A resource can name the version of the build it uses

novox/hq 04-ISSUES/142, and the second of the two things ADR 0141's own
insight named: "a version cannot reach the path". A component is unpacked
into a directory named for its version so it can read its own version from
its path — and an archive named a fixed path in the manifest with nothing
interpolating the build into it, so nothing could ask for
.../versions/<version>/ and every machine took a hand-placed fallback.

A resource using an archive or a bundle may now say ${version} in any of
its values. No artifact name in the reference: the resource already says
which artifact it is for, and a second name is a second thing to keep in
step.

The version is the artifact's digest, short, and not the commit. Two
builds of one commit are meant to be the same bytes — every toolchain here
is -trimpath for that reason — so a content-addressed version means an
unchanged build resolves to the path it already had. A commit-named path
would move for an identical binary and recreate everything that reads it.

An image is refused one, with a reason: an image is not unpacked, so it
has no versioned place. Left alone it would reach a machine as literal
text and be created as a directory called ${version}.
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@@ -94,12 +94,43 @@ func (m Manifest) Resolve(built []Built) (Manifest, error) {
m.Module, r["id"], named)
case ArtifactImage, ArtifactUpstream:
filled["image"] = artifact.Reference
// An image is not unpacked anywhere, so it has no directory to be named for its
// version and `${version}` has nothing to mean. Refused rather than left as literal
// text in a path, which is how it would reach a machine and be created as a directory
// called `${version}`.
for key, value := range filled {
if text, isText := value.(string); isText && strings.Contains(text, versionRef) {
return Manifest{}, fmt.Errorf(
"%s: %v says %s in %q, and %q is an image — an image is not unpacked, so "+
"it has no versioned place. %s is for an archive or a bundle",
m.Module, r["id"], versionRef, key, named, versionRef)
}
}
case ArtifactArchive, ArtifactBundle:
// The same on the wire: both are bytes fetched by digest and unpacked. They differ in
// how they were made — one packed as it stood, the other compiled first — and a
// machine has no reason to care which.
filled["source"] = artifact.Reference
filled["digest"] = artifact.Digest
// **And `${version}`, so a resource can name a place that is this build's alone**
// (novox/hq ADR 0141, 04-ISSUES/142). A component is unpacked into a directory named
// for its version so it can read its own version from its path — and until this,
// nothing could compose that path: an archive named a fixed one in the manifest and
// nothing interpolated the build into it, so nothing could ask for
// `…/versions/<version>/` and every machine took a hand-placed fallback.
//
// The version is the artifact's own digest, short. Not the commit: two builds of one
// commit are meant to be the same bytes (the toolchains are `-trimpath` for this), and
// a content-addressed version means an unchanged build resolves to the path it already
// had — so re-composing a declaration moves nothing, where a commit would move the
// path of an identical binary and recreate everything that reads it.
for key, value := range filled {
text, isText := value.(string)
if !isText || !strings.Contains(text, versionRef) {
continue
}
filled[key] = strings.ReplaceAll(text, versionRef, versionOf(artifact.Digest))
}
default:
return Manifest{}, fmt.Errorf("%s: %q is a %q, and an artifact is %q, %q, %q or %q",
m.Module, named, artifact.Kind, ArtifactImage, ArtifactArchive, ArtifactUpstream,
@@ -259,3 +290,28 @@ func compilesToABinary(language string) bool {
return false
}
}
// versionRef is how a resource names the version of the artifact it uses: ${version}.
//
// No artifact name in it, because the resource already says which artifact it is for — a second
// name would be a second thing to keep in step with the first.
const versionRef = "${version}"
// versionOf is an artifact's version as a path names it: its digest, short.
//
// **Content-addressed on purpose.** The alternative is the commit a build came from, and two builds
// of one commit are meant to produce the same bytes — every toolchain here is `-trimpath` for that
// reason. A commit-named path would move for an identical binary, and everything reading that path
// would be recreated for a change that is not one. A digest-named path moves exactly when the bytes
// do.
//
// Twelve hex characters: enough that two of this mesh's builds will not collide, short enough to
// read in a path and in a journal line. The `sha256:` prefix goes, because a directory name carrying
// a colon is a directory name people quote wrong.
func versionOf(digest string) string {
hex := strings.TrimPrefix(strings.TrimSpace(digest), "sha256:")
if len(hex) > 12 {
return hex[:12]
}
return hex
}