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- checksums.yaml +5 -5
- data/CHANGELOG.md +33 -0
- data/Gemfile +1 -7
- data/README.dev.md +1 -1
- data/README.md +36 -14
- data/lib/maxmind/geoip2/client.rb +289 -265
- data/lib/maxmind/geoip2/errors.rb +0 -7
- data/lib/maxmind/geoip2/model/abstract.rb +19 -15
- data/lib/maxmind/geoip2/model/anonymous_ip.rb +62 -50
- data/lib/maxmind/geoip2/model/asn.rb +33 -29
- data/lib/maxmind/geoip2/model/city.rb +59 -55
- data/lib/maxmind/geoip2/model/connection_type.rb +27 -23
- data/lib/maxmind/geoip2/model/country.rb +57 -53
- data/lib/maxmind/geoip2/model/domain.rb +27 -23
- data/lib/maxmind/geoip2/model/enterprise.rb +13 -9
- data/lib/maxmind/geoip2/model/insights.rb +12 -8
- data/lib/maxmind/geoip2/model/isp.rb +45 -41
- data/lib/maxmind/geoip2/reader.rb +260 -233
- data/lib/maxmind/geoip2/record/abstract.rb +17 -13
- data/lib/maxmind/geoip2/record/city.rb +33 -29
- data/lib/maxmind/geoip2/record/continent.rb +32 -28
- data/lib/maxmind/geoip2/record/country.rb +47 -43
- data/lib/maxmind/geoip2/record/location.rb +64 -60
- data/lib/maxmind/geoip2/record/maxmind.rb +14 -10
- data/lib/maxmind/geoip2/record/place.rb +22 -18
- data/lib/maxmind/geoip2/record/postal.rb +26 -22
- data/lib/maxmind/geoip2/record/represented_country.rb +20 -16
- data/lib/maxmind/geoip2/record/subdivision.rb +42 -38
- data/lib/maxmind/geoip2/record/traits.rb +204 -191
- data/maxmind-geoip2.gemspec +10 -3
- data/test/data/LICENSE +4 -0
- data/test/data/MaxMind-DB-spec.md +570 -0
- data/test/data/MaxMind-DB-test-metadata-pointers.mmdb +0 -0
- data/test/data/README.md +4 -0
- data/test/data/bad-data/README.md +7 -0
- data/test/data/bad-data/libmaxminddb/libmaxminddb-offset-integer-overflow.mmdb +0 -0
- data/test/data/bad-data/maxminddb-golang/cyclic-data-structure.mmdb +0 -0
- data/test/data/bad-data/maxminddb-golang/invalid-bytes-length.mmdb +1 -0
- data/test/data/bad-data/maxminddb-golang/invalid-data-record-offset.mmdb +0 -0
- data/test/data/bad-data/maxminddb-golang/invalid-map-key-length.mmdb +0 -0
- data/test/data/bad-data/maxminddb-golang/invalid-string-length.mmdb +1 -0
- data/test/data/bad-data/maxminddb-golang/metadata-is-an-uint128.mmdb +1 -0
- data/test/data/bad-data/maxminddb-golang/unexpected-bytes.mmdb +0 -0
- data/test/data/bad-data/maxminddb-python/bad-unicode-in-map-key.mmdb +0 -0
- data/test/data/perltidyrc +12 -0
- data/test/data/source-data/GeoIP2-Anonymous-IP-Test.json +49 -0
- data/test/data/source-data/GeoIP2-City-Test.json +12852 -0
- data/test/data/source-data/GeoIP2-Connection-Type-Test.json +102 -0
- data/test/data/source-data/GeoIP2-Country-Test.json +15916 -0
- data/test/data/source-data/GeoIP2-DensityIncome-Test.json +14 -0
- data/test/data/source-data/GeoIP2-Domain-Test.json +452 -0
- data/test/data/source-data/GeoIP2-Enterprise-Test.json +687 -0
- data/test/data/source-data/GeoIP2-ISP-Test.json +12595 -0
- data/test/data/source-data/GeoIP2-Precision-Enterprise-Test.json +2148 -0
- data/test/data/source-data/GeoIP2-Static-IP-Score-Test.json +2132 -0
- data/test/data/source-data/GeoIP2-User-Count-Test.json +2837 -0
- data/test/data/source-data/GeoLite2-ASN-Test.json +37 -0
- data/test/data/source-data/README +15 -0
- data/test/data/test-data/GeoIP2-Anonymous-IP-Test.mmdb +0 -0
- data/test/data/test-data/GeoIP2-City-Test-Broken-Double-Format.mmdb +0 -0
- data/test/data/test-data/GeoIP2-City-Test-Invalid-Node-Count.mmdb +0 -0
- data/test/data/test-data/GeoIP2-City-Test.mmdb +0 -0
- data/test/data/test-data/GeoIP2-Connection-Type-Test.mmdb +0 -0
- data/test/data/test-data/GeoIP2-Country-Test.mmdb +0 -0
- data/test/data/test-data/GeoIP2-DensityIncome-Test.mmdb +0 -0
- data/test/data/test-data/GeoIP2-Domain-Test.mmdb +0 -0
- data/test/data/test-data/GeoIP2-Enterprise-Test.mmdb +0 -0
- data/test/data/test-data/GeoIP2-ISP-Test.mmdb +0 -0
- data/test/data/test-data/GeoIP2-Precision-Enterprise-Test.mmdb +0 -0
- data/test/data/test-data/GeoIP2-Static-IP-Score-Test.mmdb +0 -0
- data/test/data/test-data/GeoIP2-User-Count-Test.mmdb +0 -0
- data/test/data/test-data/GeoLite2-ASN-Test.mmdb +0 -0
- data/test/data/test-data/MaxMind-DB-no-ipv4-search-tree.mmdb +0 -0
- data/test/data/test-data/MaxMind-DB-string-value-entries.mmdb +0 -0
- data/test/data/test-data/MaxMind-DB-test-broken-pointers-24.mmdb +0 -0
- data/test/data/test-data/MaxMind-DB-test-broken-search-tree-24.mmdb +0 -0
- data/test/data/test-data/MaxMind-DB-test-decoder.mmdb +0 -0
- data/test/data/test-data/MaxMind-DB-test-ipv4-24.mmdb +0 -0
- data/test/data/test-data/MaxMind-DB-test-ipv4-28.mmdb +0 -0
- data/test/data/test-data/MaxMind-DB-test-ipv4-32.mmdb +0 -0
- data/test/data/test-data/MaxMind-DB-test-ipv6-24.mmdb +0 -0
- data/test/data/test-data/MaxMind-DB-test-ipv6-28.mmdb +0 -0
- data/test/data/test-data/MaxMind-DB-test-ipv6-32.mmdb +0 -0
- data/test/data/test-data/MaxMind-DB-test-metadata-pointers.mmdb +0 -0
- data/test/data/test-data/MaxMind-DB-test-mixed-24.mmdb +0 -0
- data/test/data/test-data/MaxMind-DB-test-mixed-28.mmdb +0 -0
- data/test/data/test-data/MaxMind-DB-test-mixed-32.mmdb +0 -0
- data/test/data/test-data/MaxMind-DB-test-nested.mmdb +0 -0
- data/test/data/test-data/MaxMind-DB-test-pointer-decoder.mmdb +0 -0
- data/test/data/test-data/README.md +26 -0
- data/test/data/test-data/maps-with-pointers.raw +0 -0
- data/test/data/test-data/write-test-data.pl +691 -0
- data/test/data/tidyall.ini +5 -0
- data/test/test_client.rb +4 -2
- data/test/test_model_country.rb +16 -0
- data/test/test_reader.rb +59 -0
- metadata +156 -10
- data/Gemfile.lock +0 -70
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This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0
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Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit
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title: MaxMind DB File Format Specification
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# MaxMind DB File Format Specification
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## Description
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## Overview
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specific IP address, e.g. "US", "New York", or a more complex map type made up
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## Database Metadata
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understanding how the other sections work.
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[6to4 mapping](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6to4) subnet.
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32-bit integer may use from 0-4 bytes. The number of bytes used is determined
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contains, not its length in bytes. This size can be zero.
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hash. This algorithm is also used to determine the length of a field's
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field's payload.
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### data cache container - 12
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This is a special data type that marks a container used to cache repeated
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data. For example, instead of repeating the string "United States" over and
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*into* this container instead.
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Nothing in the database will ever contain a pointer to this field
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itself. Instead, various fields will point into the container.
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the cached data is so that a database dumper tool can skip this cache when
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dumping the data section. The cache contents will end up being dumped as
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pointers into it are followed.
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### end marker - 13
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The end marker marks the end of the data section. It is not strictly
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necessary, but including this marker allows a data section deserializer to
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process a stream of input, rather than having to find the end of the section
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before beginning the deserialization.
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This data type is not followed by a payload, and its size is always zero.
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### boolean - 14
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A true or false value. The length information for a boolean type will always
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be 0 or 1, indicating the value. There is no payload for this field.
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length of a float is always 4 bytes.
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This type is provided primarily for completeness. Because of the way floating
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point numbers are stored, this type can easily lose precision when serialized
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and then deserialized. If this is an issue for you, consider using a double
|
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instead.
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### Data Field Format
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Each field starts with a control byte. This control byte provides information
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about the field's data type and payload size.
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The first three bits of the control byte tell you what type the field is. If
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these bits are all 0, then this is an "extended" type, which means that the
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*next* byte contains the actual type. Otherwise, the first three bits will
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contain a number from 1 to 7, the actual type for the field.
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We've tried to assign the most commonly used types as numbers 1-7 as an
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optimization.
|
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|
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|
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|
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With an extended type, the type number in the second byte is the number
|
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minus 7. In other words, an array (type 11) will be stored with a 0 for the
|
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type in the first byte and a 4 in the second.
|
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|
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|
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|
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Here is an example of how the control byte may combine with the next byte to
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tell us the type:
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001XXXXX pointer
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010XXXXX UTF-8 string
|
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|
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110XXXXX unsigned 32-bit int (ASCII)
|
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|
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000XXXXX 00000011 unsigned 128-bit int (binary)
|
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000XXXXX 00000100 array
|
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|
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000XXXXX 00000110 end marker
|
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|
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#### Payload Size
|
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|
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|
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|
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The next five bits in the control byte tell you how long the data field's
|
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|
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payload is, except for maps and pointers. Maps and pointers use this size
|
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|
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information a bit differently. See below.
|
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|
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|
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|
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If the five bits are smaller than 29, then those bits are the payload size in
|
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|
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bytes. For example:
|
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|
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|
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01000010 UTF-8 string - 2 bytes long
|
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|
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01011100 UTF-8 string - 28 bytes long
|
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11000001 unsigned 32-bit int - 1 byte long
|
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00000011 00000011 unsigned 128-bit int - 3 bytes long
|
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|
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|
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|
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If the five bits are equal to 29, 30, or 31, then use the following algorithm
|
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to calculate the payload size.
|
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+
|
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If the value is 29, then the size is 29 + *the next byte after the type
|
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|
+
specifying bytes as an unsigned integer*.
|
460
|
+
|
461
|
+
If the value is 30, then the size is 285 + *the next two bytes after the type
|
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|
+
specifying bytes as a single unsigned integer*.
|
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|
+
|
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|
+
If the value is 31, then the size is 65,821 + *the next three bytes after the
|
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|
+
type specifying bytes as a single unsigned integer*.
|
466
|
+
|
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|
+
Some examples:
|
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|
+
|
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|
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01011101 00110011 UTF-8 string - 80 bytes long
|
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|
+
|
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|
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In this case, the last five bits of the control byte equal 29. We treat the
|
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|
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next byte as an unsigned integer. The next byte is 51, so the total size is
|
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|
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(29 + 51) = 80.
|
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|
+
|
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|
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01011110 00110011 00110011 UTF-8 string - 13,392 bytes long
|
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|
+
|
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|
+
The last five bits of the control byte equal 30. We treat the next two bytes
|
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|
+
as a single unsigned integer. The next two bytes equal 13,107, so the total
|
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|
+
size is (285 + 13,107) = 13,392.
|
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|
+
|
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|
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01011111 00110011 00110011 00110011 UTF-8 string - 3,421,264 bytes long
|
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|
+
|
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|
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The last five bits of the control byte equal 31. We treat the next three bytes
|
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|
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as a single unsigned integer. The next three bytes equal 3,355,443, so the
|
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|
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total size is (65,821 + 3,355,443) = 3,421,264.
|
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|
+
|
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|
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This means that the maximum payload size for a single field is 16,843,036
|
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bytes.
|
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+
|
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|
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The binary number types always have a known size, but for consistency's sake,
|
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|
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the control byte will always specify the correct size for these types.
|
492
|
+
|
493
|
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#### Maps
|
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|
+
|
495
|
+
Maps use the size in the control byte (and any following bytes) to indicate
|
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|
+
the number of key/value pairs in the map, not the size of the payload in
|
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|
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bytes.
|
498
|
+
|
499
|
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This means that the maximum number of pairs for a single map is 16,843,036.
|
500
|
+
|
501
|
+
Maps are laid out with each key followed by its value, followed by the next
|
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|
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pair, etc.
|
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|
+
|
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|
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The keys are **always** UTF-8 strings. The values may be any data type,
|
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including maps or pointers.
|
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|
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|
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Once we know the number of pairs, we can look at each pair in turn to
|
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determine the size of the key and the key name, as well as the value's type
|
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|
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and payload.
|
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|
+
|
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|
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#### Pointers
|
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|
+
|
513
|
+
Pointers use the last five bits in the control byte to calculate the pointer
|
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+
value.
|
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|
+
|
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|
+
To calculate the pointer value, we start by subdividing the five bits into two
|
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|
+
groups. The first two bits indicate the size, and the next three bits are part
|
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|
+
of the value, so we end up with a control byte breaking down like this:
|
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001SSVVV.
|
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|
+
|
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|
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The size can be 0, 1, 2, or 3.
|
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|
+
|
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|
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If the size is 0, the pointer is built by appending the next byte to the last
|
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three bits to produce an 11-bit value.
|
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If the size is 1, the pointer is built by appending the next two bytes to the
|
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last three bits to produce a 19-bit value + 2048.
|
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|
+
|
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|
+
If the size is 2, the pointer is built by appending the next three bytes to the
|
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|
+
last three bits to produce a 27-bit value + 526336.
|
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|
+
|
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|
+
Finally, if the size is 3, the pointer's value is contained in the next four
|
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|
+
bytes as a 32-bit value. In this case, the last three bits of the control byte
|
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|
+
are ignored.
|
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+
|
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|
+
This means that we are limited to 4GB of address space for pointers, so the
|
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data section size for the database is limited to 4GB.
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## Reference Implementations
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### Writer
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* [Perl](https://github.com/maxmind/MaxMind-DB-Writer-perl)
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|
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|
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### Reader
|
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|
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|
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* [C](https://github.com/maxmind/libmaxminddb)
|
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* [C#](https://github.com/maxmind/MaxMind-DB-Reader-dotnet)
|
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* [Java](https://github.com/maxmind/MaxMind-DB-Reader-java)
|
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|
+
* [Perl](https://github.com/maxmind/MaxMind-DB-Reader-perl)
|
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|
+
* [PHP](https://github.com/maxmind/MaxMind-DB-Reader-php)
|
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|
+
* [Python](https://github.com/maxmind/MaxMind-DB-Reader-python)
|
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|
+
* [Ruby](https://github.com/maxmind/MaxMind-DB-Reader-ruby)
|
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## Authors
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* Boris Zentner \<bzentner@maxmind.com\>
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## License
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