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Code style guide
================
This document explains the coding style used in the R3 prototyping repository. You will be expected to follow these
recommendations when submitting patches for review. Please take the time to read them and internalise them, to save
time during code review.
What follows are *recommendations* and not *rules*. They are in places intentionally vague, so use your good judgement
when interpreting them.
.. note:: Parts of the codebase may not follow this style guide yet. If you see a place that doesn't, please fix it!
1. General style
################
We use the standard Java coding style from Sun, adapted for Kotlin in ways that should be fairly intuitive.
We aim for line widths of no more than 120 characters. That is wide enough to avoid lots of pointless wrapping but
narrow enough that with a widescreen monitor and a 12 point fixed width font (like Menlo) you can fit two files
next to each other. This is not a rigidly enforced rule and if wrapping a line would be excessively awkward, let it
overflow. Overflow of a few characters here and there isn't a big deal: the goal is general convenience.
Code is vertically dense, blank lines in methods are used sparingly. This is so more code can fit on screen at once.
Each file has a copyright notice at the top. Copy it from the existing files if you create a new one. We do not mark
classes with @author Javadoc annotations.
In Kotlin code, KDoc is used rather than JavaDoc. It's very similar except it uses Markdown for formatting instead
of HTML tags.
We target Java 8 and use the latest Java APIs whenever convenient. We use ``java.time.Instant`` to represent timestamps
and ``java.nio.file.Path`` to represent file paths.
We use spaces and not tabs.
Never apply any design pattern religiously. There are no silver bullets in programming and if something is fashionable,
that doesn't mean it's always better. In particular:
* Use functional programming patterns like map, filter, fold only where it's genuinely more convenient. Never be afraid
to use a simple imperative construct like a for loop or a mutable counter if that results in more direct, English-like
code.
* Use immutability when you don't anticipate very rapid or complex changes to the content. Immutability can help avoid
bugs, but over-used it can make code that has to adjust fields of an immutable object (in a clone) hard to read and
stress the garbage collector. When such code becomes a widespread pattern it can lead to code that is just generically
slow but without hotspots.
* The tradeoffs between various thread safety techniques are complex, subtle, and no technique is always superior to
the others. Our code uses a mix of locks, worker threads and messaging depending on the situation.
2. Comments
###########
We like them as long as they add detail that is missing from the code. Comments that simply repeat the story already
told by the code are best deleted. Comments should:
* Explain what the code is doing at a higher level than is obtainable from just examining the statement and
surrounding code.
* Explain why certain choices were made and the tradeoffs considered.
* Explain how things can go wrong, which is a detail often not easily seen just by reading the code.
* Use good grammar with capital letters and full stops. This gets us in the right frame of mind for writing real
explanations of things.
When writing code, imagine that you have an intelligent colleague looking over your shoulder asking you questions
as you go. Think about what they might ask, and then put your answers in the code.
Dont be afraid of redundancy, many people will start reading your code in the middle with little or no idea of what
its about, eg, due to a bug or a need to introduce a new feature. Its OK to repeat basic facts or descriptions in
different places if that increases the chance developers will see something important.
API docs: all public methods, constants and classes should have doc comments in either JavaDoc or KDoc. API docs should:
* Explain what the method does in words different to how the code describes it.
* Always have some text, annotation-only JavaDocs dont render well. Write “Returns a blah blah blah” rather
than “@returns blah blah blah” if that's the only content (or leave it out if you have nothing more to say than the
code already says).
* Illustrate with examples when you might want to use the method or class. Point the user at alternatives if this code
is not always right.
* Make good use of {@link} annotations.
Bad JavaDocs look like this:
.. sourcecode:: java
/** @return the size of the Bloom filter. */
public int getBloomFilterSize() {
return block;
}
Good JavaDocs look like this:
.. sourcecode:: java
/**
* Returns the size of the current {@link BloomFilter} in bytes. Larger filters have
* lower false positive rates for the same number of inserted keys and thus lower privacy,
* but bandwidth usage is also correspondingly reduced.
*/
public int getBloomFilterSize() { ... }
We use C-style (``/** */``) comments for API docs and we use C++ style comments (``//``) for explanations that are
only intended to be viewed by people who read the code.
3. Threading
############
Classes that are thread safe should be annotated with the ``@ThreadSafe`` annotation. The class or method comments
should describe how threads are expected to interact with your code, unless it's obvious because the class is
(for example) a simple immutable data holder.
Code that supports callbacks or event listeners should always accept an ``Executor`` argument that defaults to
``MoreExecutors.directThreadExecutor()`` (i.e. the calling thread) when registering the callback. This makes it easy
to integrate the callbacks with whatever threading environment the calling code expects, e.g. serialised onto a single
worker thread if necessary, or run directly on the background threads used by the class if the callback is thread safe
and doesn't care in what context it's invoked.
In the prototyping code it's OK to use synchronised methods i.e. with an exposed lock when the use of locking is quite
trivial. If the synchronisation in your code is getting more complex, consider the following:
1. Is the complexity necessary? At this early stage, don't worry too much about performance or scalability, as we're
exploring the design space rather than making an optimal implementation of a design that's already nailed down.
2. Could you simplify it by making the data be owned by a dedicated, encapsulated worker thread? If so, remember to
think about flow control and what happens if a work queue fills up: the actor model can often be useful but be aware
of the downsides and try to avoid explicitly defining messages, prefer to send closures onto the worker thread
instead.
3. If you use an explicit lock and the locking gets complex, and *always* if the class supports callbacks, use the
cycle detecting locks from the Guava library.
4. Can you simplify some things by using thread-safe collections like ``CopyOnWriteArrayList`` or ``ConcurrentHashMap``?
These data structures are more expensive than their non-thread-safe equivalents but can be worth it if it lets us
simplify the code.
Immutable data structures can be very useful for making it easier to reason about multi-threaded code. Kotlin makes it
easy to define these via the "data" attribute, which auto-generates a copy() method. That lets you create clones of
an immutable object with arbitrary fields adjusted in the clone. But if you can't use the data attribute for some
reason, for instance, you are working in Java or because you need an inheritance heirarchy, then consider that making
a class fully immutable may result in very awkward code if there's ever a need to make complex changes to it. If in
doubt, ask. Remember, never apply any design pattern religiously.
4. Assertions and errors
########################
We use them liberally and we use them at runtime, in production. That means we avoid the "assert" keyword in Java,
and instead prefer to use the ``check()`` or ``require()`` functions in Kotlin (for an ``IllegalStateException`` or
``IllegalArgumentException`` respectively), or the Guava ``Preconditions.check`` method from Java.
We define new exception types liberally. We prefer not to provide English language error messages in exceptions at
the throw site, instead we define new types with any useful information as fields, with a toString() method if
really necessary. In other words, don't do this:
.. sourcecode:: java
throw new Exception("The foo broke")
instead do this
.. sourcecode:: java
class FooBrokenException extends Exception {}
throw new FooBrokenException()
The latter is easier to catch and handle if later necessary, and the type name should explain what went wrong.
Note that Kotlin does not require exception types to be declared in method prototypes like Java does.

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private class UnacceptablePriceException(val givenPrice: Amount) : Exception() class UnacceptablePriceException(val givenPrice: Amount) : Exception()
private class AssetMismatchException(val expectedTypeName: String, val typeName: String) : Exception() { class AssetMismatchException(val expectedTypeName: String, val typeName: String) : Exception() {
override fun toString() = "The submitted asset didn't match the expected type: $expectedTypeName vs $typeName" override fun toString() = "The submitted asset didn't match the expected type: $expectedTypeName vs $typeName"
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* *
* Sphinx stylesheet -- basic theme. * Sphinx stylesheet -- basic theme.
* *
* :copyright: Copyright 2007-2015 by the Sphinx team, see AUTHORS. * :copyright: Copyright 2007-2016 by the Sphinx team, see AUTHORS.
* :license: BSD, see LICENSE for details. * :license: BSD, see LICENSE for details.
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* *
* Sphinx JavaScript utilities for all documentation. * Sphinx JavaScript utilities for all documentation.
* *
* :copyright: Copyright 2007-2015 by the Sphinx team, see AUTHORS. * :copyright: Copyright 2007-2016 by the Sphinx team, see AUTHORS.
* :license: BSD, see LICENSE for details. * :license: BSD, see LICENSE for details.
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.highlight .err { border: 1px solid #FF0000 } /* Error */ .highlight .err { border: 1px solid #FF0000 } /* Error */
.highlight .k { color: #007020; font-weight: bold } /* Keyword */ .highlight .k { color: #007020; font-weight: bold } /* Keyword */
.highlight .o { color: #666666 } /* Operator */ .highlight .o { color: #666666 } /* Operator */
.highlight .ch { color: #408090; font-style: italic } /* Comment.Hashbang */
.highlight .cm { color: #408090; font-style: italic } /* Comment.Multiline */ .highlight .cm { color: #408090; font-style: italic } /* Comment.Multiline */
.highlight .cp { color: #007020 } /* Comment.Preproc */ .highlight .cp { color: #007020 } /* Comment.Preproc */
.highlight .cpf { color: #408090; font-style: italic } /* Comment.PreprocFile */
.highlight .c1 { color: #408090; font-style: italic } /* Comment.Single */ .highlight .c1 { color: #408090; font-style: italic } /* Comment.Single */
.highlight .cs { color: #408090; background-color: #fff0f0 } /* Comment.Special */ .highlight .cs { color: #408090; background-color: #fff0f0 } /* Comment.Special */
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* *
* Sphinx JavaScript utilties for the full-text search. * Sphinx JavaScript utilties for the full-text search.
* *
* :copyright: Copyright 2007-2015 by the Sphinx team, see AUTHORS. * :copyright: Copyright 2007-2016 by the Sphinx team, see AUTHORS.
* :license: BSD, see LICENSE for details. * :license: BSD, see LICENSE for details.
* *
*/ */
/* Non-minified version JS is _stemmer.js if file is provided */
/** /**
* Porter Stemmer * Porter Stemmer
*/ */
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} }
// lookup as search terms in fulltext // lookup as search terms in fulltext
results = results.concat(this.performTermsSearch(searchterms, excluded, terms, Scorer.term)) results = results.concat(this.performTermsSearch(searchterms, excluded, terms, titleterms));
.concat(this.performTermsSearch(searchterms, excluded, titleterms, Scorer.title));
// let the scorer override scores with a custom scoring function // let the scorer override scores with a custom scoring function
if (Scorer.score) { if (Scorer.score) {
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/** /**
* search for full-text terms in the index * search for full-text terms in the index
*/ */
performTermsSearch : function(searchterms, excluded, terms, score) { performTermsSearch : function(searchterms, excluded, terms, titleterms) {
var filenames = this._index.filenames; var filenames = this._index.filenames;
var titles = this._index.titles; var titles = this._index.titles;
var i, j, file, files; var i, j, file;
var fileMap = {}; var fileMap = {};
var scoreMap = {};
var results = []; var results = [];
// perform the search on the required terms // perform the search on the required terms
for (i = 0; i < searchterms.length; i++) { for (i = 0; i < searchterms.length; i++) {
var word = searchterms[i]; var word = searchterms[i];
var files = [];
var _o = [
{files: terms[word], score: Scorer.term},
{files: titleterms[word], score: Scorer.title}
];
// no match but word was a required one // no match but word was a required one
if ((files = terms[word]) === undefined) if ($u.every(_o, function(o){return o.files === undefined;})) {
break; break;
if (files.length === undefined) {
files = [files];
} }
// found search word in contents
$u.each(_o, function(o) {
var _files = o.files;
if (_files === undefined)
return
if (_files.length === undefined)
_files = [_files];
files = files.concat(_files);
// set score for the word in each file to Scorer.term
for (j = 0; j < _files.length; j++) {
file = _files[j];
if (!(file in scoreMap))
scoreMap[file] = {}
scoreMap[file][word] = o.score;
}
});
// create the mapping // create the mapping
for (j = 0; j < files.length; j++) { for (j = 0; j < files.length; j++) {
file = files[j]; file = files[j];
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// ensure that none of the excluded terms is in the search result // ensure that none of the excluded terms is in the search result
for (i = 0; i < excluded.length; i++) { for (i = 0; i < excluded.length; i++) {
if (terms[excluded[i]] == file || if (terms[excluded[i]] == file ||
$u.contains(terms[excluded[i]] || [], file)) { titleterms[excluded[i]] == file ||
$u.contains(terms[excluded[i]] || [], file) ||
$u.contains(titleterms[excluded[i]] || [], file)) {
valid = false; valid = false;
break; break;
} }
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// if we have still a valid result we can add it to the result list // if we have still a valid result we can add it to the result list
if (valid) { if (valid) {
// select one (max) score for the file.
// for better ranking, we should calculate ranking by using words statistics like basic tf-idf...
var score = $u.max($u.map(fileMap[file], function(w){return scoreMap[file][w]}));
results.push([filenames[file], titles[file], '', null, score]); results.push([filenames[file], titles[file], '', null, score]);
} }
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* sphinx.websupport utilties for all documentation. * sphinx.websupport utilties for all documentation.
* *
* :copyright: Copyright 2007-2015 by the Sphinx team, see AUTHORS. * :copyright: Copyright 2007-2016 by the Sphinx team, see AUTHORS.
* :license: BSD, see LICENSE for details. * :license: BSD, see LICENSE for details.
* *
*/ */

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<h1>Code style guide<a class="headerlink" href="#code-style-guide" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h1>
<p>This document explains the coding style used in the R3 prototyping repository. You will be expected to follow these
recommendations when submitting patches for review. Please take the time to read them and internalise them, to save
time during code review.</p>
<p>What follows are <em>recommendations</em> and not <em>rules</em>. They are in places intentionally vague, so use your good judgement
when interpreting them.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">Parts of the codebase may not follow this style guide yet. If you see a place that doesn&#8217;t, please fix it!</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="general-style">
<h2>1. General style<a class="headerlink" href="#general-style" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>We use the standard Java coding style from Sun, adapted for Kotlin in ways that should be fairly intuitive.</p>
<p>We aim for line widths of no more than 120 characters. That is wide enough to avoid lots of pointless wrapping but
narrow enough that with a widescreen monitor and a 12 point fixed width font (like Menlo) you can fit two files
next to each other. This is not a rigidly enforced rule and if wrapping a line would be excessively awkward, let it
overflow. Overflow of a few characters here and there isn&#8217;t a big deal: the goal is general convenience.</p>
<p>Code is vertically dense, blank lines in methods are used sparingly. This is so more code can fit on screen at once.</p>
<p>Each file has a copyright notice at the top. Copy it from the existing files if you create a new one. We do not mark
classes with &#64;author Javadoc annotations.</p>
<p>In Kotlin code, KDoc is used rather than JavaDoc. It&#8217;s very similar except it uses Markdown for formatting instead
of HTML tags.</p>
<p>We target Java 8 and use the latest Java APIs whenever convenient. We use <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">java.time.Instant</span></code> to represent timestamps
and <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">java.nio.file.Path</span></code> to represent file paths.</p>
<p>We use spaces and not tabs.</p>
<p>Never apply any design pattern religiously. There are no silver bullets in programming and if something is fashionable,
that doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s always better. In particular:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Use functional programming patterns like map, filter, fold only where it&#8217;s genuinely more convenient. Never be afraid
to use a simple imperative construct like a for loop or a mutable counter if that results in more direct, English-like
code.</li>
<li>Use immutability when you don&#8217;t anticipate very rapid or complex changes to the content. Immutability can help avoid
bugs, but over-used it can make code that has to adjust fields of an immutable object (in a clone) hard to read and
stress the garbage collector. When such code becomes a widespread pattern it can lead to code that is just generically
slow but without hotspots.</li>
<li>The tradeoffs between various thread safety techniques are complex, subtle, and no technique is always superior to
the others. Our code uses a mix of locks, worker threads and messaging depending on the situation.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="comments">
<h2>2. Comments<a class="headerlink" href="#comments" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>We like them as long as they add detail that is missing from the code. Comments that simply repeat the story already
told by the code are best deleted. Comments should:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Explain what the code is doing at a higher level than is obtainable from just examining the statement and
surrounding code.</li>
<li>Explain why certain choices were made and the tradeoffs considered.</li>
<li>Explain how things can go wrong, which is a detail often not easily seen just by reading the code.</li>
<li>Use good grammar with capital letters and full stops. This gets us in the right frame of mind for writing real
explanations of things.</li>
</ul>
<p>When writing code, imagine that you have an intelligent colleague looking over your shoulder asking you questions
as you go. Think about what they might ask, and then put your answers in the code.</p>
<p>Dont be afraid of redundancy, many people will start reading your code in the middle with little or no idea of what
its about, eg, due to a bug or a need to introduce a new feature. Its OK to repeat basic facts or descriptions in
different places if that increases the chance developers will see something important.</p>
<p>API docs: all public methods, constants and classes should have doc comments in either JavaDoc or KDoc. API docs should:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Explain what the method does in words different to how the code describes it.</li>
<li>Always have some text, annotation-only JavaDocs dont render well. Write “Returns a blah blah blah” rather
than “&#64;returns blah blah blah” if that&#8217;s the only content (or leave it out if you have nothing more to say than the
code already says).</li>
<li>Illustrate with examples when you might want to use the method or class. Point the user at alternatives if this code
is not always right.</li>
<li>Make good use of <a class="reference external" href="mailto:{&#37;&#52;&#48;link">{<span>&#64;</span>link</a>} annotations.</li>
</ul>
<p>Bad JavaDocs look like this:</p>
<div class="highlight-java"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="cm">/** @return the size of the Bloom filter. */</span>
<span class="kd">public</span> <span class="kt">int</span> <span class="nf">getBloomFilterSize</span><span class="o">()</span> <span class="o">{</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">block</span><span class="o">;</span>
<span class="o">}</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Good JavaDocs look like this:</p>
<div class="highlight-java"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="cm">/**</span>
<span class="cm"> * Returns the size of the current {@link BloomFilter} in bytes. Larger filters have</span>
<span class="cm"> * lower false positive rates for the same number of inserted keys and thus lower privacy,</span>
<span class="cm"> * but bandwidth usage is also correspondingly reduced.</span>
<span class="cm"> */</span>
<span class="kd">public</span> <span class="kt">int</span> <span class="nf">getBloomFilterSize</span><span class="o">()</span> <span class="o">{</span> <span class="o">...</span> <span class="o">}</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>We use C-style (<code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/**</span> <span class="pre">*/</span></code>) comments for API docs and we use C++ style comments (<code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">//</span></code>) for explanations that are
only intended to be viewed by people who read the code.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="threading">
<h2>3. Threading<a class="headerlink" href="#threading" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Classes that are thread safe should be annotated with the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">&#64;ThreadSafe</span></code> annotation. The class or method comments
should describe how threads are expected to interact with your code, unless it&#8217;s obvious because the class is
(for example) a simple immutable data holder.</p>
<p>Code that supports callbacks or event listeners should always accept an <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Executor</span></code> argument that defaults to
<code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">MoreExecutors.directThreadExecutor()</span></code> (i.e. the calling thread) when registering the callback. This makes it easy
to integrate the callbacks with whatever threading environment the calling code expects, e.g. serialised onto a single
worker thread if necessary, or run directly on the background threads used by the class if the callback is thread safe
and doesn&#8217;t care in what context it&#8217;s invoked.</p>
<p>In the prototyping code it&#8217;s OK to use synchronised methods i.e. with an exposed lock when the use of locking is quite
trivial. If the synchronisation in your code is getting more complex, consider the following:</p>
<ol class="arabic simple">
<li>Is the complexity necessary? At this early stage, don&#8217;t worry too much about performance or scalability, as we&#8217;re
exploring the design space rather than making an optimal implementation of a design that&#8217;s already nailed down.</li>
<li>Could you simplify it by making the data be owned by a dedicated, encapsulated worker thread? If so, remember to
think about flow control and what happens if a work queue fills up: the actor model can often be useful but be aware
of the downsides and try to avoid explicitly defining messages, prefer to send closures onto the worker thread
instead.</li>
<li>If you use an explicit lock and the locking gets complex, and <em>always</em> if the class supports callbacks, use the
cycle detecting locks from the Guava library.</li>
<li>Can you simplify some things by using thread-safe collections like <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">CopyOnWriteArrayList</span></code> or <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ConcurrentHashMap</span></code>?
These data structures are more expensive than their non-thread-safe equivalents but can be worth it if it lets us
simplify the code.</li>
</ol>
<p>Immutable data structures can be very useful for making it easier to reason about multi-threaded code. Kotlin makes it
easy to define these via the &#8220;data&#8221; attribute, which auto-generates a copy() method. That lets you create clones of
an immutable object with arbitrary fields adjusted in the clone. But if you can&#8217;t use the data attribute for some
reason, for instance, you are working in Java or because you need an inheritance heirarchy, then consider that making
a class fully immutable may result in very awkward code if there&#8217;s ever a need to make complex changes to it. If in
doubt, ask. Remember, never apply any design pattern religiously.</p>
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<h2>4. Assertions and errors<a class="headerlink" href="#assertions-and-errors" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>We use them liberally and we use them at runtime, in production. That means we avoid the &#8220;assert&#8221; keyword in Java,
and instead prefer to use the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">check()</span></code> or <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">require()</span></code> functions in Kotlin (for an <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">IllegalStateException</span></code> or
<code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">IllegalArgumentException</span></code> respectively), or the Guava <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Preconditions.check</span></code> method from Java.</p>
<p>We define new exception types liberally. We prefer not to provide English language error messages in exceptions at
the throw site, instead we define new types with any useful information as fields, with a toString() method if
really necessary. In other words, don&#8217;t do this:</p>
<div class="highlight-java"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="k">throw</span> <span class="k">new</span> <span class="n">Exception</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="s">&quot;The foo broke&quot;</span><span class="o">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>instead do this</p>
<div class="highlight-java"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kd">class</span> <span class="nc">FooBrokenException</span> <span class="kd">extends</span> <span class="n">Exception</span> <span class="o">{}</span>
<span class="k">throw</span> <span class="k">new</span> <span class="n">FooBrokenException</span><span class="o">()</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>The latter is easier to catch and handle if later necessary, and the type name should explain what went wrong.</p>
<p>Note that Kotlin does not require exception types to be declared in method prototypes like Java does.</p>
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<span class="p">)</span> <span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">private</span> <span class="k">class</span> <span class="nc">UnacceptablePriceException</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="k">val</span> <span class="py">givenPrice</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">Amount</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">Exception</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="k">class</span> <span class="nc">UnacceptablePriceException</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="k">val</span> <span class="py">givenPrice</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">Amount</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">Exception</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="k">private</span> <span class="k">class</span> <span class="nc">AssetMismatchException</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="k">val</span> <span class="py">expectedTypeName</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">String</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="k">val</span> <span class="py">typeName</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">String</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">Exception</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="p">{</span> <span class="k">class</span> <span class="nc">AssetMismatchException</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="k">val</span> <span class="py">expectedTypeName</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">String</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="k">val</span> <span class="py">typeName</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">String</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">Exception</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="p">{</span>
<span class="k">override</span> <span class="k">fun</span> <span class="nf">toString</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="s">&quot;The submitted asset didn&#39;t match the expected type: $expectedTypeName vs $typeName&quot;</span> <span class="k">override</span> <span class="k">fun</span> <span class="nf">toString</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="s">&quot;The submitted asset didn&#39;t match the expected type: $expectedTypeName vs $typeName&quot;</span>
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<h2>States<a class="headerlink" href="#states" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2> <h2>States<a class="headerlink" href="#states" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>A state is a class that stores data that is checked by the contract.</p> <p>A state is a class that stores data that is checked by the contract.</p>
<div class="codeset container"> <div class="codeset container">
<div class="highlight-kotlin"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="n">data</span> <span class="k">class</span> <span class="nc">State</span><span class="p">(</span> <div class="highlight-kotlin"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="k">data</span> <span class="k">class</span> <span class="nc">State</span><span class="p">(</span>
<span class="k">val</span> <span class="py">issuance</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">InstitutionReference</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="k">val</span> <span class="py">issuance</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">InstitutionReference</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="k">val</span> <span class="py">owner</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">PublicKey</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="k">val</span> <span class="py">owner</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">PublicKey</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="k">val</span> <span class="py">faceValue</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">Amount</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="k">val</span> <span class="py">faceValue</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">Amount</span><span class="p">,</span>
@ -316,7 +317,7 @@ checked, so from the contract code&#8217;s perspective, a command is simply a da
public keys. Each key had a signature proving that the corresponding private key was used to sign.</p> public keys. Each key had a signature proving that the corresponding private key was used to sign.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s define a few commands now:</p> <p>Let&#8217;s define a few commands now:</p>
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<div class="highlight-kotlin"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="n">interface</span> <span class="n">Commands</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">Command</span> <span class="p">{</span> <div class="highlight-kotlin"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="k">interface</span> <span class="nc">Commands</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">Command</span> <span class="p">{</span>
<span class="k">object</span> <span class="nc">Move</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">Commands</span> <span class="k">object</span> <span class="nc">Move</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">Commands</span>
<span class="k">object</span> <span class="nc">Redeem</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">Commands</span> <span class="k">object</span> <span class="nc">Redeem</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">Commands</span>
<span class="k">object</span> <span class="nc">Issue</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">Commands</span> <span class="k">object</span> <span class="nc">Issue</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">Commands</span>

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Code style guide
================
This document explains the coding style used in the R3 prototyping repository. You will be expected to follow these
recommendations when submitting patches for review. Please take the time to read them and internalise them, to save
time during code review.
What follows are *recommendations* and not *rules*. They are in places intentionally vague, so use your good judgement
when interpreting them.
.. note:: Parts of the codebase may not follow this style guide yet. If you see a place that doesn't, please fix it!
1. General style
################
We use the standard Java coding style from Sun, adapted for Kotlin in ways that should be fairly intuitive.
We aim for line widths of no more than 120 characters. That is wide enough to avoid lots of pointless wrapping but
narrow enough that with a widescreen monitor and a 12 point fixed width font (like Menlo) you can fit two files
next to each other. This is not a rigidly enforced rule and if wrapping a line would be excessively awkward, let it
overflow. Overflow of a few characters here and there isn't a big deal: the goal is general convenience.
Code is vertically dense, blank lines in methods are used sparingly. This is so more code can fit on screen at once.
Each file has a copyright notice at the top. Copy it from the existing files if you create a new one. We do not mark
classes with @author Javadoc annotations.
In Kotlin code, KDoc is used rather than JavaDoc. It's very similar except it uses Markdown for formatting instead
of HTML tags.
We target Java 8 and use the latest Java APIs whenever convenient. We use ``java.time.Instant`` to represent timestamps
and ``java.nio.file.Path`` to represent file paths.
We use spaces and not tabs.
Never apply any design pattern religiously. There are no silver bullets in programming and if something is fashionable,
that doesn't mean it's always better. In particular:
* Use functional programming patterns like map, filter, fold only where it's genuinely more convenient. Never be afraid
to use a simple imperative construct like a for loop or a mutable counter if that results in more direct, English-like
code.
* Use immutability when you don't anticipate very rapid or complex changes to the content. Immutability can help avoid
bugs, but over-used it can make code that has to adjust fields of an immutable object (in a clone) hard to read and
stress the garbage collector. When such code becomes a widespread pattern it can lead to code that is just generically
slow but without hotspots.
* The tradeoffs between various thread safety techniques are complex, subtle, and no technique is always superior to
the others. Our code uses a mix of locks, worker threads and messaging depending on the situation.
2. Comments
###########
We like them as long as they add detail that is missing from the code. Comments that simply repeat the story already
told by the code are best deleted. Comments should:
* Explain what the code is doing at a higher level than is obtainable from just examining the statement and
surrounding code.
* Explain why certain choices were made and the tradeoffs considered.
* Explain how things can go wrong, which is a detail often not easily seen just by reading the code.
* Use good grammar with capital letters and full stops. This gets us in the right frame of mind for writing real
explanations of things.
When writing code, imagine that you have an intelligent colleague looking over your shoulder asking you questions
as you go. Think about what they might ask, and then put your answers in the code.
Dont be afraid of redundancy, many people will start reading your code in the middle with little or no idea of what
its about, eg, due to a bug or a need to introduce a new feature. Its OK to repeat basic facts or descriptions in
different places if that increases the chance developers will see something important.
API docs: all public methods, constants and classes should have doc comments in either JavaDoc or KDoc. API docs should:
* Explain what the method does in words different to how the code describes it.
* Always have some text, annotation-only JavaDocs dont render well. Write “Returns a blah blah blah” rather
than “@returns blah blah blah” if that's the only content (or leave it out if you have nothing more to say than the
code already says).
* Illustrate with examples when you might want to use the method or class. Point the user at alternatives if this code
is not always right.
* Make good use of {@link} annotations.
Bad JavaDocs look like this:
.. sourcecode:: java
/** @return the size of the Bloom filter. */
public int getBloomFilterSize() {
return block;
}
Good JavaDocs look like this:
.. sourcecode:: java
/**
* Returns the size of the current {@link BloomFilter} in bytes. Larger filters have
* lower false positive rates for the same number of inserted keys and thus lower privacy,
* but bandwidth usage is also correspondingly reduced.
*/
public int getBloomFilterSize() { ... }
We use C-style (``/** */``) comments for API docs and we use C++ style comments (``//``) for explanations that are
only intended to be viewed by people who read the code.
3. Threading
############
Classes that are thread safe should be annotated with the ``@ThreadSafe`` annotation. The class or method comments
should describe how threads are expected to interact with your code, unless it's obvious because the class is
(for example) a simple immutable data holder.
Code that supports callbacks or event listeners should always accept an ``Executor`` argument that defaults to
``MoreExecutors.directThreadExecutor()`` (i.e. the calling thread) when registering the callback. This makes it easy
to integrate the callbacks with whatever threading environment the calling code expects, e.g. serialised onto a single
worker thread if necessary, or run directly on the background threads used by the class if the callback is thread safe
and doesn't care in what context it's invoked.
In the prototyping code it's OK to use synchronised methods i.e. with an exposed lock when the use of locking is quite
trivial. If the synchronisation in your code is getting more complex, consider the following:
1. Is the complexity necessary? At this early stage, don't worry too much about performance or scalability, as we're
exploring the design space rather than making an optimal implementation of a design that's already nailed down.
2. Could you simplify it by making the data be owned by a dedicated, encapsulated worker thread? If so, remember to
think about flow control and what happens if a work queue fills up: the actor model can often be useful but be aware
of the downsides and try to avoid explicitly defining messages, prefer to send closures onto the worker thread
instead.
3. If you use an explicit lock and the locking gets complex, and *always* if the class supports callbacks, use the
cycle detecting locks from the Guava library.
4. Can you simplify some things by using thread-safe collections like ``CopyOnWriteArrayList`` or ``ConcurrentHashMap``?
These data structures are more expensive than their non-thread-safe equivalents but can be worth it if it lets us
simplify the code.
Immutable data structures can be very useful for making it easier to reason about multi-threaded code. Kotlin makes it
easy to define these via the "data" attribute, which auto-generates a copy() method. That lets you create clones of
an immutable object with arbitrary fields adjusted in the clone. But if you can't use the data attribute for some
reason, for instance, you are working in Java or because you need an inheritance heirarchy, then consider that making
a class fully immutable may result in very awkward code if there's ever a need to make complex changes to it. If in
doubt, ask. Remember, never apply any design pattern religiously.
4. Assertions and errors
########################
We use them liberally and we use them at runtime, in production. That means we avoid the "assert" keyword in Java,
and instead prefer to use the ``check()`` or ``require()`` functions in Kotlin (for an ``IllegalStateException`` or
``IllegalArgumentException`` respectively), or the Guava ``Preconditions.check`` method from Java.
We define new exception types liberally. We prefer not to provide English language error messages in exceptions at
the throw site, instead we define new types with any useful information as fields, with a toString() method if
really necessary. In other words, don't do this:
.. sourcecode:: java
throw new Exception("The foo broke")
instead do this
.. sourcecode:: java
class FooBrokenException extends Exception {}
throw new FooBrokenException()
The latter is easier to catch and handle if later necessary, and the type name should explain what went wrong.
Note that Kotlin does not require exception types to be declared in method prototypes like Java does.

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@ -105,7 +105,8 @@ fun Iterable<Amount>.sumOrZero(currency: Currency) = if (iterator().hasNext()) s
//// Authenticated commands /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// //// Authenticated commands ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/** Filters the command list by type, party and public key all at once. */ /** Filters the command list by type, party and public key all at once. */
inline fun <reified T : CommandData> List<AuthenticatedObject<CommandData>>.select(signer: PublicKey? = null, party: Party? = null) = inline fun <reified T : CommandData> List<AuthenticatedObject<CommandData>>.select(signer: PublicKey? = null,
party: Party? = null) =
filter { it.value is T }. filter { it.value is T }.
filter { if (signer == null) true else it.signers.contains(signer) }. filter { if (signer == null) true else it.signers.contains(signer) }.
filter { if (party == null) true else it.signingParties.contains(party) }. filter { if (party == null) true else it.signingParties.contains(party) }.
@ -118,7 +119,8 @@ inline fun <reified T : CommandData> List<AuthenticatedObject<CommandData>>.requ
} }
// For Java // For Java
fun List<AuthenticatedObject<CommandData>>.requireSingleCommand(klass: Class<out CommandData>) = filter { klass.isInstance(it) }.single() fun List<AuthenticatedObject<CommandData>>.requireSingleCommand(klass: Class<out CommandData>) =
filter { klass.isInstance(it) }.single()
/** Returns a timestamp that was signed by the given authority, or returns null if missing. */ /** Returns a timestamp that was signed by the given authority, or returns null if missing. */
fun List<AuthenticatedObject<CommandData>>.getTimestampBy(timestampingAuthority: Party): TimestampCommand? { fun List<AuthenticatedObject<CommandData>>.getTimestampBy(timestampingAuthority: Party): TimestampCommand? {

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@ -142,7 +142,8 @@ public class InMemoryNetwork {
* An instance can be obtained by creating a builder and then using the start method. * An instance can be obtained by creating a builder and then using the start method.
*/ */
inner class Node(private val manuallyPumped: Boolean, private val handle: Handle): MessagingService { inner class Node(private val manuallyPumped: Boolean, private val handle: Handle): MessagingService {
inner class Handler(val executor: Executor?, val topic: String, val callback: (Message, MessageHandlerRegistration) -> Unit) : MessageHandlerRegistration inner class Handler(val executor: Executor?, val topic: String,
val callback: (Message, MessageHandlerRegistration) -> Unit) : MessageHandlerRegistration
@GuardedBy("this") @GuardedBy("this")
protected val handlers: MutableList<Handler> = ArrayList() protected val handlers: MutableList<Handler> = ArrayList()
@GuardedBy("this") @GuardedBy("this")
@ -156,16 +157,17 @@ public class InMemoryNetwork {
override val timestampingNodes = if (timestampingAdvert != null) listOf(timestampingAdvert!!) else emptyList() override val timestampingNodes = if (timestampingAdvert != null) listOf(timestampingAdvert!!) else emptyList()
} }
protected val backgroundThread = if (manuallyPumped) null else thread(isDaemon = true, name = "In-memory message dispatcher ") { protected val backgroundThread = if (manuallyPumped) null else
while (!currentThread.isInterrupted) { thread(isDaemon = true, name = "In-memory message dispatcher ") {
try { while (!currentThread.isInterrupted) {
pumpInternal(true) try {
} catch(e: InterruptedException) { pumpInternal(true)
if (synchronized(this) { running }) } catch(e: InterruptedException) {
throw e if (synchronized(this) { running })
throw e
}
} }
} }
}
@Synchronized @Synchronized
override fun addMessageHandler(topic: String, executor: Executor?, callback: (Message, MessageHandlerRegistration) -> Unit): MessageHandlerRegistration { override fun addMessageHandler(topic: String, executor: Executor?, callback: (Message, MessageHandlerRegistration) -> Unit): MessageHandlerRegistration {

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@ -72,8 +72,12 @@ class SerializedBytes<T : Any>(bits: ByteArray) : OpaqueBytes(bits) {
} }
// Some extension functions that make deserialisation convenient and provide auto-casting of the result. // Some extension functions that make deserialisation convenient and provide auto-casting of the result.
inline fun <reified T : Any> ByteArray.deserialize(kryo: Kryo = THREAD_LOCAL_KRYO.get()): T = kryo.readObject(Input(this), T::class.java) inline fun <reified T : Any> ByteArray.deserialize(kryo: Kryo = THREAD_LOCAL_KRYO.get()): T {
inline fun <reified T : Any> OpaqueBytes.deserialize(kryo: Kryo = THREAD_LOCAL_KRYO.get()): T = kryo.readObject(Input(this.bits), T::class.java) return kryo.readObject(Input(this), T::class.java)
}
inline fun <reified T : Any> OpaqueBytes.deserialize(kryo: Kryo = THREAD_LOCAL_KRYO.get()): T {
return kryo.readObject(Input(this.bits), T::class.java)
}
inline fun <reified T : Any> SerializedBytes<T>.deserialize(): T = bits.deserialize() inline fun <reified T : Any> SerializedBytes<T>.deserialize(): T = bits.deserialize()
/** /**
@ -132,7 +136,8 @@ class ImmutableClassSerializer<T : Any>(val klass: KClass<T>) : Serializer<T>()
// A few quick checks for data evolution. Note that this is not guaranteed to catch every problem! But it's // A few quick checks for data evolution. Note that this is not guaranteed to catch every problem! But it's
// good enough for a prototype. // good enough for a prototype.
if (numFields != constructor.parameters.size) if (numFields != constructor.parameters.size)
throw KryoException("Mismatch between number of constructor parameters and number of serialised fields for ${klass.qualifiedName} ($numFields vs ${constructor.parameters.size})") throw KryoException("Mismatch between number of constructor parameters and number of serialised fields " +
"for ${klass.qualifiedName} ($numFields vs ${constructor.parameters.size})")
if (fieldTypeHash != constructor.parameters.hashCode()) if (fieldTypeHash != constructor.parameters.hashCode())
throw KryoException("Hashcode mismatch for parameter types for ${klass.qualifiedName}: unsupported type evolution has happened.") throw KryoException("Hashcode mismatch for parameter types for ${klass.qualifiedName}: unsupported type evolution has happened.")