shep 0.22.0

The shep binary: a process manager that keeps a flock of long-running processes alive on macOS, Linux and Windows, with logs, watch and cron restarts, and webhook alerts
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//! Reading the index's bytes: the version check, the per-entry
//! validation and the field helper, behind [`parse_index`].

use serde_json::{Map, Value};

use super::*;

/// Whether `version` spells [`SUPPORTED_INDEX_VERSION`], as either a JSON
/// integer or a JSON float.
///
/// JSON draws no line between `1` and `1.0`, and `Value::as_u64` alone
/// returns `None` for a number the parser represented as a float.
fn version_is_supported(version: &Value) -> bool {
    version.as_u64() == Some(SUPPORTED_INDEX_VERSION)
        || version.as_f64() == Some(SUPPORTED_INDEX_VERSION as f64)
}

/// Parses `bytes` as a community dog index, validating and sanitising every
/// entry.
///
/// Untyped JSON validated by hand: a `serde` derive would make one entry
/// with a wrong field type fail the whole document. A bad entry is counted
/// in [`Index::skipped`] and dropped, never an error.
///
/// # Errors
/// - [`IndexError::Malformed`] if `bytes` are not JSON, or not UTF-8.
/// - [`IndexError::NotAnObject`] if the top level is not an object.
/// - [`IndexError::UnsupportedVersion`] if `version` is missing or unknown.
/// - [`IndexError::MissingDogsArray`] if `dogs` is missing or not an array.
pub fn parse_index(bytes: &[u8]) -> Result<Index, IndexError> {
    let document: Value =
        serde_json::from_slice(bytes).map_err(|err| IndexError::Malformed(err.to_string()))?;
    let Value::Object(document) = document else {
        return Err(IndexError::NotAnObject);
    };
    if !document.get("version").is_some_and(version_is_supported) {
        return Err(IndexError::UnsupportedVersion {
            found: document.get("version").cloned(),
        });
    }
    let Some(entries) = document.get("dogs").and_then(Value::as_array) else {
        return Err(IndexError::MissingDogsArray);
    };

    let mut dogs = Vec::with_capacity(entries.len());
    let mut skipped = 0;
    let mut sanitised = 0;
    for entry in entries {
        // Per entry, not per field: three hostile strings are one row to
        // go and look at.
        let mut entry_sanitised = false;
        match validate_entry(entry, &mut entry_sanitised) {
            Some(dog) => {
                if entry_sanitised {
                    sanitised += 1;
                }
                dogs.push(dog);
            }
            // A skipped entry is not listed, so it is never also counted
            // as sanitised.
            None => skipped += 1,
        }
    }
    Ok(Index {
        dogs,
        skipped,
        sanitised,
    })
}

/// One entry, validated and sanitised, or `None` for the caller to count as
/// skipped.
///
/// Sanitises before validating: the cleaned string is the one that gets
/// printed, so it is the one that has to pass.
fn validate_entry(entry: &Value, sanitised: &mut bool) -> Option<AvailableDog> {
    let entry = entry.as_object()?;
    let name = field(entry, "name", sanitised)?;
    let package = field(entry, "package", sanitised)?;
    let adopt_as = field(entry, "adopt_as", sanitised)?;
    let description = field(entry, "description", sanitised)?;
    let repo = field(entry, "repo", sanitised)?;
    let license = field(entry, "license", sanitised)?;
    let category = field(entry, "category", sanitised)?;
    // Normalised, not refused: an unknown heading costs the entry its shelf
    // and nothing else, unlike the `repo` check below.
    let category = if CATEGORIES.contains(&category.as_str()) {
        category
    } else {
        UNKNOWN_CATEGORY_FALLBACK.to_owned()
    };
    if !is_https(&repo) {
        return None;
    }
    let source = validate_source(entry.get("source")?, sanitised)?;
    Some(AvailableDog {
        name,
        package,
        adopt_as,
        description,
        repo,
        license,
        category,
        source,
    })
}

/// One entry's `source`, or `None` for an unknown `kind` or a missing
/// payload.
///
/// `kind` is matched raw and never sanitised: it is a tag rather than
/// prose, so a `kind` carrying an escape matches nothing and takes the
/// entry with it.
fn validate_source(source: &Value, sanitised: &mut bool) -> Option<DogSourceKind> {
    let source = source.as_object()?;
    match source.get("kind")?.as_str()? {
        "cargo" => {
            // Absent is a normal release; present-and-unusable takes the
            // entry with it.
            let version = match source.get("version") {
                None => None,
                Some(_) => Some(field(source, "version", sanitised)?),
            };
            Some(DogSourceKind::Cargo { version })
        }
        "cargo-git" => {
            let url = field(source, "url", sanitised)?;
            if !is_https(&url) {
                return None;
            }
            Some(DogSourceKind::CargoGit { url })
        }
        "go-install" => Some(DogSourceKind::GoInstall {
            module: field(source, "module", sanitised)?,
        }),
        "manual" => Some(DogSourceKind::Manual {
            instructions: field(source, "instructions", sanitised)?,
        }),
        _ => None,
    }
}

/// `object[name]` as a sanitised, non-empty string, or `None` when the field
/// is absent, is not a string, or is empty once cleaned.
///
/// A field that is nothing but control characters cleans to the empty
/// string and takes its entry with it. `sanitised` is OR-ed into, so one
/// call cannot clear what an earlier one recorded.
fn field(object: &Map<String, Value>, name: &str, sanitised: &mut bool) -> Option<String> {
    let raw = object.get(name)?.as_str()?;
    let (clean, changed) = sanitise(raw);
    *sanitised |= changed;
    if clean.is_empty() {
        return None;
    }
    Some(clean)
}

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

    /// The live index's own single entry, verbatim from
    /// `web/public/dogs.json`.
    fn valid_entry() -> serde_json::Value {
        serde_json::json!({
            "name": "Spot",
            "package": "shep-log-rotate",
            "adopt_as": "log-rotate",
            "description": "Rotates grown log files and asks the shepherd to reopen them.",
            "repo": "https://github.com/shep-pm/shep-log-rotate",
            "license": "MIT OR Apache-2.0",
            "category": "logs",
            "source": {
                "kind": "cargo-git",
                "url": "https://github.com/shep-pm/shep-log-rotate"
            }
        })
    }

    /// Wraps `entries` in the real document shape: `{"$schema": ...,
    /// "version": 1, "dogs": [...]}`. Every fixture builds through this,
    /// never a bare `serde_json::Value::Array`, which
    /// [`the_old_bare_array_format_is_refused`] pins as refused.
    fn wrap_index(entries: Vec<Value>) -> String {
        serde_json::json!({
            "$schema": "https://shep-pm.com/dogs.schema.json",
            "version": SUPPORTED_INDEX_VERSION,
            "dogs": entries,
        })
        .to_string()
    }

    fn one_entry_with(field: &str, value: &str) -> String {
        let mut entry = valid_entry();
        entry[field] = serde_json::Value::String(value.to_string());
        wrap_index(vec![entry])
    }

    pub(crate) fn one_entry_with_description(description: &str) -> String {
        one_entry_with("description", description)
    }

    fn one_entry_with_category(category: &str) -> String {
        one_entry_with("category", category)
    }

    fn one_entry_with_repo(repo: &str) -> String {
        one_entry_with("repo", repo)
    }

    /// Three entries, the middle one missing `adopt_as`.
    const THREE_ENTRIES_MIDDLE_BROKEN: &[u8] = br#"{
      "$schema": "https://shep-pm.com/dogs.schema.json",
      "version": 1,
      "dogs": [
      {
        "name": "Spot",
        "package": "shep-log-rotate",
        "adopt_as": "log-rotate",
        "description": "Rotates grown log files.",
        "repo": "https://github.com/shep-pm/shep-log-rotate",
        "license": "MIT OR Apache-2.0",
        "category": "logs",
        "source": { "kind": "cargo-git", "url": "https://github.com/shep-pm/shep-log-rotate" }
      },
      {
        "name": "Nameless",
        "package": "shep-nameless",
        "description": "Has no adopt_as, so nobody could adopt it correctly.",
        "repo": "https://github.com/example/shep-nameless",
        "license": "MIT",
        "category": "other",
        "source": { "kind": "manual", "instructions": "Build it yourself." }
      },
      {
        "name": "Rex",
        "package": "shep-watchdog",
        "adopt_as": "watchdog",
        "description": "Barks when a sheep stops answering.",
        "repo": "https://github.com/example/shep-watchdog",
        "license": "Apache-2.0",
        "category": "health",
        "source": { "kind": "go-install", "module": "github.com/example/shep-watchdog" }
      }
    ]}"#;

    #[test]
    fn a_sanitised_entry_still_lists_and_is_counted() {
        let index = parse_index(one_entry_with_description("clean\u{1b}[2Jhere").as_bytes())
            .expect("parses");
        assert_eq!(
            index.dogs.len(),
            1,
            "a hostile description does not remove the dog"
        );
        assert_eq!(index.sanitised, 1);
        assert!(!index.dogs[0].description.contains('\u{1b}'));
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_malformed_entry_is_skipped_and_counted_while_its_neighbours_list() {
        let index = parse_index(THREE_ENTRIES_MIDDLE_BROKEN).expect("parses");
        assert_eq!(index.dogs.len(), 2);
        assert_eq!(index.skipped, 1);
    }

    #[test]
    fn an_unknown_category_is_filed_under_the_fallback_rather_than_dropped() {
        let index = parse_index(one_entry_with_category("logz").as_bytes()).expect("parses");
        assert_eq!(
            index.dogs.len(),
            1,
            "an unknown category must not drop the entry"
        );
        assert_eq!(index.dogs[0].category, UNKNOWN_CATEGORY_FALLBACK);
        assert_eq!(
            index.skipped, 0,
            "a listed entry is never also counted skipped"
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_known_category_survives_unchanged() {
        let index = parse_index(one_entry_with_category("logs").as_bytes()).expect("parses");
        assert_eq!(index.dogs[0].category, "logs");
        assert_eq!(index.skipped, 0);
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_non_https_repo_is_skipped() {
        let index =
            parse_index(one_entry_with_repo("http://example.com/x").as_bytes()).expect("parses");
        assert_eq!(index.skipped, 1);
    }

    #[test]
    fn the_old_bare_array_format_is_refused() {
        let bare = serde_json::Value::Array(vec![valid_entry()]).to_string();
        assert!(
            matches!(parse_index(bare.as_bytes()), Err(IndexError::NotAnObject)),
            "a bare array must be refused now, not silently accepted"
        );
    }

    /// The two refusals ask for different operator actions.
    #[test]
    fn an_object_with_no_version_is_unsupported_not_malformed() {
        let err = parse_index(b"{}").expect_err("no version field");
        assert!(
            matches!(err, IndexError::UnsupportedVersion { found: None }),
            "{err:?}"
        );
        assert!(
            err.to_string().contains("unspecified"),
            "the message must say no version was given: {err}"
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_version_this_build_does_not_understand_is_refused_with_an_upgrade_message() {
        let document = serde_json::json!({ "version": 99, "dogs": [] }).to_string();
        let err = parse_index(document.as_bytes()).expect_err("unsupported version");
        let IndexError::UnsupportedVersion { found } = &err else {
            panic!("wrong variant: {err:?}");
        };
        assert_eq!(found.as_ref().and_then(serde_json::Value::as_u64), Some(99));
        let message = err.to_string();
        assert!(message.contains("99"), "{message}");
        assert!(message.contains("upgrade"), "{message}");
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_version_spelled_with_a_decimal_point_is_still_supported() {
        let as_decimal = SUPPORTED_INDEX_VERSION as f64;
        let document = serde_json::json!({ "version": as_decimal, "dogs": [] }).to_string();
        let index = parse_index(document.as_bytes())
            .expect("a decimal-point spelling is the same number as SUPPORTED_INDEX_VERSION");
        assert!(index.dogs.is_empty());
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_supported_version_with_no_dogs_field_is_refused() {
        let document = serde_json::json!({ "version": SUPPORTED_INDEX_VERSION }).to_string();
        assert!(matches!(
            parse_index(document.as_bytes()),
            Err(IndexError::MissingDogsArray)
        ));
    }

    #[test]
    fn an_empty_dogs_array_is_a_valid_empty_index() {
        let index = parse_index(wrap_index(vec![]).as_bytes()).expect("parses");
        assert!(index.dogs.is_empty());
        assert_eq!(index.skipped, 0);
    }

    // --- Extra hostile cases ---

    /// Stripping per character rather than per sequence is what makes this
    /// a non-event, and it is a property of the sanitiser rather than the
    /// renderer.
    #[test]
    fn an_escape_split_across_a_field_boundary_cannot_reassemble() {
        let mut entry = valid_entry();
        entry["name"] = serde_json::Value::String("Spot\u{1b}".to_string());
        entry["description"] = serde_json::Value::String("[2J and the screen is gone".to_string());
        let document = wrap_index(vec![entry]);

        let index = parse_index(document.as_bytes()).expect("parses");
        assert_eq!(index.dogs.len(), 1);
        let dog = &index.dogs[0];
        let joined = format!("{}{}", dog.name, dog.description);
        assert!(!joined.contains('\u{1b}'), "reassembled in {joined:?}");
        assert_eq!(
            index.sanitised, 1,
            "counted once for the entry, not per field"
        );
    }

    /// Ten thousand escapes is well inside the 1 MiB fetch cap, so the
    /// guard here is the sanitiser rather than the size limit.
    #[test]
    fn a_long_run_of_escapes_is_stripped_without_losing_the_entry() {
        let hostile = format!("{}real text", "\u{1b}".repeat(10_000));
        let index = parse_index(one_entry_with_description(&hostile).as_bytes()).expect("parses");
        assert_eq!(index.dogs.len(), 1);
        assert_eq!(index.dogs[0].description, "real text");
        assert_eq!(index.sanitised, 1);
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_field_that_is_nothing_but_control_characters_skips_the_entry() {
        let index = parse_index(one_entry_with_description("\u{1b}\u{7}\r\n\t").as_bytes())
            .expect("parses");
        assert_eq!(index.dogs.len(), 0);
        assert_eq!(index.skipped, 1);
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_skipped_entry_is_not_also_counted_as_sanitised() {
        let mut entry = valid_entry();
        entry["description"] = serde_json::Value::String("hostile\u{1b}[2J".to_string());
        entry["repo"] = serde_json::Value::String("http://example.com/x".to_string());
        let document = wrap_index(vec![entry]);

        let index = parse_index(document.as_bytes()).expect("parses");
        assert_eq!(index.skipped, 1);
        assert_eq!(index.sanitised, 0);
    }

    /// The reason the parse goes through untyped JSON: a `Deserialize`
    /// derive would make `"name": 42` a whole-document error.
    #[test]
    fn a_field_of_the_wrong_json_type_skips_only_its_own_entry() {
        let mut broken = valid_entry();
        broken["name"] = serde_json::json!(42);
        let mut other = valid_entry();
        other["package"] = serde_json::Value::String("shep-watchdog".to_string());
        let document = wrap_index(vec![broken, other]);

        let index = parse_index(document.as_bytes()).expect("parses");
        assert_eq!(index.dogs.len(), 1);
        assert_eq!(index.skipped, 1);
        assert_eq!(index.dogs[0].package, "shep-watchdog");
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_cargo_source_parses_and_carries_no_fields_of_its_own() {
        let mut entry = valid_entry();
        entry["source"] = serde_json::json!({ "kind": "cargo" });
        let document = wrap_index(vec![entry]);

        let index = parse_index(document.as_bytes()).expect("parses");
        assert_eq!(index.skipped, 0);
        assert_eq!(index.dogs.len(), 1);
        assert_eq!(index.dogs[0].source, DogSourceKind::Cargo { version: None });
    }

    /// `repo` is a link; a `cargo-git` `url` is pasted into a shell, so it
    /// gets the same https check and not a weaker one.
    #[test]
    fn a_non_https_cargo_git_source_url_is_skipped() {
        let mut entry = valid_entry();
        entry["source"] = serde_json::json!({ "kind": "cargo-git", "url": "http://example.com/x" });
        let document = wrap_index(vec![entry]);

        let index = parse_index(document.as_bytes()).expect("parses");
        assert_eq!(index.dogs.len(), 0);
        assert_eq!(index.skipped, 1);
    }

    #[test]
    fn an_unknown_source_kind_is_skipped() {
        let mut entry = valid_entry();
        entry["source"] =
            serde_json::json!({ "kind": "curl-bash", "url": "https://example.com/x" });
        let document = wrap_index(vec![entry]);

        assert_eq!(parse_index(document.as_bytes()).expect("parses").skipped, 1);
    }

    /// Every `source.kind` this file accepts, with a minimal source that
    /// parses as it. Tests only: `validate_source` matches string literals,
    /// since a match on a const is not a match.
    pub(crate) const SOURCE_KINDS: [(&str, &str); 4] = [
        ("cargo", r#"{"kind":"cargo"}"#),
        (
            "cargo-git",
            r#"{"kind":"cargo-git","url":"https://example.com/x"}"#,
        ),
        (
            "go-install",
            r#"{"kind":"go-install","module":"example.com/x"}"#,
        ),
        ("manual", r#"{"kind":"manual","instructions":"build it"}"#),
    ];

    #[test]
    fn a_cargo_source_keeps_the_version_it_names() {
        let mut entry = valid_entry();
        entry["source"] = serde_json::json!({ "kind": "cargo", "version": "0.1.0-alpha.1" });
        let document = wrap_index(vec![entry]);

        let index = parse_index(document.as_bytes()).expect("parses");
        assert_eq!(
            index.dogs[0].source,
            DogSourceKind::Cargo {
                version: Some("0.1.0-alpha.1".to_string())
            }
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_cargo_source_with_an_empty_version_is_skipped() {
        let mut entry = valid_entry();
        entry["source"] = serde_json::json!({ "kind": "cargo", "version": "" });
        let document = wrap_index(vec![entry]);

        let index = parse_index(document.as_bytes()).expect("parses");
        assert_eq!(index.dogs.len(), 0);
        assert_eq!(index.skipped, 1);
    }

    /// The dangerous direction: a kind the docs site accepts and
    /// `validate_source` does not drops a published entry from every
    /// listing, counted only as an anonymous `1 entry skipped`.
    #[test]
    fn every_listed_source_kind_actually_parses() {
        for (kind, source) in SOURCE_KINDS {
            let mut entry = valid_entry();
            entry["source"] = serde_json::from_str(source).expect("fixture is JSON");
            let document = wrap_index(vec![entry]);

            let index = parse_index(document.as_bytes()).expect("parses");
            assert_eq!(
                index.dogs.len(),
                1,
                "source.kind {kind:?} is listed as supported but its entry was skipped"
            );
        }
    }
}