Implement persistence with the new structures

crates/chain/src/indexed_tx_graph.rs

@@ -301,6 +301,10 @@ impl<A: Anchor, IA: Append> Append for IndexedAdditions<A, IA> {
         self.graph_additions.append(other.graph_additions);
         self.index_additions.append(other.index_additions);
     }
+
+    fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
+        self.graph_additions.is_empty() && self.index_additions.is_empty()
+    }
 }
 
 /// Represents a structure that can index transaction data.

crates/chain/src/keychain.rs

@@ -84,6 +84,10 @@ impl<K: Ord> Append for DerivationAdditions<K> {
 
         self.0.append(&mut other.0);
     }
+
+    fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
+        self.0.is_empty()
+    }
 }
 
 impl<K> Default for DerivationAdditions<K> {

crates/chain/src/lib.rs

@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ pub mod tx_graph;
 pub use tx_data_traits::*;
 mod chain_oracle;
 pub use chain_oracle::*;
+mod persist;
+pub use persist::*;
 
 #[doc(hidden)]
 pub mod example_utils;

crates/chain/src/persist.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+use core::convert::Infallible;
+
+use crate::Append;
+
+/// `Persist` wraps a [`PersistBackend`] (`B`) to create a convenient staging area for changes (`C`)
+/// before they are persisted.
+///
+/// Not all changes to the in-memory representation needs to be written to disk right away, so
+/// [`Persist::stage`] can be used to *stage* changes first and then [`Persist::commit`] can be used
+/// to write changes to disk.
+#[derive(Debug)]
+pub struct Persist<B, C> {
+    backend: B,
+    stage: C,
+}
+
+impl<B, C> Persist<B, C>
+where
+    B: PersistBackend<C>,
+    C: Default + Append,
+{
+    /// Create a new [`Persist`] from [`PersistBackend`].
+    pub fn new(backend: B) -> Self {
+        Self {
+            backend,
+            stage: Default::default(),
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Stage a `changeset` to be commited later with [`commit`].
+    ///
+    /// [`commit`]: Self::commit
+    pub fn stage(&mut self, changeset: C) {
+        self.stage.append(changeset)
+    }
+
+    /// Get the changes that have not been commited yet.
+    pub fn staged(&self) -> &C {
+        &self.stage
+    }
+
+    /// Commit the staged changes to the underlying persistance backend.
+    ///
+    /// Returns a backend-defined error if this fails.
+    pub fn commit(&mut self) -> Result<(), B::WriteError> {
+        let mut temp = C::default();
+        core::mem::swap(&mut temp, &mut self.stage);
+        self.backend.write_changes(&temp)
+    }
+}
+
+/// A persistence backend for [`Persist`].
+///
+/// `C` represents the changeset; a datatype that records changes made to in-memory data structures
+/// that are to be persisted, or retrieved from persistence.
+pub trait PersistBackend<C> {
+    /// The error the backend returns when it fails to write.
+    type WriteError: core::fmt::Debug;
+
+    /// The error the backend returns when it fails to load changesets `C`.
+    type LoadError: core::fmt::Debug;
+
+    /// Writes a changeset to the persistence backend.
+    ///
+    /// It is up to the backend what it does with this. It could store every changeset in a list or
+    /// it inserts the actual changes into a more structured database. All it needs to guarantee is
+    /// that [`load_from_persistence`] restores a keychain tracker to what it should be if all
+    /// changesets had been applied sequentially.
+    ///
+    /// [`load_from_persistence`]: Self::load_from_persistence
+    fn write_changes(&mut self, changeset: &C) -> Result<(), Self::WriteError>;
+
+    /// Return the aggregate changeset `C` from persistence.
+    fn load_from_persistence(&mut self) -> Result<C, Self::LoadError>;
+}
+
+impl<C: Default> PersistBackend<C> for () {
+    type WriteError = Infallible;
+
+    type LoadError = Infallible;
+
+    fn write_changes(&mut self, _changeset: &C) -> Result<(), Self::WriteError> {
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    fn load_from_persistence(&mut self) -> Result<C, Self::LoadError> {
+        Ok(C::default())
+    }
+}

crates/chain/src/tx_data_traits.rs

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 use crate::collections::BTreeMap;
 use crate::collections::BTreeSet;
 use crate::BlockId;
+use alloc::vec::Vec;
 use bitcoin::{Block, OutPoint, Transaction, TxOut};
 
 /// Trait to do something with every txout contained in a structure.
@@ -64,20 +65,56 @@ impl<A: Anchor> Anchor for &'static A {
 pub trait Append {
     /// Append another object of the same type onto `self`.
     fn append(&mut self, other: Self);
+
+    /// Returns whether the structure is considered empty.
+    fn is_empty(&self) -> bool;
 }
 
 impl Append for () {
     fn append(&mut self, _other: Self) {}
+
+    fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
+        true
+    }
 }
 
 impl<K: Ord, V> Append for BTreeMap<K, V> {
     fn append(&mut self, mut other: Self) {
         BTreeMap::append(self, &mut other)
     }
+
+    fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
+        BTreeMap::is_empty(self)
+    }
 }
 
 impl<T: Ord> Append for BTreeSet<T> {
     fn append(&mut self, mut other: Self) {
         BTreeSet::append(self, &mut other)
     }
+
+    fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
+        BTreeSet::is_empty(self)
+    }
+}
+
+impl<T> Append for Vec<T> {
+    fn append(&mut self, mut other: Self) {
+        Vec::append(self, &mut other)
+    }
+
+    fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
+        Vec::is_empty(self)
+    }
+}
+
+impl<A: Append, B: Append> Append for (A, B) {
+    fn append(&mut self, other: Self) {
+        Append::append(&mut self.0, other.0);
+        Append::append(&mut self.1, other.1);
+    }
+
+    fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
+        Append::is_empty(&self.0) && Append::is_empty(&self.1)
+    }
 }

crates/chain/src/tx_graph.rs

@@ -940,6 +940,13 @@ impl<A: Ord> Append for Additions<A> {
                 .collect::<Vec<_>>(),
         );
     }
+
+    fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
+        self.tx.is_empty()
+            && self.txout.is_empty()
+            && self.anchors.is_empty()
+            && self.last_seen.is_empty()
+    }
 }
 
 impl<A> AsRef<TxGraph<A>> for TxGraph<A> {

crates/file_store/src/entry_iter.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+use bincode::Options;
+use std::{
+    fs::File,
+    io::{self, Seek},
+    marker::PhantomData,
+};
+
+use crate::bincode_options;
+
+/// Iterator over entries in a file store.
+///
+/// Reads and returns an entry each time [`next`] is called. If an error occurs while reading the
+/// iterator will yield a `Result::Err(_)` instead and then `None` for the next call to `next`.
+///
+/// [`next`]: Self::next
+pub struct EntryIter<'t, T> {
+    db_file: Option<&'t mut File>,
+
+    /// The file position for the first read of `db_file`.
+    start_pos: Option<u64>,
+    types: PhantomData<T>,
+}
+
+impl<'t, T> EntryIter<'t, T> {
+    pub fn new(start_pos: u64, db_file: &'t mut File) -> Self {
+        Self {
+            db_file: Some(db_file),
+            start_pos: Some(start_pos),
+            types: PhantomData,
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl<'t, T> Iterator for EntryIter<'t, T>
+where
+    T: serde::de::DeserializeOwned,
+{
+    type Item = Result<T, IterError>;
+
+    fn next(&mut self) -> Option<Self::Item> {
+        // closure which reads a single entry starting from `self.pos`
+        let read_one = |f: &mut File, start_pos: Option<u64>| -> Result<Option<T>, IterError> {
+            let pos = match start_pos {
+                Some(pos) => f.seek(io::SeekFrom::Start(pos))?,
+                None => f.stream_position()?,
+            };
+
+            match bincode_options().deserialize_from(&*f) {
+                Ok(changeset) => {
+                    f.stream_position()?;
+                    Ok(Some(changeset))
+                }
+                Err(e) => {
+                    if let bincode::ErrorKind::Io(inner) = &*e {
+                        if inner.kind() == io::ErrorKind::UnexpectedEof {
+                            let eof = f.seek(io::SeekFrom::End(0))?;
+                            if pos == eof {
+                                return Ok(None);
+                            }
+                        }
+                    }
+                    f.seek(io::SeekFrom::Start(pos))?;
+                    Err(IterError::Bincode(*e))
+                }
+            }
+        };
+
+        let result = read_one(self.db_file.as_mut()?, self.start_pos.take());
+        if result.is_err() {
+            self.db_file = None;
+        }
+        result.transpose()
+    }
+}
+
+impl From<io::Error> for IterError {
+    fn from(value: io::Error) -> Self {
+        IterError::Io(value)
+    }
+}
+
+/// Error type for [`EntryIter`].
+#[derive(Debug)]
+pub enum IterError {
+    /// Failure to read from the file.
+    Io(io::Error),
+    /// Failure to decode data from the file.
+    Bincode(bincode::ErrorKind),
+}
+
+impl core::fmt::Display for IterError {
+    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut core::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> core::fmt::Result {
+        match self {
+            IterError::Io(e) => write!(f, "io error trying to read entry {}", e),
+            IterError::Bincode(e) => write!(f, "bincode error while reading entry {}", e),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl std::error::Error for IterError {}