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Tom Clegg, 02/04/2014 01:35 AM


Keep manifest format

Manifest v1

A manifest consists of one or more newline-terminated streams.

Each stream consists of three or more space-delimited tokens:
  • The first token is a stream name, consisting of one or more tokens, delimited by "/", the first of which is always ".".
  • The second token is a data blob locator, consisting of one or more tokens, delimited by "+", the first of which is an MD5 hexdigest.
    • If a subsequent token ("hint") in the locator is numeric, it indicates the size of the data blob, in bytes.
    • If a hint starts with "A", it is an authorization token (used by the Keep server to confirm that the block is readable by a specific API auth token).
  • ...possibly followed by more data blob locators...
  • The first token that is not a block locator, and all subsequent tokens, are file tokens.
    • A file token has three parts, delimited by ":": position, size, filename.
    • Position and size are given in decimal, and are counted from the beginning of the first data blob.
    • Filename may contain "/" characters, but must not start or end with "/", and must not contain "//".

Normalized manifest v1

A normalized manifest has the following additional restrictions.
  • Streams are in alphanumeric order.
  • Each stream name is unique within the manifest.
  • Files within a stream are in alphanumeric order.
  • Concatenation stream_name/filename is unique within the manifest. (This can be impossible to accomplish without rewriting blobs.)
  • Filename must not contain "/".

An API call exists will exist to normalize a manifest.

Request:
  • POST /arvados/v1/collections/{hash}/normalize
  • request body: {"collection":{"manifest_text":"...."}}
Response:
  • {"uuid":"...","manifest_text":"..."}
Notes:
  • POST despite no side effects.
  • Returns object with uuid even though no object was stored.

Updated by Tom Clegg about 10 years ago · 1 revisions