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fix(render): stale-backend errors, CROSSPLANE_DOCKER_NETWORK for every engine - #477

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Description of your changes

Small fixes and extension points in pkg/render's engine flags and engines.

Why

  • --crossplane-docker-network could only be set on the command line, so a CI environment couldn't set the render network once for every command.
  • --crossplane-binary and --crossplane-docker-network were mutually exclusive. Once the network can come from an env var, kong counts an exported variable as "set", so the xor would reject --crossplane-binary whenever the variable is in the environment.
  • When the configured crossplane image or binary is too old to have crossplane internal render, callers had no way to tell that apart from a pipeline failure.

What changed

  • --crossplane-docker-network reads CROSSPLANE_DOCKER_NETWORK (kong env: tag).
  • The network/binary xor is gone. The local binary engine ignores the network; EngineFlags.AfterApply prints warning: --crossplane-docker-network is ignored with --crossplane-binary only when the flag was passed explicitly. A value that comes only from the env var gives no warning. The flag help now reads: "The docker network to start the crossplane container in (also $CROSSPLANE_DOCKER_NETWORK). Ignored with --crossplane-binary."
  • ErrStaleRenderBackend: the Docker and local engines wrap errors whose stderr has kong's unexpected argument internal so they match errors.Is(err, render.ErrStaleRenderBackend). The error message is unchanged.
  • CrossplaneImageFromFlags is now exported.
  • The --session-id help is ${session_id_help=<current text>}, so a command embedding EngineFlags can override it with set:. render xr and render op show the same text as before.

ErrStaleRenderBackend, CrossplaneImageFromFlags and the session_id_help override have no callers on main yet. #436 (crossplane project simulate) uses all three: it reports or retries stale backends, resolves the render image the same way render does, and sets its own session-id help.

Testing

  • New pkg/render/engine_flags_test.go: where the network value comes from (flag, env, flag over env), binary + network accepted, and the warning only for an explicitly passed flag.
  • engine_docker_test.go and engine_local_test.go: a stale-backend case that still matches after more wrapping, plus a negative check on an ordinary failure, for both engines.
  • ./nix.sh run .#test and ./nix.sh run .#lint pass.

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  • Added or updated unit tests.
  • Linked a PR or a docs tracking issue to document this change. (flag help updated in this PR)
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  • pkg/render/engine_docker_test.go
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The render engines now classify errors associated with the “unexpected argument internal” stderr signature. Engine flags accept Docker-network configuration with binary rendering, and expose the Docker image resolution helper.

Changes: Render engine behavior

Layer / File(s) Summary
Stale-backend error classification
pkg/render/engine.go, pkg/render/engine_local.go, pkg/render/engine_docker.go, pkg/render/engine_local_test.go, pkg/render/engine_docker_test.go
The local and Docker render engines classify errors when stderr contains “unexpected argument internal.” Tests verify ErrStaleRenderBackend matching through an additional error-wrapping layer.
Docker-network and binary flags
pkg/render/engine.go, pkg/render/engine_flags_test.go
The Docker-network flag reads CROSSPLANE_DOCKER_NETWORK. Binary rendering keeps the network value and warns when the flag was explicitly set on the command line. CrossplaneImageFromFlags is exported.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: Minimal · previous review f3451

The change appears mergeable; the tests should use the repository’s required error wrapper.

Pre-merge checks: Passed 5 · Failed 1

Failed Failed checks: 1 warning

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Title check Warning The title clearly describes the changes, but it is 77 characters long and exceeds the 72-character limit. Shorten the title to 72 characters or fewer while retaining the stale-backend and network changes.
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Description check Passed The description is directly related to the changes. It explains the engine updates, flag behavior, exported APIs, tests, and validation results.
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Breaking Changes Passed The pull request changes only files under pkg/render/. The authoritative diff contains no changes under apis/** or cmd/**, so it cannot remove or rename public fields or flags, add required publ…
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No apis/** files are changed. The six changed files are limited to pkg/render and tests. The implementation adds render error classification, CROSSPLANE_DOCKER_NETWORK support, and binary-mode warning behavior, but it does not introduce an experimental feature or any feature-gate implementation requirement identified in the repository. This check therefore passes.

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One nit I'll leave up to you - lgtm overall. Thanks for breaking this out of the larger PR!

Comment thread pkg/render/engine.go Outdated
// staleRenderBackendSignature is the kong usage error a crossplane CLI that
// lacks the `internal` command prints when asked to run `internal render`. It
// cannot come from a pipeline or connectivity failure on a current backend.
const staleRenderBackendSignature = "unexpected argument internal"

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Nit: could this be a local in classifyRenderError?

jcogilvie and others added 4 commits October 30, 2026 15:27
…y engine

--crossplane-docker-network now also reads CROSSPLANE_DOCKER_NETWORK.
--crossplane-binary no longer excludes the network flag, since kong counts
an exported env var as set; the binary engine ignores the network and warns
when the flag itself was passed.

Render errors from a backend that predates `crossplane internal render` now
match ErrStaleRenderBackend with errors.Is. CrossplaneImageFromFlags is
exported, and the --session-id help is interpolated as ${session_id_help}
so commands embedding EngineFlags can override it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Ogilvie <jonathan.ogilvie@sumologic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Ogilvie <jonathan.ogilvie@sumologic.com>
…ag help

Use kong's ${env} interpolation so the env var no longer trails "Ignored with --crossplane-binary".

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Ogilvie <jonathan.ogilvie@sumologic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Ogilvie <jonathan.ogilvie@sumologic.com>

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Nitpick Use the required error wrapper in this test.

249-249: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Use the required error wrapper in this test.

Could you use errors.Wrap(err, "caller") here? The test already imports that package. The change keeps the wrapped-sentinel check and follows the repository rule. Thanks for testing the caller-wrapped case.

As per path instructions: “Use crossplane-runtime/pkg/errors for wrapping.”

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Review comment at @pkg/render/engine_local_test.go at line 249:
Replace the fmt.Errorf wrapping of err in this test with
crossplane-runtime/pkg/errors.Wrap, using “caller” as the context. Keep the
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Nitpick Use the required error wrapper in this test.

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Use the required error wrapper in this test.

Could you use errors.Wrap(err, "caller") here too? The test already imports that package. This keeps the wrapped-sentinel check consistent with the required wrapper. Thanks for covering the Docker path.

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Review comment at @pkg/render/engine_docker_test.go at line 237:
Update the Docker test’s wrapping of err to use the already-imported
crossplane-runtime/pkg/errors.Wrap with the "caller" context, keeping the
wrapped-sentinel check consistent.

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