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-rw-r--r--src/table/crdt.rs31
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/table/crdt.rs b/src/table/crdt.rs
index 3e5e8317..b0323a66 100644
--- a/src/table/crdt.rs
+++ b/src/table/crdt.rs
@@ -40,7 +40,22 @@ where
/// Last Write Win (LWW)
///
-/// LWW is a very simple
+/// LWW is based on time, the most recent write wins.
+/// As multiple computers clocks are always desynchronized,
+/// when operations are close enough, it is equivalent to
+/// take one copy and drop the other one.
+///
+/// Given that clocks are not too desynchronized, this assumption
+/// is enough for most cases, as there is few chance that two humans
+/// coordonate themself faster than the time difference between two NTP servers.
+///
+/// As a more concret example, let's suppose you want to upload a file
+/// with the same key (path) in the same bucket at the very same time.
+/// For each request, the file will be timestamped by the receiving server
+/// and may differ from what you observed with your atomic clock!
+///
+/// This scheme is used by AWS S3 or Soundcloud and often without knowing
+/// in entreprise when reconciliating databases with ad-hoc scripts.
#[derive(Clone, Debug, Serialize, Deserialize, PartialEq)]
pub struct LWW<T> {
ts: u64,
@@ -51,22 +66,36 @@ impl<T> LWW<T>
where
T: CRDT,
{
+ /// Creates a new CRDT
+ ///
+ /// CRDT's internal timestamp is set with current node's clock.
pub fn new(value: T) -> Self {
Self {
ts: now_msec(),
v: value,
}
}
+
+ /// Build a new CRDT from a previous non-compatible one
+ ///
+ /// Compared to new, the CRDT's timestamp is not set to now
+ /// but must be set to the previous, non-compatible, CRDT's timestamp.
pub fn migrate_from_raw(ts: u64, value: T) -> Self {
Self { ts, v: value }
}
+
+ /// Update the LWW CRDT while keeping some causal ordering.
pub fn update(&mut self, new_value: T) {
self.ts = std::cmp::max(self.ts + 1, now_msec());
self.v = new_value;
}
+
+ /// Get the CRDT value
pub fn get(&self) -> &T {
&self.v
}
+
+ /// Get a mutable value for the CRDT
pub fn get_mut(&mut self) -> &mut T {
&mut self.v
}