internal/system/shapes_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+package system
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-host/internal/declaration"
+)
+
+// Every shape in the vocabulary is implemented by a host that claims to do everything.
+//
+// **Added because adding a shape and forgetting this was silent here and loud there.** The
+// `network` shape parsed, validated, applied and removed, and a full host still refused every
+// declaration containing one — correctly, because it does not do half a declaration. The count
+// test above passed throughout: it checks what the language has, not what a host can do.
+func TestAFullHostImplementsEveryShapeTheLanguageHas(t *testing.T) {
+	does := map[declaration.Type]bool{}
+	for _, s := range All() {
+		if s.Name() != "arch" {
+			continue
+		}
+		for _, shape := range s.Shapes() {
+			does[shape] = true
+		}
+	}
+	for _, shape := range declaration.Vocabulary() {
+		if !does[shape] {
+			t.Errorf("the language has %q and a full host cannot apply it, so every declaration "+
+				"carrying one is refused whole", shape)
+		}
+	}
+}

internal/system/system.go

@@ -166,6 +166,9 @@ func everyShape() []declaration.Type {
 		declaration.TypeDirectory, declaration.TypeFile, declaration.TypeService,
 		declaration.TypePackage, declaration.TypeContainer, declaration.TypeAction,
 		declaration.TypeUser, declaration.TypeArchive,
+		// A network needs the same runtime a container does, so a host that can run one can make
+		// the other. Not in portableShapes for exactly that reason.
+		declaration.TypeNetwork,
 	}
 }