fix: avoid faulty duplicate detection #893
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The bug is caused by registering operations with inline struct definitions with varying field names, combined with an empty OperationID.
I noticed this causing a runtime panic on app start. It is no actual security vulnerability, because it is not possible to trigger during app uptime - it only triggers during the initialisation phase. But it is an irritating error to me as a user, as the panic message does not really make sense to me.
I added a test for reproducability. To see the problem in action, just run the tests on your current version, without my fix to the code.
I fixed the error by allowing multiple inline struct definitions with varying field names. What would have caused a duplicate panic before now increments the would be duplicate by one. E.g., the first type will be called "Request", the second "Request1", and so on. That way the behavior is still deterministic and humanly readable in a generated spec. This change does not affect existing code bases because the condition the change has effect on was previously guarded by the runtime panic. I.e., no configuration can have existed that was able to initialise the app with this condition before. Hence, the change will be entirely backwards compatible.