🔐Isolated Storage

Portal is designed to host multiple parties without them affecting each other's storage space under any condition.

DataStoreUtils Library

DataStore is a storage management tool designed to create a safe and scalable storage layout with the help of IDs and KEYs.

Creating a sustainable development environment, even in ever changing technology.

With DataStore, Portal achieves 3 goals:

• A Dynamic Struct that is defined with the "TYPE" parameter, that can hold any amount of parameters, instead of only 16 (max # of variables a struct can hold in Solidity).

• Make it very easy to build new classes that have different parameters and functionalities, without altering the codebase.

• Separating the storage space of the contract, allowing Portal to maintain multiple parties without any friction.

• Ensuring the variable types: uint, address, and bytes.

Deep Dive

Storage Management library for dynamic structs based on data types.

The DataStore Struct

DataStoreLib.sol

  struct DataStore {
    // type[0,1,2,3...] => ID list
    mapping(uint256 => uint256[]) allIdsByType;
    // keccak(id, key) => data
    mapping(bytes32 => uint256) UintData;
    mapping(bytes32 => bytes) BytesData;
    mapping(bytes32 => address) AddressData;
  }

Within the struct, there are 4 different mappings to serve different types of storage.

Generating an ID and Key

  function generateId(
    bytes memory NAME,
    uint256 TYPE
  ) internal pure returns (uint256 id) {
    id = uint256(keccak256(abi.encodePacked(NAME, TYPE)));
  }
  
  function getKey(
    uint256 _id,
    bytes32 _param
  ) internal pure returns (bytes32 key) {
    key = keccak256(abi.encodePacked(_id, _param));
  }

• IDs should be unique.

• Keys are bound to IDs, ensuring 2 IDs with same parameters can not share a storage slot.

• TYPEs are explicit, 4 representing Operators, 5 representing pools, and so on...

• NAMEs should be guarded within the same TYPE, meaning there can only be 1 entity with a given NAME and TYPE.

Sample Write Operation

DataStoreLib.sol

   function writeUintForId(
    DataStore storage self,
    uint256 _id,
    bytes32 _key,
    uint256 data
  ) public {
    self.UintData[keccak256(abi.encodePacked(_id, _key))] = data;
  }
  

Basically, it takes the id and key pair encoded, secures a slot in the mapping for the id & key pair, and assigns the data to slot in the UintData mapping where the DataStore struct is taken as a storage argument. Every write operation in the library follows the same procedure.

Sample Read Operation

DataStoreLib.sol

 function readBytesForId(
    DataStore storage self,
    uint256 _id,
    bytes32 _key
  ) public view returns (uint256 data) {
    data = self.BytesData[keccak256(abi.encodePacked(_id, _key))];
  }

This is also a typical read operation in the library, getting the data from the assigned slot with the given id and key pair, and returning the data publicly with the view restriction.

Reading the DataStore Through Portal

Portal has a public endpoint for the view functions of the DataStore.

This provides access to all data stored in the Portal, without needing to go through the docs, and scan through all the functions 🙂

Portal.sol

function generateId(
    string calldata _name,
    uint256 _type
  ) external pure virtual override returns (uint256 id) {
    id = uint256(keccak256(abi.encodePacked(_name, _type)));
  }

• generateId() Mimics the DataStore.generateId for string inputs.

Portal.sol

  function getKey(
    uint256 id,
    bytes32 param
  ) external pure virtual override returns (bytes32 key) {
    return DataStoreUtils.getKey(_id, _param);
  }

• An example key generation can be:

Portal.getKey(Portal.generateId("poolName", 5), getBytes32("surplus"));
Portal.getKey(Portal.generateId("operatorName", 5), getBytes32("totalValidators"));

Reading Simple Data

• An example read operation:

Portal.readUintForId(Portal.generateId("poolName", 5), getBytes32("surplus"));

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Portal.sol

  function readUintForId(
    uint256 id,
    bytes32 key
  ) external view virtual override returns (uint256 data) {
    data = DATASTORE.readUintForId(id, key);
  }

  function readAddressForId(
    uint256 id,
    bytes32 key
  ) external view virtual override returns (address data) {
    data = DATASTORE.readAddressForId(id, key);
  }

  function readBytesForId(
    uint256 id,
    bytes32 key
  ) external view virtual override returns (bytes memory data) {
    data = DATASTORE.readBytesForId(id, key);
  }

Reading an array

• Currently only arrays are: validators and interfaces

• Getting length of an array:

Portal.readUintForId(Portal.generateId("poolName", 5), getBytes32("validators"));

• An example read operation on arrays:

Portal.readUintForId(Portal.generateId("poolName", 5), getBytes32("validators"), 3);

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Portal.sol

function readUintArrayForId(
    uint256 id,
    bytes32 key,
    uint256 index
  ) external view virtual override returns (uint256 data) {
    data = DATASTORE.readUintArrayForId(id, key, index);
  }

  function readBytesArrayForId(
    uint256 id,
    bytes32 key,
    uint256 index
  ) external view virtual override returns (bytes memory data) {
    data = DATASTORE.readBytesArrayForId(id, key, index);
  }

  function readAddressArrayForId(
    uint256 id,
    bytes32 key,
    uint256 index
  ) external view virtual override returns (address data) {
    data = DATASTORE.readAddressArrayForId(id, key, index);