Answer the build queue as data too, so a check can say how far back it waits
mesh/merge-gate pass: builds build-agent, mesh-controller → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every machine composes with the change as it did without …
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mesh/delivery delivered

The queue verb answered only a table, so nothing outside the controller
could say an ask's place in the queue. It now asks its command for JSON:
each ask's state, kind, repository, commit, machine, since and position
among the waiting, with the table carried beside it and answered as the
verb's output, both written from one read. A repository's password, if
one were ever written into it, is left out of what is shown.

novox/hq issue 455
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2026-10-12 14:22:22 +02:00
parent db9e9c5b87
commit 0cd8bc0bfb
7 changed files with 264 additions and 8 deletions
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@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import (
"fmt"
"io"
"os"
"regexp"
"sort"
"strings"
"time"
@@ -67,18 +68,95 @@ func listQueue(ctx context.Context, args []string, w io.Writer) error {
if err != nil {
return err
}
now := time.Now()
if *asJSON {
body, err := json.MarshalIndent(q, "", " ")
body, err := json.MarshalIndent(queueAnswerOf(q, now), "", " ")
if err != nil {
return err
}
fmt.Fprintln(w, string(body))
return nil
}
fmt.Fprint(w, queueText(q, time.Now()))
fmt.Fprint(w, queueText(q, now))
return nil
}
// queueAnswer is the queue as data (novox/hq issue 455): what a caller reads to say how far back an ask
// waits — "waiting in the build queue behind 2" — which the table alone could not tell it. Text is the
// table, written from the same read: the verb answers it as its output and the rest as its answer, so the
// two never disagree.
type queueAnswer struct {
Seat string `json:"seat"`
Waiting int `json:"waiting"`
InFlight int `json:"in-flight"`
Dead int `json:"dead"`
MaxDeliver int `json:"max-deliver"`
Asks []queuedAnswer `json:"asks"`
Text string `json:"text"`
}
// queuedAnswer is one ask as data. Never what the request carries beyond its source — not `held`, every
// artifact the mesh has built, nor a check's checkouts beside it.
type queuedAnswer struct {
ID string `json:"id"`
State string `json:"state"`
// Kind is "check" for a pull request's merge check, "build" for anything else.
Kind string `json:"kind"`
Repository string `json:"repository"`
Path string `json:"path,omitempty"`
Ref string `json:"ref,omitempty"`
// Commit is the ref when it names a commit; empty when the ask follows a branch or the default.
Commit string `json:"commit,omitempty"`
// Machine is the one building an ask in flight; WasOn the one that started it and handed it back.
Machine string `json:"machine,omitempty"`
WasOn string `json:"was-on,omitempty"`
AskedAt time.Time `json:"asked-at,omitzero"`
// Since is when the ask came to its state: its start on the machine for one in flight that a
// machine said it started, otherwise when it was asked.
Since time.Time `json:"since,omitzero"`
// Position is its place among the waiting, 1 being handed out next; 0 for an ask not waiting.
Position int `json:"position,omitempty"`
Seq uint64 `json:"seq"`
}
// aCommitRef is a ref that names a commit by its full hash (SHA-1 or SHA-256).
var aCommitRef = regexp.MustCompile(`^(?:[0-9a-f]{40}|[0-9a-f]{64})$`)
// queueAnswerOf is the queue as data, in the table's order: in flight, the waiting from the next one to
// be handed out, then the dead. A pure function of one read (novox/hq issue 455).
func queueAnswerOf(q link.Queue, now time.Time) queueAnswer {
waiting, running, dead := q.Of(link.AskWaiting), q.Of(link.AskInFlight), q.Of(link.AskDead)
out := queueAnswer{Seat: q.Seat, Waiting: len(waiting), InFlight: len(running), Dead: len(dead),
MaxDeliver: q.MaxDeliver, Asks: []queuedAnswer{}, Text: queueText(q, now)}
one := func(a link.QueuedAsk, position int) queuedAnswer {
kind := "build"
if a.Request.Check != nil {
kind = "check"
}
since := a.AskedAt
if a.State == link.AskInFlight && a.On != "" && !a.Started.IsZero() {
since = a.Started
}
commit := ""
if aCommitRef.MatchString(a.Ref) {
commit = a.Ref
}
return queuedAnswer{ID: a.ID, State: a.State, Kind: kind, Repository: link.WithoutPassword(a.Repository), Path: a.Path,
Ref: a.Ref, Commit: commit, Machine: a.On, WasOn: a.Was, AskedAt: a.AskedAt, Since: since,
Position: position, Seq: a.Seq}
}
for _, a := range running {
out.Asks = append(out.Asks, one(a, 0))
}
for i, a := range waiting {
out.Asks = append(out.Asks, one(a, i+1))
}
for _, a := range dead {
out.Asks = append(out.Asks, one(a, 0))
}
return out
}
// queueText is the queue as a person reads it: a summary line, then each kind in queue order.
// Never what an ask carries as `held` — that is every artifact the mesh has built.
func queueText(q link.Queue, now time.Time) string {
@@ -92,7 +170,7 @@ func queueText(q link.Queue, now time.Time) string {
return "asked " + now.Sub(t).Round(time.Second).String() + " ago"
}
what := func(a link.QueuedAsk) string {
s := a.Repository
s := link.WithoutPassword(a.Repository)
if a.Path != "" {
s += " at " + a.Path
}