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Summary

Expose the existing Dolos replay engine for an external host, without making the host coordinate Dolos storage internals.

Plan: plans/stelae-publisher-pipeline-dolos-engine.md (step 1 of the Stelae-owned publisher migration).

This revision addresses the API review: owning the implementation in Dolos is not enough if its public contract still leaks WAL recovery and unrestricted domain access.

Host-facing API

  • DomainBuilder::build() remains the shared normal-node construction path. Store assembly is private.
  • ReplayWorkspace::open(config, genesis) opens a dataset for inspection without running ledger initialization, advancing pending chain work or pruning history.
  • workspace.snapshot() provides borrowed, read-only Dolos profile operations: position, epoch, plan, preview and publication. No writable store handles escape.
  • workspace.start(stop_epoch) explicitly transitions into replay; BulkReplaySession::open(...) is the convenience path when no pending export needs inspection.
  • session.import_blocks(...) requires exclusive mutable access and reports committed position or a terminal boundary. It never substitutes the last submitted block for the actual committed position.
  • session.finish() -> Result<(), BulkReplayError> persists completed work and releases resources. run(...) finalizes on ordinary success and failure, preserving simultaneous errors.
  • prune_history() remains an explicit host decision, never automatic at completion.

Removed from the new public API: BulkRecovery, BulkRecoveryError, recover_bulk_checkpoint, initial_recovery(), storage-returning construction methods, cloned replay handles and the Domain implementation on replay sessions. Checkpoint reconciliation is now private engine implementation. Internal causes remain available in diagnostic error chains.

Existing flows

  • Normal node startup shares domain construction and retains its existing integrity policy.
  • Mithril bootstrap uses the exclusive session through an input-processing callback rather than requiring a Domain.
  • Snapshot backfill uses narrow Workspace, Session and Publish contracts: inspect/publish pending data first, then start the next replay round.
  • The repository CLI shares the same read-only profile source adapter; existing export and registry implementations remain unchanged.

Lifecycle guarantees and limits

  • Inspection cannot advance a pending boundary.
  • A borrowed profile view prevents advancing or finishing its session while the view is in use.
  • Sessions are not cloneable; finishing consumes the handle.
  • After a boundary, more imports report the same boundary without processing input. After an execution failure, finish and reopen; empty batches are rejected before execution without invalidating the session.
  • Persistence preparation and finalization stay inside Dolos. Finalization attempts every configured WAL/state/archive shutdown even if an earlier step fails.
  • No changes to ledger transitions, import execution, storage versions, profile bytes or live-sync notification semantics.
  • This is not a new atomic-import or general corruption-repair mechanism. Interrupted ledger transitions and inconsistent archives retain their existing limitations; dropping/panicking/killing is not equivalent to successful finalization.

See docs/headless-replay.md and examples/headless_replay.rs.

Verification

Validated on 2026-09-12; refactor commit: 01aa2c2c (following ef92f0c5).

  • cargo +nightly-2026-08-27 fmt --all -- --check
  • cargo clippy --locked --offline --workspace --all-targets --all-features — no new warnings; seven pre-existing warnings remain in untouched Cardano/snapshot tests.
  • cargo build --locked --offline --workspace --all-targets --all-features
  • cargo test --locked --offline --workspace --all-targets — 1,525 tests passed.
  • cargo test --locked --offline --workspace --all-features --exclude dolos-minibf --exclude dolos-minikupo --exclude dolos-trp — 1,040 tests passed, including doctests.
  • cargo check --locked --offline --no-default-features --example headless_replay
  • cargo test --locked --offline -p dolos --doc engine:: — four compile-fail ownership/API tests passed.
  • cargo test --locked --offline -p dolos-snapshot --test publish -- --ignored --test-threads=1 — 14 local-registry tests passed.
  • cargo test --locked --offline -p dolos-snapshot --test restore_registry -- --ignored --test-threads=1 — seven local-registry tests passed.

The ten public-engine tests cover non-advancing inspection, committed boundary reporting, refusal to advance a completed session, resumption, node startup after finalization, finalization after operation failures, invalid input, failed-open resource release and publication-before-advancement. Private tests cover checkpoint classification and combined errors.

No production registry writes or deployments were performed.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added a headless replay workflow with workspace inspection, batched imports, resume support, and optional stopping epochs.
    • Added explicit replay progress reporting, including committed positions and stopping boundaries.
    • Added read-only snapshot inspection and publishing support for external hosts.
    • Added checkpoint reconciliation for state and write-ahead log consistency.
  • Improvements

    • Updated snapshot backfill and bootstrap workflows to use the new replay process.
    • Added a command-line replay example and embedding documentation.

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Walkthrough

The PR adds bulk checkpoint recovery, a headless domain builder, and a BulkReplaySession. Bootstrap, snapshot backfill, and the replay example use the new lifecycle. Integration tests cover recovery, boundaries, shutdown, and error handling.

Changes

Bulk replay lifecycle

Layer / File(s) Summary
Checkpoint recovery contract and callers
crates/core/src/import.rs, crates/core/src/lib.rs, crates/snapshot/src/backfill.rs
Adds BulkRecovery, BulkRecoveryError, and recover_bulk_checkpoint. Snapshot backfill uses checkpoint recovery for publication and domain advancement.
Headless domain and replay session
src/engine.rs, src/lib.rs, tests/engine.rs
Adds DomainBuilder, BulkReplaySession, replay progress and error types, domain delegation, and integration tests for replay, recovery, boundaries, and shutdown.
Replay entry points and domain construction
examples/headless_replay.rs, src/bin/dolos/bootstrap/mithril.rs, src/bin/dolos/common.rs, src/bin/dolos/snapshot/backfill.rs
Updates bootstrap and snapshot backfill to use BulkReplaySession and DomainBuilder. Adds a headless replay example with batching and stopping-epoch handling.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ReplayHost
  participant BulkReplaySession
  participant StateStore
  participant WalStore
  participant DomainAdapter
  ReplayHost->>BulkReplaySession: open configuration and genesis
  BulkReplaySession->>StateStore: recover state cursor
  BulkReplaySession->>WalStore: recover WAL cursor
  BulkReplaySession->>DomainAdapter: build domain
  ReplayHost->>BulkReplaySession: import_blocks batch
  BulkReplaySession->>DomainAdapter: import trusted blocks
  BulkReplaySession->>StateStore: read committed position
  ReplayHost->>BulkReplaySession: close
  BulkReplaySession->>WalStore: checkpoint recovery
  BulkReplaySession->>DomainAdapter: shutdown
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 01aa2

The replay lifecycle appears mergeable; the remaining concerns are limited to API clarity and a small maintainability hazard in trait delegation.

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In `@src/bin/dolos/snapshot/backfill.rs`:
- Line 275: Update Driver::extend to evaluate and retain both the replay and
shutdown results before returning, rather than propagating the replay error
immediately. Add a combined backfill::Error variant for simultaneous failures
and use it to preserve both errors, following the existing handling in
BulkReplaySession::run.

In `@src/engine.rs`:
- Line 182: Remove the Clone derive from the session type and change its close
method to consume self rather than borrowing it. Update callers such as run and
any other close invocations to transfer ownership, ensuring no session handle
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  • crates/core/src/import.rs
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Code QA at ef92f0c: fixed both actionable review items. The backfill driver now preserves simultaneous replay/shutdown failures, and replay shutdown consumes the session while refusing outstanding cloned handles required by the Domain contract. Both inline threads contain commit/test evidence and are resolved. The PR-scope comment normalization pass retained 32 contract/invariant comment blocks, trimmed 0, and removed 0.

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src/engine.rs (2)

358-358: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Document what the returned u64 counts.

prune_history returns the value of drain_housekeeping(None), which is the number of housekeeping rounds executed, not the number of pruned slots or records. The doc comment does not state this. A host that logs or reports the value can describe it incorrectly.

📝 Proposed doc change
     /// Explicitly apply the configured history retention policy.
     ///
     /// The host must first publish any data it intends to preserve. Import and
     /// finalization never call this operation automatically.
+    ///
+    /// Returns the number of housekeeping rounds executed, not a count of
+    /// pruned slots or records.
     pub fn prune_history(&mut self) -> Result<u64, BulkReplayError> {
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In `@src/engine.rs` at line 358, Update the documentation for
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445-447: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Call the inherent methods through explicit paths in the trait impls.

Each trait method body calls a same-named method on self. Rust resolves these to the inherent methods, so the current code is correct. The resolution is implicit: Workspace::finish and the inherent ReplayWorkspace::finish have identical signatures, and only inherent-method priority separates them.

If an inherent method is later renamed or removed, the trait method body will resolve to itself and recurse until the stack overflows. The code still compiles. Use explicit paths so the target is fixed at the call site.

Also applies to lines 449-451, 454-456, 462-464, 471-472, 476-477, and 481-482.

♻️ Proposed change
     fn snapshot(&self) -> impl SnapshotSource + '_ {
-        self.snapshot()
+        ReplayWorkspace::snapshot(self)
     }
 
     fn start(self, target: u64) -> Result<Self::Session, dolos_snapshot::backfill::Error> {
-        self.start(Some(target))
+        ReplayWorkspace::start(self, Some(target))
             .map_err(dolos_snapshot::backfill::Error::caller)
     }
 
     fn finish(self) -> Result<(), dolos_snapshot::backfill::Error> {
-        self.finish()
+        ReplayWorkspace::finish(self)
             .map_err(dolos_snapshot::backfill::Error::caller)
     }
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In `@src/engine.rs` around lines 445 - 447, Update the same-named method calls in
the affected trait implementations, including snapshot and the methods at the
referenced ranges, to use explicit inherent-type paths rather than
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In `@src/engine.rs`:
- Line 358: Update the documentation for Engine::prune_history to state that its
returned u64 is the number of housekeeping rounds executed by
drain_housekeeping(None), not the number of pruned slots or records.
- Around line 445-447: Update the same-named method calls in the affected trait
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  • crates/snapshot/src/source.rs
  • docs/headless-replay.md
  • examples/headless_replay.rs
  • src/bin/dolos/bootstrap/mithril.rs
  • src/bin/dolos/snapshot/backfill.rs
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