go/asks: a message carries its note apart, and an explanation is held to a glance (issues 383 and 639) #25

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mesh-admin merged 3 commits from fix/639-an-ask-reads-at-a-glance into main 2026-10-13 19:02:17 +00:00
2 changed files with 157 additions and 7 deletions
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@@ -170,10 +170,18 @@ func (a Ask) Digest() string {
canonical(&b, v)
}
}
if a.Whole != "" || a.Details != "" {
// Whole and Details are written whenever either or WholeDetails is given, and WholeDetails after them whenever
// it is given (novox/hq ADR 0347): the fields after the options are then always one of three fixed shapes —
// none, the two, or the three — and the count of values the sequence holds tells them apart, so no two asks
// encode the same (the review of mesh-sdk #25). An ask with none of them digests as before they existed, and
// one without WholeDetails as before it existed.
if a.Whole != "" || a.Details != "" || a.WholeDetails != "" {
canonical(&b, a.Whole)
canonical(&b, a.Details)
}
if a.WholeDetails != "" {
canonical(&b, a.WholeDetails)
}
sum := sha256.Sum256([]byte(b.String()))
return "sha256:" + hex.EncodeToString(sum[:])
}
@@ -202,9 +210,59 @@ type Ask struct {
// The asker withholds a value shaped like a secret in it, and the router refuses the ask when one is left;
// Explanation stays under the whole content rule everywhere else. Empty, Explanation is shown everywhere.
Whole string `json:"whole,omitempty"`
// Details is what the Details answer on the ask's message shows, line by line under the content rule: a
// fingerprint, how to read the proposal whole at the terminal. Empty, an ask's own message offers no Details.
// Details are the ask's secondary words, line by line under the content rule: who proposed it, a
// fingerprint, how to read it whole. The router shows them in the note of the ask's own message
// (Message.Note), after what the ask's options do and when it expires — never in its body (novox/hq
// issue 639).
Details string `json:"details,omitempty"`
// WholeDetails are the Details with their exact values whole, shown in place of Details where Whole is shown
// in place of the explanation (a kind that proves who answers, given the ask's answers): every value an
// approval sets, whole, so the person reads exactly what they approve (novox/hq issue 383). Held, like
// Whole, to the secret rule alone; the router refuses the ask when a secret's shape is left in it. Empty,
// Details are shown everywhere.
WholeDetails string `json:"whole-details,omitempty"`
}
// What an ask's explanation is held to, so it reads at a glance on a phone (novox/hq issue 639): a summary
// of two or three short sentences on its first line — what changes, why, what it costs or risks — then at
// most three points, a line each, only where they add something. Whole is held to the same. Who asked, when,
// the fingerprint and how to read it whole are Details, never the explanation.
const (
SummaryLength = 300
MostPoints = 3
PointLength = 160
)
// Glance says why an explanation does not read at a glance, or nil: its first line, the summary, longer than
// SummaryLength; more than MostPoints lines after it; a point longer than PointLength. Blank lines are not
// counted. An asker holds its asks to it in its own tests; the router says, without refusing, an ask that
// does not hold to it.
func Glance(explanation string) error {
var lines []string
for _, l := range strings.Split(explanation, "\n") {
if strings.TrimSpace(l) != "" {
lines = append(lines, strings.TrimSpace(l))
}
}
var problems []string
switch {
case len(lines) == 0:
problems = append(problems, "it has no summary")
case len([]rune(lines[0])) > SummaryLength:
problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("its summary is %d characters, more than %d", len([]rune(lines[0])), SummaryLength))
}
if len(lines) > 1+MostPoints {
problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("it has %d points after its summary, more than %d", len(lines)-1, MostPoints))
}
for i, l := range lines {
if i > 0 && len([]rune(l)) > PointLength {
problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("its point %d is %d characters, more than %d", i, len([]rune(l)), PointLength))
}
}
if len(problems) > 0 {
return errors.New("the explanation does not read at a glance: " + strings.Join(problems, "; "))
}
return nil
}
// The bounds of an ask (novox/hq ADR 0234 §8, ADR 0259 §4).
@@ -435,8 +493,14 @@ type Message struct {
Title string `json:"title"`
Body string `json:"body"`
Buttons []Button `json:"buttons,omitempty"`
Urgent bool `json:"urgent,omitempty"`
Silent bool `json:"silent,omitempty"`
// Note is the message's secondary words, after its body and its buttons: who asked and when, what each
// answer does, when it expires, and the ask's Details. A channel shows it smaller, collapsed or set apart
// where it can, and after the body where it cannot (novox/hq issue 639). A channel that bounds a message's
// length cuts the body first and the note only when the title and the note alone do not fit, saying each
// cut (novox/hq ADR 0347 §5).
Note string `json:"note,omitempty"`
Urgent bool `json:"urgent,omitempty"`
Silent bool `json:"silent,omitempty"`
// Reply is the Choice or LinkAsked this answers, by its ID: the channel shows it where that was made.
Reply string `json:"reply,omitempty"`
// To is the account linked as the operator on this kind, for a channel that verifies its sender: where
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@@ -253,8 +253,8 @@ func TestDigestsAreCanonicalOverNamedFields(t *testing.T) {
t.Error("changing Whole beside Details left the digest the same")
}
// A field added to Ask or Option without being added to Digest fails here.
if n := reflect.TypeOf(Ask{}).NumField(); n != 11 {
t.Errorf("Ask has %d fields, and Digest covers 11: add the new one to Digest and to this test", n)
if n := reflect.TypeOf(Ask{}).NumField(); n != 12 {
t.Errorf("Ask has %d fields, and Digest covers 12: add the new one to Digest and to this test", n)
}
if n := reflect.TypeOf(Option{}).NumField(); n != 5 {
t.Errorf("Option has %d fields, and Digest covers 5: add the new one to Digest and to this test", n)
@@ -279,3 +279,89 @@ func TestAWarrantForAnAskWithNoExpiryIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
t.Error("a warrant for an ask with no expiry was taken")
}
}
// An explanation that reads at a glance passes; a wall of text says each way it is one (novox/hq issue 639).
func TestAnExplanationReadsAtAGlance(t *testing.T) {
if err := Glance("Your agents' memory follows you to every machine. A file changed on two keeps both.\n\n• Only the memory folders are carried\n• A conflict reaches you as a warning"); err != nil {
t.Fatalf("a summary and two points: %v", err)
}
var wall strings.Builder
wall.WriteString("ADR 0343 was proposed by fix-367 and approved by the knowledge base's own review.")
for i := 1; i <= 13; i++ {
wall.WriteString("\n" + strings.Repeat("A clause lead. ", 3))
}
err := Glance(wall.String())
if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "13 points") {
t.Fatalf("thirteen clause lines pass as a glance: %v", err)
}
if err := Glance(strings.Repeat("word ", 70)); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "summary is 349") {
t.Fatalf("a long summary passes: %v", err)
}
if err := Glance("short.\n" + strings.Repeat("p", PointLength+1)); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "point 1") {
t.Fatalf("a long point passes: %v", err)
}
if err := Glance(" \n"); err == nil {
t.Fatal("an empty explanation passes")
}
}
// A message's note travels beside its body, and is left out of the encoding when empty, so a channel older
// than it reads every message it read before.
func TestAMessageCarriesItsNoteApart(t *testing.T) {
raw, _ := json.Marshal(Message{Handle: "h", Title: "t", Body: "b", Note: "Asked by x."})
if !strings.Contains(string(raw), `"note":"Asked by x."`) {
t.Fatalf("the note is not encoded: %s", raw)
}
raw, _ = json.Marshal(Message{Handle: "h", Title: "t"})
if strings.Contains(string(raw), "note") {
t.Fatalf("an empty note is encoded: %s", raw)
}
}
// WholeDetails is digested when given, and an ask without it digests as before it existed: a router and an asker
// of different builds still agree on every such ask.
func TestWholeDetailsAreDigestedOnlyWhenGiven(t *testing.T) {
a := Ask{ID: "a", Headline: "h", Explanation: "e", Details: "d"}
before := a.Digest()
a.WholeDetails = "+ shares: media=/storage/media"
if a.Digest() == before {
t.Fatal("the whole details are not in the digest")
}
b := a
b.WholeDetails = "+ shares: media=/storage/other"
if a.Digest() == b.Digest() {
t.Fatal("two whole details digest the same")
}
a.WholeDetails = ""
if a.Digest() != before {
t.Fatal("an ask without whole details digests otherwise than before")
}
}
// No two asks encode the same (the review of mesh-sdk #25): whole details given beside nothing else are not read as
// a Whole and Details that happen to spell the same values, nor as any other split of the three fields.
func TestWholeDetailsCollideWithNoOtherAsk(t *testing.T) {
base := Ask{ID: "a", Headline: "h", Explanation: "e"}
shapes := []Ask{}
for _, f := range []struct{ whole, details, wholeDetails string }{
{"", "", "+ x: 1"},
{"whole-details", "+ x: 1", ""},
{"", "+ x: 1", ""},
{"+ x: 1", "", ""},
{"", "", "whole-details"},
{"", "+ x: 1", "+ x: 1"},
{"+ x: 1", "+ x: 1", ""},
{"", "", ""},
} {
a := base
a.Whole, a.Details, a.WholeDetails = f.whole, f.details, f.wholeDetails
shapes = append(shapes, a)
}
seen := map[string]int{}
for i, a := range shapes {
if j, ok := seen[a.Digest()]; ok {
t.Errorf("asks %d and %d digest the same: %+v / %+v", j, i, shapes[j], a)
}
seen[a.Digest()] = i
}
}