Avoid Catalog Listing When Filter Can Only Point to One Repo#604
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Avoid Catalog Listing When Filter Can Only Point to One Repo#604estebanreyl merged 4 commits intoAzure:mainfrom
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Purpose of the PR
This PR adds support for cleaning up repositories without requiring a full repository listing.
This is important in several scenarios:
Large registries: Some customers have a very large number of repositories, making catalog listing slow or impractical. This limitation was previously highlighted in Make the number of repository fetched at once configurable to handle large registries #353, and an earlier attempt to address it was made in PR Do not list repositories if the repository filters are not regexes #354 by @JRBANCEL. That PR has been inactive for some time, so this change revives the core idea in the current codebase.
Restricted permissions (ABAC): In some ABAC setups, users or teams may only have access to a specific repository and intentionally lack catalog listing permissions. Today, that restriction prevents them from running purge cleanup, even though they are otherwise authorized to manage their own repository.
This PR closes that gap by allowing repository cleanup operations to proceed without relying on catalog listing, assuming the caller has the appropriate repository-level permissions. This makes cleanup workflows more scalable and better aligned with least-privilege access models. I also fixed a flaky unit test.