fix(clickhouse): coerce LIMIT before SQL interpolation

[Bartok9]

Summary

Coerce limit to a non-negative int before ClickHouse LIMIT subquery wrapping.

Failure / reproduction

Before this change, ClickHouseConnector.query interpolated the raw {limit} directly into the generated SQL:

sql = f"SELECT * FROM ({sql}) LIMIT {limit}"

So a client-supplied bad value flowed straight into the query text. E.g. calling query(sql, limit=-1) produced:

SELECT * FROM (...) LIMIT -1

and a non-numeric value like limit="1; DROP TABLE t" interpolated verbatim — an injection-shaped input that should never reach the driver.

Fix

Add _coerce_limit and apply it at the start of query: reject negatives and non-integer strings, accept numeric strings, so only a validated non-negative int is ever interpolated.

Verification

cd core/wren && .venv/bin/python -m pytest tests/unit/test_clickhouse_coerce_limit.py -q
3 passed

Covers: negative rejection, injection-like/non-numeric rejection, numeric-string acceptance.

Duplicate check

Searched open PRs/issues for existing ClickHouse limit coercion. Related sibling connector PRs (#2624/#2625/#2626) apply the same pattern to other connectors; this PR is the ClickHouse-specific counterpart and does not overlap their files.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved validation of query LIMIT inputs by rejecting negative numeric values, including fractional inputs (decimals and fractions), before execution.
  • Prevented negative fractional values from being truncated into non-negative LIMIT values.
  • Strengthened limit handling to ensure only valid, non-negative integers are used in generated queries.
• Tests
  • Updated and tightened unit coverage for fractional negative LIMIT coercion scenarios.

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Walkthrough

The ClickHouse connector now rejects negative numeric limits before integer coercion and validates limits before SQL interpolation. Unit tests cover fractional negatives, invalid strings, and numeric-string SQL generation.

Changes

ClickHouse limit validation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Limit coercion and query wiring core/wren/src/wren/connector/clickhouse.py	Rejects negative numeric values before coercion and applies validated limits before SQL rewriting.
Limit validation tests core/wren/tests/unit/test_clickhouse_coerce_limit.py	Tests integer, float, Decimal, and Fraction negatives, invalid strings, and safe numeric-string limit interpolation.

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Possibly related PRs

• Canner/WrenAI#2625: Adds analogous connector limit coercion and validation tests.
• Canner/WrenAI#2626: Applies parallel connector limit validation before SQL interpolation.

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I’m a bunny guarding LIMIT seven,
No sneaky DROP shall enter heaven.
Negative hops are turned away,
Safe little integers lead the way.
SQL sprouts clean beneath the moon.

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In `@core/wren/src/wren/connector/clickhouse.py`:
- Around line 386-397: Update _coerce_limit to reject negative numeric inputs
before int() truncates fractional values, while preserving safe coercion for
valid limits and existing None handling. Add a regression test covering
limit=-0.5 and assert that it raises ValueError rather than producing LIMIT 0.

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[Bartok9]

Good catch, @coderabbitai — int(-0.5) truncates to 0 and slipped past the guard. Pushed eebb5ad: _coerce_limit now rejects any negative numeric (int/float) before int() truncation, plus a regression test for limit=-0.5.

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@Bartok9 Thanks for fixing this. Rejecting negative numeric inputs before int() truncation, with the -0.5 regression test, addresses the bypass.

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In `@core/wren/src/wren/connector/clickhouse.py`:
- Around line 394-400: Update the limit validation before int() coercion to
reject negative values for every accepted numeric type, including Decimal and
Fraction, so values such as -0.5 cannot become zero; alternatively, explicitly
reject unsupported numeric types. Preserve the existing non-negative coercion
and error behavior in the surrounding limit handling.

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Thanks @coderabbitai — good follow-up. Broadened the pre-int() negative guard from (int, float) to numbers.Number in 6c3053a, so Decimal('-0.5') and Fraction(-1, 2) are now rejected too rather than truncating to LIMIT 0. Added regression tests for both.

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@Bartok9 Confirmed. numbers.Number now guards negative numeric values before int() in _coerce_limit, and the new Decimal("-0.5") and Fraction(-1, 2) regressions directly cover the prior truncation path. This closes the generalized negative-fraction bypass.

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[Bartok9]

Fixed the lint failure in a9773cc — hoisted the Decimal/Fraction imports to module top-level (ruff PLC0415); they were function-local in the regression tests. ruff check is clean locally now.

[goldmedal]

Closing in favour of a single consolidated change — thanks for the work, the underlying tidy-up is worth doing, just not as one PR per connector.

Why this is being closed rather than reviewed:

1. This is one mechanical change spread across eight PRs. The contribution bar added in docs: set an explicit contribution bar for agent-authored PRs #2602 asks for exactly this to be a single diff: "A mechanical change repeated across several files or connectors belongs in one PR, not one PR per file. Reviewers need to see the resulting convention in a single diff."

2. A shared helper already exists in this same batch, and none of these PRs use it. refactor(connector): centralize LIMIT coercion #2624 adds coerce_limit() to connector/base.py. Every other PR in the series re-declares a private _coerce_limit in its own module instead of importing it. Merged as-is the repo would carry nine copies of the same function (the eight here plus the existing one at connector/mysql.py:44).

3. The copies have already diverged before merge. base.py (refactor(connector): centralize LIMIT coercion #2624), postgres, trino, oracle, redshift and bigquery use int(limit) then a negativity check; fix(clickhouse): coerce LIMIT before SQL interpolation #2627 (clickhouse) additionally rejects fractional negatives such as -0.5 via numbers.Number; fix(duckdb): coerce LIMIT before SQL interpolation #2637 (duckdb) additionally rejects bool and non-integral float. Three different semantics for one contract is the specific outcome a shared helper prevents.

4. Coverage is inconsistent. connector/canner.py:255 interpolates a bare {limit} and is not covered by any PR in the series, while bigquery, duckdb and redshift already interpolate {int(limit)} today — for those three the only behavioural delta is the negativity check.

On the fix: label and the stated failure. The reproduction in the description calls connector.query(sql, limit="1; DROP TABLE users") directly. Tracing the call paths:

• run_sql in mcp_server.py declares limit: int | None, so a non-numeric string is rejected by tool-argument validation, and mcp_server.py:84 already rejects negatives and clamps to MAX_ROW_LIMIT.
• The CLI declares --limit/-l as Optional[int], so a non-integer is rejected at parse time.
• That leaves Engine.query(sql, limit) as a Python API. At that boundary the caller already supplies sql verbatim — anyone able to pass limit="1; DROP TABLE t" can pass that as sql instead. limit is not a lower-trust channel than sql there, so this is not an injection path.

What remains is genuine but smaller: a negative limit currently surfaces as a driver-level error instead of a clear ValueError, and the coercion contract is inconsistent across connectors. That is refactor:, per "fix: requires a reproducible failure that the change repairs."

What we would take instead — a single PR, refactor(connector): centralize LIMIT coercion, that:

• keeps one coerce_limit() in connector/base.py, with the strictest semantics of the three variants above (reject bool, non-integral values, and negatives);
• routes every interpolating connector through it — including canner.py, and replacing the private copy in mysql.py;
• leaves ConnectorABC.query's signature as int | None (see the per-PR note on fix(duckdb): coerce LIMIT before SQL interpolation #2637 below);
• tests the helper once in tests/unit/test_coerce_limit.py, with at most a smoke test per connector proving it is wired in, rather than repeating the same six cases eight times.

#2624 is the natural home for that; it is being kept open with a note to that effect.

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On this PR specifically — clickhouse.py:401 is a bare-{limit} site. Your numbers.Number pre-check is the strictest variant in the series and is the one worth carrying into the shared helper.

[Bartok9]

Thanks @goldmedal — agreed on consolidating. Appreciate the detailed rationale (shared helper + one convention, not N private copies).

I'll fold this ClickHouse path into #2624 as the single refactor(connector): centralize LIMIT coercion home, carrying the stricter pre-int() semantics (numbers.Number negatives / fractional rejects) into the shared coerce_limit() and wiring the bare-{limit} sites (including here and canner.py) through it.

Closing as-is is the right call; thanks for the clear bar from #2602.