ersatztv/scripts/ci-step-ran.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Per-step execution markers for the two REQUIRED docker-build.yml jobs (ersatztv#756).
#
# WHY THIS EXISTS. A `run:` body the runner declines to interpolate is DROPPED, and the job still
# concludes `success` (ersatztv#751, `ci.workflow-run-body-no-expressions`). In
# `review-verdict.yml` that is fail-CLOSED — the required `review-verdict/h10` is simply absent and
# the merge is blocked. In `docker-build.yml` it is fail-OPEN: `Build & test (.NET)` and
# `EF migration integrity (SQLite + MySql)` are the other two required contexts on `main`, so a
# dropped step there sends a required check GREEN having done no work. #751 guarded the safe
# direction because that is where the live bug was, not because these were checked.
#
# WHY PER STEP, NOT PER JOB, which is what #756 proposed. A marker written by the job's FIRST step
# only proves the job started. The dangerous drop is not step 1 — it is `Test`, or the migration
# replay: the job runs everything around them, reports green, and nothing ran that anyone cared
# about. A guard that cannot see the fail-open case it was built for is the "guard that never
# executed" failure one level up. So every consequential step marks itself and a trailing guard
# asserts the whole expected SET.
#
# THAT GUARD CARRIES NO `if:` — unlike the #751 one, which uses `if: always()` because its job has a
# single real step. These jobs have a dozen, and a genuine early failure legitimately skips every
# later step, so `always()` would print a false "these steps never executed" on top of every ordinary
# red build. The default `success()` is the wanted condition: the guard is skipped only when an
# earlier step FAILED, which already fails the job, so guard-skipped implies job-red and every green
# path runs the guard.
#
# WHY A SCRIPT AND NOT AN INLINE BODY, unlike the #751 guard. Two reasons, and the second is the
# load-bearing one:
#
#   * The path literal exists ONCE. The #751 guard carries it twice (write + assert) and its tests
#     spend real effort proving the two copies agree, because a divergence reddens every run and
#     then gets deleted as broken. Here they cannot diverge.
#   * A one-line `run: scripts/ci-step-ran.sh …` CANNOT CONTAIN AN EXPRESSION DELIMITER, so the
#     mechanism this guards against cannot drop the guard itself. #751's own record names this as
#     the stronger construction ("the body would have had to move into scripts/, where a one-line
#     run: makes the class unreachable") and settled for inline only because the measurement showed
#     it was not required there.
#
# WHY A SCRIPT IS ACCEPTABLE HERE THOUGH IT WOULD NOT BE IN review-verdict.yml. That workflow
# checks out the PR's BASE precisely so a PR cannot supply the code that judges it. `docker-build.yml`
# is head-resolved by design — a PR already supplies every test this job runs — so calling a script
# from the head adds no authority a PR did not already have. This is a CORRECTNESS gate against
# silent no-ops, not a security gate against a hostile PR; that job belongs to `review-verdict/h10`.
# Do not copy this reasoning back into the gate workflow.
#
# THE MARKER FILE IS KEYED ON THE RUN, and BE PRECISE ABOUT WHY — the obvious justification is a
# #751 measurement that does NOT transfer to these jobs, and saying so is the point. #751 measured
# `RUNNER_TEMP` to be `/tmp` and called it "not a private per-job directory"; that was taken on
# `review-verdict.yml`, which runs WITHOUT a `container:`. `test` and `migrations` run INSIDE the CI
# toolchain image, so their `/tmp` is the job container's own and starts empty. That follows from
# `container:`, NOT from a measurement: the build-lane probe confirmed only that `RUNNER_TEMP` is
# `/tmp` here (the marker landed at `/tmp/etv-ci-steps-ran-test-1910-1`) — it says nothing about the
# directory being private or empty, and an earlier draft of this comment cited it as though it did.
# The fresh container is what actually rules out a stale marker here; the keying is defence in depth.
#
# It is kept because container-per-job is a property of how the lane is configured today, not a
# guarantee, and a STALE marker is the one failure that makes this guard PASS on a run whose step was
# dropped — a silent success, i.e. the exact thing being removed. Cheap insurance against a lane
# change nobody would think to re-check this against.

set -euo pipefail

usage() {
    cat >&2 <<'EOF'
usage:
  ci-step-ran.sh mark <key>
      Record that this step began executing. Call it as the step's FIRST act, before
      anything in the body can fail.

  ci-step-ran.sh assert --always <key>... [--gated <key>...]
      Fail unless every expected key was marked. --always keys are always required.
      --gated keys are required only when the job's skip gates did NOT fire, read from
      ETV_DOCS_ONLY / ETV_REVALIDATE_SKIP so this mirrors the steps' own `if:`.
EOF
    exit 2
}

# NO SILENT FALLBACK FOR THE RUN IDENTITY — found by cold review. The first version defaulted to
# `nojob`/`norunid`/`1`, and those are REUSABLE: with `GITHUB_RUN_ID` unset, every run on the host
# would share ONE marker file, so a leftover from any earlier run would satisfy the guard on a run
# whose step was dropped. A silent PASS — the exact failure the keying exists to remove, reintroduced
# by the code meant to implement it.
#
# THE TWO HALVES ARE TREATED DIFFERENTLY, ON EVIDENCE, because the blast radii differ and this is a
# REQUIRED check — a wrong refusal deadlocks every merge, so strictness is not free:
#
#   * `GITHUB_JOB` and `GITHUB_RUN_ID` are MEASURED present on this runner (#756's build-lane probe
#     wrote `/tmp/etv-ci-steps-ran-test-1910-1`; `test` is the job id and 1910 is the real API run
#     id). Absence would mean the runner changed under us, so refusing is safe AND correct.
#   * `GITHUB_RUN_ATTEMPT` is measured present TOO, as of ersatztv#756's own PR run — but note how,
#     because the first two attempts to settle it were both bad. Grepping a job log for the variable
#     NAME proves nothing (logs do not dump the environment). Inferring it from the ABSENCE of this
#     script's "not set" warning proves nothing either, because that warning goes to stderr and
#     whether step stderr reaches a job log here was itself never established. So the script was made
#     to REPORT its resolved identity on stdout, where capture is not in question, and the answer was
#     then simply read off run 1916: `Marker identity: job=test run=1916 attempt=1 (from the runner)`
#     and the same for `migrations`. Both required jobs, on the lane that matters.
#
# That measurement is what promoted it from warn-and-default to REQUIRED, which is why the residual
# this comment used to describe — a rerun inheriting attempt 1's markers — no longer exists. If a
# future runner stops exporting any of the three, every job reddens with a message naming the
# variable; that is loud, instantly diagnosable, and the correct direction for a required check.
marker_path() {
    local missing=""
    [ -n "${GITHUB_JOB:-}" ] || missing="$missing GITHUB_JOB"
    [ -n "${GITHUB_RUN_ID:-}" ] || missing="$missing GITHUB_RUN_ID"
    [ -n "${GITHUB_RUN_ATTEMPT:-}" ] || missing="$missing GITHUB_RUN_ATTEMPT"
    if [ -n "$missing" ]; then
        # NOTHING IS PRINTED TO STDOUT HERE, and that is load-bearing rather than style: this
        # function's stdout IS its return value (it is always called inside `$( )`), so a notice
        # printed here is captured INTO the path. An earlier revision did exactly that and both
        # sub-commands then failed on a nonexistent directory. Caught by
        # test_a_degraded_run_IDENTITY_*, which is why that test asserts on the exit status and on
        # the absence of any marker file rather than only on the message.
        echo "::error::ci-step-ran.sh cannot identify this run —${missing} not set. The marker path would fall back to a name other runs also use, and a stale marker would make the dropped-step guard PASS on a run whose step never executed (ersatztv#756). Refusing rather than degrading to a reusable name." >&2
        exit 3
    fi
    printf '%s/etv-ci-steps-ran-%s-%s-%s' \
        "${RUNNER_TEMP:-${GITHUB_WORKSPACE:-/tmp}}" \
        "$GITHUB_JOB" "$GITHUB_RUN_ID" "$GITHUB_RUN_ATTEMPT"
}

cmd_mark() {
    [ "$#" -eq 1 ] && [ -n "$1" ] || usage
    # Appended, never truncated: every step in the job shares one file, and a `>` here would erase
    # its predecessors and make the guard red on every run.
    #
    # A failure to write is NOT swallowed. The step is running under `bash -e`, so a non-zero here
    # fails the step and reddens the job — which is the same direction the guard would take a moment
    # later, but with a message pointing at the real cause instead of at a missing marker.
    local target
    # NOT `>> "$(marker_path)"`: the refusal above `exit`s a SUBSHELL there, and bash discards a
    # command substitution's exit status when it is only part of a redirection — the write would go
    # to an empty path and the error would read as a redirection failure rather than the real cause.
    target="$(marker_path)" || exit $?
    printf '%s\n' "$1" >> "$target"
}

cmd_assert() {
    local -a always=() gated=()
    local bucket=""
    while [ "$#" -gt 0 ]; do
        case "$1" in
            --always) bucket=always ;;
            --gated)  bucket=gated ;;
            -*)       usage ;;
            *)
                case "$bucket" in
                    always) always+=("$1") ;;
                    gated)  gated+=("$1") ;;
                    *)      usage ;;
                esac ;;
        esac
        shift
    done
    # ANTI-VACUITY, at runtime rather than only in the test suite. An `assert` called with no
    # expectations passes unconditionally and reports "every expected step executed" — a guard that
    # proves nothing while looking like it proved everything. Refuse instead.
    if [ "${#always[@]}" -eq 0 ] && [ "${#gated[@]}" -eq 0 ]; then
        echo "::error::ci-step-ran.sh assert was called with no expected keys, so it would pass unconditionally. This is a workflow bug, not a build failure." >&2
        exit 2
    fi

    # The skip gates, mirroring the `if:` every gated step carries:
    #   steps.detect.outputs.docs_only != 'true' && steps.revalidate.outputs.skip != 'true'
    # Anything other than the exact string `true` means the step was expected to run — including the
    # EMPTY string, which is what these read as when the detect step itself was dropped. That
    # direction is deliberate: a dropped detect step must widen what is required, never narrow it.
    local skipped=no
    if [ "${ETV_DOCS_ONLY:-}" = "true" ] || [ "${ETV_REVALIDATE_SKIP:-}" = "true" ]; then
        skipped=yes
    fi

    local marker attempt_used
    # `|| exit $?` because `set -e` does NOT fire on a failing command substitution in an assignment;
    # without it a degraded identity would leave `marker` empty and every key would read as missing —
    # fail-closed by luck, with a misleading message.
    marker="$(marker_path)" || exit $?
    # Read the attempt back OFF THE RESOLVED PATH rather than from the environment. It reports what
    # the path was actually keyed on, so a future change to how the path is built cannot silently
    # disagree with the line that documents it.
    attempt_used="${marker##*-}"
    # `${arr[@]+"${arr[@]}"}` rather than a bare `"${arr[@]}"`: under `set -u` bash 3.2 (the system
    # bash on the Macs this suite also runs on) treats expanding an EMPTY array as an unbound
    # variable and aborts. The CI image ships bash 5, where it is fine — which is exactly the kind of
    # difference that makes a guard pass locally and die on the runner, or the reverse.
    local -a expected=(${always[@]+"${always[@]}"})
    if [ "$skipped" = no ]; then
        expected+=(${gated[@]+"${gated[@]}"})
    else
        echo "Skip gate fired (docs_only='${ETV_DOCS_ONLY:-}', already_validated='${ETV_REVALIDATE_SKIP:-}') — the gated steps were not expected to run."
    fi

    # RE-CHECKED AFTER GATING, not only on argv — found by cold review, which reproduced it:
    # `ETV_DOCS_ONLY=true … assert --always --gated foo` printed "All 0 expected step(s) executed"
    # and exited 0. The argv check above cannot see that, because the set is emptied by the gate, not
    # by the caller. Unreachable with today's argv (both jobs pass `--always detect revalidate`), but
    # it directly contradicted the comment above it, and a guard that reports proving everything
    # while proving nothing is the failure this whole file exists to remove.
    if [ "${#expected[@]}" -eq 0 ]; then
        echo "::error::ci-step-ran.sh assert ended up with NO expected keys after the skip gate, so it would pass unconditionally. This is a workflow bug, not a build failure." >&2
        exit 2
    fi

    local -a missing=()
    local key
    for key in "${expected[@]}"; do
        # `grep -qxF` over a FILE, never a pipeline: `grep -q` exits at its first match and would
        # SIGPIPE a producer, which under `set -o pipefail` inverts the result for large inputs
        # (ersatztv#698). Reading the file directly has no producer to kill. `-x` so a key cannot be
        # satisfied by another key that contains it, `-F` so a key is never read as a pattern.
        if ! grep -qxF "$key" "$marker" 2>/dev/null; then
            missing+=("$key")
        fi
    done

    if [ "${#missing[@]}" -gt 0 ]; then
        echo "::error::These steps of job '${GITHUB_JOB:-?}' never executed: ${missing[*]}. The runner DROPPED them (an interpolation failure over a run: body does this and still reports the job GREEN — ersatztv#751/#756) or their \`if:\` no longer matches the guard's expectations. This job is a REQUIRED check, so a green here would mean a required context passed having done no work. Failing the job so it is visible."
        if [ -f "$marker" ]; then
            echo "Marker file ${marker} recorded:"
            sed 's/^/  /' "$marker"
        else
            echo "There is no marker file at ${marker} at all — not one step of this job executed."
        fi
        exit 1
    fi
    # The resolved identity, on stdout, every run. This is what turns "is GITHUB_RUN_ATTEMPT
    # exported here?" from an inference into something a reader just looks up — and it is why the
    # variable is still WARN-and-default rather than REFUSE: `GITHUB_JOB` and `GITHUB_RUN_ID` have
    # positive evidence (the probe's marker filename), this one does not yet, and refusing on an
    # unestablished variable would redden a REQUIRED check. Promote it once a run has printed
    # `attempt=<n> (from the runner)`.
    # Kept after the promotion, though all three components are now required and the line can no
    # longer report anything but the runner's own values. It is the standing evidence: this is the
    # line that settled whether GITHUB_RUN_ATTEMPT is exported, and it is what a future reader checks
    # first if the keying is ever doubted again.
    echo "Marker identity: job=${GITHUB_JOB} run=${GITHUB_RUN_ID} attempt=${attempt_used} (from the runner)"
    echo "All ${#expected[@]} expected step(s) executed: ${expected[*]}"
}

[ "$#" -ge 1 ] || usage
sub="$1"
shift
case "$sub" in
    mark)   cmd_mark "$@" ;;
    assert) cmd_assert "$@" ;;
    *)      usage ;;
esac