From 0e204b730aa2b1fa0835336b1117eff8c420f713 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Norman Soetbeer <norman.soetbeer@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2023 22:24:29 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] admin: Respond with 4xx on non-existing config path (#5870)

Co-authored-by: Matt Holt <mholt@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 admin.go      | 16 ++++++++++++++--
 admin_test.go |  6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/admin.go b/admin.go
index 335b8e89..0a9bfc49 100644
--- a/admin.go
+++ b/admin.go
@@ -1196,15 +1196,27 @@ traverseLoop:
 					}
 				case http.MethodPut:
 					if _, ok := v[part]; ok {
-						return fmt.Errorf("[%s] key already exists: %s", path, part)
+						return APIError{
+							HTTPStatus: http.StatusConflict,
+							Err:        fmt.Errorf("[%s] key already exists: %s", path, part),
+						}
 					}
 					v[part] = val
 				case http.MethodPatch:
 					if _, ok := v[part]; !ok {
-						return fmt.Errorf("[%s] key does not exist: %s", path, part)
+						return APIError{
+							HTTPStatus: http.StatusNotFound,
+							Err:        fmt.Errorf("[%s] key does not exist: %s", path, part),
+						}
 					}
 					v[part] = val
 				case http.MethodDelete:
+					if _, ok := v[part]; !ok {
+						return APIError{
+							HTTPStatus: http.StatusNotFound,
+							Err:        fmt.Errorf("[%s] key does not exist: %s", path, part),
+						}
+					}
 					delete(v, part)
 				default:
 					return fmt.Errorf("unrecognized method %s", method)
diff --git a/admin_test.go b/admin_test.go
index 04aa8867..9137a888 100644
--- a/admin_test.go
+++ b/admin_test.go
@@ -75,6 +75,12 @@ func TestUnsyncedConfigAccess(t *testing.T) {
 			path:   "/bar/qq",
 			expect: `{"foo": "jet", "bar": {"aa": "bb"}, "list": ["a", "b", "c"]}`,
 		},
+		{
+			method:    "DELETE",
+			path:      "/bar/qq",
+			expect:    `{"foo": "jet", "bar": {"aa": "bb"}, "list": ["a", "b", "c"]}`,
+			shouldErr: true,
+		},
 		{
 			method:  "POST",
 			path:    "/list",