monochromatic-git-policy-cli 0.6.0

Repository-owned Git policy wrapper: forwards Git commands and checks commits against configured policies.
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//! What:
//!  The durable work-item record: a small file in the Git directory that says "this landed object needs this
//!  asynchronous work", written by the wrapper and drained by a separate resident consumer.
//! Why:
//!  A wrapper process exits when its command ends, and it may start no program, so work that must not delay a landing
//!  (the standards review, later auto-push and maintenance) is left as a record instead. The record is generic: a kind,
//!  the landed object and an id derived from both, so a retry cannot duplicate it. The design, its failure cases and
//!  the consumer contract are in `doc/planning/cli-git-standards-review-port.md`. Nothing calls this yet.
//!
//! In TS you'd write (pseudocode):
//! ```ts
//! await enqueue(workDir, { kind: 'review', oid, ... }); const item = await claimNext(workDir); await finish(workDir, item);
//! ```

use crate::claim_time::ClaimTime;
use crate::private_storage::{create_private_directory_all, write_private_file_unsynced};
use crate::service_timing::log;
pub use crate::work_item_state_directories_and_claim_names::{CLAIMED, DONE, FAILED, PENDING, RECOVERING, claim_file_name, id_of_entry, state_directory};
pub(crate) use crate::work_item_state_directories_and_claim_names::{entries_oldest_first, new_generation, parse_claim_name};
use serde_json::{Map, Value};
use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
use std::time::{Duration, SystemTime};

/// The record format version.
pub const VERSION: u64 = 1;

/// Directory under the worktree's own Git directory (`WorkItem::git_dir`) that holds the state directories.
pub const WORK_DIRECTORY: &str = "monochromatic-git-policy-cli/work";

/// What:
///  The kind of work an item asks for.
/// Why:
///   One record format carries every asynchronous job; the kind picks the consumer's handler.
///
/// In TS you'd write (pseudocode):
/// ```ts
/// type WorkKind = 'review' | 'push' | 'maintenance';
/// ```
#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, Eq, PartialEq)]
pub enum WorkKind {
    /// The standards-review shadow run.
    Review,
    /// An auto-push of the branch.
    Push,
    /// Repository maintenance.
    Maintenance,
    /// Emptying a directory of left-out files that a snapshot-made worktree set aside.
    Trash,
}

/// Methods over a kind.
impl WorkKind {
    /// The kind's name, which is also the start of an item's id.
    pub fn name(self) -> &'static str {
        return match self {
            WorkKind::Review => "review",
            WorkKind::Push => "push",
            WorkKind::Maintenance => "maintenance",
            WorkKind::Trash => "trash",
        };
    }

    /// The kind a name spells.
    pub fn from_name(name: &str) -> Option<WorkKind> {
        for kind in [WorkKind::Review, WorkKind::Push, WorkKind::Maintenance, WorkKind::Trash] {
            if kind.name() == name {
                return Some(kind);
            }
        }
        return None;
    }
}

/// What:
///  One work item: what to do, to which landed object, and where.
/// Why:
///   The consumer needs only the object name and the places to find the repository; it reads the patch itself.
///
/// In TS you'd write (pseudocode):
/// ```ts
/// type WorkItem = { kind; repository: string; gitDir: string; ref: string; oid: string; parent: string; created: string; tries: number };
/// ```
#[derive(Clone, Debug, Eq, PartialEq)]
pub struct WorkItem {
    /// What to do.
    pub kind: WorkKind,
    /// The worktree root.
    pub repository: String,
    /// The Git directory of the worktree that made the commit and whose service instance runs the item: the common directory
    ///  for the main worktree, `<common>/worktrees/<name>` for a linked one. The work records are under it, and
    ///  `is_acceptable` refuses an item whose value is not the directory it is read from.
    pub git_dir: String,
    /// The branch reference that received the commit.
    pub branch_ref: String,
    /// The landed commit.
    pub oid: String,
    /// Its first parent, or empty for a root commit.
    pub parent: String,
    /// `toISOString` text of the enqueue time.
    pub created: String,
    /// Failed or abandoned attempts so far.
    pub tries: u32,
}

/// Methods over an item.
impl WorkItem {
    /// The id and file name: the kind and the landed object, so the same landing always yields the same id.
    pub fn id(&self) -> String {
        return format!("{}-{}", self.kind.name(), self.oid);
    }

    /// The record's one JSON line.
    pub fn encode(&self) -> String {
        let mut fields: Map<String, Value> = Map::new();
        fields.insert(String::from("v"), Value::from(VERSION));
        fields.insert(String::from("tries"), Value::from(self.tries));
        for (name, text) in [
            ("kind", self.kind.name()),
            ("id", self.id().as_str()),
            ("repository", self.repository.as_str()),
            ("gitDir", self.git_dir.as_str()),
            ("ref", self.branch_ref.as_str()),
            ("oid", self.oid.as_str()),
            ("parent", self.parent.as_str()),
            ("created", self.created.as_str()),
        ] {
            fields.insert(String::from(name), Value::from(text));
        }
        return format!("{}\n", Value::Object(fields));
    }

    /// Read a record; any other version, an unknown kind, a missing field or an id that is not derived from the kind and
    /// object is refused with a message.
    pub fn decode(text: &str) -> Result<WorkItem, String> {
        let value: Value = match serde_json::from_str(text) {
            Ok(parsed) => parsed,
            Err(error) => return Err(format!("the record is not JSON: {error}")),
        };
        if value.get("v").and_then(Value::as_u64) != Some(VERSION) {
            return Err(String::from("the record has an unsupported version"));
        }
        let kind: WorkKind = match WorkKind::from_name(text_field(&value, "kind")?.as_str()) {
            Some(known) => known,
            None => return Err(String::from("the record has an unknown kind")),
        };
        // A count that is missing, or too large for a count of tries, is no count.
        let Some(count) = value.get("tries").and_then(Value::as_u64) else {
            return Err(String::from("the record has no tries"));
        };
        let Ok(tries) = u32::try_from(count) else {
            return Err(String::from("the record has no tries"));
        };
        let item: WorkItem = WorkItem {
            kind,
            repository: text_field(&value, "repository")?,
            git_dir: text_field(&value, "gitDir")?,
            branch_ref: text_field(&value, "ref")?,
            oid: text_field(&value, "oid")?,
            parent: text_field(&value, "parent")?,
            created: text_field(&value, "created")?,
            tries,
        };
        if text_field(&value, "id")? != item.id() {
            return Err(String::from("the record's id is not derived from its kind and object"));
        }
        return Ok(item);
    }
}

/// What:
///  Whether an enqueue added the item or found it already known.
/// Why:
///   A landing that is replayed, or a daemon that restarts, enqueues again; the second time must change nothing.
///
/// In TS you'd write (pseudocode):
/// ```ts
/// type Enqueued = 'added' | 'known';
/// ```
#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, Eq, PartialEq)]
pub enum Enqueued {
    /// A new pending item was written.
    Added,
    /// The id already exists in some state directory.
    Known,
}

/// What:
///  A named field of a work record as text.
/// Why:
///  `WorkItem::decode` reads every text field of the record, and a field that is missing or not text refuses the record.
///
/// In TS you'd write (pseudocode):
/// ```ts
/// const textField = (value: object, name: string): string => { if (typeof value[name] !== 'string') throw new Error(`the record has no text field ${name}`); return value[name]; };
/// ```
fn text_field(value: &Value, name: &str) -> Result<String, String> {
    return match value.get(name).and_then(Value::as_str) {
        Some(text) => Ok(String::from(text)),
        None => Err(format!("the record has no text field {name}")),
    };
}

/// What:
///  Whether an item of this identity has a claim file in `claimed` or `recovering`.
/// Why:
///  `enqueue` treats an item that is being worked on as already known.
///
/// In TS you'd write (pseudocode):
/// ```ts
/// [CLAIMED, RECOVERING].some((state) => entriesOldestFirst(workDir, state).some(([name]) => idOfEntry(name) === id))
/// ```
fn is_claimed_or_recovering(work_dir: &Path, id: &str) -> bool {
    for state in [CLAIMED, RECOVERING] {
        for (name, _modified) in entries_oldest_first(work_dir, state) {
            if id_of_entry(name.as_str()) == id {
                return true;
            }
        }
    }
    return false;
}

/// What:
///  Write the item as a pending record, whole or absent, unless its id is already in any state.
///  The producer never waits for a consumer and never reads anything back.
/// Why:
///   The id is the idempotency key; the exclusive publish makes two racing producers agree on one winner.
///
/// In TS you'd write (pseudocode):
/// ```ts
/// await writeExclusive(join(workDir, 'pending', item.id), item.encode())
/// ```
pub fn enqueue(work_dir: &Path, item: &WorkItem) -> Result<Enqueued, String> {
    for state in [PENDING, CLAIMED, DONE, FAILED] {
        if let Err(error) = create_private_directory_all(state_directory(work_dir, state).as_path()) {
            return Err(format!("creating the {state} directory failed: {error}"));
        }
    }
    let id: String = item.id();
    // The states are looked at in the order an item moves through them, so an item that moves on while they are looked at is
    //  found in the next one: looking at `done` first could miss an item that settled after that look and left `claimed`
    //  before the look at it.
    if is_claimed_or_recovering(work_dir, id.as_str()) {
        return Ok(Enqueued::Known);
    }
    if state_directory(work_dir, DONE).join(id.as_str()).exists() || state_directory(work_dir, FAILED).join(id.as_str()).exists() {
        return Ok(Enqueued::Known);
    }
    return match write_private_file_unsynced(state_directory(work_dir, PENDING).join(id.as_str()).as_path(), item.encode().as_bytes()) {
        Ok(()) => Ok(Enqueued::Added),
        Err(error) if error.kind() == std::io::ErrorKind::AlreadyExists => Ok(Enqueued::Known),
        Err(error) => Err(format!("writing the work item {id} failed: {error}")),
    };
}

/// What:
///  A held item: the decoded record, its id, and the name of the file that holds it.
/// Why:
///   Finishing needs the claim's file name, not the id: the name carries the generation of the claim, so a settlement or a
///  renewal reaches only the claim it was made for. The consumer needs the item.
///
/// In TS you'd write (pseudocode):
/// ```ts
/// type Claimed = { id: string; name: string; item: WorkItem };
/// ```
#[derive(Clone, Debug, Eq, PartialEq)]
pub struct Claimed {
    /// File name in every state directory but `claimed` and `recovering`, where the file name is `name`.
    pub id: String,
    /// File name in `claimed` as of the claim or the last renewal: the id, the claim's generation and the clock reading.
    pub name: String,
    /// The decoded record.
    pub item: WorkItem,
}

/// The most characters an object name has: 64 hexadecimal digits of a SHA-256 name. With the longest kind, a generation, a reading that
/// fills every field and the suffix of a recovery's temporary file, such an id still makes a name of at most 223 bytes, under
/// the 255 a file name may have; a longer id could make a claim's name fit and the name of its temporary file not.
pub(crate) const MAX_OBJECT_NAME_LENGTH: usize = 64;

/// Whether `object_name` is what follows the kind in an id: 1 to `MAX_OBJECT_NAME_LENGTH` ASCII letters and digits, so it
/// holds no separator of a claim's name and no character a file name treats specially.
fn is_object_name(object_name: &str) -> bool {
    return !object_name.is_empty() && object_name.len() <= MAX_OBJECT_NAME_LENGTH && object_name.as_bytes().iter().all(u8::is_ascii_alphanumeric);
}

/// What:
///  Set the modification time of the file at `path` to now.
/// Why:
///   A release that cannot read the reading in a claim's name ages the claim by the file's modification time, which a rename
///  keeps. Claims and renewals are renames, so without this such a reader sees the time the item was queued, not the last
///  renewal,
/// and takes a live holder's claim.
/// A failure is returned,
/// because a claim or renewal that went on without the stamp
///  would be one that such a reader takes (a file another user owns cannot be stamped).
///
/// In TS you'd write (pseudocode):
/// ```ts
/// await utimes(path, new Date(), new Date())
/// ```
fn stamp_modification_time(path: &Path) -> std::io::Result<()> {
    return std::fs::File::open(path)?.set_modified(SystemTime::now());
}

/// How a claim or renewal stamps the file it holds.
type Stamp<'a> = &'a dyn Fn(&Path) -> std::io::Result<()>;

/// Whether `id` is a kind and an object name,
/// which makes every name built from it fit in a file name.
pub(crate) fn is_valid_id(id: &str) -> bool {
    for kind in [WorkKind::Review, WorkKind::Push, WorkKind::Maintenance, WorkKind::Trash] {
        if let Some(rest) = id.strip_prefix(format!("{}-", kind.name()).as_str())
            && is_object_name(rest)
        {
            return true;
        }
    }
    return false;
}

/// The path of the file that holds the claim of `id` now, or nothing when it is not claimed or being recovered.
pub fn find_claim(work_dir: &Path, id: &str) -> Option<PathBuf> {
    // `claimed` first, then `recovering`, each oldest first; the first entry that is the claim of `id`.
    for state in [CLAIMED, RECOVERING] {
        for (name, _modified) in entries_oldest_first(work_dir, state) {
            if id_of_entry(name.as_str()) == id {
                return Some(state_directory(work_dir, state).join(name));
            }
        }
    }
    return None;
}

/// What:
///  Claim the oldest pending item by renaming it into `claimed` under a name that carries a fresh generation and the
///  reading `now`. A record that does not decode is moved to `failed` so it cannot block the queue.
/// Why:
///   A rename is atomic: of two consumers racing for one item, the loser sees the file gone and takes the next one. The
///  generation and the reading are in the name, so the claim is whole from the instant it exists; nothing is written to it.
///
/// In TS you'd write (pseudocode):
/// ```ts
/// await rename(join(workDir, 'pending', id), join(workDir, 'claimed', claimFileName(id, newGeneration(), now)))
/// ```
pub fn claim_next(work_dir: &Path, now: &ClaimTime) -> Result<Option<Claimed>, String> {
    return claim_next_of(work_dir, now, &[WorkKind::Review, WorkKind::Push, WorkKind::Maintenance, WorkKind::Trash]);
}

/// What:
///  Claim the oldest pending item of the given kinds, leaving every other kind where it is.
/// Why:
///   Consumers of different kinds share one queue; the kind starts the file name, so a consumer never opens, moves or
///   stamps an item that belongs to another.
///
/// In TS you'd write (pseudocode):
/// ```ts
/// await rename(join(workDir, 'pending', id), join(workDir, 'claimed', name)) // only ids that start with a handled kind
/// ```
pub fn claim_next_of(work_dir: &Path, now: &ClaimTime, kinds: &[WorkKind]) -> Result<Option<Claimed>, String> {
    return claim_next_stamped(work_dir, now, kinds, &stamp_modification_time);
}

/// What:
///  `claim_next_of` with the stamp of the claim's modification time given,
/// so a test can make the stamp fail.
/// Why:
///   The entry is taken into `recovering` under its claim name first,
/// where no reader of `claimed` looks and where the
///  entry is this instance's alone;
/// only there is it stamped,
/// and only then published into `claimed`.
/// A claim that cannot be
///  stamped or published goes back to `pending` with the modification time it had,
/// so a queue that cannot be drained keeps
///  its true age and the backlog notice still fires.
///
/// In TS you'd write (pseudocode):
/// ```ts
/// await rename(pending, staged);
/// await stamp(staged);
/// await rename(staged, join(workDir, 'claimed', name))
/// ```
fn claim_next_stamped(work_dir: &Path, now: &ClaimTime, kinds: &[WorkKind], stamp: Stamp<'_>) -> Result<Option<Claimed>, String> {
    for (id, queued) in entries_oldest_first(work_dir, PENDING) {
        let mut found_kind: Option<&WorkKind> = None;
        for candidate in kinds {
            if id.starts_with(format!("{}-", candidate.name()).as_str()) {
                found_kind = Some(candidate);
                break;
            }
        }
        let Some(kind) = found_kind else {
            continue;
        };
        // An id that is not a kind and an object name could make names that do not fit; it never becomes a claim.
        if !is_object_name(&id[kind.name().len() + 1..]) {
            quarantine_pending(work_dir, id.as_str(), format!("is not a kind and an object name of at most {MAX_OBJECT_NAME_LENGTH} letters and digits").as_str());
            continue;
        }
        let name: String = claim_file_name(id.as_str(), new_generation()?.as_str(), now);
        let pending_path: PathBuf = state_directory(work_dir, PENDING).join(id.as_str());
        let staged: PathBuf = state_directory(work_dir, RECOVERING).join(name.as_str());
        let claimed_path: PathBuf = state_directory(work_dir, CLAIMED).join(name.as_str());
        if create_private_directory_all(state_directory(work_dir, RECOVERING).as_path()).is_err() || std::fs::rename(pending_path.as_path(), staged.as_path()).is_err() {
            continue;
        }
        let stamped: std::io::Result<()> = stamp(staged.as_path());
        let published: std::io::Result<()> = match stamped {
            Ok(()) => std::fs::rename(staged.as_path(), claimed_path.as_path()),
            Err(error) => Err(error),
        };
        if let Err(error) = published {
            log(format!("the claim of {id} could not be taken, so the item stays queued: {error}").as_str());
            // The staged file is this instance's alone:
            // the age it had is put back before it is queued again,
            // whatever the stamp did.
            let opened: std::io::Result<std::fs::File> = std::fs::File::open(staged.as_path());
            let restored: std::io::Result<()> = match opened {
                Ok(file) => file.set_modified(queued),
                Err(open_error) => Err(open_error),
            };
            let requeued: std::io::Result<()> = match restored {
                Ok(()) => std::fs::rename(staged.as_path(), pending_path.as_path()),
                Err(restore_error) => Err(restore_error),
            };
            if let Err(requeue_error) = requeued {
                log(format!("the staged claim of {id} could not be queued again; its lease will run out and recover it: {requeue_error}").as_str());
            }
            continue;
        }
        let text: String = match std::fs::read_to_string(claimed_path.as_path()) {
            Ok(read) => read,
            Err(error) => return Err(format!("reading the claim of {id} failed: {error}")),
        };
        match WorkItem::decode(text.as_str()) {
            // The record is the work the file name says;
            // a record of other work would be settled as done under this id.
            Ok(item) if item.id() == id => return Ok(Some(Claimed { id, name, item })),
            _ => {
                let _ = std::fs::rename(claimed_path.as_path(), state_directory(work_dir, FAILED).join(id.as_str()));
            }
        }
    }
    return Ok(None);
}

/// Moves the entry `id` of `pending` to `failed` and says why,
/// where nothing can be done about a failure of either.
fn quarantine_pending(work_dir: &Path, id: &str, reason: &str) {
    let failed: PathBuf = state_directory(work_dir, FAILED);
    let moved: bool = create_private_directory_all(failed.as_path()).is_ok() && std::fs::rename(state_directory(work_dir, PENDING).join(id), failed.join(id)).is_ok();
    log(format!("the queued entry {id:?} {reason}, so it was {}", if moved { "moved to failed" } else { "left in pending because moving it failed" }).as_str());
}

/// What:
///  Move a claimed item to `done` (or to `failed`), after the consumer's result is durable.
/// Why:
///   A crash before this rename leaves the item claimed, and its lease runs out; the work is then done again, so a
///   handler must tolerate a repeat. The rename names the claim's generation, so a holder whose claim was taken over and
///  claimed again by another settles nothing of the other's.
///
/// In TS you'd write (pseudocode):
/// ```ts
/// await rename(join(workDir, 'claimed', claimed.name), join(workDir, 'done', claimed.id))
/// ```
pub fn settle(work_dir: &Path, claimed: &Claimed, state: &str) -> Result<(), String> {
    return settle_named(work_dir, claimed.name.as_str(), state);
}

/// `settle` for the claim file `name`, whose id is the part of the name before the generation.
pub fn settle_named(work_dir: &Path, name: &str, state: &str) -> Result<(), String> {
    let id: &str = id_of_entry(name);
    return match std::fs::rename(state_directory(work_dir, CLAIMED).join(name), state_directory(work_dir, state).join(id)) {
        Ok(()) => Ok(()),
        Err(error) => Err(format!("moving {id} to {state} failed: {error}")),
    };
}

/// What:
///  Start the lease of the claim file `name` again at `now`, returning its new name; nothing when the claim is no longer in
///  `claimed` under that name or its modification time could not be set.
/// Why:
///   A holder that is still working must not look abandoned: every consumer of a directory that several consumers drain reads
///   the reading in the name as the proof of life. The renewal is a rename of the exact name the holder last wrote, so a
///  claim that was taken over, settled, or taken over and claimed again by someone else is not found and is never brought
///  back or renewed on the other's behalf; and an instance that looked at the old name and means to take it finds nothing.
///
/// In TS you'd write (pseudocode):
/// ```ts
/// await rename(join(workDir, 'claimed', name), join(workDir, 'claimed', claimFileName(id, token, now)))
/// ```
pub fn renew_claim(work_dir: &Path, name: &str, now: &ClaimTime) -> Option<String> {
    return renew_claim_stamped(work_dir, name, now, &stamp_modification_time);
}

/// `renew_claim` with the stamp of the claim's modification time given,
/// so a test can make the stamp fail.
/// A renewal whose
///  stamp failed is no renewal:
/// an older reader would still see the old modification time and take the claim.
fn renew_claim_stamped(work_dir: &Path, name: &str, now: &ClaimTime, stamp: Stamp<'_>) -> Option<String> {
    let id: &str = id_of_entry(name);
    // A claim by an earlier release has no generation; its renewal gives it one.
    let token: String = match parse_claim_name(name) {
        Some((token, _)) => token.to_owned(),
        None => new_generation().ok()?,
    };
    let renewed: String = claim_file_name(id, token.as_str(), now);
    let directory: PathBuf = state_directory(work_dir, CLAIMED);
    if let Err(error) = stamp(directory.join(name).as_path()) {
        log(format!("the claim {name} could not be renewed: {error}").as_str());
        return None;
    }
    return match std::fs::rename(directory.join(name), directory.join(renewed.as_str())) {
        Ok(()) => Some(renewed),
        Err(_refused) => None,
    };
}

/// What:
///  How long the oldest pending item has waited, or `None` when nothing is pending.
/// Why:
///   The wrapper's one-line notice that no consumer is draining the queue is this age past a bound; a process id in a
///   file would be meaningless across process-id namespaces.
///
/// In TS you'd write (pseudocode):
/// ```ts
/// now - oldestPending.mtime
/// ```
pub fn oldest_pending_age(work_dir: &Path, now: SystemTime) -> Option<Duration> {
    let pending: Vec<(String, SystemTime)> = entries_oldest_first(work_dir, PENDING);
    let (_name, created) = pending.first()?;
    return Some(now.duration_since(*created).unwrap_or(Duration::ZERO));
}

/// Controls stay out of the release executable.
#[cfg(test)]
#[path = "work_item_tests.rs"]
mod tests;