feat: Do not cache health checks per default

When using the `@HealthCheck` decorator
it will now per default set the following header:
`Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate`

To disable this behavior set `@HealthCheck({ noCache: false })`

resolves #2328

e2e/health-checks/health-check.e2e-spec.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+import * as request from 'supertest';
+import { INestApplication } from '@nestjs/common';
+import { DynamicHealthEndpointFn, bootstrapTestingModule } from '../helper';
+import { HealthIndicatorResult } from '../../lib';
+
+describe.only('HealthCheck', () => {
+  let app: INestApplication;
+  let setHealthEndpoint: DynamicHealthEndpointFn;
+
+  const healthyCheck = () =>
+    Promise.resolve<HealthIndicatorResult>({ status: 'up' } as any);
+
+  beforeEach(
+    () => (setHealthEndpoint = bootstrapTestingModule().setHealthEndpoint),
+  );
+
+  it('should set the Cache-Control header to no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate', async () => {
+    app = await setHealthEndpoint(({ healthCheck }) =>
+      healthCheck.check([healthyCheck]),
+    ).start();
+
+    return request(app.getHttpServer())
+      .get('/health')
+      .expect('Cache-Control', 'no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate');
+  });
+});

e2e/helper/bootstrap-testing-module.ts

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import { TypeOrmModule } from '@nestjs/typeorm';
 
 import {
   DiskHealthIndicator,
+  HealthCheck,
   HealthCheckResult,
   HealthCheckService,
   HttpHealthIndicator,
@@ -27,6 +28,7 @@ import { MongooseModule } from '@nestjs/mongoose';
 import { HttpModule } from '@nestjs/axios';
 import { MikroOrmHealthIndicator } from '../../lib/health-indicator/database/mikro-orm.health';
 import { MikroOrmModule } from '@mikro-orm/nestjs';
+import { HealthCheckOptions } from '../../lib/health-check';
 
 type TestingHealthFunc = (props: {
   healthCheck: HealthCheckService;
@@ -41,7 +43,10 @@ type TestingHealthFunc = (props: {
   prisma: PrismaHealthIndicator;
 }) => Promise<HealthCheckResult>;
 
-function createHealthController(func: TestingHealthFunc) {
+function createHealthController(
+  func: TestingHealthFunc,
+  options: { healthCheckOptions?: HealthCheckOptions },
+) {
   @Controller()
   class HealthController {
     constructor(
@@ -57,6 +62,7 @@ function createHealthController(func: TestingHealthFunc) {
       private readonly prisma: PrismaHealthIndicator,
     ) {}
     @Get('health')
+    @HealthCheck(options.healthCheckOptions)
     health() {
       return func({
         healthCheck: this.healthCheck,
@@ -78,7 +84,10 @@ function createHealthController(func: TestingHealthFunc) {
 
 type PropType<TObj, TProp extends keyof TObj> = TObj[TProp];
 
-export type DynamicHealthEndpointFn = (func: TestingHealthFunc) => {
+export type DynamicHealthEndpointFn = (
+  func: TestingHealthFunc,
+  options?: { healthCheckOptions?: HealthCheckOptions },
+) => {
   start(
     httpAdapter?: FastifyAdapter | ExpressAdapter,
   ): Promise<INestApplication>;
@@ -87,10 +96,10 @@ export type DynamicHealthEndpointFn = (func: TestingHealthFunc) => {
 export function bootstrapTestingModule() {
   const imports: PropType<ModuleMetadata, 'imports'> = [TerminusModule];
 
-  function setHealthEndpoint(func: TestingHealthFunc) {
+  const setHealthEndpoint: DynamicHealthEndpointFn = (func, options = {}) => {
     const testingModule = Test.createTestingModule({
       imports,
-      controllers: [createHealthController(func)],
+      controllers: [createHealthController(func, options)],
     });
 
     async function start(
@@ -106,7 +115,7 @@ export function bootstrapTestingModule() {
     }
 
     return { start };
-  }
+  };
 
   function withMongoose() {
     imports.push(MongooseModule.forRoot('mongodb://0.0.0.0:27017/test'));

lib/health-check/health-check.decorator.ts

@@ -1,14 +1,75 @@
+import { Header } from '@nestjs/common';
 import { getHealthCheckSchema } from './health-check.schema';
 
 type Swagger = typeof import('@nestjs/swagger');
 
-// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-empty-function
-const noop = () => {};
+/**
+ * @publicApi
+ */
+export interface HealthCheckOptions {
+  /**
+   * Whether to cache the response or not.
+   * - If set to `true`, the response header will be set to `Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate`.
+   * - If set to `false`, no header will be set and can be set manually with e.g. `@Header('Cache-Control', 'max-age=604800')`.
+   *
+   * @default true
+   */
+  noCache?: boolean;
+  /**
+   * Whether to document the endpoint with Swagger or not.
+   *
+   * @default true
+   */
+  swaggerDocumentation?: boolean;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Marks the endpoint as a Health Check endpoint.
+ *
+ * - If the `@nestjs/swagger` package is installed, the endpoint will be documented.
+ * - Per default, the response will not be cached.
+ *
+ * @publicApi
+ */
+export const HealthCheck = (
+  { noCache, swaggerDocumentation }: HealthCheckOptions = {
+    noCache: true,
+    swaggerDocumentation: true,
+  },
+) => {
+  const decorators: MethodDecorator[] = [];
+
+  if (swaggerDocumentation) {
+    let swagger: Swagger | null = null;
+    try {
+      swagger = require('@nestjs/swagger');
+    } catch {}
+
+
+    if (swagger) {
+      decorators.push(...getSwaggerDefinitions(swagger));
+    }
+  }
+
+  if (noCache) {
+    const CacheControl = Header(
+      'Cache-Control',
+      'no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate',
+    );
+
+    decorators.push(CacheControl);
+  }
+
+  return (target: any, key: any, descriptor: PropertyDescriptor) => {
+    decorators.forEach((decorator) => {
+      decorator(target, key, descriptor);
+    });
+  };
+};
 
 function getSwaggerDefinitions(swagger: Swagger) {
   const { ApiOkResponse, ApiServiceUnavailableResponse } = swagger;
 
-  // Possible HTTP Status
   const ServiceUnavailable = ApiServiceUnavailableResponse({
     description: 'The Health Check is not successful',
     schema: getHealthCheckSchema('error'),
@@ -19,22 +80,5 @@ function getSwaggerDefinitions(swagger: Swagger) {
     schema: getHealthCheckSchema('ok'),
   });
 
-  // Combine all the SwaggerDecorators
-  return (target: any, key: any, descriptor: PropertyDescriptor) => {
-    ServiceUnavailable(target, key, descriptor);
-    Ok(target, key, descriptor);
-  };
+  return [ServiceUnavailable, Ok];
 }
-
-export const HealthCheck = () => {
-  let swagger: Swagger | null = null;
-  try {
-    // Dynamically load swagger, in case it is not installed
-    swagger = require('@nestjs/swagger');
-  } catch {}
-
-  if (swagger) {
-    return getSwaggerDefinitions(swagger);
-  }
-  return noop;
-};