Apply installation policy changes once each, per account

The last third of #207, and the only part that remembers anything.

An admin turns a setting on for people who are already here -- which a default
cannot do, since a default only seeds an account that has none -- and readers
may still turn it back off afterwards, which enforcement does not allow. The
difference between the two is entirely in the remembering.

Each change carries its own version, and an account stores the ones it has had
in its own settings file. Ids rather than a high-water mark, so a change dated
earlier than one already applied is not silently skipped -- the reporter's
analogy is a schema migration, and this is that shape.

Per account rather than per device, because ihasmail's settings are not
browser-local: they live in a file in the reader's own JMAP Files, with the
browser holding a cache. Signing in on a phone does not apply everything a
second time.

A change reaches somebody who had already decided otherwise. That is intended
and confirmed on the issue: the point is to reach everybody who is already
here. It is applied once, and their next decision sticks.

One `update` for however many are pending, since each would otherwise push a
settings file of its own. Enforced values still win, being applied after. A
change whose settings this build does not have at all is dropped rather than
recorded, or it would never run on the ihasmail that does have them.

The reader is told. A setting moving under somebody without a word is the part
of this worth being uneasy about, so the count is toasted with a way into
Settings.

README gains the Docker half the user asked for: a mounted policy file, the
same thing as environment variables for a deployment with no volume, a compose
fragment, and the fact that a policy is read once at startup so editing it
means a restart.

Closes #207.
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@@ -14,12 +14,26 @@ import { DEFAULT_SETTINGS, type Settings } from "@/store/settings";
* sign-in page, so this costs nothing on a cold load and is available before
* anybody's settings are read.
*/
export interface PolicyChange {
/** Unique in the policy; what an account stores to say it has had this one. */
version: string;
settings: Partial<Settings>;
}
export interface SettingsPolicy {
defaults: Partial<Settings>;
enforced: Partial<Settings>;
/**
* Applied once each, to everybody, and changeable afterwards.
*
* The third power in #207, and the one that needed somewhere to remember: an
* admin turning something on for existing accounts, without it snapping back
* on for a reader who then turned it off.
*/
changes: PolicyChange[];
}
const EMPTY: SettingsPolicy = { defaults: {}, enforced: {} };
const EMPTY: SettingsPolicy = { defaults: {}, enforced: {}, changes: [] };
let policy: SettingsPolicy = EMPTY;
let fetched: Promise<SettingsPolicy> | null = null;
@@ -45,10 +59,18 @@ export async function loadSettingsPolicy(): Promise<SettingsPolicy> {
try {
const res = await fetch(withBase("/api/config"), { credentials: "same-origin" });
if (!res.ok) return EMPTY;
const body = (await res.json()) as { settingsPolicy?: { defaults?: Record<string, unknown>; enforced?: Record<string, unknown> } };
const body = (await res.json()) as {
settingsPolicy?: { defaults?: Record<string, unknown>; enforced?: Record<string, unknown>; changes?: Array<{ version: string; settings: Record<string, unknown> }> };
};
policy = {
defaults: known(body.settingsPolicy?.defaults ?? {}),
enforced: known(body.settingsPolicy?.enforced ?? {}),
/* A change whose every key this build does not have is dropped whole:
applying nothing and then recording it as applied would mean it never
ran on the ihasmail that does have the setting. */
changes: (body.settingsPolicy?.changes ?? [])
.map((c) => ({ version: c.version, settings: known(c.settings ?? {}) }))
.filter((c) => c.version && Object.keys(c.settings).length),
};
return policy;
} catch {
@@ -75,8 +97,19 @@ export function isEnforced(key: keyof Settings): boolean {
return key in policy.enforced;
}
/** Changes the installation wants applied once each. */
export function policyChanges(): PolicyChange[] {
return policy.changes;
}
/** Only for tests: forget what was fetched. */
export function resetSettingsPolicyForTest(next: SettingsPolicy = EMPTY): void {
policy = { defaults: known(next.defaults as Record<string, unknown>), enforced: known(next.enforced as Record<string, unknown>) };
export function resetSettingsPolicyForTest(next: Partial<SettingsPolicy> = {}): void {
policy = {
defaults: known((next.defaults ?? {}) as Record<string, unknown>),
enforced: known((next.enforced ?? {}) as Record<string, unknown>),
changes: (next.changes ?? [])
.map((c) => ({ version: c.version, settings: known(c.settings as Record<string, unknown>) }))
.filter((c) => c.version && Object.keys(c.settings).length),
};
fetched = Promise.resolve(policy);
}