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Why

xtest is consumed by four repos — opentdf/platform, web-sdk, java-sdk and otdfctl — and every one of them has to send a PR against this repo to add an SDK build or a container format. Three closed Literal unions in xtest/tdfs.py are the reason:

tdfs.py what it closes
sdk_type :103 which SDKs can be in the matrix
container_type :112 which container formats exist
feature_type :117 the 26 capability names the shims gate on

They are the single source of truth for pytest_generate_tests, so a new name is not a configuration change — it is a diff against a shared repo, reviewed by people who may have no stake in the SDK being added.

Precedent that this is a real cost, not a hypothetical one. NanoTDF was removed from xtest in 150e3135 ("fix: remove NanoTDF tests and support", #366, 2026-01-06): 11 files changed, +22 / −2003. A whole container format lived as a second arm of container_type and as branches threaded through the fixture tree, and the only way to stop paying for it was to delete it. otdf-sdk-mgr/tests/test_schema.py::test_removed_nano_container_is_rejected now exists specifically to stop a second container kind from growing back. That guard is right for the in-tree enum and wrong as a statement about the suite's capabilities: a consumer should be able to bring a container without the suite having to adopt it.

What this changes

Nothing that runs today changes behaviour. This is the non-wired half.

  • xtest/registry.py (new) — a small typed registry over three named entry-point groups, otdf.adapters / otdf.containers / otdf.installers, seeded with today's Literal values as built-in defaults. Discovery happens once, from pytest_configure. Defines the ContainerAdapter protocol (inspect / tamper / requires_attributes) and a format-agnostic Inspection, but nothing consumes them yet.
  • XT_FORCE_SUPPORTS moves out of module scope into pytest_configure. It was parsed at import tdfs time and validated against get_args(feature_type), which is strictly earlier than any plugin could have been loaded. An unknown name also raised a bare ValueError during collection; it is now a pytest.UsageError.
  • The SDK matrix defaults to installed builds. See the note below — the bug is real but is not the one it looks like.
  • spec/DSPX-4794.md — the design, including the landing order for the wiring that follows.

The review question: does static typing survive an open set?

This is the part to argue with. Four mechanisms, none of them "give up and use str everywhere":

  1. The Literals stay authoritative for in-tree code. Everything already written keeps exhaustiveness checking and keeps its typos caught by pyright.
  2. Only values that cross the registry boundary widen — parametrized fixture params become str, because by construction their domain is not known at type-check time.
  3. Typo detection moves from import time to collection time, where it can produce a better message than a ValueError traceback (it can say which option, and list what is actually registered).
  4. BUILTIN_SDKS / BUILTIN_CONTAINERS / BUILTIN_FEATURES are pinned against get_args() by an offline test, so the two copies cannot drift.

Literal[...] | str was considered and rejected: pyright collapses the union to str, so it buys the appearance of checking and none of the checking. registry.py deliberately does not import tdfs — that acyclicity is why the built-in tuples are duplicated rather than derived, and the pin test is what keeps them honest.

The acceptance gate

test_registry_units.py::TestOutOfTreePlugin builds a real .dist-infoMETADATA plus entry_points.txt — in tmp_path, prepends it to sys.path, invalidates the import caches, and shows an out-of-tree plugin contributing a container and an SDK that the registry then discovers. No monkeypatching of the registry, and no edit to the xtest source tree. If the entry-point story does not actually work, that test fails.

A note on the sdk_specs_opt default

The claim going in was that a bare pytest test_tdfs.py blows up. Measured on a clean checkout, it does not: it reports 20 skipped with got empty parameter set for (encrypt_sdk) and exits 0. parse_sdk_spec already routes a bare SDK name through all_versions_of, so changing the default from get_args(sdk_type) to the installed set is behaviour-preserving.

The real defect is worse than a crash — it is vacuous green. A run with no SDKs installed passes. The fix here raises pytest.UsageError on the default path only (an explicit --sdks that narrows to nothing is left alone, since that is a deliberate request), and names both the side of the matrix that is empty and how to fix it. all_versions_of also now sorts, because os.listdir is unordered and its output becomes pytest parameter ids.

Stacking

Stacked on DSPX-4793 (the src/xtest/ layout and [build-system]), which is not yet on main. The design in spec/DSPX-4794.md assumes that layout; the code in this PR deliberately does not, and lands on today's flat layout so it can be reviewed and merged independently. Rebase once DSPX-4793 is in.

What was run

No platform available, so offline only:

uv run --frozen --no-build pytest --no-header -q \
  test_bench_stats.py test_bench_measure.py test_bench_runner.py \
  test_bench_arms.py test_sdk_commands.py test_tdfs_units.py \
  test_encryption_units.py test_sizes_units.py test_zip64_units.py \
  test_conftest_units.py test_registry_units.py
# 252 passed

uv run --frozen ruff check .          # All checks passed
uv run --frozen ruff format --check . # 48 files already formatted
uv run --frozen pyright               # 0 errors, 0 warnings

check.yml's offline step gains test_conftest_units.py and test_registry_units.py.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added extensible discovery for SDKs, container formats, and installer capabilities through registered plugins.
    • Added support for plugin-provided feature flags and container operations.
    • Improved SDK selection across installed builds, including wildcard and explicit selections.
    • Added clearer validation and error reporting for unknown or unavailable SDKs and forced features.
  • Documentation

    • Added a draft design specification describing registry behavior, compatibility requirements, and acceptance criteria.
  • Tests

    • Expanded offline coverage for SDK discovery, plugin registries, and forced-feature configuration.

xtest entry point registries
…t import

tdfs.FORCED_SUPPORTS was evaluated at module scope, and its parse rejects any
name not in get_args(feature_type). Wherever that parse runs is the moment the
set of legal feature names freezes -- at import, that is before
pytest_addoption, before pytest_configure, and before any plugin has run.

The strictness is right (a typo must not silently leave a skip in place) and
so is extensibility; they only conflicted because of when the parse happened.
Move it into conftest.pytest_configure, behind tdfs.configure_forced_supports()
/ tdfs.forced_supports(), with a lazy environment fallback so callers that
import tdfs outside a pytest session keep working.

A bad name now surfaces as a pytest.UsageError rather than a ValueError
escaping through the plugin manager as an INTERNALERROR traceback.
…n empty one

conftest's SDK selection defaulted to get_args(tdfs.sdk_type) -- the set of
names the suite knows about rather than the set of builds present on disk.
parse_sdk_spec routes a bare name through all_versions_of anyway, so the two
agreed; ask the dist tree directly, which is the question that was being asked
and which keeps agreeing when the name set stops being a Literal.

The behaviour change is the empty case. metafunc.parametrize over [] does not
collect zero items: empty_parameter_set_mark turns it into one skip per test,
so a checkout with nothing installed reported "20 skipped ... got empty
parameter set" and exited 0. Measured on a clean tree before this change. That
is the same vacuous-green hole sizes_opt_type already guards against a few
functions up, so the default path now raises a UsageError naming
`otdf-sdk-mgr install`. An explicit --sdks that narrows to nothing is left
alone -- that is the caller's own doing.

all_versions_of now sorts, so parameter ids and fixtures/bench.py's heads[0]
tie-break no longer depend on readdir order.
xtest is consumed by four repos -- opentdf/platform, web-sdk, java-sdk and
otdfctl -- and today every one of them has to patch the xtest source tree to
add an SDK build or a container format. The three closed `Literal` unions in
tdfs.py are the reason: sdk_type, container_type and feature_type are the
single source of truth for the parametrized matrix, so a new name is a diff
against this repo rather than something a consumer can supply.

This adds xtest/registry.py: a small typed registry over three named
entry-point groups (otdf.adapters, otdf.containers, otdf.installers), seeded
with today's Literal values as built-in defaults. It is discovered once from
pytest_configure and is not yet wired into the matrix -- nothing that runs
today changes behaviour.

Static typing survives the open set, which is the part worth reviewing:
the Literals stay authoritative for in-tree code, parametrized values widen
to str only where they cross the registry boundary, typo detection moves from
import time to collection time with a better message, and the built-in tuples
are pinned against get_args() by an offline test so the two copies cannot
drift. Literal[...] | str was rejected: pyright collapses it to str and the
checking is lost everywhere, not just at the boundary.

The acceptance gate is test_registry_units.py::TestOutOfTreePlugin, which
builds a real .dist-info with entry_points.txt on sys.path and shows an
out-of-tree plugin contributing a container and an SDK without touching the
xtest source tree.

registry.py deliberately does not import tdfs, so the built-in tuples are
duplicated rather than derived; the pin test is what keeps them honest.
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This change adds entry-point registries for SDKs, containers, installers, and features. It defers forced-support validation until plugin loading, improves SDK matrix resolution, defines container adapter contracts, adds offline tests, and includes those tests in the workflow.

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Registry extension

Layer / File(s) Summary
Registry contracts and discovery
spec/DSPX-4794.md, xtest/registry.py, xtest/test_registry_units.py, xtest/pyproject.toml
Defines registry protocols, built-in names, inspection and mutation contracts, entry-point discovery, duplicate and load errors, and acceptance tests.
Configuration and SDK resolution
xtest/tdfs.py, xtest/conftest.py, xtest/test_conftest_units.py, xtest/test_tdfs_units.py
Defers forced-support parsing, accepts plugin features, discovers installed SDKs, resolves SDK options, and converts configuration failures to pytest.UsageError.
Offline workflow validation
.github/workflows/check.yml
Adds the SDK and registry unit modules to the offline test invocation.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Pytest
  participant Registry
  participant Tdfs
  participant SDKMatrix
  Pytest->>Registry: Load SDK, container, and installer entry points
  Registry-->>Pytest: Registered names and features
  Pytest->>Tdfs: Configure forced supports
  Tdfs-->>Pytest: Validated feature set
  Pytest->>SDKMatrix: Resolve explicit or installed SDKs
  SDKMatrix-->>Pytest: SDK parametrization
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Unrelated installer plugins can prevent the xtest suite from collecting, so installer discovery should be separated before merge. Plugin feature validation also needs a small correction.

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Comments that describe what the code used to do, or that argue for the
change against its predecessor, belong on the PR rather than in the tree:
once merged they document a state no reader can see, and they rot the
moment the next change lands.

Dropped the "that default used to be get_args(tdfs.sdk_type)" paragraph
from resolve_sdks, the module-scope-vs-pytest_configure walkthrough in
configure_forced_supports, and the "Before: 20 skipped ... exit 0" and
"Before DSPX-4794" openers in the unit tests. The invariants those
paragraphs were justifying are restated as invariants.

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UsageError, why all_versions_of sorts, why the pin test is load-bearing,
and why forced_supports needs a lazy fallback.
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- Around line 392-393: Update load_all() so its plugin-loading loop includes
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Comment thread xtest/registry.py
Comment on lines +319 to +324
if not isinstance(obj, self.entry_type):
raise PluginLoadError(
f"entry point {ep.name!r} in group {ep.group!r} "
f"({ep.value}) loaded an object that does not implement "
f"{self.entry_type.__name__}"
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Validate features before registering a plugin.

Registry.load() checks protocol member presence but not the declared frozenset[str] value. A plugin with features = None is registered. When feature_names() runs during configuration, set(None) raises TypeError instead of the PluginLoadError required for an invalid entry-point contract.

Validate that features is a frozenset containing only strings in Registry.load(), and raise PluginLoadError before register() when it is invalid.

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In `@xtest/registry.py` around lines 319 - 324, Update Registry.load() to validate
the loaded plugin’s features attribute before calling register(): require a
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for r in (SDKS, CONTAINERS, INSTALLERS):
r.load()

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Do not load installer plugins from xtest.

load_all() loads INSTALLERS during every xtest startup. Lines 62-65 state that otdf-sdk-mgr, not xtest, consumes this group.

An installer-only plugin with an import or validation failure can therefore abort xtest collection. Load only SDKS and CONTAINERS here. Let otdf-sdk-mgr load INSTALLERS.

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In `@xtest/registry.py` around lines 392 - 393, Update load_all() so its
plugin-loading loop includes only SDKS and CONTAINERS, removing INSTALLERS from
xtest startup while leaving installer loading to otdf-sdk-mgr.

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