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Implemented Stellar History Archive Checkpoint - #438

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This PR implements the Stellar history archive HTTP client in the core crate (crates/core/src/archive/mod.rs). The client is now capable of fetching a complete history archive checkpoint (consisting of the ledger, transactions, and results category gzip files) for a requested ledger sequence, decompressing them, and returning them in an ArchiveCheckpoint structure containing the raw decompressed XDR bytes.

How It Was Done

  1. Typed Categories: Introduced the ArchiveCategory enum (Ledger, Transactions, Results) to prevent arbitrary string paths.
  2. Path Construction: Created format_archive_path which derives the correct Stellar history archive path using the 8-character hexadecimal representation of the checkpoint sequence grouped into directory components (e.g., ledger/00/00/00/ledger-0000003f.xdr.gz).
  3. URL Normalization: Created a join_url helper that trims trailing slashes from archive base URLs and leading slashes from relative paths to avoid malformed URLs (e.g. double slashes //).
  4. Timeout Configuration: Configured the reqwest::Client in ArchiveClient::new using the request_timeout_secs field defined in the NetworkConfig.
  5. Failover Loop: Refined fetch_checkpoint to iterate over all configured archive URLs, ensuring that if any download or decompression fails (e.g., timeouts, non-2xx responses, invalid gzip data, connection issues), the client discards the partial work and falls back to the next configured URL.
  6. Error Wrapping: If all backend URLs are exhausted, the client returns an outer ArchiveErrorKind::FetchFailed wrapping the last observed root-cause error's description to aid troubleshooting without leaking sensitive endpoints.

Issues Encountered (If Any)

  • Local Disk Space: During workspace test execution, the local C: drive ran low on space (< 1.5 GB), triggering a compiler LLVM ERROR: IO failure on output stream: no space on device. Running cargo clean successfully reclaimed 2.3 GiB of space, allowing compiling and tests to proceed cleanly.
  • Failover Error Propagation: Ensured that any decompression failures (DecompressionFailed) and HTTP errors during individual archive attempts are mapped to ArchiveErrorKind::FetchFailed upon final exhaust of the loop so they match standard client error assertions while retaining diagnostics.

Related Issue

Closes #430

How It Was Tested

Verified the implementation by expanding the test suite in the archive module to 19 unit/integration tests using multi-client concurrent mock servers:

  • Checkpoint Calculation: Validated boundaries around sequence calculation (0, 1, 62, 63, 64, 127, 128).
  • Path Formatting: Checked format_archive_path outputs for all categories and large checkpoints (e.g., 65535).
  • URL Joining: Tested trailing vs non-trailing slash normalization.
  • Success Case: Fetched and verified distinct decompressed payloads for all three categories.
  • Failover Scenarios: Simulated HTTP 404/500 errors, TCP connection failure, invalid gzip payloads, and partial checkpoints (where URL A succeeded for some but not all categories).
  • Exhaustion Case: Verified correct mapping to FetchFailed when all URLs are exhausted.

All 380 core crate tests pass successfully, and cargo fmt --check and cargo clippy --all-targets are clean.

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  • New Features

    • Added support for consistent archive path formatting across ledger, transaction, and result archives.
    • Archive downloads now enforce the configured network timeout.
    • Checkpoint data can now be cloned and compared for equality.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved archive URL handling and normalization.
    • Enhanced checkpoint retrieval reliability across failover scenarios.

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Archive checkpoint fetching now uses public category-aware path formatting, normalized archive URLs, configurable request timeouts, and expanded mock-server tests for success, failover, decompression errors, and incomplete results.

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Archive fetching

Layer / File(s) Summary
Archive path contracts
crates/core/src/archive/mod.rs
ArchiveCategory and format_archive_path define category-specific archive paths. ArchiveCheckpoint now derives Clone, PartialEq, and Eq.
Timeouts and checkpoint fetching
crates/core/src/archive/mod.rs
ArchiveClient applies the configured request timeout. fetch_checkpoint uses normalized URLs and reports the final fetch error.
Recording mock server and fetch tests
crates/core/src/archive/mod.rs
Tests record request paths and cover formatting, successful fetching, failover, invalid gzip, all-failure errors, and incomplete checkpoints.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 33c5b

The new archive download path can consume unbounded memory when a configured archive returns oversized or highly compressed content, potentially terminating the consuming process, and a zero-second timeout configuration can make every request fail immediately. Merge readiness requires size limits and timeout validation, or explicit owner acceptance of these bounded risks.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ArchiveClient
  participant ArchiveServer
  participant GzDecoder
  ArchiveClient->>ArchiveServer: GET ledger, transactions, and results archives
  ArchiveServer-->>ArchiveClient: return HTTP responses
  ArchiveClient->>GzDecoder: decompress gzip bodies
  GzDecoder-->>ArchiveClient: return XDR bytes
  ArchiveClient-->>ArchiveClient: fail over to the next archive URL when needed
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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 45.83% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 24 functions across 1 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the implementation of the Stellar history archive checkpoint client, which is the main change in the pull request.
Description check ✅ Passed The description includes all required sections, explains the implementation, records issues, links issue #430, and documents testing. The screenshots section is correctly not applicable because there …
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The implementation satisfies issue #430. It calculates checkpoint sequences, formats category-specific paths, fetches and decompresses all three archive files, fails over across configured URLs, retur…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes remain within the archive client objective. The added typed categories, URL helpers, timeout configuration, error handling, derives, and tests directly support the requested history archiv…
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The description includes all required sections, explains the implementation, records issues, links issue #430, and documents testing. The screenshots section is correctly not applicable because there are no UI changes.

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The implementation satisfies issue #430. It calculates checkpoint sequences, formats category-specific paths, fetches and decompresses all three archive files, fails over across configured URLs, returns wrapped FetchFailed errors after exhaustion, and adds the requested tests.

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The changes remain within the archive client objective. The added typed categories, URL helpers, timeout configuration, error handling, derives, and tests directly support the requested history archive implementation.

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@Malajussy2704 fix code review changes

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@Malajussy2704 fix code review changes

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All done!

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PR reviewed

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codeZe-us merged commit 369272f into Toolbox-Lab:main Aug 30, 2026
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