microvms_protocol/

exec.rs

// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
//! Exec wire types: the bodies, queries, and SSE event payloads of `/v1/exec/*`.
//!
//! Every type here derives both halves of serde. The daemon needs only one half of
//! each and a client needs the other, and a type that carries one half is a type the
//! other side has to hand-write — which is the drift this crate exists to prevent.
//! The published `docs/schema.json` is generated from these same attributes under
//! both contracts, so a shape change is a schema diff rather than a surprise.

use std::borrow::Cow;
use std::collections::HashMap;

use schemars::JsonSchema;
use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};

/// Where an exec sits in its lifecycle. Mirrors `ExecPhase` in the model crate.
///
/// `JsonSchema` rides along with `Serialize` on every type from here down that
/// crosses the wire. schemars reads the same `#[serde(...)]` attributes serde
/// does, so the published schema describes what the daemon actually emits — the
/// `rename_all` below is the reason this matters rather than a formality.
#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, Deserialize, Eq, JsonSchema, PartialEq, Serialize)]
#[serde(rename_all = "snake_case")]
pub enum Phase {
    /// Child spawned, still running (or its pipes still held by a grandchild).
    Running,
    /// Child exited and output is buffered and readable.
    Exited,
    /// Caller acked; output has been released and the entry awaits collection.
    Acked,
}

impl Phase {
    /// Every phase, in lifecycle order.
    ///
    /// Public because a client that publishes the closed set — both bindings do, in
    /// their `session_constants` — needs the list from the type rather than a spelled-out
    /// copy that goes stale the first time a phase is added. The round-trip test below
    /// holds `ALL` complete by exhaustive match.
    pub const ALL: [Phase; 3] = [Phase::Running, Phase::Exited, Phase::Acked];

    /// The wire spelling — the exact string serde writes under `rename_all` above.
    ///
    /// Here rather than in each client because two bindings each grew their own
    /// three-arm match over this enum; a variant renamed on the wire must change
    /// exactly one table, and the test below is what keeps this one equal to serde's.
    pub const fn as_str(self) -> &'static str {
        match self {
            Phase::Running => "running",
            Phase::Exited => "exited",
            Phase::Acked => "acked",
        }
    }
}

/// Captured output and exit status of a finished exec.
#[derive(Clone, Debug, Default, Deserialize, JsonSchema, Serialize)]
pub struct Outcome {
    /// Exit code, or `None` when the child died to a signal.
    pub exit_code: Option<i32>,
    /// Signal number that killed the child, when one did.
    pub signal: Option<i32>,
    /// The daemon execution deadline fired. Absent on older daemons, which cannot
    /// distinguish deadline expiry from other signal deaths.
    #[serde(default)]
    pub timed_out: bool,
    pub stdout: String,
    pub stderr: String,
    /// Set when either stream hit `max_output_bytes` and was cut. An explicit
    /// flag rather than a sentinel string in the output: a marker inside the
    /// bytes is indistinguishable from output that happens to contain it.
    pub truncated: bool,
    /// Set when the post-exit linger deadline expired with the pipes still open,
    /// meaning some grandchild is alive and may write more that nobody will see.
    /// Reported rather than hidden, because a harness that sees empty output from
    /// a command it knows produced some needs to be able to tell why.
    pub writers_may_be_alive: bool,
}

/// Which pipe a streamed chunk came from. Both share one offset space, so a
/// client holds one cursor rather than two that can disagree about ordering.
#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, Deserialize, Eq, JsonSchema, PartialEq, Serialize)]
#[serde(rename_all = "snake_case")]
pub enum StreamKind {
    Stdout,
    Stderr,
}

impl StreamKind {
    /// Both kinds, in the order the daemon documents them.
    ///
    /// Same reason as [`Phase::ALL`]: the bindings publish this closed set, and a
    /// list they spell themselves is a list the enum can outgrow.
    pub const ALL: [StreamKind; 2] = [StreamKind::Stdout, StreamKind::Stderr];

    /// The wire spelling — the exact string serde writes under `rename_all` above.
    pub const fn as_str(self) -> &'static str {
        match self {
            StreamKind::Stdout => "stdout",
            StreamKind::Stderr => "stderr",
        }
    }
}

/// A user or group as a start request names it: a numeric id, or a name the daemon
/// resolves against the guest's `/etc/passwd` or `/etc/group`.
///
/// Untagged, so the wire carries a bare JSON integer or a bare JSON string and nothing
/// else. An integer serializes exactly as the `u32` this field used to be, which is what
/// keeps a client that only ever sends ids byte-compatible with a daemon that predates
/// names. A string sent to such a daemon is refused as `malformed_request` rather than
/// misread.
///
/// A string that names no row and is all ASCII digits is read as that id, the way
/// `docker exec -u 1000` reads it: a harness that carries a uid as a string reaches the
/// same account an integer would.
#[derive(Clone, Debug, Deserialize, Eq, JsonSchema, PartialEq, Serialize)]
#[serde(untagged)]
pub enum NameOrId {
    /// A numeric uid or gid, applied as given.
    Id(u32),
    /// A user or group name, resolved in the guest before anything is spawned.
    Name(String),
}

impl From<u32> for NameOrId {
    fn from(id: u32) -> Self {
        NameOrId::Id(id)
    }
}

impl From<&str> for NameOrId {
    fn from(name: &str) -> Self {
        NameOrId::Name(name.to_string())
    }
}

impl From<String> for NameOrId {
    fn from(name: String) -> Self {
        NameOrId::Name(name)
    }
}

impl std::str::FromStr for NameOrId {
    type Err = std::convert::Infallible;

    /// A command-line spelling: all digits is an id, anything else is a name.
    ///
    /// An id is sent as an integer rather than as its digits so a daemon that predates
    /// names still accepts it.
    fn from_str(raw: &str) -> Result<Self, Self::Err> {
        Ok(match raw.parse::<u32>() {
            Ok(id) if raw.bytes().all(|b| b.is_ascii_digit()) => NameOrId::Id(id),
            _ => NameOrId::Name(raw.to_string()),
        })
    }
}

impl std::fmt::Display for NameOrId {
    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
        match self {
            NameOrId::Id(id) => write!(f, "{id}"),
            NameOrId::Name(name) => f.write_str(name),
        }
    }
}

/// How a start request's `command` is run: `false` (an argv), `true` (`/bin/sh -c`), or
/// the name of a shell the daemon resolves and runs as `<shell> -c`.
///
/// Untagged for [`NameOrId`]'s reason: a boolean serializes exactly as the field always
/// did, so an old daemon keeps accepting it, and a string sent to an old daemon is refused
/// rather than misread.
#[derive(Clone, Debug, Deserialize, Eq, JsonSchema, PartialEq, Serialize)]
#[serde(untagged)]
pub enum Shell {
    /// `false` execs `command` as an argv; `true` runs it under `/bin/sh -c`.
    Flag(bool),
    /// A shell name such as `"bash"` (resolved on the child's `PATH`, the image's `PATH`,
    /// `/bin` and `/usr/bin`) or an absolute path to one.
    Named(String),
}

impl Default for Shell {
    fn default() -> Self {
        Shell::Flag(false)
    }
}

impl From<bool> for Shell {
    fn from(flag: bool) -> Self {
        Shell::Flag(flag)
    }
}

impl From<&str> for Shell {
    fn from(name: &str) -> Self {
        Shell::Named(name.to_string())
    }
}

impl From<String> for Shell {
    fn from(name: String) -> Self {
        Shell::Named(name)
    }
}

impl Shell {
    /// Whether `command` is a script for a shell rather than an argv.
    pub fn is_shell(&self) -> bool {
        !matches!(self, Shell::Flag(false))
    }
}

/// A start request. `command` is either an argv array or, with `shell` set, a single
/// script string.
#[derive(Debug, Deserialize, JsonSchema, Serialize)]
#[non_exhaustive]
pub struct StartRequest {
    /// Caller-minted idempotency key. Harbor retries, and a retry must not
    /// produce a second child.
    pub exec_id: String,
    /// argv when `shell` is false, or the script when it is set.
    pub command: Vec<String>,
    /// `false`, `true` (`/bin/sh -c`), or a shell name such as `"bash"`. A name the guest
    /// cannot resolve answers 400 `unknown_shell` before anything is spawned.
    #[serde(default)]
    pub shell: Shell,
    /// Omitted means inherit the daemon's working directory. See the module docs.
    #[serde(default)]
    pub cwd: Option<String>,
    #[serde(default)]
    pub env: HashMap<String, String>,
    /// The user to demote to: a numeric uid, or a name resolved against the guest's
    /// `/etc/passwd`. Optional; omitted means the image's `AGENTD_DEFAULT_USER`, resolved to
    /// the passwd row its name or uid matches, with that row's primary gid, or the daemon's
    /// own user when the image sets none. A name the guest does not have, or a default with
    /// no row, answers 400 `unknown_user` before anything is spawned.
    ///
    /// A user with a passwd row, however it was given, gets `HOME`, `USER` and `LOGNAME`
    /// from the row, beneath the launch environment and `env`. A user given by name also
    /// gets the row's primary gid when `group` is omitted; a numeric uid keeps the
    /// daemon's group, as it always did.
    #[serde(default)]
    pub user: Option<NameOrId>,
    /// The group to demote to: a numeric gid, or a name resolved against `/etc/group`. A
    /// name the guest does not have answers 400 `unknown_group`.
    #[serde(default)]
    pub group: Option<NameOrId>,
    /// Wall-clock budget. Validated before the child spawns — the predecessor
    /// raised on a bad value inside the waiter thread, by which point the child
    /// was already running and became an orphan.
    #[serde(default)]
    pub timeout_sec: Option<f64>,
    /// Whether to give the child a writable stdin pipe. Defaults to false, which
    /// keeps `Stdio::null()`.
    ///
    /// Opt-in rather than always-on, and not only for tidiness: a child holding an
    /// open stdin pipe nobody will ever write to is a child that blocks forever
    /// the first time it reads. `/bin/sh` reading a script from stdin, `git`
    /// deciding it can prompt, any tool that probes for input — all of them behave
    /// differently against a pipe than against `/dev/null`. Every existing caller
    /// gets today's behavior by not setting this.
    #[serde(default)]
    pub stdin: bool,
    /// Whether to signal the exec's whole process group once its own child exits.
    ///
    /// Off by default, and the default is the contract this daemon has always had:
    /// a backgrounded grandchild that inherited the output pipe keeps running and
    /// keeps writing, and the linger deadline is what bounds how long the daemon
    /// waits on it. That is the "backgrounded server keeps logging" guarantee, and
    /// callers rely on it. Set to `true`, the daemon runs the same SIGTERM-then-
    /// SIGKILL escalation `POST /v1/exec/{id}/kill` uses against the group as soon
    /// as the child's exit is observed, so nothing the command left behind outlives
    /// it and the linger sees EOF rather than `writers_may_be_alive`. A timed-out
    /// exec is already escalated and is not escalated twice.
    #[serde(default)]
    pub reap_group_on_exit: bool,
    /// Power off the guest after this exec's original process group has no live members.
    /// Off by default. Requires advertised daemon support and its CAP_SYS_BOOT privilege.
    /// Other work in the VM ends too; the start acknowledgment and exit record may be lost.
    /// Processes that leave the group are outside this condition. This does not keep an
    /// idle guest awake, and a terminated state does not establish when billing stops.
    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "is_false")]
    pub poweroff_on_exit: bool,
    /// Whether the child's environment starts from the image's `ENV`.
    ///
    /// Off by default, which keeps the property the daemon has always had: nothing from
    /// its own environment reaches a child. Set, the environment the daemon inherited as
    /// the container `CMD`, minus every `AGENTD_*` variable, is the lowest layer, under
    /// the passwd identity, the launch environment and `env`. The agent token is never in
    /// that snapshot: it arrives in the run hook, after the snapshot is taken.
    ///
    /// A daemon that predates this field ignores it, as serde ignores any unknown key; a
    /// caller that depends on it can read `image_env_keys` on `GET /v1/health`, which such
    /// a daemon does not report.
    #[serde(default)]
    pub inherit_image_env: bool,
}

/// `POST /v1/exec/{id}/stdin` body.
///
/// Both fields optional and both meaningful together: a final chunk plus EOF in
/// one request is the common case for feeding a prompt, and forcing two round
/// trips would leave a window where the child has the bytes but not the EOF that
/// tells it the input is complete.
#[derive(Debug, Default, Deserialize, JsonSchema, Serialize)]
pub struct StdinRequest {
    /// Base64 so arbitrary bytes survive JSON. A JSON string cannot carry
    /// non-UTF-8, and stdin is bytes.
    #[serde(default)]
    pub data_b64: Option<String>,
    /// `"eof"` closes the pipe after any `data_b64` is written. Named rather than
    /// a bare boolean so the field has somewhere to grow.
    #[serde(default)]
    pub signal: Option<String>,
}

/// `POST /v1/exec/{id}/stdin` response.
///
/// `pub` rather than private, like every other type in this module the schema
/// route publishes: the generator names them by type, so a response shape that
/// stays private is a shape a consumer cannot be told about.
#[derive(Debug, Deserialize, JsonSchema, Serialize)]
pub struct StdinResponse {
    pub exec_id: String,
    pub written: usize,
    pub eof: bool,
}

/// `GET /v1/exec/{id}/stream` query.
#[derive(Debug, Default, Deserialize, JsonSchema, Serialize)]
pub struct StreamQuery {
    /// Byte offset to resume from. Absent means 0, i.e. everything still in the
    /// replay window.
    #[serde(default)]
    pub offset: Option<u64>,
}

/// One `output` SSE event.
#[derive(Debug, Deserialize, JsonSchema, Serialize)]
pub struct OutputEvent {
    pub offset: u64,
    pub stream: StreamKind,
    pub output: String,
}

/// One `gap` SSE event: the byte range a lagging or late subscriber lost.
#[derive(Debug, Deserialize, JsonSchema, Serialize)]
pub struct GapEvent {
    pub from: u64,
    pub to: u64,
}

/// The terminal `exit` SSE event. Emitted before the stream ends, so a client
/// that sees the body close without one knows the connection failed rather than
/// the command finishing.
#[derive(Debug, Deserialize, JsonSchema, Serialize)]
pub struct ExitEvent {
    pub exit_code: Option<i32>,
    pub signal: Option<i32>,
    /// The daemon execution deadline fired. Absent on older daemons, which cannot
    /// distinguish deadline expiry from other signal deaths.
    #[serde(default)]
    pub timed_out: bool,
    pub truncated: bool,
    pub writers_may_be_alive: bool,
    /// Total bytes published, so a client can assert it saw all of them.
    pub offset: u64,
}

#[derive(Debug, Deserialize, JsonSchema, Serialize)]
pub struct StartResponse {
    pub exec_id: String,
    pub phase: Phase,
}

/// `POST /v1/exec/{id}/kill` response.
///
/// A named type rather than the `serde_json::json!` literal this used to be: an
/// ad-hoc `Value` has no schema to derive, so the one route whose body a client
/// most needs to branch on — `killed` distinguishes "signalled" from "the group
/// was already gone", and both are 200 — would have been the one route the
/// published document could not describe.
#[derive(Debug, Deserialize, JsonSchema, Serialize)]
pub struct KillResponse {
    pub exec_id: String,
    /// Whether a signal was actually delivered. `false` with a 200 means the
    /// process group had already exited, which is the outcome a kill wanted.
    pub killed: bool,
}

/// One entry of `GET /v1/procs`: an exec's process group as the daemon sees it.
///
/// The exec registry knows the group (`pgid`) and whether the direct child has
/// exited; `/proc` knows which pids are still in that group. Both halves are here
/// because the interesting case is their disagreement — `child_exited: true` with a
/// non-empty `pids` is a command that finished while something it started did not,
/// which is exactly what a caller asking "did this step leave anything behind"
/// needs to see and could not before.
#[derive(Clone, Debug, Deserialize, JsonSchema, PartialEq, Serialize)]
pub struct ProcGroup {
    pub exec_id: String,
    /// The process group id captured at spawn. `None` when the child was reaped
    /// before it could be read, in which case `pids` is empty because there is no
    /// group to scan for.
    pub pgid: Option<u32>,
    /// Seconds since the epoch on the daemon's clock when the child was spawned.
    /// The same convention as a hook observation's `fired_at`.
    pub started_at: u64,
    /// Whether the exec's own child has exited. Read from the terminal marker an
    /// ack cannot take, so an acked exec still reads as exited here.
    pub child_exited: bool,
    /// Whether the exec was started with `reap_group_on_exit`.
    pub reap: bool,
    /// Live pids whose process group is `pgid`, read from `/proc`. Zombies are not
    /// live and are not listed. Empty once the group is gone, and empty for an
    /// entry whose `pgid` is `None`.
    pub pids: Vec<u32>,
}

/// `GET /v1/procs` response.
#[derive(Debug, Default, Deserialize, JsonSchema, Serialize)]
pub struct ProcsResponse {
    /// Every registered exec, in registry order, whether or not anything in its
    /// group is still alive. An exec that exited cleanly with nothing left behind
    /// is listed with `child_exited: true` and `pids: []`.
    pub procs: Vec<ProcGroup>,
}

#[derive(Debug, Deserialize, JsonSchema, Serialize)]
pub struct PollResponse {
    pub exec_id: String,
    pub phase: Phase,
    #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
    #[serde(flatten)]
    pub result: Option<Outcome>,
}

/// The JSON error body every failing control route returns.
///
/// `error` is a stable machine-readable slug and `detail` is prose for a human
/// reading a log. A client branches on `error` and the status code, never on
/// `detail` — which is why the slug is one of the constants below, chosen at each
/// call site, rather than a formatted string. `Cow` so the daemon keeps naming a
/// `&'static str` while a client deserializes into an owned one.
#[derive(Debug, Deserialize, JsonSchema, Serialize)]
pub struct ErrorBody {
    pub error: Cow<'static, str>,
    pub detail: String,
}

/// The `event:` names on `GET /v1/exec/{id}/stream`.
///
/// Named rather than spelled at each `Event::default().event(..)` call: the daemon
/// writes these and a client matches on them, and a typo on either side is a
/// stream that silently carries events nobody dispatches.
pub const EVENT_OUTPUT: &str = "output";
pub const EVENT_GAP: &str = "gap";
pub const EVENT_EXIT: &str = "exit";

// The `ErrorBody::error` slugs. Every failing control route returns one of these,
// they are the part of the surface a client branches on, and they are `&'static
// str` for the same reason the status code is a number: the pairing of the two is
// the contract, and neither is derivable from the other.

/// The body is not a valid request for this route. Always 400, never 404.
pub const ERROR_MALFORMED_REQUEST: &str = "malformed_request";
/// No exec is registered under this id, or its entry was collected after an ack.
pub const ERROR_UNKNOWN_EXEC: &str = "unknown_exec";
/// The child could not be spawned. 500, deliberately not 404.
pub const ERROR_SPAWN_FAILED: &str = "spawn_failed";
/// The requested shutdown is unavailable with the daemon's current privileges.
pub const ERROR_POWEROFF_UNAVAILABLE: &str = "poweroff_unavailable";
/// The exec has not exited, so acking would drop output still being written.
pub const ERROR_STILL_RUNNING: &str = "still_running";
/// An earlier ack already released the output.
pub const ERROR_ALREADY_ACKED: &str = "already_acked";
/// The exec was started without `stdin: true`. Fixable at start time, hence 409.
pub const ERROR_STDIN_NOT_REQUESTED: &str = "stdin_not_requested";
/// stdin was closed by an earlier eof, or the child stopped reading. 410: a retry
/// will never succeed.
pub const ERROR_STDIN_CLOSED: &str = "stdin_closed";
/// The child did not read within the configured window. Retryable, and some bytes
/// may already have been written.
pub const ERROR_STDIN_WRITE_TIMEOUT: &str = "stdin_write_timeout";
/// The decoded write exceeds the configured per-write cap.
pub const ERROR_STDIN_WRITE_TOO_LARGE: &str = "stdin_write_too_large";
/// The write to the pipe failed for a reason other than a broken pipe.
pub const ERROR_STDIN_WRITE_FAILED: &str = "stdin_write_failed";
/// A start request named a user the guest's `/etc/passwd` does not contain. 400, and
/// nothing was spawned; `detail` names the user.
pub const ERROR_UNKNOWN_USER: &str = "unknown_user";
/// A start request named a group the guest's `/etc/group` does not contain. 400, and
/// nothing was spawned; `detail` names the group.
pub const ERROR_UNKNOWN_GROUP: &str = "unknown_group";
/// A start request named a shell that no searched directory holds as an executable
/// file. 400, and nothing was spawned; `detail` names the shell and where it looked.
pub const ERROR_UNKNOWN_SHELL: &str = "unknown_shell";

fn is_false(value: &bool) -> bool {
    !value
}

impl StartRequest {
    /// A request to run `command` as an argv under the idempotency key `exec_id`, with
    /// every other field at the default a body that omits it gets.
    ///
    /// `exec_id` has no default here: minting one needs a clock and a random source,
    /// which this crate doesn't have, and a shared fixed key would answer a second exec
    /// from the first one's record.
    ///
    /// This and the `with_*` setters are the only way to build a request outside this
    /// crate, because `StartRequest` is `#[non_exhaustive]`. The builder is where every
    /// optional field gets its one default, the same one serde gives a body that omits it,
    /// so a client can't pick its own `timeout_sec`, `reap_group_on_exit` or
    /// `inherit_image_env` by writing the struct out, and a field added here reaches every
    /// caller as its default instead of as a build error in each client. (The struct's own
    /// doc comment is the published schema's description, so this lives here.)
    ///
    /// ```
    /// # use microvms_protocol::exec::StartRequest;
    /// let request: StartRequest = StartRequest::new("e1", vec!["true".into()]);
    /// # assert!(!request.reap_group_on_exit);
    /// ```
    ///
    /// The same request as a struct expression doesn't build outside this crate (E0639):
    ///
    /// ```compile_fail,E0639
    /// # use microvms_protocol::exec::StartRequest;
    /// let request: StartRequest = StartRequest { ..StartRequest::new("e1", vec!["true".into()]) };
    /// # assert!(!request.reap_group_on_exit);
    /// ```
    pub fn new(exec_id: impl Into<String>, command: Vec<String>) -> Self {
        StartRequest {
            exec_id: exec_id.into(),
            command,
            shell: Shell::default(),
            cwd: None,
            env: HashMap::new(),
            user: None,
            group: None,
            timeout_sec: None,
            stdin: false,
            reap_group_on_exit: false,
            poweroff_on_exit: false,
            inherit_image_env: false,
        }
    }

    /// Run `command` as a script under this shell, or as an argv for `false`.
    pub fn with_shell(mut self, shell: impl Into<Shell>) -> Self {
        self.shell = shell.into();
        self
    }

    /// The child's working directory; `None` inherits the daemon's.
    pub fn with_cwd(mut self, cwd: Option<String>) -> Self {
        self.cwd = cwd;
        self
    }

    /// The top layer of the child's environment.
    pub fn with_env(mut self, env: HashMap<String, String>) -> Self {
        self.env = env;
        self
    }

    /// The user to demote to; `None` runs as the image's `AGENTD_DEFAULT_USER`, or as the
    /// daemon's own user when the image sets none.
    pub fn with_user(mut self, user: Option<NameOrId>) -> Self {
        self.user = user;
        self
    }

    /// The group to demote to; `None` follows [`StartRequest::user`]'s rule.
    pub fn with_group(mut self, group: Option<NameOrId>) -> Self {
        self.group = group;
        self
    }

    /// The daemon's wall-clock budget for the child; `None` sets none.
    pub fn with_timeout_sec(mut self, timeout_sec: Option<f64>) -> Self {
        self.timeout_sec = timeout_sec;
        self
    }

    /// Give the child a writable stdin pipe.
    pub fn with_stdin(mut self, stdin: bool) -> Self {
        self.stdin = stdin;
        self
    }

    /// Signal the exec's process group once its own child exits.
    pub fn with_reap_group_on_exit(mut self, reap: bool) -> Self {
        self.reap_group_on_exit = reap;
        self
    }

    /// Power off the guest when this exec's original process group has exited.
    pub fn with_poweroff_on_exit(mut self, poweroff: bool) -> Self {
        self.poweroff_on_exit = poweroff;
        self
    }

    /// Start the child's environment from the image's `ENV`.
    pub fn with_inherit_image_env(mut self, inherit: bool) -> Self {
        self.inherit_image_env = inherit;
        self
    }
}

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

    /// The `rename_all` is the reason these types are shared rather than mirrored:
    /// a client that spelled the variants from the Rust identifiers would send
    /// `Running` where the daemon emits `running`.
    #[test]
    fn phase_and_stream_kind_round_trip_through_their_serde_names() {
        assert_eq!(
            serde_json::to_string(&Phase::Running).expect("serializes"),
            "\"running\""
        );
        assert_eq!(
            serde_json::from_str::<Phase>("\"acked\"").expect("deserializes"),
            Phase::Acked
        );
        assert_eq!(
            serde_json::to_string(&StreamKind::Stderr).expect("serializes"),
            "\"stderr\""
        );
    }

    /// `as_str` is a second spelling of what serde already writes, so the two must be
    /// equal for every variant or the bindings publish names the wire never carries.
    ///
    /// `ALL` is held complete by exhaustion rather than by a length check: the matches
    /// below have no wildcard arm, so a variant added to either enum fails to compile
    /// here until it is added to its `ALL` too.
    #[test]
    fn as_str_agrees_with_serde_for_every_phase_and_stream_kind() {
        for phase in Phase::ALL {
            assert_eq!(
                serde_json::to_string(&phase).expect("serializes"),
                format!("\"{}\"", phase.as_str()),
                "{phase:?} spells differently through as_str and serde"
            );
            match phase {
                Phase::Running | Phase::Exited | Phase::Acked => {}
            }
        }
        for kind in StreamKind::ALL {
            assert_eq!(
                serde_json::to_string(&kind).expect("serializes"),
                format!("\"{}\"", kind.as_str()),
                "{kind:?} spells differently through as_str and serde"
            );
            match kind {
                StreamKind::Stdout | StreamKind::Stderr => {}
            }
        }
    }

    /// Both halves of serde on one type is the whole point of the crate: what the
    /// daemon writes is what a client reads, checked rather than assumed.
    #[test]
    fn a_response_the_daemon_writes_deserializes_on_the_client_side() {
        let written = serde_json::to_string(&StartResponse {
            exec_id: "e1".into(),
            phase: Phase::Running,
        })
        .expect("serializes");
        let read: StartResponse = serde_json::from_str(&written).expect("deserializes");
        assert_eq!(read.exec_id, "e1");
        assert_eq!(read.phase, Phase::Running);
    }

    /// A request the client writes is one the daemon's extractor accepts, including
    /// every serde default — the fields a caller omits are the ones most likely to
    /// disagree across a hand-written mirror.
    #[test]
    fn a_start_request_omitting_every_defaulted_field_deserializes() {
        let request: StartRequest =
            serde_json::from_str(r#"{"exec_id":"e1","command":["true"]}"#).expect("deserializes");
        assert_eq!(request.shell, Shell::Flag(false));
        assert!(!request.shell.is_shell());
        assert!(request.user.is_none() && request.group.is_none());
        assert!(
            !request.inherit_image_env,
            "inheriting the image env is opt-in: an old client keeps the exact launch map"
        );
        assert!(request.cwd.is_none());
        assert!(request.env.is_empty());
        assert!(request.timeout_sec.is_none());
        assert!(!request.stdin);
        assert!(
            !request.reap_group_on_exit,
            "reaping is opt-in: an old client that never heard of the flag keeps today's \
             grandchild-output guarantee"
        );
    }

    /// The builder's defaults are the wire's: a request built with nothing set writes the
    /// same body the daemon reads from one that omits every optional field. A builder that
    /// picked its own default would send a different request than an old client does.
    ///
    /// **Falsification**: 2026-09-27. Defaulting `reap_group_on_exit` to `true` in
    /// `StartRequest::new` turned this red; restored after.
    #[test]
    fn the_builder_defaults_are_the_ones_serde_gives_an_omitted_field() {
        let built = StartRequest::new("e1", vec!["true".into()]);
        let read: StartRequest =
            serde_json::from_str(r#"{"exec_id":"e1","command":["true"]}"#).expect("deserializes");
        assert_eq!(
            serde_json::to_value(&built).expect("serializes"),
            serde_json::to_value(&read).expect("serializes"),
        );
    }

    /// The union fields read both spellings and write each back as it came, so a client
    /// that only ever sends integers and booleans sends the bytes it always did.
    #[test]
    fn user_group_and_shell_read_both_spellings_and_write_them_back() {
        let request: StartRequest = serde_json::from_str(
            r#"{"exec_id":"e1","command":["id"],"user":1000,"group":"staff","shell":"bash","inherit_image_env":true}"#,
        )
        .expect("deserializes");
        assert_eq!(request.user, Some(NameOrId::Id(1000)));
        assert_eq!(request.group, Some(NameOrId::Name("staff".into())));
        assert_eq!(request.shell, Shell::Named("bash".into()));
        assert!(request.inherit_image_env);

        let written = serde_json::to_value(&request).expect("serializes");
        assert_eq!(written["user"], 1000);
        assert_eq!(written["group"], "staff");
        assert_eq!(written["shell"], "bash");

        let legacy: StartRequest =
            serde_json::from_str(r#"{"exec_id":"e1","command":["id"],"shell":true,"user":0}"#)
                .expect("deserializes");
        assert_eq!(legacy.shell, Shell::Flag(true));
        let written = serde_json::to_value(&legacy).expect("serializes");
        assert_eq!(written["shell"], true);
        assert_eq!(written["user"], 0);
    }

    /// Anything but an integer or a string for a user, or a boolean or a string for a
    /// shell, is a malformed body rather than a coerced value.
    #[test]
    fn other_json_types_for_the_union_fields_are_refused() {
        for body in [
            r#"{"exec_id":"e1","command":["id"],"user":-1}"#,
            r#"{"exec_id":"e1","command":["id"],"user":1.5}"#,
            r#"{"exec_id":"e1","command":["id"],"user":["root"]}"#,
            r#"{"exec_id":"e1","command":["id"],"group":{"name":"x"}}"#,
            r#"{"exec_id":"e1","command":["id"],"shell":1}"#,
            r#"{"exec_id":"e1","command":["id"],"shell":null}"#,
        ] {
            assert!(
                serde_json::from_str::<StartRequest>(body).is_err(),
                "accepted {body}"
            );
        }
    }

    /// The command-line spelling: digits are an id and go out as an integer.
    #[test]
    fn a_flag_of_digits_is_an_id_and_anything_else_a_name() {
        assert_eq!("1000".parse::<NameOrId>(), Ok(NameOrId::Id(1000)));
        assert_eq!("0".parse::<NameOrId>(), Ok(NameOrId::Id(0)));
        assert_eq!(
            "agent".parse::<NameOrId>(),
            Ok(NameOrId::Name("agent".into()))
        );
        assert_eq!("+1".parse::<NameOrId>(), Ok(NameOrId::Name("+1".into())));
        assert_eq!(
            "99999999999".parse::<NameOrId>(),
            Ok(NameOrId::Name("99999999999".into()))
        );
    }

    /// The procs body round-trips with every field present, `pgid: null` included, so a
    /// client can tell "no group was ever captured" from "the group is empty".
    #[test]
    fn a_procs_response_round_trips_with_a_missing_pgid() {
        let written = serde_json::to_string(&ProcsResponse {
            procs: vec![ProcGroup {
                exec_id: "e1".into(),
                pgid: None,
                started_at: 1_756_500_000,
                child_exited: true,
                reap: false,
                pids: Vec::new(),
            }],
        })
        .expect("serializes");
        assert_eq!(
            written,
            r#"{"procs":[{"exec_id":"e1","pgid":null,"started_at":1756500000,"child_exited":true,"reap":false,"pids":[]}]}"#
        );
        let read: ProcsResponse = serde_json::from_str(&written).expect("deserializes");
        assert_eq!(read.procs.len(), 1);
        assert_eq!(read.procs[0].pgid, None);
        assert!(read.procs[0].child_exited);
    }

    /// The flatten-plus-skip on `PollResponse.result` is the one shape whose two
    /// serde contracts genuinely differ — absent on the way out while running, and
    /// the same absence has to read back as `None` on the way in. Both directions,
    /// because a client that read a running exec's missing outcome as an error would
    /// fail on every poll before the first one that mattered.
    #[test]
    fn a_poll_response_round_trips_with_and_without_an_outcome() {
        let running = serde_json::to_string(&PollResponse {
            exec_id: "e1".into(),
            phase: Phase::Running,
            result: None,
        })
        .expect("serializes");
        assert_eq!(running, r#"{"exec_id":"e1","phase":"running"}"#);
        let read: PollResponse = serde_json::from_str(&running).expect("deserializes");
        assert!(read.result.is_none());

        let exited = serde_json::to_string(&PollResponse {
            exec_id: "e1".into(),
            phase: Phase::Exited,
            result: Some(Outcome {
                exit_code: Some(0),
                stdout: "hi".into(),
                ..Outcome::default()
            }),
        })
        .expect("serializes");
        let read: PollResponse = serde_json::from_str(&exited).expect("deserializes");
        let outcome = read.result.expect("the outcome is flattened into the body");
        assert_eq!(outcome.exit_code, Some(0));
        assert_eq!(outcome.stdout, "hi");
    }

    /// `error` is a `Cow`, so the daemon's borrowed slug and a client's owned string
    /// are the same type on the wire.
    #[test]
    fn an_error_body_carries_a_borrowed_slug_and_reads_back_owned() {
        let written = serde_json::to_string(&ErrorBody {
            error: Cow::Borrowed(ERROR_UNKNOWN_EXEC),
            detail: "e1".into(),
        })
        .expect("serializes");
        assert_eq!(written, r#"{"error":"unknown_exec","detail":"e1"}"#);
        let read: ErrorBody = serde_json::from_str(&written).expect("deserializes");
        assert_eq!(read.error, ERROR_UNKNOWN_EXEC);
    }

    #[test]
    fn poweroff_defaults_to_absent_and_true_round_trips() {
        let request = StartRequest::new("e1", vec!["true".into()]);
        assert!(!request.poweroff_on_exit);
        let body = serde_json::to_value(&request).unwrap();
        assert!(body.get("poweroff_on_exit").is_none());
        assert!(
            !serde_json::from_value::<StartRequest>(body)
                .unwrap()
                .poweroff_on_exit
        );
        let body = serde_json::to_value(request.with_poweroff_on_exit(true)).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(body["poweroff_on_exit"], true);
        assert!(
            serde_json::from_value::<StartRequest>(body)
                .unwrap()
                .poweroff_on_exit
        );
    }
}