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The Gin engine is initialized without a recovery middleware, causing connection drops on panic #1536

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Describe the bug

In internal/base/server/http.go, the Gin engine is initialized via gin.New() without mounting a recovery middleware. When a panic occurs in any handler or middleware, the connection is dropped without returning a proper HTTP response to the client.

Current behavior

gin.New() (unlike gin.Default()) does not install any recovery middleware. When a panic propagates out of a handler:

  • The Go runtime's net/http server recovers per-connection, preventing the process from exiting.
  • But it closes the connection without writing any response body.
  • The client sees a connection reset / EOF rather than a structured 5xx response.
  • The panic is not logged through the project's logging facility (pacman/log).

To Reproduce

This is a defensive coding issue rather than a directly triggerable bug. To verify the behavior, one can temporarily add panic("test") to any controller handler and observe that the client receives a connection error instead of an HTTP response.

Expected behavior

The server should return a unified 500 JSON response with reason: base.unknown, consistent with how other errors are handled in the project (see internal/base/handler/handler.go). The panic message and stack trace should be logged via the project's logger for diagnostics.

Additional context

I'd like to submit a PR to fix this by adding a middleware.Recovery() that:

  • Logs the panic message and full stack trace via log.Errorf + debug.Stack().
  • Returns the standard error response using handler.NewRespBody + TrMsg to stay consistent with the rest of the codebase.
  • Is mounted as the first middleware in http.go so it covers all subsequent middleware and handlers.

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