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mesh-controller/internal/catalogue/consumer_into_serves.go
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jschoubben e09a14ba4c A served value may name the consumer it is served to (hq ADR 0188)
${consumer:as} and ${consumer:as:dns} in a serves block are filled per
consumer at resolution, and the one filled value reaches both ends: the
consumer's binding and its ${bound:...} substitutions, and the provider's
contributions entry as `derived`. A fact or alphabet the mesh does not have
is refused at parse; a consumer whose own file already holds the derived
value is refused at resolution, naming the placeholder to write instead.
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package catalogue
import (
"fmt"
"regexp"
"sort"
"strings"
)
// What a provider derives for one consumer, said once in the provider's definition and delivered
// to both ends (novox/hq ADR 0188, issue 124).
//
// A `serves` block is otherwise literal: the same values for every consumer. Where the provider
// *names the resource* — a bucket, a database, a vhost — the name is derived from who is asking,
// and before this the mesh had no channel for it. The provider recomputed it in its own code and
// every consumer transcribed it into its own definition by hand, which is a copy of somebody
// else's rule kept in agreement by nobody. One of three transcriptions was wrong for months.
//
// **The mesh learns no protocol here; it spells its own name in an alphabet it already knows.**
// The only fact a served value may name is the identity the mesh itself minted for the consumer,
// in one of two alphabets: as it was minted, and as a DNS label. Everything a provider wants
// around it — a prefix, a suffix, a separator — it writes around the placeholder, because a
// served value is a string.
// consumerFact is `${consumer:<fact>}` or `${consumer:<fact>:<alphabet>}`.
var consumerFact = regexp.MustCompile(`\$\{consumer:([a-z][a-z0-9-]*)(?::([a-z][a-z0-9-]*))?\}`)
// consumerFacts are what a served value may name about the consumer it is being derived for.
// One entry, deliberately: the identity is the one thing about a consumer the mesh itself chose,
// so it is the one thing the mesh can hand to a provider without either end guessing.
var consumerFacts = []string{"as"}
// consumerAlphabets are the ways the mesh will write that identity. `dns` is the mesh's own
// identifier with its separator written `-` instead of `_` — the whole of the difference between
// the alphabet the mesh mints in and the one buckets, vhosts and hostnames accept.
var consumerAlphabets = []string{"dns"}
// ServedTo fills a provider's served values for one consumer.
//
// `as` is the identity the mesh minted for that consumer — the same string it is told to present
// as a login. Values with no placeholder are returned exactly as they were, and a block with no
// placeholder at all is returned unchanged, so this costs nothing for the providers that derive
// nothing.
//
// Only strings carry placeholders. A number, a boolean or a nested object is a value the provider
// stated outright, and is left alone.
func ServedTo(serves map[string]any, as string) (map[string]any, error) {
if len(serves) == 0 {
return serves, nil
}
var out map[string]any
for _, key := range sortedAnyKeys(serves) {
text, ok := serves[key].(string)
if !ok || !strings.Contains(text, "${consumer:") {
continue
}
filled, err := consumerInto(text, as)
if err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("the value served as %q: %w", key, err)
}
if out == nil {
// Copied only once something actually changes: the caller's map is the manifest's,
// and a provider that derives nothing must not have it rewritten underneath it.
out = make(map[string]any, len(serves))
for k, v := range serves {
out[k] = v
}
}
out[key] = filled
}
if out == nil {
return serves, nil
}
return out, nil
}
// consumerInto replaces every `${consumer:…}` in one value.
//
// **A fact or an alphabet the mesh does not have is refused, not left standing.** Written through,
// the literal `${consumer:as}` would reach a configuration file and be read as a bucket name,
// failing somewhere that names neither the module nor the mesh — the same reasoning `${bound:…}`
// is refused by (boundInto).
func consumerInto(value, as string) (string, error) {
var failed error
out := consumerFact.ReplaceAllStringFunc(value, func(match string) string {
parts := consumerFact.FindStringSubmatch(match)
fact, alphabet := parts[1], parts[2]
if fact != "as" {
if failed == nil {
failed = fmt.Errorf(
"says %s, and the mesh states %s about a consumer", match, orNothing(consumerFacts))
}
return match
}
switch alphabet {
case "":
return as
case "dns":
return asDNSLabel(as)
default:
if failed == nil {
failed = fmt.Errorf(
"says %s, and the mesh writes an identity as %s", match, orNothing(consumerAlphabets))
}
return match
}
})
if failed != nil {
return "", failed
}
return out, nil
}
// asDNSLabel writes a minted identity as a DNS label.
//
// The mesh's identities are already lower-case letters, digits and `_` (ConsumerIdentity), and
// already short enough for the tightest backend they reach (CheckIdentity, twenty characters). So
// this is the separator and nothing else — no lower-casing of what is already lower case, no
// truncation to a limit the identity is already inside, no padding of a name that is already long
// enough. Each of those would be the mesh guessing at a rule it has not been given.
func asDNSLabel(as string) string {
return strings.ReplaceAll(as, "_", "-")
}
// CheckServes refuses a `serves` block that names a consumer fact or an alphabet the mesh does not
// have, when the definition is parsed rather than when a consumer is resolved.
//
// A provision nobody consumes yet still has its rule read: a definition that would be refused the
// first time somebody required it is a definition that is wrong now.
func CheckServes(m Manifest) []string {
var problems []string
for _, provision := range sortedServes(m.Serves) {
for _, key := range sortedAnyKeys(m.Serves[provision]) {
text, ok := m.Serves[provision][key].(string)
if !ok {
continue
}
// A probe identity, because what is checked is the shape of the statement and not
// what any consumer is called.
if _, err := consumerInto(text, "mesh_node_module"); err != nil {
problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
"%s serves %s, and the value it serves as %q %s", m.Module, provision, key, err))
}
}
}
return problems
}
func sortedServes(serves map[string]map[string]any) []string {
out := make([]string, 0, len(serves))
for k := range serves {
out = append(out, k)
}
sort.Strings(out)
return out
}
func sortedAnyKeys(values map[string]any) []string {
out := make([]string, 0, len(values))
for k := range values {
out = append(out, k)
}
sort.Strings(out)
return out
}
// derivedFor is what the provider on this machine derives for one consumer of one provision
// (novox/hq ADR 0188).
//
// Settled first, then derived: an operator may set a prefix on what the provider serves and the
// mesh still fills the consumer's half of it ([ADR 0174]). Only the keys that actually name the
// consumer are returned — the rest of a `serves` block is the same for every consumer and is
// already in the provider's own definition, so repeating it here would be a second copy to go
// stale.
//
// The first module in the resolved order that says it serves the provision answers, which is the
// choice servedOnThisMachine makes for the consumer's half. Nothing serving it on this machine is
// not an error: a contribution can reach a machine whose provider is a record or an adapter, and
// then there is nothing derived to tell.
func (r Resolution) derivedFor(provision, as string, settings SettingsBy) (map[string]any, error) {
for _, m := range r.Modules {
serves, said := m.Serves[provision]
if !said {
continue
}
var names map[string]any
for key, value := range serves {
if text, ok := value.(string); ok && strings.Contains(text, "${consumer:") {
if names == nil {
names = map[string]any{}
}
names[key] = value
}
}
if names == nil {
return nil, nil
}
settled, err := Settle(names, settings[m.Module])
if err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s serving %s: %w", m.Module, provision, err)
}
derived, err := ServedTo(settled, as)
if err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s serving %s to %s: %w", m.Module, provision, as, err)
}
return derived, nil
}
return nil, nil
}
// notTranscribed refuses a consumer's file that writes out the value its provider derives for it,
// instead of asking for it (novox/hq ADR 0188, issue 124).
//
// **What would have caught the one wrong instance.** The object store's three consumers each wrote
// their bucket into their own configuration by hand. One of them named a predecessor's bucket, and
// nothing compared it to what the provider would actually create: the module would have
// authenticated successfully and been refused on every object, which reads like a credential fault
// and is not one. It looked authoritative for months.
//
// The test is exact and costs one string search: a definition whose file already contains the
// value the mesh is about to derive for it has written down somebody else's rule. It cannot be a
// coincidence — a derived value carries the identity the mesh minted for this very consumer on
// this very machine, which nothing else would spell out — and it cannot be checked afterwards,
// because after substitution every consumer's file contains it legitimately.
//
// Only values that actually name the consumer are judged. A provider that serves a constant under
// the same key serves the same constant to everyone, and a consumer repeating it is redundant
// rather than wrong.
func notTranscribed(resource map[string]any, known map[string]map[string]string, module string) error {
if fmt.Sprint(resource["type"]) != "file" {
return nil
}
content, ok := resource["content"].(string)
if !ok || content == "" {
return nil
}
for _, provision := range sortedKnown(known) {
values := known[provision]
identity := values["as"]
if identity == "" {
continue
}
for _, key := range sortedStringKeys(values) {
if key == "as" {
// The login is not derived from itself, and a consumer that must present it in a
// connection string legitimately has it from `${bound:…}` — which is what it will
// be after substitution, so this would judge the substitution, not the module.
continue
}
value := values[key]
if value == "" || !namesTheConsumer(value, identity) {
continue
}
if !strings.Contains(content, value) {
continue
}
return fmt.Errorf(
"%s writes %q into %v, and that is exactly what %s derives for it — a definition "+
"keeping its own copy of somebody else's naming rule is one that can disagree "+
"with it, silently. Say ${bound:%s:%s} and be told",
module, value, resource["id"], provision, provision, key)
}
}
return nil
}
// namesTheConsumer is whether a derived value was built from this consumer's identity — in the
// alphabet it was minted in, or as a DNS label. A value that does not contain it was not derived
// from it, whatever else it may be.
func namesTheConsumer(value, identity string) bool {
return strings.Contains(value, identity) || strings.Contains(value, asDNSLabel(identity))
}
func sortedKnown(known map[string]map[string]string) []string {
out := make([]string, 0, len(known))
for k := range known {
out = append(out, k)
}
sort.Strings(out)
return out
}
func sortedStringKeys(values map[string]string) []string {
out := make([]string, 0, len(values))
for k := range values {
out = append(out, k)
}
sort.Strings(out)
return out
}