mesh-controller/internal/link/bus.go

package link

import (
	"context"
	"errors"
	"fmt"
	"time"

	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go"
)

// Bus is what the controller needs of the mesh's bus, **in the mesh's own words rather than a
// transport's** (novox/hq ADR 0116 step 3).
//
// Until now every one of these functions took the transport's own channel type, so the transport
// reached every caller and changing it meant touching all of them. The seam is small — the
// controller sends exactly two kinds of message that expect no answer, and asks two kinds of
// question — which is why the bus can be replaced at all.
//
// Two implementations live below, and both ship until the rollout (ADR 0116: nothing moves a
// node's bus before step 5). Both shipping is what makes them comparable — the same caller, the
// same arguments, and one conformance fixture holding them to one envelope.
type Bus interface {
	// PublishEvent announces something that happened, under the emitter's own name. 1:many, and
	// nobody is obliged to act (ADR 0041).
	PublishEvent(ctx context.Context, key, source, node string, body []byte) error

	// PublishDeclaration delivers one node what it should be. Addressed to that node alone: a
	// declaration is not an event, and replaying yesterday's is actively harmful
	// (design 29 §4, the *state* shape).
	PublishDeclaration(ctx context.Context, node string, body []byte) error

	// AskTool sends one question to a module's tool and awaits one answer. A tool nobody serves
	// must say so **at once** rather than after the whole wait: the difference between "that
	// module is down" and "that tool is slow" is the first thing a person asking wants.
	AskTool(ctx context.Context, module, tool string, args []byte, timeout time.Duration) ([]byte, error)
}

// --- The bus the mesh runs on today -----------------------------------------------------

// --- NATS, the bus being built ----------------------------------------------------------------

// OverNATS is the bus as a JetStream context.
type OverNATS struct {
	Conn *nats.Conn
	JS   nats.JetStreamContext
}

// The subjects a node publishes on, and the controller listens to.
//
// One tree, and each name says who it is about: `mesh.control.<node>.…` is a node's own, which is
// what lets a node's account be granted exactly its own prefix and nothing of any other node's
// (design 25 §2, §4). The two that belong to no node — an enrolment, because a machine enrolling
// has no name the mesh has agreed to yet, and a build's outcome, because a builder is not
// reporting about itself — are named directly.
const (
	// EnrolSubject is where a joining machine asks. Its enrolment user may publish here and
	// nowhere else, so a leaked token buys nothing but the chance to enrol.
	EnrolSubject = "mesh.control.enrol"

	// BuiltSubject is where a build's outcome lands, for results nobody was waiting for.
	BuiltSubject = "mesh.control.built"

	// AliveSubjects is every node's heartbeat. Core NATS, never a stream: a lost heartbeat is the
	// next heartbeat, and a stream of them is the mesh's least valuable message competing for
	// retention with its most valuable (design 25 §3).
	AliveSubjects = "mesh.control.*.alive"
)

// ReportSubject is where one node says what it did. On the CONTROL stream, because it is the
// message the store-window guarantee is about (ADR 0083).
func ReportSubject(node string) string { return "mesh.control." + node + ".report" }

// AliveSubject is one node's heartbeat.
func AliveSubject(node string) string { return "mesh.control." + node + ".alive" }

// EventSubject is where a module's event lands. Derived from the emitter, never taken from the
// caller: a source that could differ from the subject is an envelope that can lie about its
// origin, and on NATS the account's permissions make the subject the authority (design 29 §2).
func EventSubject(source, key string) string {
	return "mesh.mod." + source + ".event." + key
}

// DeclareSubject is where one node's declaration lands. Last-per-subject on the NODES stream, so
// a node that was away gets exactly the current one and a replayed older one is refused by
// sequence — the wire-level answer to novox/hq issue 107.
func DeclareSubject(node string) string { return "mesh.node." + node + ".declare" }

func (b OverNATS) PublishEvent(ctx context.Context, key, source, node string, body []byte) error {
	id, err := eventID()
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	h := nats.Header{}
	h.Set("x-event-id", id)
	h.Set("x-source", source)
	h.Set("x-node", node)
	h.Set("x-time", time.Now().UTC().Format(time.RFC3339))
	h.Set("content-type", "application/json")

	// The id is also the publish's message id, so the server refuses a duplicate inside its
	// window. That narrows the window a consumer must deduplicate in; it does not remove the
	// requirement, because the window is finite (design 19, delivery).
	_, err = b.JS.PublishMsg(&nats.Msg{
		Subject: EventSubject(source, key),
		Header:  h,
		Data:    body,
	}, nats.MsgId(id), nats.Context(ctx))
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("emitting %s: %w", key, err)
	}
	return nil
}

func (b OverNATS) PublishDeclaration(ctx context.Context, node string, body []byte) error {
	_, err := b.JS.Publish(DeclareSubject(node), body, nats.Context(ctx))
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("declaring to %s: %w", node, err)
	}
	return nil
}

// ToolSubject is where a module answers. Derived from the module and the tool, so a caller names
// what it wants rather than where it lives.
func ToolSubject(module, tool string) string { return "mesh.mod." + module + ".tool." + tool }

func (b OverNATS) AskTool(ctx context.Context, module, tool string, args []byte, timeout time.Duration) ([]byte, error) {
	if len(args) == 0 {
		args = []byte(`{}`)
	}
	ask, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, timeout)
	defer cancel()

	// **No reply queue, and no correlation to check.** The caller's inbox is its own — each
	// account is granted one prefix and no other (design 25 §4) — so an answer cannot reach the
	// wrong asker and there is nothing to correlate against. That also settles a cost recorded
	// in build.go: on a shared reply exchange every asker saw every result.
	msg, err := b.Conn.RequestWithContext(ask, ToolSubject(module, tool), args)
	if err != nil {
		if errors.Is(err, nats.ErrNoResponders) {
			// Said at once rather than after the whole wait: nothing is subscribed to that
			// subject, which is a different fact from a tool being slow.
			return nil, fmt.Errorf("nothing serves %s.%s", module, tool)
		}
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("asking %s.%s: %w", module, tool, err)
	}
	return msg.Data, nil
}