fix: translate NetBox interface L2 modes

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Why

The shipped NetBox-to-Infrahub example passed NetBox's tagged and tagged-all
interface modes directly to an Infrahub dropdown that accepts trunk and trunk_all.
An ordinary 802.1Q interface therefore failed during synchronization.

Malformed non-null modes could also be silently treated as absent or escape the template
as an undefined value, delaying the failure and hiding which mapping was invalid.

What changed

• Translate the three supported values for Physical, Virtual, and Lag interfaces:

  access     -> access
  tagged     -> trunk
  tagged-all -> trunk_all
  

• Preserve an actual null mode as an omitted value.

• Reject malformed or unsupported non-null modes at the transform boundary with the
  field and expression in the error.

• Add a bug-fix changelog fragment.

Test plan

uv run pytest -q tests/test_netbox_example_l2_mode.py
uv run pytest -q
uv run invoke format
uv run invoke lint
uv run infrahub-sync --help
uv run infrahub-sync list --directory examples/

Results:

• Test-first baseline: six supported-mode failures, followed by six malformed-mode cases
  that failed to raise.
• Final focused module: 18 passed.
• Full suite: 141 passed, 3 skipped.
• Ruff, formatting, yamllint, rumdl, ty, CLI help, and example listing passed.
• Repository-wide Pylint retains existing findings in untouched main files; this patch
  adds no scoped lint finding.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved NetBox interface synchronization for physical, virtual, and LAG interfaces.
  • Correctly translates access, tagged, and tagged-all modes, including unset values.
  • Provides clearer errors when unsupported or malformed L2 modes are encountered.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for supported, unset, and invalid L2-mode values across interface types.

• Documentation

  • Added a changelog entry describing the synchronization fixes.

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Walkthrough

The NetBox example configuration now maps l2_mode for physical, virtual, and LAG interfaces. Transforms convert access, tagged, and tagged-all to access, trunk, and trunk_all. Null modes remain null. Tests cover valid mappings and invalid modes that raise ValueError. A changelog entry documents the fixes.

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🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

tests/test_netbox_example_l2_mode.py (1)

15-19: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Add concise docstrings to the new test functions.

These module-level functions are public test entry points. Add a short docstring that states the mapping and rejection behavior under test.

Also applies to: 43-46

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In `@tests/test_netbox_example_l2_mode.py` around lines 15 - 19, Add concise
docstrings to the new test functions
test_netbox_example_translates_interface_l2_mode and the additional test at the
referenced location, describing the interface-mode mapping and rejection
behavior each test verifies.

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Inline comments:
In `@examples/netbox_to_infrahub/config.yml`:
- Around line 330-334: Update every transform mapping l2_mode to read
l2_mode.value and check l2_mode for null instead of referencing mode, including
the corresponding transforms near the other reported locations. Update the test
records in test_netbox_example_l2_mode.py to use the l2_mode field consistently.

In `@tests/test_netbox_example_l2_mode.py`:
- Around line 54-58: Update the test around DiffSyncModelMixin.transform_records
to capture the raised ValueError, retain the existing field-name assertion, and
additionally verify that the exception message includes the expression context
l2_mode.value.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@tests/test_netbox_example_l2_mode.py`:
- Around line 15-19: Add concise docstrings to the new test functions
test_netbox_example_translates_interface_l2_mode and the additional test at the
referenced location, describing the interface-mode mapping and rejection
behavior each test verifies.

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Review

Verdict: Approve, with one small cleanup before merge (drop | string).

This is a correctly scoped fix. All three changed files are confined to the NetBox→Infrahub example project — no engine or adapter code changes — so there is no blast radius for other sync pairings. It also reuses the file's existing idiom (a transform producing a synthetic field, same as the LAG bundle_number transform) rather than inventing a new mechanism.

Why the mechanism is correct

I traced the full data path:

1. Raw pynetbox records carry the source field mode (null or {"value": "tagged", ...}); l2_mode never exists on raw records.
2. transform_records runs on the raw record and writes the translated value to a new top-level l2_mode key.
3. mapping: l2_mode reads that key. When mode is null the transform returns None, apply_transform skips assignment (infrahub_sync/__init__.py:290), and the adapter skips None values (adapters/netbox.py:197) — so unset mode behaves exactly as before.

Error semantics also check out: an unsupported value or malformed shape fails the dict lookup / StrictUndefined and raises at the transform boundary with field and expression in the message, instead of traveling to Infrahub and failing obscurely at the dropdown.

On CodeRabbit's findings

• The Major ("transforms still read mode.value; should read l2_mode.value") is a false positive. It assumed the mapping rename implied a source-field rename. The transform's input is the raw NetBox record, where the field is mode; l2_mode is the transform's output. Applying the suggested fix would make every interface fail with an undefined-variable error. The tests, which feed realistic NetBox-shaped records, prove the current wiring.
• The Minor (assert the full expression text in the error) I'd skip. Matching "Failed to transform 'l2_mode'" pins the contract that matters; asserting the Jinja text makes the test brittle to any rewording of the expression.

Requested change

Drop | string. In a NativeEnvironment the dict values are already strings, and native_concat's literal_eval can't reinterpret access/trunk/trunk_all, so the filter provably has no effect. It's defensive cruft that will make future readers ask what it guards against:

{{ {'access': 'access', 'tagged': 'trunk', 'tagged-all': 'trunk_all'}[mode.value]
   if mode is not none else none }}

Everything else in the expression earns its place: the identity 'access': 'access' entry makes the map total (so unknowns fail), and is not none rather than truthiness is what rejects a malformed {} instead of silently swallowing it.

Notes, non-blocking

• Intentional behavior change worth knowing: a NetBox 4.2+ q-in-q interface now aborts the sync loudly at transform time instead of failing downstream at Infrahub. Fail-fast is the right trade for an example config, and the error shows the expression to extend.
• In the tests, "name": "PortChannel1" is required because the LAG mapping's pre-existing bundle_number transform also runs on the record. A short comment would save the next reader a debugging trip.
• Transform errors report the bad value but not which interface carried it — an apply_transform limitation, not this PR's. Reasonable follow-up issue.
• The expression is triplicated, but that matches this config's explicit per-interface-type style, and the tests now pin all three copies. Leave as is.

CI is green across Python 3.10–3.13 and the changelog fragment is in place. Ship it after the | string trim.

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Review follow-up:

• 6eaf633 removes the no-op string filter.
• It explicitly refuses q-in-q because the current destination schema has no truthful equivalent.
• A shared YAML anchor keeps the physical, virtual, and LAG transforms aligned.
• The raw input remains mode.value; l2_mode is the transform output.

CI is green at 6eaf633.

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Delta review: 6eaf633 + 156152e

Verdict: the delta is correct — I verified every path empirically. Approval stands. And it surfaced an error in my original review that I want to correct on the record.

Correction to my review

I asked for | string to be dropped, claiming it "provably has no effect." That was wrong. Jinja's dict subscript on a missing key doesn't raise KeyError — it returns a StrictUndefined that only fails when used. | string was the operation forcing that failure; dropping it bare would have let an undefined object flow silently into the record for unknown modes. The or none in the new expression is the correct, minimal replacement for that job, and the config comment explaining it is accurate. Good catch by the further testing — the final form here is better than what I asked for.

Verification

I ran the new expression in a NativeEnvironment with StrictUndefined across all edge cases:

input	result
{"value": "tagged"}	'trunk'
mode: null	omitted
mode key absent	omitted
{"value": "q-in-q"}	raises, names q_in_q_requires_destination_schema_support
{"value": "bogus"}	raises via or none
{} (malformed)	raises

On the two design moves

• The undefined-variable sentinel for q-in-q is a hack, but a justified one: Jinja expressions have no raise, mapping to none would silently drop the value, and omitting the key yields the misleading error 'dict object' has no attribute 'q-in-q'. Within the engine's constraints this is the only way to get a self-describing refusal, and the comment carries the explanation. One latent fragility, noted for the record: a record containing a top-level key with that exact name would silently resolve the sentinel — unreachable for real NetBox payloads (custom fields nest under custom_fields), so fine as is.
• The anchor consolidation reverses my earlier "leave the triplication" note, and rightly so — now that the expression needs a comment, one commented source of truth beats three copies, and the tests still exercise all three mappings independently.

One question, non-blocking

mode is defined is the only behavior loosening in the delta: a record missing mode entirely used to fail loudly and now silently syncs without an l2_mode. Real NetBox REST payloads always include mode, so this only softens detection of a malformed or mis-mapped record. Did the further testing hit actual absent-mode payloads? If yes, this is correct as is; if it was for test convenience, I'd lean back toward fail-loud to match the PR's own philosophy. Either answer is mergeable.

CI is green at the new head. Ship it.