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Closes #192.

The issue filed this "flagged, not adjudicated" — the sol half adjudicates it

#192 asks whether the bare-map framing might be deliberate for this API. It is
not, and the deciding fact is in this repo rather than only in the spec.

generate_emit_meta_calldata builds calldata for
IMetaBoardV1_2.emitMeta(subject, meta). That entry point is
LibIMetaBoardV1_2.emitMeta, whose whole body is:

LibMeta.checkMetaUnhashedV1(meta);
emit IMetaV1_2.MetaV1_2(msg.sender, subject, meta);

checkMetaUnhashedV1 reverts NotRainMetaV1 unless the first 8 bytes are
0xff0a89c674ee7874 (src/lib/LibMeta.sol), and IMetaBoardV1_2 states it as
a contract-level MUST: "IMetaBoardV1_2 contracts MUST revert any metadata that
does not start with the Rain metadata magic number."

So this was not a spec-vs-implementation ambiguity with two liveable answers.
Every calldata this function has ever produced reverts on any conforming
metaboard. There is no exemption to document — a "documented exemption" would
have documented a function that cannot be used for its stated purpose.

Two further in-repo oracles agree:

Changes

crates/cli/src/metaboard.rs only:

  • generate_emit_meta_calldata's meta is now
    cbor_encode_seq(&vec![meta], KnownMagic::RainMetaDocumentV1) instead of
    meta.cbor_encode(). A one-item cbor-seq under the magic — which is what
    hash(true) and generate_dotrain_source_emit_tx_data already build, so it
    introduces no new framing.
  • test_generate_emit_meta_calldata_success's meta pin follows.
  • New test_emit_meta_bytes_are_a_rain_meta_document.

What deliberately did NOT change: the subject

The subject stays meta.hash(false) — keccak256 of the BARE cbor item. #192 is
about the meta bytes only, and the bare item hash is the key Store inserts
inner items under (keccak256(meta_map.cbor_encode()) in store_content), so
it is the item's identity in this codebase rather than an arbitrary third
digest. That the subject and the emitted bytes are now over different preimages
looks like an inconsistency at a glance, so the docstring says it is on purpose;
that is the whole of the comment added.

Relation to #247 (2026-08-25-issue-158)

#247 touches the same module and no overlapping line. It changes only
generate_dotrain_source_emit_tx_data's subject (cbor item hash → content
hash) and leaves that path's meta bytes prefixed as they already were. This PR
changes only generate_emit_meta_calldata's meta bytes and leaves its
subject alone. #247's body names the split itself: "the generic
generate_emit_meta_calldata still keys on meta.hash(false), which is a
different question (#192)."

Both branch off the same origin/main (45ca96c). Their metaboard.rs hunks are
disjoint — #247 rewrites the impl body of generate_dotrain_source_emit_tx_data
and the tail of test_generate_dotrain_source_emit_tx_data_success; this one
rewrites the body of generate_emit_meta_calldata and the head of
test_generate_emit_meta_calldata_success — so whichever merges second should
merge clean, and neither changes a value the other asserts.

Behaviour change

generate_emit_meta_calldata is pub and re-exported at the crate root, so
this is wire-visible on a shipped library API: same input, different calldata,
8 bytes longer meta. Called out rather than buried. No in-org consumer exists —
gh search code "generate_emit_meta_calldata org:rainlanguage" returns this
repo's own module and nothing else — and the previous output could not have been
successfully submitted anywhere, so no working caller can regress.

QA

  • Discriminating tests: metaboard::tests::test_emit_meta_bytes_are_a_rain_meta_document
    (new) and metaboard::tests::test_generate_emit_meta_calldata_success (meta
    pin rewritten) — each fails on base, verified by reverting only the impl hunk
    in place (let meta_bytes = meta.cbor_encode()?, tests untouched) and
    re-running: both FAILED, 8 passed / 2 failed. On the fixed tree
    cargo test -p rain-metadata --lib metaboard:: is 10 passed / 0 failed.
  • Mutations applied:
    • crates/cli/src/metaboard.rs let meta_bytes = RainMetaDocumentV1Item::cbor_encode_seq(&vec![meta], crate::KnownMagic::RainMetaDocumentV1)?;
      let meta_bytes = meta.cbor_encode()?; (the original bug is the mutant) →
      killed by test_emit_meta_bytes_are_a_rain_meta_document
      (left: "a3004c7465737420", the bare cbor map header, vs
      right: "ff0a89c674ee7874") and by
      test_generate_emit_meta_calldata_success (emitted meta 8 bytes short).
    • Same line, magic KnownMagic::RainMetaDocumentV1
      KnownMagic::DotrainSourceV1 — prefixed but with the WRONG magic → killed
      by both (left: "ffa15ef0fc437099"), so the new test pins the specific
      magic and not merely "has some prefix".
    • Both mutations reverted; the committed diff is 35 insertions / 2 deletions
      in one file and the working tree is clean against it.
  • Oracle: the literal ff0a89c674ee7874 asserted directly against the emitted
    bytes, not routed through KnownMagic — the same constant
    test/interface/MetaMagicNumberV1.t.sol pins on the sol side, and the value
    quoted in generate_emit_meta_calldata emits meta bytes without the rain-meta-document-v1 magic prefix the metadata-v1 spec requires #192 and in rainprotocol/specs metadata-v1.md. The new test also
    round-trips cbor_decode back to the original item and asserts
    emitted[8..] == meta.cbor_encode(), so the prefix is added and nothing else
    is. The behavioural authority is LibMeta.isRainMetaV1 in this repo, which is
    what actually accepts or rejects the calldata.
  • Category check: generate_emit_meta_calldata emits meta bytes without the rain-meta-document-v1 magic prefix the metadata-v1 spec requires #192 asks (A) the emitted meta bytes do not begin with the
    rain-meta-document-v1 magic the spec requires, and (B) an explicit decision
    between prefixing here too and documenting why this path is exempt. Covered A
    by prefixing. Covered B by deciding, with the reason on the record: exempting
    is not available, because IMetaBoardV1_2.emitMeta — the only consumer of
    this calldata — reverts NotRainMetaV1 on unprefixed meta. generate_emit_meta_calldata emits meta bytes without the rain-meta-document-v1 magic prefix the metadata-v1 spec requires #192's own
    "possibly deliberate" hypotheses are both refuted: there is no wrapping
    caller (no in-org consumer at all), and whether the subgraph checks the prefix
    is moot since the event it indexes is never emitted. The subject question
    generate_emit_meta_calldata emits meta bytes without the rain-meta-document-v1 magic prefix the metadata-v1 spec requires #192 does not ask is left alone and stated above.
  • No sol, subgraph or ABI file is touched, so no CopyArtifacts or manifest
    coupling is in play. cargo fmt --all -- --check and
    cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings are both clean. Per
    the task brief the wider suite is left to CI (~70 sibling agents on this box).

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rainix-rs / static / rs-static fails on the rustfmt-conditional hook with
"Failed to find targets" before it reads a single file. It fails the same way on
main itself (45ca96c, 6fe2e2b, 9c65a23 all failure) and on unrelated PRs,
so it is a rainix hook bug and not this change. Every other lane is green.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Corrected emitted metadata calldata so Rain metadata is recognized while preserving the document hash as the subject.
    • Ensured metadata submissions succeed and emit the expected metadata event.
  • Tests

    • Added cross-language integration coverage for Rust-generated calldata and Solidity metaboard handling.
    • Added fixtures for generic metadata and DoTRAIN source submissions, including round-trip validation.

generate_emit_meta_calldata built emitMeta calldata whose meta was
item.cbor_encode() — the bare cbor map, no 0xff0a89c674ee7874 prefix.
IMetaBoardV1_2.emitMeta reverts NotRainMetaV1 on exactly that, so every
call this function generated was unsubmittable.

Closes #192

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generate_emit_meta_calldata now emits magic-prefixed Rain metadata. Rust generates committed calldata fixtures. Solidity tests send both fixture cases to TestMetaBoard and verify the emitted MetaV1_2 event.

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Metadata calldata validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Magic-prefixed metadata encoding
crates/cli/src/metaboard.rs
generate_emit_meta_calldata encodes a magic-prefixed RainMetaDocumentV1 sequence and retains the bare item hash as the subject. Unit tests validate the prefix, decoding, emitted bytes, and subject.
Rust calldata fixture generation
crates/cli/tests/emit_calldata_fixture.rs, test/fixtures/emit-calldata.json
The integration test generates generic-item and dotrain-source calldata. It validates or regenerates the committed JSON fixture.
Solidity metaboard fixture checks
foundry.toml, test/lib/EmitCalldataFixture.t.sol
Foundry can read the fixture directory. Solidity tests call TestMetaBoard with both calldata cases and verify the emitted sender, subject, and metadata.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to f13c0

The PR corrects the metadata wire format without introducing new runtime or security risk, but merge readiness is currently blocked by required legal metadata and formatting checks that fail on the changed files.

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  participant RustTest
  participant RustEncoder
  participant Fixture
  participant SolidityTest
  participant TestMetaBoard
  RustTest->>RustEncoder: generate emitMeta calldata
  RustEncoder->>Fixture: write or compare encoded calldata
  SolidityTest->>Fixture: read calldata case
  SolidityTest->>TestMetaBoard: call emitMeta
  TestMetaBoard-->>SolidityTest: emit MetaV1_2 event
  SolidityTest->>SolidityTest: verify decoded event arguments
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thedavidmeister and others added 3 commits August 29, 2026 07:35
The defect this branch fixes lived in the seam between the two halves of
the repo: rust builds `emitMeta` calldata, solidity decides whether it is
acceptable, and nothing tested the join. Both suites were green
throughout. `testEmitMetaNotRainMeta` proved the contract reverts on
unprefixed bytes; the rust test asserted the bytes were unprefixed;
neither knew about the other.

The assertion this branch already added pins the wire literal
`ff0a89c674ee7874` on the emitted calldata, which would have caught it -
but that is still two sides agreeing about a constant rather than the
contract being asked.

Now it is asked.

- `crates/cli/tests/emit_calldata_fixture.rs` writes the calldata rust
  actually produces, for both producers, to
  `test/fixtures/emit-calldata.json`. Run plain it asserts the committed
  fixture still matches what the encoders emit, so the file cannot go
  stale; `BLESS=1` regenerates it. Same shape as `CopyArtifacts.sol` and
  the committed abis, checked by the same git-clean lane.
- `test/lib/EmitCalldataFixture.t.sol` reads that fixture and `call`s a
  real `TestMetaBoard` with it, asserting the call succeeds, emits
  exactly one `MetaV1_2`, and carries the calldata's own subject and meta
  arguments back out of the log verbatim. What accepts the bytes is
  `LibMeta.checkMetaUnhashedV1` rather than an assertion restating the
  encoder.

Discriminating, measured: reverting `generate_emit_meta_calldata` to
`meta.cbor_encode()` - the bare cbor map this branch fixes - and
regenerating the fixture gives

    [FAIL: metaboard rejected calldata for generic_item]
      testGenericItemCalldataIsAcceptable
    Suite result: FAILED. 1 passed; 1 failed

`dotrain_source` stays green under that mutation because it comes from
the other producer, which already prefixed correctly - so the two cases
are independent rather than redundant.

`foundry.toml` gains read access to `test/fixtures/`.

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baku-ccron and others added 4 commits August 31, 2026 09:23
The previous commit claimed the fixture was "checked by the same
git-clean lane" as the committed abis. It was not. `git-clean.yaml`
delegates to rainix `rainix-copy-artifacts.yaml`, which runs forge
scripts and then `git diff --exit-code`; it never ran cargo, so it could
not have regenerated this fixture or seen it drift. Only the rust test's
own assertion caught staleness, in a different lane.

That workflow does have the hook for this, guarded on the file existing:

    - name: Regenerate derived artifacts
      if: hashFiles('script/build.sh') != ''
      run: ./script/build.sh

`script/build.sh` now exists and blesses the fixture, so git-clean
regenerates it between the forge steps and the diff, exactly as it does
the abis. Change a producer without committing what it now emits and the
lane goes red.

Measured, not assumed: with `generate_emit_meta_calldata` reverted to
`meta.cbor_encode()`, `./script/build.sh` followed by
`git diff --exit-code -- test/fixtures/` exits non-zero. Restoring the
encoder and rerunning leaves it clean.

The rust test keeps its own assertion, so staleness now fails two lanes
rather than one.

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Both failures were mine, and both are about the two files the previous
commits added rather than anything they do.

`legal` (REUSE lint): `test/fixtures/emit-calldata.json` carried no
copyright or licence, and json has no comment syntax to put SPDX tags in,
so it is covered by a `test/fixtures/**/` entry in `REUSE.toml` the way
the other generated trees are. `script/build.sh` is a shell script and
takes the tags inline. `reuse lint` now reports 133/133 with copyright
and licence, up from 132/133.

`static` (`forge fmt --check`): the log decode in
`EmitCalldataFixture.t.sol` was split across two lines where fmt wants
one.

The two fixture tests still pass against a real metaboard.

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`emit_calldata_fixture.rs` both wrote the fixture under `BLESS=1` and
asserted it was current otherwise. The assert half was left over from
before `script/build.sh` existed: once git-clean regenerates and diffs,
the assertion checks the same fact in a second lane, and the env var only
exists to switch between them.

It is also not how this repo treats generated artifacts. The committed
abis have no self-checking test - `CopyArtifacts.sol` writes them and
`git diff --exit-code` decides. The calldata fixture now works the same
way, as `crates/cli/examples/emit-calldata-fixture.rs`.

Regenerating produces a byte identical fixture, so nothing about what
solidity consumes changed.

Drift is still caught, re-measured against the writer: with
`generate_emit_meta_calldata` reverted to `meta.cbor_encode()`,
`./script/build.sh` then `git diff --exit-code -- test/fixtures/` exits
non-zero; restoring the encoder and rerunning leaves it clean.

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The pre-commit rustfmt hook only sees staged files, so a freshly added
example passed locally while `cargo fmt --all -- --check` in the
rs-static lane did not.

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