feat: define module HTTP routes

Phase 5B, pass 1: framework-neutral module HTTP route contracts and runtime
registration. Adds @ekklesia/contracts' module-http.ts (methods, canonical
path grammar, route definition/context/handler types, and validation)
and Core's module runtime staging/publication of a module's declared
routes alongside its capabilities, gated on the module's own manifest
permissions. Routes are collected into StartedModuleRuntime as an
immutable snapshot but are not yet mounted into apps/api; that is pass 2.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
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2026-07-24 18:36:23 -05:00
co-authored by Claude Sonnet 5
parent c9cf1f08e3
commit e296e083ec
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export * from "./authorization.js";
export * from "./identifiers.js";
export * from "./identity.js";
export * from "./module-http.js";
export * from "./module-lifecycle.js";
export * from "./module-manifest.js";
export * from "./module-migration.js";
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import { z } from "zod";
import type { EkklesiaPrincipal } from "./identity.js";
import { type ModuleId, type PermissionId, permissionIdSchema } from "./identifiers.js";
// Not imported from `./module-runtime.js`'s own `Awaitable` (structurally identical) — importing
// it would create a source dependency cycle with that module, which also imports from this one for
// `ModuleHttpRouteRegistrar`. `scripts/check-boundaries.ts` rejects any source cycle, including one
// formed only by `import type`, so this tiny, fixed-shape utility type is kept private here instead.
type Awaitable<Value> = Value | PromiseLike<Value>;
/** The exact, canonical HTTP methods a module route may declare. Uppercase only — a module never
* gets `OPTIONS` (the platform owns CORS preflight) or a wildcard/all-methods registration. */
export const MODULE_HTTP_METHODS = ["DELETE", "GET", "PATCH", "POST", "PUT"] as const;
export type ModuleHttpMethod = (typeof MODULE_HTTP_METHODS)[number];
const moduleHttpMethods: ReadonlySet<string> = new Set(MODULE_HTTP_METHODS);
export function isModuleHttpMethod(value: unknown): value is ModuleHttpMethod {
return typeof value === "string" && moduleHttpMethods.has(value);
}
const MODULE_ROUTE_PATH_MAX_LENGTH = 256;
const staticSegmentPattern = /^[a-z0-9]+(?:-[a-z0-9]+)*$/u;
const parameterSegmentPattern = /^:[a-z][a-zA-Z0-9]*$/u;
/**
* A module-local route path — never the production-mounted `/api/v1/modules/<module-id>` path a
* caller actually sends (pass 2). Not branded (unlike `PermissionId`): like `PackageRelativePath`,
* this is a validated location, not an opaque cross-system identifier. `"/"` is the module root;
* any other canonical path begins with `/`, never ends with `/`, and is composed only of lowercase
* kebab-case static segments or single `:parameterName` segments — no empty or repeated slashes, no
* query string or fragment, no backslash or percent-encoding, no dot segments, and no wildcard or
* catch-all segment, since none of those can ever match either segment grammar. Malformed input is
* rejected outright rather than normalized, so a module can never register a path Core silently
* reinterpreted.
*/
export const moduleRoutePathSchema = z
.string()
.max(MODULE_ROUTE_PATH_MAX_LENGTH)
.superRefine((value, context) => {
if (
!value.startsWith("/") ||
value.includes("\\") ||
value.includes("%") ||
value.includes("?") ||
value.includes("#")
) {
context.addIssue({
code: "custom",
message:
"Module route paths must begin with / and must not contain backslashes, " +
"percent-encoding, query strings, or fragments.",
});
return;
}
if (value === "/") {
return;
}
if (value.endsWith("/")) {
context.addIssue({
code: "custom",
message: "Non-root module route paths must not end with /.",
});
return;
}
const segments = value.slice(1).split("/");
const parameterNames = new Set<string>();
for (const segment of segments) {
const isParameter = segment.startsWith(":");
const matchesGrammar = isParameter
? parameterSegmentPattern.test(segment)
: staticSegmentPattern.test(segment);
if (!matchesGrammar) {
context.addIssue({
code: "custom",
message:
"Module route path segments must be lowercase kebab-case static segments or a " +
"single :parameterName segment.",
});
return;
}
if (isParameter) {
const parameterName = segment.slice(1);
if (parameterNames.has(parameterName)) {
context.addIssue({
code: "custom",
message: "Module route path parameter names must be unique within the path.",
});
return;
}
parameterNames.add(parameterName);
}
}
});
export type ModuleRoutePath = z.output<typeof moduleRoutePathSchema>;
export function parseModuleRoutePath(input: unknown): ModuleRoutePath {
return moduleRoutePathSchema.parse(input);
}
export function safeParseModuleRoutePath(input: unknown): z.ZodSafeParseResult<ModuleRoutePath> {
return moduleRoutePathSchema.safeParse(input);
}
/**
* Produces a deterministic key identifying a route's shape — method plus path with every parameter
* segment collapsed to one placeholder — so `/events/:eventId` and `/events/:id` collide under the
* same method exactly like the identical route they are, regardless of the parameter's chosen name.
* Takes an already-validated `ModuleRoutePath`; never re-validates or echoes the original path.
*/
export function moduleRouteShapeKey(method: ModuleHttpMethod, path: ModuleRoutePath): string {
if (path === "/") {
return `${method} /`;
}
const shapeSegments = path
.slice(1)
.split("/")
.map((segment) => (segment.startsWith(":") ? ":param" : segment));
return `${method} /${shapeSegments.join("/")}`;
}
/**
* What a module's route handler receives about the caller and the match — never a database
* connection, authorization-store, grant-management, storage, jobs, configuration, secrets, the
* Hono `Context`, or a raw Better Auth session. `principal` is already authorized by the time a
* handler runs (pass 2 mounts and enforces); this pass never invokes a handler at all.
*/
export interface ModuleRouteHandlerContext {
readonly moduleId: ModuleId;
readonly principal: EkklesiaPrincipal;
readonly params: Readonly<Record<string, string>>;
}
/** A framework-neutral Fetch handler: standard `Request` in, standard `Response` out. The full
* query string remains available through `Request.url`; there is no competing query or body
* abstraction. */
export type ModuleRouteHandler = (
request: Request,
context: ModuleRouteHandlerContext,
) => Awaitable<Response>;
/**
* What a module passes to `http.route(...)` during `register`. `permission` is a plain string here
* (never the branded `PermissionId`) so a module can write a literal permission id without an
* explicit parse call first; `http.route` validates and brands it. The type has exactly these four
* fields — a module cannot specify a baseline, mount prefix, absolute path, CORS/origin policy,
* authentication behavior, grant/platform-owner state, middleware, audit metadata, another module's
* namespace, or an unprotected/no-permission route.
*/
export interface ModuleRouteDefinitionInput {
readonly method: ModuleHttpMethod;
readonly path: string;
readonly permission: string;
readonly handler: ModuleRouteHandler;
}
/** The validated, canonical form of a `ModuleRouteDefinitionInput` — what `http.route` produces
* only after every field passes its own grammar. */
export interface ModuleRouteDefinition {
readonly method: ModuleHttpMethod;
readonly path: ModuleRoutePath;
readonly permission: PermissionId;
readonly handler: ModuleRouteHandler;
}
/** The Fetch-based registrar exposed as `context.http` during `register` only — never on
* `ModuleRuntimeContext`, so `start`/`stop` cannot register a route after the fact. */
export interface ModuleHttpRouteRegistrar {
route(definition: ModuleRouteDefinitionInput): void;
}
/** One published route in `StartedModuleRuntime`'s immutable route snapshot — the same validated
* fields as `ModuleRouteDefinition` plus the owning module's ID, which the production mount prefix
* (pass 2) uses to keep two modules' routes from ever colliding regardless of their own local
* paths. */
export interface RegisteredModuleHttpRoute {
readonly moduleId: ModuleId;
readonly method: ModuleHttpMethod;
readonly path: ModuleRoutePath;
readonly permission: PermissionId;
readonly handler: ModuleRouteHandler;
}
const moduleRouteDefinitionKeys = new Set(["method", "path", "permission", "handler"]);
function isRecord(value: unknown): value is Record<string, unknown> {
return typeof value === "object" && value !== null && !Array.isArray(value);
}
function hasModuleRouteDefinitionShape(
value: unknown,
): value is { method: unknown; path: unknown; permission: unknown; handler: unknown } {
if (!isRecord(value)) {
return false;
}
const keys = Object.keys(value);
return (
keys.length === moduleRouteDefinitionKeys.size &&
keys.every((key) => moduleRouteDefinitionKeys.has(key)) &&
typeof value.handler === "function"
);
}
export type ModuleRouteDefinitionIssueCode =
| "MODULE_ROUTE_DEFINITION_INVALID"
| "MODULE_ROUTE_METHOD_INVALID"
| "MODULE_ROUTE_PATH_INVALID"
| "MODULE_ROUTE_PERMISSION_INVALID";
export type ModuleRouteDefinitionParseResult =
| { readonly success: true; readonly data: ModuleRouteDefinition }
| { readonly success: false; readonly code: ModuleRouteDefinitionIssueCode };
/**
* Validates every field-level rule a route definition must satisfy on its own — exact shape,
* canonical method, canonical path, well-formed permission id — but never whether the permission is
* actually declared by the registering module. That ownership check needs the module's own manifest
* and belongs to the caller (Core's module runtime), not this framework-neutral contract. Never
* echoes the rejected input in the returned code.
*/
export function safeParseModuleRouteDefinition(value: unknown): ModuleRouteDefinitionParseResult {
if (!hasModuleRouteDefinitionShape(value)) {
return { success: false, code: "MODULE_ROUTE_DEFINITION_INVALID" };
}
if (!isModuleHttpMethod(value.method)) {
return { success: false, code: "MODULE_ROUTE_METHOD_INVALID" };
}
const parsedPath = moduleRoutePathSchema.safeParse(value.path);
if (!parsedPath.success) {
return { success: false, code: "MODULE_ROUTE_PATH_INVALID" };
}
const parsedPermission = permissionIdSchema.safeParse(value.permission);
if (!parsedPermission.success) {
return { success: false, code: "MODULE_ROUTE_PERMISSION_INVALID" };
}
return {
success: true,
data: Object.freeze({
method: value.method,
path: parsedPath.data,
permission: parsedPermission.data,
handler: value.handler as ModuleRouteHandler,
}),
};
}
export function parseModuleRouteDefinition(value: unknown): ModuleRouteDefinition {
const result = safeParseModuleRouteDefinition(value);
if (!result.success) {
throw new TypeError("Invalid Ekklesia module route definition.");
}
return result.data;
}
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import type { CapabilityId, ModuleId } from "./identifiers.js";
import { moduleIdSchema } from "./identifiers.js";
import type { ModuleHttpRouteRegistrar } from "./module-http.js";
import { semanticVersionSchema } from "./versions.js";
export type Awaitable<Value> = Value | PromiseLike<Value>;
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export interface ModuleRegistrationContext {
readonly capabilities: CapabilityRegistrar;
/** Available only during `register` — never on `ModuleRuntimeContext` — so a route can only ever
* be declared while Core is still building the immutable startup snapshot, never added or removed
* afterward from `start`, `stop`, or any other post-registration code path. */
readonly http: ModuleHttpRouteRegistrar;
readonly moduleId: ModuleId;
}
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import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
import {
isModuleHttpMethod,
MODULE_HTTP_METHODS,
type ModuleRouteDefinitionInput,
moduleRoutePathSchema,
moduleRouteShapeKey,
parseModuleRouteDefinition,
parseModuleRoutePath,
safeParseModuleRouteDefinition,
safeParseModuleRoutePath,
} from "../src/index.js";
function noopHandler(): Response {
return new Response(null, { status: 204 });
}
function validDefinition(
overrides: Partial<ModuleRouteDefinitionInput> = {},
): ModuleRouteDefinitionInput {
return {
method: "GET",
path: "/events/:eventId",
permission: "calendar.events.read",
handler: noopHandler,
...overrides,
};
}
describe("ModuleHttpMethod", () => {
it("accepts every supported method", () => {
for (const method of MODULE_HTTP_METHODS) {
expect(isModuleHttpMethod(method)).toBe(true);
}
expect(MODULE_HTTP_METHODS).toEqual(["DELETE", "GET", "PATCH", "POST", "PUT"]);
});
it("rejects lowercase, unknown, OPTIONS, HEAD, and wildcard methods", () => {
for (const method of ["get", "post", "TRACE", "OPTIONS", "HEAD", "*", "ALL", ""]) {
expect(isModuleHttpMethod(method)).toBe(false);
}
expect(isModuleHttpMethod(42)).toBe(false);
expect(isModuleHttpMethod(undefined)).toBe(false);
});
});
describe("moduleRoutePathSchema", () => {
it("accepts the root, static, nested, and parameterized canonical paths", () => {
for (const path of [
"/",
"/events",
"/events/upcoming",
"/events/:eventId",
"/events/:eventId/attendees/:attendeeId",
]) {
expect(parseModuleRoutePath(path)).toBe(path);
}
});
it("rejects paths that do not begin with /", () => {
expect(safeParseModuleRoutePath("events").success).toBe(false);
expect(safeParseModuleRoutePath("").success).toBe(false);
});
it("rejects a non-root path ending with /", () => {
expect(safeParseModuleRoutePath("/events/").success).toBe(false);
});
it("rejects empty and repeated segments", () => {
expect(safeParseModuleRoutePath("/events//upcoming").success).toBe(false);
expect(safeParseModuleRoutePath("//events").success).toBe(false);
});
it("rejects query strings and fragments", () => {
expect(safeParseModuleRoutePath("/events?limit=10").success).toBe(false);
expect(safeParseModuleRoutePath("/events#upcoming").success).toBe(false);
});
it("rejects backslashes and percent-encoded path syntax", () => {
expect(safeParseModuleRoutePath("/events\\upcoming").success).toBe(false);
expect(safeParseModuleRoutePath("/events%2Fupcoming").success).toBe(false);
expect(safeParseModuleRoutePath("/%2e%2e/events").success).toBe(false);
});
it("rejects dot segments and traversal syntax", () => {
expect(safeParseModuleRoutePath("/events/..").success).toBe(false);
expect(safeParseModuleRoutePath("/events/.").success).toBe(false);
expect(safeParseModuleRoutePath("/../events").success).toBe(false);
});
it("rejects wildcard or catch-all segments", () => {
expect(safeParseModuleRoutePath("/events/*").success).toBe(false);
expect(safeParseModuleRoutePath("/events/**").success).toBe(false);
expect(safeParseModuleRoutePath("/*").success).toBe(false);
});
it("rejects non-kebab-case static segments", () => {
expect(safeParseModuleRoutePath("/Events").success).toBe(false);
expect(safeParseModuleRoutePath("/events_list").success).toBe(false);
expect(safeParseModuleRoutePath("/events--upcoming").success).toBe(false);
expect(safeParseModuleRoutePath("/-events").success).toBe(false);
expect(safeParseModuleRoutePath("/events-").success).toBe(false);
});
it("rejects a malformed parameter segment", () => {
expect(safeParseModuleRoutePath("/events/:").success).toBe(false);
expect(safeParseModuleRoutePath("/events/:Event-Id").success).toBe(false);
expect(safeParseModuleRoutePath("/events/:1id").success).toBe(false);
});
it("rejects duplicate parameter names within one path", () => {
expect(safeParseModuleRoutePath("/events/:id/attendees/:id").success).toBe(false);
});
it("rejects an unreasonably long path", () => {
expect(safeParseModuleRoutePath(`/${"a".repeat(300)}`).success).toBe(false);
});
it("never echoes the rejected raw path in its issue messages", () => {
const secret = "/machine/private/path/traversal-attempt-%2e%2e";
const result = moduleRoutePathSchema.safeParse(secret);
expect(result.success).toBe(false);
expect(JSON.stringify(result.error?.issues)).not.toContain(secret);
});
});
describe("moduleRouteShapeKey", () => {
it("collapses different parameter names into the same shape for the same method", () => {
const eventId = parseModuleRoutePath("/events/:eventId");
const id = parseModuleRoutePath("/events/:id");
expect(moduleRouteShapeKey("GET", eventId)).toBe(moduleRouteShapeKey("GET", id));
});
it("distinguishes shapes by method and by static path structure", () => {
const path = parseModuleRoutePath("/events/:eventId");
expect(moduleRouteShapeKey("GET", path)).not.toBe(moduleRouteShapeKey("POST", path));
expect(moduleRouteShapeKey("GET", parseModuleRoutePath("/events"))).not.toBe(
moduleRouteShapeKey("GET", parseModuleRoutePath("/events/:eventId")),
);
});
it("treats the root path as its own shape", () => {
expect(moduleRouteShapeKey("GET", parseModuleRoutePath("/"))).toBe("GET /");
});
});
describe("safeParseModuleRouteDefinition", () => {
it("accepts a well-formed definition and brands its path and permission", () => {
const result = safeParseModuleRouteDefinition(validDefinition());
expect(result.success).toBe(true);
if (result.success) {
expect(result.data).toEqual({
method: "GET",
path: "/events/:eventId",
permission: "calendar.events.read",
handler: noopHandler,
});
expect(Object.isFrozen(result.data)).toBe(true);
}
});
it("rejects a non-object, null, or array definition", () => {
for (const value of [null, undefined, "route", 42, []]) {
expect(safeParseModuleRouteDefinition(value)).toEqual({
success: false,
code: "MODULE_ROUTE_DEFINITION_INVALID",
});
}
});
it("rejects an unknown route-definition field", () => {
expect(safeParseModuleRouteDefinition({ ...validDefinition(), baseline: "public" })).toEqual({
success: false,
code: "MODULE_ROUTE_DEFINITION_INVALID",
});
expect(
safeParseModuleRouteDefinition({ ...validDefinition(), mountPrefix: "/custom" }),
).toEqual({ success: false, code: "MODULE_ROUTE_DEFINITION_INVALID" });
});
it("rejects a missing required field", () => {
const { handler: _handler, ...withoutHandler } = validDefinition();
expect(safeParseModuleRouteDefinition(withoutHandler)).toEqual({
success: false,
code: "MODULE_ROUTE_DEFINITION_INVALID",
});
});
it("rejects a non-function handler", () => {
expect(
safeParseModuleRouteDefinition({ ...validDefinition(), handler: "not-a-function" }),
).toEqual({ success: false, code: "MODULE_ROUTE_DEFINITION_INVALID" });
});
it("rejects an invalid method", () => {
expect(safeParseModuleRouteDefinition({ ...validDefinition(), method: "get" })).toEqual({
success: false,
code: "MODULE_ROUTE_METHOD_INVALID",
});
});
it("rejects an invalid path", () => {
expect(safeParseModuleRouteDefinition({ ...validDefinition(), path: "events" })).toEqual({
success: false,
code: "MODULE_ROUTE_PATH_INVALID",
});
});
it("rejects an invalid permission id", () => {
expect(
safeParseModuleRouteDefinition({ ...validDefinition(), permission: "not namespaced" }),
).toEqual({ success: false, code: "MODULE_ROUTE_PERMISSION_INVALID" });
expect(safeParseModuleRouteDefinition({ ...validDefinition(), permission: "*" })).toEqual({
success: false,
code: "MODULE_ROUTE_PERMISSION_INVALID",
});
});
it("does not retain the caller's mutable definition object: mutating it afterward cannot change the parsed result", () => {
const source = { ...validDefinition() };
const result = safeParseModuleRouteDefinition(source);
expect(result.success).toBe(true);
source.method = "POST";
source.path = "/mutated";
source.permission = "mutated.permission.id";
if (result.success) {
expect(result.data.method).toBe("GET");
expect(result.data.path).toBe("/events/:eventId");
expect(result.data.permission).toBe("calendar.events.read");
}
});
});
describe("parseModuleRouteDefinition", () => {
it("returns the parsed definition for valid input", () => {
expect(parseModuleRouteDefinition(validDefinition())).toMatchObject({
method: "GET",
path: "/events/:eventId",
permission: "calendar.events.read",
});
});
it("throws without echoing the rejected input", () => {
const secret = "secret-token-value";
expect(() => parseModuleRouteDefinition({ ...validDefinition(), permission: secret })).toThrow(
"Invalid Ekklesia module route definition.",
);
try {
parseModuleRouteDefinition({ ...validDefinition(), permission: secret });
throw new Error("expected parseModuleRouteDefinition to throw");
} catch (error) {
expect(String(error)).not.toContain(secret);
}
});
});
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import { describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
import { defineModuleRuntime } from "../src/index.js";
import {
defineModuleRuntime,
isModuleHttpMethod,
MODULE_HTTP_METHODS,
type ModuleHttpRouteRegistrar,
type ModuleRegistrationContext,
} from "../src/index.js";
describe("defineModuleRuntime", () => {
it("defines a frozen server runtime without duplicating the static manifest", async () => {
@@ -22,4 +28,42 @@ describe("defineModuleRuntime", () => {
}),
).toThrow("Invalid Ekklesia module runtime definition.");
});
it("re-exports the module-http contract so a module's register hook can declare routes", async () => {
expect(MODULE_HTTP_METHODS).toContain("GET");
expect(isModuleHttpMethod("GET")).toBe(true);
expect(isModuleHttpMethod("get")).toBe(false);
const registeredRoutes: unknown[] = [];
const http: ModuleHttpRouteRegistrar = {
route: (definition) => {
registeredRoutes.push(definition);
},
};
const runtime = defineModuleRuntime({
id: "example",
version: "0.1.0",
register({ http: registrar }) {
registrar.route({
method: "GET",
path: "/records",
permission: "example.records.read",
handler: () => new Response(null, { status: 204 }),
});
},
});
const context: ModuleRegistrationContext = {
capabilities: {
provide: () => undefined,
resolve: () => undefined,
},
http,
moduleId: "example",
};
await runtime.register?.(context);
expect(registeredRoutes).toHaveLength(1);
expect(registeredRoutes[0]).toMatchObject({ method: "GET", path: "/records" });
});
});