The aim of this change is to make the `Doc` type more safe to use by approaching
the design via [Parse don't validate][[0]] approach.
The problem with the previous approach was that all field were `pub` and thus a
`Doc<Verified>` could easily be mutated and serialized. Granted, the code that
used the serialization would tend to verify the `Doc` first, however, this
approach *ensures* that only a verified `Doc` can be serialized. It also meant
that trying to add new data that would follow the parse approach would require
more generic parameters on top of the existing `PhantomData` parameter, i.e. we
need to do something like: `Doc<RawField, V> -> Doc<ValidField, V>`.
The new approach splits the type into two separate types: `RawDoc` and `Doc`.
The former is allowed to be mutated at will, and uses types that are less
strict. The latter is the valid type that can only be constructed by validating
a `RawDoc` (or the `initial` constructor). The `Doc` type's fields can then only
be accessed by read-only methods.
Solves the problems above by only allowing mutations to `RawDoc`, as well as,
new fields being added to `RawDoc` which are then validated via
`RawDoc::verified`.
[0]: https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2019/11/05/parse-don-t-validate/
We ensure that a `rad/root` ref is included in the signed refs file
under `rad/sigrefs` for all remotes. This prevents a certain kind of
"grafting" attack where signed refs can be copied between repositories,
by having the peer sign over the identity root together with the data refs.
When verifying signed refs, we ensure that the ref is present and points
to an identity branch root that matches the repository identity containing
the signed refs.
Alternatives: lots of alternatives were considered, but this one doesn't
introduce any changes to the signing. The `rad/id/root` name was
considered but is invalid due to `rad/id`.
To facilitate edit actions, take URIs instead of the actual blobs. This
means API callers don't have to load all the blobs just for them to be
re-hashed when an edit action is submitted.
There are some peculiarities when dealing with the `Identity` COB since
the embed is the identity document itself. We handle that special case.
Remove the old `quorum` function in favour of using the newly introduced
`Canonical` code. Port over the tests to use the `Canonical` type. The change is
minimised by introducing a helper function called `quorum` in the test module
that acts like the old function.
Signed-off-by: Fintan Halpenny <fintan.halpenny@gmail.com>
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When calculating a quorum there was a case where two heads that were equal would
result in double-counting, allowing the quorum to pass a threshold higher than
the expected votes.
To prevent this, each head is immediately counted as a direct vote. Then, when
comparing the head to the rest of the set, if they are equal that iteration
would be skipped. This is because the merge base of two equal commits is that
commit, resulting in the double-counting.
Note that the `skip` can also skip the current head, so `i + 1` is used.
Signed-off-by: Fintan Halpenny <fintan.halpenny@gmail.com>
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Previously, our advertized inventory was not always correct: when we
stopped seeding a repository, it was still advertised as part of our
inventory until node restart, because the `Storage` type doesn't have
access to seeding policies.
In this change, we remove the concept of inventory from `Storage` and
make the authoritative place for it the routing table in our database.
To make this work, we have to add our node to the database on profile
creation, to not violate the foreign key constraint on the routing
table. Hence, the tests are changed to include our alias which is now
always available.
* Try to use constants instead of strings
* Move crypto seed override out of radicle-crypto
* Use GIT_COMMITTER_DATE for commit overrides
* Use RAD_LOCAL_TIME as general time override
* Allow variables to be used in release mode
Implement this function on `RemoteRepository`, and move `repositories`
to the trait level.
This function will be used to quickly get the `RefsAt` of all repository
remotes.
There are two areas where we can be more tolerant of delegate namespaces
being missing or not validating:
1. Calculating the canonical HEAD
2. Fetching from a remote
In 1. the protocol is tolerant in that if the local node does not have
the default branch for a delegate, it will still attempt to use any of
the delegates it does have to reach the threshold.
This is made safe by ensuring that if the threshold is being updated
then the node performing the update must have a threshold of delegates
locally in their storage. It also made safe by 2.
In 2. the protocol is tolerant by allowing delegates to be missing
from the serving side, as long as they can still meet a threshold of
delegates. This is further tolerant, when validating the received
data, a threshold of delegates are valid to consider the fetch
successful -- otherwise it will fail.
Signed-off-by: Fintan Halpenny <fintan.halpenny@gmail.com>
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When deciding whether or not to fetch a repo based on a refs
announcement, we need to know whether our signed refs are stale or not,
compared to the ones in the announcement. This can be quite expensive as
it requires multiple reads from Git's ODB, which often results in
packfile loading.
To remedy this, we introduce a refs cache in our node database that is
consulted when an announcement is received.
We also remove the logic that generates `info` messages, since they are
rarely needed and introduced more complexity.
Additionally, we revert commit 3ad2b4431f,
which introduced logic to minimze wants and haves with additional logic,
since it potentially also increases the load on the ODB.
Instead of re-loading the full inventory on `rad init`, we simply add
the new repository to the in-memory cache.
We also keep track of whether a fetch was a full clone, to know when
to update our routing table.
For large seeds with many repos, it's expensive to traverse the
inventory everytime the node connects to a new peer, for example.
To improve the situation, we cache the inventory per `Storage` instance,
and add a `refresh` method to refresh the inventory.
This method is called when the node is told to synchronize its
inventory.
This change limits the amount of `wants` and `haves` data that is sent
to the serving side of a fetch.
When a `RefsAt` announcement is sent, the fetching peer can calculate
the difference between the `rad/sigrefs` they're aware of -- if it
exists -- and the newly advertised `rad/sigrefs`. This means they can
efficiently ask for the `wants` and `haves` of references that have
changed -- saving some data sent over to the serving side.
Signed-off-by: Fintan Halpenny <fintan.halpenny@gmail.com>
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Introduce pinned repositories to the `profile::Config`, i.e.
`config.json`.
This is used for pinning repositories in the httpd `/projects` handle.
To allow returning all repositories, an `all` query parameter is also
included.
This is non-backwards compatible change, since we introduce the `show`
query parameter which, if not supplied, will default to `pinned`.
Signed-off-by: Fintan Halpenny <fintan.halpenny@gmail.com>
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It is possible that there can be errors while configuring a Radicle
`Repository` during `rad::init`, for example:
- configuring working copy remote fails
- signing references fails
- setting the identity head fails
- setting the project head fails
If any of these occur, a best effort is made to remove the
`Repository` and the working copy remote, so that the caller may fix
any issues and retry.
Signed-off-by: Fintan Halpenny <fintan.halpenny@gmail.com>
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If the local peer does not have any `rad/sigrefs` then there is no
risk of any data corruption. In this case the repository can be
removed entirely.
Signed-off-by: Fintan Halpenny <fintan.halpenny@gmail.com>
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The `remove` method is no longer being used, with `clean` taking its
place.
Signed-off-by: Fintan Halpenny <fintan.halpenny@gmail.com>
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Add a `clean` method to remove the remotes of a repository that are
not the local peer nor the delegates.
Signed-off-by: Fintan Halpenny <fintan.halpenny@gmail.com>
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Distinguish between repos that are simply tracked, vs. repos that are
cloned (and thus forked). By default, we don't show repos that don't
have a local fork.
It can be useful to return the `RefsAt` that was announced for this
node, for example, to compare it to node events.
Change the `Handle` method to return `RefsAt` so that when it is
called it returns the local node's `RefsAt`.
Signed-off-by: Fintan Halpenny <fintan.halpenny@gmail.com>
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It can be useful to be able to check if a repository contains a given
commit. Add a `contains` method to the `ReadRepository` trait to
handle this.
Signed-off-by: Fintan Halpenny <fintan.halpenny@gmail.com>
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It's possible that a temporary directory can be created on a different
mount, and when moved during a clone, creates an I/O error.
To prevent this, add a method to `Storage` which creates a temporary
directory and `Repository` with the path in the form
`<rid>.lock`.
This `.lock` path name can easily be skipped when listing
repositories. Further tooling can be added for detecting leftover
`.lock` directories if, for some reason, they were not cleaned up by
the `tempfile` crate.
Signed-off-by: Fintan Halpenny <fintan.halpenny@gmail.com>
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Instead of creating the tree to check if `rad/sigrefs` has changed, it
is possible to check that the signature of the signed refs being
updated is the same as the old one. If so, then there are no
changes. Otherwise, there must be changes and the update can continue
to create the necessary Git objects.
Signed-off-by: Fintan Halpenny <fintan.halpenny@gmail.com>
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Instead of trying to handle cases where delegate branches diverge, we
simply throw an error in those cases, which prevents the canonical head
from updating.
This simplifies the code a lot, and forces the user to take action when
such an event occures.
The RefsAnnouncement previous announced its complete set of
`rad/sigrefs`. This was useful in that verification can occur on the
receiveing side immediately by verifying the refs and proceeding with
the fetch -- note that it did nothing with the ref information it
received.
This can be minimised to only advertising the namespace, i.e. the
NID, and the new SHA of the `rad/sigrefs`. This is represented by a
new message type, `RefsAt`, which contains the NID and the Oid.
For checking if an announcement is stale or fresh, the receiving
side can check the existence of the SHA in its Git repository.
The tests are appropriately modified to use NIDs and Oids.
To prepare for a follow-up change, the announcement data is also
threaded through for the fetch protocol to focus fetching only the
advertised set of Oids.
N.B.: because the refs aren't communicated, the verification happens
when fetching since the data needs to be fetched before
verifying. This is a trade-off with minimising the message payload for
verifying earlier.
Signed-off-by: Fintan Halpenny <fintan.halpenny@gmail.com>
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The minimal error for the `ReadRepository::reference_oid` method is
`git::raw::Error`.
Change the error type from `git::ext::Error` to `git::raw::Error`.
Signed-off-by: Fintan Halpenny <fintan.halpenny@gmail.com>
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The fetch V2 improvements introduced a `UserInfo` type that is used to
set the Git config's name and email when cloning a repository. This
`UserInfo` can also be used when creating a new `Repository`.
The `Storage` type now takes a `UserInfo` so that it can be passed to
`Repository::create`, for creating a new repository.
For testing, this requires adding a new `fixtures::user` so that
testing `Storage` instances can be easily constructed.
It also means that the `radicle-cli` tests all changed with new SHAs
since the name and email are used as part of the hashing input.
N.b. the order of the timelines while testing the identity cob
changed. It's not clear why that is.
Signed-off-by: Fintan Halpenny <fintan.halpenny@gmail.com>
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The `radicle-fetch` crate introduces a method for fetching from a
server using Git protocol V2, which provides the implementation
control over performing a sequence of fetches and validation over
domain data.
The protocol is built on top of the suite of Gitoxide crates[[0]]. It
builds wrappers on top of Gitoxide's refdb, odb, and transport layers
-- as well as taking the ls-refs and fetch code straight from the code
base to simplify for the needs of this crate.
[0]: https://github.com/Byron/gitoxide
Signed-off-by: Fintan Halpenny <fintan.halpenny@gmail.com>
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Add the ability to remove a repository, given its RID.
This is useful in the case of attempting to clone a repository, and if
that process fails -- for example, if the repository is private --
then it's necessary to clean up the initially created repository.
Signed-off-by: Fintan Halpenny <fintan.halpenny@gmail.com>
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The `identity_doc_at` and `identity_doc` methods on `ReadRepository`
returned the unverified identity document. Every usage of these
methods would always verify the document after.
Simplify the code by calling verified in the methods and directly return the
verified identity document.
Signed-off-by: Fintan Halpenny <fintan.halpenny@gmail.com>
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Make the validation logic customisable by extracting it out into a
separate trait that can be defined by other crates.
The Repository validation logic stays the same.
Signed-off-by: Fintan Halpenny <fintan.halpenny@gmail.com>
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Instead of returning the unsigned references, the validation of a
repository's remotes returns the set of validation errors. The caller
is then expected to handle these validation errors appropriately, for
example, by logging them and re-raising an error.
Signed-off-by: Fintan Halpenny <fintan.halpenny@gmail.com>
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