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mesh-host/internal/link/messages.go
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jschoubben b72b71a989 The host applies the newest declaration, a file may be created once, the foundation filters first
031: a window of unacknowledged declarations is drained to the newest; the
rest are set aside and reported as superseded. 035: a file resource may say
create-once — written when absent, kept untouched when present (ADR 0087).
054: the bundle installs nftables and loads a base ruleset before the store
and broker, in the table the filter module later replaces (ADR 0088).
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package link
// The wire formats shared with the control plane, which defines them separately because this
// binary requires nothing present and does not import it. A test on each side asserts the field
// names, so a rename breaks both at once rather than on a real machine months later.
// Routing keys a node may publish. Its broker account is scoped to this exchange and its own
// queue, so it can say these things and nothing else.
const (
KeyReport = "report"
KeyAlive = "alive"
)
// Alive is a node saying nothing except that it is there.
//
// novox/hq 09-the-node-lifecycle: *how long it has been disconnected is a fact the mesh must
// hold, and nothing holds it today. Without it, a node running last month's assignments looks
// exactly like one that is current.*
//
// Separate from a report because the two happen at completely different rates: a node is alive
// constantly and applies something rarely, and reading one as the other would make a quiet node
// look like a stale one.
type Alive struct {
Node string `json:"node"`
}
// Signed is a declaration and the signature over it.
//
// novox/hq ADR 0004: the transport is verified once at connect, and **each declaration is
// verified by its signature, every time**. The two are different questions — a node connects to
// the broker and takes instruction from the control plane behind it, and pinning only the first
// would make the second transitive.
//
// The signature is over Declaration exactly as it arrived, bytes unchanged. Re-encoding before
// verifying would mean checking a signature over something other than what was sent, and any
// difference in key order or spacing would break it — so the raw message is what is signed and
// what is checked.
type Signed struct {
Declaration []byte `json:"declaration"`
Signature []byte `json:"signature"`
}
// Report is what a node says after applying, and it is a statement rather than a write.
//
// A node states; the context that owns the data writes (novox/hq ADR 0006). The difference is the
// security boundary: something that can write cannot be prevented from writing anything, and
// something that can only state has its blast radius bounded by what this struct can say.
type Report struct {
Node string `json:"node"`
// Applied is what this machine now owns, by resource id.
Applied []string `json:"applied,omitempty"`
// Failed says what could not be applied, and why, in words for a person.
Failed map[string]string `json:"failed,omitempty"`
// Refused is set when the declaration was rejected whole rather than applied in part.
Refused string `json:"refused,omitempty"`
// Superseded names the newer declaration this one was set aside for, unapplied.
//
// A machine asked to be five successive things becomes the last one (novox/hq issue 031):
// when several declarations are waiting, the host applies the newest and acknowledges the
// rest without applying them. Each of those is still reported, because silence reads as a
// machine that ignored an instruction and "applied" would be a lie — this is the third word.
Superseded string `json:"superseded,omitempty"`
// Carried are the machine's ports held by what this host raised from its own bundle.
//
// **So the mesh can assign around what it did not put here** (novox/hq ADR 0038). A node
// raises its foundation before any mesh exists, so the control plane has never heard of the
// store or the broker — and would hand a module a port one of them holds, discovering it only
// when a container runtime refused to start.
//
// A node *states* and the mesh writes, which is the whole shape of this message: this is the
// machine saying what is true of it, not asking for anything.
Carried []int `json:"carried,omitempty"`
// Declared is the digest of the declaration this report is about — sha256 of the exact bytes
// the mesh sent, which the mesh recorded when it sent them.
//
// **Which declaration, not when.** The mesh compared its send time to this report's arrival
// to decide whether a machine had caught up, and lost the race it invited: an apply started
// under the previous declaration finishes after the next one is sent, its report lands newer
// than the send, and the machine reads as caught up with words it has not read yet. Clocks
// cannot answer "which"; the digest is the answer itself.
Declared string `json:"declared,omitempty"`
}