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Closes an RFC 8878 conformance gap found in a parity audit: Content_Checksum was a dead field on both sides.

Decoder (required, the actual bug)

decode() never read or verified the trailing 4-byte checksum on any frame — including real libzstd-produced ones, which have it on by default (the zstd CLI enables checksums unless --no-check). Corrupted content decoded successfully with no integrity check.

Now: when a frame's Content_Checksum_Flag is set, the decoder computes XXH64 (seed 0) over the decoded content, compares the low 32 bits against the trailing 4 bytes (RFC 8878 §3.1.1), and throws ZstdException on mismatch. New pure-Kotlin Xxh64 (zero external deps, per the project's zero-runtime-dependency invariant).

Encoder (additive)

Zstd.compress gained an opt-in checksum: Boolean = false parameter. Default stays off — every existing call's frame bytes are byte-for-byte unchanged (ByteIdenticalRegressionTest untouched).

Testing

  • Xxh64Test: hash correctness against reference vectors, cross-checked with real zstd CLI output.
  • ContentChecksumTest: hand-built frames — valid / wrong / truncated checksum — on every target.
  • KzstdLibzstdInteropTest (zstd-jni oracle, real libzstd): validates a real libzstd-checksummed frame, rejects a bit-flipped one, round-trips kzstd's own checksummed output through both libzstd and kzstd.

./gradlew build passes on every target except native test-binary linking, which crashes with a pre-existing, unrelated JVM SIGSEGV in the Kotlin/Native linker on this dev host — reproduced identically on unmodified main, tracked separately in #56. Source compiles for every target including linuxX64/mingwX64; only the link+run step is affected there, and the produced binary runs and passes when invoked directly.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added an opt-in checksum option to compression, including dictionary-based compression.
    • Compressed data can now include checksums compatible with standard Zstandard tools.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Decompression validates enabled content checksums and reports corrupted or incomplete data.
  • Compatibility
    • Improved interoperability with libzstd for checksum-enabled frames.
  • Documentation
    • Updated the changelog with checksum support and compression behavior improvements.

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Zstd.compress now supports optional content checksums. The encoder writes XXH64 checksum data, and the decoder validates it. Tests cover hash correctness, malformed frames, and libzstd interoperability. Public API declarations and the changelog were updated.

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Content checksum support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Checksum encoding and public API
src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/kzstd/Zstd.kt, src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/kzstd/internal/Xxh64.kt, src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/kzstd/internal/ZstdEncoder.kt, api/kzstd.api, api/kzstd.klib.api
Zstd.compress and PureZstdEncoder.encode accept an optional checksum flag. Xxh64 computes checksums. The encoder sets the frame flag and appends the low 32 bits of the checksum.
Checksum decoding and validation
src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/kzstd/internal/ZstdDecoder.kt
The decoder retains the frame checksum flag, reads the trailing checksum after block decoding, and throws ZstdException for mismatches or truncated trailers.
Checksum tests and release documentation
src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/kzstd/ContentChecksumTest.kt, src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/kzstd/Xxh64Test.kt, src/jvmTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/kzstd/KzstdLibzstdInteropTest.kt, CHANGELOG.md
Tests cover XXH64 reference values, valid and invalid frames, checksum truncation, and libzstd interoperability. The changelog documents checksum behavior and other compression changes.

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Adding the checksum option currently removes existing JVM method signatures, so already compiled applications may fail with NoSuchMethodError after upgrading. The legacy overloads should be preserved before this PR is merged.

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  participant Zstd
  participant PureZstdEncoder
  participant Xxh64
  participant PureZstdDecoder
  Zstd->>PureZstdEncoder: compress(data, checksum=true)
  PureZstdEncoder->>Xxh64: hash input data
  Xxh64-->>PureZstdEncoder: XXH64 checksum
  PureZstdEncoder-->>PureZstdDecoder: checksummed Zstandard frame
  PureZstdDecoder->>Xxh64: hash decoded output
  Xxh64-->>PureZstdDecoder: calculated checksum
  PureZstdDecoder-->>Zstd: decoded data or ZstdException
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A rabbit checks the frame with care,
XXH64 hops through bytes in air.
A flag goes on, four bytes trail,
Bad sums make decoding fail.
Tests thump paws: the checksums shine! 🐇

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In `@src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/kzstd/Zstd.kt`:
- Around line 49-64: Preserve the existing JVM method descriptors for both
compress overloads by retaining legacy delegating methods without the checksum
parameter, defaulting checksum to false. Add separate checksum-aware overloads
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Comment on lines +49 to +64
public fun compress(
data: ByteArray,
dictionary: ZstdDictionary,
level: Int = DEFAULT_LEVEL,
checksum: Boolean = false,
): ByteArray = wrapFailures("compression", data.size) {
PureZstdEncoder.encode(data, dictionary.parsed, dictionary.matchIndex, level, checksum)
}

/** Compress [data] into a standard zstd frame with no dictionary. */
/**
* Compress [data] into a standard zstd frame with no dictionary. See
* [compress] (dictionary overload) for [checksum].
*/
@Throws(ZstdException::class)
public fun compress(data: ByteArray, level: Int = DEFAULT_LEVEL): ByteArray =
compress(data, ZstdDictionary.EMPTY, level)
public fun compress(data: ByteArray, level: Int = DEFAULT_LEVEL, checksum: Boolean = false): ByteArray =
compress(data, ZstdDictionary.EMPTY, level, checksum)

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Preserve the existing overloads for binary compatibility.

The new checksum parameter removes the existing JVM descriptors. Already compiled consumers can fail with NoSuchMethodError. Keep the legacy overloads as delegating methods with checksum = false, then add checksum-aware overloads.

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In `@src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/kzstd/Zstd.kt` around lines 49 - 64,
Preserve the existing JVM method descriptors for both compress overloads by
retaining legacy delegating methods without the checksum parameter, defaulting
checksum to false. Add separate checksum-aware overloads that delegate to the
existing implementation, covering both the dictionary and no-dictionary paths in
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@coderabbitai The JVM binary-compat concern is accurate in isolation, but it's consistent with — not a new deviation from — this repo's existing pattern: level was added to compress() as a plain default parameter the same way in #52 (merged), also without @JvmOverloads and also dropping the pre-#52 JVM-level arity. @JvmOverloads isn't used anywhere in this codebase, and isn't actually usable here — it's JVM-only and doesn't resolve in commonMain for a KMP target set (confirmed: adding it broke compileKotlinIosArm64 with Unresolved reference). A real fix would need genuine per-arity overloaded declarations (not default-parameter elision) or a platform-specific actual/expect split, which is a bigger call than this PR's scope. Leaving as-is, consistent with #52's precedent, for a pre-1.0 (0.1.x) library where source recompilation against a version bump is the expected upgrade path.

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decode() parsed Content_Checksum_Flag but discarded it: kzstd's own
frames never set it, so the trailing 4-byte XXH64 checksum a real
libzstd frame commonly has (the zstd CLI enables it by default) was
never read, and corrupted frame content decoded successfully with no
integrity check.

Added a pure-Kotlin XXH64 (Xxh64.kt, no external dependency -- kzstd
is zero-runtime-dependency) and wired decode() to read the trailing
4 bytes and compare against the low 32 bits of XXH64(seed=0) over the
full decoded content whenever the flag is set, throwing ZstdException
on a mismatch. This applies to ANY conformant frame, not just kzstd's
own.

Xxh64Test pins known reference vectors (empty, "a", "abc", a 200-byte
pattern) cross-checked against the real `zstd` CLI's checksum trailer
for the same content. ContentChecksumTest hand-builds frames byte-for-
byte from `zstd -19` output to exercise valid/wrong/truncated checksum
on every target without the JVM-only zstd-jni dependency.
KzstdLibzstdInteropTest adds the JVM-only oracle: a real
ZstdCompressCtx().setChecksum(true) frame decodes correctly, and a
single-bit-flipped checksum trailer is rejected.

Signed-off-by: James Rich <james.a.rich@gmail.com>
Zstd.compress and PureZstdEncoder.encode gain a `checksum: Boolean =
false` parameter. When true, the encoder sets Content_Checksum_Flag
in the frame header and appends the trailing 4-byte XXH64 checksum
(RFC 8878 §3.1.1) of the input, which the previous commit's decoder
change now validates.

Defaults to false, so every existing call site's frame bytes are
byte-for-byte unchanged (ByteIdenticalRegressionTest needed no
changes). Public API change: apiDump run, api/kzstd.api and
api/kzstd.klib.api updated.

kzstdChecksummedFramesDecodeUnderLibzstdAndSelf confirms a
checksum=true frame both decodes correctly under real libzstd and
round-trips through kzstd's own (now-validating) decoder.

Signed-off-by: James Rich <james.a.rich@gmail.com>
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jamesarich force-pushed the fix/xxh64-content-checksum branch from 6b3c428 to ac58711 Compare August 17, 2026 21:18
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