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[WIP] feat: iroh-sync #1216

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Description

This PR adds iroh-sync, a document synchronization protocol, to iroh, and integrates with iroh-net, iroh-gossip and iroh-bytes.

At the core is the iroh-sync crate, with a set reconciliation algorithm implemented by @dignifiedquire. See https://github.com/n0-computer/iroh-sync/ for its prehistory. TODO: More details

The PR is structured as follows:

  • iroh-sync crate contains the basic data structures. It has a dependency on iroh_bytes at the moment, but only for its Hash type. It does not perform any IO, the implementation is in-memory only. Its basic data structures is a Replica, which is the local instance of a multi-writer key value store.
  • in iroh::sync, there are connect_and_sync and handle_connection functions that integrate with iroh_net to perform the set reconciliation operation between two peers
  • iroh::sync::live::LiveSync is the handle to an actor that integrates sync with gossip: Peers join an iroh-gossip topic for each open document, and the LiveSync then watches for changes in these documents and broadcasts the new entry to other peer over iroh-gossip. The entries are signed, so incoming entries are validated and then inserted into the local replica.
  • iroh::sync::content module integrates the replicas with iroh-bytes by providing a Doc abstraction that combines a replica with a way to fetch and insert blobs into a local iroh-bytes database.

Finally, iroh/examples/sync.rs has a REPL to interact with documents. You can open documents, invite peers to join the doc, and insert / list / get entries. The example also provides basic persistence for documents by serializing them into a file on disc.

Here's a rough list of changes from the original PR in #1177:

  • removes content support from iroh-sync
  • adds a quick-and-dirty writable database to iroh-bytes (will be replaced with a better generic writable database soon)
  • adds a Downloader to queue get requests for individual hashes from individual peers
  • adds a BlobStore that combines the writable db with the downloader
  • adds a Doc abstraction that combines an iroh-sync Replica with a BlobStore to download content from peers on-demand
  • updates the sync repl example to plug it all together
  • adds very basic persistence to Replica (encode to bytes) and uses this in the repl example
  • made the REPL a proper REPL
  • rebased on current main and feat: iroh-gossip #1149

Notes & open questions

  • I did not yet update the tests in iroh-sync, so cargo test doesn't compile atm. Only the sync example works.
  • right now, it only attempts to download from the author of a key. This will fail if the peer is offline or not reachable (through the derper to which you are connected or through addresses obtained from the gossip layer). This is of course not a final solution. We will need some heuristics about which peers to try to download from.
  • I added a Doc abstraction that combines a replica with a content blob store. We will have to think if we want this and what API it should expose. It's quite nice from a user perspective I think.
  • right now, there is a DownloadMode that is either Always or Manual. If Manual, then no content downloads are triggered. If Auto, it will always try to immediately download the content for newly added keys. We might also want to add a Filtered mode or so that executes a callback to allow app level heuristics on what to download
  • The WritableFileDatabase is a quick-and-dirty intermediate solution until the generic-db-rewrite arrives
  • The Downloader is not as quick and dirty, but should be replaced with functionality from iroh-bytes or moved to there and extended to really work well with fetching stuff from multiple peers, possibly in parallel in the future

Change checklist

  • Self-review.
  • Documentation updates if relevant.
  • Tests if relevant.

@Frando Frando changed the title [WIP] feat: integration of sync and bytes [WIP] feat: integrate sync with iroh-bytes Jul 12, 2023
@ramfox ramfox added this to the v0.5.2 - Sync milestone Jul 21, 2023
let mut out = Vec::new();

// TODO: can these allocs be avoided?
let mut items = Vec::new();
let mut inserted = Vec::new();
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this seems potentially expensive, should probably be a callback instead

@Frando Frando changed the title [WIP] feat: integrate sync with iroh-bytes [WIP] feat: iroh-sync Jul 26, 2023
@Frando Frando changed the base branch from sync-and-gossip to Frando/gossip July 26, 2023 21:48
@Frando Frando force-pushed the sync-gossip-bytes branch 3 times, most recently from de61c04 to 22ad89a Compare July 28, 2023 16:49
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* removes content support from iroh-sync
* adds a quick-and-dirty writable database to iroh-bytes (will be
  replaced with a better generic writable database soon)
* adds a `Downloader` to queue get requests for individual hashes from
  individual peers
* adds a `BlobStore` that combines the writable db with the downloader
* adds a `Doc` abstraction that combines an iroh-sync `Replica` with a
  `BlobStore` to download content from peers on-demand
* updates the sync repl example to plug it all together
* also adds very basic persistence to `Replica` (encode to byte string)
  and uses this in the repl example
* make the REPL in the sync example work properly with rustyline for
  editing and reading input, shell-style argument parsing and clap for
  parsing commands
* add a docs store for opening and closing docs
* add author to doc struct
Arqu and others added 7 commits August 7, 2023 12:24
* start refactoring store into its own module

* implement more details

* works again

* draft fs db and integrate error handling

* fill out more of the implemenation

* lifetime sadness

* self referential fight: Rust 0 - Dig 1

* basic tests and range fixes

* introduce Store trait and update tests to test against both impls

* implement remove

* integrate new storage into the example

* implement iterators

* fixes and more tests

* clippy and deny cleanup
@Frando Frando changed the base branch from Frando/gossip to main August 7, 2023 11:02
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This PR is now outdated because it is not rebased. Closing in favor of #1333 .

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## Description

This PR adds `iroh-sync`, a document synchronization protocol, to iroh,
and integrates with `iroh-net`, `iroh-gossip` and `iroh-bytes`.

* At the core is the `iroh-sync` crate, with a set reconciliation
algorithm implemented by @dignifiedquire. See [the old iroh-sync
repo](https://github.com/n0-computer/iroh-sync/) for the prehistory and
#1216 for the initial PR (fully included in this PR, and by now
outdated)
* Iroh sync is integrated in the iroh node, with iroh-gossip, in the RPC
interface, and the CLI.
* `LiveSync` is the handle to an actor that integrates sync with
[gossip](#1149 ) to broadcast and receive document updates from peers.
For each open document a gossip swarm is joined with a `TopicId` derived
from the doc namespace.
* mod `download` contains the new downloader. It will be improved in
#1344 .
* mod `client` is the new high-level RPC client. It currently only has
methods for dealing with docs and sync, other things should be added
once we merged this. CLI commands for sync are in `commands/sync.rs`.
Will be much better with #1356 .
* `examples/sync.rs` has a REPL to modify and sync docs. It does a full
setup without using the iroh console. Also includes code to sync
directories, and a hammer command for load testing.
* The PR also introduces `iroh::client::Iroh`, a wrapper around the RPC
client, and `iroh::client::Doc`, a wrapper around RPC client for a
single document

## Notes & open questions

#### Should likely happen before merge:

* [x] Make `iroh_sync::Store:::list_authors` and `list_replicas` return
iterators `iroh-sync` *fixed in #1366 *
* [ ] Add `iroh_sync::Store::close_replica`
* [x] `ContentStatus` in `on_insert` callback is reported as `Ready` if
the content is still `baomap::PartialEntry` (in-process download) *fixed
in a8e8093*


#### Can happen after merge, but  before `0.6` release

* [ ] Implement `AuthorImport` and `AuthorShare` RPC & CLI commands
* [ ] sync store `list_namespaces` and `list_authors` internally
collect, return iterator instead
* [ ] Fix cross-compiles to arm/android. See
cross-rs/cross#1311
* [ ] Ensure that fingerpring calculation is efficient and/or cached for
large documents. Currently calculating the initial fingerprint iterates
once over all entries in a document.
* [ ] Make content downloads be more reliable
* [ ] Add some way to download content from peers independent of the
first insertion event for a remote entry. The downloader with retries is
tracked in #1334 and 1344, but independent of that, we still would
currently only ever try to queue a download when the `on_insert`
callback triggers, which is only once. There should be a way, even if
manual for now, to try to download missing content in a replica from
peers.
* [ ] during `iroh-sync` sync include info if content is available for
each entry
* [ ] Add basic peer management and persistence. Currently live sync
will stop to do anything after a node restart.
* [ ] Persist the addressbook of peers for a document, to reconnect when
restarting the node
* [ ] Implement `PeerAdd` and `PeerList` RPC & CLI commands. The latter
needs changes in `iroh-net` to expose information of currently-connected
peers and their peer info.
* [ ] Make read-only replicas possible
* [ ] Improve reliablity of replica sync. 
* sync is triggered on each `NeighborUp` event from gossip. check that
we don't sync too much.
* maybe include peer info in gossip messages, to queue syncs with those
(but not all at once)
* track and exchange the timestamp of last full sync for peers, to know
if you missed gossiped message and react accordingly
     * add more tests with peers coming and leaving

#### Open questions

* [ ] `iroh_sync::EntrySignature` should the signatures include a
namespace prefix?
* [ ] do we want the 1:1 mapping of `NamespaceId`and gossip `TopicId`,
or would the topic id as a hash be better?

#### Other TODOs collected from the code

* [ ] Port `hammer` and `fs` commands from REPL example to iroh cli
* [ ] docs/naming: settle terminology about keypairs,
private/secret/signing keys, public keys/identifiers and make docs and
symbols consistent
* [ ] Make `bytes_get` streaming in the RPC interface
* [ ] Allow to unset the subscription on a replica
* [ ] `iroh-sync` shouldn't depend on `iroh-bytes` only for `Hash` type
-> #1354
* [ ] * [ ] Move `sync::live::PeerSource` to iroh-net or even better ->
#1354
* [ ] `StoreInstance::put` propagate error and verify timestamp is
reasonable.
* [ ] `StoreInstance::get_range` implement inverted range
* [ ] `iroh_sync`: Remove some items only used in tests (marked with
#[cfg(test)])
* [ ] `iroh_sync` fs store: verify get method fetches all keys with this
namespace
* [ ] `ranger::SimpleStore::get_range`: optimize
* [ ] `ranger::Peer` avoid allocs?
* [ ] `fs::StoreInstance::get_fingerprint` optimize
* [ ] `SyncEngine::doc_subscribe` remove unwrap, handle error


## Change checklist

- [x] Self-review.
- [x] Documentation updates if relevant.
- [ ] Tests if relevant.

---------

Co-authored-by: dignifiedquire <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Asmir Avdicevic <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Kasey <[email protected]>
github-merge-queue bot pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 24, 2023
## Description

This adds a REPL to the main `iroh` binary. It builds upon #1216.


* The REPL embeds all commands that operate via the RPC client - which,
currently, is everything but `provide` (which should be called `start`),
`get` and `doctor`.

* The REPL has two new, REPL-only commands: `set-doc` and `set-author`.
`set-doc` changes the state of the REPL: author and document will be
displayed above the input line, and the document commands (`set`, `get`,
`list` , `share` etc) will be available top-level.

* Most of the changes in `src/commands.rs` only move code and the
`rpc_port` option around, the individual commands are not changed in
this PR.

## Notes & open questions

* The document and author IDs in the `list` commands are currently
printed in hex. Should change to base32.

* I'm not yet super sure about the `set-doc` and `set-author` commands.
Another path might be to dig more into a pwd-like structure and have a
`cd` command or so. This could then also move further into documents.
I'm not sure how the author fits in here.

* When in the level of a document, there's a conflict between the `doc
list` command (which is just `list` then) and the top-level `list`
command (to list blobs and collections). Not sure yet what the solution
is. For now I embedded only the `sync` commands on the doc level, but I
think I'd prefer to have the global set of commands not change between
levels. Maybe we just rename the top-level `list` command to `blobs` and
group the other blob-related commands (`add', a tbd `get` via RPC,
possibly `export`) there.

* The REPL embeds all the existing RPC CLI commands. For this I changed
the structure of the `src/cli/commands.rs` to a) split between
`RpcCommands` and `FullCommands` , the latter are the ones that start an
actual iroh node (plus doctor, wasn't sure about that for now). The
former all work atop the RPC client. For them to not create a new RPC
client for each REPL command, I moved the `--rpc-port` option to the top
level. This is not super correct, because it does not apply to
`provide`, `get`, `doctor`. Clap does not allow to scope an argument to
a set of subcommands by default, see [this
discussion](clap-rs/clap#5070 (comment)).
Still thinking about what the cleanest solution is.

## Change checklist

- [ ] Self-review.
- [ ] Documentation updates if relevant.
- [ ] Tests if relevant.

---------

Co-authored-by: dignifiedquire <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Asmir Avdicevic <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Kasey <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Brendan O'Brien <[email protected]>
matheus23 pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Nov 14, 2024
## Description

This PR adds `iroh-sync`, a document synchronization protocol, to iroh,
and integrates with `iroh-net`, `iroh-gossip` and `iroh-bytes`.

* At the core is the `iroh-sync` crate, with a set reconciliation
algorithm implemented by @dignifiedquire. See [the old iroh-sync
repo](https://github.com/n0-computer/iroh-sync/) for the prehistory and
#1216 for the initial PR (fully included in this PR, and by now
outdated)
* Iroh sync is integrated in the iroh node, with iroh-gossip, in the RPC
interface, and the CLI.
* `LiveSync` is the handle to an actor that integrates sync with
[gossip](#1149 ) to broadcast and receive document updates from peers.
For each open document a gossip swarm is joined with a `TopicId` derived
from the doc namespace.
* mod `download` contains the new downloader. It will be improved in
#1344 .
* mod `client` is the new high-level RPC client. It currently only has
methods for dealing with docs and sync, other things should be added
once we merged this. CLI commands for sync are in `commands/sync.rs`.
Will be much better with #1356 .
* `examples/sync.rs` has a REPL to modify and sync docs. It does a full
setup without using the iroh console. Also includes code to sync
directories, and a hammer command for load testing.
* The PR also introduces `iroh::client::Iroh`, a wrapper around the RPC
client, and `iroh::client::Doc`, a wrapper around RPC client for a
single document

## Notes & open questions

#### Should likely happen before merge:

* [x] Make `iroh_sync::Store:::list_authors` and `list_replicas` return
iterators `iroh-sync` *fixed in #1366 *
* [ ] Add `iroh_sync::Store::close_replica`
* [x] `ContentStatus` in `on_insert` callback is reported as `Ready` if
the content is still `baomap::PartialEntry` (in-process download) *fixed
in a8e8093*


#### Can happen after merge, but  before `0.6` release

* [ ] Implement `AuthorImport` and `AuthorShare` RPC & CLI commands
* [ ] sync store `list_namespaces` and `list_authors` internally
collect, return iterator instead
* [ ] Fix cross-compiles to arm/android. See
cross-rs/cross#1311
* [ ] Ensure that fingerpring calculation is efficient and/or cached for
large documents. Currently calculating the initial fingerprint iterates
once over all entries in a document.
* [ ] Make content downloads be more reliable
* [ ] Add some way to download content from peers independent of the
first insertion event for a remote entry. The downloader with retries is
tracked in #1334 and 1344, but independent of that, we still would
currently only ever try to queue a download when the `on_insert`
callback triggers, which is only once. There should be a way, even if
manual for now, to try to download missing content in a replica from
peers.
* [ ] during `iroh-sync` sync include info if content is available for
each entry
* [ ] Add basic peer management and persistence. Currently live sync
will stop to do anything after a node restart.
* [ ] Persist the addressbook of peers for a document, to reconnect when
restarting the node
* [ ] Implement `PeerAdd` and `PeerList` RPC & CLI commands. The latter
needs changes in `iroh-net` to expose information of currently-connected
peers and their peer info.
* [ ] Make read-only replicas possible
* [ ] Improve reliablity of replica sync. 
* sync is triggered on each `NeighborUp` event from gossip. check that
we don't sync too much.
* maybe include peer info in gossip messages, to queue syncs with those
(but not all at once)
* track and exchange the timestamp of last full sync for peers, to know
if you missed gossiped message and react accordingly
     * add more tests with peers coming and leaving

#### Open questions

* [ ] `iroh_sync::EntrySignature` should the signatures include a
namespace prefix?
* [ ] do we want the 1:1 mapping of `NamespaceId`and gossip `TopicId`,
or would the topic id as a hash be better?

#### Other TODOs collected from the code

* [ ] Port `hammer` and `fs` commands from REPL example to iroh cli
* [ ] docs/naming: settle terminology about keypairs,
private/secret/signing keys, public keys/identifiers and make docs and
symbols consistent
* [ ] Make `bytes_get` streaming in the RPC interface
* [ ] Allow to unset the subscription on a replica
* [ ] `iroh-sync` shouldn't depend on `iroh-bytes` only for `Hash` type
-> #1354
* [ ] * [ ] Move `sync::live::PeerSource` to iroh-net or even better ->
#1354
* [ ] `StoreInstance::put` propagate error and verify timestamp is
reasonable.
* [ ] `StoreInstance::get_range` implement inverted range
* [ ] `iroh_sync`: Remove some items only used in tests (marked with
#[cfg(test)])
* [ ] `iroh_sync` fs store: verify get method fetches all keys with this
namespace
* [ ] `ranger::SimpleStore::get_range`: optimize
* [ ] `ranger::Peer` avoid allocs?
* [ ] `fs::StoreInstance::get_fingerprint` optimize
* [ ] `SyncEngine::doc_subscribe` remove unwrap, handle error


## Change checklist

- [x] Self-review.
- [x] Documentation updates if relevant.
- [ ] Tests if relevant.

---------

Co-authored-by: dignifiedquire <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Asmir Avdicevic <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Kasey <[email protected]>
matheus23 pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Nov 14, 2024
## Description

This adds a REPL to the main `iroh` binary. It builds upon #1216.


* The REPL embeds all commands that operate via the RPC client - which,
currently, is everything but `provide` (which should be called `start`),
`get` and `doctor`.

* The REPL has two new, REPL-only commands: `set-doc` and `set-author`.
`set-doc` changes the state of the REPL: author and document will be
displayed above the input line, and the document commands (`set`, `get`,
`list` , `share` etc) will be available top-level.

* Most of the changes in `src/commands.rs` only move code and the
`rpc_port` option around, the individual commands are not changed in
this PR.

## Notes & open questions

* The document and author IDs in the `list` commands are currently
printed in hex. Should change to base32.

* I'm not yet super sure about the `set-doc` and `set-author` commands.
Another path might be to dig more into a pwd-like structure and have a
`cd` command or so. This could then also move further into documents.
I'm not sure how the author fits in here.

* When in the level of a document, there's a conflict between the `doc
list` command (which is just `list` then) and the top-level `list`
command (to list blobs and collections). Not sure yet what the solution
is. For now I embedded only the `sync` commands on the doc level, but I
think I'd prefer to have the global set of commands not change between
levels. Maybe we just rename the top-level `list` command to `blobs` and
group the other blob-related commands (`add', a tbd `get` via RPC,
possibly `export`) there.

* The REPL embeds all the existing RPC CLI commands. For this I changed
the structure of the `src/cli/commands.rs` to a) split between
`RpcCommands` and `FullCommands` , the latter are the ones that start an
actual iroh node (plus doctor, wasn't sure about that for now). The
former all work atop the RPC client. For them to not create a new RPC
client for each REPL command, I moved the `--rpc-port` option to the top
level. This is not super correct, because it does not apply to
`provide`, `get`, `doctor`. Clap does not allow to scope an argument to
a set of subcommands by default, see [this
discussion](clap-rs/clap#5070 (comment)).
Still thinking about what the cleanest solution is.

## Change checklist

- [ ] Self-review.
- [ ] Documentation updates if relevant.
- [ ] Tests if relevant.

---------

Co-authored-by: dignifiedquire <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Asmir Avdicevic <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Kasey <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Brendan O'Brien <[email protected]>
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