feat: branched indexed-axis proofs — one envelope over N sibling prefix branches - #793
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…ix branches A query pinning several prefix values at once (IN over a compound index's leading property) reads N sibling indexed trees whose paths differ at exactly one segment. Until now each branch needed its own full envelope, duplicating every ancestor layer N times and leaving the caller to cross-check N root hashes. The branched envelopes (IndexedAxisBranchedRangeProof / IndexedAxisBranchedPaginatedProof) share what is shared: the layers above the branching level appear once; the branching level is one multi-key Merk proof binding every branch's value tree simultaneously; each branch carries only its tail (layers below its key, its primary/other-axes attestations, its secondary proof). One root hash is reconstructed for the whole envelope. Verification composes the audited single-path building blocks: each branch tail runs through verify_deepest_layer + walk_ancestor_chain on the suffix window, the branch's value-tree root must recompose to the value_hash the multi-key proof recorded for that key (so tails cannot be swapped, duplicated, or reordered), and one shared walk chains the branching Merk's root to the GroveDB root. Prove-side reuses the existing envelope builders per branch and splits at the branching depth — no storage or hash-composition changes anywhere. Covered by indexed_axis_branched_proof_tests: range and paginated round trips against the live root hash, reordered branch keys, duplicated branch tails, echo and branch-count mismatches, and degenerate key lists. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAdds branched indexed-axis proofs for range and paginated queries. Generation combines shared ancestor layers with per-branch tails and a multi-key Merk proof. Verification validates inputs, authenticates absent branches, reconstructs one GroveDB root hash, and returns branch-aligned results. ChangesBranched indexed-axis proof support
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Mergeability Score: 🟡 Moderate · up to Paginated queries currently return branch-local pages rather than one globally ordered page across all branches; callers expecting global pagination could receive incorrect results. Merge readiness requires clarifying this contract or changing the pagination behavior. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant GroveDb
participant BranchedProofGenerator
participant MultiKeyMerk
participant BranchedProofVerifier
participant GroveDBRoot
GroveDb->>BranchedProofGenerator: request range or paginated proof
BranchedProofGenerator->>MultiKeyMerk: prove branch keys
MultiKeyMerk-->>BranchedProofGenerator: return multi-key branching proof
BranchedProofGenerator-->>GroveDb: return encoded branched envelope
GroveDb->>BranchedProofVerifier: verify envelope
BranchedProofVerifier->>MultiKeyMerk: verify branch values and hashes
BranchedProofVerifier->>GroveDBRoot: reconstruct shared root
GroveDBRoot-->>GroveDb: return decoded branch results and root hash
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275-304: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚖️ Poor tradeoffThe prover rebuilds every shared prefix layer once per branch.
build_indexed_axis_range_proofproves all layers offull_path, including the shared prefix. The loop then discards the prefix layers for every branch except the first (lines 300-304). For a prefix of depth D and N branches, the prover opens and proves the prefix D×N times instead of D times. The envelope size is still correct; the cost is prover CPU and storage reads.
prove_indexed_axis_top_k_paginated_branched(lines 382-410) repeats this pattern.Consider building the shared prefix layers and attestations once before the loop, and giving the per-branch builders a way to emit only the tail.
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In `@grovedb/src/operations/proof/indexed_axis/branched.rs`:
- Around line 495-511: Add an empty path_suffix guard immediately after
validate_branch_keys in verify_indexed_axis_query_branched and
verify_indexed_axis_top_k_paginated_branched, returning Error::InvalidInput
consistently with the prove functions. Apply this change at
grovedb/src/operations/proof/indexed_axis/branched.rs lines 495-511 and 598-617.
In `@grovedb/src/operations/proof/indexed_axis/mod.rs`:
- Around line 65-69: Gate prover-only code in the indexed-axis branched module
behind the minimal feature: conditionally compile the prove methods,
build_branching_layer_proof, and imports such as grovedb_storage::StorageBatch
that depend on generator code, while keeping verifier functionality available in
verify-only builds.
In `@grovedb/src/tests/indexed_axis_branched_proof_tests.rs`:
- Around line 104-108: Add an absence-proof round-trip test alongside
full_range_query and the existing indexed-axis proof tests, using a range or
paginated query that selects no axis entries; generate and verify the proof,
then assert the reconstructed live root hash matches the original despite the
empty branch.
- Around line 411-448: The test degenerate_branch_key_lists_are_rejected
currently covers only prove_indexed_axis_query_branched; extend it with a valid
two-branch proof and verify it via verify_indexed_axis_query_branched using a
single branch key and duplicated keys. Assert the specific branch-key validation
errors rather than only checking is_err(), while preserving the existing
generation assertions.
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In `@grovedb/src/operations/proof/indexed_axis/branched.rs`:
- Around line 275-304: Refactor the branched proof construction in the current
loop and in prove_indexed_axis_top_k_paginated_branched so shared prefix layers
and ancestor attestations are built once before iterating branches, while each
per-branch build emits only its tail layers. Preserve the existing envelope
assembly and shared-prefix results, avoiding repeated proof generation for the
same prefix.
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| /// Fewer than two branch keys and duplicate branch keys are | ||
| /// rejected at both ends. | ||
| #[test] | ||
| fn degenerate_branch_key_lists_are_rejected() { | ||
| let grove_version = GroveVersion::latest(); | ||
| let db = make_test_grovedb(grove_version); | ||
| build_branched_fixture(&db, grove_version, &[(b"east", &[(b"math", 3)])]); | ||
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| let single = vec![b"east".to_vec()]; | ||
| assert!(db | ||
| .prove_indexed_axis_query_branched( | ||
| &prefix(), | ||
| &single, | ||
| &suffix(), | ||
| IndexAxis::Count, | ||
| full_range_query(), | ||
| Some(10), | ||
| None, | ||
| grove_version, | ||
| ) | ||
| .unwrap() | ||
| .is_err()); | ||
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| let duplicated = vec![b"east".to_vec(), b"east".to_vec()]; | ||
| assert!(db | ||
| .prove_indexed_axis_query_branched( | ||
| &prefix(), | ||
| &duplicated, | ||
| &suffix(), | ||
| IndexAxis::Count, | ||
| full_range_query(), | ||
| Some(10), | ||
| None, | ||
| grove_version, | ||
| ) | ||
| .unwrap() | ||
| .is_err()); | ||
| } |
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Test degenerate branch keys during verification.
This test only calls prove_indexed_axis_query_branched, despite its “both ends” claim. Generate a valid two-branch proof, then call verify_indexed_axis_query_branched with one key and duplicate keys. Assert the specific validation errors so later envelope or hash failures cannot make the test pass.
As per coding guidelines: “When adding functionality, check GroveDB version compatibility, implement cost calculation, support proof generation and batch operations, and add comprehensive edge-case tests.”
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In `@grovedb/src/tests/indexed_axis_branched_proof_tests.rs` around lines 411 -
448, The test degenerate_branch_key_lists_are_rejected currently covers only
prove_indexed_axis_query_branched; extend it with a valid two-branch proof and
verify it via verify_indexed_axis_query_branched using a single branch key and
duplicated keys. Assert the specific branch-key validation errors rather than
only checking is_err(), while preserving the existing generation assertions.
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The prove side (storage, transactions) gates behind the minimal feature exactly as the generate module does; verification stays available to verifier-only consumers. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…tainer The IN-pinned prove and verify paths now use grovedb's branched indexed-axis proofs (dashpay/grovedb#793): shared ancestor layers appear once, the branching level is one multi-key Merk proof binding every branch's value tree, each branch carries only its tail, and one root hash is reconstructed for the whole envelope. The length-prefixed container of per-branch proofs is deleted, along with the cross-branch root-hash equality assertion it required; the platform keeps the merge comparator, in_key tagging, and grove-path decomposition. grovedb pin bumped to the PR branch. The deep tamper matrix (reordered keys, duplicated or dropped tails, echo mismatches) moved to grovedb's own suite where the envelope now lives; the platform test pins corrupted and truncated bytes plus the two envelope shapes never cross-verifying. Review fixes folded in: encode_prefix_branches validates pin shape itself (non-empty values, at most one branching pin), branch indexing fails closed instead of panicking, and the no-covering-index and having-grammar docs describe the IN-inclusive pin rule. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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An IN element whose prefix subtree was never created is a legal member of the union — it contributes the empty page. The branching level's exact-key Merk proof already authenticates both outcomes, so an absent branch now carries no tail (branches: Vec<Option<...>>) and verifies as empty with an attested skip of zero, under the same single root hash. The verifier cross-checks presence both ways: claiming a present key absent, or grafting a tail onto an absent key, both fail the branching-level alignment. Presence is decided at the branching Merk itself — deeper breakage under a present key stays an error. When every branch is absent the shared layers are built from the prefix alone so the envelope still chains to the root. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Decodes every embedded Merk proof into the same op-level notation GroveDBProof's Display uses, so a branched proof dump reads like any other GroveDB proof dump. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@docs/book/src/branched-indexed-axis-proofs.md`:
- Around line 142-147: Revise the explanation around the paginated verifier to
describe its output as branch-aligned pages produced by applying offset
independently to each branch, not as a globally paginated union. Remove the
claim that callers can always reconstruct the global page from verified branch
pages, or update the surrounding API description to clearly state that global
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| Merging the branch pages into one ordered result is deliberately left | ||
| to the caller: the merged page is a deterministic function of the | ||
| verified branch pages, so no additional proof material is needed — any | ||
| entry that would precede a returned entry in the caller's merge order | ||
| is, within its own branch, preceded by fewer than `limit` entries and | ||
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Do not describe branch-local pagination as a globally paginated union.
The paginated verifier applies offset to every branch separately. It returns branch-aligned pages.
With k = 2, offset = 10, branch A containing 1..10, and branch B containing 11.., a global page must return 11, 12. The branch-B proof skips 11..20 and returns 21, 22, so the caller cannot reconstruct the global page from these results.
Document this API as branch-local pagination, or change proof generation and verification to prove a global page. The supplied verifier snippets show this branch-local offset behavior.
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In `@docs/book/src/branched-indexed-axis-proofs.md` around lines 142 - 147, Revise
the explanation around the paginated verifier to describe its output as
branch-aligned pages produced by applying offset independently to each branch,
not as a globally paginated union. Remove the claim that callers can always
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…eads (#797) * feat: ReadMode vocabulary — PathQuery expresses axis and sum-budget reads Query gains one optional field, read_mode, hidden behind its manual encoding's version byte: None keeps every existing query byte-identical on the wire (version byte stays 1, pinned by golden-byte tests), while a node carrying ReadMode::Axis(AxisQuery) or ReadMode::SumBudget bumps its own node encoding to version 2 — which decoders that predate read modes reject, fail-closed by construction. The vocabulary lives in grovedb-query: IndexAxis moves there from grovedb-element (re-exported so no path breaks; a Display-able UnknownAxisTag error keeps every try_from_tag call site compiling unchanged), joined by AxisQuery / AxisTraversal (frozen wire tags: TopK=0, Bounded=1, RankOfKey=2, RangeAggregate=3) and SumBudgetRead (absorbing AggregateSumQuery's budget-stop semantics). Three canonical shapes, all constructible without hand-assembly (new_axis_top_k / new_axis_bounded / new_axis_rank_of_key / new_axis_range_aggregate / new_branched_axis / new_sum_budget) and all classified by PathQuery::classify under a strict grammar: - AxisRead: path names the indexed tree, root query is a pure axis read - BranchedAxisRead: Key items select branches, the default subquery branch carries the shared suffix and the axis terminal — the #793 branched-proof request expressed with existing query machinery - SumBudget: root items walked in key order under a running-sum budget Nothing serves these yet: prove_query, the verify family, query_raw / query_many_raw, and PathQuery::merge all fail closed with NotSupported rather than misreading a read-mode query as key selection (an axis read has empty items — key selection would return an empty result indistinguishable from real absence). Serving arrives with the unified dispatch, gated to GROVE_V4. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix: box Query::read_mode to keep Query, PathQuery and Error small CI clippy (`--workspace --all-features -- -D warnings`) rejected the crate on `large_enum_variant`: `AxisQuery`'s two `i128` bounds make `ReadMode` 64 bytes inline, which grew `Query` 144 -> 208, `PathQuery` 192 -> 256 and so `Error` 216 -> 288, pushing `Error::InvalidProof(PathQuery, String)` past the 200-byte variant-difference threshold. A read mode is absent from virtually every query, so the field is the textbook case for indirection: `Option<Box<ReadMode>>` costs one allocation on the rare read-mode path and 8 bytes otherwise, keeping `Query` cheap to clone (the engine does that constantly) and leaving `Error` — and therefore every `CostResult` in the crate — at its historical size. Boxing the error variant instead would have shrunk `Error` too, but at the price of breaking a public constructor for a size regression this PR introduced. Invisible on the wire and in serde: `Box<T>` encodes exactly as `T`, which the golden byte-pins confirm. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix: forward grovedb-element/serde to grovedb-query/serde IndexAxis now lives in grovedb-query and is re-exported here; without the feature forward, enabling grovedb-element/serde left the re-exported type without Serialize/Deserialize. Pinned by a feature-gated compile probe. (CodeRabbit review finding on #797.) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * refactor: rename AxisTraversal::TopK to RankedPage The variant is a page of k entries at rank offset in the walk direction; the direction lives on AxisQuery::descending. Named TopK it read as a contradiction in the ascending case — `TopK { .. }` with `descending: false` is in fact bottom-k, which the name actively hid. Bottom-k needed no new capability: it has always been `descending: false` (the prover walks `left_to_right = !descending`), and the ascending direction is covered by the differential and round-trip suites. Only the vocabulary was misleading, so this renames the variant and documents both readings on it and on the constructors. Source-only: the encoder writes tag bytes by hand, so the frozen wire format is untouched — pinned by traversal_wire_tags_are_frozen. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: cost characteristics per axis traversal; add AxisQuery::bottom_k Documents best / average / worst prover work (and so proof size and verifier work) on each AxisTraversal variant, because the interesting property is not obvious from the shapes: none of them scale with how deep into the ordering the answer sits. - RankedPage: O(log n) best, O(log n + k) otherwise — no term in `offset`, since each skipped subtree collapses to one counted commitment rather than being walked. - Bounded: O(log n) best, O(log n + min(limit, m)) average, O(log n + limit) worst — the one shape that does walk its matches, so `limit` is the real bound on work. - RankOfKey: O(log n) always, no term in the rank. The position is derived (the secondary is keyed sort_key ‖ original_key), not searched: one primary point read reconstructs the secondary key and the entries before it are counted off subtree commitments. - RangeAggregate: O(log n) always, no term in matched entries — Contained subtrees fold in one step, which is what makes it preferable to Bounded when only the total is wanted. Adds AxisQuery::bottom_k(axis, k, offset): the ascending page, spelled in the name instead of a boolean, since top_k(.., false) reads as a contradiction. Pinned equal to top_k(.., descending: false), differing in exactly one wire byte. Also drops a redundant explicit doc link in read_mode.rs flagged by rustdoc. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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New proof shape for the indexed-axis family:
prove/verify_indexed_axis_query_branched(range) andprove/verify_indexed_axis_top_k_paginated_branched(paginated top-k) attest one query over N sibling prefix branches — indexed trees whose paths differ at exactly one segment — in a single envelope with a single reconstructed root hash.Motivation: Platform's compound ranked indexes lay one indexed tree per prefix value; an
INover the leading property reads N of them. Per-branch envelopes duplicate every ancestor layer N times and force callers to cross-check N root hashes (dashpay/platform#4401 currently ships a length-prefixed container of N envelopes as a stopgap — this primitive replaces it).How
shared_layer_proofs+shared_ancestor_attestations).verify_deepest_layer,walk_ancestor_chain) on the tail and shared windows; each branch's reconstructed value-tree root must recompose to thevalue_hashthe multi-key proof recorded for that key, so tails cannot be swapped, duplicated, or reordered. Prove-side reuses the existing envelope builders per branch and splits at the branching depth.Proof shape
One envelope, drawn over the tree it attests (two branches shown). Solid arrows are the tree; dashed arrows are the verifier's upward reconstruction — note everything above the branching level is walked once:
flowchart TD ROOT(["**GroveDB root hash** — reconstructed once for the whole envelope"]) SL0["shared layer 0 — single-key proof<br/><i>shared_ancestor_attestations[0]</i>"] SL1["shared layer 1 — single-key proof<br/><i>shared_ancestor_attestations[1]</i>"] BRK{{"branching Merk (prefix property-name tree)<br/><b>branching_layer_proof</b>: ONE multi-key proof<br/>binding keys {east, west} + their value_hashes"}} ROOT === SL0 === SL1 === BRK subgraph EAST["branch 0 — key <b>east</b> (BranchedProofBranch)"] EV["value tree 'east'<br/><i>ancestor_attestations[0]</i>"] ET["indexed tree (terminal)<br/>tail_layer_proofs[0] +<br/>primary_root_hash + other axes"] ES[("axis secondary<br/><b>secondary_proof</b> → entries + secondary root")] EV === ET === ES end subgraph WEST["branch 1 — key <b>west</b> (BranchedProofBranch)"] WV["value tree 'west'<br/><i>ancestor_attestations[0]</i>"] WT["indexed tree (terminal)<br/>tail_layer_proofs[0] +<br/>primary_root_hash + other axes"] WS[("axis secondary<br/><b>secondary_proof</b> → entries + secondary root")] WV === WT === WS end BRK === EV BRK === WV ES -.->|"1a. verify_deepest_layer:<br/>H(elem) ⊕ primary_root ⊕ secondary_root"| ET ET -.->|"2a. tail walk"| EV WS -.->|"1b. same, branch-local"| WT WT -.->|"2b. tail walk"| WV EV -.->|"3a. compose(elem bytes from multi-key proof,<br/>tail root, attestation) ≟ recorded value_hash"| BRK WV -.->|"3b. same check binds west's tail to west's key"| BRK BRK -.->|"4. ONE shared walk<br/>(consumes every shared layer)"| ROOTStep 3 is what makes tails un-swappable: each branch's reconstructed value-tree root must recompose to the
value_hashthe multi-key proof recorded for that branch's key, so reordering, duplicating, or substituting a tail fails there, and dropping/adding a branch fails the count check against the caller's own key list.A real proof, decoded
The two-branch test fixture, queried as
region IN [east, west, north](top-2 counts, descending —northwas never written), produces this 541-byte envelope, rendered by the new canonicalDisplay(same op notation asGroveDBProof):For scale: the per-branch alternative is three full envelopes, three root-hash reconstructions, and no in-proof statement that they describe one state — and it cannot express
northat all without the branching level to authenticate absence against.Full proof bytes (hex)
Testing
indexed_axis_branched_proof_tests: range + paginated round trips against the live root hash (per-branch entries, per-branch attested skips), reordered branch keys fail, a duplicated branch tail fails the branching-level composition, echo (k/direction) and branch-count mismatches fail, degenerate key lists (single, duplicate) rejected at both ends. Fullgrovedbsuite: 2571 passed.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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