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The gap

GroveDb::query_aggregate_count_per_key existed, but there was no query_aggregate_sum_per_key and no query_aggregate_count_and_sum_per_key.

This was an implementation gap, not a semantic one — both halves of the work already existed:

  • All three per-key verifiers are present and consensus-tested: verify_aggregate_count_query_per_key, verify_aggregate_sum_query_per_key, verify_aggregate_count_and_sum_query_per_key. A verifier implies a prover, so the carrier descent + aggregate walk was already implemented for all three axes.
  • All three merk primitives are present, with identical signature shape and the same O(log n) Contained/Disjoint short-circuit: count_aggregate_on_range, sum_aggregate_on_range, count_and_sum_aggregate_on_range.

Only the trusted-read helper was never written for sum and count+sum — the aggregate families landed count-first and each later axis mirrored the proof path, because that's what Dash Platform needed verifiable.

What this does

1. Extracts a generic carrier walk. query_aggregate_carrier_per_key is one private driver parameterized by which merk aggregate terminates each per-key descent. Leaf-vs-carrier dispatch, the shallow outer-key enumeration via query_raw (deliberately not descending into the subquery), SizedQuery::limit propagation, the non-tree-match rejection, and the path / outer_key / subquery_path... leaf-path assembly are all aggregate-agnostic and now live in exactly one place. The three public entry points pass Merk::{count,sum,count_and_sum}_aggregate_on_range as the only axis-specific argument.

The driver is generic over the per-key payload T (`u64`, `i64`, `(u64, i64)`) with a single named `'db` lifetime, which is what lets the merk methods be passed directly as function items rather than wrapped in closures.

2. Adds the two missing readers:

returns leaf host(s)
query_aggregate_sum_per_key Vec<(Vec<u8>, i64)> ProvableSumTree, PCPS
query_aggregate_count_and_sum_per_key Vec<(Vec<u8>, u64, i64)> PCPS only

Both mirror the count entry point's shape, validation (validate_aggregate_sum_on_range / validate_aggregate_count_and_sum_on_range) and doc conventions — including the "not independently verifiable, use prove_query + verify_*" note the existing readers carry. The return types mirror the corresponding per-key verifiers exactly, so the trusted and verified surfaces read the same.

3. Version gating follows the existing precedent rather than inventing slots: the count reader already reuses operations.query.query_aggregate_count_on_range, so the sum reader reuses query_aggregate_sum_on_range and the combined reader query_aggregate_count_and_sum_on_range. Purely additive — no existing behavior changes, so nothing needs a V4 gate.

4. Leaf-shape return convention — kept deliberately, and now documented. The leaf shape still returns a one-entry vector with an empty stand-in key. That's the convention all three per-key verifiers already collapse a leaf proof to, and matching it is what lets a caller swap query_aggregate_*_per_key for prove_query + verify_aggregate_*_query_per_key (or back) and compare element-for-element without branching on shape. A leaf query has no outer key to report, so some stand-in is unavoidable; matching the already-shipped proof-side convention is worth more than a prettier one. The doc also notes the disambiguation: outer keys are never empty in a valid carrier, since validation requires every `subquery_path` element to be a non-empty key.

Tests

25 new tests. The load-bearing ones are differential against the proved path, since the proof side is already trustworthy: for the same state and the same carrier PathQuery, the trusted read must equal prove_query + verify_aggregate_*_query_per_key element-for-element.

Also covered per axis: leaf and carrier shapes, direction propagation (right-to-left), limit capping outer matches without capping the inner range, non-tree-match rejection, empty carrier result sets, empty leaf subtrees, and error-surface equality with the corresponding validate_* for three malformed-query classes (carrier-with-offset, leaf-with-limit, non-aggregate). The count+sum side additionally asserts the PCPS dual-axis gate fires on the read path, not just the proof path.

Validation

  • cargo clippy --workspace --all-features -- -D warnings — clean (exit 0)
  • cargo test -p grovedb -p grovedb-query --all-features — 2614 + 255 passed, 0 failed
  • cargo build --no-default-features --features verify -p grovedb — clean; the new code is minimal-only and no cfg leaked
  • cargo fmt --check — clean

One note: cargo clippy --workspace --all-features --all-targets (not the required invocation) surfaces 5 pre-existing lint failures in storage/src/rocksdb_storage/tests.rs, grovedb-query/src/proofs/mod.rs, grovedb-query/src/query_item/mod.rs, and grovedb-query/src/proofs/tree_feature_type.rs — all outside this diff, left alone.

Out of scope: dispatch wiring

The run_path_query AggregateCarrier arm returns a typed NotSupported for the sum and count+sum kinds and should route to these readers instead — but run_path_query lands in #798, which is still open at time of writing. These readers are independent and useful on their own, so the wiring follows as a small follow-up once #798 merges. (Not based on the #798 branch, which is being rebased repeatedly.)

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  • New Features

    • Added per-key aggregate sum queries.
    • Added combined per-key count-and-sum queries.
    • Supported leaf and carrier queries, ordering, pagination limits, empty results, and missing keys.
    • Added validation and clear errors for unsupported or invalid query structures.
  • Tests

    • Added comprehensive coverage for aggregate queries, ordering, limits, validation, and proof-based result comparisons.
  • Documentation

    • Updated related query documentation.

…e axes

`query_aggregate_count_per_key` had no sum or count+sum sibling, even
though both halves of the work already existed: all three per-key
*verifiers* are present and consensus-tested, and all three merk
primitives (`count_aggregate_on_range`, `sum_aggregate_on_range`,
`count_and_sum_aggregate_on_range`) share one signature shape and the
same O(log n) Contained/Disjoint short-circuit. Only the trusted-read
helper was missing — the aggregate families landed count-first and each
later axis mirrored the proof path because that is what Dash Platform
needed verifiable.

- Extract `query_aggregate_carrier_per_key`, one generic carrier walk
  parameterized by which merk aggregate terminates each per-key descent.
  Leaf-vs-carrier dispatch, shallow outer-key enumeration, `limit`
  propagation, non-tree-match rejection and leaf-path assembly are all
  aggregate-agnostic and now live in exactly one place; the three public
  entry points pass `Merk::{count,sum,count_and_sum}_aggregate_on_range`
  as the only axis-specific argument.
- Add `query_aggregate_sum_per_key` -> `Vec<(Vec<u8>, i64)>` and
  `query_aggregate_count_and_sum_per_key` -> `Vec<(Vec<u8>, u64, i64)>`,
  mirroring the count entry point's validation and doc conventions,
  including the "not independently verifiable" note.
- Keep the leaf shape's empty stand-in key across all three, and document
  why: it is the convention the three per-key verifiers already collapse a
  leaf proof to, so a caller can swap a trusted read for prove_query +
  verify_*_per_key and compare element-for-element without branching on
  shape.

Version gating follows the existing precedent rather than adding slots:
the sum reader reuses `query_aggregate_sum_on_range`, the combined reader
`query_aggregate_count_and_sum_on_range`. Purely additive — no existing
behavior changes, so no V4 gate is needed.

25 new tests. The load-bearing ones are differential against the proved
path (already trustworthy): for the same state and carrier PathQuery the
trusted read must equal prove_query + verify_aggregate_*_query_per_key
element-for-element. Also covered: leaf and carrier shapes, direction
propagation, `limit` capping outer matches without capping the inner
range, non-tree-match rejection, empty carriers, empty leaves, the PCPS
dual-axis gate on the read path, and error-surface equality with the
corresponding `validate_*`.

The `run_path_query` dispatch wiring is deliberately left out — that
entry point lands in #798, which is still open. These readers are
independent and useful on their own; the wiring follows once #798 merges.

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  • grovedb/src/operations/get/aggregate_per_key/carrier.rs
  • grovedb/src/operations/get/aggregate_per_key/count.rs
  • grovedb/src/operations/get/aggregate_per_key/count_and_sum.rs
  • grovedb/src/operations/get/aggregate_per_key/mod.rs
  • grovedb/src/operations/get/aggregate_per_key/sum.rs
  • grovedb/src/operations/get/mod.rs
  • grovedb/src/operations/get/query.rs
  • grovedb/src/tests/aggregate_count_and_sum_carrier_query_tests.rs
  • grovedb/src/tests/aggregate_sum_carrier_query_tests.rs
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The query layer adds per-key aggregate sum and combined count-and-sum APIs. A shared carrier walker handles leaf traversal, validation, pagination, ordering, Merk access, and cost accumulation. End-to-end tests cover valid results and error cases.

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Per-key aggregate queries

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared carrier traversal
grovedb/src/operations/get/query.rs
A generic carrier driver now opens matched leaf Merk trees, validates query shapes, runs aggregate walks, and accumulates costs. Carrier count queries use the shared driver.
Per-key aggregate sums
grovedb/src/operations/get/query.rs, grovedb/src/tests/aggregate_sum_carrier_query_tests.rs
query_aggregate_sum_per_key supports leaf and carrier queries. Tests cover ordering, limits, empty results, invalid elements, and validation errors.
Per-key count-and-sum queries
grovedb/src/operations/get/query.rs, grovedb/src/tests/aggregate_count_and_sum_carrier_query_tests.rs
query_aggregate_count_and_sum_per_key returns combined aggregates for leaf and carrier queries. Tests compare single-pair and proof-based results and cover limits and errors.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant QueryAPI
  participant CarrierDriver
  participant TransactionalMerk
  participant AggregateWalk
  QueryAPI->>CarrierDriver: query matched outer keys
  CarrierDriver->>TransactionalMerk: open each leaf path
  TransactionalMerk->>AggregateWalk: execute aggregate walk
  AggregateWalk-->>CarrierDriver: return aggregate and cost
  CarrierDriver-->>QueryAPI: return per-key results
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grovedb/src/operations/get/query.rs (1)

1143-1146: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add path context to the merk-walk error.

The three leaf entry points wrap merk failures with a contextual message, for example Error::CorruptedData(format!("query_aggregate_count_and_sum at path {:?}: {}", path_slices, e)) at Line 1016. The carrier driver instead returns a bare Error::MerkError(e). A carrier can fan out over many outer keys, so the caller cannot tell which leaf path failed.

Include the leaf path in the wrapped error so the carrier path matches the leaf convention.

♻️ Proposed change
             let value = cost_return_on_error!(
                 &mut cost,
-                merk_walk(&leaf_subtree, inner_range, grove_version).map_err(Error::MerkError)
+                merk_walk(&leaf_subtree, inner_range, grove_version).map_err(|e| {
+                    Error::CorruptedData(format!(
+                        "carrier aggregate walk at leaf path {:?}: {}",
+                        leaf_path, e
+                    ))
+                })
             );

Note that no_proof_per_key_combined_rejects_single_axis_leaf_host asserts only that the message contains ProvableCountProvableSumTree, so this change keeps that test passing. As per coding guidelines: "wrap errors with contextual Error::CorruptedData messages where appropriate."

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In `@grovedb/src/operations/get/query.rs` around lines 1143 - 1146, Update the
carrier merk-walk error handling around merk_walk to wrap failures in
Error::CorruptedData with the leaf path context, matching the contextual format
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In `@grovedb/src/tests/aggregate_sum_carrier_query_tests.rs`:
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agrees, unless you also add the neighboring tests’ prove_query and
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In `@grovedb/src/operations/get/query.rs`:
- Around line 1143-1146: Update the carrier merk-walk error handling around
merk_walk to wrap failures in Error::CorruptedData with the leaf path context,
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Comment thread grovedb/src/tests/aggregate_sum_carrier_query_tests.rs
Moves the shared carrier driver and all three per-key entry points out of
query.rs into `operations/get/aggregate_per_key/`, one file per concern:

  aggregate_per_key/
    mod.rs           leaf-vs-carrier vocabulary, module map
    carrier.rs       the one carrier walk every axis shares
    count.rs         query_aggregate_count_per_key
    sum.rs           query_aggregate_sum_per_key
    count_and_sum.rs query_aggregate_count_and_sum_per_key

One module per axis mirrors how the proof side already splits
`operations::proof::aggregate_{count,sum,count_and_sum}`, so the trusted
and verified surfaces are now organized the same way. Each axis file holds
only its own version gate, shape validation, leaf-shape delegation, and
error text; everything else lives in carrier.rs.

query.rs is 170 lines shorter than before this PR started — it no longer
carries any per-key aggregate code at all.

Purely a code move plus visibility/import adjustments: the driver is
`pub(super)` (visible to its sibling axis modules), and the three entry
points stay `pub` inherent methods on GroveDb, so the public API and every
call site are unchanged. `operations::get` is already minimal-gated at the
`operations` level, so the new files need no per-item cfg.

Also addresses CodeRabbit on #803: the empty-carrier tests claimed the
proved path agrees but never called prove_query. Fixed by adding the
missing differential assertion rather than deleting the claim — empty
result sets are exactly where trusted and proved could silently diverge,
and they do in fact agree.

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…uery (#805)

Closes the last `NotSupported` in the unified read dispatch. Before this,
`run_path_query`'s `AggregateCarrier` arm served only the count axis and
refused the sum and count+sum kinds by name, pointing callers at
prove_query + the per-key verifiers. #803 added the missing trusted
readers, so the arm can now route all three axes:

  AggregateKind::Count       -> query_aggregate_count_per_key
  AggregateKind::Sum         -> query_aggregate_sum_per_key          (new)
  AggregateKind::CountAndSum -> query_aggregate_count_and_sum_per_key (new)

Every shape `classify()` can produce now has a reader behind it; the only
`NotSupported` the dispatch still raises is the read-mode version gate.

`PathQueryRun` gains two variants — `AggregateSumPerKey(Vec<(Vec<u8>,
i64)>)` and `AggregateCountAndSumPerKey(Vec<(Vec<u8>, u64, i64)>)` —
rather than collapsing the carrier family into one `Option`-bearing
variant. Three reasons: it matches how the leaf family in the same enum is
already shaped (`AggregateCount` / `AggregateSum` /
`AggregateCountAndSum`); each axis maps 1:1 onto its reader's return type
with no `Option` that is statically always-None; and `AggregateCountPerKey`
is already public, so this stays additive.

The original plan for this follow-up was to mirror a
`VerifiedPathQuery::AggregatePerKey { per_key: Vec<(Vec<u8>, Option<u64>,
Option<i64>)> }`, but that type does not exist — #798 shipped the read
dispatch only, and its module doc notes the unified proof dispatch arrives
separately. With no mirror target, matching the enum's own existing
convention wins. When the unified verify dispatch does land it should
mirror these three variants rather than the collapsed shape.

Tests: `aggregate_carrier_count_matches_per_key_reader_and_others_are_refused`
asserted the refusal, so it becomes
`aggregate_carrier_all_kinds_match_their_per_key_readers` — a differential
assertion per axis (unified answer == dedicated reader) plus a check of the
values themselves, over ProvableSumTree and PCPS carrier fixtures. Adds
`aggregate_carrier_per_key_dispatch_surfaces_reader_errors`: a non-tree
outer match and a single-axis host under a combined carrier must fail
through the dispatch with the same error text the dedicated reader
produces, so routing can't paper over a reader's rejection.

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