// Package link is the control plane's side of the connection nodes hold open. // // novox/hq ADR 0002: nodes communicate over a message broker, not over HTTP. One exchange, and // the control plane is the single consumer behind it — ADR 0006 makes that a property worth // having rather than an accident, because two consumers sharing a queue silently split the // traffic between them, each receiving half of what it expects. That has happened here before. package link // Exchange is where nodes publish everything they have to say. const Exchange = "mesh" // ControlQueue is what the control plane consumes. One queue, one consumer. const ControlQueue = "control" // Routing keys. A node may publish these; it may not publish anything else, because its broker // account is scoped to this exchange and its own queue. const ( KeyEnrol = "enrol" ) // QueueFor is the queue a node consumes from — the only one it may read. func QueueFor(node string) string { return "node." + node } // EnrolRequest is what a joining node says. // // It arrives on a connection the broker has already authenticated, because the account was // created when the token was issued and the token's secret is its password. So this message is // not how a node gets in — it is what it says once it is in. type EnrolRequest struct { // Node is what this machine believes it is called. Checked against the token, never trusted. Node string `json:"node"` // Secret is the one-time right to join. The account password and this are the same string, // which is deliberate: the broker proves somebody holds the token, and this proves the same // thing to the control plane without the control plane having to ask the broker who connected. Secret string `json:"secret"` // PublicKey is what the mesh will believe from now on. The node generated it; the private // half has never left that machine (novox/hq ADR 0004). PublicKey []byte `json:"public_key"` // Profile is what this machine can be asked to do. The control plane cannot decide what a // node should run without it, so it arrives with enrolment rather than being asked for after. Profile map[string]any `json:"profile,omitempty"` } // EnrolReply is what the mesh says back. type EnrolReply struct { // Accepted says whether the node is now known. Accepted bool `json:"accepted"` // Node is the name the mesh has for this machine, which settles any disagreement: the token // was issued for a node record, and that record's name wins over what the machine called // itself. Node string `json:"node,omitempty"` // Queue is where this node listens from now on. Queue string `json:"queue,omitempty"` // Refusal says why not, in words for a person. Deliberately the same for every reason a // token can fail — unknown, spent, expired — so that guessing learns nothing. Refusal string `json:"refusal,omitempty"` }