@moqtap/trace 0.1.3 → 0.3.0

package/README.md

@@ -3,11 +3,14 @@
 Record, serialize, and analyze MoQT (Media over QUIC Transport) sessions using the `.moqtrace` binary format.
 
 - Binary `.moqtrace` format with CBOR encoding (compact, streamable, cross-language)
+- Segmented traces for capture rotation, live carriage, and recovery from a damaged region
 - Configurable detail levels from control-only to full wire captures
 - Session recorder that wraps `@moqtap/codec` session state machines
 - Human-readable JSON export for debugging
 - Zero-copy streaming writer for large traces
 
+Writes format version 2 and reads versions 1 and 2.
+
 ## Install
 
 ```bash
@@ -78,6 +81,66 @@ for (const event of events) {
 }
 ```
 
+### Segmented traces
+
+A segment is a complete `.moqtrace` blob — magic, version, header, events —
+appended after the one before it, so a reader can start at any segment without
+the ones preceding it. That buys capture rotation without finalizing a file, a
+natural cut point for live carriage, and recovery from a damaged region.
+
+```typescript
+import { readMoqtraceSegments, writeMoqtraceSegments } from '@moqtap/trace'
+
+// Each segment header must carry `segment` metadata: it is what tells a reader
+// that `seq` and `timestamp` restart at zero in every segment.
+const bytes = writeMoqtraceSegments([
+  { header: { ...header, segment: { sequence: 0 } }, events: firstBatch },
+  { header: { ...header, segment: { sequence: 1, continues: true } }, events: secondBatch },
+])
+
+// Read the boundaries — you need them to order events across segments.
+for (const segment of readMoqtraceSegments(bytes)) {
+  console.log(segment.header.segment?.sequence, segment.events.length)
+}
+
+// Or ignore them: readMoqtrace flattens every segment's events in order.
+```
+
+### Damaged and truncated files
+
+A file that stops part-way through an event throws `TruncatedTraceError`, which
+carries everything that decoded before the cut — a truncated trace is still
+evidence. On a segmented trace, `{ recover: true }` skips a damaged region and
+resumes at the next segment instead of throwing.
+
+```typescript
+import { readMoqtrace, readMoqtraceSegments, TruncatedTraceError } from '@moqtap/trace'
+
+try {
+  const trace = readMoqtrace(bytes)
+} catch (error) {
+  if (error instanceof TruncatedTraceError) {
+    console.warn(`truncated at byte ${error.offset}`)
+    console.log(error.trace?.events.length, 'events survived')
+  }
+}
+
+const whatSurvived = readMoqtraceSegments(bytes, { recover: true })
+```
+
+## Reading a trace you did not write
+
+Nothing here rejects a file for carrying something newer than this version
+knows. An unrecognised event type arrives as an `UnknownEvent` with its fields
+intact, so it survives a read-modify-write round trip rather than being dropped
+or relabelled; an unrecognised perspective, detail level, role, side, drop
+policy or derivation kind is kept verbatim.
+
+The one place that refuses is `createRecorder`, which cannot honour a detail
+level it does not implement: it would either capture less than you asked for
+while writing a header claiming otherwise, or — for the payload-bearing levels
+— capture more.
+
 ## Detail Levels
 
 | Level           | What's recorded                                           |
@@ -88,6 +151,10 @@ for (const event of events) {
 | `headers+data`  | + full payload bytes                                      |
 | `full`          | + raw wire bytes (pre-decode)                             |
 
+`headers+data` and `full`, and the `raw` field on any event, carry user
+content. Capturing them is optional for a conformant recorder and should be an
+explicit choice, not a default.
+
 ## JSON Export
 
 For human-readable debugging (not lossless — bigint/Uint8Array become strings):
@@ -99,6 +166,34 @@ const json = traceToJSON(trace)
 console.log(json)
 ```
 
+## Upgrading from 0.2.0
+
+The package now writes format version 2. A 0.2.0 reader rejects those files at
+byte 8, which is the point of the bump: it turns what would have been silent
+desynchronization on a segmented trace into a clear refusal. Reading is
+unaffected in the other direction — 0.3.0 reads everything 0.2.0 wrote.
+
+What changes for code already using it:
+
+- `TraceEvent` gained four members (`peer-connected`, `peer-disconnected`,
+  `subscription-derivation`, `unknown`). A `switch` that handles only the
+  cases it cares about is unaffected; one that asserts exhaustiveness is not.
+- `Perspective`, `DetailLevel` and the new string unions accept values they do
+  not name, so indexing a `Record<DetailLevel, T>` with one now yields
+  `T | undefined`.
+- An unknown event type used to arrive as an annotation labelled
+  `unknown-event-<n>`. It now arrives as an `UnknownEvent` carrying its real
+  type and fields, so code matching that label should match `type === 'unknown'`
+  instead. The old shape was lossy in a way that mattered: writing the trace
+  back rewrote the event's type to 7.
+- `createRecorder` throws on a detail level it does not implement, which the
+  types previously made unexpressible.
+- The bytes changed in two ways that make files readable by the Rust
+  implementation for the first time: an integral value past 32 bits is now
+  written as a CBOR integer rather than a float64, and a byte string as major
+  type 2 rather than wrapped in the typed-array tag 64. Both readers accept
+  either form, so nothing already written becomes unreadable.
+
 ## File Format
 
 See [SPEC.md](./SPEC.md) for the complete `.moqtrace` binary format specification.