Fill a preference's ${setting:} from its manifest default (hq ADR 0262)

Without a default, a running module could never gain a setting: the file asking for it
failed to compose until set, and the key was refused as stray until a file asked for it.
Defaults sit under the mesh's and the node's settings, never merge into a JSON file, are
refused for the operator's own values, and settings shows each value's source.
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package catalogue
import (
"fmt"
"sort"
"strings"
)
// A preference has a default; the operator's own value has none (novox/hq ADR 0262, extending ADR
// 0112 and taking the default half of ADR 0164).
//
// `${setting:<key>}` was refused whenever no layer set the key, and `settings set` refused a key no
// file asked for yet. Together they meant a running module could never gain a setting: the file that
// asks for it fails to compose until somebody sets it, and nobody can set it until the file asks.
// A definition may now give a key a default, with why, when the value is a **preference** — a font
// size, a width, a number of workers: something true of the software that a machine may tune. A
// value that is inherently the operator's — a domain, a public name, an identity, a secret — gets no
// default and stays refused by name until a layer sets it, which is what ADR 0112 and ADR 0155 were
// written for.
//
// The default is the lowest layer. The mesh's layer, then the node's, override it. It fills only
// `${setting:<key>}`: a mergeable file's content already is its defaults, and laying a default over
// it would reach every mergeable file of the module (novox/hq issue 168).
// SettingDeclaration is one key's default, as the definition gives it.
type SettingDeclaration struct {
// Kind says what sort of value this is. `preference` is the only kind with a default; it is
// stated rather than assumed so a reviewer sees the claim being made.
Kind string `json:"kind"`
// Default is the value when no layer sets the key: a string, a number or a boolean.
Default any `json:"default"`
// Why this default: one sentence for whoever wonders whether to change it.
Why string `json:"why"`
}
// KindPreference is the kind of a setting that may have a default.
const KindPreference = "preference"
// DefaultLayer is what the layer of a module's own defaults is called where a value's source is said.
const DefaultLayer = "default"
// meshWords are the settings keys the mesh reads itself; a module declares none of them.
var meshWords = map[string]bool{
PortsSetting: true, ExposeSetting: true, ReachSetting: true, EndpointsSetting: true,
PlacesSetting: true, AccessesSetting: true, NetworksSetting: true,
}
// operatorsOwn are words that, in a key's name, say its value is the operator's and never a
// preference: a default for one would be the literal ADR 0112 removed from definitions.
var operatorsOwn = []string{
"domain", "host", "issuer", "url", "email", "mail", "address", "identity", "login", "user",
"account", "password", "secret", "token", "credential",
}
// SettingProblems is every way a definition's setting defaults are wrong, in its own words.
func SettingProblems(m Manifest) []string {
if len(m.Settings) == 0 {
return nil
}
used := settingKeysUsedBy(m)
var problems []string
for _, key := range sortedSettingKeys(m.Settings) {
d := m.Settings[key]
say := func(format string, args ...any) {
problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s's setting %q: ", m.Module, key)+fmt.Sprintf(format, args...))
}
if !settingRef.MatchString("${setting:" + key + "}") {
say("not a usable key: lower-case letters, digits, dots, dashes and underscores")
continue
}
if meshWords[key] {
say("the mesh reads %q itself, and a module gives it no default", key)
continue
}
if d.Kind != KindPreference {
say("kind is %q, and only a %q has a default (novox/hq ADR 0262)", d.Kind, KindPreference)
}
for _, word := range operatorsOwn {
if strings.Contains(key, word) {
say("a key naming %q is the operator's value, and has no default — it is the "+
"assignment's, never the definition's (novox/hq ADR 0112, ADR 0262)", word)
break
}
}
switch v := d.Default.(type) {
case string:
if strings.TrimSpace(v) == "" {
say("an empty default is no default; give the value, or declare nothing")
}
case float64, bool:
case nil:
say("no default: a key without one is the operator's, and is not declared here")
default:
say("a default is a string, a number or a boolean, and this is %T", d.Default)
}
if strings.TrimSpace(d.Why) == "" {
say("no why: say in one sentence why this default")
}
if !used[key] {
say("nothing asks for ${setting:%s}, so the default reaches nothing", key)
}
}
return problems
}
// Defaults is the layer a module's own defaults make, or nothing when it gives none.
func Defaults(m Manifest) (Layer, bool) {
if len(m.Settings) == 0 {
return Layer{}, false
}
values := map[string]any{}
for key, d := range m.Settings {
if d.Default != nil {
values[key] = d.Default
}
}
return Layer{From: DefaultLayer, Values: values}, len(values) > 0
}
// WithDefaults is a module's layers with its defaults under them, for filling `${setting:<key>}`.
func WithDefaults(m Manifest, layers []Layer) []Layer {
d, has := Defaults(m)
if !has {
return layers
}
return append([]Layer{d}, layers...)
}
// SettingSource is one key's effective value and the layer it came from.
type SettingSource struct {
Key string
Value any
// From is DefaultLayer, MeshWideLayer or the node's name.
From string
// Default is the module's default, when it gives one.
Default any
HasDefault bool
}
// Effective is every key a module gives a default or a layer sets, with its value and where it came
// from: the default, then the mesh's layer, then the node's — later wins.
func Effective(m Manifest, layers []Layer) []SettingSource {
byKey := map[string]*SettingSource{}
for key, d := range m.Settings {
byKey[key] = &SettingSource{Key: key, Value: d.Default, From: DefaultLayer, Default: d.Default, HasDefault: true}
}
for _, layer := range layers {
for key, v := range layer.Values {
s, ok := byKey[key]
if !ok {
s = &SettingSource{Key: key}
byKey[key] = s
}
s.Value, s.From = v, layer.From
}
}
out := make([]SettingSource, 0, len(byKey))
for _, s := range byKey {
out = append(out, *s)
}
sort.Slice(out, func(i, j int) bool { return out[i].Key < out[j].Key })
return out
}
func sortedSettingKeys(in map[string]SettingDeclaration) []string {
keys := make([]string, 0, len(in))
for k := range in {
keys = append(keys, k)
}
sort.Strings(keys)
return keys
}