tvl-depot/tvix/store
Florian Klink 39276dc5b4 feat(tvix/store/proto): avoid clone in PathInfo::validate()
Have this return a StorePathRef<'_>, rather than a StorePath, and leave
it up to the caller to possibly convert it to a owned StorePath.

This avoids some allocations, if we only want to validate.

Change-Id: I5cf8e246fe02bd4e631f46a5cb86d3f77a728a0d
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/11361
Autosubmit: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Reviewed-by: Connor Brewster <cbrewster@hey.com>
2024-04-05 23:28:11 +00:00
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docs chore(tvix/castore): move data model docs to here 2023-11-02 09:08:20 +00:00
protos refactor(tvix/*/protos): separate lint target 2023-12-11 22:35:39 +00:00
src feat(tvix/store/proto): avoid clone in PathInfo::validate() 2024-04-05 23:28:11 +00:00
build.rs fix(tvix): don't emit rerun-if-changed 2024-03-16 09:34:10 +00:00
Cargo.toml feat(tvix/store): add rstest-based PathInfoService tests 2024-03-28 07:02:18 +00:00
default.nix feat(tvix/store): use reqwests' rustls-native-roots feature 2024-03-03 15:32:38 +00:00
README.md fix(tvix/store): rename Read method in Readme 2023-09-26 15:24:32 +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 when needed.

More Information

The store consists out of two different gRPC services, tvix.castore.v1 for the low-level content-addressed bits, and tvix.store.v1 for the Nix and StorePath-specific bits.

Check the protos/ subfolder both here and in castore 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 -- daemon &
$ evans --host localhost --port 8000 -r repl
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 more expressive universal gRPC client


localhost:8000> package tvix.castore.v1
tvix.castore.v1@localhost:8000> service BlobService

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

tvix.castore.v1.BlobService@localhost:8000> call Read --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.