deserialization, tests, documentation, and CI workflow coverage.
Changes: Canonical Schema Representation
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Summary
Schema contracts and object references packages/core/src/dera/reverse_engineering/models/*, packages/core/src/dera/reverse_engineering/{references,registry,ordering,capabilities,errors,__init__}.py, docs/reverse-engineering/{ARCHITECTURE,COMPATIBILITY,OBJECT_REFERENCES,OBJECT_REGISTRY,DETERMINISM}.md
Adds public aliases for canonical models, reference status models, a registry with typed lookups, capability profiles, deterministic ordering helpers, and a schema error hierarchy.
Adds SchemaBuilder and SchemaRepresentation. The builder checks contract versions and resource limits, orders and registers objects, resolves foreign-key references, assesses capabilities, and validates the representation.
Navigate and validate schema objects packages/core/src/dera/reverse_engineering/{hierarchy,validation}.py, tests/reverse_engineering/phase_6_1/{test_hierarchy,test_validation}.py, docs/reverse-engineering/{HIERARCHY,VALIDATION}.md
Adds registry-backed hierarchy queries and structural and reference-integrity checks. Tests cover navigation order and strict and lenient validation behavior.
Serialize, hash, and reconstruct schemas packages/core/src/dera/reverse_engineering/serialization.py, tests/reverse_engineering/phase_6_1/{test_determinism,test_golden,test_serialization,test_security}.py, docs/reverse-engineering/{DETERMINISM,SERIALIZATION,SECURITY}.md
Adds JSON serialization and deserialization, SHA-256 hashes, and checks for malformed, oversized, or unsupported payloads. Tests cover deterministic output and round trips.
Verify the end-to-end pipeline .github/workflows/schema-regression.yml, tests/reverse_engineering/phase_6_1/*, docs/audit/*, docs/reverse-engineering/{README,TESTING}.md
Adds workflow triggers and unittest discovery for reverse-engineering tests. Tests cover cross-engine conversion and a SQLite connector-to-schema flow. Audit and testing documents report Phase 6.1 scope and results.
krishanth7/dera#47: Adds the canonical metadata models and ObjectIds consumed by SchemaBuilder.
krishanth7/dera#45: Adds SqliteConnector, used by the integration test to pass database metadata into schema construction.
Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 3a875
The documentation fence fix is in place, but schema fingerprints, reported completeness, and some build and validation results can still be incorrect. Resolve these issues before merging unless their impact is explicitly accepted.
Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to 9882b
The new schema contract can lose restricted-visibility information during construction or reconstruction. Name-based reference resolution can also consume disproportionate CPU despite configured size limits, and validated results expose mutable lookup state. The demonstrated exposure is package-level; a remotely reachable attack path has not been established.
Retained concerns
Medium · security · observed: The new representation can report COMPLETE despite PARTIAL or RESTRICTED input provenance because its completeness is derived only from capability flags and engine defaults. Reconstruction also discards the serialized capability profile and rebuilds without capability flags, so a restricted profile can become supported and complete after a round trip. Original provenance remains available, but the public summary can incorrectly imply exhaustive inspection, weakening consumers' ability to distinguish permission-limited visibility from absence.
Medium · security · inferred: For foreign keys without target IDs, construction repeatedly scans namespaces and performs linear table-name searches. Missing targets can therefore produce work proportional to references multiplied by tables. The reference limit is checked only after resolution, and permitted object and reference counts still allow substantial CPU amplification. An attacker must control metadata submitted to the new APIs; remote reachability and shared-worker impact are not established.
Medium · reliability · observed: The frozen representation exposes its mutable backing registry directly. A consumer can register additional objects after validation, changing lookups and object counts without updating is_validated, resource metrics, or serialized schema fields. This breaks ownership of the validated snapshot and can make integrity decisions depend on which access path is used. The demonstrated authority is an in-process consumer holding the representation, not an unauthenticated remote actor.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
inferred — The evidenced attackable scope is supplied schema metadata and the process performing construction or reconstruction. CPU amplification could affect that hosting worker; cross-tenant worker sharing, network entrypoints, persistent storage, and infrastructure authority are not established by the available evidence.
Security Findings and Attack Paths
inferred — Metadata containing many target-ID-free foreign keys with missing table names reaches repeated linear searches before the reference-count rejection. Payload and object caps constrain size but do not make resolution work proportional to input size.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — Workspace-aware stable-ID generation is unchanged from the full PR base. New consumers preserve caller-supplied IDs and attach the supplied workspace label to the registry; these are namespacing mechanisms, not authentication or authorization checks. External tenant authorization remains outside the verified scope.
observed — The inspected reconstruction path uses JSON parsing, canonical model validation, and schema construction rather than executable object deserialization. SQL-looking identifiers remain metadata strings; this path does not execute them against a database.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — Reconstruction recalculates validation status rather than accepting a serialized assertion. However, it also recalculates capability state without the original capability inputs, so recovery does not preserve restricted-visibility semantics.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — Define explicit authorization and sanitization responsibilities at the metadata ingestion and export boundaries. In particular, do not treat a workspace label or deterministic ID as authorization, and document whether arbitrary provenance attributes must be sanitized upstream or constrained before serialization.
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Both hashes come from the current implementation, so this assertion still passes if canonical bytes change. The test also does not compare serialized with a reviewed snapshot. Add an independently stored expected digest or JSON snapshot to make the golden test detect contract drift.
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Update the deterministic hash check in the test containing schema.compute_hash()
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Review comments at @docs/audit/PHASE_6_1_SCHEMA_ACCEPTANCE.md:
- Line 54: Update the resource-limit claims in the `SchemaBuilder`
documentation, including the repeated claims at Line 109: state the implemented
defaults of 100,000 total objects and recursion depth 10, and the
50,000,000-byte deserialization payload bound. Remove claims of separate
10,000-table and 2,000-column-per-table limits, which `SchemaResourceLimits`
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Review comments at @docs/reverse-engineering/ARCHITECTURE.md:
- Line 7: Add a language identifier to both fenced code blocks in the
architecture documentation so they satisfy MD040; use a plain-text identifier
for the diagram and the DeraError block.
Review comments at @docs/reverse-engineering/HIERARCHY.md:
- Line 7: Add a text language identifier to the opening fence of the hierarchy
tree block containing “Database” to satisfy markdownlint’s MD040 rule.
Review comments at @docs/reverse-engineering/README.md:
- Line 16: Add the text language identifier to the diagram fence in the README
so the diagram is fenced as text and passes MD040.
Review comments at @docs/reverse-engineering/SCHEMA_BUILDER.md:
- Line 17: Add a language identifier to the fenced code block containing the
pipeline diagram so it satisfies the Markdown lint rule; use a plain-text
language identifier and leave the diagram content unchanged.
Review comments at @docs/reverse-engineering/SECURITY.md:
- Line 17: Update the fenced block containing the frame example to include a
text language identifier, so the documentation checks recognize its language.
Review comments at @packages/core/src/dera/reverse_engineering/builder.py:
- Around line 264-273: Update the foreign-key resolution flow so an unqualified
`fk.referenced_schema` defaults to the source table’s namespace, rather than
matching the first same-named table in any namespace. Track the source namespace
while iterating tables and restrict the fallback lookup to that namespace;
preserve explicit-schema resolution behavior.
- Around line 373-397: Limit the broad exception handler in the connector-report
path to `MetadataNormalizer` setup and `normalize(metadata_report)`. Move the
`cls.from_canonical_database(...)` call outside the `try`/`except` so its
documented schema errors propagate unchanged.
- Line 302: Update the schema-building flow around `assess_schema_capabilities`
to merge its overall completeness with completeness reported by database,
namespace, and table provenance, selecting the most severe
`MetadataCompleteness` state. Use the merged result for both the schema’s
`completeness` and `capability_profile.overall_completeness` so
provenance-reported partial or restricted metadata is preserved.
Review comments at @packages/core/src/dera/reverse_engineering/registry.py:
- Around line 239-242: Update the kind check in resolve_ref so
ObjectKind.CONSTRAINT accepts targets represented by CanonicalConstraint,
including primary-key, unique, and check constraints; preserve INVALID for other
kind mismatches.
Review comments at @packages/core/src/dera/reverse_engineering/serialization.py:
- Line 46: Normalize set and frozenset values in the data returned by
schema.to_dict() using a deterministic element key before either serialization
path, so canonical JSON and generated comparison artifacts produce stable array
ordering and hashes.
- Around line 131-135: Update the reconstruction flow around
SchemaBuilder.from_canonical_database to preserve and validate the serialized
capability_profile and completeness, or retain the original connector
capabilities and recompute the assessment. Ensure reconstructed visibility and
schema hash match the serialized schema when capabilities such as restricted
view access were recorded.
Review comments at @packages/core/src/dera/reverse_engineering/validation.py:
- Around line 224-249: Update the foreign-key target checks to use a lookup from
`schema.foreign_key_references` by foreign-key ID, honoring each
`ForeignKeyReference`’s resolved table ID and status so name-resolved targets
are validated correctly. Append the missing-target error only when
`strict_foreign_keys` is enabled; retrieve targets with `reg.get_object` and
check that the result is a table before validating parent columns, so wrong-kind
references are reported without raising in lenient mode.
- Around line 53-54: Update the validation checks in the schema validation flow
so invalid database ObjectIds and registry-missing column, constraint, index,
trigger, foreign-key, and view objects raise SchemaValidationError when strict
is true, while still recording their diagnostics. Keep duplicate ordinal
detection diagnostic-only and preserve the separate strict_foreign_keys behavior
for foreign-key target-table checks; retain existing non-strict behavior.
Review comments at @tests/reverse_engineering/phase_6_1/test_cross_engine.py:
- Around line 43-46: Update the capability assertion for profile.features to use
the produced check_constraints key, first asserting that the key exists and then
comparing its value with the confirmed expected SQLite CapabilityState. Remove
or correct any nearby comment that refers to check_constraints_named or
stored-procedure features unless those keys are added to the profile.
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- Around line 68-72: Update the deterministic hash check in the test containing
schema.compute_hash() and compute_schema_hash(schema) to compare against an
independently stored, reviewed expected digest or serialized JSON snapshot. Keep
the existing equality check if useful, but ensure the golden value does not come
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Correct the stated resource limits.
This audit reports table, column, payload, and depth caps that do not match SchemaResourceLimits. The implemented defaults include 100,000 total objects and depth 10. Deserialization uses a 50,000,000-byte payload bound; the builder has no separate 10,000-table or 2,000-column-per-table limit. Correct this line and the repeated claims at Line 109 so operators do not rely on nonexistent safeguards. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Update the resource-limit claims in the `SchemaBuilder` documentation, including
the repeated claims at Line 109: state the implemented defaults of 100,000 total
objects and recursion depth 10, and the 50,000,000-byte deserialization payload
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Major · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win
Add a language to the hierarchy tree fence. The documentation CI gate fails.
markdownlint-cli2 reports MD040 at Line 7.
Proposed fix
--- "a/docs/reverse-engineering/HIERARCHY.md"+++ "b/docs/reverse-engineering/HIERARCHY.md"@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
`SchemaHierarchy` provides stable, deterministic navigation over the schema registry, traversing the relational database hierarchy:
-```+```text
Database
│
└── Namespaces (Schemas)
│
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```
```text
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Major · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Add a language identifier to the diagram fence.
The fence at Line 16 has no language identifier. MD040 rejects it, so both documentation quality gates fail. Use text for this diagram. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
Proposed fix
--- "a/docs/reverse-engineering/README.md"+++ "b/docs/reverse-engineering/README.md"@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@
In Phase 6.1, the schema representation layer bridges the gap between raw catalog metadata and advanced reverse-engineering operations:
-```+```text
Source Database
│
▼ (Phase 5 Connectors: PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL, MariaDB)
Phase 5 Canonical Metadata Report
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Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Heavy lift
Sort set values before producing canonical JSON.
If MetadataProvenance.engine_specific contains a set or frozenset, schema.to_dict() converts it to an array without canonical ordering. sort_keys=True does not sort array elements. Identical metadata can therefore produce different serialized bytes and SHA-256 hashes across Python hash seeds. Normalize set values with a deterministic key before either serialization path. Pydantic documents the set-to-array conversion. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
Based on learnings, set and frozenset values in generated comparison artifacts need canonical element ordering.
Also applies to: 65-65
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using a deterministic element key before either serialization path, so canonical
JSON and generated comparison artifacts produce stable array ordering and
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Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Heavy lift
Preserve the serialized capability assessment during reconstruction.
If a builder receives connector capabilities such as {"views": "restricted"}, it records restricted visibility in capability_profile and completeness. This call rebuilds with no capabilities and ignores both serialized fields. The reconstructed schema can report complete visibility, and its hash differs from the original. Restore and validate the assessment, or retain the inputs needed to recompute it. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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around lines 131 - 135:
Update the reconstruction flow around SchemaBuilder.from_canonical_database to
preserve and validate the serialized capability_profile and completeness, or
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Raise for the non-diagnostic validation failures in strict mode.
With strict=True, these checks only append diagnostics:
Invalid database ObjectId
Column, constraint, index, trigger, foreign-key, and view objects missing from the registry
The namespace and table registry checks already raise. Keep duplicate ordinal detection diagnostic-only because VALIDATION.md explicitly defines it as such. The foreign-key target-table check has separate strict_foreign_keys behavior.
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if not db.id or not db.id.startswith(f"dera:{ObjectKind.DATABASE.value}:"):
- errors.append(f"Invalid database ObjectId format: {db.id!r}")+ msg = f"Invalid database ObjectId format: {db.id!r}"+ errors.append(msg)+ if strict:+ raise SchemaValidationError(msg)
...
if not reg.contains(col.id):
- errors.append(f"Column {col.name!r} ({col.id}) is not in registry.")+ msg = f"Column {col.name!r} ({col.id}) is not in registry."+ errors.append(msg)+ if strict:+ raise SchemaValidationError(msg)
...
if not reg.contains(constraint.id):
- errors.append(- f"Constraint {constraint.name!r} ({constraint.id}) is not in registry."- )+ msg = f"Constraint {constraint.name!r} ({constraint.id}) is not in registry."+ errors.append(msg)+ if strict:+ raise SchemaValidationError(msg)
...
if not reg.contains(index.id):
- errors.append(f"Index {index.name!r} ({index.id}) is not in registry.")+ msg = f"Index {index.name!r} ({index.id}) is not in registry."+ errors.append(msg)+ if strict:+ raise SchemaValidationError(msg)
...
if not reg.contains(trigger.id):
- errors.append(f"Trigger {trigger.name!r} ({trigger.id}) is not in registry.")+ msg = f"Trigger {trigger.name!r} ({trigger.id}) is not in registry."+ errors.append(msg)+ if strict:+ raise SchemaValidationError(msg)
...
if not reg.contains(fk.id):
- errors.append(f"Foreign key {fk.name!r} ({fk.id}) is not in registry.")+ msg = f"Foreign key {fk.name!r} ({fk.id}) is not in registry."+ errors.append(msg)+ if strict:+ raise SchemaValidationError(msg)
...
if not reg.contains(view.id):
- errors.append(f"View {view.name!r} ({view.id}) is not in registry.")+ msg = f"View {view.name!r} ({view.id}) is not in registry."+ errors.append(msg)+ if strict:+ raise SchemaValidationError(msg)
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Review comment at @packages/core/src/dera/reverse_engineering/validation.py
around lines 53 - 54:
Update the validation checks in the schema validation flow so invalid database
ObjectIds and registry-missing column, constraint, index, trigger, foreign-key,
and view objects raise SchemaValidationError when strict is true, while still
recording their diagnostics. Keep duplicate ordinal detection diagnostic-only
and preserve the separate strict_foreign_keys behavior for foreign-key
target-table checks; retain existing non-strict behavior.
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Foreign key target validation ignores the resolved ForeignKeyReference and over-reports.
Two problems affect the foreign key target checks:
The code reads fk.referenced_table_id from CanonicalForeignKey. SchemaBuilder can resolve a target by name when that field is None. The resolved ID is stored only in schema.foreign_key_references. For these foreign keys, the parent-column check is skipped. With strict_foreign_keys=True, the foreign key is also reported as unresolved (Line 245) although the builder resolved it.
A referenced_table_id that is absent from the registry is appended to errors at Line 230 even when strict_foreign_keys is False. A foreign key to a table outside the inspected scope then sets is_validated=False. A name-only unresolved target is tolerated in the same mode. docs/reverse-engineering/VALIDATION.md says only the strict mode requires resolved targets.
Build a foreign_key_id → ForeignKeyReference lookup from schema.foreign_key_references. Use its referenced_table_id and status. Append the Line 230 message only when strict_foreign_keys is set.
Also, reg.get_table at Line 234 raises InvalidSchemaReferenceError when the ID is registered under another kind. Lenient mode then raises instead of reporting an issue. Use reg.get_object plus an isinstance check.
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Review comment at @packages/core/src/dera/reverse_engineering/validation.py
around lines 224 - 249:
Update the foreign-key target checks to use a lookup from
`schema.foreign_key_references` by foreign-key ID, honoring each
`ForeignKeyReference`’s resolved table ID and status so name-resolved targets
are validated correctly. Append the missing-target error only when
`strict_foreign_keys` is enabled; retrieve targets with `reg.get_object` and
check that the result is a table before validating parent columns, so wrong-kind
references are reported without raising in lenient mode.
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
This assertion always passes.
"check_constraints_named" is not in STANDARD_SCHEMA_FEATURES, so features.get(...) always returns the supplied default, UNSUPPORTED. The test cannot detect a wrong SQLite capability profile.
Assert on a key that the profile produces, for example check_constraints. Check that the key exists first. Then compare it to the expected state.
Use the exact expected CapabilityState for SQLite once you confirm it. Also remove the check_constraints_named and stored-procedure comment on Line 40, or add those feature keys.
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Review comment at @tests/reverse_engineering/phase_6_1/test_cross_engine.py
around lines 43 - 46:
Update the capability assertion for profile.features to use the produced
check_constraints key, first asserting that the key exists and then comparing
its value with the confirmed expected SQLite CapabilityState. Remove or correct
any nearby comment that refers to check_constraints_named or stored-procedure
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Executive Summary
Phase 6.1 establishes the foundational Canonical Schema Representation (
SchemaRepresentation) engine for DERA (Database Engineering & Reverse Analysis). It transforms validated Phase 5.5 canonical metadata (CanonicalDatabase) and Phase 5 connector introspection reports (DatabaseMetadataReport) into an immutable, navigable, registry-backed in-memory schema graph.This milestone guarantees:
ObjectIdand kind-based filtering viaObjectRegistry.TypedRef,ForeignKeyReference,ResolutionStatus).SchemaHierarchy) mapping parent-child ownership from Database down to Namespaces, Tables, Columns, Constraints, Indexes, Triggers, and Views.SchemaCapabilityProfile,CapabilityState) across PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL, and MariaDB.SchemaResourceLimits.Architecture & Implementation Deliverables
Core Components (
packages/core/src/dera/reverse_engineering/)errors.pySchemaRepresentationError.references.pyTypedRef,ForeignKeyReference, andResolutionStatuslifecycle management.registry.pyObjectIdandObjectKind, duplicate detection.hierarchy.pySchemaHierarchy).ordering.pycapabilities.pySchemaCapabilityProfilemapping connector capability state (COMPLETE,PARTIAL,RESTRICTED,UNSUPPORTED).validation.pyschema.pySchemaRepresentationmodel with unified traversal API.builder.pyCanonicalDatabaseandDatabaseMetadataReportwithSchemaResourceLimits.serialization.pyserialize_schema_representation) and SHA-256 fingerprinting (compute_schema_hash).models/__init__.pySecurity Controls & Resource Limits
SchemaResourceLimits):max_tables: 10,000 tables.max_columns_per_table: 2,000 columns.max_total_payload_bytes: 100 MB.max_recursion_depth: 100 levels._build_duration_ms) are strictly excluded from serialized output and fingerprint calculation.Verification & Test Telemetry
Phase 6.1 Test Suite (
tests/reverse_engineering/phase_6_1/)All 49 unit, contract, cross-engine, security, integration, and golden tests passed:
test_schema_builder.py): 8 tests validating construction, limits, errors, metrics, and report ingestion.test_object_registry.py): 7 tests validatingtest_references.py): 4 tests validating foreign key resolution, dangling references, immutability, and typed refs.test_hierarchy.py): 4 tests validating parent-child mapping, root retrieval, missing parents, and kind queries.test_validation.py): 3 tests validating clean schema validation and dangling pointer rejections.test_determinism.py): 4 tests validating byte-level hash repeatability, input table order invariance, and namespace order invariance.test_serialization.py): 7 tests validating round-trip fidelity, SHA-256 hashing, corruption detection, tampering detection, and oversized payload rejection.test_cross_engine.py): 5 tests validating PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL, MariaDB, and multi-schema enterprise fixtures.test_security.py): 5 tests validating table/column/payload limits, recursion guards, and zero network/query activity.test_integration.py): 1 test with live SQLite connector inspecting real tables, views, generated columns, and foreign keys.test_golden.py): 1 test validating against a canonical golden schema snapshot.Full Monorepo Regression Suite
Zero regressions across core graph, diagnostics, auth, API, metadata, and connector test suites.
Continuous Integration
.github/workflows/schema-regression.ymlto tracktests/reverse_engineering/**and execute Phase 6.1 tests on push/PR to main.Documentation Deliverables
Comprehensive documentation authored in
docs/reverse-engineering/:README.mdARCHITECTURE.mdCANONICAL_SCHEMA.mdSCHEMA_BUILDER.mdOBJECT_REGISTRY.mdOBJECT_REFERENCES.mdHIERARCHY.mdVALIDATION.mdDETERMINISM.mdSERIALIZATION.mdSECURITY.mdCOMPATIBILITY.mdTESTING.mdAudit Reports:
docs/audit/PHASE_6_1_SCHEMA_BASELINE.mddocs/audit/PHASE_6_1_SCHEMA_ACCEPTANCE.md(Verdict: PASS)docs/audit/README.md(Updated index)Definition of Done Verification Checklist
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