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)]
13pub enum Node {
14    /// A DirectoryNode is a pointer to a [Directory], by its [Directory::digest].
15    /// It also records a`size`.
16    /// Such a node is either an element in the [Directory] it itself is contained in,
17    /// or a standalone root node.
18    Directory {
19        /// The blake3 hash of a Directory message, serialized in protobuf canonical form.
20        digest: B3Digest,
21        /// Number of child elements in the Directory referred to by `digest`.
22        /// Calculated by summing up the numbers of nodes, and for each directory,
23        /// its size field. Can be used for inode allocation.
24        /// This field is precisely as verifiable as any other Merkle tree edge.
25        /// Resolve `digest`, and you can compute it incrementally. Resolve the entire
26        /// tree, and you can fully compute it from scratch.
27        /// A credulous implementation won't reject an excessive size, but this is
28        /// harmless: you'll have some ordinals without nodes. Undersizing is obvious
29        /// and easy to reject: you won't have an ordinal for some nodes.
30        size: u64,
31    },
32    /// A FileNode represents a regular or executable file in a Directory or at the root.
33    File {
34        /// The blake3 digest of the file contents
35        digest: B3Digest,
36
37        /// The file content size
38        size: u64,
39
40        /// Whether the file is executable
41        executable: bool,
42    },
43    /// A SymlinkNode represents a symbolic link in a Directory or at the root.
44    Symlink {
45        /// The target of the symlink.
46        target: SymlinkTarget,
47    },
48}