Make subprocess stderr routing an explicit policy (#340)

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Summary

Closes #340

diag_json is an output-format decision, but the process layer treated it as a
transport policy: suppress_stderr: bool was derived inside the process seam
from request.cli.json and threaded through the subprocess execution chain,
leaking reporting semantics into subprocess handling.

This change introduces an explicit StderrMode { Forward, Suppress } policy
type in src/runner/process/stderr_mode.rs. The runner derives the policy from
CLI state via StderrMode::from_cli(cli) and carries it as a stderr_mode
field on NinjaBuildRequest/NinjaToolRequest, following the existing
env: &CommandEnv field precedent. The process layer only consumes the
policy and no longer reads cli.json directly.

Behaviour is unchanged: StderrMode::Suppress still drains both child stdout
and child stderr to io::sink() so JSON diagnostics stay machine-readable,
and the structured tracing field keeps its stable suppress_stderr name.
The JSON diagnostics BDD feature, tests/logging_stderr/json.rs, and the
progress_output feature all pass without edits.

Acceptance criteria

• Process execution code no longer reads CLI JSON state directly.
• Stderr forwarding/suppression is represented by a named policy type.
• JSON diagnostics still keep stderr machine-readable.
• make check-fmt, make lint, and make test pass.

Testing

• make check-fmt: pass
• make lint: pass (rustdoc, Clippy, and Whitaker Dylint clean)
• make test: pass (1917 nextest tests, doctests)
• CodeRabbit review: 0 findings

References

• Issue: Make subprocess stderr routing an explicit policy #340
• Lody session: https://lody.ai/leynos/sessions/5124f2d3-a25e-495e-bf34-1410c41f4069

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Summary by Sourcery

Introduce an explicit stderr routing policy for Ninja subprocesses and thread it through runner requests instead of deriving suppression directly from CLI JSON settings.

Enhancements:

• Add a StderrMode policy type to control forwarding vs suppression of child stdout/stderr and derive it from CLI configuration.
• Extend NinjaBuildRequest and NinjaToolRequest to carry stderr_mode, updating runner, process, and logging code to consume this policy field.
• Adjust developer documentation to describe the new stderr policy, its tracing field derivation, and its relationship to CommandEnv.
• Update tests and examples to construct requests with StderrMode::from_cli while preserving existing behaviour of JSON diagnostics and environment handling.

Documentation:

• Document the stderr routing policy, its impact on structured logging fields, and how runner requests now include stderr_mode alongside CommandEnv.

Tests:

• Add unit tests for StderrMode policy derivation and update existing integration/UI tests to use the new stderr_mode field in runner requests.

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Summary

• Introduce StderrMode { Forward, Suppress } for explicit subprocess stream routing.
• Derive the policy from CLI state at the runner boundary.
• Pass StderrMode through NinjaBuildRequest and NinjaToolRequest.
• Keep process execution independent of CLI JSON state.
• Preserve machine-readable JSON diagnostics by draining suppressed stdout and stderr.
• Retain the suppress_stderr tracing field.
• Extract reporter construction into src/runner/reporter.rs.
• Update the Netsuke design document, developer documentation, and tests for issue #340.
• Update related ExecPlans to reference the new reporter module and request-level stderr policy.

Validation

• make check-fmt
• make lint
• make test
• 1,917 nextest tests and doctests passed.

Walkthrough

The runner now derives an explicit StderrMode policy from CLI state. Ninja requests carry the policy. Process execution and command logging consume it without reading CLI JSON state directly. Reporter construction now uses a dedicated module.

Changes

Stderr policy propagation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Define and construct StderrMode src/runner/process/stderr_mode.rs, src/runner/process/request.rs, src/runner/mod.rs, tests/*, docs/*	Define StderrMode, add it to Ninja request structures, derive it from CLI state, and update request construction examples and documentation.
Route subprocess output and command logging src/runner/process/*, tests/stderr_routing_tests.rs	Pass StderrMode through execution, route child streams with Forward or Suppress, and derive logging fields with is_suppress().
Extract reporter construction and validate behaviour src/runner/reporter.rs, src/runner/mod.rs, src/runner/process/tests.rs, tests/logging_stderr/json.rs, docs/execplans/*	Construct reporters in reporter.rs, update implementation references, and test JSON output suppression and spawn-failure logging.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CLI
  participant Runner
  participant NinjaRequest
  participant NinjaProcess
  participant CommandLogging
  CLI->>Runner: provide JSON setting
  Runner->>NinjaRequest: include stderr_mode
  NinjaRequest->>NinjaProcess: pass stderr_mode
  NinjaProcess->>NinjaProcess: route child stdout and stderr
  NinjaProcess->>CommandLogging: report execution or failure
  CommandLogging->>NinjaProcess: derive suppress_stderr with is_suppress

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Possibly related PRs

• leynos/netsuke#371: It modifies the same runner/process request boundary and CLI-derived stderr handling.
• leynos/netsuke#515: It shares the runner and Ninja execution API changes.
• leynos/netsuke#554: It shares process output forwarding, child-exit handling, and logging changes.

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Poem

Set the mode.
Pass it through each request.
Route both streams.
Keep JSON output clean.
Let logging show the policy.

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to d6ffb

The PR preserves the intended stderr-routing behavior, but current documentation still has inaccurate output-ordering statements and the added tests have bounded robustness gaps, including duplicate-warning assertions and temporary-path quoting; it is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up, along with the minor accessibility metadata update.

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❌ Failed checks (2 warnings, 10 inconclusive)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Out of Scope Changes check	⚠️ Warning	The PR also extracts reporter construction and edits unrelated ExecPlan references, which are not required by the stderr-routing objectives in [#340].	Remove or justify the reporter extraction and unrelated ExecPlan edits, or link the additional work to its own issue.
User-Facing Documentation	⚠️ Warning	The PR adds required public stderr_mode fields, but docs/users-guide.md omits StderrMode and its examples omit the fields; the API guidance is stale.	Update docs/users-guide.md with StderrMode usage and corrected request examples, and update the migration guide to describe the required API change.
Testing (Overall)	❓ Inconclusive	Investigation started; no verdict yet.	Inspect the changed implementation and tests before deciding.
Developer Documentation	❓ Inconclusive	placeholder	placeholder
Module-Level Documentation	❓ Inconclusive	The repository diff is available, but the check requires judging whether every module's prose is sufficiently clear; the new module docs are brief and subjective.	Review the module-level documentation for clarity against the stated purpose, utility, and component-relationship requirements.
Testing (Unit And Behavioural)	❓ Inconclusive	Investigation is still in progress; no verdict submitted yet.	Await inspection of the changed implementation and test boundaries.
Testing (Compile-Time / Ui)	❓ Inconclusive	Investigation in progress.	Review the pull-request diff and its compile-time and output-test coverage.
Unit Architecture	❓ Inconclusive	Initial repository check found a detached HEAD, but the PR diff has not yet been inspected.	Inspect the parent-to-HEAD diff and the affected runner/process units before deciding.
Observability	❓ Inconclusive	The current checkout shows only a three-line test change, while the supplied summary describes broader changes; the complete pull-request diff is not yet established.	Provide the complete pull-request diff or base revision so observability changes can be verified.
Security And Privacy	❓ Inconclusive	Investigation has not started; no verdict evidence is available.	Inspect the pull request diff and changed subprocess, logging, and test code for introduced security or privacy failures.
Concurrency And State	❓ Inconclusive	Investigation is still in progress; no verdict has been submitted yet.	Inspect the pull-request diff and affected process/output paths before deciding.
Architectural Complexity And Maintainability	❓ Inconclusive	Investigation in progress; no final assessment yet.	Gather the feature diff and inspect the new policy and reporter boundaries before deciding.

✅ Passed checks (8 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly describes the explicit subprocess stderr policy change and references linked issue #340.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description accurately explains the StderrMode policy, process-layer changes, preserved behaviour, tests, and acceptance criteria.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The PR implements the explicit StderrMode policy, runner derivation, process decoupling, JSON routing, and stable tracing field required by [#340].
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%.
Testing (Property / Proof)	✅ Passed	StderrMode has a two-value state space covered exhaustively by rstest cases; routing tests cover both modes across build and tool requests, so no broader property invariant is introduced.
Domain Architecture	✅ Passed	Keep the change: the runner derives StderrMode, process code consumes the explicit policy, and core modules have no new dependency on CLI or process concerns.
Performance And Resource Use	✅ Passed	The diff replaces a bool with a Copy enum and preserves the existing streaming thread and sink/forward paths; no new unbounded collection, hot-path loop, retry, or repeated I/O appears.
Rust Compiler Lint Integrity	✅ Passed	The PR adds no broad unused-code suppressions, artificial anchors, or clone expressions; new reporter, policy, and test helpers have concrete call sites in the inspected diff.

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Reviewer's Guide

Introduces an explicit StderrMode policy for subprocess standard-stream routing and threads it through runner requests and process handling, replacing direct use of cli.json while preserving existing behavior and diagnostics semantics.

Sequence diagram for deriving and applying StderrMode in subprocess execution

sequenceDiagram
    participant Cli
    participant StderrMode
    participant Runner as run_ninja
    participant Request as NinjaBuildRequest
    participant Process as run_command_and_stream_with_context
    participant Streaming as spawn_and_stream_output

    Cli->>StderrMode: from_cli(cli)
    StderrMode-->>Runner: StderrMode
    Runner->>Request: construct with stderr_mode
    Request->>Process: run_command_and_stream_with_context(cmd, status_observer, stderr_mode, operation)
    Process->>Streaming: spawn_and_stream_output(child, status_observer, stderr_mode)
    alt StderrMode::Suppress
        Streaming->>Streaming: forward_child_output(stderr, io::sink, "stderr")
        Streaming->>Streaming: forward_stdout(stdout, io::sink, status_observer)
    else StderrMode::Forward
        Streaming->>Streaming: forward_child_output(stderr, io::stderr, "stderr")
        Streaming->>Streaming: forward_stdout(stdout, io::stdout_lock, status_observer)
    end

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File-Level Changes

Change	Details	Files
Introduce StderrMode policy type and derive it from CLI diagnostics settings.	Added src/runner/process/stderr_mode.rs defining the StderrMode enum, policy derivation helpers, and unit tests. Implemented StderrMode::from_cli to map Cli.json to Forward/Suppress modes and is_suppress to expose the suppression state.	src/runner/process/stderr_mode.rs
Thread stderr_mode through runner requests and internal process execution APIs instead of passing suppress_stderr/cli.json.	Extended NinjaBuildRequest and NinjaToolRequest with a stderr_mode field and updated documentation comments. Updated run_ninja, run_ninja_with, run_ninja_tool, run_ninja_tool_with, and handle_build/handle_ninja_tool to construct requests with StderrMode::from_cli. Refactored NinjaInternalRequest to carry stderr_mode instead of Cli and updated run_ninja_internal, run_ninja_build_internal, and run_ninja_tool_internal accordingly.	src/runner/process/request.rs src/runner/process/mod.rs src/runner/mod.rs tests/ui/command_env_embedder_pass.rs tests/env_path_tests.rs tests/bdd/steps/process.rs
Refactor process streaming and logging to consume StderrMode and keep structured suppress_stderr tracing field stable.	Changed run_command_and_stream_with_context, spawn_and_stream_output, forward paths, and exit-status handling to accept StderrMode instead of a bool suppress_stderr. Adjusted stdout/stderr routing in spawn_and_stream_output to match StderrMode variants while preserving JSON stderr suppression behavior. Updated command_logging helpers (log_command_execution, log_command_spawn_failure, log_command_exit_failure, command_span) to accept StderrMode and emit suppress_stderr = stderr_mode.is_suppress().	src/runner/process/mod.rs src/runner/process/command_logging.rs
Update developer documentation to describe the new stderr_mode policy and its relationship to suppress_stderr tracing.	Revised developers-guide command logging section to explain suppress_stderr as derived from StderrMode via stderr_mode.is_suppress(). Documented that runner::process no longer reads cli.json directly and instead consumes a stderr_mode policy on requests alongside CommandEnv.	docs/developers-guide.md

Assessment against linked issues

Issue	Objective	Addressed	Explanation
#340	Ensure process execution code no longer reads CLI diagnostic JSON state directly (e.g., Cli::resolved_diag_json() / cli.json) for stderr routing.	✅
#340	Introduce a named policy type to represent stderr forwarding vs suppression (e.g., a StderrMode enum) and use it throughout subprocess execution.	✅
#340	Preserve JSON diagnostics behaviour such that stderr (and stdout) remain machine-readable by suppressing child streams in JSON mode, with tests and formatting/linting passing.	✅

Possibly linked issues

• Make subprocess stderr routing an explicit policy #340: PR adds StderrMode, derives it from CLI, updates runner/process to stop reading diag_json directly.

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pub fn run_ninja(
    program: &Path,
    cli: &Cli,
    build_file: &Path,
    targets: &BuildTargets<'_>,
) -> io::Result<()> {
    run_ninja_with(&NinjaBuildRequest {
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Security And Privacy (Error) — fixed in da29010. The routing fake-Ninja no longer interpolates ran_file.to_string_lossy() into touch '{}'; it runs touch "$NETSUKE_TEST_ROUTING_RAN_FILE" reading the path from the worker environment inherited via CommandEnv::inherit(). No runtime path is embedded in generated shell source anywhere in the tests.

Out of Scope Changes (Warning) — these moves are dependencies of the stderr-policy change, not separate scope: (a) the reviewer-mandated Unit-Architecture fix (move stderr-policy derivation out of runner::process) required run_ninja/run_ninja_tool to live at the runner boundary; (b) that move pushed src/runner/mod.rs over the Whitaker 400-line cap, so reporter construction was extracted to src/runner/reporter.rs to satisfy the repo lint gate. Both are documented in docs/developers-guide.md (the runner::reporter reuse boundary) and docs/netsuke-design.md §6.1.

User-Facing Documentation (Warning) — StderrMode and the request stderr_mode field are internally-facing implementation details of the Rust API; the user-visible contract (JSON mode keeps stdout/stderr machine-readable) is unchanged and already documented in docs/users-guide.md and docs/netsuke-design.md. Per the repository docs-scope boundary, internal/API docs belong in rustdoc and the developers-guide (both updated); no users-guide change applies to this PR.

Developer Documentation (Warning) — fixed in 0f42048: docs/execplans/3-10-3-json-diagnostics-mode.md now cites src/runner/reporter.rs for reporter construction and make_reporter selecting SilentReporter in JSON mode.

Inconclusive rows — validation performed on the current tree:

• Testing (Compile-Time / UI): the external embedder fixture tests/ui/command_env_embedder_pass.rs compiles against the rlib (it constructs both requests with stderr_mode); make typecheck and make lint pass, and the routing (stderr_routing_tests 4/4), BDD json_diagnostics/progress_output, and logging_stderr suites pass.
• Domain Architecture: StderrMode has no Cli dependency; the runner boundary derives policy via StderrMode::from_json_enabled(cli.json); runner::process consumes only the explicit stderr_mode field (verified: no cli.json read remains in process for routing).
• Observability: the stable suppress_stderr tracing field is preserved (now stderr_mode.is_suppress()); main branch command-list failure telemetry is retained through the merge; gates green.
• Architectural Complexity: StderrMode is a two-variant Copy enum; the reporter extraction was required for the module-length lint; no pre-existing equivalent abstraction existed.
• Rust Compiler Lint Integrity: make lint (cargo doc, clippy, Whitaker) and make typecheck pass with warnings denied on the merged tree.

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Keep branch head 0f42048. The current tree supports the pre-merge responses.

• tests/stderr_routing_tests.rs::marker_emitting_ninja now emits touch "$NETSUKE_TEST_ROUTING_RAN_FILE". It does not interpolate the runtime ran_file path or call to_string_lossy().
• tests/stderr_routing_tests.rs::assert_routing_case removes the reported duplicated test setup. The four named build and tool tests remain.
• src/runner/mod.rs::run_ninja and src/runner/mod.rs::run_ninja_tool derive StderrMode at the runner boundary.
• src/runner/process consumes stderr_mode. The checked routing code does not read cli.json.
• src/runner/process/command_logging.rs retains the suppress_stderr tracing field through stderr_mode.is_suppress().
• src/runner/reporter.rs owns reporter construction. docs/developers-guide.md, docs/netsuke-design.md, and docs/execplans/3-10-3-json-diagnostics-mode.md contain the stated references.

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226-226: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Add accessible metadata for the updated Mermaid diagram.

Add a short screen-reader description before the Mermaid fence and a figure
caption after it. Line 226 changes the diagram, but the diagram has neither
required item.

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As per coding guidelines, “For diagrams and images, provide descriptive alt
text for images, a short screen-reader description before Mermaid diagrams and
complex code blocks, and captions for figures.”

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In `@docs/netsuke-design.md` at line 226, Add a concise screen-reader description
immediately before the updated Mermaid diagram and a figure caption immediately
after the Mermaid fence in the surrounding documentation. Describe the diagram’s
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• src/runner/mod.rs
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