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DSPX-5111 part 1 of 2 (epic DSPX-4886).

Lets xtest serve a TDF over HTTP Range requests while keeping only the bytes a planned partial decrypt needs.

  • xtest/rangeserve.py
    • retention_plan() maps plaintext ranges to the ciphertext a partial decrypt reads: the ZIP head plus the covering segments. The tail is added later.
    • ExtentStore packs the kept extents into one small file with an offset index. It is deliberately not a sparse file: ext4 caps files at 16 TiB, and the 50 TiB tier must not depend on the filesystem.
    • serve() runs a loopback ThreadingHTTPServer that supports HEAD, bytes=a-b, bytes=a- and bytes=-n, and logs every request.
    • A read that touches a dropped extent gets 410 Gone, never zeros, so a reader that over-fetches fails loudly.
  • fixtures/range_server.py adds a range_server fixture that is torn down at the end of each test.
  • test_rangeserve_units.py adds offline tests, now included in check.yml.
    • Covers the retention plan edge cases, byte-identical reads of kept ranges, 410 for dropped ranges, and offsets above 2^32 and 2^40.
    • Logical lengths of 100 GiB, 5 TiB and 50 TiB are served from a few KiB on disk.
    • Also checks that the server leaves no thread or port behind.

Part 2 (the sparse sink) and DSPX-5117 (cross-SDK partial decrypt tests) are stacked on this branch.

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  • Tests
    • Added offline coverage for range-based file serving, including full-file and selectively retained data, range validation, and responses to HEAD and range requests.
    • Expanded checks for requests involving unavailable data, large logical files, and server shutdown. The tests run without platform- or SDK-specific dependencies.

DSPX-5111 part 1. A partial decrypt of a very large TDF needs only the
ZIP head, the segments covering the requested plaintext, and the tail.
retention_plan maps plaintext ranges to those ciphertext extents,
ExtentStore keeps just them packed into one small file (not a sparse
file, so 50 TiB logical lengths work on any filesystem), and serve()
puts a store or a whole file behind a loopback server that honours
single and suffix Range requests and logs every request.

A read touching a dropped extent gets 410 Gone, never zeros, so a
reader that over-fetches fails instead of decrypting garbage.

Signed-off-by: sujan kota <sujankota@gmail.com>
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Adds range-retention planning and full-file and sparse extent sources. Adds a loopback HTTP server for HEAD and single-range GET requests, a pytest fixture for starting servers, and offline tests included in the workflow.

Changes: Range-serving harness

Layer / File(s) Summary
Plan retained extents and model sources
xtest/rangeserve.py
Adds ZIP payload offset discovery, extent merging, and a retention plan that includes the file head and selected ciphertext segments with GCM overhead. Adds full-file and sparse extent sources with availability checks and reads.
Serve ranges and validate the harness
xtest/rangeserve.py, xtest/fixtures/range_server.py, xtest/conftest.py, xtest/test_rangeserve_units.py, .github/workflows/check.yml
Adds HEAD and single-range GET handling with logged requests and defined responses for invalid, unsatisfiable, and dropped ranges. Adds a fixture that keeps multiple server contexts active until teardown. Adds offline tests and runs them in the workflow.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant serve
  participant Source
  Client->>serve: GET with Range header
  serve->>Source: Check requested byte range
  Source-->>serve: Availability result
  serve->>Source: Read available bytes
  Source-->>serve: Requested bytes
  serve-->>Client: HTTP response
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Offline range tests may intermittently see an incomplete request log. The change is mergeable with awareness of that test risk, though joining handlers would remove it.

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- Line 294: Set `ThreadingHTTPServer.daemon_threads` to false so
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Comment thread xtest/rangeserve.py
log.append(Request("GET", header, status, served))

server = ThreadingHTTPServer(("127.0.0.1", 0), Handler)
server.daemon_threads = True

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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set -e
printf '%s\n' '--- relevant source ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- request helper and log reads ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.py' -e 'def get(' -e 'log' xtest
printf '%s\n' '--- Python support metadata ---'
rg -n -F --glob 'pyproject.toml' --glob 'setup.cfg' --glob 'tox.ini' --glob '.github/**/*.yml' --glob '.github/**/*.yaml' -e 'requires-python' -e 'python-version' -e '3.7' -e '3.8' -e '3.9' -e '3.10' -e '3.11' -e '3.12' -e '3.13' .

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printf '%s\n' '--- serve teardown ---'
nl -ba xtest/rangeserve.py | sed -n '300,314p'
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Join handler threads before serve() returns.

The test helper reads the complete response before it returns, but each handler appends to log afterward. With server.daemon_threads = True, server_close() does not join those handlers, so the context can exit before the matching Request is appended. The existing tests inspect log after the context exits.

Use non-daemon handlers and bound idle keep-alive reads:

🐛 Suggested fix
     class Handler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
         protocol_version = "HTTP/1.1"
+        timeout = 5
     server = ThreadingHTTPServer(("127.0.0.1", 0), Handler)
-    server.daemon_threads = True
+    server.daemon_threads = False

This synchronizes log reads after the context exits. It does not synchronize a caller that reads log inside the active with block.

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Set `ThreadingHTTPServer.daemon_threads` to false so `server_close()` waits for
handler threads before the serving context exits. Set `Handler.timeout` to a
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Suggestions from a review pass, about how serve() shuts down and reports server-side failures. None of these break the current unit tests; they matter once SDK clients (keep-alive, retries) are on the other end in DSPX-5117.

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server = ThreadingHTTPServer(("127.0.0.1", 0), Handler)
server.daemon_threads = True

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Handler threads aren't joined on exit, so log can be incomplete after serve() returns.

ThreadingHTTPServer defaults to daemon_threads = True, and socketserver doesn't track daemon threads, so server_close() never joins them. The "joined on exit" in the docstring only covers the serve_forever thread. Two consequences:

  • Every handler appends to log after writing the body, so a client can return before the entry exists. Measured locally: in 3000 back-to-back requests, the entry was missing on 13 (~0.4%) when len(log) was read right after the response. The current tests only escape this because shutdown() blocks for up to 0.5s.
  • With HTTP/1.1 keep-alive (Go, Java and JS clients all pool connections), an idle handler can outlive the with block. It still holds source, so it can append to log later or pread an ExtentStore after close().

DSPX-5117's "which ranges did the SDK fetch" assertions will hit this. Suggested fix: join the handlers, and bound the join by giving idle keep-alive connections a timeout:

    class Handler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
        protocol_version = "HTTP/1.1"
        timeout = 5  # idle keep-alive handlers exit, so server_close() can join them

Optionally, also build the Request before writing the body, so log is accurate inside the with block and not just after it.

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server = ThreadingHTTPServer(("127.0.0.1", 0), Handler)
server.daemon_threads = True
server = ThreadingHTTPServer(("127.0.0.1", 0), Handler)
# Join handler threads in server_close(): the log is complete, and no
# handler touches ``source`` once serve() has returned.
server.daemon_threads = False

Comment thread xtest/rangeserve.py
Comment on lines +300 to +305
try:
yield f"http://127.0.0.1:{port}/payload.tdf", log
finally:
server.shutdown()
server.server_close()
thread.join()

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Exceptions inside a handler never reach the test.

Nothing overrides handle_error, so an exception in do_GET/do_HEAD (an OSError from pread, a buggy Source, the short read in the other comment) only becomes a traceback on stderr, which pytest captures, plus a dropped connection. SDK HTTP clients often retry an idempotent GET on a reset connection, so a server bug can pass on retry or show up as an unrelated SDK network error. That's the failure mode the 410 design is meant to rule out.

Suggestion: record the exceptions and re-raise them when serve() exits, leaving client disconnects alone (a partial reader may legitimately hang up early). This needs import sys, and the suggested change below depends on it:

    errors: list[BaseException] = []

    class Server(ThreadingHTTPServer):
        def handle_error(self, request, client_address) -> None:
            exc = sys.exc_info()[1]
            if exc is not None and not isinstance(exc, ConnectionError):
                errors.append(exc)
            super().handle_error(request, client_address)

    server = Server(("127.0.0.1", 0), Handler)

Related: the log_message override above also silences log_error, so stdlib-generated errors (501 for unsupported methods, malformed request lines, header-too-long) bypass both log and stderr. Consider silencing only the access log, e.g. by overriding log_request instead.

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try:
yield f"http://127.0.0.1:{port}/payload.tdf", log
finally:
server.shutdown()
server.server_close()
thread.join()
try:
yield f"http://127.0.0.1:{port}/payload.tdf", log
finally:
server.shutdown()
server.server_close()
thread.join()
if errors:
raise ExceptionGroup("rangeserve handler errors", errors)

Comment thread xtest/rangeserve.py
Comment on lines +196 to +198
def read(self, start: int, end: int) -> bytes:
fd = self._data.fileno()
return b"".join(os.pread(fd, n, p) for p, n in self._pieces(start, end))

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A short read is sent and logged as a success.

os.pread can return fewer bytes than requested: extents.bin is shorter than the index says, or a FullFile shrank after __init__ cached st_size. Neither read() checks, so do_GET writes a short body after already promising Content-Length: end - start. A keep-alive client then waits for bytes that never come until its timeout, and probably retries. Meanwhile served at L289 is set from the planned chunk end, not len(chunk), so log records a full 206.

Suggest raising on a short read here, and the same in FullFile.read:

    def read(self, start: int, end: int) -> bytes:
        with self.path.open("rb") as f:
            data = os.pread(f.fileno(), end - start, start)
        if len(data) != end - start:
            raise OSError(f"{self.path}: short read at {start}")
        return data

Also count what was actually written in the do_GET loop:

                    chunk = source.read(pos, min(pos + _CHUNK, end))
                    self.wfile.write(chunk)
                    served += len(chunk)

Together with the handle_error change, a short read then fails the test instead of hanging a client.

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def read(self, start: int, end: int) -> bytes:
fd = self._data.fileno()
return b"".join(os.pread(fd, n, p) for p, n in self._pieces(start, end))
def read(self, start: int, end: int) -> bytes:
fd = self._data.fileno()
data = b"".join(os.pread(fd, n, p) for p, n in self._pieces(start, end))
if len(data) != end - start:
raise OSError(f"extents.bin short read: {len(data)} of {end - start}")
return data

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