status --json, so a board has something to read

A board reads through interfaces and holds nothing. Everything it needs
is already answered — as text, for people, which is not something a page
can read.

`--json` rather than a serving API, because nothing needs one yet:
whatever serves a board runs the command, and the constraint holds either
way — the board never touches a context's store. An API is the larger
thing and should wait until something asks for it.

Both forms are gathered from the same reads before either says anything,
so they answer the same questions rather than being two implementations
that can drift. That was not true of the first version: the JSON printed
after the text, because the branch was too late.

Four properties, each asserted and each confirmed to fail when removed:

- refused and failed stay distinct all the way out. They are fixed in
  different places, so one word for both sends half a page's readers to
  the wrong one — and how much DID apply is carried, since "three of
  eight" and "none of eight" are different machines
- a machine that never spoke carries no time at all, rather than a zero
  one that any page would format as a date in 1970
- nothing is null. A page distinguishing "no machines are wrong" from
  "this field is missing" has to handle both, and null is the one that
  gets forgotten
- no field is named like a secret. Everything here comes from records
  that hold no readable one, but a shape a page is built against is
  exactly where one would eventually be added for convenience
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2026-08-30 20:22:04 +02:00
parent 79d6ade4c8
commit 0262873254
7 changed files with 472 additions and 31 deletions
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@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ func run() error {
case "push":
return pushCommand(ctx, args[1:])
case "status":
return statusCommand(ctx)
return statusCommand(ctx, args[1:])
case "version":
fmt.Println(version)
return nil
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ func usage() {
module list what modules this mesh knows about
module moved <name> <commit> the source has a newer commit than the mesh built
module forget <name> remove one, unless a node is running it
status what the mesh is behind on, and which nodes
status [--json] what is wrong, what is quiet, and what is out of date
assign <node> <module> put a module on a node
unassign <node> <module> take it off
settings set <module> <file> what a module's config should say, for the whole mesh
@@ -1561,7 +1561,13 @@ func short(commit string) string {
//
// The answer is not "a job succeeded". It is which modules the mesh has not built from what their
// source now has, and which machines are running the old one.
func statusCommand(ctx context.Context) error {
func statusCommand(ctx context.Context, args []string) error {
set := flag.NewFlagSet("status", flag.ContinueOnError)
asJSON := set.Bool("json", false, "the same answers, for something other than a person")
if _, err := parseAround(set, args); err != nil {
return err
}
inv, err := openInventory(ctx)
if err != nil {
return err
@@ -1571,10 +1577,48 @@ func statusCommand(ctx context.Context) error {
// Three questions, in the order somebody asks them: is anything broken, is anything not
// answering, is anything out of date. The first has consequences now, the second may, and
// the third is a plan for later — and a status that led with the third would bury the first.
//
// All three are gathered before anything is said, so the two ways of saying it answer the
// same questions from the same reads rather than being two implementations.
wrong, err := inv.NotDoingWhatTheyWereTold(ctx)
if err != nil {
return err
}
nodes, err := inv.Nodes(ctx)
if err != nil {
return err
}
var quiet []inventory.Node
for _, n := range nodes {
// Never heard from, or not lately. Different from failing: a machine that says nothing
// may be new, switched off, or unreachable, and none of those is a machine that tried
// and could not.
if n.LastSeen.IsZero() || time.Since(n.LastSeen) > time.Hour {
quiet = append(quiet, n)
}
}
behind, err := inv.Behind(ctx)
if err != nil {
return err
}
sources := map[string]inventory.Source{}
for module := range behind {
from, err := inv.SourceOf(ctx, module)
if err != nil {
return err
}
sources[module] = from
}
if *asJSON {
body, err := statusAsJSON(wrong, nodes, quiet, behind, sources)
if err != nil {
return err
}
fmt.Println(string(body))
return nil
}
if len(wrong) > 0 {
fmt.Printf("%d machine(s) are not doing what they were told:\n\n", len(wrong))
for _, d := range wrong {
@@ -1591,28 +1635,15 @@ func statusCommand(ctx context.Context) error {
fmt.Println()
}
nodes, err := inv.Nodes(ctx)
if err != nil {
return err
}
var quiet []string
for _, n := range nodes {
// Never heard from, or not lately. Different from failing: a machine that says nothing
// may be new, switched off, or unreachable, and none of those is a machine that tried
// and could not.
if n.LastSeen.IsZero() || time.Since(n.LastSeen) > time.Hour {
quiet = append(quiet, n.Name+" ("+heardFrom(n)+")")
}
}
if len(quiet) > 0 {
var said []string
for _, n := range quiet {
said = append(said, n.Name+" ("+heardFrom(n)+")")
}
fmt.Printf("%d machine(s) not heard from lately:\n %s\n\n",
len(quiet), strings.Join(quiet, "\n "))
len(quiet), strings.Join(said, "\n "))
}
behind, err := inv.Behind(ctx)
if err != nil {
return err
}
if len(behind) > 0 {
var names []string
for m := range behind {
@@ -1622,10 +1653,7 @@ func statusCommand(ctx context.Context) error {
fmt.Printf("%d module(s) behind their source:\n\n", len(behind))
for _, m := range names {
from, err := inv.SourceOf(ctx, m)
if err != nil {
return err
}
from := sources[m]
fmt.Printf(" %-18s holds %s, source has %s\n", m, short(from.BuiltFrom), short(from.Head))
if on := behind[m]; len(on) > 0 {
// The part somebody actually wants. A module being out of date is a fact about
@@ -2005,10 +2033,21 @@ func (b builds) Built(ctx context.Context, result link.BuildResult) error {
// handed — which in practice meant the broker's own administrative one. A program documented as
// holding its own credential and given somebody else's is worse than one with no story at all.
func builderCommand(ctx context.Context, args []string) error {
if len(args) != 2 || args[0] != "issue" {
return errors.New("builder issue <name>")
set := flag.NewFlagSet("builder issue", flag.ContinueOnError)
// Which machine will use it. Given, the credential is delivered by the mesh rather than
// printed for somebody to carry — which is the difference between the builder being a module
// and being a program somebody configures.
forNode := set.String("node", "",
"the machine that will run it, so the mesh delivers the credential instead of printing it")
module := set.String("module", "builder", "the module on that machine that will read it")
positionals, err := parseAround(set, args)
if err != nil {
return err
}
name := args[1]
if len(positionals) != 2 || positionals[0] != "issue" {
return errors.New("builder issue <name> [--node <machine>]")
}
name := positionals[1]
management, err := broker.ManagementFromEnvironment()
if err != nil {
@@ -2029,6 +2068,29 @@ func builderCommand(ctx context.Context, args []string) error {
fmt.Printf("broker account %s created, scoped to the %s queue and the %s exchange\n\n",
name, link.BuildQueue, link.Exchange)
if *forNode != "" {
known, err := broker.FromEnvironment()
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("cannot deliver a credential without knowing where the broker is: %w", err)
}
inv, err := openInventory(ctx)
if err != nil {
return err
}
defer inv.Close()
url := fmt.Sprintf("amqps://%s:%s@%s/", name, password, known.Address)
if err := inv.AcceptSecretForModule(ctx, *forNode, *module, "broker", url); err != nil {
return err
}
// Not printed. It is sealed to that machine and the mesh cannot read it back, which is
// the whole point — printing it here would put the one copy that matters on a terminal.
fmt.Printf(" sealed to %s, for the %s module. It arrives with the next push.\n",
*forNode, *module)
fmt.Printf(" run `push %s` to send it\n", *forNode)
return nil
}
// The whole line only when the address is known. A URL with a placeholder where the host
// should be is a URL somebody pastes and then debugs, and the placeholder is the last thing
// they look at.
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@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
package main
import (
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
"time"
"github.com/novox/mesh-control/internal/inventory"
)
// The same answers, in a shape something other than a person can read.
//
// A board reads through interfaces and holds nothing (novox/hq 03-DESIGN/01-to-be/11-a-board.md).
// Everything it needs is already answered by these commands — as text, for people, which is not
// something a page can read. So each of them can say it again as JSON.
//
// **`--json` rather than a serving API**, because nothing needs one yet: whatever serves a board
// runs the command, and the constraint in the design holds either way — the board never touches a
// context's store. An API is the larger thing and should wait until something is asking for it.
//
// **These shapes are hard to change once anything is built against them.** So they stay close to
// what the domain already calls things, and carry no summary field that would have to be kept
// true. Nothing here is derived that a reader could not derive.
// meshStatus is what `status --json` says: the three questions, in the order they are asked.
type meshStatus struct {
// Wrong is every machine whose last declaration was refused or partly failed.
Wrong []machineDoing `json:"wrong"`
// Quiet is every machine not heard from lately. Not the same as wrong: new, switched off and
// unreachable are not "tried and could not".
Quiet []machineQuiet `json:"quiet"`
// Behind is every module built from something older than its source has.
Behind []moduleBehind `json:"behind"`
// Machines is how many the mesh knows about, so a reader can tell "none wrong" from
// "none at all".
Machines int `json:"machines"`
}
type machineDoing struct {
Node string `json:"node"`
// Outcome is refused or failed. Kept distinct all the way out: they are fixed in different
// places, and one word for both sends half the readers to the wrong one.
Outcome string `json:"outcome"`
Refused string `json:"refused,omitempty"`
Failed []struct {
ID string `json:"id"`
Error string `json:"error"`
} `json:"failed,omitempty"`
Applied int `json:"applied"`
At time.Time `json:"at"`
}
type machineQuiet struct {
Node string `json:"node"`
// LastSeen is absent when the machine has never spoken, which is a different thing from
// having been quiet for a while.
LastSeen *time.Time `json:"lastSeen,omitempty"`
}
type moduleBehind struct {
Module string `json:"module"`
BuiltFrom string `json:"builtFrom"`
Head string `json:"head"`
On []string `json:"on"`
}
// statusAsJSON answers the same three questions as the text form, from the same calls.
func statusAsJSON(wrong []inventory.Doing, nodes []inventory.Node, quiet []inventory.Node,
behind map[string][]string, sources map[string]inventory.Source) ([]byte, error) {
out := meshStatus{Machines: len(nodes), Wrong: []machineDoing{},
Quiet: []machineQuiet{}, Behind: []moduleBehind{}}
for _, d := range wrong {
row := machineDoing{
Node: d.Node, Outcome: d.Outcome, Refused: d.Refused, Applied: d.Applied, At: d.At,
}
for _, f := range d.Failed {
row.Failed = append(row.Failed, struct {
ID string `json:"id"`
Error string `json:"error"`
}{ID: f.ID, Error: f.Error})
}
out.Wrong = append(out.Wrong, row)
}
for _, n := range quiet {
row := machineQuiet{Node: n.Name}
if !n.LastSeen.IsZero() {
seen := n.LastSeen
row.LastSeen = &seen
}
out.Quiet = append(out.Quiet, row)
}
for module, on := range behind {
from := sources[module]
out.Behind = append(out.Behind, moduleBehind{
Module: module, BuiltFrom: from.BuiltFrom, Head: from.Head, On: on,
})
}
return json.MarshalIndent(out, "", " ")
}
// say prints a value as JSON, for the commands that can answer either way.
func say(value any) error {
body, err := json.MarshalIndent(value, "", " ")
if err != nil {
return err
}
fmt.Println(string(body))
return nil
}
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@@ -0,0 +1,138 @@
package main
import (
"encoding/json"
"strings"
"testing"
"time"
"github.com/novox/mesh-control/internal/inventory"
)
// The shape something other than a person reads.
//
// Hard to change once anything is built against it, so it stays close to what the domain already
// calls things and carries no summary field that would have to be kept true.
func statusOf(t *testing.T, wrong []inventory.Doing, nodes, quiet []inventory.Node,
behind map[string][]string, sources map[string]inventory.Source) map[string]any {
t.Helper()
body, err := statusAsJSON(wrong, nodes, quiet, behind, sources)
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
var parsed map[string]any
if err := json.Unmarshal(body, &parsed); err != nil {
t.Fatalf("what a board would read is not JSON: %v", err)
}
return parsed
}
func TestRefusedAndFailedStayDistinctAllTheWayOut(t *testing.T) {
// They are fixed in different places, so one word for both would send half the readers of a
// page to the wrong one.
got := statusOf(t,
[]inventory.Doing{
{Node: "one", Outcome: inventory.OutcomeRefused, Refused: "a file needs a path"},
{Node: "two", Outcome: inventory.OutcomeFailed, Applied: 3,
Failed: []inventory.FailedResource{{ID: "shell.pkg", Error: "target not found"}}},
},
[]inventory.Node{{Name: "one"}, {Name: "two"}}, nil, nil, nil)
wrong, _ := got["wrong"].([]any)
if len(wrong) != 2 {
t.Fatalf("got %v", got["wrong"])
}
first, _ := wrong[0].(map[string]any)
if first["outcome"] != inventory.OutcomeRefused || first["refused"] == nil {
t.Fatalf("a refusal did not survive: %v", first)
}
second, _ := wrong[1].(map[string]any)
if second["outcome"] != inventory.OutcomeFailed {
t.Fatalf("a failure did not survive: %v", second)
}
if second["applied"] != float64(3) {
// "Three of eight" and "none of eight" are different machines.
t.Fatalf("what did apply was not carried: %v", second)
}
}
func TestAMachineThatNeverSpokeSaysSoByOmission(t *testing.T) {
// Never heard from and quiet for a while are different situations, and a zero time would read
// as a date in 1970 on any page that formatted it.
got := statusOf(t, nil,
[]inventory.Node{{Name: "silent"}, {Name: "away", LastSeen: time.Now().Add(-3 * time.Hour)}},
[]inventory.Node{{Name: "silent"}, {Name: "away", LastSeen: time.Now().Add(-3 * time.Hour)}},
nil, nil)
quiet, _ := got["quiet"].([]any)
if len(quiet) != 2 {
t.Fatalf("got %v", got["quiet"])
}
never, _ := quiet[0].(map[string]any)
if _, said := never["lastSeen"]; said {
t.Fatalf("a machine that never spoke carries a time: %v", never)
}
away, _ := quiet[1].(map[string]any)
if _, said := away["lastSeen"]; !said {
t.Fatalf("a machine that has been quiet carries no time: %v", away)
}
}
func TestNothingWrongIsAnEmptyListRatherThanNothing(t *testing.T) {
// A page distinguishing "no machines are wrong" from "this field is missing" would have to
// handle both, and null is the one that gets forgotten.
got := statusOf(t, nil, []inventory.Node{{Name: "a", LastSeen: time.Now()}}, nil, nil, nil)
for _, key := range []string{"wrong", "quiet", "behind"} {
list, ok := got[key].([]any)
if !ok {
t.Fatalf("%q is %T, not a list", key, got[key])
}
if len(list) != 0 {
t.Fatalf("%q is not empty: %v", key, list)
}
}
// And how many machines there are, so a reader can tell "none wrong" from "none at all".
if got["machines"] != float64(1) {
t.Fatalf("got %v", got["machines"])
}
}
func TestWhatIsBehindNamesTheMachinesRunningTheOldOne(t *testing.T) {
// A module being out of date is a fact about the catalogue; machines running the old one is
// the thing with consequences.
got := statusOf(t, nil, nil, nil,
map[string][]string{"shell": {"workstation", "laptop"}},
map[string]inventory.Source{"shell": {BuiltFrom: "aaaaaaa1", Head: "bbbbbbb2"}})
behind, _ := got["behind"].([]any)
if len(behind) != 1 {
t.Fatalf("got %v", got["behind"])
}
row, _ := behind[0].(map[string]any)
if row["module"] != "shell" || row["builtFrom"] != "aaaaaaa1" || row["head"] != "bbbbbbb2" {
t.Fatalf("got %v", row)
}
on, _ := row["on"].([]any)
if len(on) != 2 {
t.Fatalf("the machines running the old one are not named: %v", row)
}
}
func TestNoSecretIsInWhatABoardReads(t *testing.T) {
// Everything here comes from the mesh's own records, which hold no readable secret — but a
// shape a page is built against is exactly where one would eventually be added for
// convenience, so this says it out loud.
body, err := statusAsJSON(
[]inventory.Doing{{Node: "a", Outcome: inventory.OutcomeRefused,
Refused: "resource \"x\": a file needs a path"}},
[]inventory.Node{{Name: "a"}}, nil, nil, nil)
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
for _, word := range []string{"password", "secret", "sealed", "credential", "token"} {
if strings.Contains(strings.ToLower(string(body)), word) {
t.Fatalf("what a board reads carries a %q field:\n%s", word, body)
}
}
}