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//! Protocol for transferring content-addressed blobs and collections over quic
//! connections. This can be used either with normal quic connections when using
//! the [quinn](https://crates.io/crates/quinn) crate or with magicsock connections
//! when using the [iroh-net](https://crates.io/crates/iroh-net) crate.
//!
//! # Participants
//!
//! The protocol is a request/response protocol with two parties, a *provider* that
//! serves blobs and a *getter* that requests blobs.
//!
//! # Goals
//!
//! - Be paranoid about data integrity.
//!
//! Data integrity is considered more important than performance. Data will be validated both on
//! the provider and getter side. A well behaved provider will never send invalid data. Responses
//! to range requests contain sufficient information to validate the data.
//!
//! Note: Validation using blake3 is extremely fast, so in almost all scenarios the validation
//! will not be the bottleneck even if we validate both on the provider and getter side.
//!
//! - Do not limit the size of blobs or collections.
//!
//! Blobs can be of arbitrary size, up to terabytes. Likewise, collections can contain an
//! arbitrary number of links. A well behaved implementation will not require the entire blob or
//! collection to be in memory at once.
//!
//! - Be efficient when transferring large blobs, including range requests.
//!
//! It is possible to request entire blobs or ranges of blobs, where the minimum granularity is a
//! chunk group of 16KiB or 16 blake3 chunks. The worst case overhead when doing range requests
//! is about two chunk groups per range.
//!
//! - Be efficient when transferring multiple tiny blobs.
//!
//! For tiny blobs the overhead of sending the blob hashes and the round-trip time for each blob
//! would be prohibitive.
//!
//! To avoid roundtrips, the protocol allows grouping multiple blobs into *collections*.
//! The semantic meaning of a collection is up to the application. For the purpose
//! of this protocol, a collection is just a grouping of related blobs.
//!
//! # Non-goals
//!
//! - Do not attempt to be generic in terms of the used hash function.
//!
//! The protocol makes extensive use of the [blake3](https://crates.io/crates/blake3) hash
//! function and it's special properties such as blake3 verified streaming.
//!
//! - Do not support graph traversal.
//!
//! The protocol only supports collections that directly contain blobs. If you have deeply nested
//! graph data, you will need to either do multiple requests or flatten the graph into a single
//! temporary collection.
//!
//! - Do not support discovery.
//!
//! The protocol does not yet have a discovery mechanism for asking the provider what ranges are
//! available for a given blob. Currently you have to have some out-of-band knowledge about what
//! node has data for a given hash, or you can just try to retrieve the data and see if it is
//! available.
//!
//! A discovery protocol is planned in the future though.
//!
//! # Requests
//!
//! ## Getter defined requests
//!
//! In this case the getter knows the hash of the blob it wants to retrieve and
//! whether it wants to retrieve a single blob or a collection.
//!
//! The getter needs to define exactly what it wants to retrieve and send the
//! request to the provider.
//!
//! The provider will then respond with the bao encoded bytes for the requested
//! data and then close the connection. It will immediately close the connection
//! in case some data is not available or invalid.
//!
//! ## Provider defined requests
//!
//! In this case the getter sends a blob to the provider. This blob can contain
//! some kind of query. The exact details of the query are up to the application.
//!
//! The provider evaluates the query and responds with a serialized request in
//! the same format as the getter defined requests, followed by the bao encoded
//! data. From then on the protocol is the same as for getter defined requests.
//!
//! ## Specifying the required data
//!
//! A [`GetRequest`] contains a hash and a specification of what data related to
//! that hash is required. The specification is using a [`RangeSpecSeq`] which
//! has a compact representation on the wire but is otherwise identical to a
//! sequence of sets of ranges.
//!
//! In the following, we describe how the [`RangeSpecSeq`] is to be created for
//! different common scenarios.
//!
//! Ranges are always given in terms of 1024 byte blake3 chunks, *not* in terms
//! of bytes or chunk groups. The reason for this is that chunks are the fundamental
//! unit of hashing in blake3. Addressing anything smaller than a chunk is not
//! possible, and combining multiple chunks is merely an optimization to reduce
//! metadata overhead.
//!
//! ### Individual blobs
//!
//! In the easiest case, the getter just wants to retrieve a single blob. In this
//! case, the getter specifies [`RangeSpecSeq`] that contains a single element.
//! This element is the set of all chunks to indicate that we
//! want the entire blob, no matter how many chunks it has.
//!
//! Since this is a very common case, there is a convenience method
//! [`GetRequest::single`] that only requires the hash of the blob.
//!
//! ```rust
//! # use iroh_blobs::protocol::GetRequest;
//! # let hash: iroh_blobs::Hash = [0; 32].into();
//! let request = GetRequest::single(hash);
//! ```
//!
//! ### Ranges of blobs
//!
//! In this case, we have a (possibly large) blob and we want to retrieve only
//! some ranges of chunks. This is useful in similar cases as HTTP range requests.
//!
//! We still need just a single element in the [`RangeSpecSeq`], since we are
//! still only interested in a single blob. However, this element contains all
//! the chunk ranges we want to retrieve.
//!
//! For example, if we want to retrieve chunks 0-10 of a blob, we would
//! create a [`RangeSpecSeq`] like this:
//!
//! ```rust
//! # use bao_tree::{ChunkNum, ChunkRanges};
//! # use iroh_blobs::protocol::{GetRequest, RangeSpecSeq};
//! # let hash: iroh_blobs::Hash = [0; 32].into();
//! let spec = RangeSpecSeq::from_ranges([ChunkRanges::from(..ChunkNum(10))]);
//! let request = GetRequest::new(hash, spec);
//! ```
//!
//! Here `ChunkNum` is a newtype wrapper around `u64` that is used to indicate
//! that we are talking about chunk numbers, not bytes.
//!
//! While not that common, it is also possible to request multiple ranges of a
//! single blob. For example, if we want to retrieve chunks `0-10` and `100-110`
//! of a large file, we would create a [`RangeSpecSeq`] like this:
//!
//! ```rust
//! # use bao_tree::{ChunkNum, ChunkRanges};
//! # use iroh_blobs::protocol::{GetRequest, RangeSpecSeq};
//! # let hash: iroh_blobs::Hash = [0; 32].into();
//! let ranges =
//! &ChunkRanges::from(..ChunkNum(10)) | &ChunkRanges::from(ChunkNum(100)..ChunkNum(110));
//! let spec = RangeSpecSeq::from_ranges([ranges]);
//! let request = GetRequest::new(hash, spec);
//! ```
//!
//! To specify chunk ranges, we use the [`ChunkRanges`] type alias.
//! This is actually the [`RangeSet`] type from the
//! [range_collections](https://crates.io/crates/range_collections) crate. This
//! type supports efficient boolean operations on sets of non-overlapping ranges.
//!
//! The [`RangeSet2`] type is a type alias for [`RangeSet`] that can store up to
//! 2 boundaries without allocating. This is sufficient for most use cases.
//!
//! [`RangeSet`]: range_collections::range_set::RangeSet
//! [`RangeSet2`]: range_collections::range_set::RangeSet2
//!
//! ### Collections
//!
//! In this case the provider has a collection that contains multiple blobs.
//! We want to retrieve all blobs in the collection.
//!
//! When used for collections, the first element of a [`RangeSpecSeq`] refers
//! to the collection itself, and all subsequent elements refer to the blobs
//! in the collection. When a [`RangeSpecSeq`] specifies ranges for more than
//! one blob, the provider will interpret this as a request for a collection.
//!
//! One thing to note is that we might not yet know how many blobs are in the
//! collection. Therefore, it is not possible to download an entire collection
//! by just specifying [`ChunkRanges::all()`] for all children.
//!
//! Instead, [`RangeSpecSeq`] allows defining infinite sequences of range sets.
//! The [`RangeSpecSeq::all()`] method returns a [`RangeSpecSeq`] that, when iterated
//! over, will yield [`ChunkRanges::all()`] forever.
//!
//! So specifying a collection would work like this:
//!
//! ```rust
//! # use bao_tree::{ChunkNum, ChunkRanges};
//! # use iroh_blobs::protocol::{GetRequest, RangeSpecSeq};
//! # let hash: iroh_blobs::Hash = [0; 32].into();
//! let spec = RangeSpecSeq::all();
//! let request = GetRequest::new(hash, spec);
//! ```
//!
//! Downloading an entire collection is also a very common case, so there is a
//! convenience method [`GetRequest::all`] that only requires the hash of the
//! collection.
//!
//! ### Parts of collections
//!
//! The most complex common case is when we have retrieved a collection and
//! it's children, but were interrupted before we could retrieve all children.
//!
//! In this case we need to specify the collection we want to retrieve, but
//! exclude the children and parts of children that we already have.
//!
//! For example, if we have a collection with 3 children, and we already have
//! the first child and the first 1000000 chunks of the second child.
//!
//! We would create a [`GetRequest`] like this:
//!
//! ```rust
//! # use bao_tree::{ChunkNum, ChunkRanges};
//! # use iroh_blobs::protocol::{GetRequest, RangeSpecSeq};
//! # let hash: iroh_blobs::Hash = [0; 32].into();
//! let spec = RangeSpecSeq::from_ranges([
//! ChunkRanges::empty(), // we don't need the collection itself
//! ChunkRanges::empty(), // we don't need the first child either
//! ChunkRanges::from(ChunkNum(1000000)..), // we need the second child from chunk 1000000 onwards
//! ChunkRanges::all(), // we need the third child completely
//! ]);
//! let request = GetRequest::new(hash, spec);
//! ```
//!
//! ### Requesting chunks for each child
//!
//! The RangeSpecSeq allows some scenarios that are not covered above. E.g. you
//! might want to request a collection and the first chunk of each child blob to
//! do something like mime type detection.
//!
//! You do not know how many children the collection has, so you need to use
//! an infinite sequence.
//!
//! ```rust
//! # use bao_tree::{ChunkNum, ChunkRanges};
//! # use iroh_blobs::protocol::{GetRequest, RangeSpecSeq};
//! # let hash: iroh_blobs::Hash = [0; 32].into();
//! let spec = RangeSpecSeq::from_ranges_infinite([
//! ChunkRanges::all(), // the collection itself
//! ChunkRanges::from(..ChunkNum(1)), // the first chunk of each child
//! ]);
//! let request = GetRequest::new(hash, spec);
//! ```
//!
//! ### Requesting a single child
//!
//! It is of course possible to request a single child of a collection. E.g.
//! the following would download the second child of a collection:
//!
//! ```rust
//! # use bao_tree::{ChunkNum, ChunkRanges};
//! # use iroh_blobs::protocol::{GetRequest, RangeSpecSeq};
//! # let hash: iroh_blobs::Hash = [0; 32].into();
//! let spec = RangeSpecSeq::from_ranges([
//! ChunkRanges::empty(), // we don't need the collection itself
//! ChunkRanges::empty(), // we don't need the first child either
//! ChunkRanges::all(), // we need the second child completely
//! ]);
//! let request = GetRequest::new(hash, spec);
//! ```
//!
//! However, if you already have the collection, you might as well locally
//! look up the hash of the child and request it directly.
//!
//! ```rust
//! # use bao_tree::{ChunkNum, ChunkRanges};
//! # use iroh_blobs::protocol::{GetRequest, RangeSpecSeq};
//! # let child_hash: iroh_blobs::Hash = [0; 32].into();
//! let request = GetRequest::single(child_hash);
//! ```
//!
//! ### Why RangeSpec and RangeSpecSeq?
//!
//! You might wonder why we have [`RangeSpec`] and [`RangeSpecSeq`], when a simple
//! sequence of [`ChunkRanges`] might also do.
//!
//! The [`RangeSpec`] and [`RangeSpecSeq`] types exist to provide an efficient
//! representation of the request on the wire. In the [`RangeSpec`] type,
//! sequences of ranges are encoded alternating intervals of selected and
//! non-selected chunks. This results in smaller numbers that will result in fewer bytes
//! on the wire when using the [postcard](https://crates.io/crates/postcard) encoding
//! format that uses variable length integers.
//!
//! Likewise, the [`RangeSpecSeq`] type is a sequence of [`RangeSpec`]s that
//! does run length encoding to remove repeating elements. It also allows infinite
//! sequences of [`RangeSpec`]s to be encoded, unlike a simple sequence of
//! [`ChunkRanges`]s.
//!
//! [`RangeSpecSeq`] should be efficient even in case of very fragmented availability
//! of chunks, like a download from multiple providers that was frequently interrupted.
//!
//! # Responses
//!
//! The response stream contains the bao encoded bytes for the requested data.
//! The data will be sent in the order in which it was requested, so ascending
//! chunks for each blob, and blobs in the order in which they appear in the
//! collection.
//!
//! For details on the bao encoding, see the [bao specification](https://github.com/oconnor663/bao/blob/master/docs/spec.md)
//! and the [bao-tree](https://crates.io/crates/bao-tree) crate. The bao-tree crate
//! is identical to the bao crate, except that it allows combining multiple blake3
//! chunks to chunk groups for efficiency.
//!
//! As a consequence of the chunk group optimization, chunk ranges in the response
//! will be rounded up to chunk groups ranges, so e.g. if you ask for chunks 0..10,
//! you will get chunks 0-16. This is done to reduce metadata overhead, and might
//! change in the future.
//!
//! For a complete response, the chunks are guaranteed to completely cover the
//! requested ranges.
//!
//! Reasons for not retrieving a complete response are two-fold:
//!
//! - the connection to the provider was interrupted, or the provider encountered
//! an internal error. In this case the provider will close the entire quinn connection.
//!
//! - the provider does not have the requested data, or discovered on send that the
//! requested data is not valid.
//!
//! In this case the provider will close just the stream used to send the response.
//! The exact location of the missing data can be retrieved from the error.
//!
//! # Requesting multiple unrelated blobs
//!
//! Currently, the protocol does not support requesting multiple unrelated blobs
//! in a single request. As an alternative, you can create a collection
//! on the provider side and use that to efficiently retrieve the blobs.
//!
//! If that is not possible, you can create a custom request handler that
//! accepts a custom request struct that contains the hashes of the blobs.
//!
//! If neither of these options are possible, you have no choice but to do
//! multiple requests. However, note that multiple requests will be multiplexed
//! over a single connection, and the overhead of a new QUIC stream on an existing
//! connection is very low.
//!
//! In case nodes are permanently exchanging data, it is probably valuable to
//! keep a connection open and reuse it for multiple requests.
use bao_tree::{ChunkNum, ChunkRanges};
use derive_more::From;
use iroh_net::endpoint::VarInt;
use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
mod range_spec;
pub use range_spec::{NonEmptyRequestRangeSpecIter, RangeSpec, RangeSpecSeq};
use crate::Hash;
/// Maximum message size is limited to 100MiB for now.
pub const MAX_MESSAGE_SIZE: usize = 1024 * 1024 * 100;
/// The ALPN used with quic for the iroh bytes protocol.
pub const ALPN: &[u8] = b"/iroh-bytes/4";
#[derive(Deserialize, Serialize, Debug, PartialEq, Eq, Clone, From)]
/// A request to the provider
pub enum Request {
/// A get request for a blob or collection
Get(GetRequest),
}
/// A request
#[derive(Deserialize, Serialize, Debug, PartialEq, Eq, Clone)]
pub struct GetRequest {
/// blake3 hash
pub hash: Hash,
/// The range of data to request
///
/// The first element is the parent, all subsequent elements are children.
pub ranges: RangeSpecSeq,
}
impl GetRequest {
/// Request a blob or collection with specified ranges
pub fn new(hash: Hash, ranges: RangeSpecSeq) -> Self {
Self { hash, ranges }
}
/// Request a collection and all its children
pub fn all(hash: Hash) -> Self {
Self {
hash,
ranges: RangeSpecSeq::all(),
}
}
/// Request just a single blob
pub fn single(hash: Hash) -> Self {
Self {
hash,
ranges: RangeSpecSeq::from_ranges([ChunkRanges::all()]),
}
}
/// Request the last chunk of a single blob
///
/// This can be used to get the verified size of a blob.
pub fn last_chunk(hash: Hash) -> Self {
Self {
hash,
ranges: RangeSpecSeq::from_ranges([ChunkRanges::from(ChunkNum(u64::MAX)..)]),
}
}
/// Request the last chunk for all children
///
/// This can be used to get the verified size of all children.
pub fn last_chunks(hash: Hash) -> Self {
Self {
hash,
ranges: RangeSpecSeq::from_ranges_infinite([
ChunkRanges::all(),
ChunkRanges::from(ChunkNum(u64::MAX)..),
]),
}
}
}
/// Reasons to close connections or stop streams.
///
/// A QUIC **connection** can be *closed* and a **stream** can request the other side to
/// *stop* sending data. Both closing and stopping have an associated `error_code`, closing
/// also adds a `reason` as some arbitrary bytes.
///
/// This enum exists so we have a single namespace for `error_code`s used.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Hash)]
#[repr(u16)]
pub enum Closed {
/// The [`RecvStream`] was dropped.
///
/// Used implicitly when a [`RecvStream`] is dropped without explicit call to
/// [`RecvStream::stop`]. We don't use this explicitly but this is here as
/// documentation as to what happened to `0`.
///
/// [`RecvStream`]: iroh_net::endpoint::RecvStream
/// [`RecvStream::stop`]: iroh_net::endpoint::RecvStream::stop
StreamDropped = 0,
/// The provider is terminating.
///
/// When a provider terminates all connections and associated streams are closed.
ProviderTerminating = 1,
/// The provider has received the request.
///
/// Only a single request is allowed on a stream, if more data is received after this a
/// provider may send this error code in a STOP_STREAM frame.
RequestReceived = 2,
}
impl Closed {
/// The close reason as bytes. This is a valid utf8 string describing the reason.
pub fn reason(&self) -> &'static [u8] {
match self {
Closed::StreamDropped => b"stream dropped",
Closed::ProviderTerminating => b"provider terminating",
Closed::RequestReceived => b"request received",
}
}
}
impl From<Closed> for VarInt {
fn from(source: Closed) -> Self {
VarInt::from(source as u16)
}
}
/// Unknown error_code, can not be converted into [`Closed`].
#[derive(thiserror::Error, Debug)]
#[error("Unknown error_code: {0}")]
pub struct UnknownErrorCode(u64);
impl TryFrom<VarInt> for Closed {
type Error = UnknownErrorCode;
fn try_from(value: VarInt) -> std::result::Result<Self, Self::Error> {
match value.into_inner() {
0 => Ok(Self::StreamDropped),
1 => Ok(Self::ProviderTerminating),
2 => Ok(Self::RequestReceived),
val => Err(UnknownErrorCode(val)),
}
}
}
#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
use iroh_test::{assert_eq_hex, hexdump::parse_hexdump};
use super::{GetRequest, Request};
#[test]
fn request_wire_format() {
let hash = [0xda; 32].into();
let cases = [
(
Request::from(GetRequest::single(hash)),
r"
00 # enum variant for GetRequest
dadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadada # the hash
020001000100 # the RangeSpecSeq
",
),
(
Request::from(GetRequest::all(hash)),
r"
00 # enum variant for GetRequest
dadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadada # the hash
01000100 # the RangeSpecSeq
",
),
];
for (case, expected_hex) in cases {
let expected = parse_hexdump(expected_hex).unwrap();
let bytes = postcard::to_stdvec(&case).unwrap();
assert_eq_hex!(bytes, expected);
}
}
}