Add field to json proxied, showing which its original registry was. about kappa

[alexindigo]

+1 :)

As workaround I'm checking package.repository.url for internal domain on frontend.

[aredridel]

Yeah, though that comes from the package, not the registry -- one of the uses of this change would be to identify things published to the wrong registry.

[alexindigo]

Interesting, can you elaborate on use case?

[aredridel]

We had a package that should have been published to registry.npmjs.com get published to our internal registry by mistake (shadowing the real package) -- diagnosing this was a little bit of guesswork since nothing outright said which registry the answer came from.

[alexindigo]

I see. We're trying to have only-local-per-package-npmrc rule to fight this kind of issues. But more visibility will definitely help.

[jasisk]

Unfortunately, this is a tough thing to accomplish given we're operating within the confines of an application we don't own. That said, we do add an x-registry header to every response. I believe (without looking ... fingers crossed) you can see that information if you set verbose logging.

Any ideas how else we might be able to accomplish this?

[aredridel]

Perhaps add "kappaRegistryInfo": { "origin": "registryname" } to the returned JSON?

[aredridel]

(and no, it doesn't show with --verbose to npm)

[jasisk]

Shows up with --loglevel=silly but, it is, after all, a silly amount of logging.

[aredridel]

That is indeed silly.