Upgrade Harper to v5: add integration tests, CI workflow, and dev tooling

[BboyAkers]

Summary

• Install harper@^5.0.28 and @harperfast/integration-testing@^0.4.0 as devDependencies
• Add TypeScript devDependency and tsconfig.json
• Add integrationTests/metrics.test.ts covering:
  • Harper starts successfully
  • GET /prometheus_exporter/metrics returns HTTP 200 with Prometheus/OpenMetrics text
  • Response content-type is text/plain or application/openmetrics-text
  • Default Node.js process metrics (from prom-client collectDefaultMetrics()) are present
  • /metrics/fast path returns 200
  • PrometheusExporterSettings table is accessible via REST
  • forceAuthorization setting is initialized
• Apply harperBinPath fix in test setup (workaround for ERR_PACKAGE_PATH_NOT_EXPORTED — harper's exports map only exposes ".", so harper/dist/bin/harper.js is not resolvable via the harness auto-resolve path)
• Add .github/workflows/integration-tests.yml (Node matrix 22/24/26, pinned actions to commit hashes)
• Regenerate package-lock.json with --os=linux --cpu=x64 --include=optional so bufferutil, utf-8-validate, and node-gyp-build are recorded for Linux CI
• Un-ignore package-lock.json (was in .gitignore; CI needs it for npm ci)
• Update package.json author branding: HarperDB, Inc. → Harper
• Update README note: exporter supports Harper v5 in addition to v4.2+

Migration items applied / N/A

Item	Status
harperdb → harper import swap	N/A — harperdb/harper is a runtime-provided global, not a listed dependency
Table.get() returns plain frozen records	Already handled — recordProp compat shim added in commit 73e2fa6
wasLoadedFromSource() → target.loadedFromSource	N/A — no cache source pattern
Blob.save() → saveBeforeCommit	N/A — no blob storage
Process spawning whitelisting	N/A — no child process spawning
Transaction context	N/A — no explicit transaction management

Known issues / Notes

• Local tests fail with EADDRNOTAVAIL: macOS loopback aliases are not configured on this machine (only 127.0.0.1 exists, and the integration harness binds Harper to 127.0.0.2+). This is environmental — CI runs on ubuntu-latest which supports the full 127.0.0.0/8 range. CI is the gate.
• harperBinPath workaround: upstream issue — harper package should export its bin path or the harness should resolve via the package root instead of the blocked deep subpath.

npm scope

The package name is @harperdb/prometheus-exporter. If this should move to a current Harper npm scope (@harperfast/ or similar), that is a manual step — flagged for the team per the upgrade plan (§11.1).

Test plan

• CI passes on Node 22, 24, and 26
• GET /prometheus_exporter/metrics returns valid Prometheus/OpenMetrics text
• PrometheusExporterSettings table initializes correctly on first boot

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[BboyAkers]

Fragile bin path resolution — require.resolve('harper') returns the package's main entry (dist/index.js), so dirname() gives dist/. The resolved path dist/bin/harper.js happens to match harper 5.0.28's bin field by coincidence. If harper's main entry ever moves to a different subdirectory (or to the package root), dirname() will produce the wrong base and the path will silently point nowhere, crashing every test run with a cryptic ENOENT.

A more resilient approach resolves from the package root directly:

// Use the package.json to anchor at the package root
const harperRoot = dirname(require.resolve('harper/package.json'));
const harperBinPath = resolve(harperRoot, 'dist/bin/harper.js');

(Or check whether setupHarperWithFixture already accepts a package name so the bin path lookup can live in the integration-testing library.)

[BboyAkers]

Silent swallow of non-string JSON body — when Harper responds with Content-Type: application/json but the parsed body is not a string (e.g. an error object like {"error": "..."}), extractMetricsText returns JSON.stringify(body), which looks like {"error":"..."}. The calling test then asserts text.includes('# HELP'), which fails with the message 'Response should contain Prometheus metric comments' — giving no indication that an error document was returned instead of metrics.

Consider throwing instead so the failure message is actionable:

if (typeof body !== 'string') {
  throw new Error(`Expected string from JSON-wrapped metrics response, got: ${JSON.stringify(body)}`);
}
return body;

[BboyAkers]

400 accepted as 'starts successfully' — including 400 Bad Request in the success set means this test passes even when Harper is running but completely misconfigured. In that state every subsequent test would run against a broken Harper and produce misleading failures, rather than this health-check surfacing the root cause.

If Harper's root / legitimately returns 400 for a well-formed GET (e.g. it only accepts POST), document why and add a comment; otherwise tighten the check:

ok(
  [200, 404].includes(res.status),
  `Unexpected status ${res.status}`,
);

[BboyAkers]

Content-type assertion is over-broad — the final ct.includes('text/') arm matches any text/* media type, including text/html (an error page). If Harper ever returns an HTML error response with HTTP 200, this test passes while the metrics endpoint is actually broken.

Additionally, ct.includes('text/plain') is completely redundant: every text/plain value is already caught by ct.includes('text/'), so that branch is dead code.

Tighten to the three types that are actually expected:

ok(
  ct.includes('text/plain') ||
    ct.includes('application/openmetrics-text') ||
    ct.includes('application/json'),
  `Unexpected content-type: ${ct}`,
);

[BboyAkers]

Unnecessary checkout — the generate-node-version-matrix job only runs a shell if/else that inspects the NODE_VER environment variable. It never reads any file from the repository. The actions/checkout step adds a few seconds to every CI run (clone + LFS + submodule overhead) and is not needed here.

Remove the checkout step from this job to keep it lean.