mesh-controller/internal/catalogue/needs_test.go

package catalogue

import (
	"strings"
	"testing"
)

// A secret a module needs in order to be itself.
//
// A database has a superuser password, a broker an administrator, a registry an account. None is
// *for* anybody — it is not the credential a consumer is given, and the mechanism that hands
// those out has a consumer in the middle of it.

func needy() Manifest {
	return Manifest{
		Module: "postgres", Version: "1",
		OwnSecrets: OwnSecrets{"superuser": {Path: "/var/lib/mesh/postgres/superuser"}},
		Resources: []map[string]any{
			{"id": "store", "type": "container", "name": "mesh-postgres", "image": "postgres@sha256:x"},
		},
	}
}

func TestAModulesOwnSecretLandsSealed(t *testing.T) {
	got, err := Resolve(shelf(needy()), []string{"postgres"}, reachable(), World{})
	if err != nil {
		t.Fatal(err)
	}
	out, err := got.Declaration(Rendering{
		Needed: map[string]map[string]string{"postgres": {"superuser": "c2VhbGVk"}},
	})
	if err != nil {
		t.Fatal(err)
	}
	for _, r := range out {
		if r["path"] != "/var/lib/mesh/postgres/superuser" {
			continue
		}
		if r["sealed"] != "c2VhbGVk" {
			t.Fatalf("got %v", r)
		}
		if r["content"] != nil {
			t.Fatal("a module's own secret was written in the clear")
		}
		return
	}
	t.Fatalf("no secret was written: %v", out)
}

func TestADeclaredNeedThatWasNotMadeIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
	// Skipping it would start a database with no password it knows, which fails to authenticate
	// three layers from the machine reporting it.
	got, _ := Resolve(shelf(needy()), []string{"postgres"}, reachable(), World{})
	_, err := got.Declaration(Rendering{})
	if err == nil {
		t.Fatal("a module needing a secret was declared without one")
	}
	if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "superuser") {
		t.Fatalf("the refusal does not name what is missing: %v", err)
	}
}

func TestANeedIsAnAbsolutePath(t *testing.T) {
	_, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"postgres","version":"1",
		"own-secrets":{"superuser":"superuser.txt"}}`))
	if err == nil {
		t.Fatal("a relative path was accepted")
	}
	if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "absolute path") {
		t.Fatalf("unhelpful refusal: %v", err)
	}
}

func TestAModuleMayNeedSeveralThings(t *testing.T) {
	// A password and a token, say. Telling them apart is the module's business, not the mesh's.
	m := needy()
	m.OwnSecrets["replication"] = OwnSecret{Path: "/var/lib/mesh/postgres/replication"}
	got, _ := Resolve(shelf(m), []string{"postgres"}, reachable(), World{})
	out, err := got.Declaration(Rendering{Needed: map[string]map[string]string{
		"postgres": {"superuser": "b25l", "replication": "dHdv"},
	}})
	if err != nil {
		t.Fatal(err)
	}
	seen := map[string]string{}
	for _, r := range out {
		if path, ok := r["path"].(string); ok && strings.Contains(path, "/var/lib/mesh/postgres/") {
			seen[path], _ = r["sealed"].(string)
		}
	}
	if len(seen) != 2 || seen["/var/lib/mesh/postgres/superuser"] == seen["/var/lib/mesh/postgres/replication"] {
		t.Fatalf("two needs did not land as two secrets: %v", seen)
	}
}

// A manifest written against the old name is told what the field became.
//
// `needs` and `secrets` were both name-to-path and differed only in whose secret it was, so
// reaching for the wrong one parsed cleanly and failed somewhere else entirely. Refusing the old
// name with "unknown field" would be correct and unhelpful: whoever wrote it knew what they meant,
// and the mesh knows what it is called now.
func TestAManifestUsingTheOldNameIsToldTheNewOne(t *testing.T) {
	_, err := ParseManifest([]byte(
		`{"module":"postgres","version":"1","needs":{"superuser":"/var/lib/superuser"}}`))
	if err == nil {
		t.Fatal("a manifest using the old name was accepted, so two fields now mean one thing")
	}
	for _, want := range []string{"needs", "own-secrets"} {
		if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), want) {
			t.Fatalf("the refusal does not mention %q: %v", want, err)
		}
	}
}

// And an ordinary unknown key is still refused as one, rather than being guessed at.
func TestAnInventedKeyIsNotTreatedAsARename(t *testing.T) {
	_, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"postgres","version":"1","nonsense":{}}`))
	if err == nil {
		t.Fatal("an invented key was accepted")
	}
	if strings.Contains(err.Error(), "is now called") {
		t.Fatalf("an invented key was reported as a rename: %v", err)
	}
}