A settings proposal reads at a glance, its values whole where the sender is proven (issues 383 and 639) #304

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@@ -277,6 +277,17 @@ func (p settingsProposal) change(machines []string, exact bool) ([]string, []str
lines = append(lines, line{k, fmt.Sprintf("- %s (was: %s)", k, say(was[k]))})
}
}
// **Each line is judged as the router will judge it** (the review of #304, ADR 0347 §1 and §3): a line the
// content rule (masked) or the secret rule (whole) would refuse — a value given to a secret's name, say
// "+ password: hunter2" — is said with its key still named and its value withheld, never left for the
// router to withhold whole and unnamed. A line refused even so is the propose's refusal (judgeLines).
for i, l := range lines {
if lineLeaves(l.text, exact, machines) {
continue
}
lines[i].text = l.text[:2] + l.key + " (value withheld)"
whole = false
}
all := make([]string, len(lines))
for i, l := range lines {
all[i] = l.text
@@ -310,6 +321,37 @@ func (p settingsProposal) change(machines []string, exact bool) ([]string, []str
return out, all, whole
}
// lineLeaves says whether a line may leave the mesh as the router judges it: under the content rule for the masked
// form, the secret rule alone for the whole one.
func lineLeaves(line string, exact bool, machines []string) bool {
if exact {
_, ok := outward.Secret(line, machines...)
return ok
}
_, ok := outward.Check(line, machines...)
return ok
}
// judgeLines is the first line of an ask's details the router would refuse, or withhold, and why: masked under
// the content rule line by line, whole under the secret rule. Empty when every line may leave.
func judgeLines(details string, exact bool, machines []string) (string, string) {
for _, line := range strings.Split(details, "\n") {
if strings.TrimSpace(line) == "" {
continue
}
if exact {
if refusal, ok := outward.Secret(line, machines...); !ok {
return line, refusal.String()
}
continue
}
if refusal, ok := outward.Check(line, machines...); !ok {
return line, refusal.String()
}
}
return "", ""
}
func layerKeys(m map[string]any) []string {
keys := make([]string, 0, len(m))
for k := range m {
@@ -513,6 +555,17 @@ func (pr proposer) propose(ctx context.Context, in proposeInput) (string, error)
return refuse("the change shown whole would carry %s, which may not leave the mesh on any channel; %s",
refusal, atTheTerminalInstead(in))
}
// So are the details (ADR 0347 §1, §3): every line the router would withhold from the note, or refuse the ask
// for, is refused here, in the controller's own words, naming the line's key — Approve never sets a value the
// operator was shown nothing of.
if line, why := judgeLines(q.Details, false, machines); line != "" {
return refuse("the change's line %q would carry %s, which the operator's note may not show; %s",
keyOfLine(line), why, atTheTerminalInstead(in))
}
if line, why := judgeLines(q.WholeDetails, true, machines); line != "" {
return refuse("the change's line %q shown whole would carry %s, which may not leave the mesh on any channel; %s",
keyOfLine(line), why, atTheTerminalInstead(in))
}
// Fail closed, before anything is kept: no router, no grant, no channel means no ask.
if pr.routerHere != nil {
here, err := pr.routerHere(ctx)
@@ -902,3 +955,21 @@ func pushTo(node string) string {
}
return node
}
// keyOfLine is what a refusal names of a line: the key of a change's line ("+ key: …"), or the line's first words.
func keyOfLine(line string) string {
if len(line) > 2 && strings.ContainsRune("+~-=", rune(line[0])) && line[1] == ' ' {
rest := line[2:]
if i := strings.IndexAny(rest, ": "); i > 0 {
rest = rest[:i]
}
if _, ok := outward.Secret(rest); !ok {
return "whose key is shaped like a secret"
}
return rest
}
if r := []rune(line); len(r) > 40 {
return string(r[:40]) + "…"
}
return line
}
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@@ -919,3 +919,61 @@ func TestEveryKeyAndItsWholeValueReachTheOperator(t *testing.T) {
t.Errorf("the cut is not said, or the note lacks the whole:\n%s\n--\n%s", q2.Whole, q2.WholeDetails)
}
}
// The review of #304: a value given to a secret's name, past the second key, is said with its key named and its
// value withheld, in the note on every channel; the router has nothing left to withhold unnamed or refuse. A line
// the router would refuse even so is refused at propose, in the controller's words.
func TestASecretNamedKeyIsNamedAndItsValueWithheld(t *testing.T) {
r := newProposerRig(t)
values := map[string]any{"a": "1", "b": "2", "c": "3", "password": "hunter2"}
if _, err := r.pr.propose(context.Background(), proposeInput{module: "notes", node: "laptop", values: values}); err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
q := r.askSent(t)
for _, form := range []string{q.Details, q.WholeDetails, q.Explanation, q.Whole} {
if strings.Contains(form, "hunter2") {
t.Errorf("the value reaches the phone:\n%s", form)
}
}
if !strings.Contains(q.Details, "+ password (value withheld)") {
t.Errorf("the key is not named with its value withheld:\n%s", q.Details)
}
if q.WholeDetails != "" && !strings.Contains(q.WholeDetails, "+ password (value withheld)") {
t.Errorf("the whole details do not name the key:\n%s", q.WholeDetails)
}
if line, why := judgeLines(q.Details, false, nil); line != "" {
t.Errorf("the router would withhold %q: %s", line, why)
}
if line, why := judgeLines(q.WholeDetails, true, nil); line != "" {
t.Errorf("the router would refuse %q: %s", line, why)
}
if !strings.HasSuffix(q.Explanation, "\nand 2 more, each in the note: c, password") {
t.Errorf("the glance:\n%s", q.Explanation)
}
// A key shaped like a secret cannot be named on any channel: refused at propose, in the controller's words, and
// the key itself not echoed.
r2 := newProposerRig(t)
secretKey := "ghp_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789"
_, err := r2.pr.propose(context.Background(), proposeInput{module: "notes", node: "laptop",
values: map[string]any{"a": "1", "b": "2", secretKey: "3"}})
if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "Nothing was proposed") || strings.Contains(err.Error(), secretKey) {
t.Errorf("a secret-shaped key: %v", err)
}
if len(r2.sent) != 0 {
t.Errorf("the refused proposal was asked")
}
}
// keyOfLine names a change's key, and never one shaped like a secret.
func TestARefusalNamesTheKeyAndNeverASecret(t *testing.T) {
for line, want := range map[string]string{
"+ password (value withheld)": "password",
"~ shares: ‹path› (was: none)": "shares",
"+ ghp_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789: 1": "whose key is shaped like a secret",
"Proposed by g14 at 15:04.": "Proposed by g14 at 15:04.",
} {
if got := keyOfLine(line); got != want {
t.Errorf("%q: %q, want %q", line, got, want)
}
}
}
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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ module github.com/novox/mesh-controller
go 1.26.0
require (
git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261013145622-f4745447ba6d
git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261013182924-5933eb757d44
github.com/jackc/pgx/v5 v5.10.0
github.com/nats-io/nats-server/v2 v2.11.17
github.com/nats-io/nats.go v1.54.0
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@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261013141520-9588871d6629 h1:7TYFV1Q6
git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261013141520-9588871d6629/go.mod h1:GFuZUElBZ9A++mxgIKo97aXXo+kV0uJ/UkbhQPPIbrY=
git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261013145622-f4745447ba6d h1:HEJyqorKktrkJPeeJdwEo0kdrJjH3fm/YVS9MGftCqY=
git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261013145622-f4745447ba6d/go.mod h1:GFuZUElBZ9A++mxgIKo97aXXo+kV0uJ/UkbhQPPIbrY=
git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261013182924-5933eb757d44 h1:r5xIo5qWOXQdCSMxvqJy8kV4U+P/QWXFK6971Ha6wU8=
git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261013182924-5933eb757d44/go.mod h1:GFuZUElBZ9A++mxgIKo97aXXo+kV0uJ/UkbhQPPIbrY=
github.com/antithesishq/antithesis-sdk-go v0.7.0-default-no-op h1:Z/MZK75wC/NSrkgqeNIa7jexam9uWzhLmFTSCPI/kn0=
github.com/antithesishq/antithesis-sdk-go v0.7.0-default-no-op/go.mod h1:FQyySiasQQM8735Ddel3MRojmy4dA1IqCeyJ5jmPMbI=
github.com/davecgh/go-spew v1.1.0/go.mod h1:J7Y8YcW2NihsgmVo/mv3lAwl/skON4iLHjSsI+c5H38=
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@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ a second place to clean besides the catalogue itself.
mesh-catalog e0bc919d4945bb5f13f971f74643a0b714cf45da modules/*/module.json, modules/nats/Dockerfile
mesh-host 7a41e120635b3f7b6cb94cca8b3fc4093e4e6110 examples/foundation-first-node.lock
mesh-sdk f4745447ba6d0c4fd7dc6b1071e26ce012806233 conformance/events/module-event.json
mesh-sdk 5933eb757d443293631be2bed27a96288c2348d8 conformance/events/module-event.json
To move them, from this repository's root, with the two repositories checked out beside it:
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@@ -170,14 +170,16 @@ func (a Ask) Digest() string {
canonical(&b, v)
}
}
if a.Whole != "" || a.Details != "" {
// Whole and Details are written whenever either or WholeDetails is given, and WholeDetails after them whenever
// it is given (novox/hq ADR 0347): the fields after the options are then always one of three fixed shapes —
// none, the two, or the three — and the count of values the sequence holds tells them apart, so no two asks
// encode the same (the review of mesh-sdk #25). An ask with none of them digests as before they existed, and
// one without WholeDetails as before it existed.
if a.Whole != "" || a.Details != "" || a.WholeDetails != "" {
canonical(&b, a.Whole)
canonical(&b, a.Details)
}
// WholeDetails (novox/hq issue 383, the review of mesh-controller #304) follows only when given, so every
// ask without it digests as it did before it existed.
if a.WholeDetails != "" {
canonical(&b, "whole-details")
canonical(&b, a.WholeDetails)
}
sum := sha256.Sum256([]byte(b.String()))
@@ -493,7 +495,9 @@ type Message struct {
Buttons []Button `json:"buttons,omitempty"`
// Note is the message's secondary words, after its body and its buttons: who asked and when, what each
// answer does, when it expires, and the ask's Details. A channel shows it smaller, collapsed or set apart
// where it can, and after the body where it cannot; it is never left out (novox/hq issue 639).
// where it can, and after the body where it cannot (novox/hq issue 639). A channel that bounds a message's
// length cuts the body first and the note only when the title and the note alone do not fit, saying each
// cut (novox/hq ADR 0347 §5).
Note string `json:"note,omitempty"`
Urgent bool `json:"urgent,omitempty"`
Silent bool `json:"silent,omitempty"`
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
# git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261013145622-f4745447ba6d
# git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261013182924-5933eb757d44
## explicit; go 1.22
git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/asks
# github.com/antithesishq/antithesis-sdk-go v0.7.0-default-no-op