redefined-designs/backend/tests/integration/setup/testDb.ts

import { Pool } from 'pg';
import { runner } from 'node-pg-migrate';
import path from 'path';

export const testPool = new Pool({
  host: process.env.TEST_PGHOST || 'localhost',
  port: parseInt(process.env.TEST_PGPORT || '55432', 10),
  user: process.env.TEST_PGUSER || 'redefined_test',
  password: process.env.TEST_PGPASSWORD || 'redefined_test',
  database: process.env.TEST_PGDATABASE || 'redefined_test'
});

export async function migrate(): Promise<void> {
  await runner({
    databaseUrl: {
      host: process.env.TEST_PGHOST || 'localhost',
      port: parseInt(process.env.TEST_PGPORT || '55432', 10),
      user: process.env.TEST_PGUSER || 'redefined_test',
      password: process.env.TEST_PGPASSWORD || 'redefined_test',
      database: process.env.TEST_PGDATABASE || 'redefined_test'
    },
    dir: path.resolve(__dirname, '..', '..', '..', 'migrations'),
    direction: 'up',
    migrationsTable: 'pgmigrations',
    count: Infinity
  });
}

/**
 * The tables `resetDb` truncates. Also, therefore, exactly the set whose absence
 * makes this suite meaningless.
 */
const REQUIRED_TABLES = [
  'admin_settings',
  'cart_items',
  'carts',
  'categories',
  'checkout_items',
  'checkouts',
  'customer_sessions',
  'customer_tokens',
  'customers',
  'favorites',
  'item_drafts',
  'item_images',
  'item_tags',
  'items',
  'orders',
  'shipping_addresses',
  'tags',
  'upload_links'
] as const;

/** Which of them the database does not currently have. */
async function missingTables(): Promise<string[]> {
  const { rows } = await testPool.query<{ table_name: string }>(
    `SELECT table_name FROM information_schema.tables
     WHERE table_schema = 'public' AND table_type = 'BASE TABLE'`
  );
  const present = new Set(rows.map((row) => row.table_name));
  return REQUIRED_TABLES.filter((name) => !present.has(name));
}

/**
 * Says plainly when the schema has gone, rather than letting the suite report
 * it as unrelated logic failures.
 *
 * In #154 the integration run lost its schema partway through — a Postgres
 * service container recreated mid-run comes back with an empty data directory —
 * and it presented as 36 assertion errors about categories, price filters and
 * favourite notifications. The real message, `relation "items" does not exist`,
 * was further down the same log. Hours went into chasing the assertions.
 *
 * The cause is still open and needs runner-side evidence. This is the half that
 * can be fixed from here: whatever the cause, the next occurrence should read as
 * "the database lost its schema" on the first line.
 */
/**
 * Which Postgres actually answered, rather than which one we asked for (#154).
 *
 * The reason this exists: the schema in a failing run **comes back**. A suite
 * fails because `orders` does not exist, and a later suite truncating the same
 * table passes. A dropped database does not un-drop itself, so more than one
 * server must be answering to the same name — Docker's embedded DNS round-robins
 * every container sharing an alias, so a leftover service container from an
 * earlier run would produce exactly this.
 *
 * `pg_postmaster_start_time()` is what settles it and needs no special rights:
 * two Postgres instances cannot share one. Differing values across a single run
 * are proof outright, where a differing `inet_server_addr` alone could be argued
 * to be one container that moved.
 *
 * Never throws. This is a diagnostic, and a diagnostic that can fail a run it
 * was added to explain is worse than no diagnostic.
 */
export async function describeBackend(label: string): Promise<string> {
  try {
    const { rows } = await testPool.query<{
      addr: string | null;
      started: string;
      pid: number;
      db: string;
    }>(
      `SELECT inet_server_addr()::text AS addr,
              pg_postmaster_start_time()::text AS started,
              pg_backend_pid() AS pid,
              current_database() AS db`
    );
    const row = rows[0];
    if (!row) return `${label}: no row returned`;
    return `${label}: db=${row.db} addr=${row.addr ?? 'local'} postmaster_start=${row.started} pid=${row.pid}`;
  } catch (err) {
    return `${label}: could not be identified (${err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err)})`;
  }
}

export async function assertSchemaPresent(context: string): Promise<void> {
  const missing = await missingTables();
  if (missing.length === 0) return;

  // Gathered only on the failure path, which is the one worth paying for, and
  // is where #154 has repeatedly lacked the one fact that would identify it.
  const backend = await describeBackend('Answering server');

  throw new Error(
    `The test database has no schema (${context}).

` +
      `Missing ${missing.length} of ${REQUIRED_TABLES.length} tables: ${missing.join(', ')}.

` +
      `${backend}

` +
      `Migrations ran at the start of this run, so the schema existed and has since gone. ` +
      `Nothing in this suite drops tables — TRUNCATE does not. Compare the postmaster start ` +
      `time above against the one globalSetup logged: if they differ, this is a different ` +
      `Postgres instance answering to the same name rather than one database losing its ` +
      `schema, and the schema was never lost at all. ` +
      `See #154.`
  );
}

export async function resetDb(): Promise<void> {
  // The schema check runs only when the truncate fails, not on every reset.
  // resetDb runs in a beforeEach several hundred times a suite, and an extra
  // round trip each time to guard against something that has happened once
  // would be paying continuously for a rare event. A failure here is where the
  // information is worth having.
  try {
    await testPool.query(`
      TRUNCATE TABLE item_drafts, upload_links, orders, checkout_items, checkouts,
        shipping_addresses, cart_items, carts, customer_tokens, customer_sessions, favorites,
        customers, item_tags, item_images, items, tags, categories
      RESTART IDENTITY CASCADE
    `);
  } catch (err) {
    await assertSchemaPresent('while resetting between tests');
    // The schema is there, so this is not #154 — let the original speak.
    throw err;
  }

  // admin_settings is not truncated — it holds the seeded cart_expiry_hours
  // default that other suites read. But the email template rows in it are test
  // data like any other, and a stored template outliving the suite that wrote
  // it silently changes the mail every later suite asserts on. That is not
  // hypothetical: a subject of "Gone" written by the template tests reached the
  // favorite-alert tests and made five of them fail somewhere else entirely.
  //
  // Same reasoning, same failure, for the intake settings (#227): a ceiling of
  // 1 left behind by the ceiling suite makes every later submission refuse with
  // a 503, in files that never mention a ceiling.
  //
  // ESCAPE, and not a backslash, because the backslash that used to be here did
  // nothing. In a JavaScript string 'email\_%' is 'email_%', and `_` in SQL LIKE
  // matches any single character — so the pattern meant "email plus any one
  // character", not "email_". It happened to delete the right rows only because
  // no other key begins with those letters followed by something else; a
  // setting called emailing_enabled would have been swept away silently. Found
  // by no-useless-escape the first time lint was pointed at tests/ (#298).
  await testPool.query(
    `DELETE FROM admin_settings WHERE key LIKE 'email!_%' ESCAPE '!' OR key LIKE 'intake!_%' ESCAPE '!'`
  );
}

export async function closeDb(): Promise<void> {
  await testPool.end();
}