refactor(integration-tests): use RPC client instead of grpcurl

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Today, for in integration test to invoke NICo core GRPC API we use grpcurl tool. This adds additional dependency on runtime during tests and it has worse typing.

This PR changes approach from running grpcurl to use RPC client for all GRPC calls from integration tests.

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• Add - New feature or capability
• Change - Changes in existing functionality
• Fix - Bug fixes
• Remove - Removed features or deprecated functionality
• Internal - Internal changes (refactoring, tests, docs, etc.)

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• Integration tests added/updated
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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved integration-test validation for networking, machine status, instance allocation, and release behavior.
  • Added clearer error reporting and timeout handling for API operations.
• Refactor
  • Migrated test helpers to typed API requests and responses for more reliable validation.
  • Replaced external command-based API calls with secure, reusable API communication.
• Chores
  • Removed the obsolete API command-line tool from test workflows and build environments.

Walkthrough

API test helpers and integration tests now use typed Forge RPC requests and responses. The shared mutual-TLS client replaces grpcurl calls. Resource creation, instance lifecycle operations, polling, and assertions now use typed models with contextual errors.

Changes

Typed API migration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Shared typed RPC client foundation crates/api-integration-tests/Cargo.toml, crates/api-test-helper/src/api_client.rs, crates/api-test-helper/src/lib.rs	The test helper crate adds a crate-visible mutual-TLS RPC client with a 60-second timeout. The API integration tests add the local carbide-rpc dependency.
Typed resource RPC helpers crates/api-test-helper/src/domain.rs, crates/api-test-helper/src/tenant.rs, crates/api-test-helper/src/vpc.rs, crates/api-test-helper/src/vpc_prefix.rs, crates/api-test-helper/src/subnet.rs, crates/api-test-helper/src/machine.rs	Resource helpers construct typed requests, invoke typed RPCs, validate response identifiers and states, and report contextual errors.
Typed instance flows and integration assertions crates/api-test-helper/src/instance.rs, crates/api-integration-tests/tests/lib.rs	Instance allocation, release, lookup, phone-home, state polling, and dual-stack handling now use typed models. Integration assertions inspect typed network, machine, and instance fields.
grpcurl dependency removal crates/api-test-helper/src/grpcurl.rs, crates/api-test-helper/src/utils.rs, dev/Makefile.core, dev/docker/*	The grpcurl helper module and its prerequisite, build dependency, and Docker installation steps were removed.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 4a6c5

The PR replaces grpcurl-based integration-test calls with typed RPC helpers, but current changes leave other grpcurl-dependent development workflows at risk and use loose state-name matching that could allow false-positive test results. The change is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up on these bounded issues.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 13.33% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 30 functions across 10 files. (2 skipped:…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: replacing grpcurl with an RPC client in integration tests.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the grpcurl replacement, stronger typing, removed runtime dependency, and updated testing.
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Actionable comments posted: 2

🧹 Nitpick comments (3)

crates/api-test-helper/src/vpc.rs (1)

82-98: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Replace the empty-string sentinel with Option<&str> for the routing profile.

create_with_type couples the virtualization type and the routing profile into one tuple, and it uses "" to mean "no routing profile". create_flat relies on that sentinel. A caller that passes an empty string by accident silently omits the field instead of failing. Separate parameters express intent directly and remove the sentinel.

♻️ Suggested refactor

 async fn create_with_type(
     carbide_api_addrs: &[SocketAddr],
     tenant_org_id: &str,
     name: &str,
-    virtualization: Option<(VpcVirtualizationType, &str)>,
+    virtualization: Option<VpcVirtualizationType>,
+    routing_profile_type: Option<&str>,
 ) -> eyre::Result<String> {
     let request = VpcCreationRequest {
         tenant_organization_id: tenant_org_id.to_string(),
-        network_virtualization_type: virtualization.map(|(kind, _)| kind as i32),
-        routing_profile_type: virtualization
-            .and_then(|(_, profile)| (!profile.is_empty()).then(|| profile.to_string())),
+        network_virtualization_type: virtualization.map(|kind| kind as i32),
+        routing_profile_type: routing_profile_type.map(str::to_string),

Update the three call sites accordingly:

-    let vpc_id = create_with_type(carbide_api_addrs, tenant_org_id, "tenant_vpc", None).await?;
+    let vpc_id = create_with_type(carbide_api_addrs, tenant_org_id, "tenant_vpc", None, None).await?;

-        Some((VpcVirtualizationType::Fnn, "EXTERNAL")),
+        Some(VpcVirtualizationType::Fnn),
+        Some("EXTERNAL"),

-        Some((VpcVirtualizationType::Flat, "")),
+        Some(VpcVirtualizationType::Flat),
+        None,

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In `@crates/api-test-helper/src/vpc.rs` around lines 82 - 98, Refactor
create_with_type to accept the virtualization type and routing profile as
separate parameters, using Option<&str> for the profile instead of an
empty-string sentinel; update create_flat and the other two call sites to pass
None or Some(profile) explicitly, and construct routing_profile_type directly
from that option.

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crates/api-test-helper/src/subnet.rs (1)

112-118: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Typed state enums are downgraded to strings for comparison. Both polling helpers now obtain a typed TenantState from the RPC response, convert it to its name, and then compare text. This discards the type safety the migration introduces and makes the comparison loose, because a substring match succeeds for any variant name that contains the target text.

• crates/api-test-helper/src/subnet.rs#L112-L118: accept target_state: TenantState, compare with ==, and keep the name only for the log and the timeout message.
• crates/api-test-helper/src/instance.rs#L327-L336: return TenantState from get_instance_state, and update wait_for_instance_state and the assert_eq! call sites in create_with_network to compare enum values.

As per coding guidelines: "When a value has a known, finite set of possibilities, model it with an enum (or a struct of enums) and implement traits Display and FromStr — do not pass it around as a bare String or &str literal."

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In `@crates/api-test-helper/src/subnet.rs` around lines 112 - 118, Use typed
TenantState values throughout the polling helpers instead of converting them to
strings for comparison: in crates/api-test-helper/src/subnet.rs lines 112-118,
accept target_state as TenantState and compare enum values with equality,
retaining the string representation only for logging and timeout messages; in
crates/api-test-helper/src/instance.rs lines 327-336, make get_instance_state
return TenantState and update wait_for_instance_state plus create_with_network
assert_eq! call sites to compare enum values.

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crates/api-test-helper/src/api_client.rs (1)

30-40: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a doc comment to call and consider reusing one client per address.

Two points on this new helper:

1. call has no documentation. It defines the shared contract for every typed RPC in this crate: random server selection, mTLS material, timeout scope, and error context. Document it.
2. call builds a new ForgeTlsClient for every invocation. The polling helpers in machine.rs, subnet.rs, and instance.rs invoke call once per iteration, so each poll performs a fresh TCP and TLS handshake. A cached client per address would remove that cost. This is test-only code, so the impact is bounded; treat it as optional.

♻️ Suggested documentation

+/// Calls a single Forge RPC against a randomly selected API server.
+///
+/// The helper builds a mutual-TLS client from the localhost test certificates,
+/// unwraps the tonic response, and fails if the call does not complete within
+/// [`RPC_TIMEOUT`]. `rpc_name` is used only for error context.
 pub(crate) async fn call<T, F, Fut>(

As per coding guidelines: "Document every new public declaration covered below. Use Rust documentation comments (/// on declarations and //! for module or crate documentation) by default."

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In `@crates/api-test-helper/src/api_client.rs` around lines 30 - 40, Add a Rust
doc comment directly above the crate-visible async function call describing its
shared RPC contract, including server selection, mTLS setup, timeout behavior,
and error context. Treat client reuse across addresses as optional; if
implemented, cache and reuse the ForgeTlsClient instances used by the polling
callers without changing call’s existing behavior.

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Inline comments:
In `@crates/api-test-helper/src/machine.rs`:
- Around line 27-33: Correct the MAX_RETRY documentation to reflect the 500 ms
per-attempt delay, and update the timeout message in get_by_id to report the
appropriate retry or elapsed-time information consistently. Add a Rust doc
comment to the public get_by_id helper describing that it retrieves and returns
a Machine by MachineId rather than a JSON value.

In `@dev/Makefile.core`:
- Line 34: Update the prerequisite handling around the Makefile dependency list
and all referenced grpcurl consumers: either migrate the dev/bin scripts and
prepare-ubuntu-host-for-dev.sh validation and installation away from grpcurl,
including related documentation, or retain grpcurl in the relevant prerequisite
checks until those consumers are removed.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@crates/api-test-helper/src/api_client.rs`:
- Around line 30-40: Add a Rust doc comment directly above the crate-visible
async function call describing its shared RPC contract, including server
selection, mTLS setup, timeout behavior, and error context. Treat client reuse
across addresses as optional; if implemented, cache and reuse the ForgeTlsClient
instances used by the polling callers without changing call’s existing behavior.

In `@crates/api-test-helper/src/subnet.rs`:
- Around line 112-118: Use typed TenantState values throughout the polling
helpers instead of converting them to strings for comparison: in
crates/api-test-helper/src/subnet.rs lines 112-118, accept target_state as
TenantState and compare enum values with equality, retaining the string
representation only for logging and timeout messages; in
crates/api-test-helper/src/instance.rs lines 327-336, make get_instance_state
return TenantState and update wait_for_instance_state plus create_with_network
assert_eq! call sites to compare enum values.

In `@crates/api-test-helper/src/vpc.rs`:
- Around line 82-98: Refactor create_with_type to accept the virtualization type
and routing profile as separate parameters, using Option<&str> for the profile
instead of an empty-string sentinel; update create_flat and the other two call
sites to pass None or Some(profile) explicitly, and construct
routing_profile_type directly from that option.

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• crates/api-integration-tests/Cargo.toml
• crates/api-integration-tests/tests/lib.rs
• crates/api-test-helper/src/api_client.rs
• crates/api-test-helper/src/domain.rs
• crates/api-test-helper/src/grpcurl.rs
• crates/api-test-helper/src/instance.rs
• crates/api-test-helper/src/lib.rs
• crates/api-test-helper/src/machine.rs
• crates/api-test-helper/src/subnet.rs
• crates/api-test-helper/src/tenant.rs
• crates/api-test-helper/src/utils.rs
• crates/api-test-helper/src/vpc.rs
• crates/api-test-helper/src/vpc_prefix.rs
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