Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into flakes

1 files changed, 56 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/libstore/content-address.hh b/src/libstore/content-address.hh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ba4797f5b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/libstore/content-address.hh
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+#pragma once
+
+#include <variant>
+#include "hash.hh"
+
+namespace nix {
+
+enum struct FileIngestionMethod : uint8_t {
+    Flat = false,
+    Recursive = true
+};
+
+struct TextHash {
+    Hash hash;
+};
+
+/// Pair of a hash, and how the file system was ingested
+struct FixedOutputHash {
+    FileIngestionMethod method;
+    Hash hash;
+    std::string printMethodAlgo() const;
+};
+
+/*
+  We've accumulated several types of content-addressed paths over the years;
+  fixed-output derivations support multiple hash algorithms and serialisation
+  methods (flat file vs NAR). Thus, ‘ca’ has one of the following forms:
+
+  * ‘text:sha256:<sha256 hash of file contents>’: For paths
+    computed by makeTextPath() / addTextToStore().
+
+  * ‘fixed:<r?>:<ht>:<h>’: For paths computed by
+    makeFixedOutputPath() / addToStore().
+*/
+typedef std::variant<
+    TextHash, // for paths computed by makeTextPath() / addTextToStore
+    FixedOutputHash // for path computed by makeFixedOutputPath
+> ContentAddress;
+
+/* Compute the prefix to the hash algorithm which indicates how the files were
+   ingested. */
+std::string makeFileIngestionPrefix(const FileIngestionMethod m);
+
+/* Compute the content-addressability assertion (ValidPathInfo::ca)
+   for paths created by makeFixedOutputPath() / addToStore(). */
+std::string makeFixedOutputCA(FileIngestionMethod method, const Hash & hash);
+
+std::string renderContentAddress(ContentAddress ca);
+
+std::string renderContentAddress(std::optional<ContentAddress> ca);
+
+ContentAddress parseContentAddress(std::string_view rawCa);
+
+std::optional<ContentAddress> parseContentAddressOpt(std::string_view rawCaOpt);
+
+}