A desktop client reading /api/software had no way to learn that a title costs
money. There was nothing in the response to say so, no way to sign in, and no
way to be told "you do not own this" — so a store with paid titles could only
hand the client a 403 at download time and let it guess why.
The fix belongs here rather than in the client. A client serves more than one
store, so anything it knows about a particular one has to arrive from that
store's own API; a rule compiled into the client is a rule that breaks every
other catalog it reads. Three seams, each following the storage adapter's
shape — documented contract, default that is byte for byte the old behaviour,
one config key to replace it:
- **access policy** — visible_software_scope / access_for / authorize_download.
Every catalog entry now carries an `access` block (gated, entitled, price,
purchaseUrl, webUrl) and both /api/download and /file/* ask before serving.
The vocabulary is deliberately generic: a word from one host's domain would
make every client that reads it specific to that host.
- **client sign-in** — the device authorization grant (RFC 8628), over the
host's own user model. The approval page stays the host's, because approving
needs a session and HTML. Tokens are ApplicationTokens with a `catalog`
scope, so publishing and reading stay separable.
- **service descriptor** — GET /api/service says what this deployment is and
whether it has a sign-in at all, which is how a client stops guessing.
With no policy and no subject class configured — every deployment today — the
API is unchanged: /api/auth/* answers 404, /api/service reports auth: null, and
the 187 pre-existing examples pass untouched.
A policy that raises is treated as a refusal, not permission. An artifact
served because the gatekeeper crashed is the one failure mode this must not
have, so a broken policy empties the catalog and denies the download.
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`ActiveAdmin.register WarpEngine::Pipeline` declared no `permit_params`, so every edit
handed unpermitted attributes to the model and Rails raised ForbiddenAttributesError. That
is not new: the form has been unable to save for as long as it has existed. My flash
message on `update` sat at the top of the traceback and made it look like the cause, which
it was not — and it is gone anyway, because overriding an ActiveAdmin action to say
something is a poor trade for what it can break. The move is written to the log instead.
Adding a spec that would have caught it, in the host app, because that is where the
ActiveAdmin instance lives: it signs in, PUTs the form, and checks both that the record
saves and that the software link moves off the pipeline that had it. Driven the same way
by hand against the development database first — 302, the link moved, the previous holder
left without one.
The engine's other admin resources were checked for the same omission: downloads and
releases are read-only and the file manager posts to its own routes, so pipelines was the
only one affected.
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Every WarpEngine API response now carries `WarpEngine-Version`, so a client can branch on
the engine's age without a round trip to ask. Set in a before_action rather than after:
`rescue_from` never reaches an after_action, and a client needs the version most when
something came back wrong. The name lives in `WarpEngine::VERSION_HEADER`. The host's own
endpoints — the store registry — do not carry it, because they are not the engine.
A software has one pipeline, and the newest assignment now wins. Two pipelines pointing at
the same software was not an error the database caught; it was a link that silently did
nothing, with the software still showing whichever row came first. Assigning a software
another pipeline holds therefore moves it, the admin says which pipeline it was taken
from, and `Pipeline#software_taken_from` carries that for anything else that cares.
Deliberately a callback and not a unique index: rows here are soft-deleted, and a unique
index counts deleted rows, so a pipeline removed last year would block its software from
ever being linked again.
The engine is 0.4.0. The site's /stores page and its screenshot follow the client's new
name, and the shot is a fresh one showing the greyed-out titles the client now lists.
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- the 7 catalog admin files (softwares, releases, external_links,
platform_links, images, files page, downloads) move to the engine's
app/admin; the host ActiveAdmin instance loads them via
ActiveAdmin.application.load_paths (single admin, URLs unchanged)
- engine initializers: Zeitwerk ignore for app/admin (production eager load)
and load_paths + watchable_dirs registration, guarded by defined?(ActiveAdmin)
so the admin-less dummy app boots
- images admin reads image owners from WarpEngine.config.image_owners; the
host registers the Member owner in config/initializers/warp_engine.rb;
the interim ImageUsage registry is gone
- fix: SoftwareImage.distinct.pluck clashed with its order(:position)
default scope on MySQL (unscope(:order)) — introduced in phase 0, caught
by the first authenticated /admin/images smoke test
- files page: download links use the public /file/ URL instead of the raw
container path; the picker's stored path comes from config
Verified: both suites green, zeitwerk:check (production) clean, JSON
baselines intact, authenticated admin smoke test on every page incl.
the 3-level nested software form and Files picker mode.
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