npm-utils 0.5.3

Pure-Rust utilities for the npm registry: resolve a package version, download npm tarballs and GitHub archives, and extract files.
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//! HTTP download helpers.

use std::sync::OnceLock;
use std::time::Duration;
use ureq::tls::{RootCerts, TlsConfig};

/// HTTP timeouts for downloads; `None` disables a bound.
#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug)]
pub struct Timeouts {
    /// Cap on establishing the connection.
    pub connect: Option<Duration>,
    /// Cap on a single request, connect through transfer — applied per fetch, not across the run
    /// (ureq's per-call `timeout_global`).
    pub global: Option<Duration>,
}

impl Default for Timeouts {
    /// 30 s to connect, 120 s per request — enough for a large tarball on a slow link, while a
    /// stalled peer can't hang the build.
    fn default() -> Self {
        Self {
            connect: Some(Duration::from_secs(30)),
            global: Some(Duration::from_secs(120)),
        }
    }
}

impl Timeouts {
    /// Build from the CLI flags: `--no-timeout` removes every bound; `--timeout <secs>` sets the
    /// per-request timeout (connect stays at the default); neither keeps the default.
    pub fn from_cli(timeout_secs: Option<u64>, no_timeout: bool) -> Timeouts {
        if no_timeout {
            Timeouts {
                connect: None,
                global: None,
            }
        } else if let Some(secs) = timeout_secs {
            Timeouts {
                global: Some(Duration::from_secs(secs)),
                ..Timeouts::default()
            }
        } else {
            Timeouts::default()
        }
    }
}

static TIMEOUTS: OnceLock<Timeouts> = OnceLock::new();

/// Override the process-wide download timeouts. Intended to be called once at startup (the CLI
/// derives them from `--timeout` / `--no-timeout`); the library default applies if never set, and a
/// later call is ignored.
pub fn set_timeouts(timeouts: Timeouts) {
    let _ = TIMEOUTS.set(timeouts);
}

fn timeouts() -> Timeouts {
    TIMEOUTS.get().copied().unwrap_or_default()
}

/// Download an `https://` URL into memory (100 MB cap), retrying once on transient failure.
///
/// Only `https` is fetched: a non-https URL is refused up front. The tarball URL is advertised
/// by the registry, so this keeps a hostile or redirecting registry from steering us at a
/// plain-http or internal endpoint (the downloaded bytes are sha512-verified regardless — this
/// is defense-in-depth). Per-request connect and transfer timeouts are set so a stalled peer
/// can't hang the build; the 100 MB cap bounds size, the timeouts bound time.
///
/// Some hosts (GitHub in particular) occasionally drop a connection
/// mid-transfer — observed as `io: Peer disconnected` on CI — and the same URL
/// has not been seen to fail twice in a row, so one retry after a short pause is
/// enough.
pub fn fetch(url: &str) -> Result<Vec<u8>, Box<dyn std::error::Error + Send + Sync>> {
    fetch_with_accept(url, None)
}

/// Like [`fetch`], but sends an `Accept` header — used to request the npm registry's abbreviated
/// packument (`application/vnd.npm.install-v1+json`), which is far smaller than the full document.
pub fn fetch_with_accept(
    url: &str,
    accept: Option<&str>,
) -> Result<Vec<u8>, Box<dyn std::error::Error + Send + Sync>> {
    if !url.starts_with("https://") {
        return Err(format!(
            "refusing to fetch non-https URL {url:?}: npm-utils downloads over https only"
        )
        .into());
    }
    let t = timeouts();
    let agent = ureq::Agent::new_with_config(
        ureq::Agent::config_builder()
            .tls_config(
                TlsConfig::builder()
                    .root_certs(RootCerts::PlatformVerifier)
                    .build(),
            )
            .timeout_connect(t.connect)
            .timeout_global(t.global)
            .build(),
    );

    let attempts = 2;
    for attempt in 1..=attempts {
        match try_fetch(&agent, url, accept) {
            Ok(body) => return Ok(body),
            Err(e) if attempt < attempts => {
                eprintln!(
                    "npm-utils: download attempt {attempt}/{attempts} failed for {url}: {e}; \
                     retrying in 500ms"
                );
                std::thread::sleep(Duration::from_millis(500));
            }
            Err(e) => return Err(e),
        }
    }
    unreachable!()
}

fn try_fetch(
    agent: &ureq::Agent,
    url: &str,
    accept: Option<&str>,
) -> Result<Vec<u8>, Box<dyn std::error::Error + Send + Sync>> {
    let request = match accept {
        Some(accept) => agent.get(url).header("Accept", accept),
        None => agent.get(url),
    };
    let mut response = request.call()?;
    let body = response.body_mut();
    Ok(body.with_config().limit(100 * 1024 * 1024).read_to_vec()?)
}

/// URL for a GitHub repository archive (zip) at a ref (branch, tag, or commit).
pub fn github_archive_url(owner: &str, repo: &str, git_ref: &str) -> String {
    format!("https://github.com/{owner}/{repo}/archive/{git_ref}.zip")
}

#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
    use super::*;

    #[test]
    fn fetch_refuses_non_https() {
        // The scheme guard rejects before any network request, so this is offline.
        for url in [
            "http://registry.npmjs.org/x",
            "file:///etc/passwd",
            "ftp://example.com/x",
            "registry.npmjs.org/x",
        ] {
            assert!(fetch(url).is_err(), "{url:?} must be refused");
        }
    }

    #[test]
    fn timeouts_from_cli_flags() {
        let d = Timeouts::default();
        // Neither flag → the library default.
        let unset = Timeouts::from_cli(None, false);
        assert_eq!((unset.connect, unset.global), (d.connect, d.global));
        // --timeout sets the per-request timeout, keeping the default connect.
        let t = Timeouts::from_cli(Some(5), false);
        assert_eq!(t.global, Some(Duration::from_secs(5)));
        assert_eq!(t.connect, d.connect);
        // --no-timeout removes every bound and wins over --timeout.
        let off = Timeouts::from_cli(Some(5), true);
        assert_eq!((off.connect, off.global), (None, None));
    }
}