tailcfg: flesh out docs

Updates #cleanup
Updates #14542

Change-Id: I41f7ce69d43032e0ba3c866d9c89d2a7eccbf090
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
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Brad Fitzpatrick 2025-01-06 08:27:40 -08:00 committed by Brad Fitzpatrick
parent 2fb361a3cf
commit f13b2bce93
3 changed files with 65 additions and 18 deletions

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@ -155,35 +155,70 @@ type CapabilityVersion int
// - 110: 2024-12-12: removed never-before-used Tailscale SSH public key support (#14373)
const CurrentCapabilityVersion CapabilityVersion = 110
type StableID string
// ID is an integer ID for a user, node, or login allocated by the
// control plane.
//
// To be nice, control plane servers should not use int64s that are too large to
// fit in a JavaScript number (see JavaScript's Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER).
// The Tailscale-hosted control plane stopped allocating large integers in
// March 2023 but nodes prior to that may have IDs larger than
// MAX_SAFE_INTEGER (2^53 1).
//
// IDs must not be zero or negative.
type ID int64
// UserID is an [ID] for a [User].
type UserID ID
func (u UserID) IsZero() bool {
return u == 0
}
// LoginID is an [ID] for a [Login].
//
// It is not used in the Tailscale client, but is used in the control plane.
type LoginID ID
func (u LoginID) IsZero() bool {
return u == 0
}
// NodeID is a unique integer ID for a node.
//
// It's global within a control plane URL ("tailscale up --login-server") and is
// (as of 2025-01-06) never re-used even after a node is deleted.
//
// To be nice, control plane servers should not use int64s that are too large to
// fit in a JavaScript number (see JavaScript's Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER).
// The Tailscale-hosted control plane stopped allocating large integers in
// March 2023 but nodes prior to that may have node IDs larger than
// MAX_SAFE_INTEGER (2^53 1).
//
// NodeIDs are not stable across control plane URLs. For more stable URLs,
// see [StableNodeID].
type NodeID ID
func (u NodeID) IsZero() bool {
return u == 0
}
type StableNodeID StableID
// StableNodeID is a string form of [NodeID].
//
// Different control plane servers should ideally have different StableNodeID
// suffixes for different sites or regions.
//
// Being a string, it's safer to use in JavaScript without worrying about the
// size of the integer, as documented on [NodeID].
//
// But in general, Tailscale APIs can accept either a [NodeID] integer or a
// [StableNodeID] string when referring to a node.
type StableNodeID string
func (u StableNodeID) IsZero() bool {
return u == ""
}
// User is an IPN user.
// User is a Tailscale user.
//
// A user can have multiple logins associated with it (e.g. gmail and github oauth).
// (Note: none of our UIs support this yet.)
@ -196,23 +231,29 @@ func (u StableNodeID) IsZero() bool {
// have a general gmail address login associated with the user.
type User struct {
ID UserID
LoginName string `json:"-"` // not stored, filled from Login // TODO REMOVE
DisplayName string // if non-empty overrides Login field
ProfilePicURL string // if non-empty overrides Login field
Logins []LoginID
Created time.Time
// Old, unused fields...
// TODO(bradfitz): remove, once verifying old clients don't need them.
LoginName string `json:"-"` // not stored, filled from Login // TODO REMOVE
Logins []LoginID
}
// Login is a user from a specific identity provider, not associated with any
// particular tailnet.
type Login struct {
_ structs.Incomparable
ID LoginID
Provider string
LoginName string
DisplayName string
ProfilePicURL string
ID LoginID // unused in the Tailscale client
Provider string // "google", "github", "okta_foo", etc.
LoginName string // an email address or "email-ish" string (like alice@github)
DisplayName string // from the IdP
ProfilePicURL string // from the IdP
}
// A UserProfile is display-friendly data for a user.
// A UserProfile is display-friendly data for a [User].
// It includes the LoginName for display purposes but *not* the Provider.
// It also includes derived data from one of the user's logins.
type UserProfile struct {
@ -283,6 +324,7 @@ func MarshalCapJSON[T any](capRule T) (RawMessage, error) {
return RawMessage(string(bs)), nil
}
// Node is a Tailscale device in a tailnet.
type Node struct {
ID NodeID
StableID StableNodeID
@ -563,6 +605,11 @@ func (n *Node) InitDisplayNames(networkMagicDNSSuffix string) {
n.ComputedNameWithHost = nameWithHost
}
// MachineStatus is the state of a [Node]'s approval into a tailnet.
//
// A "node" and a "machine" are often 1:1, but technically a Tailscale
// daemon has one machine key and can have multiple nodes (e.g. different
// users on Windows) for that one machine key.
type MachineStatus int
const (

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@ -33,11 +33,11 @@ func (src *User) Clone() *User {
// A compilation failure here means this code must be regenerated, with the command at the top of this file.
var _UserCloneNeedsRegeneration = User(struct {
ID UserID
LoginName string
DisplayName string
ProfilePicURL string
Logins []LoginID
Created time.Time
LoginName string
Logins []LoginID
}{})
// Clone makes a deep copy of Node.

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@ -67,20 +67,20 @@ func (v *UserView) UnmarshalJSON(b []byte) error {
}
func (v UserView) ID() UserID { return v.ж.ID }
func (v UserView) LoginName() string { return v.ж.LoginName }
func (v UserView) DisplayName() string { return v.ж.DisplayName }
func (v UserView) ProfilePicURL() string { return v.ж.ProfilePicURL }
func (v UserView) Logins() views.Slice[LoginID] { return views.SliceOf(v.ж.Logins) }
func (v UserView) Created() time.Time { return v.ж.Created }
func (v UserView) LoginName() string { return v.ж.LoginName }
func (v UserView) Logins() views.Slice[LoginID] { return views.SliceOf(v.ж.Logins) }
// A compilation failure here means this code must be regenerated, with the command at the top of this file.
var _UserViewNeedsRegeneration = User(struct {
ID UserID
LoginName string
DisplayName string
ProfilePicURL string
Logins []LoginID
Created time.Time
LoginName string
Logins []LoginID
}{})
// View returns a readonly view of Node.