dazzle-linklib

Content-addressable link-record library -- the L2 serialization layer of the DazzleLib stack.

A link record maps an identity to a typed list of locators plus metadata, and knows how to serialize, find, and resolve itself. One model serves three consumers:

• the dazzlelink filesystem CLI (the .dazzlelink file format),
• preserve's content-hash manifest (L3), and
• Relinker -- a hash-addressed, decentralized anti-link-rot resolver (rln.kr/{hash} -> a multi-protocol location set).

What this owns (and what it doesn't)

dazzle-linklib owns the link record: its schema, JSON I/O, the locator list, content_id, relation edges, and the injectable target resolver. It delegates the rest down the stack:

"Records that point at each other" live here; "walking and interpreting those pointers" do not. (See the L2 design rationale, decision D6.)

The stack

Full architecture contract: STACK-MAP.md. API stability policy: docs/api-stability.md.

Status

Pre-alpha (0.2.0) -- first functional release. The link-record core (stack phase P2) is extracted from the dazzlelink tool: the record model (DazzleLinkData), record discovery/rebase (find_dazzlelinks/scan/rebase), and the injectable target resolver (resolve_target). It is verified wire-compatible with the published dazzlelink 0.8.0 tool in both directions. The down-stack delegation of filesystem mechanics to dazzle-filekit (L1) and unctools (L0) follows -- see the Roadmap.

Usage

from dazzle_linklib import DazzleLinkData, find_dazzlelinks, resolve_target

# Read a .dazzlelink record (nested JSON, legacy flat, or embedded-script form).
record = DazzleLinkData.from_file("photo.png.dazzlelink")
print(record.get_target_path())

# Author a record with typed locators + a content identity (Relinker-ready).
record = DazzleLinkData()
record.set_target_path(r"D:\archive\photo.png")
record.add_locator("ipfs", "QmHash...")
record.set_content_id("sha256", "deadbeef...")
record.save_to_file("photo.png.dazzlelink")

# Discover records under a tree and resolve one to its first live locator.
for path in find_dazzlelinks("backup/", recursive=True):
    located = resolve_target(DazzleLinkData.from_file(str(path)))
    print(path, "->", located)

Installation

pip install dazzle-linklib

From source

git clone https://github.com/DazzleLib/dazzle-linklib.git
cd dazzle-linklib
pip install -e ".[dev]"

Contributing

Contributions welcome! Please open an issue or submit a pull request.

python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate   # or .venv\Scripts\activate on Windows
pip install -e ".[dev]"

# Run tests
python -m pytest tests/ -v

# Install git hooks
bash scripts/install-hooks.sh

Two house rules this library lives by:

• Dependencies point down only. L2 consumes the bedrock and the layers below it; it never imports its consumers (the dazzlelink CLI or preserve). The tests/test_no_upstream_imports.py canary enforces this.
• The public surface is locked. Record/discovery/resolver symbols are pinned by tests/test_import_stability.py; changes follow docs/api-stability.md (locked surface, noisy-shim deprecation, additive-only schema evolution).

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License

This project is licensed under the MIT License -- see the LICENSE file for details. The whole DazzleLib stack is MIT (STACK-MAP D11).