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CompaREST
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=========
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The tool works by simultaneously looking at a pair of nodes in OpenAPI schema
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trees. At every place we try to understand whether one side (the producer) can
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produce something that the other side (the consumer) cannot consume. This often
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involves recursively running the same check on child sub-nodes. The necessary
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criteria are implemented manually for all types of nodes that appear in the
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schema. The `Subtree` class in `Data.OpenApi.Compare.Subtree` designates types
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of nodes for which this compatibility checking is defined. The implementations
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for various types reside in `Data.OpenApi.Compare.Validate.*`.
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Producer/Consumer
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-----------------
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Rather than looking at which schema is the server's and which is the client's,
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in terms of compatibility checking it is more useful to track which side is the
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"producer" and which is the "consumer". At the root of the schema the producer
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is the client, but as we descend into an HTTP response, the direction flips and
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the producer becomes the server.
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We deal with a lot of things in pairs, where one thing belongs to the producer
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and another belongs to the consumer. The `ProdCons` datatype (in
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`Data.OpenApi.Compare.Subtree`) is just a pair type that provides an Applicative
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abstraction for working with two things simultaneously.
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Trees
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-----
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We directly use the datatypes defined in the `openapi3` library. For reasons of
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identifiability and memoization we tag all nodes in the trees with a path from
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the root. The tree is heterogeneous (nodes have different types), and every type
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of node has a different arrangement of children. There is a `Step` data family
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that defines all the possible children (of a specific type) of a node (of a
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specific type).
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A `Trace` is a sequence of steps, except in a path the types of adjacent steps
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have to agree. The `Paths` datatype achieves this. Together all paths form a
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`Category`, and we often concatenate them using `>>>`. This is defined in
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`Data.OpenApi.Compare.Paths`.
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We often keep a node and a path to it next to each other using an environment
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comonad. `Traced` is a type alias around `Env` which ensures that the type of
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the path matches the type of the node.
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Issues
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------
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The output of the tool is a list of compatibility issues that came up during
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checking. The `Issue` data family describes the kinds of issues that can occur
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at each type of node. An issue is supposed to characterize a set of interactions
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(requests or responses) that demonstrate that the schemas are incompatible.
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Each issue is tagged with a `Behavior` that describes the path to reproducing
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the issue. While a `Trace` describes a syntactic path down the schema tree, a
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`Behavior` describes which part of an interaction needs to be focused on for the
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issue to manifest itself.
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In most places where we keep multiple issues (e.g. the output), to store them we
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use a prefix tree map, indexed by both types and values of `Behavior`s. See
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`Data.OpenApi.Compare.PathsPrefixTree`.
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Report
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------
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The checker ultimately outputs a list of `Issue`s, together with `Behavior`s
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that cause them. We run the checker twice: forwards and backwards -- to detect
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non-breaking changes. All of this is then compiled into a report in
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`Data.OpenApi.Compare.Report`. The tree structure of headings is computed from
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`Behavior`s, using `Jet`s to collapse particular sequences of behavior steps
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into a single human-readable header item. The text of each paragraph comes from
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`describeIssue`.
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We then use the `pandoc` library to render the report in a variety of formats.
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Formulas
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--------
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The schema has references, so it can end up being recursive. Similarly the
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process for establishing compatibility can end up being recursive. To keep track
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of this, the checker actually manipulates *formulas* which can have variables in
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them, defined in (`Data.OpenApi.Compare.Formula`).
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A formula represents a set of issues, with the empty set corresponding to a
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successful compatibility check. A formula can have conjunctions, where we only
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report success if all parts succeeded, and if not we take the union of all
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issues. A formula can also have disjunctions, but there it's impossible to
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guarantee that the issues for the parts also make sense as issues for the whole
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thing. Due to this if all disjuncted parts have issues we instead return a
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different issue (usually non-descriptive).
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The `FormulaF` datatype implements a functor that carries formulaic calculations
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as well as a result value (a co-Yoneda extension of formulas for the most part).
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The Applicative interface provides conjunction, and the Alternative interface
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provides disjunction.
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When we detect recursion we introduce a variable, compute the compatibility
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check as a formula with that variable, and then we solve a fixed point equation
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(`maxFixpoint`) with the variable to obtain the answer.
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This `FomulaF` is further wrapped in a couple monad transformers
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(`SemanticCompatFormula`, `StructuralCompatFormula`), and the whole checker is
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then implemented in the resulting Applicative using ApplicativeDo.
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Memoization
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-----------
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The `Data.OpenApi.Compare.Memo` module contains utilities for stateful
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memoization and recursion detection. The entire checking process is memoized,
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and can detect, propagate, and resolve recursion.
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Structural/Semantic Compatibility
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---------------------------------
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When we encounter two nodes we first try to optimistically establish whether
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they're structurally equal, i.e. the trees are exactly the same modulo reference
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inlining. This check is also memoized and recursion-aware. If the check succeeds
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we conclude that the schemas are compatible. Otherwise we fall back to the
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"normal" semantic compatibility.
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JSON Schema
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-----------
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The language that describes JSON payloads is probably the richest part of
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OpenAPI schemas, and the checker for it also comes with a lot of moving parts.
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JSON schema allows arbitrary set arithmetic using `allOf`, `anyOf`, `not` and
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`oneOf`. To fully check `not` and `oneOf` we would need to compare set
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subtraction, which involves negating a comparison result. If recursion is
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involved we would need to be able to solve equations with negation, which we
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cannot do. So `not` is unsupported altogether, and `oneOf` is only supported
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when it has disjoint branches and behaves like `anyOf`.
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With that in mind a JSON schema is first pre-processed into a Disjunctive Normal
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Form (`DNF` in `Data.OpenApi.Compare.Validate.Schema.DNF`). This pre-processing
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happens in `Data.OpenApi.Compare.Validate.Schema.Process`.
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The DNF contains elementary clauses that match on a specific aspect of a JSON
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object (`Condition`). Most clauses only affect objects of a single type, so JSON
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values and clauses are segregated by type (`JsonType`, `TypedValue` in
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`Data.OpenApi.Compare.Validate.Schema.JsonFormula`)
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Then we reduce the problem of comparing two DNF's to the comparison of a
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conjunction of clauses in the producer with a single clause in the consumer
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(`checkFormulas` in `Data.OpenApi.Compare.Validate.Schema`).
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When we do disjunction in the formula we lose information, so we try to avoid
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having disjunctions in the consumer DNF. This is done by the means of
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partitioning. We look for factors that would let us partition the set of all
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objects into several bins, in a way that hopefully corresponds only a single
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consumer to each producer. This is implemented in
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`Data.OpenApi.Compare.Validate.Schema.Partition`. Currently we can only
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partition by an `enum` value that is accessible via a chain of `required`
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fields.
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The same partitioning mechanism is used to test whether the branches of a
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`oneOf` are disjoint, and emit a warning otherwise.
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CompaREST User Guide
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====================
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Running the Tool
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The tool accepts two OpenAPI 3.0.0 schema files in either JSON or YAML format.
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One is assumed to be the client version of the schema, and the other is the
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server version.
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The tool will look for changes between the schemas and detect whether they are
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breaking or not -- that is, if they prevent interoperability between the client
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and the server.
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Running:
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```
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comparest -c client.json -s server.json
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```
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will output a markdown report of the changes to the standard output.
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Compatibility status can be signaled via the exit code using
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`--signal-exit-code`. In case no report is needed, output can be suppressed with
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`--silent`. For example:
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```
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comparest -c client.json -s server.json --signal-exit-code --silent
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echo $?
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```
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If there were changes that the tool determined to be breaking, the exit code
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will be 1. If there were some changes the tool couldn't understand, the exit
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code will be 2. Otherwise if there were no breaking changes, the exit code will
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be 0.
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Controlling the Report
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----------------------
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By default the report includes breaking changes, as well as non-breaking:
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changes that would be considered breaking in the opposite direction. To only
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include breaking changes in the report use `--only-breaking`. The `--all` option
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restores the default behavior.
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The report can be formatted in a variety of ways supported by Pandoc. The `-o`
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option causes the report to be written to a file. The format of the file is
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determined from the extension. The supported extensions include:
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- `.md` for markdown
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- `.html` for an HTML snippet
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- `.rst` for restructured text
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- no extension for a self-contained HTML document with styles
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By default the report is split up into parts relating to different paths,
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requests, responses, etc, using headers of various levels. Alternatively, the
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report can use indended block-quotes to visualize the tree structure of the
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report. The header style is enabled with `--header-style`, and the block-quote
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style is enabled with `--folding-block-quotes-style`.
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