From 3e115a7e9cc5846d6c1025a7297a006c2d64709b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: tv <tv@krebsco.de>
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2026 22:29:54 +0100
Subject: api: add support for counters

---
 src/document/store.rs | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 57 insertions(+)

(limited to 'src/document/store.rs')

diff --git a/src/document/store.rs b/src/document/store.rs
index c16767b..13824b9 100644
--- a/src/document/store.rs
+++ b/src/document/store.rs
@@ -94,6 +94,9 @@ pub(crate) enum StoreError {
     /// An index past a list's end (`length` items).
     #[error("index {index} is past the list's end ({length} items)")]
     PastTheEnd { index: usize, length: usize },
+    /// An increment of something that isn't a counter (`increment_path`).
+    #[error("not a counter")]
+    NotACounter,
     /// A read at heads the document doesn't have (`at::At`).
     #[error("this node doesn't have these heads (yet)")]
     UnknownHeads,
@@ -744,6 +747,60 @@ fn parent_for_write(doc: &mut impl Transactable, parents: &[String]) -> Result<P
     Ok(current)
 }
 
+/// Adds `by` to the counter at `path`, creating one with `by` where there is nothing
+/// (in a map: a list's items are only incremented); returns its value then. Increments
+/// of one counter on several nodes add up, where writes of numbers would leave one.
+/// Anything else there (the newest of concurrent values, as a read resolves them) is
+/// `NotACounter`.
+pub(crate) fn increment_path(
+    doc: &mut impl Transactable,
+    path: &[String],
+    by: i64,
+) -> Result<i64, StoreError> {
+    let (leaf, parents) = path.split_last().ok_or(StoreError::NotFound)?;
+    let (parent, prop): (ObjId, Prop) = match parent_for_write(doc, parents)? {
+        Parent::Maps(maps) => {
+            let holds = candidates(doc, &maps, leaf)?;
+            if holds.is_empty() {
+                doc.put(&maps[0], leaf.as_str(), ScalarValue::counter(by))?;
+                return Ok(by);
+            }
+            // The map that holds the newest value.
+            let newest = &holds[0].1;
+            let map = maps
+                .iter()
+                .find(|map| {
+                    doc.get_all(*map, leaf.as_str())
+                        .is_ok_and(|all| all.iter().any(|(_, id)| id == newest))
+                })
+                .cloned()
+                .ok_or(StoreError::NotFound)?;
+            (map, Prop::Map(leaf.clone()))
+        }
+        Parent::List(list) => {
+            let index = list_index(leaf).ok_or(StoreError::NotFound)?;
+            if index >= doc.length(&list) {
+                return Err(StoreError::NotFound);
+            }
+            (list, Prop::Seq(index))
+        }
+    };
+    counter_at(doc, &parent, prop.clone())?;
+    doc.increment(&parent, prop.clone(), by)?;
+    counter_at(doc, &parent, prop)
+}
+
+/// The value of the counter `prop` of `parent` holds (the newest of its values).
+fn counter_at(doc: &impl ReadDoc, parent: &ObjId, prop: Prop) -> Result<i64, StoreError> {
+    match doc.get(parent, prop)? {
+        Some((Value::Scalar(scalar), _)) => match scalar.as_ref() {
+            ScalarValue::Counter(counter) => Ok(i64::from(counter)),
+            _ => Err(StoreError::NotACounter),
+        },
+        _ => Err(StoreError::NotACounter),
+    }
+}
+
 /// Inserts `value` into a list: `path` ends in the index it goes to (the items from
 /// there on move up one; the list's length appends). An index past the end is
 /// `PastTheEnd`; a parent that isn't a list `NotAList`; anything but an index there, or
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