test: cover the session lifecycle, timeline, list and retention

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Summary

Covers Domain 14 (Sessions) of shellhub-io/team#243 with testcontainers tests. 14 of the 17 open items now have a test that asserts the outcome the item names. The other three are below, with the reason each is left open.

tests/
├── session_lifecycle_test.go   # TestSessionLifecycle: disconnect, keepalive, authenticated, web, namespace scope
├── session_events_test.go      # + window-change, exit-status and seat cases
├── session_list_test.go        # TestSessionList: device_uid / active / closed filters, started_at order
├── session_retention_test.go   # TestSessionRetention: the real retention job, cascade to events
└── environment/
    ├── cron.go                 # RunCron: enqueue a cron job the server registered, by its spec
    └── docker_compose.go       # BaseURL, AgeSession, SessionEventCount
docker-compose.test.yml         # pass SHELLHUB_SESSION_RETENTION_DAYS, publish redis

Item	Test	Asserts
Session becomes inactive after disconnect	TestSessionLifecycle	active is true while connected, false after conn.Close(), with no close endpoint involved
Web terminal session flagged web=true	TestSessionLifecycle	a session opened through /ws/ssh reads web: true; one opened over SSH reads false
Session authenticated flag set after auth	TestSessionLifecycle	an accepted key gives authenticated: true; a password the device refuses leaves the session authenticated: false and never active
Session events recorded for window-change	TestSessionDetailSaysWhatTheSessionDid	the event carries the new size, 132×50
Session events recorded for exit-status	TestSessionDetailSaysWhatTheSessionDid	the event carries status 3
Session keepalive updates last_seen	TestSessionLifecycle	last_seen moves past an earlier reading while the session stays active
Multi-seat session tracks seat numbers	TestSessionDetailSaysWhatTheSessionDid	two channels on one connection give seats [0, 1], each command recorded on its own seat
Session scoped to namespace	TestSessionLifecycle	another namespace gets 404 for the session and an empty list
Filter sessions by device_uid	TestSessionList	eq and ne list exactly the expected sessions
Filter sessions by active status	TestSessionList	active true and false
Filter sessions by closed status	TestSessionList	closed true and false
Sessions sorted by started_at descending	TestSessionList	the exact newest-first sequence, with each started_at no later than the one before
Expired sessions listed by retention window	TestSessionRetention	with a 1-day window: an aged, finished session is deleted; a recent one and an aged one still open are kept
Expired sessions deleted with cascade to events	TestSessionRetention	the deleted session's rows in session_events drop from more than zero to zero

Retention runs the real job. The community compose file never passed SHELLHUB_SESSION_RETENTION_DAYS to the server, and the job fires only at 01:00:

TestSessionRetention
  stack up with SHELLHUB_SESSION_RETENTION_DAYS=1, redis published on a reserved port
  await server log "session retention enabled"
  AgeSession: move started_at back 48h          # stands in for the days; nothing is deleted by hand
  RunCron("0 1 * * *")
    asynq scheduler entries in redis -> the task registered on that spec
    enqueue it on the server's "cron" queue     # the server's SessionCleanup handler runs it
  await 404 on the expired session, and server log "pruned sessions past the retention window"

TestSessionDetailSaysWhatTheSessionDid now closes each connection and waits for the session to go inactive before it reads the timeline. The gateway drains its event batch when a session finishes, so the timeline is then complete. This applies to the four existing cases too.

Not covered

• Session records GeoIP position. Community wires the null locator (server/api/services/service.go:128, geoip.NewNullGeoLite). The MaxMind locator is registered only by cloud/internal/cloud/init.go:45, and community CI runs the community stack. The test client also connects from a private address, which no GeoIP database places.
• Recorded sessions not deleted until recording purged. The recording pruner is registered only by cloud/internal/cloud/recordings.go:50. Without one, pruneRecordings (server/api/services/session-recording.go) hands every expired UID to the delete, recorded or not, so on community the behaviour this item names does not exist.
• Invalid filter operator rejected. On this base, GET /api/sessions with an operator the field does not take answers c.NoContent(400) (server/api/routes/session.go:41-42). The OpenAPI spec declares a body for that 400, so the test stack's strict response validator replaces the response with a 500 (response header Content-Type has unexpected value: ""). That is OpenAPI declares a response body for statuses answered with no body #7122, which lists GET /api/sessions among its 400 cases. refactor(server): give the List shape the query contract it serves #7035 moves the route onto the List seam, which answers with the error envelope; feat(server): say what was wrong with a rejected filter #7061 adds a reason to it. Once either is on master the test can assert 400.

#7349 (namespace-bounded session mutations) is already in this base. The namespace-scope test reads through the API, which that PR did not change.

Evidence

• Before: none of these tests existed. With RunCron removed, TestSessionRetention fails: a finished session past the window is deleted, Condition never satisfied.
• After: the four session tests pass in the one-off test runner:

--- PASS: TestSessionDetailSaysWhatTheSessionDid (46.11s)   7 cases
--- PASS: TestSessionLifecycle (19.90s)                     6 cases
--- PASS: TestSessionList (20.63s)                          4 cases
--- PASS: TestSessionRetention (20.72s)                     3 checks
ok  	github.com/shellhub-io/shellhub/tests	109.944s

The full tests/ suite passes on the compose change (ok ... 1311.228s, 37 top-level tests). golangci-lint reports 0 issues on tests/.

Merge Danger

Door: two-way

Test code and the test-only compose overlay. Nothing in the product changes.

Blast Radius: e2e-stacks

Every test stack now publishes redis on 127.0.0.1, on a port the daemon picks unless a test reserves one, because compose cannot publish a port conditionally. SHELLHUB_SESSION_RETENTION_DAYS defaults to 0 there, which keeps retention off. Enterprise stacks pass their own value, the same 180 days .env.enterprise already sets.

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Code Review Complete

I reviewed all 10 changed files and posted 1 inline issue. Standards: 0 violations, 1 judgement call. Spec: did not run. Correctness: 0.

Standards

The worst finding is a judgement call for Duplicated Code at tests/session_lifecycle_test.go:34-59. getSession and awaitSession are the third and fourth copies of the session-detail fetch. requireSessionActive and sessionDetail could both delegate to awaitSession.

The code follows the rules otherwise:

• Every surviving comment is either a doc comment on an exported symbol or a nolint reason.
• Stack.RunCron lists every error it returns.
• The commits carry the reasons for their workarounds.

Spec

The PR closes no issue and its commits carry no Fixes: trailer, so there was nothing to review against. It cites shellhub-io/team#243, but that issue is in another repo, which this run cannot read.

Additional notes

The correctness pass checked these areas against the server source and found no defects:

• RunCron: it reaches the real handler. The task type and payload are copied from the scheduler entry, the job goes on the cron queue, and the 0 1 * * * spec belongs only to CronSessionCleanup.
• Redis exposure: the published redis is loopback-only, because SHELLHUB_BIND_ADDRESS is pinned to 127.0.0.1 in tests/environment/edition.go.
• Server behaviour the tests rely on:
  • the psql variable substitution in AgeSession and SessionEventCount
  • the WebSocket message kinds 4 and 5
  • the active, closed and device_uid filters, and the started_at DESC order
  • retention skipping sessions that are still active
  • the 30s keep-alive interval, which fits inside the 45s wait

I dropped several smaller judgement calls because they did not clear the review bar:

• matching the cron job by its spec rather than its task type
• the exact log-line wait after the 404 check
• table-driving the filter subtests
• the events= marker parsed with a regex

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Code Review Complete

I reviewed the 11 changed files for Standards (repo rules, Go conventions, test quality, code smells) and Correctness (security and runtime defects). I found no new issues, and the code looks good as it is.

The Spec axis did not run. The PR closes no issue and its commits carry no Fixes: trailer. The one issue it cites, shellhub-io/team#243, is in another repo, which this run cannot read.