feat(publish): read payload from stdin

[erkancamli]

Closes #92

What

mump2p publish now reads its payload from stdin when neither --message nor --file is given, so it composes with other tools like a regular Unix utility:

echo "hello" | mump2p publish --topic=test
cat payload.json | mump2p publish --topic=test/data
curl -s https://api.example.com/status | mump2p publish --topic=status

--file=- also reads from stdin explicitly (common convention).

Behaviour

Invocation	Payload source
--message=...	the flag value (unchanged)
--file=path	file contents (unchanged)
--file=-	stdin
no flags, stdin is a pipe/redirect	stdin, read to EOF, sent as one message
no flags, stdin is an interactive terminal	fails fast with no message provided: use --message, --file, or pipe data via stdin instead of blocking
no flags, stdin is empty	fails with stdin is empty: nothing to publish

--message together with --file is still rejected, as before.

Implementation

• Payload selection is extracted into resolvePublishPayload(message, filePath, stdin) in cmd/publish.go, with a small isTerminal helper (char device check, no new dependency).
• The payload is resolved before authentication so flag/stdin errors surface without a login round-trip.
• Unit tests in cmd/publish_test.go cover all the cases in the table above using os.Pipe to simulate piped stdin.
• README, docs/guide.md and the command's --help (Long + Example) updated.

Notes

• Stdin is read to EOF and published as a single message, matching --file semantics. Streaming line-by-line (e.g. tail -f ... | mump2p publish) would be a natural follow-up (--line mode) if that's wanted, happy to do it in a separate PR.
• Rate limit and size checks apply to the stdin payload exactly as they do for --file.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • publish accepts payloads from piped or redirected standard input.
  • Explicit --file=- reads payloads from standard input.
  • Payload precedence is file input, then non-empty standard input, then --message.
  • Empty interactive input and payloads exceeding account message-size limits return clear errors.
  • Invalid or conflicting payload options are rejected with clear feedback.

• Documentation

  • Added examples for shell pipelines, files, HTTP responses, and standard input.

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Walkthrough

The publish command now accepts payloads from --message, --file, or standard input. It validates conflicting and empty flags, supports --file=-, detects interactive input, rejects empty input, and bounds stdin reads using the authenticated message-size limit. Tests and documentation cover the supported input modes.

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The documented stdin publishing behavior, including explicit file input, empty-input handling, precedence, and size limits, is consistent and ready to merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant publish
  participant stdin
  participant Authentication
  User->>publish: provide message, file, or stdin payload
  publish->>Authentication: obtain account message-size limit
  Authentication-->>publish: maximum message size
  publish->>stdin: read bounded payload when stdin is selected
  stdin-->>publish: payload or read error

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title uses the required feat(domain): format, describes stdin payload support, is 38 characters long, and has no trailing punctuation.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes satisfy issue #92 by supporting piped or redirected stdin, stdin precedence over --message, and Unix-style publish workflows. Tests and documentation cover the behavior.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The code, tests, README changes, and guide updates directly support stdin payload handling and its documented precedence and validation rules.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring coverage is 90.91% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 22 functions across 2 files. (2 skipped: 2 …
Scope Discipline	✅ Passed	PASS: The PR changes only cmd/publish.go, its new cmd/publish_test.go, README.md, and docs/guide.md. The code changes implement stdin payload selection, flag validation, terminal detection, bo…
Behavior Safety	✅ Passed	The changed publish path has focused tests for stdin precedence, empty-input fallback, explicit empty flags, file selection and errors, --file=-, terminal and nil stdin, and the bounded stdin limit.…
Over-Engineering	✅ Passed	No over-engineering failure condition is evident. The PR adds no cache or memoization. The private payloadSource, validatePayloadFlags, resolvePublishPayload, readStdinBounded, and `isTerminal…
Security	✅ Passed	No security failure condition is introduced. The diff adds payload validation, reads files with os.ReadFile, and reads stdin through io.LimitReader; no shell or command execution path consumes the…

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In `@cmd/publish.go`:
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shorten cmd/publish.go lines 100-102 to only the nil-stdin safety rationale; and
shorten cmd/publish_test.go lines 9-11 to only the pipe-fixture behavior.
- Line 74: Update the publish command’s source-selection logic around the
message/file handling to distinguish flag presence from non-empty values by
tracking cmd.Flags().Changed("message") and cmd.Flags().Changed("file"). Reject
both explicitly set flags, including an empty --message, and pass
source-presence information into the resolver so an explicit empty message is
not replaced by piped stdin; add command-level tests covering empty explicit
flags.
- Line 90: Update resolvePublishPayload to obtain claims.MaxMessageSize before
reading stdin, wrap stdin with a reader limited to that value plus one byte, and
detect when the extra byte is present. Return the existing size error for
oversized input while preserving normal payload handling within the limit.

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[erkancamli]

Hi, gentle ping on this one. All CodeRabbit comments are addressed and the pre-merge checks are green; the CI workflow just needs a maintainer approval to run. Happy to rebase or adjust anything if the approach needs changing.

[erkancamli]

Closing this one on my own initiative, not because anything is wrong with it.

The repo has not had a commit since 23 April, so this has been sitting for a while with nothing to act on, and I would rather not leave an open PR asking for review time that nobody is currently spending here. The CodeRabbit points were all addressed at the time, and the branch is still on my fork, so if stdin support is something you want later this reopens in one click.

Thanks for the project either way.