pulsify-protocol

An independent Rust implementation of the Pulsify v1 envelope and v2 grouped input, version vectors, immutable causal patch journal and single-peer reference relay. The library has no runtime dependencies; serde_json is used only by fixture tests.

All supported envelopes use operations version 3. Earlier operation versions are rejected. Inner operation payloads stay opaque to this relay.

use pulsify_protocol::{encode, decode, Body, Message};

let message = Message {
    doc_id: "example".into(),
    request_id: 1,
    body: Body::Connect { vv: vec![] },
};
assert_eq!(decode(&encode(&message).unwrap()).unwrap(), message);

cargo test --manifest-path crates/pulsify-protocol/Cargo.toml
cargo run --manifest-path crates/pulsify-protocol/Cargo.toml -- sample

The CLI accepts one hex frame per stdin line. roundtrip decodes and re-encodes each frame; relay retains an in-memory document journal for that process and responds to connect/uploads. Hex is only a testing transport; the protocol itself is binary.

The crate stores operation payloads as opaque bytes. It validates the envelope and causal metadata, buffers gaps and handles exact retransmissions. Applying CRDT operations, verifying their inner spans, authorizing document access, storing data durably and broadcasting across multiple peers belong to the embedding application. The TypeScript interoperability test verifies a real create/load/offline-edit cycle against the Rust relay.

The protocol specification (docs/PROTOCOL.md) and the shared fixtures (fixtures/protocol.json) live in the Pulsify repository.

Envelope-2 runs expand into exact v1 rows without decoding application values. The CLI and reference relay emit v1, preserving existing consumers; a host advertising v2 must ensure its transport capability contract matches this decoder.