tvl-depot/tvix/store
Florian Klink ce7be00994 chore(tvix/store/protos): drop non-sha256 NAR hashes
Nix actually doesn't support anything else than sha256 NAR hashes, so
there's little reason to communicate anything else in here.

Co-Authored-By: edef <edef@unfathomable.blue>
Change-Id: I760370bd6cabd02028e001a74c454ef9296eb600
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/7619
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
2022-12-28 13:55:18 +00:00
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docs docs(tvix/store): add README, document services and store model 2022-12-26 11:38:52 +00:00
protos chore(tvix/store/protos): drop non-sha256 NAR hashes 2022-12-28 13:55:18 +00:00
src feat(tvix/store): implement Directory::validate() 2022-12-28 10:58:50 +00:00
build.rs feat(tvix/store): use tonic-build for protos 2022-12-26 11:38:52 +00:00
Cargo.toml feat(tvix/store): implement Directory::validate() 2022-12-28 10:58:50 +00:00
default.nix feat(tvix/proto): add rpc_directory.proto 2022-12-22 14:35:32 +00:00
README.md docs(tvix/store): add README, document services and store model 2022-12-26 11:38:52 +00:00

//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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 |  __|   \ \ / /  / _. | | '_ \  / __|
 | |____   \ V /  | (_| | | | | | \__ \
 |______|   \_/    \__,_| |_| |_| |___/

 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.