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Fix warning for PAT-like token with username#3579

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Fix warning for PAT-like token with username#3579
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@mbg mbg commented Mar 16, 2026

This was missed in #3563 and caught in #3577 (comment).

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@mbg mbg requested a review from a team as a code owner March 16, 2026 19:36
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Pull request overview

This PR fixes an incorrect warning emitted by start-proxy when credentials use a PAT-like token with a configured username, and expands unit test coverage to validate the corrected behavior.

Changes:

  • Adjust PAT-warning logic in getCredentials to only warn when a PAT is used and no username is provided.
  • Refactor/add test utilities (RecordingLogger.hasMessage, assertNotLogged) and expand getCredentials tests to cover username/no-username combinations.
  • Add a VS Code snippet file (unrelated to the warning fix).

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Copilot reviewed 5 out of 5 changed files in this pull request and generated 4 comments.

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File Description
src/start-proxy.ts Fixes the PAT warning condition to account for username presence for both token and password configs.
src/start-proxy.test.ts Adds macro-based tests covering PAT warning behavior with/without usernames for token and password inputs.
src/testing-utils.ts Enhances the recording logger with message-search helpers and adds a negative-log assertion helper.
lib/start-proxy-action.js Generated output reflecting the src/start-proxy.ts change.
.vscode/tests.code-snippets Adds an editor snippet (not directly related to the PR’s stated purpose).

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const check = (val: string) =>
typeof messageOrRegExp === "string"
? val.includes(messageOrRegExp)
: messageOrRegExp.test(val);

* one of the `messages` matches `messageOrRegExp`.
*/
hasMessage(messageOrRegExp: string | RegExp): boolean {
return hasLoggedMessage(this.messages, messageOrRegExp);
},

title: (providedTitle = "") =>
`getCredentials logs a warning when a PAT is used - ${providedTitle}`,
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LGTM. Thanks for the thorough testing improvements.

/**
* Asserts that `message` should not have been logged to `logger`.
*/
export function assertNotLogged(
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Two minor things on this one:

  1. Naming: doesn't follow the check... naming convention of checkExpectedLogMessages

  2. Could be upgraded to (string | RegExp)[] since we already uses hasLoggedMessage under the hood

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Approving, but please see my thoughts on assertNotLogged

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