Phase 2, PR 3 of docs/website/MODULE_SYSTEM.md 2.7. ensureSchema() now replays
every installed module's schema fragment immediately after core's schema.sql,
per MODULE_API.md 2.6.
The work splits across two files on the line of whether a database is needed to
know the answer. loader.js VALIDATES a fragment at load time, before anything is
mounted, because every rule 2.6 states about the SQL is knowable by reading it;
a module that breaks one never mounts (4.4, left column). modules/schema.js
EXECUTES it, so the only failures there are the ones the database alone could
report, and those are post-mount and answer 503 (4.4, right column).
Validation is a leading-verb allowlist -- CREATE, ALTER, INSERT, UPDATE, the
four core's own schema.sql uses -- rather than the DROP denylist 2.6 words it
as. A fragment is replayed on every boot, so TRUNCATE and DELETE would empty a
table at each restart and RENAME would fail at the second one; a denylist only
ever bans what somebody thought of. A CREATE TABLE missing IF NOT EXISTS is
rejected for the same reason: it works once and fails every boot after, which
presents to an operator as a module that broke on restart.
The splitter moves to utils/sqlStatements.js so core's schema and a fragment are
split by literally the same code, which is what 2.6 promises. It is its own file
rather than an export of utils/db.js because the loader validates fragments at
require time and must not drag the mariadb pool into app.js's require chain.
The replay sits outside ensureSchema's wait-for-the-database retry loop: a
fragment that throws is one module's failure, not a signal the database is
coming up, and retrying core's whole schema nine more times over one module's
bad SQL would turn a 503'd module into a two-minute boot.
Found while wiring it: db/seed.js calls ensureSchema() standalone for
`npm run seed`, without ever requiring app.js, so the loader has not scanned and
fragments()'s 7.6 throw would have broken seeding outright. The replay asks
isLoaded() and logs the skip rather than swallowing it -- a booting server
quietly getting no module tables is the thing 7.6 exists to prevent.
Verification:
- 856 server tests pass, 14 new. moduleSchema.test.js injects the query fn, so
the exact statements and their order are asserted with the pool at a dead port
like every other suite.
- routes.manifest.json and routes.guards.json diffs are zero lines, 229 routes
-- the phase 2 exit criterion. swagger-output.json regenerates byte-identical.
- Run for real against the local MariaDB with two fixture modules: a good
fragment created its table, applied its ALTER and seeded its row; a fragment
whose SQL passes validation but the server rejects (`id NOTATYPE`) marked only
that module startup_failed, its route answering 503 while the other answered
200; a second ensureSchema on the same database was a clean no-op.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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