1 files changed, 87 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/libstore/serve-protocol.hh b/src/libstore/serve-protocol.hh
index 7e43b3969..e2345d450 100644
--- a/src/libstore/serve-protocol.hh
+++ b/src/libstore/serve-protocol.hh
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 #pragma once
 ///@file
 
+#include "common-protocol.hh"
+
 namespace nix {
 
 #define SERVE_MAGIC_1 0x390c9deb
@@ -10,6 +12,11 @@ namespace nix {
 #define GET_PROTOCOL_MAJOR(x) ((x) & 0xff00)
 #define GET_PROTOCOL_MINOR(x) ((x) & 0x00ff)
 
+
+class Store;
+struct Source;
+
+
 /**
  * The "serve protocol", used by ssh:// stores.
  *
@@ -22,6 +29,57 @@ struct ServeProto
      * Enumeration of all the request types for the protocol.
      */
     enum struct Command : uint64_t;
+
+    /**
+     * A unidirectional read connection, to be used by the read half of the
+     * canonical serializers below.
+     *
+     * This currently is just a `Source &`, but more fields will be added
+     * later.
+     */
+    struct ReadConn {
+        Source & from;
+    };
+
+    /**
+     * A unidirectional write connection, to be used by the write half of the
+     * canonical serializers below.
+     *
+     * This currently is just a `Sink &`, but more fields will be added
+     * later.
+     */
+    struct WriteConn {
+        Sink & to;
+    };
+
+    /**
+     * Data type for canonical pairs of serialisers for the serve protocol.
+     *
+     * See https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/adl for the broader
+     * concept of what is going on here.
+     */
+    template<typename T>
+    struct Serialise;
+    // This is the definition of `Serialise` we *want* to put here, but
+    // do not do so.
+    //
+    // See `worker-protocol.hh` for a longer explanation.
+#if 0
+    {
+        static T read(const Store & store, ReadConn conn);
+        static void write(const Store & store, WriteConn conn, const T & t);
+    };
+#endif
+
+    /**
+     * Wrapper function around `ServeProto::Serialise<T>::write` that allows us to
+     * infer the type instead of having to write it down explicitly.
+     */
+    template<typename T>
+    static void write(const Store & store, WriteConn conn, const T & t)
+    {
+        ServeProto::Serialise<T>::write(store, conn, t);
+    }
 };
 
 enum struct ServeProto::Command : uint64_t
@@ -58,4 +116,33 @@ inline std::ostream & operator << (std::ostream & s, ServeProto::Command op)
     return s << (uint64_t) op;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Declare a canonical serialiser pair for the worker protocol.
+ *
+ * We specialise the struct merely to indicate that we are implementing
+ * the function for the given type.
+ *
+ * Some sort of `template<...>` must be used with the caller for this to
+ * be legal specialization syntax. See below for what that looks like in
+ * practice.
+ */
+#define DECLARE_SERVE_SERIALISER(T) \
+    struct ServeProto::Serialise< T > \
+    { \
+        static T read(const Store & store, ServeProto::ReadConn conn); \
+        static void write(const Store & store, ServeProto::WriteConn conn, const T & t); \
+    };
+
+template<typename T>
+DECLARE_SERVE_SERIALISER(std::vector<T>);
+template<typename T>
+DECLARE_SERVE_SERIALISER(std::set<T>);
+template<typename... Ts>
+DECLARE_SERVE_SERIALISER(std::tuple<Ts...>);
+
+#define COMMA_ ,
+template<typename K, typename V>
+DECLARE_SERVE_SERIALISER(std::map<K COMMA_ V>);
+#undef COMMA_
+
 }