lix/src/libstore/worker-protocol.hh

#pragma once
///@file

#include "serialise.hh"

namespace nix {


#define WORKER_MAGIC_1 0x6e697863
#define WORKER_MAGIC_2 0x6478696f

#define PROTOCOL_VERSION (1 << 8 | 35)
#define GET_PROTOCOL_MAJOR(x) ((x) & 0xff00)
#define GET_PROTOCOL_MINOR(x) ((x) & 0x00ff)


#define STDERR_NEXT  0x6f6c6d67
#define STDERR_READ  0x64617461 // data needed from source
#define STDERR_WRITE 0x64617416 // data for sink
#define STDERR_LAST  0x616c7473
#define STDERR_ERROR 0x63787470
#define STDERR_START_ACTIVITY 0x53545254
#define STDERR_STOP_ACTIVITY  0x53544f50
#define STDERR_RESULT         0x52534c54


class Store;
struct Source;

// items being serialised
struct DerivedPath;
struct DrvOutput;
struct Realisation;
struct BuildResult;
struct KeyedBuildResult;
enum TrustedFlag : bool;


/**
 * The "worker protocol", used by unix:// and ssh-ng:// stores.
 *
 * This `struct` is basically just a `namespace`; We use a type rather
 * than a namespace just so we can use it as a template argument.
 */
struct WorkerProto
{
    /**
     * Enumeration of all the request types for the protocol.
     */
    enum struct Op : uint64_t;

    /**
     * Data type for canonical pairs of serialisers for the worker protocol.
     *
     * See https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/adl for the broader
     * concept of what is going on here.
     */
    template<typename T>
    struct Serialise;
    // This is the definition of `Serialise` we *want* to put here, but
    // do not do so.
    //
    // The problem is that if we do so, C++ will think we have
    // seralisers for *all* types. We don't, of course, but that won't
    // cause an error until link time. That makes for long debug cycles
    // when there is a missing serialiser.
    //
    // By not defining it globally, and instead letting individual
    // serialisers specialise the type, we get back the compile-time
    // errors we would like. When no serialiser exists, C++ sees an
    // abstract "incomplete" type with no definition, and any attempt to
    // use `to` or `from` static methods is a compile-time error because
    // they don't exist on an incomplete type.
    //
    // This makes for a quicker debug cycle, as desired.
#if 0
    {
        static T read(const Store & store, Source & from);
        static void write(const Store & store, Sink & out, const T & t);
    };
#endif

    /**
     * Wrapper function around `WorkerProto::Serialise<T>::write` that allows us to
     * infer the type instead of having to write it down explicitly.
     */
    template<typename T>
    static void write(const Store & store, Sink & out, const T & t)
    {
        WorkerProto::Serialise<T>::write(store, out, t);
    }
};

enum struct WorkerProto::Op : uint64_t
{
    IsValidPath = 1,
    HasSubstitutes = 3,
    QueryPathHash = 4, // obsolete
    QueryReferences = 5, // obsolete
    QueryReferrers = 6,
    AddToStore = 7,
    AddTextToStore = 8, // obsolete since 1.25, Nix 3.0. Use WorkerProto::Op::AddToStore
    BuildPaths = 9,
    EnsurePath = 10,
    AddTempRoot = 11,
    AddIndirectRoot = 12,
    SyncWithGC = 13,
    FindRoots = 14,
    ExportPath = 16, // obsolete
    QueryDeriver = 18, // obsolete
    SetOptions = 19,
    CollectGarbage = 20,
    QuerySubstitutablePathInfo = 21,
    QueryDerivationOutputs = 22, // obsolete
    QueryAllValidPaths = 23,
    QueryFailedPaths = 24,
    ClearFailedPaths = 25,
    QueryPathInfo = 26,
    ImportPaths = 27, // obsolete
    QueryDerivationOutputNames = 28, // obsolete
    QueryPathFromHashPart = 29,
    QuerySubstitutablePathInfos = 30,
    QueryValidPaths = 31,
    QuerySubstitutablePaths = 32,
    QueryValidDerivers = 33,
    OptimiseStore = 34,
    VerifyStore = 35,
    BuildDerivation = 36,
    AddSignatures = 37,
    NarFromPath = 38,
    AddToStoreNar = 39,
    QueryMissing = 40,
    QueryDerivationOutputMap = 41,
    RegisterDrvOutput = 42,
    QueryRealisation = 43,
    AddMultipleToStore = 44,
    AddBuildLog = 45,
    BuildPathsWithResults = 46,
};

/**
 * Convenience for sending operation codes.
 *
 * @todo Switch to using `WorkerProto::Serialise` instead probably. But
 * this was not done at this time so there would be less churn.
 */
inline Sink & operator << (Sink & sink, WorkerProto::Op op)
{
    return sink << (uint64_t) op;
}

/**
 * Convenience for debugging.
 *
 * @todo Perhaps render known opcodes more nicely.
 */
inline std::ostream & operator << (std::ostream & s, WorkerProto::Op op)
{
    return s << (uint64_t) op;
}

/**
 * Declare a canonical serialiser pair for the worker protocol.
 *
 * We specialise the struct merely to indicate that we are implementing
 * the function for the given type.
 *
 * Some sort of `template<...>` must be used with the caller for this to
 * be legal specialization syntax. See below for what that looks like in
 * practice.
 */
#define MAKE_WORKER_PROTO(T) \
    struct WorkerProto::Serialise< T > { \
        static T read(const Store & store, Source & from); \
        static void write(const Store & store, Sink & out, const T & t); \
    };

template<>
MAKE_WORKER_PROTO(std::string);
template<>
MAKE_WORKER_PROTO(StorePath);
template<>
MAKE_WORKER_PROTO(ContentAddress);
template<>
MAKE_WORKER_PROTO(DerivedPath);
template<>
MAKE_WORKER_PROTO(Realisation);
template<>
MAKE_WORKER_PROTO(DrvOutput);
template<>
MAKE_WORKER_PROTO(BuildResult);
template<>
MAKE_WORKER_PROTO(KeyedBuildResult);
template<>
MAKE_WORKER_PROTO(std::optional<TrustedFlag>);

template<typename T>
MAKE_WORKER_PROTO(std::vector<T>);
template<typename T>
MAKE_WORKER_PROTO(std::set<T>);

template<typename K, typename V>
#define X_ std::map<K, V>
MAKE_WORKER_PROTO(X_);
#undef X_

/**
 * These use the empty string for the null case, relying on the fact
 * that the underlying types never serialise to the empty string.
 *
 * We do this instead of a generic std::optional<T> instance because
 * ordinal tags (0 or 1, here) are a bit of a compatability hazard. For
 * the same reason, we don't have a std::variant<T..> instances (ordinal
 * tags 0...n).
 *
 * We could the generic instances and then these as specializations for
 * compatability, but that's proven a bit finnicky, and also makes the
 * worker protocol harder to implement in other languages where such
 * specializations may not be allowed.
 */
template<>
MAKE_WORKER_PROTO(std::optional<StorePath>);
template<>
MAKE_WORKER_PROTO(std::optional<ContentAddress>);

}