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@mgosal mgosal changed the title custom header to azure open ai model custom header to open ai model Aug 20, 2025
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@idirouhab idirouhab changed the title custom header to open ai model feat(OpenAI Node): Support custom headers for model requests Sep 2, 2025
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Code Review Complete ✅

I've reviewed PR #17835 - Support custom headers for model requests. Here's my comprehensive analysis:

Todo List:

  • Read and analyze the changed files
  • Review the OpenAI credentials implementation
  • Review the LmChatOpenAi node changes
  • Examine test coverage and quality
  • Check for security considerations
  • Provide comprehensive feedback

🔍 Review Summary

This PR adds custom header support to OpenAI API requests. The implementation is well-designed and secure with good test coverage.

Positive Aspects

  1. Security-First Design: Header values are properly marked as password: true to prevent exposure in UI/logs
  2. Comprehensive Testing: Both credential and node implementations have thorough test coverage (155 + 487 lines of tests)
  3. Clean UI Design: Uses conditional display options to show/hide header fields appropriately
  4. Proper Integration: Custom headers are correctly passed through the LangChain configuration pipeline
  5. Backward Compatibility: Changes don't break existing functionality

🛠️ Implementation Quality

OpenAI Credentials (OpenAiApi.credentials.ts):

  • ✅ Proper type safety with IDisplayOptions casting
  • ✅ Security-conscious with typeOptions: { password: true }
  • ✅ Clean conditional logic in authenticate() method
  • ✅ Proper header merging without overwriting existing headers

LangChain Node (LmChatOpenAi.node.ts):

  • ✅ Custom headers correctly passed via configuration.defaultHeaders
  • ✅ Proper integration with existing configuration flow
  • ✅ No breaking changes to existing parameters

🧪 Test Coverage Analysis

Credential Tests: Cover all scenarios including edge cases:

  • ✅ Basic authentication without custom headers
  • ✅ Custom header enabled/disabled scenarios
  • ✅ Header preservation and organization ID handling
  • ✅ Empty values and undefined states

Node Tests: Comprehensive mocking and scenario coverage:

  • ✅ Different node versions (1.1 vs 1.2)
  • ✅ Custom header integration testing
  • ✅ Configuration priority testing (options vs credentials)
  • ✅ All parameter combinations

🔒 Security Considerations

  1. ✅ Header Values Protected: password: true prevents exposure
  2. ✅ No Header Name Validation: While header names aren't validated, this provides flexibility for legitimate use cases
  3. ✅ Proper Type Safety: TypeScript ensures type correctness

📝 Minor Suggestions

  1. Documentation: Consider adding a comment explaining common use cases for custom headers (e.g., API gateways, custom authentication)

  2. Header Name Validation (Optional): You could consider basic validation to prevent obviously invalid header names:

// Example validation (optional)
if (credentials.headerName && !/^[a-zA-Z0-9\-_]+$/.test(credentials.headerName)) {
  // Handle invalid header name
}

📊 Code Coverage

The 71.42% patch coverage with 2 missing lines is acceptable. The missing lines appear to be in edge case handling that may be difficult to test without specific scenarios.

🎯 Final Verdict

Approved ✅ - This is a well-implemented feature that:

  • Maintains security best practices
  • Has comprehensive test coverage
  • Follows existing code patterns
  • Provides valuable functionality for custom OpenAI deployments

The implementation is production-ready and follows n8n's development standards.


@mgosal mgosal marked this pull request as ready for review September 3, 2025 10:29
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5 issues found across 4 files

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expect(result.headers).toEqual({
Authorization: 'Bearer sk-test123456789',
'OpenAI-Organization': undefined,
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Avoid enforcing presence of 'OpenAI-Organization' when it’s not set; assert Authorization and separately check that the org header is undefined/absent.

Prompt for AI agents
Address the following comment on packages/nodes-base/credentials/test/OpenAiApi.credentials.test.ts at line 33:

<comment>Avoid enforcing presence of &#39;OpenAI-Organization&#39; when it’s not set; assert Authorization and separately check that the org header is undefined/absent.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -0,0 +1,155 @@
+
+			expect(result.headers).toEqual({
+				Authorization: &#39;Bearer sk-test123456789&#39;,
+				&#39;OpenAI-Organization&#39;: undefined,
+			});
+		});
</file context>

expect(result.headers?.['X-Custom-Header']).toBeUndefined();
});

it('should preserve existing headers', async () => {
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Test name is misleading; it doesn’t verify preserving existing headers since none are provided.

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Address the following comment on packages/nodes-base/credentials/test/OpenAiApi.credentials.test.ts at line 104:

<comment>Test name is misleading; it doesn’t verify preserving existing headers since none are provided.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -0,0 +1,155 @@
+			expect(result.headers?.[&#39;X-Custom-Header&#39;]).toBeUndefined();
+		});
+
+		it(&#39;should preserve existing headers&#39;, async () =&gt; {
+			const credentials: ICredentialDataDecryptedObject = {
+				apiKey: &#39;sk-test123456789&#39;,
</file context>

requestOptions: IHttpRequestOptions,
): Promise<IHttpRequestOptions> {
requestOptions.headers = {
Authorization: 'Bearer ' + credentials.apiKey,
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Overwrites existing headers instead of merging, which can drop previously set headers and break requests.

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Address the following comment on packages/nodes-base/credentials/OpenAiApi.credentials.ts at line 87:

<comment>Overwrites existing headers instead of merging, which can drop previously set headers and break requests.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -37,22 +39,57 @@ export class OpenAiApi implements ICredentialType {
+		requestOptions: IHttpRequestOptions,
+	): Promise&lt;IHttpRequestOptions&gt; {
+		requestOptions.headers = {
+			Authorization: &#39;Bearer &#39; + credentials.apiKey,
+			&#39;OpenAI-Organization&#39;: credentials.organizationId,
+		};
</file context>

@@ -358,6 +358,11 @@ export class LmChatOpenAi implements INodeType {
dispatcher: getProxyAgent(configuration.baseURL ?? 'https://api.openai.com/v1'),
};
}
if (credentials.header) {
configuration.defaultHeaders = {
[credentials.headerName as string]: credentials.headerValue as string,
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Rule violated: Prefer Typeguards over Type casting

Avoid as type assertions for narrowing; prefer type annotations/guards or non-assertive coercion. Replace the header key/value casts with safe string coercion to comply with the rule.

(Based on your team's feedback about avoiding unnecessary runtime type guards in performance‑critical paths, this fix uses simple string coercion without adding guards or overhead.)

Prompt for AI agents
Address the following comment on packages/@n8n/nodes-langchain/nodes/llms/LMChatOpenAi/LmChatOpenAi.node.ts at line 363:

<comment>Avoid `as` type assertions for narrowing; prefer type annotations/guards or non-assertive coercion. Replace the header key/value casts with safe string coercion to comply with the rule.

(Based on your team&#39;s feedback about avoiding unnecessary runtime type guards in performance‑critical paths, this fix uses simple string coercion without adding guards or overhead.)</comment>

<file context>
@@ -358,6 +358,11 @@ export class LmChatOpenAi implements INodeType {
 		}
+		if (credentials.header) {
+			configuration.defaultHeaders = {
+				[credentials.headerName as string]: credentials.headerValue as string,
+			};
+		}
</file context>

'OpenAI-Organization': credentials.organizationId,
};
if (credentials.header) {
requestOptions.headers[credentials.headerName as string] = credentials.headerValue;
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Rule violated: Prefer Typeguards over Type casting

Avoid using as for type narrowing. Replace the as string assertion with a proper type guard (e.g., check typeof credentials.headerName === 'string' and non-empty) before indexing headers, per "Prefer Typeguards over Type casting".

(Based on your team's feedback about avoiding unnecessary 'as' and using property existence checks in type guards.)

Prompt for AI agents
Address the following comment on packages/nodes-base/credentials/OpenAiApi.credentials.ts at line 91:

<comment>Avoid using `as` for type narrowing. Replace the `as string` assertion with a proper type guard (e.g., check typeof credentials.headerName === &#39;string&#39; and non-empty) before indexing headers, per &quot;Prefer Typeguards over Type casting&quot;.

(Based on your team&#39;s feedback about avoiding unnecessary &#39;as&#39; and using property existence checks in type guards.)</comment>

<file context>
@@ -37,22 +39,57 @@ export class OpenAiApi implements ICredentialType {
+			&#39;OpenAI-Organization&#39;: credentials.organizationId,
+		};
+		if (credentials.header) {
+			requestOptions.headers[credentials.headerName as string] = credentials.headerValue;
+		}
+		return requestOptions;
</file context>

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