Merge pull request 'mesh-builder: read the genesis document until the registry binds, and refuse a registry build with neither (hq issue 121, ADR 0336)' (#289) from fix/121-genesis-package-registry into main

This commit was merged in pull request #289.
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2026-10-13 04:22:05 +00:00
25 changed files with 1291 additions and 97 deletions
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@@ -18,11 +18,13 @@ package main
import (
"context"
"encoding/json"
"errors"
"fmt"
"log"
"net/url"
"os"
"os/signal"
"sort"
"strings"
"syscall"
"time"
@@ -54,6 +56,8 @@ is dialled except the broker.
MESH_BINDING a file the mesh wrote saying where the artifact store is
MESH_PACKAGE_BINDING a file the mesh wrote saying where the package registry is
MESH_NPM_TOKEN_FILE a file the mesh sealed holding the token for it
MESH_GENESIS_PACKAGE_REGISTRY the document the installer sealed at genesis, read while no
binding is present (novox/hq ADR 0336)
MESH_NPM_REGISTRY a package registry URL, when the mesh has not said (a person, the bootstrap)
MESH_NPM_TOKEN the token for it, likewise
MESH_NPM_SCOPE the scope it answers for (default: @novox)
@@ -254,7 +258,10 @@ func answer(ctx context.Context, publisher builder.Publisher, on, workspace stri
}
say("build", what)
npmrc, err := packagesFrom()
npmrc, err := packagesFrom(on)
if err == nil {
say("packages", saysRegistry(npmrc))
}
var built builder.Result
if request.Check != nil {
// **A pull request's merge check, not a build** (novox/hq to-be 45 §9): nothing is built,
@@ -386,79 +393,171 @@ func layerOf(l *builder.Layer) *link.CheckLayer {
}
// packagesFrom is where a build resolves the mesh's own published packages — the SDK above all
// (novox/hq ADR 0076, issue 053).
// (novox/hq ADR 0076, issue 053) — on this machine.
//
// Preferably from the mesh: a package-registry binding names the endpoint the way the artifact
// store's binding does, and a sealed token file the credential the way the broker's does. The
// environment variables remain for a builder run by a person, and for the bootstrap, where there is
// no registry yet — there the result is disabled and a build that needs no mesh-published dependency
// builds anyway.
func packagesFrom() (builder.Npmrc, error) {
// **The binding wins, then the genesis document** (novox/hq ADR 0336 §3, §4). The build agent's
// npm-package-registry requirement is optional: on genesis's node, before the gitea module is assigned,
// nothing provides it, and the installer sealed the forge it raised to this agent as one document
// instead. Once the requirement binds, the binding names the endpoint the way the artifact store's
// does and a sealed token file the credential, and the genesis document is left unread. A binding
// file named and absent is a requirement not bound here, never a fault: the environment names the
// path whether or not the mesh wrote it.
//
// The environment variables remain for a builder run by a person. With none of the three the result
// is disabled and says this machine, so a build that needs the registry is refused naming it (§6),
// and a build that needs none builds anyway.
func packagesFrom(machine string) (builder.Npmrc, error) {
scope := strings.TrimSpace(os.Getenv("MESH_NPM_SCOPE"))
if scope == "" {
scope = "@novox"
}
none := builder.Npmrc{Machine: machine}
registry := strings.TrimSpace(os.Getenv("MESH_NPM_REGISTRY"))
var username string
if path := strings.TrimSpace(os.Getenv("MESH_PACKAGE_BINDING")); path != "" {
raw, err := os.ReadFile(path)
if err != nil {
return builder.Npmrc{}, fmt.Errorf("cannot read what the mesh said about the package registry: %w", err)
switch {
case errors.Is(err, os.ErrNotExist):
// Not bound on this machine: the genesis document, or nothing.
case err != nil:
return none, fmt.Errorf("cannot read what the mesh said about the package registry: %w", err)
default:
return fromBinding(path, raw, scope, machine)
}
var told struct {
From string `json:"from"`
At string `json:"at"`
As string `json:"as"`
Serves map[string]any `json:"serves"`
}
if path := strings.TrimSpace(os.Getenv("MESH_GENESIS_PACKAGE_REGISTRY")); path != "" {
raw, err := os.ReadFile(path)
switch {
case errors.Is(err, os.ErrNotExist):
// Not this mesh's genesis node, or the installer has not sealed it yet.
case err != nil:
return none, fmt.Errorf("cannot read the genesis document for the package registry: %w", err)
default:
return fromGenesis(path, raw, scope, machine)
}
if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &told); err != nil {
return builder.Npmrc{}, fmt.Errorf("%s is not a binding: %w", path, err)
}
if told.At == "" {
return builder.Npmrc{}, fmt.Errorf(
"%s says the package registry is on %q and gives no address for it", path, told.From)
}
// Composed from what the provider serves, so nothing here knows gitea's URL shape from
// another registry's: it states its port, the path its registry answers on, and the scheme.
scheme := "https"
if s, ok := told.Serves["scheme"]; ok {
scheme = fmt.Sprintf("%v", s)
}
port, ok := told.Serves["port"]
if !ok {
return builder.Npmrc{}, fmt.Errorf("%s says nothing about which port the package registry answers on", path)
}
npmPath, ok := told.Serves["npm-path"]
if !ok {
return builder.Npmrc{}, fmt.Errorf("%s says nothing about the path the package registry answers on", path)
}
registry = fmt.Sprintf("%s://%s:%v%v", scheme, told.At, port, npmPath)
username = told.As
}
// The credential the mesh sealed to this machine. The mesh authenticates the ordinary way — a
// generated password the provider only applies (novox/hq ADR 0048) — so with a username this is
// a password (basic auth); without one it is a bearer token a provider minted.
// A builder run by a person.
registry := strings.TrimSpace(os.Getenv("MESH_NPM_REGISTRY"))
secret := strings.TrimSpace(os.Getenv("MESH_NPM_TOKEN"))
if path := strings.TrimSpace(os.Getenv("MESH_NPM_TOKEN_FILE")); path != "" {
raw, err := os.ReadFile(path)
username := strings.TrimSpace(os.Getenv("MESH_NPM_USER"))
if registry == "" && secret == "" {
return none, nil
}
n := builder.Npmrc{Scope: scope, Registry: registry, From: builder.FromEnvironment, Machine: machine}
if username != "" {
n.Username, n.Password = username, secret
} else {
n.Token = secret
}
return n, nil
}
// fromBinding composes the registry from the npm-package-registry binding the mesh wrote and the
// credential it sealed beside it. The mesh authenticates the ordinary way — a generated password the
// provider only applies (novox/hq ADR 0048) — so with a username the secret is a password (basic
// auth); without one it is a bearer token a provider minted.
func fromBinding(path string, raw []byte, scope, machine string) (builder.Npmrc, error) {
none := builder.Npmrc{Machine: machine}
var told struct {
From string `json:"from"`
At string `json:"at"`
As string `json:"as"`
Serves map[string]any `json:"serves"`
}
if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &told); err != nil {
return none, fmt.Errorf("%s is not a binding: %w", path, err)
}
if told.At == "" {
return none, fmt.Errorf(
"%s says the package registry is on %q and gives no address for it", path, told.From)
}
// Composed from what the provider serves, so nothing here knows gitea's URL shape from
// another registry's: it states its port, the path its registry answers on, and the scheme.
scheme := "https"
if s, ok := told.Serves["scheme"]; ok {
scheme = fmt.Sprintf("%v", s)
}
port, ok := told.Serves["port"]
if !ok {
return none, fmt.Errorf("%s says nothing about which port the package registry answers on", path)
}
npmPath, ok := told.Serves["npm-path"]
if !ok {
return none, fmt.Errorf("%s says nothing about the path the package registry answers on", path)
}
secret := strings.TrimSpace(os.Getenv("MESH_NPM_TOKEN"))
if file := strings.TrimSpace(os.Getenv("MESH_NPM_TOKEN_FILE")); file != "" {
raw, err := os.ReadFile(file)
if err != nil {
return builder.Npmrc{}, fmt.Errorf("cannot read this builder's package-registry credential: %w", err)
return none, fmt.Errorf("cannot read this builder's package-registry credential: %w", err)
}
secret = strings.TrimSpace(string(raw))
}
if u := strings.TrimSpace(os.Getenv("MESH_NPM_USER")); u != "" {
username = u
n := builder.Npmrc{Scope: scope, Registry: fmt.Sprintf("%s://%s:%v%v", scheme, told.At, port, npmPath),
From: builder.FromBinding, Machine: machine}
if told.As != "" {
n.Username, n.Password = told.As, secret
} else {
n.Token = secret
}
return n, nil
}
if registry == "" && secret == "" {
return builder.Npmrc{}, nil
// GenesisRegistry is the genesis document (novox/hq ADR 0336 §3): what the installer sealed to the
// build agent on its node at genesis's packages step, as the `genesis-package-registry` own-secret —
// the forge it raised, the port this node gave the package registry, its npm path, and the account it
// made with that account's password. mesh-host writes it; the field names are the two repositories'
// agreement.
type GenesisRegistry struct {
Scheme string `json:"scheme"`
At string `json:"at"`
Port int `json:"port"`
NpmPath string `json:"npm-path"`
As string `json:"as"`
Password string `json:"password"`
}
// fromGenesis composes the registry from the genesis document.
func fromGenesis(path string, raw []byte, scope, machine string) (builder.Npmrc, error) {
none := builder.Npmrc{Machine: machine}
var g GenesisRegistry
if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &g); err != nil {
return none, fmt.Errorf("%s is not the genesis document for the package registry: %w", path, err)
}
if username != "" {
return builder.Npmrc{Scope: scope, Registry: registry, Username: username, Password: secret}, nil
var missing []string
for name, value := range map[string]string{"at": g.At, "npm-path": g.NpmPath, "as": g.As, "password": g.Password} {
if strings.TrimSpace(value) == "" {
missing = append(missing, name)
}
}
return builder.Npmrc{Scope: scope, Registry: registry, Token: secret}, nil
if g.Port <= 0 {
missing = append(missing, "port")
}
if len(missing) > 0 {
sort.Strings(missing)
return none, fmt.Errorf("%s, the genesis document for the package registry, says nothing of %s",
path, strings.Join(missing, ", "))
}
scheme := g.Scheme
if scheme == "" {
scheme = "http"
}
return builder.Npmrc{Scope: scope, Registry: fmt.Sprintf("%s://%s:%d%s", scheme, g.At, g.Port, g.NpmPath),
Username: g.As, Password: g.Password, From: builder.FromGenesis, Machine: machine}, nil
}
// saysRegistry is the line each build's log carries about the package registry (novox/hq ADR 0336
// §4): which of the binding and the genesis document it resolved from, or that it has neither here.
func saysRegistry(n builder.Npmrc) string {
if n.Enabled() {
return "the package registry is resolved from " + n.From
}
machine := n.Machine
if machine == "" {
machine = "this machine"
}
return fmt.Sprintf("no package registry: %s is unbound on %s and no genesis document is here; "+
"a build needing it is refused", builder.RegistryRequirement, machine)
}
// forgeFrom is the git credential this builder may offer a clone, composed from the same binding
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@@ -84,10 +84,15 @@ func buildOnce(ctx context.Context, args []string) error {
}
fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr)
npmrc, err := packagesFrom()
machine := os.Getenv("MESH_NODE")
if machine == "" {
machine, _ = os.Hostname()
}
npmrc, err := packagesFrom(machine)
if err != nil {
return err
}
fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, " [packages] %s\n", saysRegistry(npmrc))
built, buildErr := builder.Build(ctx, builder.Command, publisher, repository, *path, *ref, where, bases, npmrc,
forgeFrom(),
func(step, message string) { fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, " [%s] %s\n", step, message) })
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@@ -0,0 +1,102 @@
package main
import (
"os"
"path/filepath"
"strings"
"testing"
"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/builder"
)
// The build agent's package registry (novox/hq ADR 0336, issue 121): its npm-package-registry
// requirement is optional, so the binding may be absent, and on genesis's node the installer seals
// the forge it raised as one genesis document instead.
// registryFiles names the three paths the build agent's environment always names, writing only those
// given.
func registryFiles(t *testing.T, binding, token, genesis string) {
t.Helper()
dir := t.TempDir()
for env, content := range map[string]string{
"MESH_PACKAGE_BINDING": binding,
"MESH_NPM_TOKEN_FILE": token,
"MESH_GENESIS_PACKAGE_REGISTRY": genesis,
} {
path := filepath.Join(dir, env)
t.Setenv(env, path)
if content != "" {
if err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte(content), 0o600); err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
}
}
for _, env := range []string{"MESH_NPM_REGISTRY", "MESH_NPM_TOKEN", "MESH_NPM_USER", "MESH_NPM_SCOPE"} {
t.Setenv(env, "")
}
}
const (
aBinding = `{"from":"gitea","at":"anchor.mesh","as":"anchor-agent",
"serves":{"scheme":"http","port":3000,"npm-path":"/api/packages/novox/npm/"}}`
aGenesisDocument = `{"scheme":"http","at":"127.0.0.1","port":3100,"npm-path":"/api/packages/novox/npm/",
"as":"mesh-builder","password":"genesis-secret"}`
)
func TestUntilTheRequirementBindsTheGenesisDocumentIsRead(t *testing.T) {
registryFiles(t, "", "", aGenesisDocument)
n, err := packagesFrom("anchor")
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("an absent binding beside a genesis document was refused: %v", err)
}
if n.From != builder.FromGenesis || n.Registry != "http://127.0.0.1:3100/api/packages/novox/npm/" ||
n.Username != "mesh-builder" || n.Password != "genesis-secret" || n.Scope != "@novox" {
t.Fatalf("the genesis document was not what the registry came from: %+v", n)
}
file, err := n.File()
if err != nil || !strings.Contains(file, "//127.0.0.1:3100/api/packages/novox/npm/:username=mesh-builder") {
t.Fatalf("the .npmrc is not written from the genesis document: %v\n%s", err, file)
}
if got := saysRegistry(n); !strings.Contains(got, "genesis document") {
t.Errorf("the log does not say the genesis document: %s", got)
}
}
func TestARealBindingWinsOverTheGenesisDocument(t *testing.T) {
registryFiles(t, aBinding, "bound-secret\n", aGenesisDocument)
n, err := packagesFrom("anchor")
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
if n.From != builder.FromBinding || n.Registry != "http://anchor.mesh:3000/api/packages/novox/npm/" ||
n.Username != "anchor-agent" || n.Password != "bound-secret" {
t.Fatalf("the binding did not win over the genesis document: %+v", n)
}
if got := saysRegistry(n); !strings.Contains(got, "binding") {
t.Errorf("the log does not say the binding: %s", got)
}
}
func TestWithNeitherTheAgentHasNoRegistryAndSaysWhere(t *testing.T) {
registryFiles(t, "", "", "")
n, err := packagesFrom("workstation")
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("an unbound optional requirement was a fault: %v", err)
}
if n.Enabled() || n.Machine != "workstation" {
t.Fatalf("a registry came from nowhere: %+v", n)
}
got := saysRegistry(n)
for _, want := range []string{"npm-package-registry", "unbound", "workstation"} {
if !strings.Contains(got, want) {
t.Errorf("the log does not say %q: %s", want, got)
}
}
}
func TestAGenesisDocumentMissingAFieldIsRefusedByName(t *testing.T) {
registryFiles(t, "", "", `{"at":"127.0.0.1","port":3000,"npm-path":"/api/packages/novox/npm/","as":"mesh-builder"}`)
if _, err := packagesFrom("anchor"); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "password") {
t.Fatalf("a genesis document with no password was taken: %v", err)
}
}