Give route-proxy its state on the bus and three tools, so a site's route, certificate and last answer are read from the mesh instead of with curl (issue 774)

The web front kept nothing on the bus: whether grafana or drive was routed, where to, with which
certificate, and what it last answered could only be learned with curl or the container's log.

The proxy now keeps `routes` and `unrouted` (announced readable, keyed <node>.<name>), written on
change by one writer: route set changes, certificates stored by autocert's cache or failing at a
handshake, upstream answers that differ from the last written (or are a minute old), and names
refused in a request or a handshake. The provider helper's bundle serves route_proxy_routes,
route_proxy_route and route_proxy_unrouted from those states.

Quick: log the routes at start and grep the journal. Thorough: the state on the bus and the tools
that read it, mesh-wide, in one call. Chose thorough: the operator's question is mesh-wide and
recurs, and the log says nothing about certificates or answers.

Tests: two table tests added (the ledger, the tools), both failing without the change; four
authority tests and four skipped-route tests merged into two, so the module has four fewer.
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parent a4426190b0
commit ddae6729c1
13 changed files with 1392 additions and 118 deletions
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
// route-provider: route-proxy's Go half, one binary the node's runtime launches and speaks MCP to over stdio
// through the Go SDK. It serves no tools; it runs the SDK's provider helper that answers the consumers of `route`
// (issue 792). The TypeScript adapter beside it keeps writing the proxy's files.
// through the Go SDK. It runs the SDK's provider helper that answers the consumers of `route` (issue 792), and serves
// the module's tools, which read what the proxy keeps on the bus (issue 774, tools.go).
//
// stdout is the MCP channel, so everything this module says, it says on stderr.
package main
@@ -9,9 +9,12 @@ import (
"context"
"fmt"
"os"
"time"
stdio "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"
"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/provider"
"route-proxy/internal/routestate"
)
func say(format string, args ...any) {
@@ -30,7 +33,9 @@ func main() {
}
}()
}
if err := stdio.Serve("", nil); err != nil {
tools := front{routes: stdio.State(routestate.RoutesState), unrouted: stdio.State(routestate.UnroutedState),
now: time.Now}.tools()
if err := stdio.Serve("", tools); err != nil {
say("%v", err)
os.Exit(1)
}
@@ -95,7 +95,8 @@ func TestRouteProxyIsNotMovedAndKeepsItsOwnFiles(t *testing.T) {
if len(provides) != 1 || provides[0].(map[string]any)["answered-by"] != "helper" {
t.Fatalf("route is not said to be answered by the helper: %v", provides)
}
for _, k := range []string{"build", "provides", "state", "reads"} {
// Its states and its tools are what it says on the bus, not what it runs or writes (issue 774).
for _, k := range []string{"build", "provides", "state", "reads", "tools", "replaces"} {
delete(m, k)
}
pinned, err := json.Marshal(m) // sorted keys, compact
@@ -0,0 +1,252 @@
package main
// route-proxy's tools (issue 774): the web front's command line. Each answers from what the proxy keeps on the bus
// (route-proxy_routes and route-proxy_unrouted, written on change by the proxy itself), in one call, for every
// machine running a proxy: which sites are served and where they go, whether their certificates are good, what the
// last request through each got back, and which names were asked for and are served nowhere.
import (
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
"sort"
"strings"
"time"
stdio "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"
"route-proxy/internal/routestate"
)
// The tools' names, as the manifest declares them.
const (
RoutesTool = "route_proxy_routes"
RouteTool = "route_proxy_route"
UnroutedTool = "route_proxy_unrouted"
)
// reader is one of the module's states, as stdio.KeptState reads it.
type reader interface {
Keys() ([]string, error)
Get(key string) (*stdio.StateEntry, error)
}
// front is what the tools read: the routes and the refusals, and the clock a certificate's days left are counted by.
type front struct {
routes, unrouted reader
now func() time.Time
}
// RouteLine is one served name in the list: where it goes, how long its certificate holds, what it last answered.
type RouteLine struct {
Name string `json:"name"`
Proxy string `json:"proxy"`
Reach string `json:"reach"`
Targets []string `json:"targets"`
// Reachable is yes when the last answer upstream gave was below 500, no when it was 500 or more or none came,
// unknown before any request.
Reachable string `json:"reachable"`
// Certificate is its outcome, issuer and expiry in words; ExpiresInDays is the whole days until not-after.
Certificate string `json:"certificate"`
ExpiresInDays *int `json:"expires_in_days,omitempty"`
LastAnswer *routestate.Answer `json:"last_answer,omitempty"`
}
func (f front) tools() []stdio.Tool {
node := map[string]any{"type": "string", "description": "only the proxy on this machine; every machine when left out"}
return []stdio.Tool{
{Name: RoutesTool,
Description: "Every site (web name, host name) the mesh's web front serves through route-proxy, the reverse proxy " +
"on the public machine: for each route the module and node it forwards to, its TLS certificate's issuer and " +
"expiry (days left), and the last answer upstream gave (status, time, error), so is X reachable and is its " +
"certificate good is answered without curl. Read from the proxy's routes state on the bus. Read-only.",
Input: map[string]any{"type": "object", "properties": map[string]any{"node": node}},
Run: func(args map[string]any) (any, error) {
at, _ := args["node"].(string)
return f.list(at)
}},
{Name: RouteTool,
Description: "One site the mesh's web front (route-proxy) is asked about, in full: every rule it is served by " +
"(path, module, node, target, refusal, redirect, authentication), its certificate (issuer, not-after, last " +
"renewal and its outcome, or why it failed) and the last upstream answer. A name with no route says so, and " +
"when it was last asked for. Answers is X reachable, why does this site not load. Read-only.",
Input: map[string]any{"type": "object", "required": []string{"name"}, "properties": map[string]any{
"name": map[string]any{"type": "string", "description": "the site's name, such as app.example.org"},
"node": node}},
Run: func(args map[string]any) (any, error) {
name, _ := args["name"].(string)
at, _ := args["node"].(string)
return f.one(name, at)
}},
{Name: UnroutedTool,
Description: "Names the mesh's web front (route-proxy) answered \"no route for\": a site asked for in a request or " +
"a TLS handshake that no route serves, newest first, with when it was last asked, by whom, and how often. " +
"A site that should be served and is missing its route shows here. Kept a week. Read-only.",
Input: map[string]any{"type": "object", "properties": map[string]any{"node": node}},
Run: func(args map[string]any) (any, error) {
at, _ := args["node"].(string)
return f.refusals(at)
}},
}
}
// read is every value of a state, of node's proxy alone when node is named, decoded into a fresh T each.
func read[T any](state reader, node string) ([]T, error) {
keys, err := state.Keys()
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
var out []T
for _, key := range keys {
at, _ := routestate.Split(key)
if node != "" && at != node {
continue
}
entry, err := state.Get(key)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
if entry == nil {
continue // deleted between the list and the read
}
var v T
if err := json.Unmarshal(entry.Value, &v); err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s holds what is not a route-proxy record: %w", key, err)
}
out = append(out, v)
}
return out, nil
}
func (f front) list(node string) (map[string]any, error) {
routes, err := read[routestate.Route](f.routes, node)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
lines := make([]RouteLine, 0, len(routes))
unreachable, expiring := 0, 0
for _, r := range routes {
line := f.line(r)
if line.Reachable == "no" {
unreachable++
}
if line.ExpiresInDays != nil && *line.ExpiresInDays < 14 || r.Certificate.Outcome == routestate.Failed {
expiring++
}
lines = append(lines, line)
}
sort.Slice(lines, func(i, j int) bool {
if lines[i].Name != lines[j].Name {
return lines[i].Name < lines[j].Name
}
return lines[i].Proxy < lines[j].Proxy
})
return map[string]any{"routes": lines, "served": len(lines), "unreachable": unreachable,
"certificates_failing_or_within_14_days": expiring}, nil
}
func (f front) line(r routestate.Route) RouteLine {
line := RouteLine{Name: r.Name, Proxy: r.Proxy, Reach: r.Reach, LastAnswer: r.LastAnswer, Reachable: "unknown",
Targets: []string{}}
for _, t := range r.Targets {
line.Targets = append(line.Targets, describe(t))
}
if a := r.LastAnswer; a != nil {
line.Reachable = "yes"
if a.Error != "" || a.Status >= 500 || a.Status == 0 {
line.Reachable = "no"
}
}
c := r.Certificate
words := []string{}
if c.Outcome != "" {
words = append(words, c.Outcome)
}
if c.Issuer != "" {
words = append(words, "by "+c.Issuer)
}
if c.NotAfter != nil {
days := int(c.NotAfter.Sub(f.now()).Hours() / 24)
line.ExpiresInDays = &days
words = append(words, "until "+c.NotAfter.UTC().Format("2006-01-02"))
}
if c.Error != "" {
words = append(words, "("+c.Error+")")
}
if len(words) == 0 {
words = append(words, "none seen yet")
}
line.Certificate = c.Authority + ": " + strings.Join(words, " ")
return line
}
// describe is one rule in a few words: path → module@node at target, or what it answers with.
func describe(t routestate.Target) string {
path := t.Path
if path == "" {
path = "/"
}
var what string
switch {
case t.Deny:
what = "refused"
case t.Redirect != "":
what = "redirected to " + t.Redirect
default:
what = fmt.Sprintf("%s@%s at %s", t.Module, t.Node, t.Target)
}
if t.Sealed != "" {
what += " (authentication cannot be checked: " + t.Sealed + ")"
} else if t.Auth {
what += " (authenticated)"
}
return path + " → " + what
}
func (f front) one(name, node string) (map[string]any, error) {
name = strings.ToLower(strings.TrimSpace(name))
if name == "" {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("name is the site to read, such as app.example.org")
}
routes, err := read[routestate.Route](f.routes, node)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
var found []routestate.Route
for _, r := range routes {
if r.Name == name {
found = append(found, r)
}
}
if len(found) > 0 {
out := map[string]any{"name": name, "routed": true, "routes": found}
if len(found) == 1 {
out["reachable"] = f.line(found[0]).Reachable
}
return out, nil
}
asked, err := read[routestate.Unrouted](f.unrouted, node)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
for _, a := range asked {
if a.Name == name {
return map[string]any{"name": name, "routed": false, "asked": a,
"says": fmt.Sprintf("no proxy serves %s; the proxy on %s answered \"no route\" for it, last at %s",
name, a.Proxy, a.AskedAt.UTC().Format(time.RFC3339))}, nil
}
}
return map[string]any{"name": name, "routed": false,
"says": fmt.Sprintf("no proxy serves %s, and none was asked for it this week", name)}, nil
}
func (f front) refusals(node string) (map[string]any, error) {
asked, err := read[routestate.Unrouted](f.unrouted, node)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
sort.Slice(asked, func(i, j int) bool { return asked[i].AskedAt.After(asked[j].AskedAt) })
if asked == nil {
asked = []routestate.Unrouted{}
}
return map[string]any{"unrouted": asked, "names": len(asked)}, nil
}
@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
package main
import (
"encoding/json"
"sort"
"strings"
"testing"
"time"
stdio "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"
"route-proxy/internal/routestate"
)
// held is a state as the bus holds it, read-only.
type held map[string]any
func (h held) Keys() ([]string, error) {
out := []string{}
for k := range h {
out = append(out, k)
}
sort.Strings(out)
return out, nil
}
func (h held) Get(key string) (*stdio.StateEntry, error) {
v, ok := h[key]
if !ok {
return nil, nil
}
raw, err := json.Marshal(v)
return &stdio.StateEntry{Key: key, Value: raw}, err
}
// The web front's tools answer from the bus, in one call each (issue 774): every site with its target, certificate
// expiry and last answer; one site in full, or that it is not served and when it was asked for; and the names the
// proxy answered "no route for".
func TestTheWebFrontsToolsAnswerFromTheBus(t *testing.T) {
now := time.Date(2026, 10, 30, 21, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
expires := now.Add(30 * 24 * time.Hour)
routes := held{
"anchor.grafana.example": routestate.Route{Name: "grafana.example", Proxy: "anchor", Reach: routestate.ReachPublic,
Targets: []routestate.Target{{Module: "grafana", Node: "home-server", Target: "http://10.0.0.2:3000"}},
Certificate: routestate.Certificate{Authority: routestate.ReachPublic, Issuer: "Let's Encrypt R11", NotAfter: &expires, Outcome: routestate.Issued},
LastAnswer: &routestate.Answer{Status: 502, At: now, Error: "dial tcp 10.0.0.2:3000: connect: connection refused"}},
"anchor.drive.example": routestate.Route{Name: "drive.example", Proxy: "anchor", Reach: routestate.ReachPublic,
Targets: []routestate.Target{{Module: "nextcloud", Node: "home-server", Target: "http://10.0.0.2:8080"}},
Certificate: routestate.Certificate{Authority: routestate.ReachPublic},
LastAnswer: &routestate.Answer{Status: 200, At: now}},
}
unrouted := held{
"anchor.old.example": routestate.Unrouted{Name: "old.example", Proxy: "anchor", AskedAt: now.Add(-time.Hour), Times: 3},
"anchor.wiki.example": routestate.Unrouted{Name: "wiki.example", Proxy: "anchor", AskedAt: now, Times: 1},
}
tools := map[string]stdio.Tool{}
for _, tool := range (front{routes: routes, unrouted: unrouted, now: func() time.Time { return now }}).tools() {
tools[tool.Name] = tool
}
for _, row := range []struct {
tool string
args map[string]any
want []string // what the answer says, in its JSON
}{
{RoutesTool, nil, []string{`"served":2`, `"unreachable":1`,
`"name":"grafana.example"`, `"reachable":"no"`, `"expires_in_days":30`, `/ → grafana@home-server at http://10.0.0.2:3000`,
`"name":"drive.example"`, `"reachable":"yes"`, `public: none seen yet`}},
{RoutesTool, map[string]any{"node": "home-server"}, []string{`"served":0`}},
{RouteTool, map[string]any{"name": "Grafana.Example"}, []string{`"routed":true`, `"reachable":"no"`,
`connection refused`, `"issuer":"Let's Encrypt R11"`}},
{RouteTool, map[string]any{"name": "wiki.example"}, []string{`"routed":false`,
`answered \"no route\" for it, last at 2026-10-30T21:00:00Z`}},
{RouteTool, map[string]any{"name": "nothing.example"}, []string{`"routed":false`, `none was asked for it`}},
{UnroutedTool, nil, []string{`"names":2`, `"unrouted":[{"name":"wiki.example"`}},
} {
t.Run(row.tool, func(t *testing.T) {
tool, ok := tools[row.tool]
if !ok {
t.Fatalf("%s is not served", row.tool)
}
if !strings.Contains(tool.Description, "route-proxy") {
t.Errorf("%s's description does not name the web front, so a search does not find it", row.tool)
}
answer, err := tool.Run(row.args)
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
raw, _ := json.Marshal(answer)
for _, w := range row.want {
if !strings.Contains(string(raw), w) {
t.Errorf("%s(%v) does not say %s:\n%s", row.tool, row.args, w, raw)
}
}
})
}
}