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Fixes #365
Fixes #194

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Tested with function-dummy following the documented CLI usage.

Signed-off-by: Jesús Fernández <7312236+fernandezcuesta@users.noreply.github.com>
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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The function package adds reusable CLI flags and parsing, converts CLI values into serving options, and configures the gRPC server send-message limit. The README documents how to embed and use the CLI.

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Standard CLI support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Server send-message limit
sdk.go
ServeOptions gains a configurable send-message limit. Serve defaults it to 4 MiB and passes it to gRPC.
Standard CLI configuration and use
cli.go, README.md
CLI defines standard flags, defaults, environment bindings, and help text. StandardOptions converts message-size limits from MB to bytes, uses the receive limit when the send limit is zero, and adds mTLS configuration only when insecure mode is disabled. Logger configures logging from the debug flag. Parse parses and runs the CLI with Kong. The README shows how to embed and use CLI.
CLI option validation
cli_test.go
Tests cover defaults, flags, aliases, environment variables, message-size conversion, and insecure-mode TLS handling.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Parse
  participant Kong
  participant CLICommand
  Parse->>Kong: Parse CLI and apply help description
  Kong->>CLICommand: Run command
  CLICommand-->>Kong: Return execution error
  Kong-->>Parse: Handle error through fatal-error handler
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Suggested reviewers: bobh66

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 34cd7

Functions using Serve directly may fail to return responses larger than 4 MiB without changing their configuration. Preserve the previous default for those callers before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 34cd7

Servers using the SDK directly may reject responses that previously succeeded unless they configure a larger send limit. An override is available, but the effect on deployed functions is unknown. No new remotely controlled authentication bypass was established.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · reliability · inferred: The new default can prevent direct Serve callers from returning previously valid responses above 4 MiB. Restoring those responses requires callers to configure a larger limit and restart with that configuration.
Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — If an operator enables insecure mode on a reachable listener, the function runner services on that listener do not receive mTLS client-authentication protection. Actual network exposure depends on deployment configuration that was not available.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Startup flags and environment variables select the CLI credential mode. The SDK owns the credential check and passes the selected credentials to gRPC; the available path does not show a remote request changing that mode.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — The send limit bounds outbound message size, but the newly enforced default can also interrupt delivery of oversized function results until serving configuration is changed.

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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Breaking Changes ❌ Error Serve introduces an unlabelled breaking behavior change. Before this PR, grpc.NewServer received no send-size option, so grpc-go v1.84.0 used its default math.MaxInt32. The PR initializes `MaxSe… If the 4 MiB limit is intentional, add the breaking-change label and document the migration. Otherwise preserve the previous default by using grpc-go's prior math.MaxInt32 send limit, or apply grpc.MaxSendMsgSize only when an explicit…
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Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title is 30 characters and clearly describes the main change: adding standard CLI options.
Description check ✅ Passed The description relates to the CLI changes, references the linked issues, and states how the implementation was tested.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The PR meets the coding requirements for [#365] and [#194]. CLI defines reusable standard flags, aliases, environment variables, and defaults. StandardOptions, Logger, and Parse expose the SDK…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes stay within [#365] and [#194]. The README documents the reusable CLI API. sdk.go adds the send-message limit required to customize gRPC message size. The tests verify the new CLI and ser…
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Explanation

Serve introduces an unlabelled breaking behavior change. Before this PR, grpc.NewServer received no send-size option, so grpc-go v1.84.0 used its default math.MaxInt32. The PR initializes MaxSendMsgSize to 4 MiB and always passes grpc.MaxSendMsgSize(so.MaxSendMsgSize). Existing functions that send responses larger than 4 MiB can now fail. The diff shows no removed or renamed existing declarations, but this changed behavior affects the exported Serve API. The supplied PR metadata does not include a breaking-change label.

Resolution

If the 4 MiB limit is intentional, add the breaking-change label and document the migration. Otherwise preserve the previous default by using grpc-go's prior math.MaxInt32 send limit, or apply grpc.MaxSendMsgSize only when an explicit send limit is configured.

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- Line 54: Update the TLSCertsDir Kong tag to explicitly set
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text and the existing TLS_SERVER_CERTS_DIR environment variable mapping.
- Line 61: Update StandardOptions so MTLSCertificates(c.TLSCertsDir) is applied
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Looks good overall - one comment inline, and I think it would be helpful to update the README with an example of what it looks like in a function, or maybe a follow-on PR for function-template-go with the integration of these changes. Thanks @fernandezcuesta !

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cli.go (2)

65-73: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Consider a guard against negative message sizes.

A negative --max-send-message-size passes through StandardOptions and becomes a negative byte limit for gRPC. A negative value is not meaningful here. Thank you for the fallback to the receive size when the value is 0. Could you reject negative values, or document that they are unsupported?

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Review comment at @cli.go around lines 65 - 73:
Add validation in StandardOptions for MaxSendMessageSize so negative values are
rejected before conversion to bytes or inclusion in ServeOption values; preserve
the existing zero-value fallback to MaxRecvMessageSize.

56-56: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Cover precedence when both receive-size variables are set.

Kong resolves env names in declaration order, so MAX_RECV_MESSAGE_SIZE takes precedence over MAX_GRPC_MESSAGE_SIZE. Add a test that sets both variables and asserts that the new variable wins. This documents the intended migration behavior.

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Add a test for MaxRecvMessageSize that sets both MAX_RECV_MESSAGE_SIZE and
MAX_GRPC_MESSAGE_SIZE to different values and asserts that MAX_RECV_MESSAGE_SIZE
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- Line 205: Update the low-level Serve defaults so callers that omit
MaxSendMessageSize retain gRPC’s default send limit instead of receiving a 4 MiB
cap. Keep the documented 4 MiB limit in CLI.StandardOptions, and only apply
grpc.MaxSendMsgSize when an explicit positive MaxSendMsgSize is configured.

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- Around line 65-73: Add validation in StandardOptions for MaxSendMessageSize so
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ServeOption values; preserve the existing zero-value fallback to
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Network: DefaultNetwork,
Address: DefaultAddress,
MaxRecvMsgSize: DefaultMaxRecvMsgSize,
MaxSendMsgSize: DefaultMaxSendMsgSize,

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

🏁 Script executed:

sed -n '42,65p;195,240p' sdk.go
rg -n 'DefaultMaxSendMsgSize|MaxSendMessageSize|MaxSendMsgSize|grpc.MaxSendMsgSize' .

Repository: crossplane/function-sdk-go

Length of output: 3349


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set -eu
printf '%s\n' '--- base sdk defaults/options/server ---'
git show 7f5045941f34b79cb4cfd6fefe6880e5b85ecc95:sdk.go | sed -n '42,70p;125,165p;190,235p'
printf '%s\n' '--- current option and server call sites ---'
sed -n '125,160p;195,235p' sdk.go
printf '%s\n' '--- dependency versions ---'
sed -n '1,120p' go.mod
printf '%s\n' '--- relevant tests/docs/config references ---'
rg -n -C 3 'MaxSend|send.message|send message|RunFunctionResponse|Serve\(' --glob '*.go' --glob '*.md' --glob '*.yaml' --glob '*.yml' .

Repository: crossplane/function-sdk-go

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set -eu
printf '%s\n' '--- grpc module source location and send-limit implementation ---'
gomodcache="$(go env GOMODCACHE)"
printf 'GOMODCACHE=%s\n' "$gomodcache"
find "$gomodcache/google.golang.org" -maxdepth 2 -type d -path '*/grpc@v1.84.0' -print 2>/dev/null | head -n 5
grpcdir="$gomodcache/google.golang.org/grpc@v1.84.0"
if [ -d "$grpcdir" ]; then
  rg -n -C 4 'MaxSendMsgSize|maxSendMessageSize|message too large|send.*message' "$grpcdir" --glob '*.go' | head -n 160
else
  printf '%s\n' 'grpc v1.84.0 source not present in module cache'
fi
printf '%s\n' '--- repository documentation and tests for send limits ---'
rg -n -C 3 -i 'max.?send|send.?message|message.?size|4.?MiB|4.?MB|large response|large[[:space:]]+response' --glob '*.md' --glob '*.go' --glob '*.yaml' --glob '*.yml' --glob '*.txt' .
printf '%s\n' '--- PR diff for limit-related changes ---'
git diff --unified=12 7f5045941f34b79cb4cfd6fefe6880e5b85ecc95 34cd7476d11fb1285884ebdac7568297bcba2de6 -- sdk.go cli.go sdk_test.go cli_test.go

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🌐 Web query:

official grpc-go v1.84.0 MaxSendMsgSize server default send message size limit behavior

💡 Result:

In **grpc-go v1.84.0**, the server’s default outbound message-size limit is **`math.MaxInt32` bytes** (2,147,483,647). The v1.84.0 source sets this as the default server option; `grpc.MaxSendMsgSize(n)` overrides it with the supplied byte limit. ([github.com](https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/blob/v1.84.0/server.go))

This is the **server’s send limit**, not the client’s receive limit. A client can have a lower receive limit, so a message within the server’s limit may still be rejected by the client.

Citations:

- 1: https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/blob/v1.84.0/server.go

Do not apply the 4 MiB limit to direct Serve callers by default.

When a direct Serve caller does not provide MaxSendMessageSize, the new default limits serialized RunFunctionResponse messages to 4 MiB. Larger responses can now fail with ResourceExhausted, although the previous SDK allowed them up to gRPC's 2 GiB default. Keep the 4 MiB limit in CLI.StandardOptions, where it is documented, but leave the low-level Serve default unchanged.

Suggested fix
-	DefaultMaxSendMsgSize = 1024 * 1024 * 4
+	DefaultMaxSendMsgSize = 0
@@
 	serverOpts := []grpc.ServerOption{
 		grpc.MaxRecvMsgSize(so.MaxRecvMsgSize),
-		grpc.MaxSendMsgSize(so.MaxSendMsgSize),
 		grpc.Creds(so.Credentials),
 	}
+	if so.MaxSendMsgSize > 0 {
+		serverOpts = append(serverOpts, grpc.MaxSendMsgSize(so.MaxSendMsgSize))
+	}
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Review comment at @sdk.go at line 205:
Update the low-level Serve defaults so callers that omit MaxSendMessageSize
retain gRPC’s default send limit instead of receiving a 4 MiB cap. Keep the
documented 4 MiB limit in CLI.StandardOptions, and only apply
grpc.MaxSendMsgSize when an explicit positive MaxSendMsgSize is configured.

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Looks good overall - one comment inline, and I think it would be helpful to update the README with an example of what it looks like in a function, or maybe a follow-on PR for function-template-go with the integration of these changes. Thanks @fernandezcuesta !

Yep I'll update the PR for function-template-go accordingly 🙌

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