nectar/wit/uqbar.wit

package uqbar:process@0.3.0

interface standard {
    // JSON is passed over WASM boundary as a string.
    type json = string

    type node-id = string

    // context, like ipc, is a protocol-defined serialized byte array.
    // it is used when building a Request to save information
    // that will not be part of a Response, in order to more
    // easily handle ("contextualize") that Response.
    type context = list<u8>

    record process-id {
        process-name: string,
        package-name: string,
        publisher-node: node-id,
    }

    // TODO better name for this
    record address {
        node: node-id,
        process: process-id,
    }

    record payload {
        mime: option<string>,
        bytes: list<u8>,
    }

    record request {
        // if true, this request inherits context AND payload of incipient
        // request, and cannot have its own context.
        inherit: bool,
        // if Some, this request expects a response in the number of seconds given
        expects-response: option<u64>,
        ipc: list<u8>,
        metadata: option<json>,
        // to grab payload, use get_payload()
    }

    record response {
        inherit: bool,
        ipc: list<u8>,
        metadata: option<json>,
        // to grab payload, use get_payload()
    }

    // a message can be a request or a response.
    // within a response, there is a result which surfaces any error
    // that happened because of a request.
    // a successful response will contain the context of the request
    // it matches, if any was set.
    variant message {
        request(request),
        response(tuple<response, option<context>>),
    }

    variant capabilities {
        none,
        all,
        some(list<signed-capability>),
    }

    record signed-capability {
        issuer: address,
        params: json,
        signature: list<u8>,
    }

    // on-panic is a setting that determines what happens when a process panics.
    // NOTE: requests should have expects-response set to false, will always be set to that by kernel
    variant on-panic {
        none,
        restart,
        requests(list<tuple<address, request, option<payload>>>),
    }

    // network errors come from trying to send a message to another node.
    // a message can fail by timing out, or by the node being entirely unreachable (offline).
    // in either case, the message is not delivered, and the process that sent it
    // receives that message along with any assigned context and/or payload,
    // and is free to handle it as it sees fit.
    // note that if the message is a response, the process can issue a response again,
    // and it will be directed to the same (remote) request as the original.
    record send-error {
        kind: send-error-kind,
        message: message,
        payload: option<payload>,
    }

    enum send-error-kind {
        offline,
        timeout,
    }

    enum spawn-error {
        name-taken,
        no-file-at-path,
        // TODO more here?
    }

    // system utils:
    print-to-terminal: func(verbosity: u8, message: string)

    // **more will be added here with regard to blockchains**
    get-eth-block: func() -> u64

    // process management:

    set-on-panic: func(on-panic: on-panic)

    get-state: func() -> option<list<u8>>

    set-state: func(bytes: list<u8>)

    clear-state: func()

    spawn: func(
                name: option<string>,
                wasm-path: string, // must be located within package's drive
                on-panic: on-panic,
                capabilities: capabilities,
                public: bool
            ) -> result<process-id, spawn-error>

    // capabilities management

    // gives us all our signed capabilities so we can send them to others
    get-capabilities: func() -> list<signed-capability>

    // gets a single specific capability
    get-capability: func(issuer: address, params: json) -> option<signed-capability>

    // attaches a specific signed capability to our next message
    attach-capability: func(capability: signed-capability)

    // saves capabilities to our store, so we can use them
    save-capabilities: func(capabilities: list<signed-capability>)

    // check to see if the sender of a prompting message has a given capability, issued by us
    // if the prompting message has a remote source, they must have attached it.
    has-capability: func(params: json) -> bool

    // generates a new capability with our process as the issuer and gives it to the target,
    // which must be a locally-running process.
    create-capability: func(to: process-id, params: json)

    // take a signed capability and save it to a given locally-running process
    share-capability: func(to: process-id, capability: signed-capability)


    // message I/O:

    // ingest next message when it arrives along with its source.
    // almost all long-running processes will call this in a loop
    receive: func() -> result<tuple<address, message>, tuple<send-error, option<context>>>

    // gets payload, if any, of the message we just received
    get-payload: func() -> option<payload>

    // send message(s) to target(s)
    send-request:
        func(target: address, request: request, context: option<context>, payload: option<payload>)
    send-requests:
        func(requests: list<tuple<address, request, option<context>, option<payload>>>)
    send-response:
        func(response: response, payload: option<payload>)

    // send a single request, then block (internally) until its response
    // the type is Message but will always contain Response
    send-and-await-response:
        func(target: address, request: request, payload: option<payload>) ->
            result<tuple<address, message>, send-error>
}

world lib {
    import standard
}

world process {
    include lib

    export init: func(our: string)
}