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Summary

Fixes a startup failure. Config.Providers held each provider's settings as map[string]any, and once YAML decodes into any, the original text is gone. A password of 12345678 became an int, a SID code of 0123 the octal 83, and a token of true a bool, and the providers, which read those as strings, refused to start. configyaml re-infers a resolved {{env:…}} the same way, so quoting couldn't prevent it.

Following @mushrafmim's suggestion, the Manager no longer carries provider config. Each provider exports a typed config struct and takes it in its constructor. Values decode straight into string fields, so the bug can't happen, and each provider owns its config's shape.

Type of Change

  • Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
  • New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
  • Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected)
  • Documentation update
  • Refactoring (no functional changes)
  • Performance improvement
  • Other (please describe):

Changes Made

  • providers: exported SMSConfig and EmailConfig, with yaml tags. NewSMSProvider(cfg) and NewEmailProvider(cfg) validate their config and return a ready provider, or an error.
  • Provider is just Type() and Send(). NewManager(providers ...Provider) takes the built providers. It returns ErrNoProviders when given none, and an error for a nil provider or two providers on one channel.
  • Removed: Config, Config.Providers, Provider.Configure, ErrProvidersRequired, and the JSON round trip in NewManager.
  • The email token is a plain string, not a secret.SecretRef. With configyaml resolving {{env:}}/{{file:}} first, SecretRef resolved it a second time: a token starting with file: was read as a file path, and one starting with env: as an env var name. notifications no longer imports secret; it stays in go.mod only indirectly, through remote.
  • gopkg.in/yaml.v3 is a test-only dependency, used by providers_test.go.
  • README: usage, writing a provider (an exported config type plus a validating constructor), and embedding the configs in an app config loaded with configyaml.

Against main: 12 files, +259/−270.

Testing

  • I have tested this change locally

  • I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my feature works

  • I have tested edge cases

  • All existing tests pass

  • providers_test.go:

    • YAML with password: 12345678, sidCode: 0123 and token: true, decoded into the typed configs inside an app config struct, keeps all three as written, and both constructors accept them.
    • Constructor validation cases: a missing field, and a plain-HTTP baseURL.
    • A token of file:/not/a/path/on/this/machine is sent as Bearer file:/not/a/path/on/this/machine. On main, Configure fails trying to read that file.
  • manager_test.go: routing, no providers (ErrNoProviders), a nil provider, a duplicate channel, plus the existing Send cases.

  • The SMS integration test builds its provider with NewSMSProvider.

  • End to end: a scratch module loads a file through the real configyaml.LoadAndExpand, with {{env:}} placeholders set to 12345678/0123/true. It decodes them as those strings, and NewManager starts with both real providers.

  • go vet and go test -race ./... in notifications pass, and the pre-commit hooks passed.

Checklist

  • My code follows the project's style guidelines
  • I have performed a self-review of my code
  • I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas
  • I have made corresponding changes to the documentation
  • My changes generate no new warnings
  • I have checked that there are no merge conflicts

Related Issues

Found reviewing OpenNSW/nsw-srilanka#571, which loads notification settings from config.yaml.

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Additional Notes

Breaking:

  • Build providers with providers.NewSMSProvider(cfg) and providers.NewEmailProvider(cfg), then call NewManager(providers...).
  • Config and Configure are removed.
  • The email token is used as written.
  • The only consumer is nsw-srilanka. Its follow-up embeds the two configs in its own config, keeping its YAML keys, and pins this module by commit hash.

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Notification provider configuration now uses Settings values that retain YAML, JSON, or Go input until providers decode it into typed configuration. The manager passes settings directly to providers. Email and SMS providers and their configuration examples use the updated interface.

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Notification Settings

Layer / File(s) Summary
Settings representation and decoding
notifications/settings.go, notifications/config.go, notifications/config_yaml_test.go, notifications/config_test.go, notifications/go.mod
Settings retains YAML nodes, JSON objects, or Go values for decoding into provider-specific types. Config.Providers now maps channel types to Settings. Tests cover YAML, JSON, and Go-built settings.
Provider configuration flow
notifications/provider.go, notifications/manager.go, notifications/manager_test.go, notifications/providers/*.go, notifications/providers/*_test.go, notifications/test/integration/sms_integration_test.go, notifications/README.md
NewManager passes Settings directly to providers. Email and SMS providers decode their own configuration. Email tokens are strings passed unchanged to bearer authentication. Provider tests and documentation use the updated settings interface.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant YAMLDecoder
  participant Settings.UnmarshalYAML
  participant NewManager
  participant Provider.Configure
  participant Settings.Decode
  YAMLDecoder->>Settings.UnmarshalYAML: provider settings mapping
  NewManager->>Provider.Configure: provider Settings
  Provider.Configure->>Settings.Decode: typed provider config destination
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 7fcff

Provider settings are now decoded by each provider, which fixes the startup failure for numeric-looking secrets. Three issues remain. Printing a configuration can still reveal credentials. Saving or round-tripping a configuration silently drops provider settings. Existing email configs that use env: or file: token references will start normally but fail to authenticate. Address these, or explicitly accept them, before merging.

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Review comments at @notifications/providers/email.go:
- Line 59: Update Configure’s token handling before constructing e.client with
remote.NewClient so existing env: and file: token references are resolved as
before; if reference support is intentionally removed, reject those values
explicitly rather than sending them literally as bearer tokens.

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- Around line 31-36: Implement redacted formatting for the Settings type so
formatting a Config with `%+v` cannot expose values held in Settings.value,
including maps and nested data. Add the appropriate formatting method to
Settings and ensure it emits only a redacted representation; do not rely on the
fields being unexported.
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Settings so Config serialization preserves each populated provider setting from
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Thanks for tracking this down. The bug is real: 0123 turning into 83 and 12345678 into an int would break startup. But I think we can fix it more simply by removing the layer that causes it, instead of working around it.

Root cause

The values get mangled because Config.Providers was map[ChannelType]map[string]any. Once YAML decodes into any, the original text is gone, and no amount of re-marshalling gets it back. Settings fixes this by delaying the decode, but that brings its own costs:

  • Three ways to store the same block: *yaml.Node, json.RawMessage, or a Go value from SettingsOf that goes through JSON and back. Which one you get depends on where the config came from.
  • Every field needs matching yaml and json tags, plus config_tags_test.go to keep them in step. If a provider author forgets the yaml tag, the field just stays empty and nothing reports an error.
  • The core notification package now depends on gopkg.in/yaml.v3, and the docs note that any other YAML library would decode to nothing.
  • UnmarshalJSON support that I don't think anything uses.

All of this exists to keep the "Manager hands each provider a blob of settings via Configure" model. But the caller already builds the providers and passes them to NewManager, so the Manager doesn't need to carry their config at all.

Proposed design: typed config per provider, passed to the constructor

Each provider exports its own config struct with yaml tags and takes it in its constructor. The app embeds those structs in its own config and loads them with configyaml.LoadAndExpand. This is the same pattern as database.Config, temporal.Config and cors.Config.

// notifications/providers
type SMSConfig struct {
	BaseURL  string `yaml:"baseURL"`
	SIDCode  string `yaml:"sidCode"`
	UserName string `yaml:"userName"`
	Password string `yaml:"password"`
}

// NewSMSProvider validates cfg and returns a ready provider.
func NewSMSProvider(cfg SMSConfig) (*SMSProvider, error)

type EmailConfig struct {
	BaseURL string `yaml:"baseURL"`
	Token   string `yaml:"token"`
}

func NewEmailProvider(cfg EmailConfig) (*EmailProvider, error)
// notifications
type Provider interface {
	Type() ChannelType
	Send(ctx context.Context, req Request) error
}

func NewManager(providers ...Provider) (*Manager, error)
// application
type AppConfig struct {
	Notifications struct {
		SMS   providers.SMSConfig   `yaml:"sms"`
		Email providers.EmailConfig `yaml:"email"`
	} `yaml:"notifications"`
}

var cfg AppConfig
err := configyaml.LoadAndExpand("config.yaml", &cfg)

sms, err := providers.NewSMSProvider(cfg.Notifications.SMS)
email, err := providers.NewEmailProvider(cfg.Notifications.Email)
mgr, err := notification.NewManager(sms, email)

What this gets us:

  • The original bug goes away on its own. YAML decodes straight into string fields, so 0123, 12345678 and true stay as written, including after configyaml resolves a {{env:…}} / {{file:…}} placeholder. A short test in providers that decodes number-looking values can confirm it.
  • Each provider owns its config shape and types. That was the goal of Settings, but here the type system does it, with no extra layer.
  • Removed outright: Settings, SettingsOf, Configure, Config.Providers, ErrProvidersRequired, the json/yaml tag sync, and the yaml.v3 dependency in the core package.
  • Smaller Provider interface: just Type() and Send().
  • Fewer failure modes: a missing provider config or a duplicate provider is a plain constructor or NewManager error, with no lookup by channel key.

Rough size

Now (this PR) Typed-config design
settings.go 94 removed
config.go + config_test.go 73 removed
config_yaml_test.go 148 ~30
providers/config_tags_test.go 27 removed
manager.go + manager_test.go 225 ~180
Total across the touched files ~789 ~430

That's about 350 fewer lines than the PR, and a little below where main was before it.

Keep from this PR

  • Changing the email token from secret.SecretRef to a plain string. Resolving it a second time was a real bug.
  • The test cases for number-looking secrets, moved to decode into the typed provider configs.

It's still a breaking change, but the PR is already marked !, so we'd be breaking the API once either way, and this version deletes code instead of adding plumbing. What do you think?

Config.Providers held each provider's settings as map[string]any, handed
to the provider's Configure as JSON. Once YAML decodes into any, the
original text is gone: a password of 12345678 became an int, a SID code
of 0123 the octal 83, a token of true a bool, and the providers, which
read those as strings, refused to start. configyaml re-infers a resolved
placeholder the same way, so a secret that only looked like a number
broke startup however it was quoted.

The Manager doesn't need to carry provider config at all: the caller
already builds the providers. Each provider now exports its own config
struct with yaml tags (SMSConfig, EmailConfig) and takes it in its
constructor, which validates it and returns a ready provider. The
application embeds those structs in its own config and loads them with
configyaml, as with database.Config and cors.Config. Values decode
straight into their fields' types, so number-looking secrets stay
strings, and each provider owns its config's shape.

Provider is just Type and Send, and NewManager takes the providers.
Config, Configure, Config.Providers and ErrProvidersRequired are gone;
NewManager returns ErrNoProviders when given none.

The email token is now a plain string instead of a secret.SecretRef.
With configyaml resolving {{env:}}/{{file:}} placeholders first, the
SecretRef resolved the token a second time, so a token starting with
"file:" or "env:" was read as a file path or env var name.

BREAKING CHANGE: build providers with providers.NewSMSProvider(cfg) and
providers.NewEmailProvider(cfg), then call NewManager(providers...).
Config and Provider.Configure are removed. The email token is used as
written; the brace-less env:/file:/literal: forms are no longer resolved.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Thanks @mushrafmim, agreed: this is simpler and fixes the root cause. Reworked in b3324f6 along those lines:

  • providers.SMSConfig / EmailConfig with yaml tags, taken by NewSMSProvider(cfg) / NewEmailProvider(cfg), which validate and return a ready provider.
  • Provider is Type() + Send(), and NewManager(providers...). Config, Configure and ErrProvidersRequired are removed, so is Settings with its tag sync, and yaml.v3 is test-only.
  • Kept from before: the email token as a plain string, and the number-looking-secrets tests, now decoding into the typed configs (plus an end-to-end check through configyaml.LoadAndExpand).
  • One addition: NewManager() with no providers returns ErrNoProviders, so a wiring mistake fails at startup instead of silently sending nothing.

The diff against main is now +259/−270.

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LGTM!

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