Every existing test of the client/control-plane boundary is either a
Go unit test with a mocked HTTP layer or a GDScript unit test with no
network at all (multiplayer-next.md 8.40's own evidence names "live
multi-process control-plane/game verification" as remaining). Nothing
before this actually ran the real compiled Go binary, a real
PostgreSQL instance, and a real headless Godot process talking real
HTTP to each other -- and it immediately found a real bug (previous
commit).
server/cmd/testkit-api is a new, deliberately separate, clearly-marked
test-only binary wired identically to cmd/control-plane except for
SteamLogin: cmd/control-plane has no way to authenticate against a
real Steam Web API from this sandbox (task 8.7's own documented
blocker), so testkit-api accepts any non-empty ticket string and
derives a deterministic identity instead. This bypass is confined to
its own binary -- never a flag on cmd/control-plane, never referenced
by any Dockerfile stage or Kubernetes manifest -- specifically so it
can't become a footgun on the real one.
Game/tests/control_plane_smoke.gd drives the real ControlPlaneClient
autoload through login -> queue_create -> heartbeat against a real
server and prints SMOKE PASS/FAIL, matching the existing net_smoke.gd
convention. scripts/verify_control_plane_integration.sh orchestrates
both sides (real postgres:17-alpine, the built testkit-api binary, the
Godot client) end to end.
Two real bugs surfaced building this, both fixed and re-verified, not
just the target bug: the smoke script's own use of `go run` left a
zombie process that survived cleanup and squatting on its port
corrupted the NEXT run with a misleading "http=401 unauthorized" (now
builds and runs a real binary directly, plus a belt-and-suspenders
port-kill in cleanup); and calling heartbeat() synchronously from
within a request_succeeded handler produced a spurious "Busy" because
ControlPlaneClient's own internal resync (see previous commit) was
still in flight -- the test now waits for ControlPlaneClient to go
idle via a real Timer (call_deferred alone floods the message queue
without ever yielding a frame for the in-flight request to complete).
Verified stable across 3 consecutive full runs: real PostgreSQL
container up, migrations applied, testkit-api built and started, real
headless Godot client round-tripping login/queue/heartbeat, clean
teardown with no leftover processes, containers, or bound ports each
time.
Josh Creek