Meridian Storage Object Common

meridian-storage-object-common is the provider-neutral Meridian V1 Object Catalog contract package. It supplies mapping-first Object Expressions, deterministic Core Operation normalization, bounded streaming payload handles, portable metadata and content identity, byte ranges, multipart Adapter contracts, consumer-selectable immutability and retention intent, signed logical references, capability negotiation, stable errors, JSON contracts, and a reusable downstream Adapter conformance runner.

The distribution contains exactly one Python package, meridian_storage.object_common. It consumes the released meridian-storage-core==1.0.0 and meridian-storage-semantics==1.0.0 distributions. It contains no provider implementation, cloud credential, physical locator, provisioning, state, ACL, migration, recovery, or lifecycle policy.

Install

python -m pip install meridian-storage-object-common==1.0.0

Python 3.12 or newer is required.

Stream an Object put

from io import BytesIO

from meridian_storage.object_common import ObjectCatalogProvider, PayloadRegistry

payloads = PayloadRegistry()
payload = payloads.register_stream(
    BytesIO(b"immutable bytes"),
    expected_length=15,
    expected_digest="sha256:59d8792018a51a408d2738f31eedebd6fe9926cc4260fa168a38710bc51d7e30",
)

provider = ObjectCatalogProvider()
expression = provider.create_surface().put(
    resource="assets.release_artifacts",
    object_id="v1/example.bin",
    payload=payload,
    media_type="application/octet-stream",
    create_only=True,
    immutability={"mutability": "immutable", "publishOnce": True},
)
operation = provider.normalize(expression)

The Core Expression and Operation remain deterministic JSON. Bytes stay outside that envelope in the explicit process-local PayloadRegistry; the serialized payload token is opaque and cannot be a URL or provider locator.

Exact V1 surface

The Object Catalog exposes exactly these methods:

• publish_schema and create_resource
• put, get, stat, and read_range
• bounded maintenance list
• exact-version, policy-aware delete

Artifact and media are Object profiles, not additional Catalogs. Immutability is selected by the Resource profile and per-put intent. Retention values express portable intent and never imply a WORM or regulatory certification.

Downstream Adapter conformance

An Adapter test target implements ObjectConformanceTarget and passes it to run_object_conformance. The runner verifies unknown-length streaming put, content identity, metadata visibility, streaming get, inclusive range reads, bounded prefix listing, conditional create conflict, digest mismatch, exact-version delete, and missing-object behavior.

Contracts and verification

Language-neutral Draft 2020-12 JSON Schemas, the public API ledger, and valid/invalid fixtures are in contracts. Exact predecessor artifacts and locked design revisions are recorded in compatibility.json.

python -m pip install '.[test]'
ruff format --check src tests scripts
ruff check src tests scripts
mypy src
python scripts/verify_contracts.py
pytest --cov=meridian_storage.object_common --cov-report=term-missing

Release builds are produced twice with a fixed epoch, compared byte-for-byte, inspected for package and license boundaries, clean-installed against released predecessors, and accompanied by an SPDX 2.3 SBOM and GitHub provenance.

See docs/architecture.md, docs/contracts.md, and docs/compatibility.md.

License

Copyright 2026 Meridian contributors. Licensed under Apache License 2.0; see LICENSE and NOTICE.