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Summary

Search Issues fails with TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'issues') whenever Linear rejects the query. Linear answers a rejected query with HTTP 200, data: null and a populated errors array, but post() destructured data blindly, so the real message was discarded and the user got a stack trace pointing at the app file.

Five other methods share the same choke point and the same crash: getIssue, getProjectUpdateGraphQL, listProjects, listProjectUpdates, getComment.

The fix checks errors in post() and raises a ConfigurationError. makeAxiosRequest is deliberately left alone — isAdmin() in the sources' webhook base calls it directly and falls back to polling when it fails, which throwing would turn into a broken deploy.

Linear keeps the actionable part of a validation failure nested under extensions.validationErrors, arbitrarily deep, while the top-level message stays a generic Argument Validation Error. formatGraphQlErrors flattens that tree into the message.

Also fixes the teamId prop description, which promised that a team key works. It does not — the value goes into an id comparator that requires the UUID, and passing DEV is exactly what produced the crash.

Before / after

Calling Search Issues with teamId: "DEV":

before TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'issues')
after ConfigurationError: Argument Validation Error (team.id.eq: eq must be a UUID)

Testing

Ran the actions against a live Linear workspace:

  • Search Issues with teamId: "DEV" → the ConfigurationError above
  • Search Issues with the team's UUID → 50 issues
  • Search Issues with only assigneeId → 5 issues
  • List Projects → 20 projects, no regression on the success path
  • Get Issue with a non-existent id → ConfigurationError: Entity not found: Issue (it crashed the same way before)

npx eslint components/linear_app reports 0 errors. The 9 remaining warnings are pre-existing source-naming ones on master, untouched here.

Error classes

ConfigurationError is reserved for the case where every error carries extensions.userError, which is how Linear marks what the caller can act on. Anything else — RATELIMITED, a server fault — throws a plain Error so it stays retryable rather than halting the workflow as misconfigured.

Tests

19 tests, the first under components/. common/utils.test.mjs covers formatGraphQlErrors and buildVariables; linear_app.app.test.mjs covers the error classification in post().

These need #21904 to run. npm test is broken on master — jest 29 rejects .js in extensionsToTreatAsEsm — and the default testMatch does not discover .mjs besides. That fix is out on its own in #21904, since it is a repo-wide change with nothing to do with Linear; the tests stay here, with the code they cover. Merge order does not matter — this PR is correct either way, its tests simply do not execute until #21904 lands.

Until then they run against a config passed on the command line:

NODE_OPTIONS=--experimental-vm-modules npx jest \
  --config '{"testEnvironment":"node","testMatch":["**/?(*.)+(spec|test).mjs"],"transform":{}}' \
  components/linear_app

Test Suites: 2 passed, 2 total
Tests:       19 passed, 19 total

Overlap with open work

#21569 and #21573 touch seven of the same files. There is no functional overlap — they add a fields prop to trim response payloads, this fixes error handling — but both bump components/linear_app/package.json, and #21573 expects 0.12.0 where this PR takes 0.11.2. Happy to rebase onto whichever lands first.

components/linear spreads linearApp, so it inherits the fix once its own components are republished. Left alone here, since #21569 already edits those files.

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Versioning: the app file's teamId description and post() both change behaviour for every dependent component, so all 18 got a patch bump plus package.json 0.11.1 → 0.11.2 — same convention as 219fe20. CodeRabbit stays unticked until it has actually reviewed.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Improvements

    • Improved error messages for Linear API validation failures, including affected fields and specific constraints.
    • Added clearer handling for GraphQL errors and empty responses.
    • Clarified that team configuration requires a Linear API UUID rather than a short team key.
  • Chores

    • Updated Linear actions, event sources, and package versions to their latest releases.

Linear answers a rejected query with HTTP 200, `data: null` and a populated
`errors` array, but `post()` destructured `data` blindly, so every failure
reached the user as `TypeError: Cannot read properties of null` with the real
message discarded — in `listIssues`, `getIssue`, `getProjectUpdateGraphQL`,
`listProjects`, `listProjectUpdates` and `getComment` alike.

Check `errors` in `post()`, the single choke point those six share, and raise a
ConfigurationError instead. `makeAxiosRequest` is left alone: `isAdmin()` in the
sources' webhook base calls it directly and falls back to polling when it fails,
which throwing would turn into a broken deploy.

Linear keeps the actionable part of a validation failure nested under
`extensions.validationErrors` while the top-level message stays a generic
"Argument Validation Error", so flatten that tree into the message:

  Argument Validation Error (team.id.eq: eq must be a UUID)

Also fix the `teamId` prop description, which promised that a team key works.
It does not — the value goes into an `id` comparator that requires the UUID,
and `DEV` in place of it is what produced the crash above.

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The Linear app now formats nested GraphQL validation errors, validates API responses, raises typed errors, clarifies the required team UUID, and increments package, action, and source component versions.

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Linear API validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
GraphQL error formatting
components/linear_app/common/utils.mjs
Adds recursive formatting for nested validation errors and exports formatGraphQlErrors.
API response validation
components/linear_app/linear_app.app.mjs
Validates GraphQL responses, raises ConfigurationError for user errors, raises Error for other GraphQL errors, rejects missing data, and documents the required team UUID.
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components/linear_app/package.json, components/linear_app/actions/*, components/linear_app/sources/*
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Linear GraphQL failures with HTTP 200 responses are now surfaced as actionable errors instead of causing downstream crashes, and the associated component metadata is versioned. No current merge-blocking risk remains.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant linear_app.post
  participant Linear API
  participant formatGraphQlErrors
  linear_app.post->>Linear API: Send API request
  Linear API-->>linear_app.post: Return data or errors
  linear_app.post->>formatGraphQlErrors: Format GraphQL errors
  formatGraphQlErrors-->>linear_app.post: Return combined error message
  linear_app.post-->>linear_app.post: Throw ConfigurationError or Error
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Inline comments:
In `@components/linear_app/common/utils.mjs`:
- Around line 119-130: Update flattenValidationErrors so both the top-level
validationErrors argument and recursive children values are normalized to an
empty array when they are null or otherwise not arrays before calling flatMap.
Preserve the existing property-path construction and recursive flattening
behavior for valid arrays.

In `@components/linear_app/linear_app.app.mjs`:
- Around line 353-354: Update the GraphQL error handling in post() so only
user-fixable validation errors become ConfigurationError; propagate rate-limit
and other non-configuration API errors using their existing retryable/error
semantics, while preserving the current formatted message for configuration
failures.
- Line 16: Update the teamId field description to remove the list-selection
guidance, state that it requires a Linear team UUID, include an accepted UUID
example, and identify it as the team’s id field from a Linear API response;
retain ENG-123 as an invalid example.

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mangin and others added 3 commits September 4, 2026 14:50
Thirteen cases over common/utils.mjs, the first tests in components/. The
formatGraphQlErrors ones pin the payload Linear actually returns for a team key
in place of a UUID, nested constraint and all, so a regression shows up as a
lost message rather than as another opaque crash.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Keep non-configuration failures retryable: `post()` raised ConfigurationError
for every populated `errors` array, so a `RATELIMITED` reply halted the workflow
as misconfigured instead of backing off. Linear marks what a caller can act on
with `extensions.userError`, so reserve ConfigurationError for the errors where
all of them are, and throw a plain Error otherwise.

Guard `flattenValidationErrors` with `Array.isArray`. A default parameter only
covers `undefined`, so a null `validationErrors` or `children` threw the very
TypeError this change exists to remove, discarding the message along with it.

Name a UUID in the `teamId` description and drop the vaguer "the UUID the API
returns", while keeping the mention of the dropdown, which is how anyone
configuring the action in the UI actually picks a team.

Document the three functions with JSDoc, covering what Linear puts in a failed
response and how the two error classes differ.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The context it builds from `app.methods` stands in for what the platform
assembles around a component at runtime, which is worth stating where someone
reading the suite meets it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@coderabbitai the Docstring Coverage check reports 66.67% over 3 analyzed functions, and I cannot tell which one it counts as undocumented. Every function this PR adds carries JSDoc: flattenValidationErrors and formatGraphQlErrors in components/linear_app/common/utils.mjs, post() in components/linear_app/linear_app.app.mjs, and the postWith helper in components/linear_app/linear_app.app.test.mjs. Which three functions are in scope, and which of them is missing a docstring?

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@mangin, I cannot identify the three functions from the current check output.

The Docstring Coverage check reports only the aggregate result. It provides no function names, file locations, or annotations.

I verified that these four declarations have preceding JSDoc blocks:

  • flattenValidationErrors
  • formatGraphQlErrors
  • post
  • postWith

Therefore, none of those four is visibly undocumented.

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can you please remove this test file ?

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Removed in e329796.

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I removed, it just wanted to add some test

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can you remove the test file here as well

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Removed in e329796.

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I removed, it just wanted to add some test

@Priyadharshan-Pdm Priyadharshan-Pdm moved this from Ready for PR Review to Changes Required in Component (Source and Action) Backlog Sep 7, 2026
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@mangin Thank you for your contribution

I have added few comments.
Also some actions are failing due to eslint and version bumps needed

The component tree ships no tests and the reviewer asked for these two to go.
The formatGraphQlErrors export stays, since post() uses it.

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@Priyadharshan-Pdm I've just updated the MR. Looking forward yfor merge ^_^

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@mangin Can you do version bumps for these components create-initiative.mjs , get-teams.mjs, list-initiatives.mjs, list-labels.mjs and update-initiative.mjs files

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@Priyadharshan-Pdm Done in 8be9221: patch bumps on create-initiative, get-teams, list-initiatives, list-labels and update-initiative.

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