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signup was one ~269-line function at cyclomatic complexity 61 inside modules/auth/controllers/auth.controller.js — the second-heaviest function in the stack. It mixed HTTP concerns with capacity gating, invite eligibility, user creation, email verification, organization provisioning and analytics, so none of those could be tested without an HTTP round-trip.

It now lives in modules/auth/services/auth.signup.service.js. The controller keeps response shaping and error mapping.

This is a refactor: behaviour is unchanged. No bug in the moved code was fixed, deliberately — a behaviour change hidden inside a move is the worst outcome on the account-creation path.

The four invariants the issue named

The 422 fallback. responses.error(res, 422, 'Unprocessable Entity', errors.getMessage(err))(err) survives exactly, trailing (err) included. Verified by running the app through supertest on this branch and on a fresh origin/master worktree, forcing a real duplicate-email E11000 through to the catch-all, and diffing the full response bodies — byte-for-byte identical, including errorCode, description and the raw serialized error. The only difference was the per-process test-DB name inside Mongo's own message.

isMailerConfigured / sendVerificationEmail had other callers. Repo-wide grep found exactly two outside signupgetConfig and resendVerification, both in the controller. Both functions diffed byte-identical against master; both now import the named exports from the service.

Invite lifecycle. finalize remains the last pre-response step and still runs after organization provisioning; the organization-failure path still calls release(). The return shape is {user, orgResult}{user, invite} alone would have been insufficient, since the response block reads the organization result. Ordering is mutation-tested: moving finalize before provisioning turns two tests red.

Error exits. The pre-change function had exactly two: the early-return 404 gate and a single catch-all 422 that every other throw funnels into. Both reproduced, both verified by execution.

The one shape change

The capacity/eligibility rejection no longer takes res. The service throws AppError{code:'SIGNUP_DISABLED', status:404}; the controller matches that code and calls the literal original responses.error(res, 404, 'Signup error', 'Registration is currently deactivated')() — empty trailing call, no err. Verified byte-identical, errorCode: "SERVER_ERROR" and error: "{}" included.

A whitespace-normalised diff -Bbw of the whole ~220-line moved region against master shows this as the only textual difference; everything else is identical, merely re-indented one level.

Tests

Baseline captured on unmodified master, run twice: auth unit 14 suites/82 tests, integration 5/122, e2e 1/4.
This branch: integration 5/122 and e2e 1/4 reproduced exactly; unit 15/89 — precisely +1 suite / +7 tests, which is the new file.
Full repo unit: 172/2387 → 173/2394. Same delta, zero regressions anywhere.

Seven new direct unit tests for the gates that previously needed an HTTP round-trip: capacity rejection · invite release on the capacity gate (with an unclaimed control) · invite release and user rollback on organization failure · no auto-verify for an invited account when the mailer is off (with a plain-signup control) · finalize-after-provisioning ordering. Each proven red by breaking the exact line it guards, then restored.

Review

Independent cold-context review: 0 critical, 0 high, 0 medium. Security pass: no findings — the reviewer verified by diff -Bbw that the gating, the safeBody mass-assignment scrub, the !invite auto-verify guard and both rollback blocks are textually unchanged.

One low, deliberately not fixed here. err?.code === 'SIGNUP_DISABLED' is a shape check rather than an identity check. If anything else ever throws that code, the controller would silently reclassify it as "Registration is currently deactivated", discarding the real message and the diagnostic field. SIGNUP_DISABLED has exactly one emitter today (repo-wide grep), and the same pattern is pre-existing unmodified precedent at auth.controller.js:95 (ACCOUNT_LOCKED). Raising it here rather than changing it, since tightening one instance of a house pattern and not the other is its own inconsistency.

One flake, not hidden. Of four branch runs of auth.integration.tests.js, three were clean (126/126 with e2e) and one failed the entire 77-test suite in a way consistent with a bootstrap-level failure rather than a per-test regression. Not reproduced in three subsequent runs; origin/master in the same environment was 5/5 clean. The failing run's log was overwritten before capture, so it is not root-caused — flagged rather than omitted.

Closes #3995

https://claude.ai/code/session_0185ELiCjZaBJx8PH4xoSsZb

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Signup eligibility now consistently considers account capacity, open registration settings, and valid invitations.
    • Invited users’ email addresses are preserved during registration.
    • Verification emails use centralized configuration and handling.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Signup-disabled conditions now return the expected 404 response.
    • Failed account or organization setup is rolled back more reliably.
    • Invitation completion is handled correctly after successful invited signup setup.

Move the account-signup business logic (capacity gate, invite eligibility,
mass-assignment scrubbing, user creation, email verification, organization
provisioning, analytics, invite finalize/release) out of
auth.controller.signup into a new auth.signup.service.js. The controller
keeps only the response block (token/cookie/JSON) and error mapping.

isMailerConfigured/sendVerificationEmail move with it (both had callers
outside signup - getConfig and resendVerification - which now re-import
them from the service). The capacity/eligibility gate rejection is
signaled via an AppError with code SIGNUP_DISABLED so the controller
reconstructs the exact original 404 response instead of the generic 422
fallback.

Pure refactor - behaviour unchanged. Verified against a baseline run of
the unmodified auth suites (14/82 unit, 5/122 integration, 1/4 e2e); the
refactored branch reproduces the same counts.

Refs #3995

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0185ELiCjZaBJx8PH4xoSsZb
Add auth.signup.service.unit.tests.js covering the gates that previously
needed an HTTP round-trip: capacity rejection, invite release on the
capacity gate (claimed and unclaimed), invite release + user rollback on
organization-provisioning failure, no auto-verify for an invited account
when the mailer is off (plus a control for the plain-signup case that
still auto-verifies), and finalize ordering (strictly after organization
provisioning).

Each test verified red-before/green-after by temporarily breaking the
behaviour it covers (disabling the capacity gate, skipping the org-failure
rollback, dropping the invite guard on auto-verify, and reordering
finalize before organization provisioning) and restoring afterward.

Refs #3995

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0185ELiCjZaBJx8PH4xoSsZb
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Signup logic now runs in SignupService.signup. The service handles capacity, eligibility, invite state, account creation, verification, organization provisioning, analytics, and finalization. The controller handles request delegation, response shaping, and error mapping.

Changes

Signup service extraction

Layer / File(s) Summary
Signup gates and input preparation
modules/auth/services/auth.signup.service.js
The service centralizes mailer helpers, computes signup capacity, checks invite eligibility, releases rejected claims, sanitizes server-owned fields, and applies invite email and attribution rules.
Account lifecycle and completion
modules/auth/services/auth.signup.service.js
User creation, verification, rollback, organization provisioning, analytics, invite finalization, and the { user, orgResult } return shape now run in the service.
Controller integration and service validation
modules/auth/controllers/auth.controller.js, modules/auth/tests/auth.signup.service.unit.tests.js
The controller delegates signup and preserves response and SIGNUP_DISABLED handling. Unit tests cover capacity rejection, invite release, rollback ordering, mailer-off verification, and finalization ordering.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 3156e

Signup orchestration is moved into a service while the controller retains response handling. Capacity, rollback, verification, and invite lifecycle behavior are covered, with no remaining merge-blocking risk identified.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant SignupController
  participant SignupService
  participant Eligibility
  participant UserService
  participant AuthOrganizationService
  SignupController->>SignupService: signup(req)
  SignupService->>Eligibility: Check capacity and signup eligibility
  Eligibility-->>SignupService: Return invite and claim state
  SignupService->>UserService: Create sanitized user
  UserService-->>SignupService: Return user
  SignupService->>AuthOrganizationService: Provision organization
  AuthOrganizationService-->>SignupService: Return orgResult
  SignupService->>Eligibility: Finalize honored invite
  SignupService-->>SignupController: Return user and orgResult
  SignupController-->>Client: Send signup response
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy issue #3995. Signup logic moved to the service, controller response handling remains, required error and invite lifecycle behavior is preserved, helper callers are retained, and di…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changed controller, signup service, and signup unit tests directly support issue #3995. No unrelated functional changes are identified.
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 2 functions across 3 files.
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A reviewer ran 10 mutations against auth.signup.service.js; 6 stayed green
because the tests only checked call counts or a mock's fixed return value.
Strengthens the capacity-gate/org-failure release-and-rollback assertions
to check the actual call target, the call order (remove before release),
and that each cleanup call is genuinely awaited (a dropped await here
becomes an unhandledRejection that crashes the process on Node 24). Also
asserts on getBrut's call argument instead of its mocked return value, so
an auto-verify lookup of the wrong user is no longer invisible.

Verified each of the 6 previously-green mutations now fails the suite,
and that the 4 already-red mutations still do.

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In `@modules/auth/controllers/auth.controller.js`:
- Around line 34-39: Add an `@returns` entry to the signup function’s JSDoc,
documenting that the async handler resolves to the Express response object on
successful and SIGNUP_DISABLED paths.

In `@modules/auth/tests/auth.signup.service.unit.tests.js`:
- Around line 384-386: Update the signup service test to assert that
eligibility.finalize receives the expected user identifier, covering the
user._id || user.id selection, while preserving the existing organization-result
and ordering assertions.
- Around line 106-109: Add a JSDoc header to the named baseConfig helper,
documenting its overrides parameter and returned configuration object with
`@param` and `@returns` tags, consistent with mockSignupServiceDeps and
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…ssing JSDoc

CodeRabbit PR #4058: the finalize-ordering test proved call order but never
checked which account the honored invite gets recorded against — a wrong
identifier there would link the invite to the wrong account and the suite
would still pass. Asserts eligibility.finalize's argument, plus the same gap
found on handleSignupOrganization's argument in the same test (order-only,
no identity check). Verified both mutations (wrong finalize id, wrong
handleSignupOrganization user) turn the test red, and that reverting turns
it green again — alongside the six rollback/auto-verify mutations hardened
in the previous commit, all still red.

Also adds the @returns JSDoc this repo's guideline requires on auth.signup
(documents the actual three return shapes — Express res, responses.error()'s
result object, or undefined on the unguarded 422 path — rather than the
flattened "Express response" wording CodeRabbit proposed) and a header on
the baseConfig test helper to match its two documented siblings.

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