Backport of agent: prevent empty server_metadata.json into release/1.15.x (#20018)

backport of commit 9fc0fc3dcc

Co-authored-by: cskh <hui.kang@hashicorp.com>

agent/consul/server_metadata.go

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ func (md *ServerMetadata) IsLastSeenStale(d time.Duration) bool {
 // OpenServerMetadata is a helper function for opening the server metadata file
 // with the correct permissions.
 func OpenServerMetadata(filename string) (io.WriteCloser, error) {
-	return os.OpenFile(filename, os.O_WRONLY|os.O_CREATE|os.O_TRUNC, 0600)
+	return os.OpenFile(filename, os.O_WRONLY|os.O_CREATE, 0600)
 }
 
 type ServerMetadataReadFunc func(filename string) (*ServerMetadata, error)

agent/consul/server_metadata_test.go

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ package consul
 import (
 	"bytes"
 	"errors"
+	"os"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
 
@@ -66,3 +67,35 @@ func TestWriteServerMetadata(t *testing.T) {
 		assert.True(t, b.Len() > 0)
 	})
 }
+
+func TestWriteServerMetadata_MultipleTimes(t *testing.T) {
+	file, err := os.CreateTemp("", "server_metadata.json")
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	defer os.Remove(file.Name())
+
+	// prepare some data in server_metadata.json
+	_, err = OpenServerMetadata(file.Name())
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	err = WriteServerMetadata(file)
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	stat, err := file.Stat()
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+
+	t.Run("reopen not truncate file", func(t *testing.T) {
+		_, err = OpenServerMetadata(file.Name())
+		assert.NoError(t, err)
+
+		// file size unchanged
+		stat2, err := file.Stat()
+		assert.NoError(t, err)
+		assert.Equal(t, stat.Size(), stat2.Size())
+	})
+
+	t.Run("write updates the file", func(t *testing.T) {
+		err = WriteServerMetadata(file)
+		assert.NoError(t, err)
+		stat2, err := file.Stat()
+		assert.NoError(t, err)
+		assert.Equal(t, stat2.ModTime(), stat2.ModTime())
+	})
+}