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fix: log the actual kubescape response body on scan errors - #406

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fix: log the actual kubescape response body on scan errors#406
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readKubescapeV1ScanResponse builds its error with fmt.Errorf("...body: %s", resp.StatusCode, resp.Body) when the scan endpoint returns a non-200. resp.Body is an io.ReadCloser, so %s never prints the actual response text — it prints Go's reflection dump of the internal *http.body struct instead, which is useless for figuring out why kubescape rejected the scan.

Moved the io.ReadAll above the status check (it already happens on the success path) and used the bytes in the error message instead. Added a test against a real httptest server so it actually exercises the concrete resp.Body type instead of a hand-built one that would mask this.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved error messages for failed scan responses by including details returned by the server.
    • Ensured response-reading errors are reported clearly before validating the HTTP status.

readKubescapeV1ScanResponse formats resp.Body straight into the error
with %s when the scan endpoint returns a non-200. resp.Body is an
io.ReadCloser, not a string, so that never printed the actual failure
reason kubescape sent back - just Go's reflection dump of the internal
http.body struct.

Read the body first (it's needed for the success path anyway) and use
that instead, before checking the status code.

Signed-off-by: Akanksha Trehun <akankshatrehun@gmail.com>
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The response reader now buffers HTTP response bodies before status validation. Non-200 errors include the body text. A regression test verifies this behavior with an HTTP 500 response.

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Kubescape response error handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Buffered error response handling
mainhandler/kubescapehandlerhelper.go, mainhandler/kubescapehandlerhelper_test.go
readKubescapeV1ScanResponse reads the response body before validating the status. Non-200 errors include the body contents. The test uses an httptest server to verify HTTP 500 error output.

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The change improves scan-error diagnostics, but its new test request has no timeout and could hang CI if the test server stalls. The PR is otherwise mergeable with explicit owner follow-up.

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In `@mainhandler/kubescapehandlerhelper_test.go`:
- Around line 272-273: Replace the http.Get call in this test with a
context-aware request created by http.NewRequestWithContext using a short
timeout, then execute it through http.DefaultClient.Do while preserving the
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Confirmed the bug: %s on resp.Body (an io.ReadCloser) was printing Go's struct dump instead of the response text, so scan-failure logs never showed what kubescape actually said. Moving io.ReadAll above the status check and formatting string(bodyBytes) fixes this correctly — the body is still read/closed exactly once regardless of status, and the only caller (kubescapehandler.go) just checks the returned error, so no behavior elsewhere depends on the old ordering. The added httptest-backed test genuinely exercises the concrete resp.Body type that caused the original bug, and it responds synchronously so there's no CI-hang risk. No blockers.

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matthyx merged commit e7f562d into kubescape:main Aug 21, 2026
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