Keep a named push from sending builds a policy or a plan holds back

A named push flushed every other machine whose declaration differed from
what it was last sent (hq ADR 0083). Under an upgrade policy of `record`,
or a plan still waiting on its first machine (ADR 0218), every machine
running the module differs, so `push <one>` sent the held build to all of
them (hq issue 259).

Each send now records which build of each module it carried
(node.sent_builds, migration 0061). The cascade, and the bus holder added
to a named push, skip a machine any of whose modules would move to a
build its policy records or an open plan has not sent it, and say which
module, which build, why, and that `push <node>` sends it. A machine
whose last send was not recorded is held until it is named. The named
machine itself, a whole-mesh push and `push --behind` are unchanged.
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package main
import (
"context"
"fmt"
"io"
"sort"
"strings"
"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/catalogue"
"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/inventory"
)
// A push sends no build a policy or a plan holds back, except to the machine it names (novox/hq
// issue 259, ADR 0221).
//
// A named push ends by sending every other machine whose declaration differs from what it was last
// sent (ADR 0083), so that a grant the push's work minted reaches the provider in the same act. A
// digest cannot say why a machine differs. A module whose upgrade policy records rather than rolls
// out makes every machine running it differ from the merge on, and so did a module whose plan was
// still waiting on its first machine (ADR 0218): `push <anchor>` sent all four machines the build
// that was meant to be walked through the mesh one machine at a time, and a fault in it was met
// everywhere at once.
//
// What tells the two apart is which build of each module the machine was last sent, kept with every
// send. A machine any of whose modules would move to a build its policy or an open plan holds back
// is not sent by a push that did not name it; the push says which, and why, and how to send it.
// heldBack is why a push that did not name a machine must not send it, empty when it may.
//
// `modules` is what the machine would be sent now; `sent` and `known` what it was last sent, as
// Inventory.SentBuilds answers. A module moves when the build it would carry is not the one the
// machine was last sent — including a module the machine was never sent at all. A move is held when
// the module's policy records rather than rolls out, or when an open plan has not yet sent this
// machine (planStillToSend). A machine whose last send was not recorded is held whole: what it carried
// is not known, so a held upgrade cannot be told from anything else.
func heldBack(node string, modules []string, sent map[string]string, known bool,
current map[string]inventory.CurrentBuild, plans []inventory.Plan) []string {
if !known {
return []string{"which builds it was last sent is not known — it was last sent before the " +
"mesh kept them, or sent a declaration by hand"}
}
var why []string
for _, m := range modules {
now := current[m]
was, carried := sent[m]
if carried && was == now.Commit {
continue
}
move := fmt.Sprintf("%s would move %sto %s", m, fromBuild(was, carried), buildName(now.Commit))
if !now.RollOut {
why = append(why, move+", which its upgrade policy records rather than rolls out")
continue
}
if id := planStillToSend(plans, m, node); id != "" {
why = append(why, move+", which "+id+" has not sent it yet (one machine first)")
}
}
sort.Strings(why)
return why
}
// planStillToSend is the open plan that has a module's new build still to send this machine, or empty:
// one holding the module that has neither finished sending it nor sent it here first, and has not
// failed it (novox/hq ADR 0218). The same reading rolledOutByAPlan makes for the whole module, made
// per machine.
func planStillToSend(plans []inventory.Plan, module, node string) string {
for _, p := range plans {
s, holds := p.Modules[module]
if !p.Open() || !holds {
continue
}
if s == nil {
return p.ID
}
if s.SentAt != nil || s.State == "failed" {
continue
}
first := false
for _, n := range s.First {
if n == node {
first = true
}
}
if !first {
return p.ID
}
}
return ""
}
func fromBuild(was string, carried bool) string {
if !carried {
return "(never sent it) "
}
return "from " + buildName(was) + " "
}
func buildName(commit string) string {
if commit == "" {
return "a build with no source"
}
return shortCommit(commit)
}
// heldMachines reads, for each machine named, why a push that did not name it must not send it
// (heldBack), and answers only the machines held. A machine whose set cannot be worked out is left
// to the send, which says why.
func heldMachines(ctx context.Context, open *stores, names []string) (map[string][]string, error) {
out := map[string][]string{}
if len(names) == 0 {
return out, nil
}
inv := open.inventory
current, err := inv.CurrentBuilds(ctx)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
plans, err := inv.OpenPlans(ctx)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
for _, node := range names {
plan, _, err := planFor(ctx, open, node)
if err != nil {
continue
}
modules := make([]string, 0, len(plan.Modules))
for _, m := range plan.Modules {
modules = append(modules, m.Module)
}
sent, known, err := inv.SentBuilds(ctx, node)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
if why := heldBack(node, modules, sent, known, current, plans); len(why) > 0 {
out[node] = why
}
}
return out, nil
}
// sayHeld is what a push says about a machine it left behind on purpose: that it is behind, why it
// was not sent, that whatever else it is owed waits with it, and the command that sends it.
func sayHeld(w io.Writer, node string, why []string) {
fmt.Fprintf(w, "\n%s is behind and was not sent: %s. A push sends no build a policy or a plan "+
"holds back to a machine it did not name (novox/hq ADR 0221), so anything else it is owed — a "+
"grant from this push among it — waits with it. `push %s` sends it\n",
node, strings.Join(why, "; "), node)
}
// flushBehind is the end of a named push: every other machine now behind is sent too, by name, over
// as many rounds as the sends take to settle (novox/hq issue 057, ADR 0083) — except a machine whose
// modules would move to a build a policy or a plan holds back, which is named and left (ADR 0221).
//
// `handled` is every machine already sent or already said; it is not considered again. Answers the
// machines that could not be composed, as refusals.
func flushBehind(ctx context.Context, open *stores, nodes []inventory.Node, handled map[string]bool,
compose func(held context.Context, node string) (sendable, error), d delivery, holder string,
w io.Writer) ([]string, error) {
inv := open.inventory
var refusals []string
// Bounded by the node count: a node is marked handled the round it is considered and is never
// considered twice, so the loop cannot run more than len(nodes) rounds. The bound is a guard
// against a logic error, not a real limit — if it were ever hit, that is a bug rather than a
// cascade legitimately still converging, so it is said rather than passed over in silence.
rounds := 0
for {
would, err := wouldSend(ctx, open, nodes)
if err != nil {
return refusals, err
}
behind, err := inv.Waiting(ctx, would)
if err != nil {
return refusals, err
}
var also []string
for _, m := range behind {
if !handled[m.Node] {
also = append(also, m.Node)
}
}
if len(also) == 0 {
return refusals, nil
}
if rounds++; rounds > len(nodes) {
fmt.Fprintf(w, "\nstopped cascading after %d rounds with %s still behind — this "+
"should not happen; run `push --behind` to finish\n",
rounds-1, strings.Join(also, ", "))
return refusals, nil
}
sort.Strings(also)
held, err := heldMachines(ctx, open, also)
if err != nil {
return refusals, err
}
var sending []string
for _, name := range also {
// Every candidate this round is marked handled — the sent ones so they are not
// re-listed, the held ones because they stay held, and the refused ones so a machine
// that cannot be composed does not make the loop spin on it for ever.
handled[name] = true
if why, isHeld := held[name]; isHeld {
sayHeld(w, name, why)
continue
}
sending = append(sending, name)
}
if len(sending) == 0 {
continue
}
fmt.Fprintf(w, "\nthis push left %s behind — a provision granted from there, or a "+
"declaration since changed; sending it too\n", strings.Join(sending, ", "))
// Tolerantly, exactly as the named send: a machine that cannot be composed is collected as
// a refusal and reported at the end, and the others are still sent (novox/hq ADR 0066).
// Held for this round only, and after the last round's were given back, so two pushes
// cascading into each other's machines never each wait on the other.
refused, err := sendRound(ctx, open, sending, compose, d, holder)
refusals = append(refusals, refused...)
if err != nil {
return refusals, err
}
}
}
// composeForPush is how a push composes one machine: its set resolved, what it cannot host and what
// is left out of it said, and its declaration allocated.
func composeForPush(open *stores, gens map[string]catalogue.Generator) func(held context.Context, node string) (sendable, error) {
return func(held context.Context, node string) (sendable, error) {
plan, settings, err := planFor(held, open, node)
if err != nil {
return sendable{}, err
}
reportUnhostable(node, plan)
declared, err := declarationWith(held, open, node, plan, settings, gens, Allocating)
if err == nil {
reportLeftOut(node, declared)
}
return declared, err
}
}