dataflow-rs 3.8.0

A lightweight rules engine for building IFTTT-style automation and data processing pipelines in Rust. Define rules with JSONLogic conditions, execute actions, and chain workflows.
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//! Authoring-time validation: checking a workflow definition *before* it
//! reaches [`Engine::build`](crate::Engine::build).
//!
//! The engine's own enforcement — parse, [`Workflow::validate`], and
//! `LoopConfig::validate` — all fires when the *engine* is built. For a host
//! that stores definitions and builds one engine over many of them, that is the
//! wrong time (one bad row aborts the whole build, at reload, for every
//! workflow in the process), the wrong shape (one stringly error, so an
//! authoring API cannot point a 400 at `tasks[1].tasks[0].id`), and the wrong
//! cardinality (fail-fast, so the author fixes one violation per round trip).
//!
//! [`Workflow::validate_authored`] answers all three, and carries one
//! guarantee:
//!
//! > It returns empty **if and only if** the JSON parses into a [`Workflow`]
//! > and that workflow validates.
//!
//! That biconditional is true *by construction*, not by keeping a rule list in
//! sync — see the stages below.

use crate::engine::functions::config::{BuiltinKind, builtin_function_kind, can_dispatch_in};
use crate::engine::functions::{BoxedFunctionHandler, FunctionConfig, TemplateCompiler};
use crate::engine::secrets::{SECRET_OPERATOR, Secrets};
use crate::engine::steps::{StepKind, walk_authored_steps};
use crate::engine::workflow::Workflow;
use serde_json::Value;
use std::collections::HashMap;
use std::fmt;

/// One problem with a workflow definition.
///
/// Shared by [`Workflow::validate_authored`] and, from the registry side,
/// `EngineBuilder::check_workflow`. Both fill what they genuinely know: a
/// definition check always has an authored coordinate and knows the step id
/// when the problem concerns a step; a registry check always has a task id and
/// reports a path relative to that task.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
pub struct WorkflowIssue {
    /// Stable machine-readable classification.
    pub code: IssueCode,
    /// Human-readable explanation. Not stable — branch on [`Self::code`].
    pub message: String,
    /// Where the problem is. From [`Workflow::validate_authored`] this is the
    /// coordinate the author typed, rooted at the workflow document:
    /// `tasks[1].tasks[0].id`.
    pub path: Option<String>,
    /// The step this concerns, when it concerns one. Step ids are unique across
    /// tasks *and* groups, so this identifies a step on its own.
    pub task_id: Option<String>,
}

impl WorkflowIssue {
    fn at(code: IssueCode, path: impl Into<String>, message: impl Into<String>) -> Self {
        Self {
            code,
            message: message.into(),
            path: Some(path.into()),
            task_id: None,
        }
    }

    fn with_step(mut self, id: Option<&str>) -> Self {
        self.task_id = id.map(str::to_string);
        self
    }
}

impl fmt::Display for WorkflowIssue {
    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
        match &self.path {
            Some(path) => write!(f, "{path}: {} [{}]", self.message, self.code.as_str()),
            None => write!(f, "{} [{}]", self.message, self.code.as_str()),
        }
    }
}

/// Why a workflow definition is not loadable.
///
/// `#[non_exhaustive]`: a later minor may add a rule, and a host matching on
/// the codes it cares about should keep compiling. Use [`Self::as_str`] to
/// serialize.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Hash)]
#[non_exhaustive]
pub enum IssueCode {
    /// `id` is missing or empty.
    EmptyWorkflowId,
    /// `name` is missing or empty.
    EmptyWorkflowName,
    /// `tasks` is missing, not an array, or empty.
    NoTasks,
    /// A step carries no `id`.
    MissingStepId,
    /// Two steps share an id. Groups share the task id namespace.
    DuplicateStepId,
    /// A group's `tasks` is not a non-empty array.
    EmptyGroup,
    /// A group is nested at or beyond
    /// [`MAX_GROUP_DEPTH`](crate::engine::steps::MAX_GROUP_DEPTH).
    GroupTooDeep,
    /// A task carries no `function`.
    MissingFunction,
    /// `function` is not an object, or its `name` is missing or empty.
    InvalidFunctionName,
    /// `terminal` is present but not a boolean.
    InvalidTerminal,
    /// `loop.increment` is below 1 — the counter would never reach `max`.
    LoopIncrementTooSmall,
    /// `loop.max` is not greater than `loop.init` — no sweep could ever run.
    LoopBoundEmpty,
    /// `loop.counter` is not a non-empty dotted path.
    LoopCounterInvalid,
    /// No handler will dispatch this function name, and it is not a built-in.
    /// Usually a typo or a handler the host forgot to register.
    UnknownFunction,
    /// The name *is* a built-in, but one that ships as a config schema only
    /// (`http_call`, `enrich`, `publish_kafka`) and no handler is registered
    /// under it. The workflow builds cleanly and then fails every message.
    MissingHandler,
    /// A custom task's `input` does not deserialize into its handler's declared
    /// `Input` type.
    InputParse,
    /// A `Template` field of a custom task's input does not compile.
    TemplateCompile,
    /// An expression reads `{"secret": "name"}` and no secret of that name is
    /// declared on the engine (`EngineBuilder::with_secrets`). Only literal
    /// names are checked; a dynamic name fails at evaluation instead.
    UnknownSecret,
    /// An expression whose result the engine writes to the message or emits to
    /// a log reads a secret — a `map` mapping, or a `log` message or field. The
    /// store exists so a value is never recorded; an expression that would
    /// record it is refused outright, derived or not. Compute derived values in
    /// a custom handler.
    SecretInMessageWrite,
    /// The store passed to
    /// [`EngineBuilder::with_secrets`](crate::EngineBuilder::with_secrets) is
    /// not a JSON object, so no name resolves and
    /// [`EngineBuilder::build`](crate::EngineBuilder::build) will fail.
    /// Reported by
    /// [`EngineBuilder::check_workflow`](crate::EngineBuilder::check_workflow)
    /// *instead of* the [`Self::UnknownSecret`] issues every literal name would
    /// otherwise produce — the workflow is not what is wrong.
    InvalidSecretStore,
    /// The document does not deserialize into a [`Workflow`]. Carries the
    /// parser's own message, which names the offending field and type.
    ParseFailed,
    /// The document parses but [`Workflow::validate`] rejects it. A backstop:
    /// reaching this means a rule exists that the checks above do not model.
    ValidateFailed,
}

impl IssueCode {
    /// The stable string form, for serializing into an API response.
    pub fn as_str(&self) -> &'static str {
        match self {
            Self::EmptyWorkflowId => "EMPTY_WORKFLOW_ID",
            Self::EmptyWorkflowName => "EMPTY_WORKFLOW_NAME",
            Self::NoTasks => "NO_TASKS",
            Self::MissingStepId => "MISSING_STEP_ID",
            Self::DuplicateStepId => "DUPLICATE_STEP_ID",
            Self::EmptyGroup => "EMPTY_GROUP",
            Self::GroupTooDeep => "GROUP_TOO_DEEP",
            Self::MissingFunction => "MISSING_FUNCTION",
            Self::InvalidFunctionName => "INVALID_FUNCTION_NAME",
            Self::InvalidTerminal => "INVALID_TERMINAL",
            Self::LoopIncrementTooSmall => "LOOP_INCREMENT_TOO_SMALL",
            Self::LoopBoundEmpty => "LOOP_BOUND_EMPTY",
            Self::LoopCounterInvalid => "LOOP_COUNTER_INVALID",
            Self::UnknownFunction => "UNKNOWN_FUNCTION",
            Self::MissingHandler => "MISSING_HANDLER",
            Self::InputParse => "INPUT_PARSE",
            Self::TemplateCompile => "TEMPLATE_COMPILE",
            Self::UnknownSecret => "UNKNOWN_SECRET",
            Self::SecretInMessageWrite => "SECRET_IN_MESSAGE_WRITE",
            Self::InvalidSecretStore => "INVALID_SECRET_STORE",
            Self::ParseFailed => "PARSE_FAILED",
            Self::ValidateFailed => "VALIDATE_FAILED",
        }
    }
}

impl fmt::Display for IssueCode {
    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
        f.write_str(self.as_str())
    }
}

impl Workflow {
    /// Check authored workflow JSON without building an engine.
    ///
    /// Returns empty **if and only if** the JSON parses into a [`Workflow`] and
    /// that workflow validates.
    ///
    /// That is the *shape* question, and it is the whole of it. It is not the
    /// same as "this engine can run it": [`Engine::build`](crate::Engine::build)
    /// also resolves every task to a handler and parses custom inputs, so a
    /// structurally perfect definition naming an unregistered function still
    /// aborts a build. [`Engine::check_workflow`](crate::Engine::check_workflow)
    /// answers that half; run both.
    ///
    /// # How the guarantee holds
    ///
    /// Three stages. A structural walk collects *every* semantic violation with
    /// the coordinate the author typed; if it finds none, the document is then
    /// actually parsed and validated, and either failure is reported as one
    /// further issue. The second and third stages are what make the promise
    /// true by construction: the crate's serde schema is far larger than any
    /// rule list — a `"priority": "high"` or a `map` task missing `mappings`
    /// breaks no *semantic* rule and still cannot load — and mirroring it here
    /// would recreate the very drift this API exists to remove.
    ///
    /// # Example
    ///
    /// ```
    /// use dataflow_rs::{IssueCode, Workflow};
    /// use serde_json::json;
    ///
    /// let broken = json!({
    ///     "id": "w", "name": "w", "priority": 0,
    ///     "tasks": [
    ///         {"id": "dup", "name": "a", "function": {"name": "map", "input": {"mappings": []}}},
    ///         {"id": "dup", "name": "b", "function": {"name": "map", "input": {"mappings": []}}}
    ///     ]
    /// });
    ///
    /// let issues = Workflow::validate_authored(&broken);
    /// assert_eq!(issues[0].code, IssueCode::DuplicateStepId);
    /// assert_eq!(issues[0].path.as_deref(), Some("tasks[1].id"));
    /// assert_eq!(issues[0].task_id.as_deref(), Some("dup"));
    /// ```
    ///
    /// Every problem is reported, not just the first:
    ///
    /// ```
    /// # use dataflow_rs::{IssueCode, Workflow};
    /// # use serde_json::json;
    /// let issues = Workflow::validate_authored(&json!({
    ///     "id": "", "name": "w", "tasks": [{"id": "t", "name": "t"}]
    /// }));
    ///
    /// let codes: Vec<IssueCode> = issues.iter().map(|i| i.code).collect();
    /// assert!(codes.contains(&IssueCode::EmptyWorkflowId));
    /// assert!(codes.contains(&IssueCode::MissingFunction));
    /// ```
    pub fn validate_authored(json: &Value) -> Vec<WorkflowIssue> {
        let mut issues = check_shape(json);
        if !issues.is_empty() {
            return issues;
        }

        // Stage 2 — the schema is much wider than the rules above, and
        // enumerating it here would be the mirror this API exists to delete.
        let workflow: Workflow = match serde_json::from_value(json.clone()) {
            Ok(w) => w,
            Err(err) => {
                issues.push(WorkflowIssue {
                    code: IssueCode::ParseFailed,
                    message: err.to_string(),
                    path: None,
                    task_id: None,
                });
                return issues;
            }
        };

        // Stage 3 — a backstop. Reaching this means `check_shape` does not
        // model some rule `validate` enforces; the caller still gets a correct
        // answer, and the test suite is what keeps this unreachable.
        if let Err(err) = workflow.validate() {
            issues.push(WorkflowIssue {
                code: IssueCode::ValidateFailed,
                message: err.to_string(),
                path: None,
                task_id: None,
            });
        }
        issues
    }
}

/// Check a parsed workflow against a handler registry.
///
/// Shared by [`crate::EngineBuilder::check_workflow`] and
/// [`crate::Engine::check_workflow`] so the two cannot answer differently, and
/// run against the crate's *real* `TemplateCompiler` rather than a host's
/// reconstruction of one.
///
/// `workflow.tasks` is already flattened, so iterating it covers members of
/// task groups without any extra traversal.
pub(crate) fn check_against_registry(
    workflow: &Workflow,
    registry: &std::collections::HashMap<String, BoxedFunctionHandler>,
    template_compiler: &TemplateCompiler,
    secrets: &Secrets,
) -> Vec<WorkflowIssue> {
    let mut issues = check_secrets(workflow, secrets);

    for task in &workflow.tasks {
        let name = task.function.function_name();

        if !can_dispatch_in(registry, name) {
            // Distinguish the two reasons, because the fixes differ: a
            // `RequiresHandler` built-in is a real name awaiting a
            // registration, while anything else is likely a typo.
            let (code, message) = match builtin_function_kind(name) {
                Some(BuiltinKind::RequiresHandler) => (
                    IssueCode::MissingHandler,
                    format!(
                        "'{name}' ships as a config schema only — register a handler under \
                         that name, or this workflow will build cleanly and fail every message"
                    ),
                ),
                _ => (
                    IssueCode::UnknownFunction,
                    format!("no handler is registered for '{name}', and it is not a built-in"),
                ),
            };
            issues.push(WorkflowIssue {
                code,
                message,
                path: Some("function.name".to_string()),
                task_id: Some(task.id.clone()),
            });
            continue;
        }

        // Only `Custom` inputs are still raw at this point: the built-in
        // variants were typed by serde when the workflow parsed.
        let FunctionConfig::Custom { name, input, .. } = &task.function else {
            continue;
        };
        let Some(handler) = registry.get(name) else {
            continue;
        };

        let mut parsed = match handler.parse_input_box(input) {
            Ok(parsed) => parsed,
            Err(err) => {
                issues.push(WorkflowIssue {
                    code: IssueCode::InputParse,
                    message: format!("input does not match the handler's Input type: {err}"),
                    path: Some("function.input".to_string()),
                    task_id: Some(task.id.clone()),
                });
                continue;
            }
        };

        if let Err(err) = handler.compile_input_box(&mut *parsed, template_compiler) {
            issues.push(WorkflowIssue {
                code: IssueCode::TemplateCompile,
                message: format!("a template field does not compile: {err}"),
                path: Some("function.input".to_string()),
                task_id: Some(task.id.clone()),
            });
        }
    }

    issues
}

/// Where an expression's result ends up — what decides whether it may read a
/// secret.
#[derive(Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
enum Sink {
    /// Collapses to a bool the engine acts on: workflow, group and task
    /// conditions, `validation` rules, `filter`. Nothing of the value survives.
    Bool,
    /// Handed to a handler: `Template` fields and integration `*_logic`. What
    /// happens next is the handler's business.
    Handler,
    /// A custom task's whole raw input, handed to the handler untyped. The
    /// same rule as [`Sink::Handler`]; it differs only in that the document
    /// is not one expression, so an issue carries the deep path to the
    /// reference rather than the field.
    Input,
    /// Written to the message or emitted to a log by the engine itself:
    /// `map` mappings, `log` message and fields. Recorded by construction.
    Message,
}

impl Sink {
    /// Whether the engine itself records this expression's result. Such an
    /// expression may not read a secret *at all* — the store exists so a value
    /// is never recorded, and there is no static line between a copy and a
    /// derived value.
    ///
    /// The four variants are a map of where an expression's result goes;
    /// [`Sink::Bool`] and [`Sink::Handler`] answer this question the same way
    /// today and are kept apart because the reasons differ — nothing survives
    /// versus the handler owns what happens next.
    fn records(self) -> bool {
        matches!(self, Self::Message)
    }

    /// Whether an issue points at the reference's own deep path rather than at
    /// the field. True only where the field is not itself a single expression,
    /// so the field name alone would not locate the reference.
    fn points_at_reference(self) -> bool {
        matches!(self, Self::Input)
    }
}

/// Check every expression in `workflow` for `{"secret": …}` references.
///
/// One implementation for two callers: `Engine::build` refuses a workflow that
/// produces any issue here, and `check_workflow` reports the same issues, so the
/// two cannot disagree about what is loadable.
///
/// A reference is any single-key object whose key is the reserved operator
/// name — datalogic compiles exactly that shape as an operator call in
/// templating mode, at any depth. A string (or one-element array) argument is
/// a literal name and is checked against `secrets`; anything else is dynamic
/// and only fails at evaluation. Both forms are refused in a
/// [`Sink::Message`] expression.
pub(crate) fn check_secrets(workflow: &Workflow, secrets: &Secrets) -> Vec<WorkflowIssue> {
    let mut issues = Vec::new();
    let mut check = |value: &Value, field: &str, task_id: Option<&str>, sink: Sink| {
        check_expression(value, field, task_id, sink, secrets, &mut issues);
    };

    check(&workflow.condition, "condition", None, Sink::Bool);

    for task in &workflow.tasks {
        // Groups opening at this task, outermost first — compiled alongside
        // the task condition, so checked alongside it.
        for group in &task.group_starts {
            let id = Some(group.id.as_str());
            check(&group.condition, "condition", id, Sink::Bool);
        }

        let id = Some(task.id.as_str());
        check(&task.condition, "condition", id, Sink::Bool);

        match &task.function {
            FunctionConfig::Map { input, .. } => {
                for (i, mapping) in input.mappings.iter().enumerate() {
                    let field = format!("function.input.mappings[{i}].logic");
                    check(&mapping.logic, &field, id, Sink::Message);
                }
            }
            FunctionConfig::Validation { input, .. } => {
                for (i, rule) in input.rules.iter().enumerate() {
                    let field = format!("function.input.rules[{i}].logic");
                    check(&rule.logic, &field, id, Sink::Bool);
                }
            }
            FunctionConfig::Filter { input, .. } => {
                check(&input.condition, "function.input.condition", id, Sink::Bool);
            }
            FunctionConfig::Log { input, .. } => {
                check(&input.message, "function.input.message", id, Sink::Message);
                // `fields` is a `HashMap`, so iterate it in name order — issue
                // order is what a host logs, diffs, or asserts on, and what
                // `refuse_secret_issues` joins into a `build()` error message.
                let mut names: Vec<&String> = input.fields.keys().collect();
                names.sort_unstable();
                for name in names {
                    let field = format!("function.input.fields.{name}");
                    check(&input.fields[name], &field, id, Sink::Message);
                }
            }
            FunctionConfig::HttpCall { input, .. } => {
                for (name, template) in [
                    ("path_logic", &input.path_logic),
                    ("body_logic", &input.body_logic),
                ] {
                    if let Some(t) = template {
                        let field = format!("function.input.{name}");
                        check(t.as_json(), &field, id, Sink::Handler);
                    }
                }
            }
            FunctionConfig::Enrich { input, .. } => {
                if let Some(t) = &input.path_logic {
                    check(t.as_json(), "function.input.path_logic", id, Sink::Handler);
                }
            }
            FunctionConfig::PublishKafka { input, .. } => {
                for (name, template) in [
                    ("key_logic", &input.key_logic),
                    ("value_logic", &input.value_logic),
                ] {
                    if let Some(t) = template {
                        let field = format!("function.input.{name}");
                        check(t.as_json(), &field, id, Sink::Handler);
                    }
                }
            }
            FunctionConfig::Custom { input, .. } => {
                check(input, "function.input", id, Sink::Input);
            }
            FunctionConfig::ParseJson { .. }
            | FunctionConfig::ParseXml { .. }
            | FunctionConfig::PublishJson { .. }
            | FunctionConfig::PublishXml { .. } => {}
        }
    }

    issues
}

/// One expression's worth of [`check_secrets`].
fn check_expression(
    value: &Value,
    field: &str,
    task_id: Option<&str>,
    sink: Sink,
    secrets: &Secrets,
    issues: &mut Vec<WorkflowIssue>,
) {
    let mut refs = Vec::new();
    collect_secret_refs(value, field, &mut refs);
    if refs.is_empty() {
        return;
    }
    if sink.records() {
        issues.push(
            WorkflowIssue::at(
                IssueCode::SecretInMessageWrite,
                field,
                "reads a secret, and the engine records this expression's result — \
                 compute derived values in a custom handler instead",
            )
            .with_step(task_id),
        );
        return;
    }
    for (path, key) in &refs {
        let Some(key) = key else { continue };
        if secrets.get(key).is_some() {
            continue;
        }
        let at = if sink.points_at_reference() {
            path.as_str()
        } else {
            field
        };
        issues.push(
            WorkflowIssue::at(
                IssueCode::UnknownSecret,
                at,
                format!("secret '{key}' is not declared on the engine"),
            )
            .with_step(task_id),
        );
    }
}

/// Collect every `{"secret": …}` reference under `value` as
/// `(path, literal name)` — `None` for a dynamic name. Descends into the
/// argument too, since a dynamic name may itself contain a reference.
fn collect_secret_refs<'v>(value: &'v Value, path: &str, out: &mut Vec<(String, Option<&'v str>)>) {
    match value {
        Value::Object(map) => {
            if map.len() == 1 {
                if let Some(arg) = map.get(SECRET_OPERATOR) {
                    let literal = match arg {
                        Value::String(s) => Some(s.as_str()),
                        Value::Array(items) if items.len() == 1 => items[0].as_str(),
                        _ => None,
                    };
                    out.push((path.to_string(), literal));
                    collect_secret_refs(arg, &format!("{path}.{SECRET_OPERATOR}"), out);
                    return;
                }
            }
            for (key, child) in map {
                collect_secret_refs(child, &format!("{path}.{key}"), out);
            }
        }
        Value::Array(items) => {
            for (i, child) in items.iter().enumerate() {
                collect_secret_refs(child, &format!("{path}[{i}]"), out);
            }
        }
        _ => {}
    }
}

/// Stage 1: every semantic violation, with authored coordinates.
fn check_shape(json: &Value) -> Vec<WorkflowIssue> {
    let mut issues = Vec::new();

    if non_empty_str(json.get("id")).is_none() {
        issues.push(WorkflowIssue::at(
            IssueCode::EmptyWorkflowId,
            "id",
            "workflow id must be a non-empty string",
        ));
    }
    if non_empty_str(json.get("name")).is_none() {
        issues.push(WorkflowIssue::at(
            IssueCode::EmptyWorkflowName,
            "name",
            "workflow name must be a non-empty string",
        ));
    }

    match json.get("tasks").and_then(Value::as_array) {
        Some(tasks) if !tasks.is_empty() => {}
        _ => issues.push(WorkflowIssue::at(
            IssueCode::NoTasks,
            "tasks",
            "workflow must have at least one task",
        )),
    }

    check_steps(json.get("tasks").unwrap_or(&Value::Null), &mut issues);

    if let Some(loop_config) = json.get("loop") {
        check_loop(loop_config, &mut issues);
    }

    issues
}

/// Walk the authored step tree, checking each node and the id namespace.
///
/// Built on [`walk_authored_steps`], so the group test, the traversal order and
/// the depth cap have exactly one definition shared with the parser.
fn check_steps(tasks: &Value, issues: &mut Vec<WorkflowIssue>) {
    // Step id -> the path that first claimed it.
    let mut seen: HashMap<&str, String> = HashMap::new();

    for step in walk_authored_steps(tasks) {
        let id = non_empty_str(step.node.get("id"));

        match id {
            None => issues.push(
                WorkflowIssue::at(
                    IssueCode::MissingStepId,
                    format!("{}.id", step.path),
                    "every step needs a non-empty id",
                )
                .with_step(None),
            ),
            Some(id) => {
                if let Some(first) = seen.get(id) {
                    issues.push(
                        WorkflowIssue::at(
                            IssueCode::DuplicateStepId,
                            format!("{}.id", step.path),
                            format!(
                                "step id '{id}' is already used at {first} — task groups \
                                 share the task id namespace"
                            ),
                        )
                        .with_step(Some(id)),
                    );
                } else {
                    seen.insert(id, step.path.clone());
                }
            }
        }

        if let Some(terminal) = step.node.get("terminal") {
            if !terminal.is_boolean() {
                issues.push(
                    WorkflowIssue::at(
                        IssueCode::InvalidTerminal,
                        format!("{}.terminal", step.path),
                        "terminal must be a boolean",
                    )
                    .with_step(id),
                );
            }
        }

        match step.kind {
            StepKind::Leaf => check_function(&step.path, step.node, id, issues),
            StepKind::Group => {
                // The parser rejects a group whose `tasks` is not a non-empty
                // array; the walker reports the node so we can say which.
                let has_members = step
                    .node
                    .get("tasks")
                    .and_then(Value::as_array)
                    .is_some_and(|members| !members.is_empty());
                if !has_members {
                    issues.push(
                        WorkflowIssue::at(
                            IssueCode::EmptyGroup,
                            format!("{}.tasks", step.path),
                            "a task group's tasks must be a non-empty array — \
                             an empty group can only be a mistake",
                        )
                        .with_step(id),
                    );
                }
            }
            StepKind::TooDeep => issues.push(
                WorkflowIssue::at(
                    IssueCode::GroupTooDeep,
                    step.path.clone(),
                    format!(
                        "task groups nested deeper than {} levels",
                        crate::engine::steps::MAX_GROUP_DEPTH
                    ),
                )
                .with_step(id),
            ),
        }
    }
}

/// A leaf must carry a `function` object with a non-empty `name`.
fn check_function(path: &str, node: &Value, id: Option<&str>, issues: &mut Vec<WorkflowIssue>) {
    let Some(function) = node.get("function") else {
        issues.push(
            WorkflowIssue::at(
                IssueCode::MissingFunction,
                format!("{path}.function"),
                "a task needs a function — an element with neither `function` nor \
                 `tasks` is neither a task nor a group",
            )
            .with_step(id),
        );
        return;
    };

    if !function.is_object() || non_empty_str(function.get("name")).is_none() {
        issues.push(
            WorkflowIssue::at(
                IssueCode::InvalidFunctionName,
                format!("{path}.function.name"),
                "function must be an object with a non-empty name",
            )
            .with_step(id),
        );
    }
}

/// The three `LoopConfig::validate` rules, against the authored JSON.
fn check_loop(config: &Value, issues: &mut Vec<WorkflowIssue>) {
    // Absent fields take their serde defaults, which are valid; only a present
    // field can be wrong here. A non-integer is a *type* error and belongs to
    // stage 2, so it is deliberately not reported twice.
    if let Some(increment) = config.get("increment").and_then(Value::as_i64) {
        if increment < 1 {
            issues.push(WorkflowIssue::at(
                IssueCode::LoopIncrementTooSmall,
                "loop.increment",
                format!(
                    "loop increment must be >= 1, got {increment} \
                     (a non-advancing counter would never reach max)"
                ),
            ));
        }
    }

    let init = config.get("init").and_then(Value::as_i64).unwrap_or(0);
    if let Some(max) = config.get("max").and_then(Value::as_i64) {
        if max <= init {
            issues.push(WorkflowIssue::at(
                IssueCode::LoopBoundEmpty,
                "loop.max",
                format!(
                    "loop max ({max}) must be greater than init ({init}) — \
                     the bound is half-open, so this could never run a sweep"
                ),
            ));
        }
    }

    if let Some(counter) = config.get("counter") {
        if let Some(counter) = counter.as_str() {
            if counter.is_empty() || counter.split('.').any(str::is_empty) {
                issues.push(WorkflowIssue::at(
                    IssueCode::LoopCounterInvalid,
                    "loop.counter",
                    format!(
                        "loop counter must be a non-empty temp_data field path, got {counter:?}"
                    ),
                ));
            }
        }
    }
}

/// The value at `field` as a non-empty string, if it is one.
fn non_empty_str(field: Option<&Value>) -> Option<&str> {
    field.and_then(Value::as_str).filter(|s| !s.is_empty())
}