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+// @flow
+//
+// Internal to `@uniflowed/router`: the endpoint a server action is dialled at.
+//
+// `createActionDispatcher` is the fourth thing `virtual:uf/server` exports and
+// the third thing a host calls, between the middleware and the route handlers.
+// It takes a table of `{ id, module, export, load }` built from the RSC
+// manifest, and answers a request that carries an action id — or declines,
+// with `null`, so that everything else about the request is somebody else's.
+//
+// # This is a public endpoint, and it is treated as one
+//
+// A `"use server"` export is reachable by anything that can make an HTTP
+// request from the moment the build contains it. Every rule below is one of
+// `docs/security.md`'s applied to that fact, and the table there has the row.
+//
+// **1. Only the build's own actions are dialable.** The table is the
+// manifest's `serverActions`, which `uf_rsc` writes only for an action some
+// module that can hand it across a client boundary reaches
+// (`ActionExposure::CallableEndpoint`). A `"use server"` function nothing
+// exposes has no row and therefore no endpoint. There is no path from a
+// request to a module specifier, a file name or an export name: the id selects
+// a row, and the row was decided at build time.
+//
+// **2. The id is not guessable.** `uf_rsc::ActionId` is
+// `HMAC-SHA256(build id, module ‖ export ‖ kind)`, so the whole repository plus
+// a published sourcemap is not enough to derive the id of a function the
+// interface does not offer, and a rebuild changes every id.
+//
+// **3. One answer for every failed lookup.** `404`, with no body, for a
+// malformed id, a well-formed id nobody has, and an id that names something not
+// callable. `select` compares against every row whatever happens, and compares
+// with `sameId`, so neither the answer nor the time taken says which. This is
+// `ServerActionRegistry::resolve`'s contract, kept on the other side of the
+// wire.
+//
+// **4. Cross-site calls cannot happen by accident, three times over.** The
+// call is a `POST` carrying `uf-action`, which is not a header a simple request
+// may set, so a cross-origin caller needs a preflight and nothing here answers
+// one. It must be `application/json`, which is not a content type a `<form>`
+// can produce. And `Origin` must be present and must equal `Host`. Any one of
+// the three would do; all three are here because the cost is three `if`s and
+// the failure is somebody's account.
+//
+// `Origin` is compared against `Host` and against nothing else. `Host` is what
+// the browser was talking to, which is exactly the question being asked, and
+// `X-Forwarded-Host` is a string the caller wrote (`docs/security.md`, rule 2)
+// — so a proxy in front of a uf application has to preserve `Host`, and one
+// that rewrites it turns every action call into a `403` rather than into a
+// hole. A refusal is the right way for that to be discovered.
+//
+// **5. The argument boundary is `./action-wire.js` and only that.** Bounded
+// bytes, bounded depth, bounded count, valid UTF-8, plain JSON data, no
+// prototype keys, no constructor named by the payload. See that module's
+// header for what is excluded and why.
+//
+// A submitted form is inside that boundary and does not widen it: `<form
+// action={fn}>` reaches here as the same `application/json` body, with the
+// form's entries beside the values under a `form` key, bounded in count and in
+// field-name length and holding strings only. Nothing about it is multipart
+// and nothing about it is a content type a cross-origin `<form>` could
+// produce, so rule 4 is exactly as true of a form call as of any other. The
+// cost of keeping it that way is written down where it is paid — a form that
+// submits before its page has hydrated throws in the page rather than posting
+// anywhere, because React writes `action="javascript:throw …"` for a form
+// whose action carries no `$$FORM_ACTION`, and giving it one would mean
+// accepting a native form post here.
+//
+// **6. Nothing about a failure goes back.** An action that throws is a `500`
+// with a fixed body; the exception goes to the host's error reporting. A
+// message, a name or a stack in that response is an application's internals
+// published to whoever asked for them, and the same is true in development —
+// `uf dev` and `uf build` have to agree about what this endpoint answers, and
+// the terminal is where a developer reads the exception anyway.
+//
+// # What a middleware does and does not do for an action
+//
+// The call is a `POST` to the page's own URL rather than to a path uf reserves,
+// so the middleware that guards that path runs above it exactly as it does for
+// the page — no new route to collide with a project's own, and no second
+// spelling of "which guard applies here".
+//
+// That is a convenience and it is not a boundary, because the URL is the
+// caller's to choose: a client that wants to skip the guard on `/dashboard`
+// posts the same id to `/`. **A server action authorizes itself.** It is the
+// unit of authorization, the way a route handler is, and a `"use server"`
+// function that relies on a path guard having run is a function with a hole in
+// it. Written here because this is the file somebody reads before deciding
+// otherwise.
+
+import { asResponder } from "@uniflowed/server/host";
+
+import {
+  ACTION_CONTENT_TYPE,
+  ACTION_HEADER,
+  type ActionArgument,
+  ActionValueError,
+  MAX_ACTION_BODY_BYTES,
+  decodeActionArguments,
+  encodeActionResult,
+  isActionId,
+} from "./action-wire.js";
+import { requireRequest } from "./request.js";
+
+/** A module holding server actions, as the generated table loads it. */
+export type ActionModule = { readonly [name: string]: mixed };
+
+/**
+ * One callable action, as `virtual:uf/actions` writes it.
+ *
+ * `module` and `export` are here for the error a broken build produces, never
+ * for dispatch: dispatch is `id` against `id`. Nothing a request carries is
+ * ever joined onto a path or used to name an export.
+ */
+export type ActionRecord = {|
+  /** The keyed id, 64 lowercase hexadecimal characters. */
+  readonly id: string,
+  /** Declaring module, relative to the project root. */
+  readonly module: string,
+  /** The exported binding, or `default`. */
+  readonly export: string,
+  /** Import the declaring module. */
+  readonly load: () => Promise<ActionModule>,
+|};
+
+/** Headers every answer carries, whatever it says. */
+const ANSWER_HEADERS: { readonly [string]: string } = {
+  "content-type": "application/json; charset=utf-8",
+  // An action call is a `POST` and is not cached by anything by default. Said
+  // anyway, because "not cached by default" is the sentence in front of every
+  // cache-poisoning advisory in `docs/security.md`.
+  "cache-control": "no-store",
+};
+
+/**
+ * Match a request against the action table and run what it names.
+ *
+ * Returns `null` when the request carries no action id, which is the caller's
+ * signal to carry on: everything that is not an action call is a page, a
+ * handler or a 404, and this declines all of them. Every other outcome —
+ * including every refusal — is a `Response`, because a request that named an
+ * action and did not get to call one must not fall through to something else
+ * that might answer it.
+ */
+export function createActionDispatcher(options: {|
+  readonly actions: $ReadOnlyArray<ActionRecord>,
+|}): (request: Request) => Promise<Response | null> {
+  const table = options.actions;
+
+  return async function callAction(request: Request): Promise<Response | null> {
+    // The host's half of the contract, checked rather than assumed, exactly as
+    // `dispatch` and `runMiddleware` check it: an action that calls `cookies()`
+    // has to answer about the request it is inside.
+    requireRequest("callAction");
+
+    const id = request.headers.get(ACTION_HEADER);
+    if (id == null) {
+      return null;
+    }
+
+    // Cheapest and most protective first, and all of it before a byte of the
+    // body is read.
+    if (request.method.toUpperCase() !== "POST") {
+      return new Response(null, { status: 405, headers: { ...ANSWER_HEADERS, allow: "POST" } });
+    }
+    if (!sameOrigin(request)) {
+      return refusal(403);
+    }
+    if (!isJson(request.headers.get("content-type"))) {
+      return refusal(415);
+    }
+
+    const body = await readBoundedText(request, MAX_ACTION_BODY_BYTES);
+    if (body == null) {
+      return refusal(413);
+    }
+
+    let args: Array<ActionArgument>;
+    try {
+      args = decodeActionArguments(body);
+    } catch (error) {
+      // The reason is the sender's own payload described back to them, which
+      // is a thing to write in a log and not a thing to answer with.
+      if (!(error instanceof ActionValueError)) {
+        throw error;
+      }
+      return refusal(400);
+    }
+
+    // Decoded before the lookup, so that a malformed payload and an unknown id
+    // cannot be told apart by trying one against the other.
+    const record = isActionId(id) ? select(table, id) : null;
+    if (record == null) {
+      return refusal(404);
+    }
+
+    let action: mixed;
+    try {
+      const module = await record.load();
+      action = module[record.export];
+    } catch (error) {
+      report(record, error);
+      return refusal(500);
+    }
+    if (typeof action !== "function") {
+      // The RSC graph rejects a `"use server"` export that is not an async
+      // function at build time, so reaching this means the manifest and the
+      // modules disagree — a stale `.uf/rsc/uf-rsc-manifest.json`, or a build
+      // half-written. It is uf's bug, not the caller's, so it is reported and
+      // answered as a `500`.
+      report(record, new Error(`export \`${record.export}\` is not a function`));
+      return refusal(500);
+    }
+
+    // Everything from here to the answer runs as the thing that owns this
+    // response, which is what makes `draftMode().enable()` legal in an action:
+    // a `"use server"` function is one of the two places uf lets draft mode be
+    // changed, and the `Set-Cookie` it decides on is written onto the response
+    // this returns rather than onto an object the host discards. See
+    // ubugeeei-prod/uf#282 and `asResponder`.
+    //
+    // The refusals stay outside it. A `403` for a cross-origin call must not
+    // carry a cookie the caller asked for, and a scope that covered them would
+    // be a scope in which nothing ran that could have asked.
+    return asResponder("a server action", async () => {
+      let result: mixed;
+      try {
+        // The build-time contract says this is `async (...ActionArgument) => …`
+        // (`ServerActionBoundary` in `../action.js`), and Flow cannot read that
+        // through a module loaded by a thunk. The arguments are the ones
+        // `decodeActionArguments` produced, so what is unchecked here is the
+        // shape of the function and not the shape of the payload.
+        const call = action as $FlowFixMe;
+        result = await call(...args);
+      } catch (error) {
+        report(record, error);
+        return refusal(500);
+      }
+
+      let answer: string;
+      try {
+        answer = encodeActionResult(result);
+      } catch (error) {
+        // The action ran and its return value cannot cross. Flow says so at
+        // build time — `ServerActionBoundary` in `../action.js` holds every
+        // action's return type against the grammar — so this is the case where
+        // it was reached anyway, and half a value is worse than none.
+        report(record, error);
+        return refusal(500);
+      }
+      return new Response(answer, { status: 200, headers: { ...ANSWER_HEADERS } });
+    });
+  };
+}
+
+/**
+ * The row with this id, or `null`, without saying which by taking longer.
+ *
+ * Mirrors `ServerActionRegistry::lookup`: every row is visited whatever
+ * happens, the comparison is over the whole id, and the selected index is
+ * carried in arithmetic rather than in a branch. Two rows can never share an
+ * id, so the last match is the only match.
+ */
+function select(table: $ReadOnlyArray<ActionRecord>, id: string): ActionRecord | null {
+  let selected = 0;
+  let found = 0;
+  for (let index = 0; index < table.length; index += 1) {
+    const matches = sameId(table[index].id, id);
+    const mask = -matches;
+    selected = (selected & ~mask) | (index & mask);
+    found |= matches;
+  }
+  return found === 1 ? table[selected] : null;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Whether two ids are the same, in time that does not depend on how much of
+ * one matched.
+ *
+ * The length is compared first and that is not a leak: every action id is
+ * exactly 64 characters and `isActionId` has already said so about this one.
+ */
+function sameId(left: string, right: string): number {
+  if (left.length !== right.length) {
+    return 0;
+  }
+  let difference = 0;
+  for (let index = 0; index < left.length; index += 1) {
+    difference |= left.charCodeAt(index) ^ right.charCodeAt(index);
+  }
+  return difference === 0 ? 1 : 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Whether the request came from the page it claims to have come from.
+ *
+ * Deny by default: a call with no `Origin` is refused rather than trusted,
+ * because "the header was absent" and "the header matched" are not the same
+ * fact and only one of them is a browser saying where it was.
+ */
+function sameOrigin(request: Request): boolean {
+  const origin = request.headers.get("origin");
+  const host = request.headers.get("host");
+  if (origin == null || host == null) {
+    return false;
+  }
+  let parsed: URL;
+  try {
+    // `Origin: null` — a sandboxed frame, a `data:` document, some redirects —
+    // is not a URL and is refused here rather than being special-cased into a
+    // value that could match something.
+    parsed = new URL(origin);
+  } catch {
+    return false;
+  }
+  // `host` on both sides, so the port is part of the comparison: `:5173` and
+  // `:5174` on one machine are two origins and a cookie tells them apart.
+  return parsed.host === host;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Whether the declared content type is the one this endpoint accepts.
+ *
+ * The parameters after `;` are ignored — `application/json; charset=utf-8` is
+ * the same media type — and the media type itself must match exactly. A
+ * `+json` suffix is not accepted: the point of the check is that a form cannot
+ * produce this string, and a widened match is a widened set of things that
+ * can.
+ */
+function isJson(declared: string | null): boolean {
+  if (declared == null) {
+    return false;
+  }
+  const semicolon = declared.indexOf(";");
+  const media = (semicolon === -1 ? declared : declared.slice(0, semicolon)).trim().toLowerCase();
+  return media === ACTION_CONTENT_TYPE;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The body as text, or `null` when it is larger than `limit`.
+ *
+ * Counted as it arrives rather than trusted from `Content-Length`, because a
+ * chunked request declares no length and a declared one is the sender's claim.
+ * The declared length is still read first, so an oversized request that is
+ * honest about it is refused before its body is transferred at all.
+ *
+ * `fatal: true` refuses input that is not valid UTF-8 instead of replacing
+ * each bad sequence with U+FFFD, which is `docs/security.md`'s row about
+ * non-UTF-8 input applied at the one place uf decodes bytes a client sent.
+ */
+async function readBoundedText(request: Request, limit: number): Promise<string | null> {
+  const declared = request.headers.get("content-length");
+  if (declared != null) {
+    const size = Number(declared);
+    if (!Number.isInteger(size) || size < 0 || size > limit) {
+      return null;
+    }
+  }
+
+  // Flow's `Request` predates a body one can read as a stream, so the property
+  // is reached through a cast and the shape it is used at is checked below.
+  // `ReadableStream` is not polymorphic in the DOM declarations uf checks
+  // against, so the element type is asserted at the one place it is read
+  // rather than written here.
+  const body: ReadableStream | null = (request as $FlowFixMe).body;
+  if (body == null) {
+    return "";
+  }
+
+  const reader = body.getReader();
+  const chunks: Array<Uint8Array> = [];
+  let total = 0;
+  try {
+    for (;;) {
+      const step = await reader.read();
+      if (step.done === true) {
+        break;
+      }
+      const chunk: Uint8Array = step.value as $FlowFixMe;
+      total += chunk.byteLength;
+      if (total > limit) {
+        // Cancelled rather than dropped, so the sender stops instead of
+        // filling a queue nobody is reading. The reason is given because the
+        // declarations uf checks against require one, and "too large" is what
+        // a cancelled read of an oversized body is about.
+        await reader.cancel("the body is larger than a server action accepts");
+        return null;
+      }
+      chunks.push(chunk);
+    }
+  } catch {
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  const joined = new Uint8Array(total);
+  let at = 0;
+  for (const chunk of chunks) {
+    joined.set(chunk, at);
+    at += chunk.byteLength;
+  }
+  try {
+    return new TextDecoder("utf-8", { fatal: true }).decode(joined);
+  } catch {
+    return null;
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Every refusal, with the same body whatever it was.
+ *
+ * The status says what a caller may usefully do differently — retry with a
+ * smaller body, send the header, look elsewhere — and the body says nothing at
+ * all, because everything that could go in it is about the build.
+ */
+function refusal(status: number): Response {
+  return new Response('{"error":"server action refused"}', {
+    status,
+    headers: { ...ANSWER_HEADERS },
+  });
+}
+
+/**
+ * Report an action that failed, where the host's error reporting can see it.
+ *
+ * The console, for the reason `createFetchHandler` gives about its own
+ * `onError`: this runs inside a worker or a serverless invocation as often as
+ * in a terminal, and losing the exception entirely is worse than putting it
+ * somewhere a platform is expected to collect. The module and export are named
+ * here and nowhere the caller can read.
+ */
+function report(record: ActionRecord, error: mixed): void {
+  // eslint-disable-next-line no-console
+  console.error(`uf: server action \`${record.export}\` in \`${record.module}\` failed`, error);
+}