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Florian Klink d884890e56 docs(tvix/store/directorysvc/grpc): fix comment We do compare for equality. This comment probably was when I tried to compare the `Result<T, E>`, and as `E` doesn't derive PartialEq it was annoying. Change-Id: I18bb19528c76af91c9d24d88d55dd46d0c092d20 Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8354 Autosubmit: flokli <flokli@flokli.de> Tested-by: BuildkiteCI Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>		2023-03-27 14:37:33 +00:00
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README.md

//tvix/store

This contains the code hosting the tvix-store.

For the local store, Nix realizes files on the filesystem in /nix/store (and maintains some metadata in a SQLite database). For "remote stores", it communicates this metadata in NAR (Nix ARchive) and NARInfo format.

Compared to the Nix model, tvix-store stores data on a much more granular level than that, which provides more deduplication possibilities, and more granular copying.

However, enough information is preserved to still be able to render NAR and NARInfo (handled by //tvix/nar-bridge).

More Information

Check the protos/ subfolder for the definition of the exact RPC methods and messages.

Interacting with the GRPC service manually

The shell environment in //tvix provides evans, which is an interactive REPL-based gPRC client.

You can use it to connect to a tvix-store and call the various RPC methods.

$ cargo run &
$ evans --host localhost --port 8000 -r repl
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 more expressive universal gRPC client


tvix.store.v1@localhost:8000> service BlobService

tvix.store.v1.BlobService@localhost:8000> call Put --bytes-from-file
data (TYPE_BYTES) => /run/current-system/system
{
  "digest": "KOM3/IHEx7YfInAnlJpAElYezq0Sxn9fRz7xuClwNfA="
}

tvix.store.v1.BlobService@localhost:8000> call Get --bytes-as-base64
digest (TYPE_BYTES) => KOM3/IHEx7YfInAnlJpAElYezq0Sxn9fRz7xuClwNfA=
{
  "data": "eDg2XzY0LWxpbnV4"
}

$ echo eDg2XzY0LWxpbnV4 | base64 -d
x86_64-linux

Thanks to tvix-store providing gRPC Server Reflection (with reflection feature), you don't need to point evans to the .proto files.