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decode.rs

1//! Decode a package's Daml-LF bytes into the LF 2 AST ([`Package`]), and resolve
2//! its interned package metadata — the name and version that drive SCU.
3//!
4//! LF 2.x stores every name and literal in the package's `interned_strings` /
5//! `interned_dotted_names` tables and references them by `i32` index, so the raw
6//! prost AST is index-heavy; [`interned_str`] resolves those indices.
7
8use prost::Message;
9
10use crate::dar::{Dar, DarError};
11use crate::pb::daml_lf_2::Package;
12use crate::pb::daml_lf_dev::{Archive, ArchivePayload, HashFunction, archive_payload};
13use sha2::{Digest as _, Sha256};
14
15/// An error decoding Daml-LF package bytes.
16#[derive(Debug, thiserror::Error)]
17#[non_exhaustive]
18pub enum DecodeError {
19    /// Reading the DAR container failed.
20    #[error(transparent)]
21    Dar(#[from] DarError),
22    /// The protobuf bytes were malformed.
23    #[error("malformed Daml-LF archive: {0}")]
24    Proto(#[from] prost::DecodeError),
25    /// The package is not Daml-LF 2.x (this decoder only supports LF 2.x).
26    #[error("unsupported Daml-LF version (only LF 2.x is supported)")]
27    UnsupportedVersion,
28    /// The archive's payload does not hash to the package id it declares.
29    /// Refused: that id is the package's identity — it is what generated
30    /// bindings embed as `PACKAGE_ID` and what cross-package references resolve
31    /// through — so accepting a mismatch means addressing a package by a name
32    /// its contents do not answer to.
33    #[error("archive payload does not match its declared package id {declared}")]
34    PackageIdMismatch {
35        /// The id the archive claims.
36        declared: String,
37        /// The SHA-256 of the payload actually present.
38        computed: String,
39    },
40    /// The archive declares a hash function this build does not implement.
41    #[error("unsupported archive hash function {0} (only SHA-256 is defined)")]
42    UnsupportedHashFunction(i32),
43    /// The package is LF 2.x, but a **minor** this decoder was not built
44    /// against. Refused rather than decoded: prost drops fields it does not
45    /// know, so a newer minor would otherwise yield silently incomplete
46    /// bindings — a template missing a field decodes, compiles, and then fails
47    /// on the wire.
48    #[error(
49        "Daml-LF 2.{minor} is not a version this build was compiled against \
50         (it reads {supported}); the LF protos are pinned to a Canton release, \
51         so use a DAR built for that release or upgrade the SDK"
52    )]
53    UnsupportedMinor {
54        /// The minor version the archive declares.
55        minor: String,
56        /// The versions this build accepts, comma-separated and fully spelled
57        /// (`"2.1, 2.2"`). Spelled in full rather than as bare minors because
58        /// the message renders it verbatim: a `2.` prefix in the template
59        /// would attach to the first entry only.
60        supported: String,
61    },
62    /// A decode failure attributed to a specific package in the DAR.
63    #[error("package `{name}`: {source}")]
64    InPackage {
65        /// The archive path of the `.dalf` that failed to decode.
66        name: String,
67        /// The underlying failure.
68        source: Box<DecodeError>,
69    },
70}
71
72/// Decode the DAR's **main** package into the Daml-LF 2 AST, together with its
73/// **package id** (the `Archive` hash — the input to SCU/PackageMap and to
74/// qualifying cross-package references).
75///
76/// # Errors
77/// Returns [`DecodeError`] if the container or protobuf bytes are malformed, or
78/// the package is not Daml-LF 2.x.
79pub fn decode_main_package(dar: &Dar) -> Result<(Package, String), DecodeError> {
80    decode_package(dar.main_package_bytes()?)
81}
82
83/// Decode a single package's `.dalf` bytes (an `Archive`) into the LF 2 AST and
84/// its package id (the archive hash).
85///
86/// # Errors
87/// See [`decode_main_package`].
88pub fn decode_package(archive_bytes: &[u8]) -> Result<(Package, String), DecodeError> {
89    let archive = Archive::decode(archive_bytes)?;
90    let package_id = verified_package_id(&archive)?;
91    let payload = ArchivePayload::decode(archive.payload.as_slice())?;
92    // Major first: a minor only means something once the major is LF 2. An LF 1
93    // archive — which is every DAR a Daml 2.x SDK built — carries minors like
94    // "15", and judging it by the minor gate would tell the reader that
95    // "Daml-LF 2.15" is unsupported and to upgrade the SDK. No version of this
96    // decoder will ever read it; the major is the thing to say.
97    let Some(archive_payload::Sum::DamlLf2(package)) = payload.sum else {
98        return Err(DecodeError::UnsupportedVersion);
99    };
100    check_minor(&payload.minor)?;
101    Ok((package, package_id))
102}
103
104/// The package id of an archive, checked against its contents rather than
105/// taken on trust.
106///
107/// The id is the SHA-256 of the payload, and it is load-bearing: generated
108/// bindings embed it as `Contract::PACKAGE_ID`, and every cross-package
109/// reference in the DAR resolves through it. A DAR whose declared id does not
110/// match its bytes — corrupted in transit, or assembled by hand — would
111/// otherwise produce bindings that name a package by an id its contents do not
112/// answer to, and nothing downstream would notice.
113fn verified_package_id(archive: &Archive) -> Result<String, DecodeError> {
114    // The enum has exactly one member today; anything else is a scheme this
115    // build cannot check, and an unchecked hash is the thing being fixed here.
116    if archive.hash_function != HashFunction::Sha256 as i32 {
117        return Err(DecodeError::UnsupportedHashFunction(archive.hash_function));
118    }
119
120    let computed = hex(&Sha256::digest(&archive.payload));
121    if computed == archive.hash {
122        Ok(computed)
123    } else {
124        Err(DecodeError::PackageIdMismatch {
125            declared: archive.hash.clone(),
126            computed,
127        })
128    }
129}
130
131/// Lower-case hex, the spelling Daml-LF uses for a package id.
132fn hex(bytes: &[u8]) -> String {
133    bytes
134        .iter()
135        .fold(String::with_capacity(bytes.len() * 2), |mut out, byte| {
136            use std::fmt::Write as _;
137            // Infallible: writing to a String cannot fail.
138            let _ = write!(out, "{byte:02x}");
139            out
140        })
141}
142
143/// The Daml-LF 2.x minor versions this build decodes.
144///
145/// The list is evidence, not aspiration: a survey of every DAR available here —
146/// 18 of them, 648 packages across the Splice amulet/wallet/token-standard and
147/// quickstart-licensing sets — finds 617 packages at `2.1` and 31 at `2.2`, and
148/// both spellings appear inside DARs this repo generates bindings from. Both
149/// decode correctly against the vendored schema, which the conformance oracle
150/// checks against the official JVM `daml-lf-archive` reader.
151///
152/// Adding a minor is a deliberate act with a procedure: re-vendor the protos if
153/// the new minor changes them, then re-run the oracle. Guessing instead means
154/// prost silently drops fields belonging to a schema it does not know, and the
155/// bindings come out quietly incomplete.
156const SUPPORTED_LF2_MINORS: &[&str] = &["1", "2"];
157
158/// Refuse a minor we were not built against.
159///
160/// `"dev"` is refused with everything else on purpose — it is the unstable
161/// spelling, and the whole point of this gate is that an unknown schema must
162/// not decode silently.
163fn check_minor(minor: &str) -> Result<(), DecodeError> {
164    if SUPPORTED_LF2_MINORS.contains(&minor) {
165        return Ok(());
166    }
167    Err(DecodeError::UnsupportedMinor {
168        minor: minor.to_string(),
169        supported: SUPPORTED_LF2_MINORS
170            .iter()
171            .map(|minor| format!("2.{minor}"))
172            .collect::<Vec<_>>()
173            .join(", "),
174    })
175}
176
177/// Decode **every** package in a DAR, each paired with its package id (archive
178/// hash) — the PackageMap for resolving cross-package references.
179///
180/// # Errors
181/// Returns [`DecodeError`] if any package's bytes are malformed or not LF 2.x.
182pub fn decode_all(dar: &Dar) -> Result<Vec<(String, Package)>, DecodeError> {
183    dar.package_entries()
184        .map(|(name, bytes)| {
185            let (package, id) = decode_package(bytes).map_err(|error| DecodeError::InPackage {
186                name: name.to_string(),
187                source: Box::new(error),
188            })?;
189            Ok((id, package))
190        })
191        .collect()
192}
193
194/// Resolve a `package_import_id` — an index into the package's explicit import
195/// table (`package_imports.imported_packages`) — to the target package's id
196/// hash. Newer LF (2.dev / SDK 3.5+) references imported packages this way
197/// instead of by an interned id string.
198#[must_use]
199pub fn imported_package_id(package: &Package, index: i32) -> Option<&str> {
200    let imports = package.package_imports.as_ref()?;
201    let i = usize::try_from(index).ok()?;
202    imports.imported_packages.get(i).map(String::as_str)
203}
204
205/// Resolve an interned string by its `i32` index into a package's
206/// `interned_strings` table.
207#[must_use]
208pub fn interned_str(package: &Package, index: i32) -> Option<&str> {
209    usize::try_from(index)
210        .ok()
211        .and_then(|i| package.interned_strings.get(i))
212        .map(String::as_str)
213}
214
215/// Resolve an interned dotted name (a module or type name) to its `.`-joined
216/// form, e.g. `"Licensing.AppInstall"`.
217#[must_use]
218pub fn interned_dotted_name(package: &Package, index: i32) -> Option<String> {
219    let dotted = usize::try_from(index)
220        .ok()
221        .and_then(|i| package.interned_dotted_names.get(i))?;
222    let segments = dotted
223        .segments_interned_str
224        .iter()
225        .map(|&segment| interned_str(package, segment))
226        .collect::<Option<Vec<_>>>()?;
227    Some(segments.join("."))
228}
229
230/// Resolve an interned type by its `i32` index into a package's `interned_types`
231/// table (LF 2.x stores types once and references them by index).
232#[must_use]
233pub fn interned_type(package: &Package, index: i32) -> Option<&crate::pb::daml_lf_2::Type> {
234    usize::try_from(index)
235        .ok()
236        .and_then(|i| package.interned_types.get(i))
237}
238
239/// The package name from its metadata (`PackageMetadata.name_interned_str`).
240#[must_use]
241pub fn package_name(package: &Package) -> Option<&str> {
242    let index = package.metadata.as_ref()?.name_interned_str;
243    interned_str(package, index)
244}
245
246/// The package version from its metadata (`PackageMetadata.version_interned_str`).
247#[must_use]
248pub fn package_version(package: &Package) -> Option<&str> {
249    let index = package.metadata.as_ref()?.version_interned_str;
250    interned_str(package, index)
251}
252
253#[cfg(test)]
254#[allow(clippy::unwrap_used, clippy::expect_used)]
255mod hash_tests {
256    use super::*;
257
258    /// An archive whose declared id is the real SHA-256 of its payload.
259    fn honest_archive() -> Archive {
260        let payload = ArchivePayload {
261            minor: "1".to_string(),
262            sum: Some(archive_payload::Sum::DamlLf2(Package::default())),
263        }
264        .encode_to_vec();
265        let hash = hex(&Sha256::digest(&payload));
266        Archive {
267            hash_function: HashFunction::Sha256 as i32,
268            payload,
269            hash,
270        }
271    }
272
273    #[test]
274    fn an_archive_that_hashes_to_its_id_decodes_and_returns_that_id() {
275        let archive = honest_archive();
276        let expected = archive.hash.clone();
277        let (_package, id) = decode_package(&archive.encode_to_vec()).expect("honest archive");
278        assert_eq!(id, expected);
279        assert_eq!(id.len(), 64, "a SHA-256 in hex");
280    }
281
282    /// The id is the package's identity: generated bindings embed it as
283    /// `PACKAGE_ID` and cross-package references resolve through it. Taking a
284    /// mismatched one on trust means addressing a package by a name its
285    /// contents do not answer to.
286    #[test]
287    fn a_payload_that_does_not_match_its_declared_id_is_refused() {
288        let mut archive = honest_archive();
289        archive.hash = "0".repeat(64);
290        let err = decode_package(&archive.encode_to_vec()).expect_err("must not decode");
291        assert!(
292            matches!(err, DecodeError::PackageIdMismatch { .. }),
293            "{err}"
294        );
295        // Both sides belong in the message: without them a reader cannot tell a
296        // corrupted download from a hand-assembled DAR.
297        let message = err.to_string();
298        assert!(message.contains(&"0".repeat(64)), "{message}");
299
300        // The same when the payload is what changed, which is the realistic
301        // shape of the failure.
302        let mut tampered = honest_archive();
303        tampered.payload.extend_from_slice(b"extra");
304        assert!(matches!(
305            decode_package(&tampered.encode_to_vec()),
306            Err(DecodeError::PackageIdMismatch { .. })
307        ));
308    }
309
310    #[test]
311    fn an_unknown_hash_function_is_refused_rather_than_assumed_to_be_sha256() {
312        let mut archive = honest_archive();
313        archive.hash_function = 7;
314        let err = decode_package(&archive.encode_to_vec()).expect_err("must not decode");
315        assert!(
316            matches!(err, DecodeError::UnsupportedHashFunction(7)),
317            "{err}"
318        );
319    }
320}
321
322#[cfg(test)]
323#[allow(clippy::unwrap_used, clippy::expect_used)]
324mod minor_tests {
325    use super::*;
326
327    /// Build a **well-formed** `Archive` declaring `minor`: the id is the real
328    /// SHA-256 of the payload, so these tests exercise the minor gate rather
329    /// than tripping the hash gate that runs before it.
330    fn archive_with_minor(minor: &str) -> Vec<u8> {
331        let payload = ArchivePayload {
332            minor: minor.to_string(),
333            sum: Some(archive_payload::Sum::DamlLf2(Package::default())),
334        }
335        .encode_to_vec();
336        let hash = hex(&Sha256::digest(&payload));
337        Archive {
338            hash_function: HashFunction::Sha256 as i32,
339            payload,
340            hash,
341        }
342        .encode_to_vec()
343    }
344
345    /// An LF **1.x** archive is the likeliest wrong input there is — every DAR
346    /// built by a Daml 2.x SDK is one — so it has to be told the truth: this
347    /// decoder handles LF 2 only. Diagnosing it by minor instead would print
348    /// "unsupported Daml-LF minor 2.15 … upgrade the SDK", sending the reader
349    /// to rebuild a DAR whose major version will never be right.
350    #[test]
351    fn an_lf1_archive_is_diagnosed_by_its_major_not_its_minor() {
352        let payload = ArchivePayload {
353            // LF 1.15 was the last LF 1 minor, so this is a real DAR's shape.
354            minor: "15".to_string(),
355            sum: Some(archive_payload::Sum::DamlLf1(vec![1, 2, 3])),
356        }
357        .encode_to_vec();
358        let hash = hex(&Sha256::digest(&payload));
359        let bytes = Archive {
360            hash_function: HashFunction::Sha256 as i32,
361            payload,
362            hash,
363        }
364        .encode_to_vec();
365
366        let err = decode_package(&bytes).expect_err("LF 1 is not decodable here");
367        let message = err.to_string();
368        assert!(
369            matches!(err, DecodeError::UnsupportedVersion),
370            "should name the major version: {message}"
371        );
372        assert!(
373            !message.contains("2.15"),
374            "must not report an LF 1 minor as an LF 2 one: {message}"
375        );
376    }
377
378    #[test]
379    fn the_minor_this_build_targets_decodes() {
380        for minor in SUPPORTED_LF2_MINORS {
381            let bytes = archive_with_minor(minor);
382            assert!(
383                decode_package(&bytes).is_ok(),
384                "minor {minor} should decode"
385            );
386        }
387    }
388
389    /// A newer minor must fail loudly. prost silently drops fields from a
390    /// schema it does not know, so decoding one would hand the user bindings
391    /// that compile and are missing template fields — the failure would surface
392    /// on the wire, far from its cause.
393    #[test]
394    fn an_unknown_minor_is_refused_rather_than_silently_decoded() {
395        for minor in ["3", "17", "dev", ""] {
396            let bytes = archive_with_minor(minor);
397            let err = decode_package(&bytes).expect_err("minor {minor} must be refused");
398            let message = err.to_string();
399            assert!(
400                matches!(err, DecodeError::UnsupportedMinor { .. }),
401                "minor {minor}: {message}"
402            );
403            // The message has to name what was found and what is accepted,
404            // or the reader cannot tell whether to rebuild the DAR or the SDK.
405            assert!(message.contains(&format!("2.{minor}")), "{message}");
406            // *Every* accepted version, spelled in full. Asserting only the
407            // first let "(2.1, 2)" — a `2.` prefix that reached one entry of
408            // the list — pass for as long as the list had one entry.
409            for supported in SUPPORTED_LF2_MINORS {
410                assert!(
411                    message.contains(&format!("2.{supported}")),
412                    "should name 2.{supported} as supported: {message}"
413                );
414            }
415        }
416    }
417}
418
419#[cfg(test)]
420#[allow(clippy::unwrap_used, clippy::expect_used)]
421mod tests {
422    use super::*;
423
424    #[test]
425    fn decodes_a_real_dar_main_package() {
426        let Ok(path) = std::env::var("CANTON_TEST_DAR") else {
427            eprintln!("skipping LF-decode test: set CANTON_TEST_DAR=/path/to/x.dar");
428            return;
429        };
430
431        let dar = Dar::open(&path).expect("open DAR");
432        let (package, package_id) = decode_main_package(&dar).expect("decode LF 2.x package");
433        assert!(
434            !package_id.is_empty(),
435            "package id (archive hash) should be set"
436        );
437
438        assert!(!package.modules.is_empty(), "package should have modules");
439        assert!(
440            !package.interned_strings.is_empty(),
441            "LF 2.x packages intern their strings"
442        );
443        // The SCU inputs — name + version — resolve from the interning table.
444        let name = package_name(&package);
445        let version = package_version(&package);
446        assert!(name.is_some(), "package metadata should carry a name");
447
448        println!(
449            "decoded {} v{} — {} modules, {} interned strings, {} interned types",
450            name.unwrap_or("?"),
451            version.unwrap_or("?"),
452            package.modules.len(),
453            package.interned_strings.len(),
454            package.interned_types.len(),
455        );
456    }
457}