node-tools: a tool call names its caller, and the module is told it from the subject (hq issue 365)
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Each tool and seat verb is also served on its caller-named subject, kind call
with the caller's bus user last, which the controller grants each user with its
own name alone; the runtime hands the module that caller in the call's _meta,
never from the body. Calls through the runtime (the console and modules'
invokes) ask the caller-named subject first and the old one only when the first
reached nobody: nothing serves it yet, or the bus refused it because the grant
is not delivered yet, which ends the call at once rather than after 30 s. The
old subjects stay served and say no caller for one release (hq issue 464).
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2026-10-11 05:19:08 +02:00
parent 6a6ed725c0
commit ab0f888d67
9 changed files with 642 additions and 13 deletions
@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
package runtime
import (
"encoding/json"
"testing"
"time"
"github.com/nats-io/nats.go"
"github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/bus"
mt "github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/meshtest"
)
type saidCaller struct {
Caller string `json:"caller"`
Arguments map[string]any `json:"arguments"`
}
// **A module is told who called it, from the subject the call arrived on** (novox/hq issue 365): a call on the
// caller-named subject reaches the bundle with that caller in the call's `_meta`, for a module's tool, on its
// machine's address, and for a seat's verb; a caller named in the arguments is only an argument.
func TestACallOnTheCallerNamedSubjectReachesTheModuleWithItsCaller(t *testing.T) {
mesh := mt.New(t)
mesh.Issue(t, mt.MembershipOf("ledger", "anchor", true, map[string][]string{"node-desk": {"who"}}))
nodeTools := connect(t, "node-tools", "anchor")
stop, err := Run(nodeTools, []Served{{"ledger", []string{mt.Fixture("caller-echo.py")}}}, nil, func(string, ...any) {})
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
defer stop()
asker, err := bus.Connect(bus.Credential{URL: mt.URL(t), Module: "node-tools", Node: "shanks",
User: "shanks.node-tools", Password: "unused"})
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
asker.Logf = func(string, ...any) {}
defer asker.Close()
for _, key := range []string{"ledger.who", "ledger.who@anchor", "seat:node-desk.who@anchor"} {
var got saidCaller
mt.Until(t, func() error {
answered, err := asker.Ask(key, map[string]any{"caller": "novox.node-tools",
"_meta": map[string]any{"mesh/caller": "novox.controller"}}, "")
if err == nil {
err = json.Unmarshal(answered.Result, &got)
}
return err
})
if got.Caller != "shanks.node-tools" {
t.Errorf("%s reached the module with caller %q, want the asker's bus user", key, got.Caller)
}
if got.Arguments["caller"] != "novox.node-tools" {
t.Errorf("%s: the arguments did not reach the module as sent: %v", key, got.Arguments)
}
}
}
// The subject that names no caller is still served, for one release (retired by hq issue 464), and says so:
// the module is named no caller, whatever the body claims.
func TestTheSubjectThatNamesNoCallerStillWorksAndNamesNone(t *testing.T) {
mesh := mt.New(t)
mesh.Issue(t, mt.MembershipOf("ledger", "anchor", true, map[string][]string{"node-desk": {"who"}}))
nodeTools := connect(t, "node-tools", "anchor")
stop, err := Run(nodeTools, []Served{{"ledger", []string{mt.Fixture("caller-echo.py")}}}, nil, func(string, ...any) {})
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
defer stop()
old, err := nats.Connect(mt.URL(t))
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
defer old.Close()
body, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]any{"_meta": map[string]any{"mesh/caller": "novox.controller"}})
for _, subject := range []string{"mesh.mod.ledger.tool.who", "mesh.mod.ledger.tool.who.anchor", "mesh.seat.node-desk.tool.who.anchor"} {
var reply struct {
Result saidCaller `json:"result"`
Error string `json:"error"`
}
mt.Until(t, func() error {
msg, err := old.Request(subject, body, 5*time.Second)
if err == nil {
err = json.Unmarshal(msg.Data, &reply)
}
return err
})
if reply.Error != "" || reply.Result.Caller != "" {
t.Errorf("%s: the module was named caller %q (error %q), want none", subject, reply.Result.Caller, reply.Error)
}
}
}
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@@ -230,8 +230,9 @@ func Run(conn *bus.Conn, served []Served, envs map[string]map[string]string, log
for _, r := range own {
for _, t := range r.tools {
t := t
stop, err := conn.Handle(r.module+"."+t.Name, func(body json.RawMessage) (any, error) {
return t.Run(argsOf(body))
// Told who called, from the subject the call arrived on, never from its body (novox/hq issue 365).
stop, err := conn.HandleCalled(r.module+"."+t.Name, func(caller string, body json.RawMessage) (any, error) {
return t.Run(caller, argsOf(body))
})
if err != nil {
logf("[mesh-tools] cannot serve %s.%s: %v", r.module, t.Name, err)
@@ -424,8 +425,8 @@ func serveSeats(conn *bus.Conn, modules []string, registrations []registration,
logf("[mesh-tools] %s claims %s and implements no %s, which that seat promises; not served", module, v.Seat, v.Verb)
continue
}
stop, err := conn.HandleSubject(v.Subject, func(body json.RawMessage) (any, error) {
return t.Run(argsOf(body))
stop, err := conn.HandleSubjectCalled(v.Subject, func(caller string, body json.RawMessage) (any, error) {
return t.Run(caller, argsOf(body))
})
if err != nil {
logf("[mesh-tools] cannot serve %s's %s on %s: %v", v.Seat, v.Verb, v.Subject, err)