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mesh-controller/internal/catalogue/contributes_test.go
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jschoubben 5a3a87e8c3 A module can tell its provider what it needs
`requires` said a thing must be there. It never said what to do with it,
so a web application requiring a reverse proxy had nowhere to put "this
name, this port". The two modules that needed it most went round the
outside and opened a connection to the control plane's database, which is
why every node holds a credential to it permanently.

Two fields close it:

  contributes: {reverse-proxy: {host: board, port: 8080}}
  receives:    {reverse-proxy: /etc/traefik/dynamic/mesh.json}

The control plane collects every contribution on a node and writes them
to the path the provider named, ordered by module so the file does not
churn. Contributing to something is requiring it — asking to be published
means a publisher must exist, and a module that had to say both would
eventually say one.

The control plane does not know what a reverse proxy is and does not
write one's configuration. It delivers facts; the module turns them into
whatever it runs. That is why swapping the proxy touches nothing that
publishes through it, and why the host needs no new vocabulary — a
received file is a file.

Settings reach a contribution the same way they reach a file, because a
hostname is exactly what differs between one mesh and the next.

Two things found by running it:

- the file had a `//` header, so it said "do not edit" to a person and
  failed to parse for the program meant to read it. The note is inside
  the document now.
- a provider with no consumers gets an empty file rather than none. It
  cannot otherwise tell "nothing asked for me" from "the mesh never
  wrote it", and those want different responses.

Also `plan <node> --json`, which is how the declaration gets handed to
the host's own parser.
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package catalogue
import (
"encoding/json"
"strings"
"testing"
)
// The other half of an edge.
//
// `requires` says a thing must be there. It never said what to do with it — a web application
// requiring a reverse proxy has to say *which name, which port*, and there was nowhere to put
// that. The two modules that needed it most, the proxy and the VPN, went round the outside and
// opened a connection to the control plane's database, which is why every node held a credential
// to it permanently.
func published(module, host string, port int) Manifest {
return Manifest{Module: module, Version: "1",
Contributes: map[string]map[string]any{
"reverse-proxy": {"host": host, "port": port},
}}
}
func proxy() Manifest {
return Manifest{Module: "traefik", Version: "1",
Provides: []string{"reverse-proxy"},
Receives: map[string]string{"reverse-proxy": "/etc/traefik/mesh.json"},
Resources: []map[string]any{
{"id": "up", "type": "service", "unit": "traefik", "state": "running",
"restart-on": []any{ReceivedID("reverse-proxy")}},
}}
}
// received digs the delivered contributions back out of a declaration.
func received(t *testing.T, out []map[string]any) []Contribution {
t.Helper()
for _, r := range out {
if r["path"] != "/etc/traefik/mesh.json" {
continue
}
body := r["content"].(string)
var parsed struct {
Requirement string `json:"requirement"`
Given []Contribution `json:"given"`
}
if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(body), &parsed); err != nil {
t.Fatalf("the file the proxy is given is not readable: %v\n%s", err, body)
}
if parsed.Requirement != "reverse-proxy" {
t.Fatalf("the file does not say what it is about: %q", parsed.Requirement)
}
return parsed.Given
}
t.Fatalf("the provider was given no file at all: %v", out)
return nil
}
func TestTheFileTheProviderGetsIsMachineReadable(t *testing.T) {
// It is written for a program, and the first version put a `//` header above the JSON — a
// file that says "do not edit" to a person and fails to parse for the thing meant to read it.
got, _ := Resolve(shelf(proxy(), published("board", "board", 8080)),
[]string{"board"}, workstation(), nil)
for _, r := range mustDeclare(t, got) {
if r["path"] != "/etc/traefik/mesh.json" {
continue
}
var any map[string]any
if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(r["content"].(string)), &any); err != nil {
t.Fatalf("the file is not parseable: %v\n%s", err, r["content"])
}
if note, _ := any["generated"].(string); !strings.Contains(note, "do not edit") {
// Inside the document rather than above it, so it reaches a person without
// breaking the parse.
t.Fatalf("the file does not say it is generated: %v", any["generated"])
}
return
}
t.Fatal("no received file")
}
func TestAModuleTellsItsProviderWhatItNeeds(t *testing.T) {
got, err := Resolve(shelf(proxy(), published("board", "board", 8080)),
[]string{"board"}, workstation(), nil)
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
out, err := got.Declaration(Rendering{})
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
given := received(t, out)
if len(given) != 1 || given[0].From != "board" {
t.Fatalf("the proxy was not told about board: %v", given)
}
if given[0].Values["host"] != "board" || given[0].Values["port"] != float64(8080) {
t.Fatalf("the contribution did not survive: %v", given[0].Values)
}
}
func TestContributingToSomethingIsRequiringIt(t *testing.T) {
// Asking to be published means a publisher must exist. A module that had to say both would
// eventually say one, and the failure would be a machine where nothing serves the route.
got, err := Resolve(shelf(proxy(), published("board", "board", 8080)),
[]string{"board"}, workstation(), nil)
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
if !strings.Contains(strings.Join(names(got), " "), "traefik") {
t.Fatalf("contributing to reverse-proxy did not bring one in: %v", names(got))
}
}
func TestNothingToContributeToIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
_, err := Resolve(shelf(published("board", "board", 8080)),
[]string{"board"}, workstation(), nil)
if err == nil {
t.Fatal("a module was published through a proxy that does not exist")
}
if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "reverse-proxy") {
t.Fatalf("the refusal does not name what is missing: %v", err)
}
}
func TestEveryPublisherOnTheMachineIsInOneFile(t *testing.T) {
got, err := Resolve(shelf(proxy(),
published("board", "board", 8080),
published("archive", "archive", 9000),
), []string{"board", "archive"}, workstation(), nil)
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
given := received(t, mustDeclare(t, got))
if len(given) != 2 {
t.Fatalf("the proxy was told about %d of 2: %v", len(given), given)
}
// Ordered by module, because this becomes a file and a file whose lines move about looks
// changed when nothing changed — which would restart the proxy for ever.
if given[0].From != "archive" || given[1].From != "board" {
t.Fatalf("the order is not stable: %v", given)
}
}
func TestAProviderWithNoConsumersStillGetsTheFile(t *testing.T) {
// Empty rather than absent. A provider that finds no file cannot tell "nothing asked for me"
// from "the mesh never wrote it", and those want completely different responses — the same
// rule the host follows about a service that does not exist.
got, err := Resolve(shelf(proxy()), []string{"traefik"}, workstation(), nil)
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
if given := received(t, mustDeclare(t, got)); len(given) != 0 {
t.Fatalf("got %v", given)
}
}
func TestTheProviderCanReloadWhenTheRoutesChange(t *testing.T) {
// A proxy that got a new route and did not reload is a route that silently does not work.
// The same fault the private network had when a peer list changed under a running interface,
// which is why the received file has a name a module can point at.
got, _ := Resolve(shelf(proxy(), published("board", "board", 8080)),
[]string{"board"}, workstation(), nil)
out := mustDeclare(t, got)
for _, r := range out {
if r["type"] != "service" {
continue
}
reflects, ok := r["restart-on"].([]any)
if !ok || len(reflects) != 1 {
t.Fatalf("the proxy does not reflect anything: %v", r)
}
if reflects[0] != "traefik."+ReceivedID("reverse-proxy") {
t.Fatalf("it reflects %v, which is not the file it was given", reflects[0])
}
return
}
t.Fatal("no service in the declaration")
}
func TestARouteCanBeSetPerMesh(t *testing.T) {
// The hostname is exactly the kind of thing that differs between one mesh and the next. A
// module whose route could not be set would have to be edited to be reused anywhere.
got, _ := Resolve(shelf(proxy(), published("board", "board", 8080)),
[]string{"board"}, workstation(), nil)
out, err := got.Declaration(Rendering{Settings: SettingsBy{
"board": {{From: "the mesh", Values: map[string]any{"host": "dashboard"}}},
}})
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
given := received(t, out)
if given[0].Values["host"] != "dashboard" {
t.Fatalf("the setting did not reach the route: %v", given[0].Values)
}
if given[0].Values["port"] != float64(8080) {
t.Fatalf("setting the host dropped the port: %v", given[0].Values)
}
}
func TestReceivingWhatYouDoNotProvideIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
// It would create a file nobody ever writes to, on a machine where nothing asked for it.
_, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"traefik","version":"1",
"receives":{"reverse-proxy":"/etc/traefik/mesh.json"}}`))
if err == nil {
t.Fatal("a module received contributions to something it does not provide")
}
if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "does not provide") {
t.Fatalf("unhelpful refusal: %v", err)
}
}
func TestAnEmptyContributionIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
// Either a mistake or a requirement written the long way round, and both are better said.
_, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"board","version":"1",
"contributes":{"reverse-proxy":{}}}`))
if err == nil {
t.Fatal("a module contributed nothing and was accepted")
}
if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "require it") {
t.Fatalf("the refusal does not say what to do instead: %v", err)
}
}