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jschoubben 542ce76c0a Merge pull request 'A module may invoke tools, and a manifest is checked where it is written' (#164) from feat/the-console into main
Reviewed-on: #164
2026-09-30 14:46:29 +00:00
jschoubben 2882b5fcb1 A module may invoke tools, and a manifest is checked where it is written
invokes: a manifest word that becomes exactly the publish grant a person's account gets (ADR 0152),
derived by the same composition; refused at parse when it names no tool. module check <file|dir>...
runs what registration runs with no store, for a manifest in any repository (hq issue 148).
2026-09-30 16:12:43 +02:00
jschoubben 481b1a7b05 Merge pull request 'A route's internal name says where the request arrives' (#163) from fix/139-a-routes-internal-name-says-where-it-arrives into main 2026-09-30 12:51:16 +00:00
10 changed files with 417 additions and 17 deletions
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package main
import (
"errors"
"fmt"
"io"
"os"
"path/filepath"
"sort"
"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/catalogue"
)
// moduleCheck judges manifests where they are written, with no mesh (novox/hq ADR 0037, issue 148).
//
// **The same functions registration runs, and nothing the command line adds** (ADR 0035): the strict
// parse with every per-manifest problem, then the rules no single manifest can be judged against,
// over exactly the manifests given. Somebody describing their own application in their own
// repository runs this before pushing and finds out there, rather than when a running mesh refuses
// the registration or, later, when a machine applies something that resolved and should not have.
//
// **What it cannot know without a store, it says.** The mesh's own seat set is the store's (ADR
// 0122); this binary carries a compiled copy that the store overrides when loaded, so a claim on a
// mesh seat is judged fully only at registration. A seat another module declares is unknown unless
// that module's manifest is passed too. Both are printed as a note, not as a problem — a check that
// refused what it could not see would teach people to ignore it.
func moduleCheck(paths []string, out io.Writer) error {
if len(paths) == 0 {
return errors.New("module check <manifest.json>... — one file per module; pass every " +
"manifest of a repository together so the rules between them are checked too")
}
shelf := catalogue.Shelf{}
failed := 0
for _, path := range paths {
raw, err := os.ReadFile(path)
if err != nil {
fmt.Fprintf(out, "%s: %v\n", path, err)
failed++
continue
}
m, err := catalogue.ParseManifest(raw)
if err != nil {
fmt.Fprintf(out, "%s: %v\n", path, err)
failed++
continue
}
if first, twice := shelf[m.Module]; twice {
_ = first
fmt.Fprintf(out, "%s: %s was already given; two manifests name one module\n", path, m.Module)
failed++
continue
}
shelf[m.Module] = m
}
// Between the manifests: a seat declared twice, a use of a seat nothing declares, a claim on
// a seat that does not exist. Run only over what parsed, because a problem inside one manifest
// has already been said and would be said again here in a worse form.
problems := catalogue.CatalogueProblems(shelf)
sort.Strings(problems)
for _, p := range problems {
fmt.Fprintln(out, p)
}
failed += len(problems)
var names []string
for name := range shelf {
names = append(names, name)
}
sort.Strings(names)
for _, name := range names {
m := shelf[name]
fmt.Fprintf(out, "%s: ok", name)
if n := len(m.Tools); n > 0 {
fmt.Fprintf(out, ", %d tool(s)", n)
}
if len(m.Invokes) > 0 {
fmt.Fprintf(out, ", invokes %s", joinInvokes(m.Invokes))
}
fmt.Fprintln(out)
}
if failed > 0 {
return fmt.Errorf("%d problem(s) in %d manifest(s)", failed, len(paths))
}
fmt.Fprintf(out, "%d manifest(s) checked. Judged against the seats this binary carries; a claim on "+
"one of the mesh's own seats is judged fully at registration, and a seat declared by a "+
"module not given here reads as unknown\n", len(paths))
return nil
}
func joinInvokes(invokes []string) string {
if len(invokes) == 1 && invokes[0] == "*" {
return "every tool"
}
s := ""
for i, t := range invokes {
if i > 0 {
s += ", "
}
s += t
}
return s
}
// manifestsUnder lists every module.json below a directory, for `module check <dir>`.
func manifestsUnder(dir string) ([]string, error) {
var found []string
err := filepath.WalkDir(dir, func(path string, d os.DirEntry, err error) error {
if err != nil {
return err
}
if d.IsDir() && (d.Name() == "node_modules" || d.Name() == ".git" || d.Name() == "dist") {
return filepath.SkipDir
}
if !d.IsDir() && d.Name() == "module.json" {
found = append(found, path)
}
return nil
})
sort.Strings(found)
return found, err
}
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package main
import (
"bytes"
"os"
"path/filepath"
"strings"
"testing"
)
// The check anybody can run is the check registration runs (novox/hq issue 148, ADR 0037): a manifest
// with a known fault is named, and one without passes, with no store opened.
func TestModuleCheckNamesAFaultAndNeedsNoMesh(t *testing.T) {
dir := t.TempDir()
good := filepath.Join(dir, "good.json")
bad := filepath.Join(dir, "bad.json")
os.WriteFile(good, []byte(`{"module":"shop","version":"1","tools":["price"],"invokes":["mesh-catalog.catalog_modules"]}`), 0o600)
os.WriteFile(bad, []byte(`{"module":"till","version":"1","invokes":["shop"]}`), 0o600)
var out bytes.Buffer
if err := moduleCheck([]string{good}, &out); err != nil {
t.Fatalf("a sound manifest was refused: %v\n%s", err, out.String())
}
if !strings.Contains(out.String(), "shop: ok, 1 tool(s), invokes mesh-catalog.catalog_modules") {
t.Fatalf("the report does not say what it checked:\n%s", out.String())
}
out.Reset()
err := moduleCheck([]string{good, bad}, &out)
if err == nil {
t.Fatal("a manifest invoking a module and no tool passed")
}
if !strings.Contains(out.String(), `till invokes "shop", which does not name a tool`) {
t.Fatalf("the fault is not named in the manifest's words:\n%s", out.String())
}
}
// The rules between manifests run over what was given together: a seat two modules declare is
// refused, which no single-manifest check can see.
func TestModuleCheckJudgesBetweenTheManifestsGiven(t *testing.T) {
dir := t.TempDir()
a := filepath.Join(dir, "a.json")
b := filepath.Join(dir, "b.json")
os.WriteFile(a, []byte(`{"module":"a","version":"1","seats":[{"name":"printer","scope":"mesh"}]}`), 0o600)
os.WriteFile(b, []byte(`{"module":"b","version":"1","seats":[{"name":"printer","scope":"mesh"}]}`), 0o600)
var out bytes.Buffer
if err := moduleCheck([]string{a, b}, &out); err == nil {
t.Fatalf("two declarations of one seat passed:\n%s", out.String())
}
if !strings.Contains(out.String(), "a seat name means one protocol") {
t.Fatalf("the cross-manifest rule was not the one named:\n%s", out.String())
}
}
// The real catalogue passes the command, the way it passes the test that used to be the only check.
func TestModuleCheckPassesTheCatalogue(t *testing.T) {
root := filepath.Join("..", "..", "..", "mesh-catalog", "modules")
if _, err := os.Stat(root); err != nil {
t.Skipf("catalogue sibling not present: %v", err)
}
paths, err := manifestsUnder(root)
if err != nil || len(paths) == 0 {
t.Fatalf("no manifests under %s: %v", root, err)
}
var out bytes.Buffer
if err := moduleCheck(paths, &out); err != nil {
t.Fatalf("the catalogue does not pass its own check: %v\n%s", err, out.String())
}
}
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@@ -161,6 +161,7 @@ func usage() {
overlay place <node> [flags] say where a node is and how it is reached
overlay show the private network, as the mesh computes it
module add <file> register a module from its manifest
module check <file|dir>... judge manifests where they are written, with no mesh (exit 1 on any problem)
module list what modules this mesh knows about
module moved <name> <commit> the source has a newer commit than the mesh built
module forget <name> remove one, unless a node runs it or the mesh holds things for it
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@@ -54,7 +54,24 @@ var provided = providedModules()
func moduleCommand(ctx context.Context, args []string) error {
if len(args) == 0 {
return errors.New("module add <file>, module list, or module forget <name>")
return errors.New("module add <file>, module check <file>..., module list, or module forget <name>")
}
// `check` needs no mesh, and must not: it is what somebody runs in their own repository before
// there is a mesh in reach (novox/hq issue 148). A directory expands to every manifest under it.
if args[0] == "check" {
var paths []string
for _, a := range args[1:] {
if info, err := os.Stat(a); err == nil && info.IsDir() {
under, err := manifestsUnder(a)
if err != nil {
return err
}
paths = append(paths, under...)
continue
}
paths = append(paths, a)
}
return moduleCheck(paths, os.Stdout)
}
open, err := openStores(ctx)
if err != nil {
@@ -275,7 +292,7 @@ func moduleCommand(ctx context.Context, args []string) error {
return issueOnTheNewBus(ctx, inv, m, *forNode, busAddress)
default:
return fmt.Errorf("module has no %q; it has add, list, moved, forget and issue", args[0])
return fmt.Errorf("module has no %q; it has add, check, list, moved, forget and issue", args[0])
}
}
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package broker
import (
"strings"
"testing"
)
// A module that says it calls a tool may publish exactly that subject (novox/hq ADR 0152): the same
// grant a person gets, derived the same way, so one list answers "what may this ask" for everybody.
func TestAModuleMayAskOnlyTheToolsItInvokes(t *testing.T) {
perms, err := PermissionsFor(Principal{Kind: KindModule, Node: "desk", Module: "mesh-console",
Invokes: []string{"shop.price"}, PasswordHash: "x"})
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
has(t, perms.Publish, "mesh.mod.shop.tool.price")
hasNot(t, perms.Publish, "mesh.mod.shop.tool.refund")
hasNot(t, perms.Publish, "mesh.mod.*.tool.>")
}
// The console's grant: every tool, as one subject, and it reads as one.
func TestAModuleInvokingEverythingMayAskAnyTool(t *testing.T) {
perms, err := PermissionsFor(Principal{Kind: KindModule, Node: "desk", Module: "mesh-console",
Invokes: []string{"*"}, PasswordHash: "x"})
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
has(t, perms.Publish, "mesh.mod.*.tool.>")
}
// **A grant to call widens nothing else.** A module that invokes may not publish an event it did not
// declare, may not answer as another module, and subscribes nothing it did not consume — the
// difference between the console and a person is that the console is on a machine, not that it may
// do more.
func TestInvokingGrantsNothingButTheCall(t *testing.T) {
perms, err := PermissionsFor(Principal{Kind: KindModule, Node: "desk", Module: "mesh-console",
Invokes: []string{"*"}, PasswordHash: "x"})
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
for _, p := range perms.Publish {
if strings.Contains(p, ".event.") {
t.Errorf("a module that only invokes may publish %q, an event it never declared", p)
}
if strings.HasPrefix(p, "mesh.seat.") {
t.Errorf("a module that only invokes may publish %q, a seat it neither holds nor uses", p)
}
}
for _, s := range perms.Subscribe {
if strings.Contains(s, ".tool.") && !strings.HasPrefix(s, "mesh.mod.mesh-console.") {
t.Errorf("a module that invokes may subscribe %q, another module's tools", s)
}
}
}
// A module that declares no invokes calls nothing, which is every module but the console.
func TestAModuleThatInvokesNothingCallsNothing(t *testing.T) {
perms, err := PermissionsFor(Principal{Kind: KindModule, Node: "one", Module: "shop",
Emits: []string{"order.placed"}, PasswordHash: "x"})
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
for _, p := range perms.Publish {
if strings.Contains(p, ".tool.") {
t.Errorf("a module with no invokes may publish %q", p)
}
}
}
// The malformed entry is refused for a module as it is for a person, and in the same words.
func TestAModulesToolGrantThatNamesNoToolIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
if _, err := PermissionsFor(Principal{Kind: KindModule, Node: "one", Module: "shop",
Invokes: []string{"telegram"}, PasswordHash: "x"}); err == nil {
t.Fatal("a grant naming a module but no tool was accepted")
}
}
// What a declaration says reaches the composed user, so a manifest's `invokes` is the grant.
func TestADeclaredInvokeReachesTheComposedUser(t *testing.T) {
users, err := Users(Records{
Nodes: []string{"desk"},
Assigned: map[string][]Declared{"desk": {{Module: "mesh-console", Invokes: []string{"*"}}}},
})
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
perms, err := PermissionsFor(users[len(users)-1])
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
has(t, perms.Publish, "mesh.mod.*.tool.>")
}
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@@ -70,12 +70,14 @@ type Principal struct {
// a namespace no such module owns. Every service started and the graph stayed empty.
Watches []Seat
// Invokes are the tools a person may call, as `<module>.<tool>`; a single `*` is every tool,
// for an administrator. Only meaningful for KindPerson.
// Invokes are the tools this principal may call, as `<module>.<tool>`; a single `*` is every
// tool. A person's whole authority (design 25 §7), and a module's only if its manifest says so
// (novox/hq ADR 0152) — the console's does, and nothing else's.
//
// **A list, not a role.** A person is not a module and holds no seat: nothing is addressed
// to them, nothing is delivered to them, and they have no durable consumer to acknowledge.
// What they have is permission to ask.
// What they have is permission to ask. A module that invokes gains exactly the same
// permission and nothing beside it.
Invokes []string
// PasswordHash is the bcrypt hash the mesh minted. The plaintext is sealed to the principal
@@ -224,18 +226,11 @@ func PermissionsFor(p Principal) (Permissions, error) {
case KindPerson:
// Tools, and nothing else. Every subject a person may publish is a tool call; a person
// who could publish an event would be able to claim a module said something.
for _, t := range p.Invokes {
if t == "*" {
pub = append(pub, "mesh.mod.*.tool.>")
continue
}
module, tool, ok := strings.Cut(t, ".")
if !ok {
return Permissions{}, fmt.Errorf(
"%q does not name a tool: a person invokes <module>.<tool>, or * for every one", t)
}
pub = append(pub, "mesh.mod."+module+".tool."+tool)
invoked, err := invokedSubjects(p.Invokes)
if err != nil {
return Permissions{}, err
}
pub = append(pub, invoked...)
case KindEnrolment:
// A leaked token is useless for anything but enrolling: it cannot read a declaration, hear
@@ -293,6 +288,16 @@ func PermissionsFor(p Principal) (Permissions, error) {
// still granted per tool, by name, on the publish side.
sub = append(sub, own+".tool.>")
// 1b. The tools it calls, if its manifest says it calls any (novox/hq ADR 0152). The same
// grant a person gets and derived the same way, so "what may this module ask" is
// answered by the one list that answers it for everybody. Publish only: an answer
// arrives on its own inbox, which every principal has below.
invoked, err := invokedSubjects(p.Invokes)
if err != nil {
return Permissions{}, err
}
pub = append(pub, invoked...)
// 2. What it consumes, by the emitter's own subject — an event is addressed to its
// emitter, because the emitter's identity is the meaning (ADR 0118).
for _, c := range p.Consumes {
@@ -601,3 +606,24 @@ func quoted(values []string) string {
}
return strings.Join(out, ", ")
}
// invokedSubjects is the publish side of a grant to call tools: one subject per `<module>.<tool>`,
// or the whole tool namespace for `*`. A person's authority and a module's `invokes` are both this
// (novox/hq ADR 0152), so a malformed entry is refused in one place, before it could be widened into
// something that happens to parse.
func invokedSubjects(invokes []string) ([]string, error) {
var out []string
for _, t := range invokes {
if t == "*" {
out = append(out, "mesh.mod.*.tool.>")
continue
}
module, tool, ok := strings.Cut(t, ".")
if !ok || module == "" || tool == "" {
return nil, fmt.Errorf(
"%q does not name a tool: one invokes <module>.<tool>, or * for every one", t)
}
out = append(out, "mesh.mod."+module+".tool."+tool)
}
return out, nil
}
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@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ type Declared struct {
Uses []Seat
// Watches are the seats whose events it consumes.
Watches []Seat
// Invokes are the tools it calls, `<module>.<tool>` or `*` (novox/hq ADR 0152).
Invokes []string
}
// Records is what composing a user list needs to know about the mesh, and nothing more.
@@ -61,7 +63,7 @@ func Users(r Records) ([]Principal, error) {
out = append(out, Principal{
Kind: KindModule, Node: node, Module: d.Module,
Emits: d.Emits, Consumes: d.Consumes, Serves: d.Serves,
Holds: d.Holds, Uses: d.Uses, Watches: d.Watches,
Holds: d.Holds, Uses: d.Uses, Watches: d.Watches, Invokes: d.Invokes,
})
}
}
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@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
package catalogue
import (
"strings"
"testing"
)
// A manifest may say which tools its module calls (novox/hq ADR 0152), and the parser accepts the
// two shapes the grant has: a named tool, and every tool.
func TestAManifestMaySayWhatItInvokes(t *testing.T) {
m, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"mesh-console","version":"1",` +
`"invokes":["mesh-catalog.catalog_modules","*"]}`))
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
if len(m.Invokes) != 2 || m.Invokes[1] != "*" {
t.Fatalf("invokes not read: %v", m.Invokes)
}
}
// An entry that names a module and no tool is refused at parse, in the manifest's words, rather than
// at the composition of the bus's user list where it would stop the file for everybody.
func TestAnInvokeThatNamesNoToolIsRefusedAtParse(t *testing.T) {
_, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"mesh-console","version":"1","invokes":["shop"]}`))
if err == nil {
t.Fatal("an invoke naming no tool was accepted")
}
if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), `invokes "shop", which does not name a tool`) {
t.Fatalf("refused for the wrong reason: %v", err)
}
}
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@@ -42,6 +42,11 @@ var renamed = map[string]string{
var name = regexp.MustCompile(`^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*(\.[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*)*$`)
// toolName is what a module calls one of its tools: the sdk's tools are `catalog_modules` and
// `gitea_list_repos`, so an underscore is ordinary here and a dot is not — the dot is what separates
// the module from the tool in `<module>.<tool>`, and a tool name carrying one would be two grants.
var toolName = regexp.MustCompile(`^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9_-]*$`)
// Claim is a singular resource a module takes over.
type Claim struct {
Name string `json:"name"`
@@ -247,6 +252,16 @@ type Manifest struct {
// module claiming a seat answers what that seat's protocol promises (novox/hq ADR 0118).
Tools []string `json:"tools,omitempty"`
// Invokes are the tools this module calls, each `<module>.<tool>`, or the single entry `*` for
// every tool on the mesh (novox/hq ADR 0152).
//
// **A grant, and only a grant.** The bus lets this module publish exactly those tool subjects
// and nothing beside them — no event, no subscription, no seat. A module that declares none
// calls nothing, which is every module but the console today. ADR 0095 made the control plane
// the one caller and deferred this until a consumer asked; the console is that consumer, and a
// person's account (design 25 §7) already had the same shape.
Invokes []string `json:"invokes,omitempty"`
// Capabilities the machine must have. A different field from Requires because the remedy
// differs: a missing module can be assigned, and a missing capability means the wrong
// machine.
@@ -1290,6 +1305,7 @@ 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, invokeProblems(m)...)
problems = append(problems, endpointNameProblems(m)...)
problems = append(problems, RouteProblems(m)...)
for _, port := range m.Guards {
@@ -1766,3 +1782,25 @@ func EndpointPort(m Manifest, name string) (int, bool) {
}
return 0, false
}
// invokeProblems judges what a module says it calls (novox/hq ADR 0152).
//
// Refused here, in the manifest's words, rather than at the next composition of the bus's user
// list — where a bad entry would stop the whole file being written for everybody, as a person's
// malformed grant would have (operator.go). An entry that names a module and no tool is the one
// mistake worth naming: `shop` reads like a grant to a module's tools and would be a grant to nothing.
func invokeProblems(m Manifest) []string {
var problems []string
for _, t := range m.Invokes {
if t == "*" {
continue
}
module, tool, named := strings.Cut(t, ".")
if !named || !name.MatchString(module) || !toolName.MatchString(tool) {
problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
"%s invokes %q, which does not name a tool: a module invokes <module>.<tool>, or "+
"* for every tool on the mesh (novox/hq ADR 0152)", m.Module, t))
}
}
return problems
}
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@@ -118,6 +118,8 @@ func declaredFor(m catalogue.Manifest, seats map[string]catalogue.SeatDeclaratio
// The tools it answers, which is `tools` and not `serves`: the manifest's `serves` is the
// facts a consumer needs to reach a provision, a different meaning under a similar word.
Serves: m.Tools,
// And what it calls (novox/hq ADR 0152) — the console's `*`, nothing else's.
Invokes: m.Invokes,
}
for _, c := range m.Claims {
// Every seat with a protocol, the mesh's own included. One that says only who does a job is