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Say each machine's last send in status and node show, and as fields in status --json (novox/hq issue 485)
The send record of issue 234 is now readable only through the controller's
verbs (issue 506), and only plan said it. status says per machine when it was
last sent a declaration, by whom, from which generation and what it answered;
node show says it in full with the refusal's words. A machine's answer is read
from its report only when that report is about the send and came after it.
2026-10-11 20:40:48 +02:00

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package main
import (
"context"
"fmt"
"io"
"os"
"sort"
"strings"
"time"
"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/catalogue"
"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/conditions"
"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/inventory"
"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/link"
)
// The assignment generation a declaration was composed from, and the record of every send (novox/hq
// issue 234).
//
// On 2026-10-04 a declaration newer in sequence than every other named four fewer modules than the
// assignments held, and a machine applied it and undeclared all four. The sequence orders arrival and
// cannot tell a later send that carries an older view of the assignments. So a declaration now carries
// the generation of the assignments it was composed from — a counter the store raises in the same
// transaction as every assignment change — and a machine refuses one older than it applied, unless it is
// a gate's put-back. And every send is written down with who sent it, from which generation and naming
// which modules: the controller logged no send then, and which process sent the stale declaration could
// not be read back from anything the mesh kept.
// kindOlderGeneration is S20's kind: a machine refused a send for the generation it was composed from.
const kindOlderGeneration = "older-generation"
// generationRefusalsSaid is how long a refused send is said after its refusal: an hour, as an advisory is.
const generationRefusalsSaid = advisoryQuiet
// stamp gives a composed declaration the order allotted to it before it was composed: its sequence, and
// the epoch and generation when the machine reads them — and keeps the generation and acting epoch for the
// record of the send whether or not the machine is sent them.
//
// **No put-back mark is sent.** A gate puts a machine back by composing it again (sendRollout), so its
// declaration is allotted here like any other and carries the generation as it stands — never older than
// what the machine applied. The node-engine reads a `put_back` key (mesh-host#82); this controller never
// needs to send one.
func (o order) stamp(d *sendable) {
d.Sequence, d.Epoch = o.sequence, o.epoch
d.composedFrom, d.actingEpoch = o.generation, o.acting
d.Generation = 0
if o.readsGeneration && o.generation > 0 {
d.Generation = o.generation
}
}
// sentRecord is what the record of a send keeps beside its digest.
type sentRecord struct {
sequence int64
epoch uint64
generation int64
// toldGeneration is the generation on the wire, which the would-send is stamped with: zero for a machine
// whose node-engine has not said it reads one.
toldGeneration int64
sender string
modules []string
}
// sentRecordOf is a composed send's record: its sender is the caller this process acts for.
func sentRecordOf(ctx context.Context, d sendable) sentRecord {
return sentRecord{sequence: d.Sequence, epoch: d.actingEpoch, generation: d.composedFrom,
toldGeneration: d.Generation, sender: senderOf(callerOf(ctx)), modules: d.modules}
}
// callerOf is who asked for what this process does: the seat call's caller when ctx belongs to one, the
// caller the controller ran this command for, or the account at the shell.
func callerOf(ctx context.Context) string {
if c := link.CallerIn(ctx); c != "" {
return c
}
return link.Caller()
}
// senderOf is a send's sender in words: who asked, and the process and build that composed it — the
// answer issue 234 could not find, because two controllers and a one-shot push were all sending then.
func senderOf(caller string) string {
host, _ := os.Hostname()
return fmt.Sprintf("%s (pid %d on %s, build %s)", caller, os.Getpid(), host, version)
}
// namedModules are the modules a declaration names: its machine's set, less what was left out of it.
func namedModules(plan catalogue.Resolution, leftOut map[string]string) []string {
out := make([]string, 0, len(plan.Modules))
for _, m := range plan.Modules {
if _, left := leftOut[m.Module]; !left {
out = append(out, m.Module)
}
}
sort.Strings(out)
return out
}
// heardGenerationRefusal keeps a machine's refusal of a send for its generation, so S20 names its sender
// and says it (novox/hq issue 234): on the send it refused or — when the mesh has no record of sending that
// sequence — as a refusal of its own, naming the sender as unknown. Either way S20 is raised: a refusal the
// mesh cannot attribute is the louder fact, not a quieter one.
//
// **And raises the mesh's counter past what the machine applied, when the refused send was composed from
// the counter as it stands** (counterBehind): then the sender's view was not stale — the counter is behind
// the machine, which is a store put back from a backup — and every send after would be refused for ever. A
// stale sender's generation is below the counter, and the counter is left alone for it.
//
// Nothing is sent from here. This runs in the controller's receive loop, and a push from it would hold that
// loop, and the machine's hold, for as long as the push takes — the deaf controller of issues 184 and 185.
// S20 names `push <node>` for that case instead.
func heardGenerationRefusal(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, report link.Report) {
r := report.OlderGeneration
if r == nil || inv == nil || report.Node == "" {
return
}
node, err := inv.NodeByName(ctx, report.Node)
if err != nil {
fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "mesh-controller: %s refused a send for its generation, and the machine cannot be "+
"read, so it is not raised: %v\n", report.Node, err)
return
}
var raised int64
if now, err := inv.AssignmentGeneration(ctx); err != nil {
fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "mesh-controller: %s refused a send for its generation, and the mesh's own cannot be "+
"read: %v\n", report.Node, err)
} else if counterBehind(*r, now) {
if raised, err = inv.RaiseAssignmentGeneration(ctx, r.Applied); err != nil {
fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "mesh-controller: the assignment generation (%d) is behind what %s applied (%d), "+
"and could not be raised: %v\n", now, report.Node, r.Applied, err)
raised = 0
} else {
fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "mesh-controller: the assignment generation was %d, behind what %s applied (%d) — "+
"a store put back from a backup — and is raised to %d; `push %s` sends it what the mesh holds now\n",
now, report.Node, r.Applied, raised, report.Node)
}
}
send, found, err := inv.RefusedSend(ctx, node.ID, report.Sequence, r.Applied, raised)
if err == nil && !found {
send, err = inv.RecordUnrecordedRefusal(ctx, inventory.Send{Node: node.ID, Sequence: report.Sequence,
Epoch: report.Epoch, Generation: r.Generation, Digest: report.Declared, RefusedApplied: r.Applied,
CounterRaisedTo: raised})
}
if err != nil {
fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "mesh-controller: %s refused send %d for its generation, and the refusal could not be "+
"kept, so it is not raised: %v\n", report.Node, report.Sequence, err)
return
}
fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "mesh-controller: %s refused send %d from %s: composed from assignment generation %d, "+
"and it applied %d\n", report.Node, report.Sequence, send.Sender, r.Generation, r.Applied)
}
// counterBehind says a refusal shows the mesh's counter behind the machine rather than a stale sender: the
// refused send carried the counter as it stands now, and the machine applied more than that.
func counterBehind(r link.GenerationRefusal, now int64) bool {
return r.Generation >= now && r.Applied > r.Generation
}
// watchGenerationRefusals is S20: every send a machine refused within the hour for the generation it was
// composed from, naming who sent it (novox/hq issue 234). One per machine, the newest refusal.
func watchGenerationRefusals(f *signalFacts) []conditions.Observation {
seen := map[string]bool{}
var out []conditions.Observation
for _, s := range f.refusedSends {
if s.RefusedAt == nil || f.now.Sub(*s.RefusedAt) > generationRefusalsSaid || seen[s.NodeName] {
continue
}
seen[s.NodeName] = true
o := conditions.Observation{Scope: conditions.ScopeMachine, ID: s.NodeName, Kind: kindOlderGeneration,
Machine: s.NodeName, Severity: conditions.Warning,
Summary: fmt.Sprintf("%s refused sequence %d from %s: it was composed from assignment generation %d, and "+
"%s applied generation %d — a sender composing from a view of the assignments the mesh has moved "+
"past; it named %s", s.NodeName, s.Sequence, s.Sender, s.Generation, s.NodeName, s.RefusedApplied,
modulesWords(s.Modules)),
Said: fmt.Sprintf("refused at %s", s.RefusedAt.UTC().Format(time.RFC3339)),
Headline: fmt.Sprintf("%s refused an out-of-date update", s.NodeName),
Explanation: fmt.Sprintf("Something sent %s an update made from an older list of what runs there. %s "+
"refused it, so nothing was removed. Nothing for you to do unless it repeats.", s.NodeName, s.NodeName),
Resolved: fmt.Sprintf("%s has had no out-of-date update for an hour", s.NodeName)}
if s.CounterRaisedTo > 0 {
// Not a stale sender: the mesh's counter was behind the machine (a store put back from a backup) and
// was raised; nothing has sent the machine its declaration since, so a person is asked to.
o.Summary = fmt.Sprintf("%s refused sequence %d from %s: it was composed from assignment generation %d, "+
"the mesh's own, and %s applied generation %d — the mesh's counter was behind the machine (a store "+
"put back from a backup?) and is raised to %d; `push %s` sends it what the mesh holds now",
s.NodeName, s.Sequence, s.Sender, s.Generation, s.NodeName, s.RefusedApplied, s.CounterRaisedTo,
s.NodeName)
o.Explanation = fmt.Sprintf("Needs you: push %s. The mesh's record was older than %s, so %s refused its "+
"update and kept what it had. The record is repaired; a push sends the update again.",
s.NodeName, s.NodeName, s.NodeName)
}
out = append(out, o)
}
return out
}
// modulesWords is a send's modules as a sentence says them.
func modulesWords(modules []string) string {
if len(modules) == 0 {
return "no module the mesh recorded"
}
return strings.Join(modules, ", ")
}
// writeLastSend says what a machine was last told, by whom and from which generation (novox/hq issue 234), and
// what it answered (issue 485): nothing when the mesh has not recorded a send to it.
func writeLastSend(ctx context.Context, w io.Writer, inv *inventory.Inventory, node string) error {
s, found, err := inv.LastSend(ctx, node)
if err != nil || !found {
return err
}
fmt.Fprintf(w, "%s:\n", node)
for _, line := range lastSendLines(s) {
fmt.Fprintln(w, line)
}
return nil
}
// lastSendLines is a machine's last send in full, as `node show` and `plan` say it (novox/hq issue 485): when,
// by whom, under which lease epoch, from which assignment generation, naming which modules, and what the
// machine answered of it — the refusal in its own words.
func lastSendLines(s inventory.Send) []string {
const stamp = "2006-01-02 15:04:05"
epoch := "under no lease epoch"
if s.Epoch > 0 {
epoch = fmt.Sprintf("under lease epoch %d", s.Epoch)
}
generation := "no assignment generation recorded"
if s.Generation > 0 {
generation = fmt.Sprintf("assignment generation %d", s.Generation)
}
lines := []string{
fmt.Sprintf(" last sent sequence %d at %s", s.Sequence, s.SentAt.Local().Format(stamp)),
fmt.Sprintf(" by %s", s.Sender),
fmt.Sprintf(" %s, composed from %s", epoch, generation),
fmt.Sprintf(" naming %s", modulesWords(s.Modules)),
}
answer := func(words string) { lines = append(lines, " its answer "+words) }
switch a := s.Answer; {
case s.RefusedAt != nil:
// Before the report: a refusal for the generation is kept on the send itself and is the machine's
// answer to this send in particular.
answer(fmt.Sprintf("refused it at %s: it had applied assignment generation %d, newer than this one",
s.RefusedAt.Local().Format(stamp), s.RefusedApplied))
case a.Outcome == "" || a.At == nil:
answer("the machine has not reported on it yet")
case a.Outcome == inventory.OutcomeApplied:
answer("applied it at " + a.At.Local().Format(stamp))
case a.Outcome == inventory.OutcomeRefused:
answer("refused it at " + a.At.Local().Format(stamp) + ", in its words:")
for _, line := range strings.Split(strings.TrimRight(a.Refused, "\n"), "\n") {
lines = append(lines, " "+strings.TrimSpace(line))
}
default:
answer(fmt.Sprintf("%s at %s: %d resource(s) failed — `status` says which", a.Outcome,
a.At.Local().Format(stamp), a.Failed))
}
return lines
}
// sendAnswerWord is what a machine answered of a send, in a word or few, as status says it in one line.
func sendAnswerWord(s inventory.Send) string {
switch a := s.Answer; {
case s.RefusedAt != nil:
return fmt.Sprintf("refused: it had applied generation %d", s.RefusedApplied)
case a.Outcome == "" || a.At == nil:
return "not reported on yet"
case a.Outcome == inventory.OutcomeFailed:
return fmt.Sprintf("failed (%d resource(s))", a.Failed)
default:
return a.Outcome
}
}
// printLastSends says, one line per machine, when it was last sent a declaration, by whom, from which assignment
// generation and what it answered (novox/hq issue 485). `node show <node>` says the send in full.
func printLastSends(nodes []inventory.Node, sends map[string]inventory.Send, unread string) {
if unread != "" {
fmt.Printf("what each machine was last sent could NOT be read: %s\n\n", unread)
return
}
if len(nodes) == 0 {
return
}
fmt.Println("last sent, per machine:")
for _, n := range nodes {
s, found := sends[n.Name]
if !found {
fmt.Printf(" %-12s no send recorded\n", n.Name)
continue
}
generation := "no generation"
if s.Generation > 0 {
generation = fmt.Sprintf("generation %d", s.Generation)
}
fmt.Printf(" %-12s %s by %s, %s — %s\n", n.Name, s.SentAt.Local().Format("2006-01-02 15:04"), s.Sender,
generation, sendAnswerWord(s))
}
fmt.Printf("\n `node show <node>` says a machine's last send in full\n\n")
}