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use std::cmp::Ordering;
use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
use crate::time::now_msec;
use crate::crdt::crdt::*;
/// Last Write Win (LWW)
///
/// An LWW CRDT associates a timestamp with a value, in order to implement a
/// time-based reconciliation rule: the most recent write wins.
/// For completeness, the LWW reconciliation rule must also be defined for two LWW CRDTs
/// with the same timestamp but different values.
///
/// In our case, we add the constraint that the value that is wrapped inside the LWW CRDT must
/// itself be a CRDT: in the case when the timestamp does not allow us to decide on which value to
/// keep, the merge rule of the inner CRDT is applied on the wrapped values. (Note that all types
/// that implement the `Ord` trait get a default CRDT implemetnation that keeps the maximum value.
/// This enables us to use LWW directly with primitive data types such as numbers or strings. It is
/// generally desirable in this case to never explicitly produce LWW values with the same timestamp
/// but different inner values, as the rule to keep the maximum value isn't generally the desired
/// semantics.)
///
/// 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 enterprise when reconciliating databases with ad-hoc scripts.
#[derive(Clone, Debug, Serialize, Deserialize, PartialEq)]
pub struct Lww<T> {
ts: u64,
v: T,
}
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 raw(ts: u64, value: T) -> Self {
Self { ts, v: value }
}
/// Update the LWW CRDT while keeping some causal ordering.
///
/// The timestamp of the LWW CRDT is updated to be the current node's clock
/// at time of update, or the previous timestamp + 1 if that's bigger,
/// so that the new timestamp is always strictly larger than the previous one.
/// This ensures that merging the update with the old value will result in keeping
/// the updated value.
pub fn update(&mut self, new_value: T) {
self.ts = std::cmp::max(self.ts + 1, now_msec());
self.v = new_value;
}
/// Get the timestamp currently associated with the value
pub fn timestamp(&self) -> u64 {
self.ts
}
/// Get the CRDT value
pub fn get(&self) -> &T {
&self.v
}
/// Take the value inside the CRDT (discards the timesamp)
pub fn take(self) -> T {
self.v
}
/// Get a mutable reference to the CRDT's value
///
/// This is usefull to mutate the inside value without changing the LWW timestamp.
/// When such mutation is done, the merge between two LWW values is done using the inner
/// CRDT's merge operation. This is usefull in the case where the inner CRDT is a large
/// data type, such as a map, and we only want to change a single item in the map.
/// To do this, we can produce a "CRDT delta", i.e. a LWW that contains only the modification.
/// This delta consists in a LWW with the same timestamp, and the map
/// inside only contains the updated value.
/// The advantage of such a delta is that it is much smaller than the whole map.
///
/// Avoid using this if the inner data type is a primitive type such as a number or a string,
/// as you will then rely on the merge function defined on `Ord` types by keeping the maximum
/// of both values.
pub fn get_mut(&mut self) -> &mut T {
&mut self.v
}
}
impl<T> Crdt for Lww<T>
where
T: Clone + Crdt,
{
fn merge(&mut self, other: &Self) {
match other.ts.cmp(&self.ts) {
Ordering::Greater => {
self.ts = other.ts;
self.v = other.v.clone();
}
Ordering::Equal => {
self.v.merge(&other.v);
}
Ordering::Less => (),
}
}
}
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