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Closes #189.

The triage question, answered

The issue asked which shape is canonical for an op meta v1 document: a single
opcode map, or an array of them. The array is, and a bare object is tolerated as
a document of one:

  • Op meta v1 (0xffe5282f43e495b4) describes the opcodes of an interpreter.
    A document that can hold exactly one opcode cannot describe any interpreter,
    and OpMeta's own doc comment is plural: "Opcodes metadata used by Rainlang".

  • The historic reference consumer agrees. rainlanguage/meta's toOpMeta
    (the JS lib this crate was ported from, src/utils.ts)
    is:

    export const toOpMeta = (meta: string): OpMeta[] => {
        let parsed = JSON.parse(meta);
        if (!Array.isArray(parsed)) parsed = [parsed];
        if (validateOpMeta(parsed)) return parsed;
        else throw new Error("invalid op meta content");
    };

    and OpMeta.get(cborMap) returns OpMeta[], so a decoded op meta v1 payload
    was an array of opcodes, with a lone object lifted into one.

What changed

crates/cli/src/meta/types/op/v1.rs

  • The per-opcode struct is now OpMetaItem; OpMeta is the document,
    OpMeta(pub Vec<OpMetaItem>), matching the shape sibling metas already use
    (SolidityAbiMeta(Vec<SolidityAbiItem>), AuthoringMeta(Vec<AuthoringMetaItem>)).
  • A hand written Deserialize visits a seq as the array of opcodes and a map as
    a one opcode document, so both shapes keep their own field-level serde errors
    rather than an untagged "matched no variant".
  • Validate runs over every opcode in the document.
  • TryFrom<Vec<u8>> / TryFrom<RainMetaDocumentV1Item> stay where they were and
    now yield the document.

crates/cli/src/meta/normalize.rs is unchanged: normalize_json::<OpMeta> now
normalizes to the canonical array form, so a bare object normalizes to an array
of one (matching toOpMeta's lift).

Evidence

The repro from the issue, both halves now pass:

assert!(KnownMeta::OpV1.normalize(br#"{"name":"add"}"#).is_ok());
assert!(KnownMeta::OpV1.normalize(br#"[{"name":"add"},{"name":"sub"}]"#).is_ok());

End to end against the built binary:

$ rain-metadata validate -m op-v1 -i ops.json     # [{"name":"add"},{"name":"sub"}]
exit=0
$ rain-metadata validate -m op-v1 -i op.json      # {"name":"add"}
exit=0
$ rain-metadata build -E hex -m op-meta-v1 -t json -e identity -l none -i ops.json
0xff0a89c674ee7874a40058995b7b226e616d65223a22616464222c2264657363223a2222…

that payload being the normalized two opcode array under magic
0xffe5282f43e495b4.

schema show op-v1 now describes the document — "title": "OpMeta.",
"type": "array", "items": {"$ref": "#/definitions/OpMetaItem"} — so the
published schema is the array too.

New tests: array of opcodes preserved in order, bare object lifted, empty array
accepted (as toOpMeta accepts it), every entry validated and not just the
first, non-document json rejected, document serialized back as an array; plus
the normalize-level array acceptance and per-entry validation failure.

cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings and cargo fmt --all --check are clean. The full repo suite was not run locally by request (many
sibling agents on this machine); CI runs it.

Not in scope

Real historic payloads diverge from these Rust types at the field level too
("inputs" as an object and "outputs" as an integer in
rainlanguage/meta examples,
vs Vec<Input> / Vec<Output> here, and validRange vs valid_range). That is
a separate defect from the document shape #189 is about and is not touched here.

QA

  • Discriminating tests: test_normalize_op_v1_accepts_array_of_opcodes, test_normalize_op_v1_canonicalizes, test_normalize_op_v1_rejects_invalid_symbol (its new array half), test_opmeta_document_is_an_array_of_opcodes, test_opmeta_document_accepts_empty_array, test_opmeta_document_validates_every_opcode, test_opmeta_document_lifts_single_object + test_opmeta_document_serializes_as_array — each fails on base, verified by restoring base crates/cli/src/meta/types/op/v1.rs (git show origin/main:…) and running the new tests against it: the normalize tests compile unchanged there; the four item-level ones were re-expressed as OpMeta::try_from(…) probes (base OpMeta has no .0), i.e. [{"name":"add"},{"name":"sub"},{"name":"mul"}] is Ok, [] is Ok, a bad second entry is Err, and a bare object serializes back starting [{. cargo test -p rain-metadata --lib on that tree: 307 passed, 7 failed — exactly those seven and nothing else, so the base suite is green (baseline) and every claimed behavior is newly pinned. test_opmeta_document_rejects_other_json is deliberately NOT discriminating (base rejects those too); it guards the new deserializer's boundary and is mutation-validated below.
  • Mutations applied (one at a time, restored after each; each run cargo test -p rain-metadata --lib -- opmeta normalize_op, unmutated = 315 passed / 0 failed for the whole lib):
    • visit_seq → deserialize the array then return OpMeta(vec![]) → killed by test_opmeta_document_is_an_array_of_opcodes and test_normalize_op_v1_accepts_array_of_opcodes (4 failures)
    • visit_map → deserialize the opcode then return OpMeta(vec![]) → killed by test_opmeta_document_lifts_single_object, test_opmeta_document_serializes_as_array, test_normalize_op_v1_canonicalizes (10 failures)
    • deserializer.deserialize_any(OpMetaVisitor)deserialize_seq → killed by test_opmeta_document_lifts_single_object, test_opmeta_minimal_json_defaults, test_normalize_op_v1_canonicalizes (9 failures)
    • Validate for OpMeta → drop the loop, Ok(()) → killed by test_opmeta_document_validates_every_opcode and test_normalize_op_v1_rejects_invalid_symbol (6 failures)
    • for item in &self.0for item in self.0.iter().take(1) (validate only the first opcode) → killed by test_opmeta_document_validates_every_opcode and test_normalize_op_v1_rejects_invalid_symbol (2 failures)
    • visitor gains a visit_str returning an empty document → killed by test_opmeta_document_rejects_other_json (1 failure)
  • Oracle: the issue's intent oracle plus the historic reference implementation this crate was ported from — toOpMeta in rainlanguage/meta (array is the document, a bare object is lifted into one, an empty array is accepted) and OpMeta.get(cborMap): OpMeta[] for the CBOR payload. The expected normalized json strings were written out from OpMetaItem's declared field order and #[serde(default)]s, not captured from a run of this code.
  • Category check: the issue asks (a) that array-shaped op meta v1 documents stop being rejected by normalize / validate / build, and (b) which shape is canonical, with the other shape's expectation made explicit. Both covered — (a) by the document type and the tests above plus the end-to-end validate/build runs, (b) answered above from the historic consumer, encoded as the array being what OpMeta IS and the bare object being tolerated input that normalizes into an array of one. Hence Closes, not Refs.

An op meta v1 document describes the opcodes of an interpreter, so
KnownMeta::OpV1 now deserializes an array of them, with a bare opcode
object read as an array of one and normalized back out as such.

Closes #189

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Walkthrough

OpV1 metadata now stores multiple opcode entries. Deserialization accepts a single object or an array, while serialization emits an array. Validation and normalization tests cover ordering, defaults, empty arrays, invalid symbols, and updated accessors.

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OpV1 metadata representation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Vector-backed metadata model
crates/cli/src/meta/types/op/v1.rs
OpMeta now wraps Vec<OpMetaItem>. Deserialization lifts single objects into one-item arrays and preserves arrays. Validation checks every item, and serialization emits arrays.
Normalization and validation coverage
crates/cli/src/meta/normalize.rs, crates/cli/src/meta/types/op/v1.rs
Tests cover ordered entries, default fields, empty arrays, invalid symbols, invalid JSON shapes, array serialization, and vector-based access.

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use serde::{Serialize, Deserialize};
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Add the required SPDX header.

Line 1 starts the file with an import. Add the DCL-1.0 SPDX license header before this import.

As per coding guidelines, all source files must include SPDX license headers for DecentraLicense 1.0 (DCL-1.0) compliance and REUSE 3.2 compliance.

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#[cfg_attr(feature = "json-schema", derive(JsonSchema))]
pub struct OpMeta(pub Vec<OpMetaItem>);

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printf '%s\n' '--- target definitions ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- schema command ---'
sed -n '1,220p' crates/cli/src/cli/schema/show.rs

printf '%s\n' '--- relevant metadata parsing and schema references ---'
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Make the generated schema accept the singleton object form.

The custom Deserialize implementation accepts both a singleton opcode object and an array, but the derived JsonSchema for OpMeta(Vec<OpMetaItem>) describes only an array. rain meta schema can therefore reject supported singleton documents. Implement an object-or-array schema and add regression coverage for both forms.

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In `@crates/cli/src/meta/types/op/v1.rs` around lines 98 - 99, Update OpMeta’s
JsonSchema implementation to describe both the singleton OpMetaItem object and
the existing array form accepted by its custom Deserialize implementation, and
add regression coverage verifying schema validation accepts both forms.

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