Merge pull request 'An act's answer is said from one resolution after its write (hq issue 237)' (#253) from fix/237-one-resolution-for-assign into main

This commit was merged in pull request #253.
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2026-10-12 13:31:03 +00:00
5 changed files with 329 additions and 32 deletions
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@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import (
"context"
"fmt"
"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/broker"
"io"
"slices"
"sort"
"strings"
@@ -54,6 +55,9 @@ func assignWith(ctx context.Context, open *stores, node string, opts assignOptio
if err := refusedMovingTheController(modules); err != nil {
return "", err
}
// Every line of the answer comes from the one resolution after the write (novox/hq issue 237):
// what the reads before it would say about a machine left out is not the answer's.
ctx = leftOutSaidBy(ctx, io.Discard)
// Held while it is recorded, so it cannot land between a converge's preview and its flip and
// be taken without ever having been previewed (novox/hq ADR 0100).
ctx, release, err := holdNodes(ctx, open, []string{node})
@@ -125,22 +129,28 @@ func assignWith(ctx context.Context, open *stores, node string, opts assignOptio
for _, line := range settled {
answer += "\n " + line
}
// What this act changed about this node's unmet seat dependencies, and nothing else (novox/hq
// ADR 0207): a dependency of a module just assigned, or one this assignment met. The rest of the
// node's list, and every other node's, is `status`'s.
for _, line := range unheldChange(shelf, node, before, append(append([]string(nil), before...), added...)) {
answer += "\n " + line
}
// Its bus credential, in the same act (novox/hq issue 203): an assignment pushed before its
// credential exists delivers a process that cannot authenticate and crash-loops until somebody
// runs a second verb and a second push. Issued here when the module speaks on the bus and has
// no credential yet; kept when it has one, so re-assigning rotates nothing.
var issued []string
for _, module := range added {
if line := issueOnAssign(ctx, open, node, module); line != "" {
answer += "\n " + line
issued = append(issued, line)
}
}
plan, _, err := planFor(ctx, open, node)
// **The one resolution the rest of the answer is said from** (novox/hq issue 237), taken after
// the write: what this act changed about this node's unmet seat dependencies, and nothing else
// (novox/hq ADR 0207) — a dependency of a module just assigned, or one this assignment met; the
// rest of the node's list, and every other node's, is `status`'s — and whether the node resolves.
after := resolvedAfter(ctx, open, shelf, node)
for _, line := range unheldChangeTo(shelf, node, before, after.modules, after.unheld) {
answer += "\n " + line
}
for _, line := range issued {
answer += "\n " + line
}
plan, err := after.plan, after.err
if err != nil {
// Kept, and still refused. Both halves are the answer, and the rest of the mesh is still
// worth reporting: this machine's refusal is rarely the only consequence.
@@ -218,6 +228,8 @@ func unassign(ctx context.Context, open *stores, node string, modules ...string)
if len(modules) == 0 {
return "", fmt.Errorf("unassign %s names no module", node)
}
// One resolution after the write, as assign's answer (novox/hq issue 237).
ctx = leftOutSaidBy(ctx, io.Discard)
ctx, release, err := holdNodes(ctx, open, []string{node})
if err != nil {
return "", err
@@ -262,15 +274,22 @@ func unassign(ctx context.Context, open *stores, node string, modules ...string)
}
answer := fmt.Sprintf("%s no longer runs %s — run `push %s` to make it so",
node, strings.Join(modules, ", "), node)
var left []string
for _, a := range assigned {
if !slices.Contains(modules, a) {
left = append(left, a)
}
}
for _, line := range unheldChange(shelf, node, assigned, left) {
after := resolvedAfter(ctx, open, shelf, node)
for _, line := range unheldChangeTo(shelf, node, assigned, after.modules, after.unheld) {
answer += "\n " + line
}
// Whether the node itself still resolves, from the same resolution: before, only the rest of the
// mesh's reads said it, on standard error and once per other machine.
if after.err != nil {
if unresolvable(after.err) {
answer += fmt.Sprintf("\n but %s does not resolve now, so nothing will be sent to it:", node)
} else {
answer += fmt.Sprintf("\n but whether %s still resolves could not be read:", node)
}
for _, line := range strings.Split(strings.TrimRight(after.err.Error(), "\n"), "\n") {
answer += "\n " + strings.TrimSpace(line)
}
}
// What it leaves behind that is irreplaceable is kept and retired, never removed (novox/hq ADR 0233).
for _, line := range keptOnUnassign(ctx, open.inventory, node, modules) {
answer += "\n " + line
@@ -278,6 +297,39 @@ func unassign(ctx context.Context, open *stores, node string, modules ...string)
return answer + blockedElsewhere(ctx, open, node), nil
}
// afterAct is the one resolution of a node an act's answer is said from, taken after its write
// (novox/hq issue 237): the plan or why there is none, the modules it has on the node, and its unmet
// seat dependencies.
type afterAct struct {
plan catalogue.Resolution
err error
modules []string
unheld []catalogue.Unheld
}
// resolvedAfter resolves the node as `plan` does, once, after the act's write. When the node resolves,
// its modules and unmet seat dependencies are the resolution's — the closure, so a holder pulled in by
// a requirement counts as `plan` counts it. When it does not, they are judged over the assignments read
// after the write, which can only find more unmet than the closure would: a seat said held there is
// held in the closure too.
func resolvedAfter(ctx context.Context, open *stores, shelf map[string]catalogue.Manifest, node string) afterAct {
plan, _, err := planFor(ctx, open, node)
if err == nil {
out := afterAct{plan: plan, unheld: plan.Unheld}
for _, m := range plan.Modules {
out.modules = append(out.modules, m.Module)
}
return out
}
out := afterAct{err: err}
assigned, readErr := open.inventory.Assigned(ctx, node)
if readErr != nil {
return out
}
out.modules, out.unheld = assigned, unheldOver(shelf, node, assigned)
return out
}
// splitModules is a surface's one `module` field as the modules it names: several, comma-separated,
// are one act (novox/hq ADR 0207), so the holders that depend on each other go on together from the
// command API and the controller seat's verbs as they do from the command line.
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@@ -0,0 +1,112 @@
package main
import (
"bytes"
"context"
"errors"
"strings"
"testing"
"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/catalogue"
)
// novox/hq issue 237: every line of an act's answer comes from one resolution of the node taken after
// its write, so the answer agrees with `plan` for the node right after.
func aProviderAndItsConsumer(t *testing.T, open *stores) {
t.Helper()
register(t, open, catalogue.Manifest{Module: "db", Version: "1",
Provides: []catalogue.Offer{{Name: "rows", Scope: catalogue.ScopeNode}}})
register(t, open, catalogue.Manifest{Module: "app", Version: "1", Requires: []string{"rows"}})
}
// twoRivalsAndANote is a node that does not resolve — two modules claim one node seat there — and a
// module beside them that changes nothing about it.
func twoRivalsAndANote(t *testing.T, open *stores) {
t.Helper()
one, two := rivals()
register(t, open, one)
register(t, open, two)
register(t, open, catalogue.Manifest{Module: "notes", Version: "1"})
}
func TestAnUnassignThatLeavesItsNodeUnresolvedSaysSoOnceInItsAnswer(t *testing.T) {
open := aMesh(t)
ctx := t.Context()
twoRivalsAndANote(t, open)
// Straight into the store, as a node that came to this before the act.
for _, m := range []string{"rival-one", "rival-two", "notes"} {
if _, err := open.inventory.Assign(ctx, "laptop", m); err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
}
said := answered(t, func() error { return assignCommand(ctx, "unassign", []string{"laptop", "notes"}) })
if _, _, err := planFor(ctx, open, "laptop"); err == nil || !unresolvable(err) {
t.Fatalf("laptop resolves with two claimants of one seat: %v", err)
}
if n := strings.Count(said, "laptop does not resolve now"); n != 1 {
t.Errorf("the answer says laptop does not resolve %d times, want once:\n%s", n, said)
}
if strings.Contains(said, "is left out of the rest of the mesh") {
t.Errorf("the answer carries a line from a read that is not its resolution:\n%s", said)
}
}
func TestAnUnassignThatLeavesItsNodeResolvedSaysNothingOfIt(t *testing.T) {
open := aMesh(t)
ctx := t.Context()
aProviderAndItsConsumer(t, open)
if _, err := assign(ctx, open, "laptop", "db", "app"); err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
said, err := unassign(ctx, open, "laptop", "app")
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
if _, _, err := planFor(ctx, open, "laptop"); err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
if strings.Contains(said, "does not resolve") || strings.Contains(said, "could not be read") {
t.Errorf("a node that resolves is said not to:\n%s", said)
}
}
func TestAnAssignThatLeavesItsNodeUnresolvedSaysOnlyThePlansRefusal(t *testing.T) {
open := aMesh(t)
ctx := t.Context()
twoRivalsAndANote(t, open)
if _, err := assign(ctx, open, "laptop", "rival-one"); err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
// Kept and not resolvable: a second claimant of the seat, which assignment keeps.
said, err := assign(ctx, open, "laptop", "rival-two")
if err == nil {
t.Fatalf("two claimants of one node seat resolved:\n%s", said)
}
_, _, planErr := planFor(ctx, open, "laptop")
if planErr == nil || planErr.Error() != err.Error() {
t.Errorf("the act's refusal is not the plan's right after:\nact: %v\nplan: %v", err, planErr)
}
if strings.Contains(said, "now has") {
t.Errorf("the answer says a seat is now held on a node that does not resolve:\n%s", said)
}
}
// The other readers of the whole mesh still say a machine they leave out, on standard error (novox/hq
// issue 188); an act sends it elsewhere.
func TestAMachineLeftOutIsSaidWhereTheContextSays(t *testing.T) {
var buf bytes.Buffer
sayLeftOut(leftOutSaidBy(context.Background(), &buf), "laptop", errors.New("why"))
if buf.String() != "laptop is left out of the rest of the mesh: it does not resolve: why\n" {
t.Errorf("said %q", buf.String())
}
got := answered(t, func() error {
sayLeftOut(context.Background(), "laptop", errors.New("why"))
return nil
})
if !strings.Contains(got, "laptop is left out") {
t.Errorf("without an act's writer the line did not reach standard error: %q", got)
}
}
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@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ func theRestOfTheMesh(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory,
if err != nil {
// Said, not skipped: a machine dropped here offers nothing and holds nothing as far
// as every other machine's plan can tell (novox/hq issue 188).
fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "%s is left out of the rest of the mesh: it does not resolve: %v\n", o.node.Name, err)
sayLeftOut(ctx, o.node.Name, err)
continue
}
firstHeld = append(firstHeld, got.Claims...)
@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ func theRestOfTheMesh(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory,
// resolved without its offers, and one that consumes them cannot resolve here by
// design — that is not the machine being dropped, it is the view being partial.
if exclude == "" {
fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "%s is left out of the rest of the mesh: it does not resolve: %v\n", o.node.Name, err)
sayLeftOut(ctx, o.node.Name, err)
}
continue
}
@@ -347,6 +347,35 @@ func theRestOfTheMesh(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory,
return world, nil
}
// leftOutKey carries where theRestOfTheMesh says a machine it leaves out, for an act that answers with
// its own resolution instead (novox/hq issue 237).
type leftOutKey struct{}
// leftOutSaidBy is ctx with theRestOfTheMesh's "left out" lines written to w rather than to standard
// error.
//
// **An act's answer is one resolution taken after its write** (novox/hq issue 237, decided 2026-10-11).
// `assign` read the whole mesh once before its write — to record the seats held by derivation — and that
// read said, on standard error, that the node did not resolve for lack of the seat the act was about to
// give it. The controller seat's verb answers with both streams, so the stale line came last, after the
// act's own "now has it held", and named as its remedy the assignment just made. An act gives io.Discard
// here: what the node resolves to after the write is said by its own planFor, and every other machine
// that does not resolve by blockedElsewhere, both read after the write.
func leftOutSaidBy(ctx context.Context, w io.Writer) context.Context {
return context.WithValue(ctx, leftOutKey{}, w)
}
// sayLeftOut says that a machine is left out of the rest of the mesh, where ctx says to: standard
// error unless an act said otherwise. Said, not skipped: a machine dropped there offers nothing and
// holds nothing as far as every other machine's plan can tell (novox/hq issue 188).
func sayLeftOut(ctx context.Context, node string, err error) {
w, ok := ctx.Value(leftOutKey{}).(io.Writer)
if !ok {
w = os.Stderr
}
fmt.Fprintf(w, "%s is left out of the rest of the mesh: it does not resolve: %v\n", node, err)
}
// declarationFor is everything a node would be sent.
//
// One place, because there were three and one of them was written before credentials existed and
@@ -1751,28 +1780,43 @@ func (l *unheldLogger) log(node string, unheld []catalogue.Unheld) {
// which includes every one of a module just assigned — and each now met that was not. Nothing about
// any other node, and nothing that was already true before the act.
func unheldChange(shelf map[string]catalogue.Manifest, node string, before, after []string) []string {
judge := func(names []string) map[string]catalogue.Unheld {
var set []catalogue.Manifest
for _, n := range names {
if m, known := shelf[n]; known {
set = append(set, m)
}
return unheldChangeTo(shelf, node, before, after, unheldOver(shelf, node, after))
}
// unheldOver is the node's unmet seat dependencies judged over a set of module names alone.
func unheldOver(shelf map[string]catalogue.Manifest, node string, names []string) []catalogue.Unheld {
var set []catalogue.Manifest
for _, n := range names {
if m, known := shelf[n]; known {
set = append(set, m)
}
out := map[string]catalogue.Unheld{}
for _, u := range catalogue.UnheldDependencies(shelf, node, set, nil) {
out[u.Module+" "+u.Seat] = u
}
return out
}
was, now := judge(before), judge(after)
return catalogue.UnheldDependencies(shelf, node, set, nil)
}
// unheldChangeTo is unheldChange with the node's dependencies as they now stand given: `now` is what
// the act's one resolution after its write says is unmet, and `after` the modules that resolution has
// on the node (novox/hq issue 237). A line about how things stand after the act is never judged from
// anything else, so it cannot disagree with `plan` for the node.
func unheldChangeTo(shelf map[string]catalogue.Manifest, node string, before, after []string,
now []catalogue.Unheld) []string {
key := func(u catalogue.Unheld) string { return u.Module + " " + u.Seat }
was := map[string]catalogue.Unheld{}
for _, u := range unheldOver(shelf, node, before) {
was[key(u)] = u
}
is := map[string]catalogue.Unheld{}
for _, u := range now {
is[key(u)] = u
}
var lines []string
for _, k := range sortedNames(now) {
for _, k := range sortedNames(is) {
if _, already := was[k]; !already {
lines = append(lines, "but "+now[k].String())
lines = append(lines, "but "+is[k].String())
}
}
for _, k := range sortedNames(was) {
if _, still := now[k]; still {
if _, still := is[k]; still {
continue
}
u := was[k]
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@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
package main
import (
"bytes"
"io"
"os"
"strings"
"testing"
"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/catalogue"
)
// TestReplay237 replays novox/hq issue 237 (2026-10-04): a workstation already ran a module that
// depends on a node seat nothing there held, and the module holding that seat was assigned to it. The
// answer said the seat was now held, and then that the workstation was left out of the rest of the mesh
// for lack of it, naming as the remedy the assignment just made. `plan` for the node, right after,
// resolved. The outcome asserted: every line of the answer, as the controller seat's verb gives it
// (standard output, then standard error), agrees with `plan` for the node right after the act. Written
// with only what the controller had before its fix — register, assign's command, planFor — so it is laid
// over the commit before.
func TestReplay237(t *testing.T) {
open := aMesh(t)
ctx := t.Context()
register(t, open, aContainer("web"))
register(t, open, catalogue.Manifest{Module: "docker", Version: "1",
Claims: []catalogue.Claim{{Name: catalogue.ContainerRuntimeSeat, Scope: catalogue.ScopeNode}}})
// Already on the node, from before the rule refused it: the node does not resolve until the
// holder comes.
if _, err := open.inventory.Assign(ctx, "laptop", "web"); err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
said := answered(t, func() error { return assignCommand(ctx, "assign", []string{"laptop", "docker"}) })
if _, _, err := planFor(ctx, open, "laptop"); err != nil {
t.Fatalf("laptop does not resolve right after the act: %v\nthe answer was:\n%s", err, said)
}
if !strings.Contains(said, "web on laptop now has "+catalogue.ContainerRuntimeSeat+" held") {
t.Errorf("the answer does not say the seat is now held:\n%s", said)
}
for _, not := range []string{"laptop is left out", "does not resolve", "which nothing on laptop holds"} {
if strings.Contains(said, not) {
t.Errorf("the answer says %q, which `plan` right after contradicts:\n%s", not, said)
}
}
}
// answered is what a command says as the controller seat's verb answers it: standard output, then
// standard error (answerOf).
func answered(t *testing.T, f func() error) string {
t.Helper()
read := func(w **os.File) (func() string, error) {
old := *w
r, pw, err := os.Pipe()
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
*w = pw
got := make(chan string)
go func() {
var buf bytes.Buffer
_, _ = io.Copy(&buf, r)
got <- buf.String()
}()
return func() string {
_ = pw.Close()
*w = old
return <-got
}, nil
}
stdout, err := read(&os.Stdout)
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
stderr, err := read(&os.Stderr)
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
runErr := f()
said := stdout() + stderr()
if runErr != nil {
t.Fatalf("%v\n%s", runErr, said)
}
return said
}