mesh-tools/node-tools/test/http.test.ts

/**
 * The console: the same surface over HTTP on loopback, started the way the mesh starts it — on the
 * module credential in MESH_BROKER_FILE (novox/hq ADR 0152, design 34 §2).
 *
 *   docker run -d --rm --name t -p 14232:4222 nats:2.10-alpine -js
 *   MESH_TEST_NATS=nats://127.0.0.1:14232 node --test --experimental-strip-types test/http.test.ts
 */
import assert from "node:assert/strict";
import { test } from "node:test";
import { spawn, type ChildProcess } from "node:child_process";
import { mkdtemp, writeFile } from "node:fs/promises";
import { join } from "node:path";

import { connectNats } from "../dist/broker-nats.js";
import { serveMcpHttp } from "../dist/http.js";

const url = process.env.MESH_TEST_NATS;

async function aMesh(t: { after: (fn: () => Promise<void> | void) => void }) {
  const catalogue = await connectNats({ url: url!, module: "mesh-catalog" });
  const shop = await connectNats({ url: url!, module: "shop" });
  await catalogue.handle("catalog_modules", async () => ({ modules: [{ module: "shop" }] }));
  await shop.handle("tools", async () => ({
    module: "shop",
    tools: [{ name: "price", description: "what something costs", input: {} }],
  }));
  await shop.handle("price", async (body: { of?: string }) => ({ of: body.of ?? "nothing", cost: 12 }));
  t.after(async () => {
    await catalogue.close();
    await shop.close();
  });
}

/** `mesh serve` as the mesh runs it: MESH_BROKER_FILE, a listen address, nothing else. */
async function aConsole(t: { after: (fn: () => Promise<void> | void) => void }): Promise<string> {
  const dir = await mkdtemp("/tmp/mesh-console-");
  const credential = join(dir, "broker");
  await writeFile(credential, JSON.stringify({ url, node: "desk", module: "mesh-console", user: "desk.mesh-console", password: "x" }));
  const child: ChildProcess = spawn(process.execPath, ["dist/mesh.js", "serve", "--listen", "127.0.0.1:0"], {
    env: { ...process.env, MESH_BROKER_FILE: credential, MESH_CREDENTIAL: "" },
    stdio: ["ignore", "pipe", "pipe"],
  });
  t.after(() => {
    child.kill("SIGTERM");
  });
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    let out = "";
    let err = "";
    child.stdout!.on("data", (d) => {
      out += d.toString();
      const m = /listening on (http:\/\/[^/]+\/mcp)/.exec(out);
      if (m) resolve(m[1]!);
    });
    child.stderr!.on("data", (d) => (err += d.toString()));
    child.on("exit", (code) => reject(new Error(`serve exited ${code}: ${err}`)));
  });
}

async function post(endpoint: string, body: unknown): Promise<{ status: number; json?: any }> {
  const res = await fetch(endpoint, {
    method: "POST",
    headers: { "content-type": "application/json", accept: "application/json" },
    body: JSON.stringify(body),
  });
  const text = await res.text();
  return { status: res.status, json: text ? JSON.parse(text) : undefined };
}

test("the console answers a host on loopback, as the account the mesh gave it", async (t) => {
  if (!url) return t.skip("MESH_TEST_NATS unset");
  await aMesh(t);
  const endpoint = await aConsole(t);

  const hello = await post(endpoint, { jsonrpc: "2.0", id: 1, method: "initialize", params: {} });
  assert.equal(hello.status, 200);
  assert.match(hello.json.result.instructions, /desk\.mesh-console/, "the handshake names the console's account");

  const heard = await post(endpoint, { jsonrpc: "2.0", method: "notifications/initialized" });
  assert.equal(heard.status, 202, "a notification is heard and not answered");

  const listed = await post(endpoint, { jsonrpc: "2.0", id: 2, method: "tools/list" });
  assert.deepEqual(listed.json.result.tools.map((x: { name: string }) => x.name), ["shop.price"]);

  const called = await post(endpoint, {
    jsonrpc: "2.0", id: 3, method: "tools/call", params: { name: "shop.price", arguments: { of: "a hat" } },
  });
  assert.deepEqual(JSON.parse(called.json.result.content[0].text), { of: "a hat", cost: 12 });

  // A person's client through the same endpoint, with no credential of its own.
  const { main } = await import("../dist/mesh.js");
  const logged: string[] = [];
  const was = console.log;
  console.log = (line: string) => logged.push(String(line));
  try {
    assert.equal(await main(["tools", "--console", endpoint]), 0);
  } finally {
    console.log = was;
  }
  assert.ok(logged.some((l) => l.startsWith("shop.price")), `the client did not list through the console: ${logged}`);
});

test("the console binds loopback and nowhere else", async (t) => {
  if (!url) return t.skip("MESH_TEST_NATS unset");
  const bus = await connectNats({ url, module: "mesh-console", node: "desk" });
  try {
    await assert.rejects(() => serveMcpHttp(bus, "desk.mesh-console", "0.0.0.0:0"), /loopback and nowhere else/);
    const up = await serveMcpHttp(bus, "desk.mesh-console", "127.0.0.1:0");
    assert.match(up.address, /^127\.0\.0\.1:\d+$/);
    await up.close();
  } finally {
    await bus.close();
  }
});