Merge pull request 'node shows what a machine said it is made of, with its age (issue 160)' (#269) from fix/160-node-shows-what-a-machine-is into main

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package main
import (
"fmt"
"sort"
"strings"
"time"
"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/inventory"
)
// machineLines is what a machine said it is made of (novox/hq issue 160), as `node` shows it: every fact in
// one block with its age, the architecture and kernel the profile always carried among them, and each fact
// the machine could not determine said as unknown with its why — never as a zero, and never left out.
func machineLines(a inventory.MachineAccount, had bool, now time.Time) []string {
if !had {
return []string{" what it is made of: never said — this machine has not reported a profile"}
}
m := a.Machine
if m == nil {
return []string{
" what it is made of: not said — its node-engine is older than the one that says it",
" " + factLine("architecture", orUnsaid(a.Architecture)),
" " + factLine("kernel", orUnsaid(a.Kernel)),
}
}
age := roughly(now.Sub(m.ObservedAt)) + " ago"
if m.ObservedAt.IsZero() {
// Said with no time: its age is not known, and is never read as two thousand years.
age = "at a time it did not say (age unknown)"
}
out := []string{fmt.Sprintf(" what it is made of, as it said %s:", age)}
add := func(name, value string) { out = append(out, " "+factLine(name, value)) }
unknown := map[string]string{}
for k, v := range m.Unknown {
unknown[k] = v
}
// said is the value, or the fact's own reason it is unknown; a fact neither said nor unknown is a
// node-engine that broke its own rule, and is said so rather than shown blank.
said := func(fact, value string) string {
if value != "" {
delete(unknown, fact)
return value
}
if why, ok := unknown[fact]; ok {
delete(unknown, fact)
return "unknown: " + why
}
return "unknown: the machine said neither it nor why"
}
add("architecture", orUnsaid(a.Architecture))
release := said("kernel release", m.KernelRelease)
if m.KernelRelease == "" {
release = "(release " + release + ")"
}
add("kernel", orUnsaid(a.Kernel)+" "+release)
dist := said("distribution", m.Distribution)
if m.Distribution != "" {
dist += " " + said("version", m.Version)
}
add("distribution", dist)
add("processor", said("processor", m.Processor))
add("cores", said("cores", countWords(m.Cores)))
add("threads", said("threads", countWords(m.Threads)))
add("memory", said("memory", bytesWords(m.MemoryBytes)))
add("virtual", said("virtual or physical", m.Virtual))
up := ""
if m.BootedAt != nil {
up = fmt.Sprintf("%s, since %s", roughly(now.Sub(*m.BootedAt)), m.BootedAt.Local().Format("2006-01-02 15:04"))
}
add("up", said("uptime", up))
add("timezone", said("timezone", m.Timezone))
if len(m.Filesystems) == 0 {
add("filesystems", said("filesystems", ""))
} else {
for i, f := range m.Filesystems {
name := ""
if i == 0 {
name = "filesystems"
}
add(name, fmt.Sprintf("%s %s, %s free (%s %s)", f.Mount, bytesWords(f.SizeBytes),
bytesWords(f.FreeBytes), f.Type, f.Device))
}
if why, ok := unknown["filesystems"]; ok {
add("", "and some unknown: "+why)
delete(unknown, "filesystems")
}
}
add("public address", said("public address", ""))
// Any other fact a newer node-engine named unknown, so nothing it said is dropped.
rest := make([]string, 0, len(unknown))
for k := range unknown {
rest = append(rest, k)
}
sort.Strings(rest)
for _, k := range rest {
add(k, "unknown: "+unknown[k])
}
return out
}
func factLine(name, value string) string { return fmt.Sprintf("%-15s %s", name, value) }
func orUnsaid(s string) string {
if strings.TrimSpace(s) == "" {
return "not said"
}
return s
}
// countWords is a number a machine said, or nothing when it said none (its unknown says why).
func countWords(n int) string {
if n <= 0 {
return ""
}
return fmt.Sprint(n)
}
// bytesWords is an amount of bytes a person reads, in binary units; nothing when none was said.
func bytesWords(n int64) string {
if n <= 0 {
return ""
}
units := []string{"B", "KiB", "MiB", "GiB", "TiB", "PiB"}
v, u := float64(n), 0
for v >= 1024 && u < len(units)-1 {
v /= 1024
u++
}
if u == 0 {
return fmt.Sprintf("%d B", n)
}
return fmt.Sprintf("%.1f %s", v, units[u])
}
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package main
import (
"strings"
"testing"
"time"
"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/inventory"
)
// Defends novox/hq issue 160: `node` shows every fact a machine said it is made of, in one block with its
// age, the architecture and kernel among them; and a fact it could not determine as unknown with why.
func TestNodeShowsWhatAMachineIsMadeOfWithItsAge(t *testing.T) {
now := time.Date(2026, 10, 12, 15, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
booted := now.Add(-75 * time.Hour)
a := inventory.MachineAccount{Architecture: "amd64", Kernel: "linux", Machine: &inventory.MadeOf{
ObservedAt: now.Add(-3 * time.Hour), KernelRelease: "7.2.8-arch1-2", Distribution: "Arch Linux",
Version: "rolling", Processor: "AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS", Cores: 8, Threads: 16, MemoryBytes: 32891494400,
Virtual: "physical", BootedAt: &booted, Timezone: "Europe/Brussels",
Filesystems: []inventory.MountedFilesystem{{Mount: "/", Device: "/dev/nvme0n1p3", Type: "ext4",
SizeBytes: 987978522624, FreeBytes: 31830110208}},
Unknown: map[string]string{"public address": "how it learns it is not decided yet"},
}}
got := strings.Join(machineLines(a, true, now), "\n")
t.Log("\n" + got)
for _, want := range []string{
"what it is made of, as it said 3h ago:",
"architecture amd64",
"kernel linux 7.2.8-arch1-2",
"distribution Arch Linux rolling",
"processor AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS",
"cores 8",
"threads 16",
"memory 30.6 GiB",
"virtual physical",
"up 3d, since",
"timezone Europe/Brussels",
"filesystems / 920.1 GiB, 29.6 GiB free (ext4 /dev/nvme0n1p3)",
"public address unknown: how it learns it is not decided yet",
} {
if !strings.Contains(got, want) {
t.Errorf("missing %q", want)
}
}
}
func TestAFactAMachineCouldNotReadIsShownUnknownNeverZero(t *testing.T) {
now := time.Date(2026, 10, 12, 15, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
a := inventory.MachineAccount{Architecture: "arm64", Kernel: "linux", Machine: &inventory.MadeOf{
ObservedAt: now, Unknown: map[string]string{"memory": "MemTotal not found in /proc/meminfo",
"cores": "/proc/cpuinfo says no core id", "kernel release": "permission denied"}}}
got := strings.Join(machineLines(a, true, now), "\n")
t.Log("\n" + got)
for _, want := range []string{
"memory unknown: MemTotal not found in /proc/meminfo",
"cores unknown: /proc/cpuinfo says no core id",
"kernel linux (release unknown: permission denied)",
// Neither said nor named unknown: the node-engine broke its rule, and that is shown.
"timezone unknown: the machine said neither it nor why",
} {
if !strings.Contains(got, want) {
t.Errorf("missing %q", want)
}
}
if strings.Contains(got, " 0 ") || strings.Contains(got, "0 B") {
t.Error("a fact the machine could not read was shown as a zero")
}
}
func TestAnOlderNodeEngineStillShowsArchitectureAndKernel(t *testing.T) {
got := strings.Join(machineLines(inventory.MachineAccount{Architecture: "amd64", Kernel: "linux"}, true,
time.Now()), "\n")
if !strings.Contains(got, "older than the one that says it") || !strings.Contains(got, "architecture amd64") ||
!strings.Contains(got, "kernel linux") {
t.Errorf("%s", got)
}
if got := strings.Join(machineLines(inventory.MachineAccount{}, false, time.Now()), "\n"); !strings.Contains(got, "never said") {
t.Errorf("%s", got)
}
}
func TestAnAccountWithoutItsTimeSaysAgeUnknown(t *testing.T) {
got := machineLines(inventory.MachineAccount{Architecture: "amd64", Kernel: "linux",
Machine: &inventory.MadeOf{KernelRelease: "7.2"}}, true, time.Now())[0]
if !strings.Contains(got, "age unknown") || strings.Contains(got, "d ago") {
t.Errorf("%s", got)
}
}
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}
}
// What it is made of, in one block with its age (novox/hq issue 160): collected and shown in the same
// breath, so no fact the machine says is kept and read by nothing.
if account, had, err := inv.MachineOf(ctx, name); err != nil {
fmt.Printf("\n what it is made of could NOT be read: %v\n", err)
} else {
fmt.Println()
for _, line := range machineLines(account, had, time.Now()) {
fmt.Println(line)
}
}
held, err := inv.Profile(ctx, name)
if err != nil {
return err