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jschoubben bdf965dab6 A module names its endpoints, and a route names the one it serves
novox/hq ADR 0138's remaining half, and the words ship one release before any
manifest uses them.

A port number is not a name. Three facts have to be said about an endpoint when a
module is assigned — which machine port it lands on, the subdomain a proxy serves
it under, and how far it reaches — and they were said in three places keyed by the
port. A module with two endpoints of different shapes cannot be configured that way
without a reader joining numbers by hand: a web surface behind the proxy, whose
port only the proxy need reach, and a protocol port clients dial directly because
the client expects that number.

So a listen carries a name, lowercase and unique within the module, and a route
names the endpoint it serves instead of repeating its port. Two endpoints with one
name are refused, because an assignment configuring one would silently configure
whichever the mesh read last. A route naming an endpoint the module does not declare
is refused where it is written rather than resolving to no port and serving nothing.

An unnamed endpoint stays valid and a route repeating a port still resolves, which
is every module in the catalogue today.
2026-09-29 09:28:24 +02:00
mesh-admin b4da20ecc0 Merge pull request 'Reach asks for names on a routed endpoint' (#137) from fix/reach-names-a-route-not-a-port into main 2026-09-29 00:53:28 +00:00
jschoubben 4b33b72160 Reach asks for names on a routed endpoint, and its port stays the manifest's
A routed endpoint's port is how the proxy reaches it and nothing else (ADR 0045):
a public service listens from the mesh, only the proxy reaches it, and it is
exposed by name. So reach on a routed endpoint asks for names, and the port keeps
what the manifest said; on an unrouted one — git over ssh, a mail port, the bus —
it governs the port, because there is no name and the port is the only way in.

Found by trying to express a real module rather than by review: routed name public
because browsers post to it, machine-side port private because it serves a
dashboard in cleartext. Under one value for both there was no way to say it, and
'public' would have reopened a port narrowed an hour earlier.

novox/hq ADR 0138, corrected in place the same day.
2026-09-29 02:50:41 +02:00
mesh-admin d5505fe3d4 Merge pull request 'An assignment says how far an endpoint reaches' (#136) from feat/an-assignment-says-how-far-an-endpoint-reaches into main 2026-09-29 00:47:27 +00:00
5 changed files with 354 additions and 9 deletions
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@@ -905,7 +905,18 @@ func (r Resolution) Rules(with Rendering) ([]Rule, error) {
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
// **Only for an endpoint the proxy does not serve.** A routed endpoint's port is how the
// proxy reaches it and nothing else (ADR 0045), so `public` there asks for a public name and
// says nothing about the port — opening it to the world as well would undo the arrangement
// the proxy exists for, and would silently reopen a port an operator had narrowed.
//
// Found by trying to express a real module: one whose routed name must be public and whose
// machine-side port must not be. Under one value for both, there was no way to say it.
routed := RoutedPorts(m)
for port, reach := range reaches {
if routed[port] {
continue
}
source, ok := FilterSource(reach)
if !ok {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s: %q is not a reach the filter can read", m.Module, reach)
@@ -1087,7 +1098,7 @@ func (r Resolution) contributions(settings SettingsBy, grants []Grant,
if err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s contributing to %s: %w", m.Module, to, err)
}
composeName(values, r.PublicDomain, r.At, reaches)
composeName(values, r.PublicDomain, r.At, reaches, endpointPorts(m))
out[to] = append(out[to], Contribution{From: m.Module, Values: values})
}
// Several contributions to one requirement (ADR 0094's sibling for `contributes`): an
@@ -1105,7 +1116,7 @@ func (r Resolution) contributions(settings SettingsBy, grants []Grant,
if err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s contributing %s to %s: %w", m.Module, local, to, err)
}
composeName(values, r.PublicDomain, r.At, reaches)
composeName(values, r.PublicDomain, r.At, reaches, endpointPorts(m))
out[to] = append(out[to], Contribution{From: m.Module, Values: values})
}
}
@@ -1136,7 +1147,8 @@ func (r Resolution) contributions(settings SettingsBy, grants []Grant,
// the running mesh keeps serving the full names it has. And a labelled contribution on a node with
// no public domain composes nothing — there is nothing to join it to — which reads downstream as a
// route that named no host, the same as it would have before this existed.
func composeName(values map[string]any, publicDomain, internalDomain string, reaches map[int]string) {
func composeName(values map[string]any, publicDomain, internalDomain string, reaches map[int]string,
ports map[string]int) {
if values == nil {
return
}
@@ -1153,7 +1165,7 @@ func composeName(values map[string]any, publicDomain, internalDomain string, rea
// Nothing said is both names, as before. That is what keeps every mesh already running identical
// until an assignment speaks.
wantPublic, wantInternal := true, true
if port, ok := asPort(values["port"]); ok {
if port, ok := endpointPortOf(values, ports); ok {
if reach, said := reaches[port]; said {
wantPublic, wantInternal = WantsPublicName(reach), WantsInternalName(reach)
}
@@ -1783,3 +1795,28 @@ func prepared(from map[string]any) map[string]any {
delete(step, "reload-on")
return step
}
// endpointPortOf is the port the endpoint a route serves listens on: looked up by the name the route
// gives, or read from the port it repeats (novox/hq ADR 0138).
//
// `ports` maps this module's endpoint names to their ports, computed once per module rather than
// re-scanned per contribution.
func endpointPortOf(values map[string]any, ports map[string]int) (int, bool) {
if name, ok := values[RouteEndpoint].(string); ok {
if port, found := ports[strings.TrimSpace(name)]; found {
return port, true
}
}
return asPort(values["port"])
}
// endpointPorts is a module's endpoint names against the ports they listen on.
func endpointPorts(m Manifest) map[string]int {
out := map[string]int{}
for _, l := range m.Listens {
if name := strings.TrimSpace(l.Name); name != "" {
out[name] = l.Port
}
}
return out
}
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@@ -0,0 +1,141 @@
package catalogue
import (
"strings"
"testing"
)
// aMediaServer is the shape one port number per key cannot express: two endpoints of different kinds.
// A web surface a proxy serves under a subdomain, and a protocol port clients dial directly because
// the client expects that number.
func aMediaServer() Manifest {
return Manifest{
Module: "media",
Listens: []Listening{
{Name: "web", Port: 80, From: FromMesh, Why: "the app, behind the proxy"},
{Name: "stream", Port: 32400, From: FromEverywhere, Fixed: true,
Why: "the client dials this number; the protocol chose it"},
},
Contributes: map[string]map[string]any{
"route": {"label": "media", RouteEndpoint: "web"},
},
}
}
// **A route names the endpoint it serves.** A route and a listen both carried a port and nothing said
// they were the same thing; now one of them says so.
func TestARouteNamesTheEndpointItServes(t *testing.T) {
m := aMediaServer()
if port, ok := EndpointPort(m, "web"); !ok || port != 80 {
t.Fatalf("the web endpoint resolves to %d (%v), want 80", port, ok)
}
if port, ok := EndpointPort(m, "stream"); !ok || port != 32400 {
t.Fatalf("the stream endpoint resolves to %d (%v), want 32400", port, ok)
}
if _, ok := EndpointPort(m, "absent"); ok {
t.Fatal("an endpoint the module does not declare resolved to a port")
}
}
// And the routed set is read through the name, so the endpoint the proxy serves is known without a
// reader joining two numbers.
func TestTheRoutedEndpointIsFoundByName(t *testing.T) {
routed := RoutedPorts(aMediaServer())
if !routed[80] {
t.Fatalf("the routed endpoint was not found by name: %v", routed)
}
// And the directly-dialled one is not routed, which is what lets its reach govern its port.
if routed[32400] {
t.Fatalf("the endpoint clients dial directly reads as routed: %v", routed)
}
}
// **Two endpoints of different shapes, configured as themselves.** The web endpoint's reach asks for
// names and leaves its port to the proxy; the stream endpoint's reach governs its port, because
// clients dial it and there is no name.
func TestTwoEndpointsOfDifferentShapesAreConfiguredSeparately(t *testing.T) {
m := aMediaServer()
settings := SettingsBy{"media": {{From: "node anchor", Values: map[string]any{
ReachSetting: map[string]any{"80": ReachBoth, "32400": ReachPublic},
}}}}
r := Resolution{Node: "anchor", Modules: []Manifest{m},
PublicDomain: "example.test", At: "anchor.internal"}
rules, err := r.Rules(Rendering{Settings: settings})
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
for _, rule := range rules {
switch rule.Port {
case 80:
if rule.From != FromMesh {
t.Fatalf("the routed endpoint's port opened to %q; the proxy is how it is reached",
rule.From)
}
case 32400:
if rule.From != FromEverywhere {
t.Fatalf("the directly-dialled endpoint's port is %q, want anywhere", rule.From)
}
}
}
// And the routed one carries both names, asked for by the same statement.
given, err := r.contributions(settings, nil, nil)
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
var public, internal string
for _, c := range given["route"] {
public, _ = c.Values["name"].(string)
internal, _ = c.Values["internal-name"].(string)
}
if public != "media.example.test" || internal != "media.anchor.internal" {
t.Fatalf("names are %q and %q, want both", public, internal)
}
}
// A route naming an endpoint the module does not declare reaches nothing, and is refused where it is
// written rather than resolving to no port and serving nothing.
func TestARouteNamingAnEndpointTheModuleLacksIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
m := aMediaServer()
m.Contributes["route"][RouteEndpoint] = "absent"
got := strings.Join(RouteProblems(m), "\n")
if !strings.Contains(got, "does not declare") {
t.Fatalf("a route naming an absent endpoint was accepted:\n%s", got)
}
}
// **Two endpoints called the same would make an assignment configure whichever was read last.** The
// point of a name is that it identifies one thing.
func TestTwoEndpointsWithOneNameAreRefused(t *testing.T) {
m := Manifest{Module: "twice", Listens: []Listening{
{Name: "web", Port: 80, From: FromMesh},
{Name: "web", Port: 8080, From: FromMesh},
}}
got := strings.Join(endpointNameProblems(m), "\n")
if !strings.Contains(got, "could mean either") {
t.Fatalf("two endpoints with one name were accepted:\n%s", got)
}
}
// A name that is not a name is refused where it is written: it ends up in something a person types.
func TestAnEndpointNameIsHeldToItsShape(t *testing.T) {
for _, wrong := range []string{"Web", "web port", "3000", "-web", "web_surface"} {
m := Manifest{Module: "odd", Listens: []Listening{{Name: wrong, Port: 80, From: FromMesh}}}
if got := strings.Join(endpointNameProblems(m), "\n"); !strings.Contains(got, "a name is lowercase") {
t.Fatalf("%q was accepted as an endpoint name:\n%s", wrong, got)
}
}
}
// **Every endpoint in the catalogue is unnamed today, and must stay valid.** The word ships one
// release before anything uses it.
func TestAnUnnamedEndpointIsStillValid(t *testing.T) {
m := Manifest{Module: "ordinary", Listens: []Listening{{Port: 443, From: FromEverywhere}}}
if got := endpointNameProblems(m); len(got) != 0 {
t.Fatalf("an unnamed endpoint was refused: %v", got)
}
if got := RouteProblems(m); len(got) != 0 {
t.Fatalf("a module with no route was refused: %v", got)
}
}
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@@ -740,6 +740,40 @@ const (
// reaches is every value, in the order a refusal lists them.
var reaches = []string{ReachMachine, ReachInternal, ReachPublic, ReachBoth}
// RoutedPorts are the ports a module serves through a proxy, taken from its route contributions.
//
// **A routed endpoint's port is how the proxy reaches it, and nothing else.** That is ADR 0045's
// decision and it is older than reach: a public service listens `from: mesh`, only the proxy reaches
// it, and it is exposed by name. So `public` on a routed endpoint asks for a public *name*; opening
// that port to the world as well would undo the arrangement the proxy exists for.
//
// Measured before this was written, not reasoned: a module's routed name answered from the internet
// over TLS while its machine-side port was refused from the same place. The port is not the path.
func RoutedPorts(m Manifest) map[int]bool {
out := map[int]bool{}
note := func(values map[string]any) {
// **The endpoint it serves, by name where it says one.** A route repeating a port number is
// the older shape and still read: 35 of the catalogue's 36 route entries name a port their
// module declares a listen on (novox/hq ADR 0138).
if name, ok := values[RouteEndpoint].(string); ok {
if port, found := EndpointPort(m, name); found {
out[port] = true
return
}
}
if port, ok := asPort(values["port"]); ok {
out[port] = true
}
}
if values, ok := m.Contributes["route"]; ok {
note(values)
}
for _, values := range m.ContributesMany["route"] {
note(values)
}
return out
}
// FilterSource is the source a reach means to the packet filter.
//
// `public` and `both` are the same here. A reach that opened a port to the mesh and not to the world
@@ -827,3 +861,38 @@ func Reaches(m Manifest, layers []Layer) (map[int]string, error) {
}
return out, nil
}
// RouteEndpoint is the key a route contribution names the endpoint it serves with, instead of
// repeating that endpoint's port (novox/hq ADR 0138).
//
// **A route and a listen both carried a port, and nothing said they were the same thing.** They
// always were — a route serves one of the module's own endpoints — but a reader had to join two
// numbers, and an assignment configuring "the web endpoint" had to know which number that was. A
// route that names the endpoint says what it means, and the mesh looks the port up.
const RouteEndpoint = "endpoint"
// RouteProblems holds a module's route contributions to naming an endpoint it actually has.
//
// A route naming an endpoint the module does not declare reaches nothing, and is refused where it is
// written rather than resolving to no port and serving nothing — the fault this repository names most
// often, a declaration that reads as though it did something.
func RouteProblems(m Manifest) []string {
var problems []string
check := func(where string, values map[string]any) {
name, ok := values[RouteEndpoint].(string)
if !ok || strings.TrimSpace(name) == "" {
return
}
if _, found := EndpointPort(m, name); !found {
problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
"%s routes %s to the endpoint %q, which it does not declare", m.Module, where, name))
}
}
if values, ok := m.Contributes["route"]; ok {
check("a name", values)
}
for local, values := range m.ContributesMany["route"] {
check(local, values)
}
return problems
}
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@@ -657,8 +657,23 @@ const (
// on is a fact, and it should be written once.
const ArtifactStoreProvision = "artifact-store"
// Listening is one port a module accepts connections on.
// Listening is one endpoint a module serves: a port it accepts connections on, and what may be said
// about that port from outside the module.
type Listening struct {
// Name is what this endpoint is called, so an assignment and a route can refer to it as one thing
// (novox/hq ADR 0138).
//
// **Because a port number is not a name.** Three facts have to be said about an endpoint when a
// module is assigned — which machine port it lands on, the subdomain a proxy serves it under, and
// how far it reaches — and they were said in three places keyed by the port. A module with two
// endpoints of different shapes, a web surface behind a proxy and a protocol port clients dial
// directly, cannot be configured that way without a reader joining numbers by hand.
//
// The module's to choose, like the route's label: it names its own parts. Lowercase, and unique
// within the module, so a reference to it is unambiguous. Empty is allowed and means an endpoint
// nothing refers to by name, which is every endpoint in the catalogue until they are named.
Name string `json:"name,omitempty"`
Port int `json:"port"`
// Protocol is "tcp" or "udp". Absent means tcp, which is what almost everything is — and a
// field that had to be written every time would be written wrongly some of the time.
@@ -1265,6 +1280,8 @@ func ParseManifest(raw []byte) (Manifest, error) {
"%s listens on %d over %q, which is tcp or udp", m.Module, l.Port, p))
}
}
problems = append(problems, endpointNameProblems(m)...)
problems = append(problems, RouteProblems(m)...)
for _, port := range m.Guards {
if port < 1 || port > 65535 {
problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
@@ -1689,3 +1706,53 @@ func (m Manifest) undeclaredMounts() []string {
}
return problems
}
// endpointName is what an endpoint may be called: lowercase letters, digits and dashes, starting
// with a letter. The same shape a label has, because both end up in something a person types.
var endpointName = regexp.MustCompile(`^[a-z][a-z0-9-]*$`)
// endpointNameProblems holds a module's endpoint names to being usable as references (novox/hq ADR
// 0138).
//
// **Unique, because the point of a name is that it identifies one thing.** Two endpoints called the
// same would make an assignment that configures one silently configure whichever the mesh read last
// — the shape of fault this repository keeps finding, where a declaration appears to say something
// and says something else.
func endpointNameProblems(m Manifest) []string {
var problems []string
seen := map[string]int{}
for _, l := range m.Listens {
name := strings.TrimSpace(l.Name)
if name == "" {
continue
}
if !endpointName.MatchString(name) {
problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
"%s calls the endpoint on port %d %q; a name is lowercase letters, digits and "+
"dashes, starting with a letter", m.Module, l.Port, l.Name))
continue
}
if before, already := seen[name]; already {
problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
"%s calls both port %d and port %d %q, so anything naming that endpoint could mean "+
"either", m.Module, before, l.Port, name))
continue
}
seen[name] = l.Port
}
return problems
}
// EndpointPort is the port of the endpoint a module calls this, and whether it has one.
func EndpointPort(m Manifest, name string) (int, bool) {
want := strings.TrimSpace(name)
if want == "" {
return 0, false
}
for _, l := range m.Listens {
if strings.TrimSpace(l.Name) == want {
return l.Port, true
}
}
return 0, false
}
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@@ -81,16 +81,23 @@ func TestBothComposesBothNames(t *testing.T) {
}
}
// **The filter reads the same value.** One statement, and the rule it produces is the one the reach
// means — which is the whole claim of ADR 0138 and the reason reach is not two settings.
func TestTheFilterFollowsTheSameReach(t *testing.T) {
// **The filter reads the same value — for an endpoint the proxy does not serve.**
//
// A routed endpoint's port is how the proxy reaches it and nothing else (ADR 0045): a public service
// listens from the mesh, only the proxy reaches it, and it is exposed by name. So on a routed
// endpoint the reach asks for a name and the port keeps what the manifest said.
func TestAnUnroutedEndpointsPortFollowsItsReach(t *testing.T) {
// The same module with its route taken away: now the port is the only way in, so reach governs it.
bare := aRoutedWeb()
bare.Contributes = nil
for _, c := range []struct{ reach, want string }{
{ReachInternal, FromMesh},
{ReachPublic, FromEverywhere},
{ReachBoth, FromEverywhere},
{ReachMachine, FromMachine},
} {
r := Resolution{Node: "anchor", Modules: []Manifest{aRoutedWeb()}}
r := Resolution{Node: "anchor", Modules: []Manifest{bare}}
rules, err := r.Rules(Rendering{Settings: reachSet(c.reach)})
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("%s: rules: %v", c.reach, err)
@@ -110,6 +117,30 @@ func TestTheFilterFollowsTheSameReach(t *testing.T) {
}
}
// **A public name does not open the machine's port**, which is the case that found this.
//
// A module whose routed name must be public and whose machine-side port must not be had no way to say
// so while one value drove both. Under one value it could not be expressed; the port would reopen.
func TestAPublicNameLeavesARoutedPortAsTheManifestSaid(t *testing.T) {
r := Resolution{Node: "anchor", Modules: []Manifest{aRoutedWeb()},
PublicDomain: "example.test", At: "anchor.internal"}
rules, err := r.Rules(Rendering{Settings: reachSet(ReachPublic)})
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
for _, rule := range rules {
if rule.Port == 3000 && rule.From != FromMesh {
t.Fatalf("a public reach opened a routed port to %q; the proxy is how it is reached",
rule.From)
}
}
// And the name it asked for is there, so the reach was not simply ignored.
public, internal := namesFor(t, aRoutedWeb(), reachSet(ReachPublic))
if public != "app.example.test" || internal != "" {
t.Fatalf("names are %q and %q, want the public one only", public, internal)
}
}
// A reach for a port the module does not listen on reaches nothing, and is refused where it is
// written rather than accepted and ignored.
func TestAReachForAPortTheModuleDoesNotListenOnIsRefused(t *testing.T) {