From 289b84b09a791b88f039664d71bb644c94de6000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: tv <tv@krebsco.de>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2026 19:13:40 +0100
Subject: api: add support for shallow store reads

---
 src/document/store.rs | 72 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 72 insertions(+)

(limited to 'src/document')

diff --git a/src/document/store.rs b/src/document/store.rs
index e742edb..89058fb 100644
--- a/src/document/store.rs
+++ b/src/document/store.rs
@@ -234,6 +234,78 @@ pub(crate) fn read_path_traced(
     Ok((value, !log.reports.is_empty()))
 }
 
+/// Strings and bytes up to this long are in a shallow read's summaries.
+const SHALLOW_INLINE: usize = 256;
+
+/// What's at `path` (the empty path is the whole store), one level deep: a summary of
+/// it, `type` (`map`, `list`, `text`, `string`, `bytes`, `number`, `boolean`, `null`,
+/// or `unknown`, an Automerge scalar of a later version)
+/// and `size` (keys, items, characters or bytes), and its `value` where it's a short
+/// scalar; a map's has its keys' summaries too, under `entries`. Concurrent values
+/// resolved as a read resolves them; conflicts not reported.
+pub(crate) fn read_shallow(
+    doc: &AutoCommit,
+    path: &[String],
+) -> Result<Option<JsonValue>, StoreError> {
+    let Some(resolved) = resolve_at(doc, path)? else {
+        return Ok(None);
+    };
+    summary(doc, &resolved, true).map(Some)
+}
+
+/// A summary of `resolved` (`read_shallow`); with `entries`, a map's keys' too.
+fn summary(doc: &AutoCommit, resolved: &Resolved, entries: bool) -> Result<JsonValue, StoreError> {
+    let mut out = serde_json::Map::new();
+    match resolved {
+        Resolved::Maps(maps) => {
+            let keys = merged_keys(doc, maps);
+            out.insert("type".into(), "map".into());
+            out.insert("size".into(), keys.len().into());
+            if entries {
+                let mut listed = serde_json::Map::new();
+                for key in keys {
+                    if let Some(child) = resolve(doc, maps, &key, None)? {
+                        listed.insert(key, summary(doc, &child, false)?);
+                    }
+                }
+                out.insert("entries".into(), JsonValue::Object(listed));
+            }
+        }
+        Resolved::Other(Value::Object(ObjType::Map), id) => {
+            return summary(doc, &Resolved::Maps(vec![id.clone()]), entries);
+        }
+        Resolved::Other(Value::Object(ObjType::List), id) => {
+            out.insert("type".into(), "list".into());
+            out.insert("size".into(), doc.length(id).into());
+        }
+        Resolved::Other(Value::Object(ObjType::Text), id) => {
+            out.insert("type".into(), "text".into());
+            out.insert("size".into(), doc.length(id).into());
+        }
+        Resolved::Other(Value::Object(ObjType::Table), _) => {
+            return Err(anyhow!("Automerge tables are not supported").into());
+        }
+        Resolved::Other(Value::Scalar(scalar), _) => {
+            let (kind, size) = match &**scalar {
+                ScalarValue::Str(text) => ("string", Some(text.len())),
+                ScalarValue::Bytes(bytes) => ("bytes", Some(bytes.len())),
+                ScalarValue::Null => ("null", None),
+                ScalarValue::Boolean(_) => ("boolean", None),
+                ScalarValue::Unknown { .. } => ("unknown", None),
+                _ => ("number", None),
+            };
+            out.insert("type".into(), kind.into());
+            if let Some(size) = size {
+                out.insert("size".into(), size.into());
+            }
+            if kind != "unknown" && size.is_none_or(|size| size <= SHALLOW_INLINE) {
+                out.insert("value".into(), scalar_to_json(scalar.clone().into_owned())?);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    Ok(JsonValue::Object(out))
+}
+
 /// Keys of the merged map at `path`; empty if it doesn't exist or isn't a map.
 pub(crate) fn keys_at(doc: &AutoCommit, path: &[String]) -> Result<Vec<String>, StoreError> {
     let mut maps = vec![automerge::ROOT];
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