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Add blob split and splice API (bazelbuild#282)
Depending on the software project, possibly large binary artifacts need to be downloaded from or uploaded to the remote CAS. Examples are executables with debug information, comprehensive libraries, or even whole file system images. Such artifacts generate a lot of traffic when downloaded or uploaded. The blob split API allows to split such artifacts into chunks at the remote side, to fetch only those parts that are locally missing, and finally to locally assemble the requested blob from its chunks. The blob splice API allows to split such artifacts into chunks locally, to upload only those parts that are remotely missing, and finally to remotely splice the requested blob from its chunks. Since only the binary differences from the last download/upload are fetched/uploaded, the blob split and splice API can significantly save network traffic between server and client.
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‎build/bazel/remote/execution/v2/remote_execution.proto‎

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rpc GetTree(GetTreeRequest) returns (stream GetTreeResponse) {
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option (google.api.http) = { get: "/v2/{instance_name=**}/blobs/{root_digest.hash}/{root_digest.size_bytes}:getTree" };
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}
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// Split a blob into chunks.
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//
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// This call splits a blob into chunks, stores the chunks in the CAS, and
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// returns a list of the chunk digests. Using this list, a client can check
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// which chunks are locally available and just fetch the missing ones. The
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// desired blob can be assembled by concatenating the fetched chunks in the
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// order of the digests from the list.
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//
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// This rpc can be used to reduce the required data to download a large blob
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// from CAS if chunks from earlier downloads of a different version of this
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// blob are locally available. For this procedure to work properly, blobs need
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// to be split in a content-defined way, rather than with fixed-sized
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// chunking.
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//
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// If a split request is answered successfully, a client can expect the
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// following guarantees from the server:
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// 1. The blob chunks are stored in CAS.
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// 2. Concatenating the blob chunks in the order of the digest list returned
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// by the server results in the original blob.
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//
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// Servers are free to implement this functionality, but they need to declare
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// whether they support it or not by setting the
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// [CacheCapabilities.blob_split_support][build.bazel.remote.execution.v2.CacheCapabilities.blob_split_support]
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// field accordingly.
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//
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// Clients are free to use this functionality, it is just an optimization to
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// reduce download network traffic, when downloading large blobs from the CAS.
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// However, clients need to check first the server capabilities, whether blob
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// splitting is supported by the server.
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//
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// Hints:
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//
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// * For clients, it is recommended to verify whether the digest of the blob
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// assembled by the fetched chunks results in the requested blob digest.
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//
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// * Since the generated chunks are stored as blobs, they underlie the same
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// lifetimes as other blobs. However, their lifetimes are extended if they
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// are part of the result of a split blob request.
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//
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// * When blob splitting and splicing is used at the same time, the clients
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// and the server should out-of-band agree upon a chunking algorithm used by
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// all parties to benefit from each others chunk data and avoid unnecessary
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// data duplication.
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//
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// Errors:
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//
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// * `NOT_FOUND`: The requested blob is not present in the CAS.
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// * `RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED`: There is insufficient disk quota to store the blob
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// chunks.
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rpc SplitBlob(SplitBlobRequest) returns (SplitBlobResponse) {
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option (google.api.http) = { get: "/v2/{instance_name=**}/blobs/{blob_digest.hash}/{blob_digest.size_bytes}:splitBlob" };
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}
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// Splice a blob from chunks.
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//
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// This is the complementary operation to the
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// [ContentAddressableStorage.SplitBlob][build.bazel.remote.execution.v2.ContentAddressableStorage.SplitBlob]
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// function to handle the chunked upload of large blobs to save upload
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// traffic.
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//
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// If a client needs to upload a large blob and is able to split a blob into
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// chunks in such a way that reusable chunks are obtained, e.g., by means of
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// content-defined chunking, it can first determine which parts of the blob
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// are already available in the remote CAS and upload the missing chunks, and
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// then use this API to instruct the server to splice the original blob from
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// the remotely available blob chunks.
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//
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// Servers are free to implement this functionality, but they need to declare
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// whether they support it or not by setting the
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// [CacheCapabilities.blob_splice_support][build.bazel.remote.execution.v2.CacheCapabilities.blob_splice_support]
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// field accordingly.
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//
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// Clients are free to use this functionality, it is just an optimization to
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// reduce upload traffic, when uploading large blobs to the CAS. However,
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// clients need to check first the server capabilities, whether blob splicing
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// is supported by the server.
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//
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// Hints:
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//
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// * In order to ensure data consistency of the CAS, the server will verify
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// the spliced result whether digest calculation results in the provided
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// digest from the request and will reject a splice request if this check
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// fails.
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//
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// * When blob splitting and splicing is used at the same time, the clients
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// and the server should out-of-band agree upon a chunking algorithm used by
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// all parties to benefit from each others chunk data and avoid unnecessary
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// data duplication.
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//
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// Errors:
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//
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// * `NOT_FOUND`: At least one of the blob chunks is not present in the CAS.
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// * `RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED`: There is insufficient disk quota to store the
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// spliced blob.
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// * `INVALID_ARGUMENT`: The digest of the spliced blob is different from the
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// provided expected digest.
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rpc SpliceBlob(SpliceBlobRequest) returns (SpliceBlobResponse) {
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option (google.api.http) = { post: "/v2/{instance_name=**}/blobs:spliceBlob" body: "*" };
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}
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}
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// The Capabilities service may be used by remote execution clients to query
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string next_page_token = 2;
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}
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// A request message for
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// [ContentAddressableStorage.SplitBlob][build.bazel.remote.execution.v2.ContentAddressableStorage.SplitBlob].
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message SplitBlobRequest {
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// The instance of the execution system to operate against. A server may
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// support multiple instances of the execution system (with their own workers,
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// storage, caches, etc.). The server MAY require use of this field to select
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// between them in an implementation-defined fashion, otherwise it can be
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// omitted.
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string instance_name = 1;
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// The digest of the blob to be split.
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Digest blob_digest = 2;
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// The digest function of the blob to be split.
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//
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// If the digest function used is one of MD5, MURMUR3, SHA1, SHA256,
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// SHA384, SHA512, or VSO, the client MAY leave this field unset. In
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// that case the server SHOULD infer the digest function using the
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// length of the blob digest hashes and the digest functions announced
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// in the server's capabilities.
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DigestFunction.Value digest_function = 4;
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}
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// A response message for
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// [ContentAddressableStorage.SplitBlob][build.bazel.remote.execution.v2.ContentAddressableStorage.SplitBlob].
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message SplitBlobResponse {
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// The ordered list of digests of the chunks into which the blob was split.
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// The original blob is assembled by concatenating the chunk data according to
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// the order of the digests given by this list.
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repeated Digest chunk_digests = 1;
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// The digest function of the chunks.
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//
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// If the digest function used is one of MD5, MURMUR3, SHA1, SHA256,
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// SHA384, SHA512, or VSO, the client MAY leave this field unset. In
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// that case the server SHOULD infer the digest function using the
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// length of the blob digest hashes and the digest functions announced
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// in the server's capabilities.
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DigestFunction.Value digest_function = 2;
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}
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// A request message for
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// [ContentAddressableStorage.SpliceBlob][build.bazel.remote.execution.v2.ContentAddressableStorage.SpliceBlob].
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message SpliceBlobRequest {
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// The instance of the execution system to operate against. A server may
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// support multiple instances of the execution system (with their own workers,
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// storage, caches, etc.). The server MAY require use of this field to select
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// between them in an implementation-defined fashion, otherwise it can be
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// omitted.
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string instance_name = 1;
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// Expected digest of the spliced blob.
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Digest blob_digest = 2;
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// The ordered list of digests of the chunks which need to be concatenated to
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// assemble the original blob.
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repeated Digest chunk_digests = 3;
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// The digest function of the blob to be spliced as well as of the chunks to
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// be concatenated.
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//
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// If the digest function used is one of MD5, MURMUR3, SHA1, SHA256,
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// SHA384, SHA512, or VSO, the client MAY leave this field unset. In
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// that case the server SHOULD infer the digest function using the
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// length of the blob digest hashes and the digest functions announced
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// in the server's capabilities.
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DigestFunction.Value digest_function = 4;
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}
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// A response message for
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// [ContentAddressableStorage.SpliceBlob][build.bazel.remote.execution.v2.ContentAddressableStorage.SpliceBlob].
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message SpliceBlobResponse {
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// Computed digest of the spliced blob.
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Digest blob_digest = 1;
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// The digest function of the spliced blob.
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//
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// If the digest function used is one of MD5, MURMUR3, SHA1, SHA256,
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// SHA384, SHA512, or VSO, the client MAY leave this field unset. In
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// that case the server SHOULD infer the digest function using the
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// length of the blob digest hashes and the digest functions announced
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// in the server's capabilities.
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DigestFunction.Value digest_function = 2;
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}
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message GetCapabilitiesRequest {
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// [BatchUpdateBlobs][build.bazel.remote.execution.v2.ContentAddressableStorage.BatchUpdateBlobs]
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repeated Compressor.Value supported_batch_update_compressors = 7;
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// Whether blob splitting is supported for the particular server/instance. If
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// yes, the server/instance implements the specified behavior for blob
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// splitting and a meaningful result can be expected from the
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// [ContentAddressableStorage.SplitBlob][build.bazel.remote.execution.v2.ContentAddressableStorage.SplitBlob]
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// operation.
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bool blob_split_support = 9;
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// Whether blob splicing is supported for the particular server/instance. If
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// yes, the server/instance implements the specified behavior for blob
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// splicing and a meaningful result can be expected from the
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// [ContentAddressableStorage.SpliceBlob][build.bazel.remote.execution.v2.ContentAddressableStorage.SpliceBlob]
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// operation.
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bool blob_splice_support = 10;
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}
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// Capabilities of the remote execution system.

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