fix(sdk): read manifest.json from a TDF archive

[pflynn-virtru]

Refs opentdf/platform#3513. The read half of #1040, split out so it can land on its own.

Not a file-format change. The writer still emits 0.manifest.json; this only widens what the reader accepts.

Problem

The OpenTDF spec names the manifest entry in a .tdf archive manifest.json:

The manifest.json file MUST be in JSON format and reside within the root of the OpenTDF Zip archive.

— spec/schema/OpenTDF/manifest.md

This SDK writes and reads 0.manifest.json. On the read side it is an exact central-directory lookup with no fallback, so a TDF produced by any implementation written against the published spec is rejected outright — Unable to retrieve CD manifest.

The 0. prefix is a holdover from an early design that anticipated several payload/manifest pairs per archive. That design never shipped. Every SDK agreed on the same wrong name, so nothing caught it.

Change

loadTDFStream resolves the manifest entry through manifestEntryName(), which asks for the spec name when the archive carries it and otherwise for the non-aligned 0.manifest.json. Client.getPolicyId uses the same loader, including when passed as an unbound callback.

The writer is untouched apart from using the offspecManifestFileName constant in place of the string literal, so every archive this SDK produces is byte-identical to before. Renaming what the writer emits is a breaking file-format change that strands existing readers (java-sdk, client-cpp, go, and xtest all look the manifest up by exact name); #1040 carries that half and can land once those consumers are ready. Splitting the read side off lets this SDK start accepting spec-conforming archives now, with no downstream coordination.

The dual-name handling lives in tdf.ts, not in ZipReader. ZipReader's signature is unchanged — its other lookup is a payload path that must stay exact, and keeping the name a parameter leaves the generic reader generic.

Resolution runs against the central directory, not against a failed read. That keeps other failures honest: an oversized manifest under the spec name stays a size error rather than silently yielding a superseded non-aligned entry. The tests pin this specifically — see below.

The name the writer emits is a separate binding, manifestEntryNameToWrite, from the two names the reader accepts. Repointing it is the whole of the follow-up writer change, and it cannot disturb the read side — collapsing the two roles into one constant is how a spec-name flip would silently strand every archive earlier releases wrote.

Preferring the spec name when an archive carries both entries has a tampering cost, taken knowingly; see the review-notes comment for that and for the 0.payload gap.

0.payload is untouched — it is recorded in the manifest's payload.url, so renaming it would alter manifest contents rather than just archive layout.

Testing

New lib/tests/mocha/manifest-entry-name.spec.ts, 18 tests:

Group	What it pins
manifestEntryName	spec name when present; non-aligned name when the spec name is absent; spec name preferred when an archive carries both; non-aligned name when it carries neither
writer	the central directory of a freshly encrypted archive is still exactly ['0.payload', '0.manifest.json']; that archive round-trips
spec-named archives / non-aligned-named archives	generated from one table, so each name is covered explicitly rather than by whichever one the writer happens to emit: the fixture really carries that name, it decrypts, and its policy id matches the archived policy both directly and when getPolicyId is passed as a callback
an oversized spec-named entry shadowing a valid non-aligned one	decrypt and getPolicyId both fail on size rather than serving the valid non-aligned manifest
archives with no manifest entry under either name	decrypt reports Unable to retrieve CD manifest

Fixtures are archives this SDK wrote, read back entry by entry and rebuilt with the manifest entry renamed. The two names differ in length, so the local headers, central-directory offsets and the EOCDR are all rebuilt rather than patched, and the payload bytes and manifest content are carried over unchanged. renameManifestEntry throws unless exactly one entry looked like a manifest, so a fixture can never quietly come back unrenamed. What the fixtures pin is name resolution and nothing else: they are this SDK's zip dialect throughout (zip64, data descriptors, STORE), so a producer with a different dialect exercises parseCDBuffer paths these tests do not reach.

Mutation-tested three ways:

Mutation	Result
manifestEntryName returns offspecManifestFileName (behavior before this PR)	6 failing — both spec-name unit tests, the spec-named archive behaviors, and both shadowing tests
reader becomes try { getManifest(spec) } catch { getManifest(non-aligned) }	2 failing — both shadowing tests. This is the design the implementation comment rejects, and an earlier revision of these tests missed it entirely
manifestEntryNameToWrite repointed at the spec name (i.e. #1040 lands on top)	1 failing — only the deliberate writer pin. All read coverage, including the non-aligned group, stays meaningful
offspecManifestFileName collapsed onto the spec name (the mistake the split above exists to prevent)	5 failing — the writer tripwire, both non-aligned unit tests, and the whole non-aligned read group. An earlier revision of these tests, written in terms of the constants, missed this one

Assertions spell the two entry names out as literals rather than importing the constants: a suite written in terms of the constants it is testing cannot notice them changing, which is exactly how the last mutation above used to pass.

$ cd lib && npm run test:mocha   # exit 0 — 427 passing
$ cd lib && npm run test:wtr     # exit 0 — 253 passed, 15 files
$ cd lib && npm run build        # exit 0
$ cd lib && npm run lint         # exit 0
$ cd lib && npx prettier --check "{src,tdf3,tests}/**/*.ts"   # clean

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• Bug Fixes
  • Improved compatibility with TDF archives that use the standard manifest.json entry, while retaining support for archives using 0.manifest.json.
  • Policy identification and decryption now work consistently with either supported manifest name.
  • Missing or oversized manifest entries return appropriate errors; an oversized standard manifest does not trigger fallback to the alternate name.
  • Newly created TDF archives continue to use 0.manifest.json.

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Walkthrough

The TDF reader now selects manifest.json when the archive contains it. Otherwise, the reader selects 0.manifest.json. The writer continues to emit 0.manifest.json. Client policy lookup and tests use the updated loading behavior.

Changes

Manifest Resolution

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Manifest resolver and reader integration lib/tdf3/src/tdf.ts	Adds manifest-name constants and central-directory resolution. TDF loading selects manifest.json when present and otherwise selects 0.manifest.json. Writing continues to use 0.manifest.json.
Client lookup and compatibility validation lib/tdf3/src/client/index.ts, lib/tests/mocha/manifest-entry-name.spec.ts	Changes getPolicyId to load the TDF stream directly. Tests cover both manifest names, writer output, policy IDs, oversized preferred entries, and missing manifests.

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The change is mergeable with a bounded test gap: the renamed-archive test does not verify that the original policy ID was preserved.

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[pflynn-virtru]

Review notes: two tradeoffs taken deliberately

Recording these so they read as decisions rather than oversights.

Preferring manifest.json widens one tampering surface

manifestEntryName prefers the spec name when an archive carries both entries. Combined with ZipReader.getCentralDirectory, which signature-scans only the last 1000 bytes and never cross-checks the EOCDR's record count or CD offset, that means an attacker can append to a genuine archive this SDK wrote — leaving every original byte intact as a prefix — a forged manifest, one extra central-directory record named manifest.json, and a fresh EOCDR. manifestEntryName prefers the appended name, and getManifest's .find() returns it.

On main the hardcoded 0.manifest.json lookup hit the original record first, so this is a real if narrow regression. Scope:

• Not plaintext disclosure. Decryption is still gated by the KAS policy binding, so a forged policy fails at rewrap.
• It does reach every pre-decryption manifest consumer: Client.getPolicyId, OpenTDF reader .manifest(), CLI inspect, the web-app KAO inspector, and the keyAccess[].url used to pick the rewrap target (guarded by OriginAllowList unless ignoreAllowlist is set).

Taken knowingly. Preferring the name this SDK writes would close it, at the cost of flipping the preference again when the writer moves to the spec name. The underlying weakness is the 1000-byte central-directory window, which is pre-existing and worth replacing with a real EOCDR parse (record count + CD offset + size) independently of this PR — the same window also makes adjustHeaders follow relativeOffsetOfLocalHeader without validating the local header signature or that its stored name matches the CD record.

Spec-named archives still need 0.payload

getPayloadSegment is called with the literal 0.payload, and manifest.payload.url is read nowhere in this codebase. Real spec-conforming archives are unaffected — platform#4049 deliberately leaves 0.payload alone — but an archive that both uses the spec manifest name and names its payload something else now gets past loadTDFStream, completes a KAS rewrap, and fails only when the stream is drained. Before this PR it failed locally with no network. Honouring payload.url is the separate fix; noting it here as a known gap.

Also raised, deliberately left alone

getManifest does not check compressionMethod, so a DEFLATE'd manifest from a foreign producer escapes as a bare SyntaxError instead of InvalidFileError. Newly reachable, pre-existing, one-line fix — but it belongs with the zip-reader hardening above rather than in a naming change.

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Pre-review findings

Three behaviors this PR introduces that the suite doesn't cover. Recording rather than fixing here — #1044 carries the fix for the first, stacked on this branch.

1. A spec-named entry is selected on presence alone, with no shape check. Adding a third entry named manifest.json to an SDK-written archive:

Content	decrypt / getPolicyId
{"name":"my-web-app"}	TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined
hello	SyntaxError: Unexpected token 'h'
zero-length	SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input

instanceof InvalidFileError === false in all six cases, so callers catching TdfError fall through. All three decrypt on main, where the hardcoded lookup ignored the extra entry.

2. getPolicyId gained a this dependency. The old body touched only module-scope helpers. Routing through this.loadTDFStream(...) means const { getPolicyId } = client and sources.map(client.getPolicyId) now throw. Public surface; nothing in cli/ or web-app/ calls it, so CI can't see it.

3. it('reads the policy id') is vacuous. It asserts two getPolicyId calls agree with each other, so assert.equal(undefined, undefined) satisfies it — verified by patching the built method to return a nonexistent field: 16/16 still green. It's the only assertion on a policy-id value in the repo.

On the both-names preference. Worth weighing: reject an archive carrying both names rather than preferring either. No legitimate producer emits both, it closes the appended-CD-record surface without a preference that has to flip when the writer moves, and it costs one condition.

Also unchanged for foreign archives: 0.payload is hardcoded (manifest.payload.url has zero read sites in lib/), the central directory is parsed from a 1000-byte tail window, and DEFLATE is unsupported. Pre-existing, but the reason "reads spec archives" is narrower than it sounds.

Testing. Merged main (picking up #1031, which rewrote 181 lines of tdf3/src/tdf.ts) and re-ran: 425 passing, 0 failing. Hunks don't overlap.

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lib/tests/mocha/manifest-entry-name.spec.ts (1)

284-288: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert that the policy ID is present.

This equality assertion passes if both calls return undefined. Capture the original policy ID and assert that it is a non-empty string before comparing the renamed archive.

Proposed test update

       it('reads the policy id', async function () {
+        const originalPolicyId = await client.getPolicyId({
+          source: { type: 'buffer', location: original },
+        });
+        assert.isString(originalPolicyId);
+        assert.isNotEmpty(originalPolicyId);
         assert.equal(
           await client.getPolicyId({ source: { type: 'buffer', location: renamed } }),
-          await client.getPolicyId({ source: { type: 'buffer', location: original } })
+          originalPolicyId
         );
       });

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In `@lib/tests/mocha/manifest-entry-name.spec.ts` around lines 284 - 288, Update
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- Around line 284-288: Update the “reads the policy id” test to capture the
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Compare the policy ID with the original archive.

If the rename changes the manifest’s UUID, both sides of this assertion read the changed UUID and the test passes. Capture the UUID before rebuilding the archive, then compare getPolicyId(renamed) with that value. Keep the existing UUID-format check if useful.

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