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snix_castore/nodes/
mod.rs

1//! This holds types describing nodes in the snix-castore model.
2mod directory;
3mod symlink_target;
4
5use crate::B3Digest;
6pub use directory::Directory;
7pub use symlink_target::{SymlinkTarget, SymlinkTargetError};
8
9/// A Node is either a directory, file or symlink.
10/// Nodes themselves don't have names, what gives them names is either them
11/// being inside a [Directory], or a root node with a name attached adjacently.
12#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
13#[cfg_attr(
14    feature = "serde",
15    derive(serde::Serialize),
16    serde(tag = "type", rename_all = "lowercase")
17)]
18pub enum Node {
19    /// A DirectoryNode is a pointer to a [Directory], by its [Directory::digest].
20    /// It also records a `size`.
21    /// Such a node is either an element in the [Directory] it itself is contained in,
22    /// or a standalone root node.
23    Directory {
24        /// The blake3 hash of a Directory message, serialized in protobuf canonical form.
25        digest: B3Digest,
26        /// Number of child elements in the Directory referred to by `digest`.
27        /// Calculated by summing up the numbers of nodes, and for each directory,
28        /// its size field. Can be used for inode allocation.
29        /// This field is precisely as verifiable as any other Merkle tree edge.
30        /// Resolve `digest`, and you can compute it incrementally. Resolve the entire
31        /// tree, and you can fully compute it from scratch.
32        /// A credulous implementation won't reject an excessive size, but this is
33        /// harmless: you'll have some ordinals without nodes. Undersizing is obvious
34        /// and easy to reject: you won't have an ordinal for some nodes.
35        size: u64,
36    },
37    /// A FileNode represents a regular or executable file in a Directory or at the root.
38    File {
39        /// The blake3 digest of the file contents
40        digest: B3Digest,
41
42        /// The file content size
43        size: u64,
44
45        /// Whether the file is executable
46        executable: bool,
47    },
48    /// A SymlinkNode represents a symbolic link in a Directory or at the root.
49    Symlink {
50        /// The target of the symlink.
51        target: SymlinkTarget,
52    },
53}