mesh-controller/internal/link/serve.go

package link

import (
	"context"
	"encoding/json"
	"errors"
	"fmt"
	"log"
	"os"
	"strings"
	"time"

	amqp "github.com/rabbitmq/amqp091-go"
)

// AMQPVar is the control plane's own connection to the broker.
const AMQPVar = "MESH_BROKER_AMQP"

// Enroller is what the control plane does with an enrolment request.
//
// An interface so the serving loop can be tested against a real broker without a database, and
// so the two concerns — moving messages, and deciding — stay apart.
type Enroller interface {
	// Enrol spends the token, records the key, and reports the node's name. The error is
	// returned to the node as a refusal; it must be the same for every reason a token can fail.
	Enrol(ctx context.Context, request EnrolRequest) (EnrolReply, error)
}

// Server consumes what nodes say.
// Listener is what the control plane does with a report. Separate from Enroller so the two can
// be given independently, and so a server that only sends declarations needs neither.
type Listener interface {
	Heard(ctx context.Context, report Report) error
}

// Recorder keeps what builders say.
//
// Separate from Listener because they are different things arriving: a report is a node saying
// what it did with a declaration, and a build result is a machine saying what came of some work.
// One interface carrying both would mean an implementation of one having to say something about
// the other.
type Recorder interface {
	Built(ctx context.Context, result BuildResult) error
}

type Server struct {
	conn     *amqp.Connection
	channel  *amqp.Channel
	enroller Enroller
	listener Listener
	recorder Recorder
	log      *log.Logger
	upgrader Upgrader
}

// Records tells the server where to keep build results.
//
// Set after Connect rather than passed to it, because a control plane that only publishes — the
// `build` command, which waits for its own answer — needs a connection and no recorder, and
// making it supply one would have it construct something it never uses.
func (s *Server) Records(r Recorder) { s.recorder = r }

// Upgrader is what the control plane does when the catalogue says a module moved.
//
// An interface for the same reason Enroller is one: deciding what an upgrade means for the
// machines running it is a different concern from noticing that one was announced, and only the
// first needs a database.
type Upgrader interface {
	// Upgraded is told which module moved and between which commits. An error is logged and the
	// message is not requeued: an upgrade the control plane could not act on is not one it will
	// act on by being handed the same message again, and a poison message on a durable queue
	// would stop every upgrade behind it.
	Upgraded(ctx context.Context, u Upgraded) error
}

// Follows says what to do about upgrades, and binds the queue they arrive on.
//
// **Not bound unless something is listening.** A durable queue bound to every upgrade with no
// consumer fills up quietly, and the first symptom is a broker out of disk rather than anything
// about modules.
func (s *Server) Follows(u Upgrader) error {
	if _, err := s.channel.QueueDeclare(UpgradeQueue, true, false, false, false, nil); err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("cannot declare the %s queue: %w", UpgradeQueue, err)
	}
	if err := s.channel.QueueBind(UpgradeQueue, KeyModuleUpgraded, EventsExchange, false, nil); err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("cannot bind %s to %s/%s: %w", UpgradeQueue, EventsExchange, KeyModuleUpgraded, err)
	}
	s.upgrader = u
	return nil
}

// Connect opens the control plane's own connection to the broker.
func Connect(enroller Enroller, listener Listener) (*Server, error) {
	url := strings.TrimSpace(os.Getenv(AMQPVar))
	if url == "" {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf(
			"this control plane has no %s, so it cannot reach its broker. Nodes talk to it over "+
				"the broker and nowhere else, so without this it can hold records and answer "+
				"nothing", AMQPVar)
	}

	conn, err := amqp.Dial(url)
	if err != nil {
		// Not quoted back: the URL carries the control plane's own broker password.
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("cannot reach the broker named in %s: %w", AMQPVar, err)
	}
	channel, err := conn.Channel()
	if err != nil {
		conn.Close()
		return nil, err
	}

	// Declared here rather than assumed. The control plane is the only thing that may create
	// them — a node's account can write to this exchange and read its own queue, and configure
	// nothing else, so a node arriving before the control plane has ever run finds nothing and
	// says so, rather than quietly creating a topology nobody designed.
	if err := channel.ExchangeDeclare(Exchange, "direct", true, false, false, false, nil); err != nil {
		conn.Close()
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("cannot declare the %s exchange: %w", Exchange, err)
	}
	// The events exchange too. The control plane is not the only publisher on it — modules
	// announce onto it with their own accounts — but it is the only thing permitted to create it,
	// for the same reason it is the only thing permitted to create the direct one.
	if err := channel.ExchangeDeclare(EventsExchange, "topic", true, false, false, false, nil); err != nil {
		conn.Close()
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("cannot declare the %s exchange: %w", EventsExchange, err)
	}
	if _, err := channel.QueueDeclare(ControlQueue, true, false, false, false, nil); err != nil {
		conn.Close()
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("cannot declare the %s queue: %w", ControlQueue, err)
	}
	// Every key a node may publish. Binding one and forgetting another is a message the broker
	// accepts, finds no queue for, and drops — the publisher sees success and the consumer sees
	// nothing. That is exactly what happened to reports: `report` was left unbound while `enrol`
	// worked, so nodes announced what they had applied into a void for an afternoon.
	for _, key := range []string{KeyEnrol, KeyReport, KeyAlive, KeyBuilt} {
		if err := channel.QueueBind(ControlQueue, key, Exchange, false, nil); err != nil {
			conn.Close()
			return nil, fmt.Errorf("cannot bind %s to %s/%s: %w", ControlQueue, Exchange, key, err)
		}
	}

	return &Server{conn: conn, channel: channel, enroller: enroller, listener: listener,
		log: log.New(os.Stdout, "", log.LstdFlags)}, nil
}

// Channel is the control plane's channel, for sending declarations.
func (s *Server) Channel() *amqp.Channel { return s.channel }

func (s *Server) Close() {
	if s.channel != nil {
		_ = s.channel.Close()
	}
	if s.conn != nil {
		_ = s.conn.Close()
	}
}

// Serve consumes until the context ends.
//
// One consumer, deliberately: with two, the broker would round-robin between them and each would
// receive half of what it expects — a fault this project has already had, between a module's
// daemon and its capability server.
func (s *Server) Serve(ctx context.Context) error {
	// Prefetch of one. The control plane writes to a database per message, and a burst of
	// enrolments delivered all at once would be held in memory rather than left on the broker,
	// which is the one place they survive a restart.
	if err := s.channel.Qos(1, 0, false); err != nil {
		return err
	}

	deliveries, err := s.channel.ConsumeWithContext(ctx, ControlQueue, "control-plane",
		false, false, false, false, nil)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}

	// The upgrade queue, when something is listening for them. A second queue rather than a
	// second consumer on the first: two consumers on one queue split its messages between them,
	// which is the fault the comment above exists about. Two queues share nothing.
	var upgrades <-chan amqp.Delivery
	if s.upgrader != nil {
		upgrades, err = s.channel.ConsumeWithContext(ctx, UpgradeQueue, "control-plane-upgrades",
			false, false, false, false, nil)
		if err != nil {
			return err
		}
	}

	closed := s.conn.NotifyClose(make(chan *amqp.Error, 1))
	s.log.Printf("consuming %s, bound to %s/{%s,%s,%s,%s}",
		ControlQueue, Exchange, KeyEnrol, KeyReport, KeyAlive, KeyBuilt)
	if s.upgrader != nil {
		s.log.Printf("consuming %s, bound to %s/%s", UpgradeQueue, EventsExchange, KeyModuleUpgraded)
	}

	for {
		select {
		case <-ctx.Done():
			return nil
		case delivery, ok := <-upgrades:
			// A nil channel blocks for ever, so this case simply never fires when nothing is
			// listening for upgrades. Closed is different, and means the broker stopped.
			if !ok {
				if upgrades != nil {
					return errors.New("the broker stopped delivering upgrades")
				}
				continue
			}
			s.upgraded(ctx, delivery)
		case reason := <-closed:
			// Said rather than returned quietly. A control plane whose broker connection dropped
			// is a mesh where nothing can be told anything, and the reason is the first thing
			// anybody will want.
			return fmt.Errorf("the broker connection closed: %v", reason)
		case delivery, ok := <-deliveries:
			if !ok {
				return errors.New("the broker stopped delivering")
			}
			s.handle(ctx, delivery)
		}
	}
}

func (s *Server) handle(ctx context.Context, delivery amqp.Delivery) {
	switch delivery.RoutingKey {
	case KeyEnrol:
		s.handleEnrol(ctx, delivery)
	case KeyReport:
		s.handleReport(delivery)
	case KeyAlive:
		s.handleAlive(delivery)
	case KeyBuilt:
		s.handleBuilt(ctx, delivery)
	default:
		// Rejected without requeue: a message nothing understands will not be understood on the
		// next attempt either, and requeuing it would spin.
		s.log.Printf("refusing a message with routing key %q", delivery.RoutingKey)
		_ = delivery.Reject(false)
	}
}

// handleAlive records that a node was heard from, and nothing else.
//
// Deliberately silent: a node saying it is there every minute would fill the log with the
// ordinary case, and a log where the ordinary case is loud is a log nobody reads.
func (s *Server) handleAlive(delivery amqp.Delivery) {
	var alive Alive
	if err := json.Unmarshal(delivery.Body, &alive); err != nil || alive.Node == "" {
		_ = delivery.Reject(false)
		return
	}
	if s.listener != nil {
		if err := s.listener.Heard(context.Background(), Report{Node: alive.Node}); err != nil {
			s.log.Printf("could not record that %s is here: %v", alive.Node, err)
		}
	}
	_ = delivery.Ack(false)
}

// handleReport records what a node says it did.
//
// A node states; nothing here writes anything the node claimed about itself beyond that it was
// heard from. What it applied is its own account of its own machine, and the mesh keeps the last
// one as a copy for recovery rather than as a source (novox/hq 09-the-node-lifecycle).
func (s *Server) handleReport(delivery amqp.Delivery) {
	var report Report
	if err := json.Unmarshal(delivery.Body, &report); err != nil {
		s.log.Printf("a report could not be read: %v", err)
		_ = delivery.Reject(false)
		return
	}
	if s.listener != nil {
		if err := s.listener.Heard(context.Background(), report); err != nil {
			// Said rather than swallowed. A report the mesh heard and failed to write down is a
			// node whose recovery copy is silently older than it looks.
			s.log.Printf("could not record %s's report: %v", report.Node, err)
		}
	}

	switch {
	case report.Refused != "":
		s.log.Printf("%s refused a declaration: %s", report.Node, report.Refused)
	case len(report.Failed) > 0:
		s.log.Printf("%s applied %d and failed: %v", report.Node, len(report.Applied), report.Failed)
	default:
		s.log.Printf("%s applied %d resource(s)", report.Node, len(report.Applied))
	}
	_ = delivery.Ack(false)
}

func (s *Server) handleEnrol(ctx context.Context, delivery amqp.Delivery) {
	reply := EnrolReply{Refusal: "that token cannot be used"}

	var request EnrolRequest
	if err := json.Unmarshal(delivery.Body, &request); err != nil {
		s.log.Printf("an enrolment request could not be read: %v", err)
	} else {
		accepted, err := s.enroller.Enrol(ctx, request)
		if err != nil {
			// Logged in full here, where an operator can see it; sent back as one refusal, so
			// that somebody guessing learns nothing from which reason came back.
			s.log.Printf("refusing enrolment for %q: %v", request.Node, err)
		} else {
			reply = accepted
			s.log.Printf("enrolled %s", accepted.Node)
		}
	}

	s.reply(ctx, delivery, reply)

	// Acknowledged after the reply is sent, so a control plane that dies mid-answer leaves the
	// request on the broker rather than having consumed it silently. Enrolment is idempotent
	// only in the sense that the token is spent — a redelivery gets the refusal, which is
	// correct and visible, where a lost request is neither.
	_ = delivery.Ack(false)
}

func (s *Server) reply(ctx context.Context, delivery amqp.Delivery, reply EnrolReply) {
	if delivery.ReplyTo == "" {
		s.log.Print("an enrolment request named no reply queue, so nothing can be told the answer")
		return
	}
	body, err := json.Marshal(reply)
	if err != nil {
		s.log.Printf("cannot encode a reply: %v", err)
		return
	}
	timeout, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, 10*time.Second)
	defer cancel()

	if err := s.channel.PublishWithContext(timeout, "", delivery.ReplyTo, false, false,
		amqp.Publishing{
			ContentType:   "application/json",
			CorrelationId: delivery.CorrelationId,
			Body:          body,
		}); err != nil {
		s.log.Printf("cannot reply to %s: %v", delivery.ReplyTo, err)
	}
}

// handleBuilt keeps what a builder said, whichever way it went.
//
// This is for results nobody was waiting for. A build asked for with `build` is answered directly
// to the asker; one triggered any other way is published here, and without this it would be
// reported into the void — which is the same as not reporting it.
func (s *Server) handleBuilt(ctx context.Context, delivery amqp.Delivery) {
	var result BuildResult
	if err := json.Unmarshal(delivery.Body, &result); err != nil {
		s.log.Printf("a build result could not be read: %v", err)
		_ = delivery.Reject(false)
		return
	}
	if s.recorder == nil {
		// Nothing to keep it in. Rejected rather than dropped silently, so the broker's own
		// counters show something arriving that nothing handles.
		s.log.Printf("a build result arrived and this control plane keeps none")
		_ = delivery.Reject(false)
		return
	}
	if err := s.recorder.Built(ctx, result); err != nil {
		s.log.Printf("cannot keep a build result from %s: %v", result.On, err)
		_ = delivery.Reject(false)
		return
	}
	switch {
	case result.Failed != "":
		s.log.Printf("%s could not build %s", result.On, result.Repository)
	default:
		s.log.Printf("%s built %s from %s", result.On, result.Repository, result.Commit)
	}
	_ = delivery.Ack(false)
}

// upgraded hands one announcement to whatever is following them.
//
// **Acknowledged whatever happens.** A failure here is the control plane being unable to act on an
// upgrade — a machine that cannot be resolved, a broker that will not take a declaration — and
// none of those get better by being handed the same message again. Requeuing would put a poison
// message at the head of a durable queue and stop every upgrade behind it, which turns one module
// nobody can push into a mesh that stops following its own catalogue.
func (s *Server) upgraded(ctx context.Context, delivery amqp.Delivery) {
	defer func() { _ = delivery.Ack(false) }()
	var u Upgraded
	if err := json.Unmarshal(delivery.Body, &u); err != nil {
		s.log.Printf("an upgrade announcement could not be read: %v", err)
		return
	}
	if u.Module == "" {
		s.log.Printf("an upgrade announcement named no module; ignored")
		return
	}
	if err := s.upgrader.Upgraded(ctx, u); err != nil {
		s.log.Printf("%s moved to %s and the mesh could not act on it: %v",
			u.Module, short(u.Commit), err)
	}
}

// short is a commit as people read it.
func short(commit string) string {
	if len(commit) > 8 {
		return commit[:8]
	}
	return commit
}