ts_control_serde/user.rs
1use alloc::{borrow::Cow, vec::Vec};
2
3use chrono::{DateTime, Utc};
4use serde::Deserialize;
5use url::Url;
6
7/// A unique integer ID for a [`Login`]. This is not used by Tailscale node software, but is used
8/// in the control plane.
9pub type LoginId = i64;
10
11/// A unique integer ID for a [`User`].
12pub type UserId = i64;
13
14/// Represents a [`User`] from a specific identity provider (IdP), not associated with any
15/// particular Tailnet.
16#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, Deserialize)]
17#[serde(rename_all = "PascalCase")]
18pub struct Login<'a> {
19 /// The unique integer ID of this login. Unused on the Tailscale node-side, but used by the
20 /// control plane.
21 #[serde(rename = "ID")]
22 pub id: LoginId,
23 /// A string representation of the IdP itself, e.g. "google", "github", "okta_foo", etc.
24 #[serde(borrow)]
25 pub provider: &'a str,
26 /// An email address or "email-ish" string (e.g. "alice@github") associated with this Tailscale
27 /// user, according to the IdP.
28 #[serde(borrow)]
29 pub login_name: Cow<'a, str>,
30 /// If populated, the display name of this Tailscale user, according to the IdP. Can be
31 /// overridden by a value in the [`User::display_name`] field.
32 #[serde(borrow, default)]
33 pub display_name: Option<Cow<'a, str>>,
34 /// If populated, a URL to a profile picture representing this Tailscale user, according to the
35 /// IdP. Can be overridden by a value in the [`User::profile_pic_url`] field.
36 #[serde(
37 rename = "ProfilePicURL",
38 deserialize_with = "crate::util::deserialize_string_option",
39 default
40 )]
41 pub profile_pic_url: Option<Url>,
42}
43
44/// A Tailscale user.
45///
46/// A [`User`] can have multiple [`Login`]s associated with it (e.g. gmail and github oauth),
47/// although as of 2019, none of the UIs support this.
48///
49/// Some fields are inherited from the [`Login`]s and can be overridden, such as
50/// [`User::display_name`] and [`User::profile_pic_url`].
51#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, Deserialize)]
52#[serde(rename_all = "PascalCase")]
53pub struct User<'a> {
54 /// The unique integer ID of this Tailscale user.
55 #[serde(rename = "ID")]
56 pub id: UserId,
57 /// If populated, the display name of this Tailscale user. Overrides the value in any IdP-
58 /// provided [`Login::display_name`] field.
59 #[serde(borrow, default)]
60 pub display_name: Option<Cow<'a, str>>,
61 /// If populated, a URL to a profile picture representing this Tailscale user. Overrides the
62 /// IdP-provided value in any [`Login::profile_pic_url`] field.
63 #[serde(
64 rename = "ProfilePicURL",
65 deserialize_with = "crate::util::deserialize_string_option",
66 default
67 )]
68 pub profile_pic_url: Option<Url>,
69 /// The date and time that this Tailscale user was created, in the UTC timezone.
70 #[serde(default)]
71 pub created: Option<DateTime<Utc>>,
72}
73
74/// Display-friendly data for a [`User`]. Includes the [`Login::login_name`] for display purposes.
75/// but *not* the [`Login::provider`]. Also includes derived data from one of the [`Login`]s
76/// associated with a [`User`].
77#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, Deserialize)]
78#[serde(rename_all = "PascalCase")]
79pub struct UserProfile<'a> {
80 /// The unique integer ID of this Tailscale user this [`UserProfile`] is associated with.
81 #[serde(rename = "ID")]
82 pub id: UserId,
83 /// An email address or "email-ish" string (e.g. "alice@github") associated with this Tailscale
84 /// user's [`UserProfile`], according to the IdP. For display purposes only.
85 #[serde(borrow, default)]
86 pub login_name: Cow<'a, str>,
87 /// If populated, the display name of this Tailscale user (e.g. "Alice Smith"), according to
88 /// the IdP.
89 #[serde(borrow, default)]
90 pub display_name: Option<Cow<'a, str>>,
91 /// If populated, a URL to a profile picture representing this Tailscale user.
92 #[serde(
93 rename = "ProfilePicURL",
94 deserialize_with = "crate::util::deserialize_string_option",
95 default
96 )]
97 pub profile_pic_url: Option<Url>,
98 /// A subset of the groups that contain this user and that the coordination server was
99 /// configured to report to this node: either SCIM groups (e.g. `engineering@example.com`) or
100 /// group names from the tailnet policy document (e.g. `group:eng`).
101 ///
102 /// This is the one attribute of an owning user that a node cannot re-derive from anything else
103 /// control sends it, so it is what an embedder authorising an inbound connection on group
104 /// membership needs (Go surfaces it through `WhoIs`).
105 ///
106 /// Control sorts the list when it loads the profile from storage, so it arrives sorted; it is
107 /// carried through verbatim rather than re-sorted here. The field is `omitempty` on the wire —
108 /// an older control server, or a tailnet that reports no groups to this node, simply omits it —
109 /// so it decodes to an **empty** list, never a missing profile. `null` (what a non-Go control
110 /// plane emits for an empty slice) lands the same way, per the crate-wide `null_to_default`
111 /// convention for bare `Vec` fields.
112 #[serde(borrow, default, deserialize_with = "crate::util::null_to_default")]
113 pub groups: Vec<Cow<'a, str>>,
114}
115
116#[cfg(test)]
117mod tests {
118 use super::*;
119
120 /// `Login::login_name` and `Login::display_name` are IdP-authored human text typed
121 /// `Cow<'a, str>` / `Option<Cow<'a, str>>` so they tolerate JSON escapes. Go's `json.Marshal`
122 /// HTML-escapes `&` → `&` by default, so a display name like `Tom & Jerry` arrives on the
123 /// wire as `Tom & Jerry`. A bare `&'a str` cannot zero-copy-borrow a string serde must
124 /// unescape and fails the WHOLE `Login` decode (`invalid type: string "...", expected a borrowed
125 /// string`) — which silently drops the enclosing struct (the user, the netmap). With `Cow`,
126 /// serde owns the unescaped value and the decode succeeds.
127 #[test]
128 fn login_with_go_html_escaped_display_name_decodes() {
129 // Exactly what Go emits for `Tom & Jerry` (SetEscapeHTML(true) is the Marshal default).
130 const TEST: &str = r#"{ "ID": 1, "Provider": "google", "LoginName": "a@b.com", "DisplayName": "Tom & Jerry" }"#;
131 let login = serde_json::from_str::<Login>(TEST)
132 .expect("Login with a Go-HTML-escaped DisplayName must decode");
133 assert_eq!(login.login_name, "a@b.com");
134 assert_eq!(login.display_name.as_deref(), Some("Tom & Jerry"));
135 }
136
137 /// The other escape forms (`\n`, `\"`, `\\`) on both the bare `login_name` and the
138 /// `Option<Cow>` `display_name` decode and unescape too.
139 #[test]
140 fn login_with_control_escapes_decodes() {
141 const TEST: &str = r#"{
142 "ID": 1,
143 "Provider": "google",
144 "LoginName": "a\nb@\"c\\d.com",
145 "DisplayName": "line1\nline2\"q\\z"
146 }"#;
147 let login = serde_json::from_str::<Login>(TEST)
148 .expect("Login with control-character escapes must decode");
149 assert_eq!(login.login_name, "a\nb@\"c\\d.com");
150 assert_eq!(login.display_name.as_deref(), Some("line1\nline2\"q\\z"));
151 }
152
153 /// `UserProfile::login_name` (bare `Cow`) and `UserProfile::display_name` (`Option<Cow>`) — the
154 /// display-facing identity joined onto a peer — also decode with a Go-HTML-escaped `&` and the
155 /// control escapes. A failure here would drop the owning user's profile.
156 #[test]
157 fn user_profile_with_escaped_fields_decodes() {
158 const TEST: &str = r#"{ "ID": 7, "LoginName": "a@b.com", "DisplayName": "Tom & Jerry" }"#;
159 let profile = serde_json::from_str::<UserProfile>(TEST)
160 .expect("UserProfile with an escaped DisplayName must decode");
161 assert_eq!(profile.login_name, "a@b.com");
162 assert_eq!(profile.display_name.as_deref(), Some("Tom & Jerry"));
163
164 const TEST_CTRL: &str =
165 r#"{ "ID": 7, "LoginName": "a\nb@c.com", "DisplayName": "x\"y\\z" }"#;
166 let profile = serde_json::from_str::<UserProfile>(TEST_CTRL)
167 .expect("UserProfile with control escapes must decode");
168 assert_eq!(profile.login_name, "a\nb@c.com");
169 assert_eq!(profile.display_name.as_deref(), Some("x\"y\\z"));
170 }
171
172 /// `UserProfile.Groups` is the group membership control reports for the owning user, and the
173 /// only user attribute a node cannot re-derive locally. It must survive the wire boundary in
174 /// the order control sent it (control sorts it when it loads the profile from storage).
175 #[test]
176 fn user_profile_carries_groups() {
177 const TEST: &str = r#"{
178 "ID": 7,
179 "LoginName": "alice@example.com",
180 "DisplayName": "Alice Smith",
181 "Groups": ["engineering@example.com", "group:eng", "group:ops"]
182 }"#;
183 let profile =
184 serde_json::from_str::<UserProfile>(TEST).expect("UserProfile with Groups must decode");
185 assert_eq!(
186 profile.groups,
187 ["engineering@example.com", "group:eng", "group:ops"]
188 );
189 }
190
191 /// `Groups` is `omitempty` in Go, so a control server with nothing to report — or one older
192 /// than the field — sends no key at all. That must decode to a profile with an EMPTY group
193 /// list, not a failed decode (which would silently drop the whole profile). A wire `null`,
194 /// which a non-Go control plane can emit for an empty slice, must land the same way.
195 #[test]
196 fn user_profile_without_groups_decodes_to_an_empty_list() {
197 const ABSENT: &str = r#"{ "ID": 7, "LoginName": "alice@example.com" }"#;
198 let profile = serde_json::from_str::<UserProfile>(ABSENT)
199 .expect("UserProfile without Groups must still decode");
200 assert_eq!(profile.login_name, "alice@example.com");
201 assert!(profile.groups.is_empty());
202
203 const EMPTY: &str = r#"{ "ID": 7, "LoginName": "alice@example.com", "Groups": [] }"#;
204 assert!(
205 serde_json::from_str::<UserProfile>(EMPTY)
206 .expect("an explicit empty Groups must decode")
207 .groups
208 .is_empty()
209 );
210
211 const NULL: &str = r#"{ "ID": 7, "LoginName": "alice@example.com", "Groups": null }"#;
212 assert!(
213 serde_json::from_str::<UserProfile>(NULL)
214 .expect("a wire null Groups must decode, not fail the profile")
215 .groups
216 .is_empty()
217 );
218 }
219
220 /// Group names are control-authored text on the same JSON path as the display name, so they
221 /// carry the same escaping hazard: Go's `json.Marshal` HTML-escapes `&`, and a group named
222 /// `R&D` arrives as `R\u0026D`. `Cow` (not `&str`) is what lets serde own the unescaped value
223 /// instead of failing the whole `UserProfile` decode.
224 #[test]
225 fn user_profile_groups_with_escapes_decode() {
226 const TEST: &str =
227 r#"{ "ID": 7, "LoginName": "a@b.com", "Groups": ["R\u0026D", "group:q\"z"] }"#;
228 let profile = serde_json::from_str::<UserProfile>(TEST)
229 .expect("UserProfile with escaped group names must decode");
230 assert_eq!(profile.groups, ["R&D", "group:q\"z"]);
231 }
232
233 /// The no-escape fast path still decodes (and borrows zero-copy, though that is not observable
234 /// from outside): plain values pass through unchanged.
235 #[test]
236 fn login_without_escape_decodes() {
237 const TEST: &str = r#"{ "ID": 1, "Provider": "google", "LoginName": "alice@example.com", "DisplayName": "Alice Smith" }"#;
238 let login =
239 serde_json::from_str::<Login>(TEST).expect("Login with plain fields must decode");
240 assert_eq!(login.login_name, "alice@example.com");
241 assert_eq!(login.display_name.as_deref(), Some("Alice Smith"));
242 }
243}