matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/molecule-shared/tasks/homeserver-stub.yml

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Slavi Pantaleev
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later

---
# Stands up a stand-in homeserver on a container network, for scenarios whose
# component contacts a homeserver while starting up.
#
# Include from a scenario's prepare.yml:
#
#   - name: Ensure the homeserver stub is running
#     ansible.builtin.include_tasks:
#       file: "{{ lookup('env', 'MOLECULE_PROJECT_DIRECTORY') }}/../../../molecule-shared/tasks/homeserver-stub.yml"
#     vars:
#       molecule_shared_stub_network: "{{ <role>_container_network }}"
#       molecule_shared_stub_joined_rooms: ["!some-room:molecule.local"]
#
# The component should then be pointed at http://matrix.molecule.local:8008.
#
# See molecule-shared/homeserver-stub.py for what it answers and, more
# importantly, for what it is not.

- name: Ensure the homeserver stub script is present
  ansible.builtin.copy:
    src: "{{ lookup('env', 'MOLECULE_PROJECT_DIRECTORY') }}/../../../molecule-shared/homeserver-stub.py"
    dest: /root/molecule-homeserver-stub.py
    mode: "0755"

- name: Ensure a previous homeserver stub is gone
  ansible.builtin.command:
    argv:
      - docker
      - rm
      - --force
      - "{{ molecule_shared_stub_name | default('matrix-homeserver-stub') }}"
  register: molecule_shared_stub_removal
  changed_when: molecule_shared_stub_removal.rc == 0
  failed_when: false

# The alias is what the component resolves, so its configuration can name a
# hostname rather than a container name.
- name: Ensure the homeserver stub is running
  ansible.builtin.command:
    argv:
      - docker
      - run
      - --detach
      - --name={{ molecule_shared_stub_name | default('matrix-homeserver-stub') }}
      - --network={{ molecule_shared_stub_network }}
      - --network-alias={{ molecule_shared_stub_hostname | default('matrix.molecule.local') }}
      - --env=STUB_SERVER_NAME={{ molecule_shared_stub_server_name | default('molecule.local') }}
      - --env=STUB_JOINED_ROOMS={{ (molecule_shared_stub_joined_rooms | default([])) | join(',') }}
      # Appservices call /whoami on startup and refuse to run if the id
      # returned is not the bot user they were configured as, so a scenario
      # bridging anything has to tell the stub who it should claim to be.
      - --env=STUB_USER_ID={{ molecule_shared_stub_user_id | default('@stub:' + (molecule_shared_stub_server_name | default('molecule.local'))) }}
      # Off by default. Set molecule_shared_stub_verbose to "1" to have the stub
      # log every request it is asked for, which is both how you find out why a
      # component will not start and - for a component that exposes no port of
      # its own - the only place a scenario can observe it acting on what the
      # role configured.
      - --env=STUB_VERBOSE={{ molecule_shared_stub_verbose | default('') }}
      - --volume=/root/molecule-homeserver-stub.py:/stub.py:ro
      - "{{ molecule_shared_image_python }}"
      - python3
      - /stub.py
  register: molecule_shared_stub_start
  changed_when: molecule_shared_stub_start.rc == 0

- name: Wait for the homeserver stub to answer
  ansible.builtin.command:
    argv:
      - docker
      - run
      - --rm
      - --network={{ molecule_shared_stub_network }}
      - "{{ molecule_shared_image_curl }}"
      - --silent
      - --fail
      - --max-time
      - "5"
      - "http://{{ molecule_shared_stub_hostname | default('matrix.molecule.local') }}:8008/_matrix/client/versions"
  register: molecule_shared_stub_ready
  changed_when: false
  until: molecule_shared_stub_ready.rc == 0
  retries: 12
  delay: 5