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The bug

Every Table.auxiliaryFilesUrl served from GCS is dead for a site visitor. Both
gs://basedosdados and gs://basedosdados-dev are requester-pays, so an
anonymous fetch returns:

<Error><Code>UserProjectMissing</Code>
<Message>Bucket is a requester pays bucket but no user project provided.</Message></Error>

Measured against prod with no credentials — migrate_auxiliary_files.py verify --env prod:

4/50 resolve anonymously

All 44 GCS-hosted URLs return 400. The 4 that work are external publisher links.

Why this bucket, and not the other fixes

Option Verdict
Public prefix on the same bucket Impossible. Requester-pays is a bucket-level billing setting; GCS has no per-prefix override.
Make the objects public Already true, and irrelevant. allUsers holds roles/storage.objectViewer on basedosdados-dev and the links still 400.
Turn requester-pays off on basedosdados Rejected. That bucket is the data lake. With allUsers already granted, this makes hundreds of TB of egress anonymously billable.
Proxy through the website Rejected. Precedent exists (downloadTable.js), but it adds a streaming hop for 1.4 GiB of static zips that are meant to be public, puts egress on the Next.js pod, and still needs every URL rewritten.
Serve from gs://basedosdados-public Chosen. Not requester-pays, and already how the public reaches Data Basis data.

basedosdados-public is not a new bucket or a new pattern: it serves the
one-click table downloads under one-click-download/<gcp_dataset_id>/<table_slug>/
that pipelines/utils/tasks.py exports to and downloadTable.js streams.
Auxiliary bundles move beside them, under auxiliary_files/.

Bucket configuration is not in git — iac/terraform/cloud_storage manages only
the website_images bucket — so there is no infra change to review. Choosing an
already-correct bucket is the whole fix.

Blast radius

Full cursor-paginated sweep of prod (7 pages, 1,360 tables):

Tables with an auxiliaryFilesUrl 103
…pointing at GCS 97
Distinct GCS URLs behind those rows 44 (10 URLs are shared by more than one table, covering 63 rows)
Split 70 rows → basedosdados-dev, 27 → basedosdados
On a published dataset (live on the site) 73
Objects to copy 44 referenced paths, resolved across both source buckets

Two things the sweep turned up:

  • Most links point at the dev bucket, against the convention the rule already stated.
  • 7 rows (world_oecd_piaac) point at objects that do not exist: the bundles
    were uploaded to basedosdados-dev but registered against basedosdados, so
    they 404 even with a billing project. The migration fixes these for free — it
    copies by path across both source buckets, so they land on the same public
    object as everything else.

The earlier "84 tables" figure in the rule was stale.

What changed

  • .claude/rules/auxiliary-files.md — the convention now names basedosdados-public,
    explains why the data-lake buckets cannot work, and replaces the "Known bug"
    section with the anonymous-verification step.
  • .claude/rules/onboarding-workflow.md, .claude/rules/metadata-schema.md — the
    same correction where they restate it.
  • models/world_oecd_piaac/code/{build_auxiliary,metadata}.py — publish to the
    public bucket instead of picking a data-lake bucket per env.
  • .github/scripts/migrate_auxiliary_files.py — new; three idempotent phases,
    dry-run by default.

The migration is not run here

It needs prod credentials this branch does not have. After merge:

python .github/scripts/migrate_auxiliary_files.py copy    --env prod
python .github/scripts/migrate_auxiliary_files.py copy    --env prod --apply
python .github/scripts/migrate_auxiliary_files.py rewrite --env prod --token "$TOKEN"
python .github/scripts/migrate_auxiliary_files.py rewrite --env prod --token "$TOKEN" --apply
python .github/scripts/migrate_auxiliary_files.py verify  --env prod

Two safety properties worth reviewing:

  1. rewrite is a read-modify-write, and refuses to run without a token.
    CreateUpdateTable binds a Django ModelForm with data=input, so it is a full
    replace — a partial payload silently clears every field left out. The script
    reads all 33 writable fields back and re-sends them. publishedBy and
    dataCleanedBy are not readable anonymously, and graphql() raises on partial
    errors, so a token that cannot read them stops the run rather than blanking them.
  2. copy only moves referenced objects. The dev bucket also holds scratch
    (auxiliary_files/bla/bla/data.csv, stray .ttf files) and orphaned bundles
    from renamed tables — 74 of its 102 objects are unreferenced. Copying by
    reference keeps that out of a world-readable bucket. --everything overrides.

verify is the acceptance test: it should go from 4/50 to 48/50. The two
remaining failures are external publisher links that are broken at the source
(a 403 from ckan.pbh.gov.br, a dead hostname at sefin.fortaleza.ce.gov.br)
and are out of scope here.

Verified

  • Bug reproduced; verify baseline of 4/50 captured against prod.
  • gs://basedosdados-public confirmed anonymously readable (HTTP 200 on a real
    one-click-download object), and confirmed not requester-pays.
  • basedosdados-dev confirmed requester_pays: true with allUsers objectViewer.
  • All 24 objects present in both source buckets are byte-identical (matching md5),
    so the copy has no ambiguity to resolve.
  • copy listing/dedup/scoping exercised against the readable source bucket.
  • rewrite URL mapping unit-checked, including the PIAAC cross-bucket case.
  • ruff clean; uv run pyrefly check reports 0 diagnostics.

Not exercised: the actual copy into basedosdados-public and the rewrite
mutation, both of which need prod credentials.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Improvements

    • Auxiliary files are now hosted in a publicly accessible storage location, enabling anonymous downloads without requester-pays errors.
    • Upload and metadata workflows consistently use the public storage location across environments.
    • Added tooling to migrate existing auxiliary-file links and verify their accessibility.
  • Documentation

    • Updated guidance covers the correct storage location, anonymous URL checks, HTTP 400 troubleshooting, and publishing checklists.

…ys bucket

Every `Table.auxiliaryFilesUrl` pointing at GCS is dead for a site visitor.
`gs://basedosdados` and `gs://basedosdados-dev` are both requester-pays, so an
anonymous fetch returns HTTP 400 `UserProjectMissing`. Measured against prod:
4 of 50 registered URLs resolve; all 44 GCS ones fail.

Requester-pays is a bucket-level billing setting and cannot be scoped to a
prefix, and the objects already being world-readable does not help -- `allUsers`
holds `roles/storage.objectViewer` on `basedosdados-dev` and the links still 400.
Turning it off on a data-lake bucket would make hundreds of terabytes of egress
anonymously billable.

`gs://basedosdados-public` is not requester-pays and is already how the public
reaches Data Basis data: it serves the one-click table downloads that
`pipelines/utils/tasks.py` exports to. Auxiliary bundles move beside them.

- point the convention at `basedosdados-public` in the three rules that state it
- publish PIAAC's bundles there instead of a per-env data-lake bucket
- add `.github/scripts/migrate_auxiliary_files.py` to move the existing objects
  and repoint the stored URLs

The migration needs prod credentials and is not run here.

Committed with --no-verify: the pyrefly pre-commit hook matches zero files in a
worktree and exits 1 regardless. `uv run pyrefly check` on the new file is clean.
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The PR adds a migration tool for auxiliary files, moves pipeline uploads and metadata URLs to basedosdados-public, and updates documentation for anonymous access and URL verification.

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Auxiliary Files Public Storage

Layer / File(s) Summary
Copy auxiliary objects
.github/scripts/migrate_auxiliary_files.py
The migration script lists source objects, filters referenced paths, detects conflicts, and copies objects to basedosdados-public.
Rewrite registered URLs
.github/scripts/migrate_auxiliary_files.py
The script fetches tables through cursor-paginated GraphQL queries and rewrites auxiliary-file URLs through full-replacement mutations.
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.github/scripts/migrate_auxiliary_files.py
The script verifies registered URLs with anonymous HEAD requests and exposes dry-run or apply controls for each migration phase.
Use the public bucket in model pipelines
models/world_oecd_piaac/code/build_auxiliary.py, models/world_oecd_piaac/code/metadata.py
Bundle uploads and metadata registration now use basedosdados-public in every environment.
Update auxiliary-file guidance
.claude/rules/auxiliary-files.md, .claude/rules/metadata-schema.md, .claude/rules/onboarding-workflow.md
Documentation now describes requester-pays failures, public-bucket uploads, and anonymous URL checks.

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  participant MigrationScript
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  participant GraphQLAPI
  participant AnonymousClient
  MigrationScript->>GoogleCloudStorage: List and copy auxiliary_files objects
  MigrationScript->>GraphQLAPI: Fetch registered tables
  MigrationScript->>GraphQLAPI: Rewrite auxiliaryFilesUrl values
  MigrationScript->>AnonymousClient: HEAD-check registered public URLs
  AnonymousClient-->>MigrationScript: Return HTTP status
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@laura-l-amaral a ideia aqui é mover os "arquivos auxiliares" para o bucket basedosdados-public. Hoje eles estão num bucket "requester-pays", que quebrou o download.

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code = urllib.request.urlopen(request, timeout=60).status
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Use an anonymous GET for URL verification.

Line 369 sends a HEAD request. A successful HEAD response does not prove that an anonymous visitor can retrieve the object with GET. Some external publisher endpoints also reject HEAD while serving GET. This can make the reported resolution count inaccurate. Match the anonymous GET behavior in models/world_oecd_piaac/code/build_auxiliary.py:234-263.

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-        request = urllib.request.Request(url, method="HEAD")
+        request = urllib.request.Request(url, method="GET")
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-            code = urllib.request.urlopen(request, timeout=60).status
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In @.github/scripts/migrate_auxiliary_files.py around lines 369 - 376, Update
the URL verification flow around urllib.request.Request and urlopen to use an
anonymous GET request instead of HEAD, matching the established behavior in the
auxiliary URL-checking implementation. Preserve the existing timeout, HTTPError
status handling, generic exception handling, and code == 200 validation.

rdahis added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 9, 2026
Dataset building_permits_survey_bps: 11 tables, 5 raw data sources (one per
geography level, so every table links exactly one), 171 columns with types,
units, dictionary flags and directory links, observation levels, coverage,
refresh records and per-table auxiliary-file bundles. Every write is read back
and checked by verify_metadata.py, which passes.

Two backend behaviours the registration has to work around:

- CreateUpdateTable fails with "'TableForm' has no field named
  'coverages_areas'" on any table that already has a coverage, so all table
  writes, including the deferred raw-source link, run before any coverage is
  created.
- get_dataset does not return Coverage.isClosed, so the free and BD Pro
  coverages cannot be told apart through it. Reading them back through
  GraphQL instead; doing it the other way had already produced a duplicate
  free coverage, which was deleted.

The monthly tables carry the BD Pro split the house rule calls for on any
table refreshing monthly or more often: free through 2026-01, pro 2026-02 to
2026-07, on a six-month lag. Nothing is paywalled until a pipeline applies the
row access policies. The annual tables and the two closed MSA series are
entirely free.

Auxiliary bundles hold the Census record layout for each geography level plus
a README covering the citation, provenance and every transformation applied.
They sit in basedosdados-dev because that is the only bucket this service
account can write, and all ten URLs return HTTP 400 anonymously: both data
buckets are requester-pays. That is the open defect PR #1928 fixes by moving
bundles to basedosdados-public, not something specific to this dataset.

New tag building-permit was created; nothing in the existing vocabulary
covered the subject.
rdahis added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 9, 2026
….7M rows, 11 tables) (#2007)

* feat(us_census_bps): add architecture, download and cleaning transform

Onboards the Census Building Permits Survey into ten long tables plus a
dictionary: monthly and annual counts and valuation of new residential
construction by permit-issuing place, county, metropolitan area and state.

The survey's ASCII files changed layout six times between 1980 and 2026, so
parsing is driven by the two header rows each file carries rather than by the
file name or the year. All 3,409 published files resolve into 21 distinct
layouts with no unknown columns.

Source behaviours handled, each of which loses data silently otherwise:

- www2.census.gov answers HTTP 200 with a firewall "Request Rejected" page for
  a few valid URLs. Treating that as a 404 dropped four place months and one
  metropolitan month; a cache-busting query string recovers them.
- 977 pre-2000 files end with a DOS end-of-file byte, which lands in a
  full-width row of empty fields in two of them.
- The county files list some counties twice under variant spellings, with
  identical figures. Duplicates are collapsed on geography identity only,
  since one 2000 duplicate carries a wrong region code, and a repeat whose
  figures differ raises rather than being collapsed.
- The January and March 1998 metropolitan files append 58 state records that
  all carry an identical, wrong measure block; they are dropped.
- Valuation is published in thousands of dollars at state and metropolitan
  level and in dollars at county and place level. Everything is normalised to
  dollars, which makes county and state dollars per housing unit agree exactly
  for 2020-2025.

25,681,364 rows. Every table's key is unique, the published regional and
divisional totals reconcile to the national total, and place-level units sum
to the county files exactly for 99 to 100 percent of counties.

* feat(us_census_bps): add dbt models, tests and the staging upload

Eleven models over the all-STRING staging tables, partitioned on year and
clustered on the geography and structure type. dbt run and dbt test both pass
against dev: 11 models, 80 tests, no failures.

The uploader streams each Parquet file to GCS and defines the staging table as
an external Parquet table over the prefix. That reproduces exactly what
basedosdados.Table.create produces, without its pandas step, which reads the
whole file into memory and would need tens of gigabytes for the 19-million-row
place table. Keeping it all-STRING also matches what the recurring pipeline's
upload_to_gcs will later write over the same prefix.

Referential allowances are measured against the US geography directory, not
guessed, and each is explained in the model description:

- state_id matches completely, so it takes the plain relationships test. It
  only does because the survey identified the territories by their old Census
  codes until 2021 and by FIPS from 2022, which the transform now normalises:
  Puerto Rico is 43 through 2021 and 72 after, and geography_id still carries
  the code as published.
- county_id is 0.4 to 1.4 percent unmatched, almost all Connecticut's eight
  counties replaced by planning regions in 2022 and the split Alaska census
  areas.
- place_id is 0.3 percent unmatched, from place code drift between decennial
  vintages against the 2020-vintage directory.
- cbsa_id is 2.7 percent unmatched, from CBSA redelineations against the
  2023-vintage directory.

* feat(us_census_bps): register metadata on staging and publish there

Dataset building_permits_survey_bps: 11 tables, 5 raw data sources (one per
geography level, so every table links exactly one), 171 columns with types,
units, dictionary flags and directory links, observation levels, coverage,
refresh records and per-table auxiliary-file bundles. Every write is read back
and checked by verify_metadata.py, which passes.

Two backend behaviours the registration has to work around:

- CreateUpdateTable fails with "'TableForm' has no field named
  'coverages_areas'" on any table that already has a coverage, so all table
  writes, including the deferred raw-source link, run before any coverage is
  created.
- get_dataset does not return Coverage.isClosed, so the free and BD Pro
  coverages cannot be told apart through it. Reading them back through
  GraphQL instead; doing it the other way had already produced a duplicate
  free coverage, which was deleted.

The monthly tables carry the BD Pro split the house rule calls for on any
table refreshing monthly or more often: free through 2026-01, pro 2026-02 to
2026-07, on a six-month lag. Nothing is paywalled until a pipeline applies the
row access policies. The annual tables and the two closed MSA series are
entirely free.

Auxiliary bundles hold the Census record layout for each geography level plus
a README covering the citation, provenance and every transformation applied.
They sit in basedosdados-dev because that is the only bucket this service
account can write, and all ten URLs return HTTP 400 anonymously: both data
buckets are requester-pays. That is the open defect PR #1928 fixes by moving
bundles to basedosdados-public, not something specific to this dataset.

New tag building-permit was created; nothing in the existing vocabulary
covered the subject.

* feat(us_census_bps): rename the backend dataset to bps and register prod

Three changes from the review, then the production promotion.

- Backend slug is now `bps`, renamed in place on staging so the record keeps
  its id and history. The GCP dataset stays `us_census_bps`.
- `buildings` and `units` carry measurement units. `Column.measurementUnit` is
  a free string, not a foreign key to the unit vocabulary, so `building` and
  `housing_unit` need no global vocabulary change. The unit is no longer
  repeated in the column observations.
- Production metadata registered, dataset status `under_review` so it stays
  off the public site until the PR merges, table-approve materialises
  `basedosdados.us_census_bps.*`, and those tables are verified. Cloud tables
  point at `basedosdados`.

The tag list is now per environment: staging still carries the older
Portuguese slugs (`construcao`, `regulacao`, `real_estate`) while production
uses English ones (`construction`, `regulation`, `real-estate`, the last of
which has 10 datasets against 1 for the `real_estate` near-duplicate).
`building-permit` was created in both.

verify_metadata.py passes against staging and production.

* feat(us_census_bps): add the recurring monthly Prefect pipeline

Rebuilds the whole series each run rather than appending the newest month.
The survey revises prior periods and a revision can land in any earlier month,
so a trailing window would leave stale figures wherever a correction fell
outside it; a full rebuild also reuses the onboarding path exactly. The cost is
about 700 MB and 25.7 million rows once a month.

Scheduled 25 15 17-22 BRT: the release lands around the 17th, roughly four
weeks after the reference month, and 15:25 was an unused slot — flows piled on
the same instant compete for BigQuery slots and fail together.

Three things the flow does deliberately:

- `dump_mode="append"` with an explicit staging-prefix clear, never
  `overwrite`. `overwrite` calls tb.delete(mode="all"), which drops the
  materialized production table, and it fires from the dev half too because
  bd.Table resolves its projects from the pod config rather than from
  bucket_name. The prefix clear does the wanted half without touching a
  BigQuery table, and closes the orphaned-part-file gap that append alone
  leaves when a run produces fewer parts than the last.
- Every table is built before any test runs. The dictionary-coverage and
  relationship tests read sibling models, so interleaving run and test per
  table fails against a sibling that does not exist yet — invisible in a
  re-run, fatal in a clean environment.
- job_variables sets memory_limit, not only memory, which the work pool's job
  template drops silently while leaving the pod on the 4Gi default.

The download moves into pipelines/datasets/us_census_bps/utils.py so the
pipeline and the one-shot bootstrap share one implementation, including the
firewall handling: www2.census.gov answers HTTP 200 with a "Request Rejected"
page for some valid URLs, and only a real 404 is treated as a missing file.
download_all raises rather than returning a partial set.

Also registers the raw-data-source Update in both backends, which the flow
would otherwise only write on a run with update_metadata=True. The
metropolitan source gets 2023-12, its real last release, not today's period.

* fix(us_census_bps): back off properly when the Census server throttles

The first dev run drew HTTP 429 on three metro files partway through the
download. `download_all` raised rather than returning a partial set and the
task retry recovered it, which is the behaviour I want, but the per-file
backoff was sized for a dropped connection: 2 to 10 seconds across its
attempts. Under heavier throttling both task retries would burn out.

408, 429 and 503 now back off 5, 10, 20, 40, 80, 120 seconds and honour a
`Retry-After` header when the server sends one, capped at two minutes. Default
concurrency drops from six to four, since six was enough to draw the throttling
from a datacentre, where requests leave faster than they do from a laptop.

* fix(us_census_bps): recover throttled downloads inside the task, not via retries

The second dev run consumed **both** Prefect task retries on HTTP 429 before
the download completed on its third attempt — one more throttled file and the
run would have failed. Leaning on the task retry was the wrong shape: it
restarts the whole 3,400-file sweep to recover a handful of stragglers, and
each restart applies the same concurrent pressure that caused the throttling.

`download_all` now finishes its concurrent sweep, then retries whatever failed
one file at a time, pausing 90 seconds before each pass and a second between
files, for up to three passes. Only then does it raise. The cached-file check
means the sweep itself is nearly free on a retry, so this costs nothing on a
clean run.

The task retry stays as a genuine last resort, raised to 3 attempts at 180
seconds since it now only fires when something is properly wrong.

Verified with a stubbed fetch: two files failing the concurrent pass are
recovered by the sequential pass, and the counts come back consistent.
mergify Bot added 23 commits September 9, 2026 12:41
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