# data[].attributes.description-markdown
Redis is an in-memory data structure store often used as a database, cache, message broker and streaming engine. In this challenge
you'll build your own Redis server that is capable of serving basic commands, reading RDB files and more.

Along the way, you'll learn about TCP servers, the Redis Protocol and more.

# data[].attributes.sample-extension-idea-description
A Redis server that can read and write .rdb files

# data[].attributes.short-description
Learn about TCP servers, the Redis protocol and more

# data[].attributes.testimonials[].text
The Redis challenge was extremely fun. I ended up having to read the
Redis Protocol specification doc pretty carefully in its entirety! The result
felt like lightly-guided independent study, if that makes sense. (Which, again, was lots of fun)

# data[].attributes.testimonials[].text
I think the instant feedback right there in the git push is really cool.
Didn't even know that was possible!

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HTTP is the protocol that powers the web. In this challenge, you'll build a HTTP server that's
capable of handling simple GET/POST requests, serving files and handling multiple concurrent connections.

Along the way, we'll learn about TCP connections, HTTP headers, HTTP verbs, handling multiple connections and more.

# data[].attributes.sample-extension-idea-description
A HTTP server that supports HTTP/1.1 pipelining

# data[].attributes.short-description
Learn about TCP servers, the HTTP protocol and more

# data[].attributes.testimonials[].text
There are few sites I like as much that have a step by step guide. The real-time feedback is so good, it's creepy!

# data[].attributes.testimonials[].text
I think the instant feedback right there in the git push is really cool.
Didn't even know that was possible!

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Regular expressions (Regexes, for short) are patterns used to match character combinations in strings. In this
challenge you'll build your own implementation of grep, a CLI tool for searching using Regexes.

Along the way you'll learn about Regex syntax, character classes, quantifiers and more.

# data[].attributes.sample-extension-idea-description
A grep implementation that can handle lookahead assertions like x(?=y)

# data[].attributes.short-description
Learn about regex syntax: character classes, quantifiers and more

# data[].attributes.testimonials[].text
There are few sites I like as much that have a step by step guide. The real-time feedback is so good, it's creepy!

# data[].attributes.testimonials[].text
I think the instant feedback right there in the git push is really cool.
Didn't even know that was possible!

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This challenge follows the book [Crafting Interpreters](https://craftinginterpreters.com/) by Robert Nystrom.

In this challenge you'll build an interpreter for [Lox](https://craftinginterpreters.com/the-lox-language.html), a simple scripting
language. Along the way, you'll learn about tokenization, ASTs, tree-walk interpreters and more.

Before starting this challenge, make sure you've read the "Welcome" part of the book that contains these chapters:

- [Introduction](https://craftinginterpreters.com/introduction.html) (chapter 1)
- [A Map of the Territory](https://craftinginterpreters.com/a-map-of-the-territory.html) (chapter 2)
- [The Lox Language](https://craftinginterpreters.com/the-lox-language.html) (chapter 3)

These chapters don't involve writing code, so they won't be covered in this challenge. This challenge will start
from chapter 4, [Scanning](https://craftinginterpreters.com/scanning.html).

# data[].attributes.sample-extension-idea-description
An interpreter that can handle control flow statements like if/else

# data[].attributes.short-description
Learn about tokenization, ASTs, tree-walk interpreters and more.

# data[].attributes.testimonials[].text
There are few sites I like as much that have a step by step guide. The real-time feedback is so good, it's creepy!

# data[].attributes.testimonials[].text
I think the instant feedback right there in the git push is really cool.
Didn't even know that was possible!

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SQLite is a popular SQL database engine. In this challenge, you'll build your own version of SQLite
that is capable of reading a SQLite database file and answering basic SQL queries like SELECT and using indexes.

Along the way, you'll learn about the SQLite file format, SQL syntax and more.

# data[].attributes.sample-extension-idea-description
A SQLite implementation that can handle atomic transactions using a write-ahead log (WAL) file

# data[].attributes.short-description
Learn about SQL syntax, SQLite's file format, B-trees and more

# data[].attributes.testimonials[].text
There are few sites I like as much that have a step by step guide. The real-time feedback is so good, it's creepy!

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Enjoying programming all over again. It's been a while since I wrote Rust, but getting a good hang of it.

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BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol used for distributing large amounts of data. In this challenge, you'll
build a BitTorrent client that's capable of downloading a publicly available file using the BitTorrent protocol.

Along the way, you'll learn about the BitTorrent protocol, .torrent files more.

# data[].attributes.sample-extension-idea-description
A bittorrent client that can download a file by combining pieces from multiple peers

# data[].attributes.short-description
Learn about .torrent files, the BitTorrent Peer Protocol and more

# data[].attributes.testimonials[].text
There are few sites I like as much that have a step by step guide. The real-time feedback is so good, it's creepy!

# data[].attributes.testimonials[].text
I think the instant feedback right there in the git push is really cool.
Didn't even know that was possible!

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Apache Kafka is a distributed event streaming platform often used for high-performance data pipelines. In this challenge, you'll build your own Kafka broker
that's capable of serving basic requests.

Along the way you'll learn about TCP servers, the Kafka wire protocol and more.

# data[].attributes.sample-extension-idea-description
A Kafka broker that can read and write to disk

# data[].attributes.short-description
Learn about TCP servers, the Kafka wire protocol and more.

# data[].attributes.testimonials[].text
There are few sites I like as much that have a step by step guide. The real-time feedback is so good, it's creepy!

# data[].attributes.testimonials[].text
I think the instant feedback right there in the git push is really cool.
Didn't even know that was possible!

# data[].attributes.sample-extension-idea-description
A description for my course extension idea

# data[].attributes.short-description
Add a short description for your course here.

# data[].attributes.testimonials[].text
There are few sites I like as much that have a step by step guide. The real-time feedback is so good, it's creepy!

# data[].attributes.testimonials[].text
I think the instant feedback right there in the git push is really cool.
Didn't even know that was possible!

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Docker is a tool used to build & run applications in containers. In this challenge, you'll build
your own Docker implementation that can pull an image from Docker Hub and execute commands in it.

Along the way, you'll learn about chroot, kernel namespaces, the Docker registry API and much more.

# data[].attributes.sample-extension-idea-description
A Docker implementation that can build images from a Dockerfile

# data[].attributes.short-description
Learn about kernel namespaces, chroot, the registry API and more

# data[].attributes.testimonials[].text
I spent a full day on your Docker building course and ended up building the whole thing myself. As a SRE (and
mostly a user of docker), digging into the internals blew me away.

# data[].attributes.testimonials[].text
CodeCrafters has you build your own version of things like Git and Docker from scratch. A cool way to build a stronger mental model of how those tools work.

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A shell is a command-line interface that executes commands and manages processes. In this challenge, you'll build your own
[POSIX compliant](https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html) shell that's capable of interpreting
shell commands, running external programs and builtin commands like `cd`, `pwd`, `echo` and more.

Along the way, you'll learn about shell command parsing, REPLs, builtin commands, and more.

# data[].attributes.sample-extension-idea-description
View and recall previously entered commands in your shell.

# data[].attributes.short-description
Learn about parsing shell commands, executing programs and more

# data[].attributes.testimonials[].text
There are few sites I like as much that have a step by step guide. The real-time feedback is so good, it's creepy!

# data[].attributes.testimonials[].text
I think the instant feedback right there in the git push is really cool.
Didn't even know that was possible!

# data[].attributes.description-markdown
Git is a version control system used to track changes in source code. In this challenge, you'll build your own Git implementation that
is capable of cloning a public repository from GitHub.

Along the way, you'll learn about the .git directory, Git objects, plumbing commands and more.

# data[].attributes.sample-extension-idea-description
A Git implementation that can push changes to a remote repository

# data[].attributes.short-description
Learn about git objects, plumbing commands and more

# data[].attributes.testimonials[].text
Found out about CodeCrafters from a colleague. It's a tutorial site that has you build your own version of things
like Git and Docker from scratch. A cool way to build a stronger mental model of how those tools work.

# data[].attributes.testimonials[].text
Never in my life have I needed something so much and not known until I received it.

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DNS is a protocol used to resolve domain names to IP addresses. In this challenge, you'll build a DNS server that's capable of responding to
basic DNS queries.

Along the way you'll learn about the DNS protocol, DNS packet format, DNS record types, UDP servers and more.

# data[].attributes.sample-extension-idea-description
Extend the DNS protocol with different abilities

# data[].attributes.short-description
Learn about the DNS protocol, DNS record types and more.

# data[].attributes.testimonials[].text
There are few sites I like as much that have a step by step guide. The real-time feedback is so good, it's creepy!

# data[].attributes.testimonials[].text
I think the instant feedback right there in the git push is really cool.
Didn't even know that was possible!

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In this stage, you'll add extend support to `XREAD` to allow querying multiple streams.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
$ ./your_program.sh
```

First, an entry will be added to a couple of streams.

```bash
$ redis-cli XADD stream_key 0-1 temperature 95
$ redis-cli XADD other_stream_key 0-2 humidity 97
```

It'll then send an `XREAD` command to your server with multiple streams.

```bash
$ redis-cli XREAD streams stream_key other_stream_key 0-0 0-1
```

Your server should respond with the following:

```text
*2\r\n
*2\r\n
$10\r\nstream_key\r\n
*1\r\n
*2\r\n
$3\r\n0-1\r\n
*2\r\n
$11\r\ntemperature\r\n
$2\r\n95\r\n
*2\r\n
$16\r\nother_stream_key\r\n
*1\r\n
*2\r\n
$3\r\n0-2\r\n
*2\r\n
$8\r\nhumidity\r\n
$2\r\n97\r\n
```

This is the RESP encoded representation of the following.

```json
[
  [
    "stream_key",
    [
      [
        "0-1",
        [
          "temperature",
          "95"
        ]
      ]
    ]
  ],
  [
    "other_stream_key",
    [
      [
        "0-2",
        [
          "humidity",
          "97"
        ]
      ]
    ]
  ]
]
```

### Notes
- In the response, the items are separated onto new lines for readability. The tester expects all of these to be in one line.

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In this stage, you'll add extend support to `XREAD` to allow querying multiple streams.

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In this stage, you'll extend support for `XRANGE` to allow querying using `-`.

### Using XRANGE with -

In the previous stage, we saw that `XRANGE` takes `start` and `end` as arguments.

In addition to accepting an explicit entry ID, `start` can also be specified as `-`. When `-` is used, `XRANGE` retrieves entries from the beginning of the stream.

Here's an example of how that works.

```bash
$ redis-cli XADD some_key 1526985054069-0 temperature 36 humidity 95
"1526985054069-0"
$ redis-cli XADD some_key 1526985054079-0 temperature 37 humidity 94
"1526985054079-0"
$ redis-cli XRANGE some_key - 1526985054079
1) 1) 1526985054069-0
   2) 1) temperature
      2) 36
      3) humidity
      4) 95
2) 1) 1526985054079-0
   2) 1) temperature
      2) 37
      3) humidity
      4) 94
```

In the example above, `XRANGE` retrieves all entries from the beginning of the stream to the entry with ID `1526985054079-0`.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
$ ./your_program.sh
```

It'll then create a few entries.

```bash
$ redis-cli XADD stream_key 0-1 foo bar
"0-1"
$ redis-cli XADD stream_key 0-2 bar baz
"0-2"
$ redis-cli XADD stream_key 0-3 baz foo
"0-3"
```

It'll then send an `XRANGE` command to your server.

```bash
$ redis-cli XRANGE stream_key - 0-2
1) 1) 0-1
   2) 1) foo
      2) bar
2) 1) 0-2
   2) 1) bar
      2) baz
```

Your server should respond with the following, encoded as a [RESP Array](https://redis.io/docs/reference/protocol-spec/#arrays):

```json
[
  [
    "0-1",
    [
      "foo",
      "bar"
    ]
  ],
  [
    "0-2",
    [
      "bar",
      "baz"
    ]
  ]
]
```

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In this stage, you'll extend support for `XRANGE` to allow querying using `-`.

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In this stage you'll implement the processing of propagated commands as a replica.

### Command processing

After the replica receives a command from the master, it processes it and apply it to its own state. This
will work exactly like a regular command sent by a client, except that the replica doesn't send a response
back to the master.

For example, if the command `SET foo 1` is propagated to the replica by a master, the replica must update
its database to set the value of `foo` to `1`. Unlike commands from a regular client though, it must not reply with `+OK\r\n`.

### Tests

The tester will spawn a Redis master, and it'll then execute your program as a replica like this:

```
./your_program.sh --port <PORT> --replicaof "<MASTER_HOST> <MASTER_PORT>"
```

Just like in the previous stages, your replica should complete the handshake with the master and receive an empty RDB file.

Once the RDB file is received, the master will propagate a series of write commands to your program.

```bash
SET foo 1 # propagated from master to replica
SET bar 2 # propagated from master to replica
SET baz 3 # propagated from master to replica
```

The tester will then issue `GET` commands to your program to check if the commands were processed correctly.

```bash
$ redis-cli GET foo # expecting `1` back
$ redis-cli GET bar # expecting `2` back
# ... and so on
```

### Notes

- The propagated commands are sent as RESP arrays. So the command `SET foo 1` will be sent as `*3\r\n$3\r\nSET\r\n$3\r\nfoo\r\n$1\r\n1\r\n`.
- It is **not** guaranteed that propagated commands will be sent one at a time. One "TCP segment" might contain bytes for multiple commands.

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In this stage, you'll add support for processing commands received by the replica from the master.

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In this stage, you'll extend your `REPLCONF GETACK` implementation to respond with the number of bytes of commands processed by the replica.

### Offset tracking

<details>
  <summary>Click to expand/collapse</summary>
  As we saw in previous stages, when a replica receives a command from the master, it processes it and updates its state. In addition to processing
  commands, the replica also keeps a running count of the number of bytes of commands it has processed.

  This count is called the "offset". When a master sends a `REPLCONF GETACK` command to a replica, the replica is expected to respond with
  `REPLCONF ACK <offset>`. The returned `<offset>` should only include the number of bytes of commands processed **before** receiving the `REPLCONF GETACK` command.

  As an example:

  - Let's say a replica connects to a master and completes the handshake.
  - The master then sends a `REPLCONF GETACK *` command.
      - The replica should respond with `REPLCONF ACK 0`.
      - The returned offset is 0 since no commands have been processed yet (before receiving the `REPLCONF GETACK` command)
  - The master then sends `REPLCONF GETACK *` again.
      - The replica should respond with `REPLCONF ACK 37`.
      - The returned offset is 37 since the first `REPLCONF GETACK` command was processed, and it was 37 bytes long.
      - The RESP encoding for the `REPLCONF GETACK` command looks like this: ``*3\r\n$8\r\nreplconf\r\n$6\r\ngetack\r\n$1\r\n*\r\n` (that's 37 bytes long)
  - The master then sends a `PING` command to the replica (masters do this periodically to notify replicas that the master is still alive).
      - The replica must silently process the `PING` command and update its offset. It should not send a response back to the master.
  - The master then sends `REPLCONF GETACK *` again (this is the third REPLCONF GETACK command received by the replica)
      - The replica should respond with `REPLCONF ACK 88`.
      - The returned offset is 88 (37 + 37 + 14)
          - 37 for the first `REPLCONF GETACK` command
          - 37 for the second `REPLCONF GETACK` command
          - 14 for the `PING` command
      - Note that the third `REPLCONF GETACK` command is not included in the offset, since the value should
      only include the number of bytes of commands processed **before** receiving the current `REPLCONF GETACK` command.
  - ... and so on

</details>

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```
./your_program.sh --port <PORT> --replicaof "<HOST> <PORT>"
```

Just like in the previous stages, your replica should complete the handshake with the master and receive an empty RDB file.

The master will then propagate a series of commands to your replica. These commands will be interleaved with `REPLCONF GETACK *` commands.

```bash
REPLCONF getack * # expecting REPLCONF ACK 0, since 0 bytes have been processed

ping # master sending a ping command to notify the replica that it's still alive
REPLCONF getack * # expecting REPLCONF ACK 51 (37 for the first REPLCONF command + 14 for the ping command)

set foo 1 # propagated from master to replica
set bar 2 # propagated from master to replica
REPLCONF getack * # expecting REPLCONF ACK 109 (51 + 29 for the first set command + 29 for the second set command)
```

### Notes

- The offset should only include the number of bytes of commands processed **before** receiving the current `REPLCONF GETACK` command.
- Although masters don't propagate `PING` commands when received from clients (since they aren't "write" commands),
  they may send `PING` commands to replicas to notify replicas that the master is still alive.
- Replicas should update their offset to account for **all** commands propagated from the master, including `PING` and `REPLCONF` itself.
- The response should be encoded as a [RESP Array](https://redis.io/docs/reference/protocol-spec/#arrays), like
  this: `*3\r\n$8\r\nREPLCONF\r\n$3\r\nACK\r\n$3\r\n154\r\n`.

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In this stage, you'll add support for returning an ACK back to master as a response to GETACK.

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In this stage, you'll add support for sending an empty RDB file as a master. This is part of the "full resynchronization" process.

### Full resynchronization

When a replica connects to a master for the first time, it sends a `PSYNC ? -1` command. This is the replica's way of
telling the master that it doesn't have any data yet, and needs to be fully resynchronized.

The master acknowledges this by sending a `FULLRESYNC` response to the replica.

After sending the `FULLRESYNC` response, the master will then send a RDB file of its current state to the replica. The replica is expected to load the file into memory, replacing its current state.

For the purposes of this challenge, you don't have to actually construct an RDB file. We'll assume that the master's database is always empty,
and just hardcode an empty RDB file to send to the replica.

You can find the hex representation of an empty RDB file [here](https://github.com/codecrafters-io/redis-tester/blob/main/internal/assets/empty_rdb_hex.md).

The tester will accept any valid RDB file that is empty, you don't need to send the exact file above.

The file is sent using the following format:

```
$<length_of_file>\r\n<contents_of_file>
```

(This is similar to how [Bulk Strings](https://redis.io/topics/protocol#resp-bulk-strings) are encoded, but without the trailing `\r\n`)

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```
./your_program.sh --port <PORT>
```

It'll then connect to your TCP server as a replica and execute the following commands:

1. `PING` (expecting `+PONG\r\n` back)
2. `REPLCONF listening-port <PORT>` (expecting `+OK\r\n` back)
3. `REPLCONF capa eof capa psync2` (expecting `+OK\r\n` back)
4. `PSYNC ? -1` (expecting `+FULLRESYNC <REPL_ID> 0\r\n` back)

After receiving a response to the last command, the tester will expect to receive an empty RDB file from your server.

### Notes

- The [RDB file link](https://github.com/codecrafters-io/redis-tester/blob/main/internal/assets/empty_rdb_hex.md) contains hex & base64 representations
  of the file. You need to decode these into binary contents before sending it to the replica.
- The RDB file should be sent like this: `$<length>\r\n<contents>`
  - `<length>` is the length of the file in bytes
  - `<contents>` is the contents of the file
  - Note that this is NOT a RESP bulk string, it doesn't contain a `\r\n` at the end
- If you want to learn more about the RDB file format, read [this blog post](https://rdb.fnordig.de/file_format.html). This challenge
  has a separate extension dedicated to reading RDB files.

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In this stage, you'll add support for sending an empty RDB file to the replica. This is part of the "full resynchronization" process.

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In this stage, you'll add support for responding to the [INFO](https://redis.io/commands/info/) command as a master.

The `INFO` command returns information and statistics about a Redis server. In this stage, we'll add support for the `replication` section of the `INFO` command.

### The replication section

When you run the `INFO` command against a Redis server, you'll see something like this:

```
$ redis-cli INFO replication
# Replication
role:master
connected_slaves:0
master_replid:8371b4fb1155b71f4a04d3e1bc3e18c4a990aeeb
master_repl_offset:0
second_repl_offset:-1
repl_backlog_active:0
repl_backlog_size:1048576
repl_backlog_first_byte_offset:0
repl_backlog_histlen:
```

The reply to this command is a [Bulk string](https://redis.io/docs/reference/protocol-spec/#bulk-strings) where each line is a key value pair, separated by ":".

Here are what some of the important fields mean:

- `role`: The role of the server (`master` or `slave`)
- `connected_slaves`: The number of connected replicas
- `master_replid`: The replication ID of the master (we'll get to this in later stages)
- `master_repl_offset`: The replication offset of the master (we'll get to this in later stages)

In this stage, you'll only need to support the `role` key. We'll add support for other keys in later stages.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```
./your_program.sh --port <PORT>
```

It'll then send the `INFO` command with `replication` as an argument.

```bash
$ redis-cli -p <PORT> info replication
```

Your program should respond with a [Bulk string](https://redis.io/docs/reference/protocol-spec/#bulk-strings) where each line
is a key value pair separated by `:`. The tester will only look for the `role` key, and assert that the value is `master`.

### Notes

- In the response for the `INFO` command, you only need to support the `role` key for this stage. We'll add support for the other keys in later stages.
- The `# Replication` heading in the response is optional, you can ignore it.
- The response to `INFO` needs to be encoded as a [Bulk string](https://redis.io/docs/reference/protocol-spec/#bulk-strings).
  - An example valid response would be `$11\r\nrole:master\r\n` (the string `role:master` encoded as a [Bulk string](https://redis.io/docs/reference/protocol-spec/#bulk-strings))
- The `INFO` command can be used without any arguments, in which case it returns all sections available. In this stage, we'll
  always send `replication` as an argument to the `INFO` command, so you only need to support the `replication` section.

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In this stage, you'll add support for the INFO command on the master.

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In this stage, you'll add support for validating entry IDs to the `XADD` command.

### Entry IDs

Here's an example of stream entries from the previous stage:

```yaml
entries:
  - id: 1526985054069-0 # (ID of the first entry)
    temperature: 36 # (A key value pair in the first entry)
    humidity: 95 # (Another key value pair in the first entry)

  - id: 1526985054079-0 # (ID of the second entry)
    temperature: 37 # (A key value pair in the first entry)
    humidity: 94 # (Another key value pair in the first entry)

  # ... (and so on)
```

Entry IDs are always composed of two integers: `<millisecondsTime>-<sequenceNumber>`.

Entry IDs are unique within a stream, and they're guaranteed to be incremental - i.e. an
entry added later will always have an ID greater than an entry added in the past. More
on this in the next section.

### Specifying entry IDs in XADD

There are multiple formats in which the ID can be specified in the XADD command:

- Explicit ("1526919030474-0") (**This stage**)
- Auto-generate only sequence number ("1526919030474-*") (Next stages)
- Auto-generate time part and sequence number ("*") (Next stages)

In this stage, we'll only deal with explicit IDs. We'll add support for the other two cases in the next stages.

Your XADD implementation should validate the ID passed in.

- The ID should be greater than the ID of the last entry in the stream.
  - The `millisecondsTime` part of the ID should be greater than or equal to the `millisecondsTime` of the last entry.
  - If the `millisecondsTime` part of the ID is equal to the `millisecondsTime` of the last entry, the `sequenceNumber` part of the ID should be greater than the `sequenceNumber` of the last entry.
- If the stream is empty, the ID should be greater than `0-0`

Here's an example of adding an entry with a valid ID followed by an invalid ID:

```bash
$ redis-cli XADD some_key 1-1 foo bar
"1-1"
$ redis-cli XADD some_key 1-1 bar baz
(error) ERR The ID specified in XADD is equal or smaller than the target stream top item
```

Here's another such example:

```bash
$ redis-cli XADD some_key 1-1 foo bar
"1-1"
$ redis-cli XADD some_key 0-2 bar baz
(error) ERR The ID specified in XADD is equal or smaller than the target stream top item
```

The minimum entry ID that Redis supports is 0-1. Passing in an ID lower than should result in an error.

```bash
$ redis-cli XADD some_key 0-0 bar baz
(error) ERR The ID specified in XADD must be greater than 0-0
```

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
$ ./your_program.sh
```

It'll create a few entries usind `XADD`.

```bash
$ redis-cli XADD stream_key 1-1 foo bar
"1-1"
$ redis-cli XADD stream_key 1-2 bar baz
"1-2"
```

It'll send another `XADD` command with the same time and sequence number as the last entry.

```bash
$ redis-cli XADD stream_key 1-2 baz foo
(error) ERR The ID specified in XADD is equal or smaller than the target stream top item
```

Your server should respond with "-ERR The ID specified in XADD is equal or smaller than the target stream top item\r\n", which is the error message above encoded as a
[simple error](https://redis.io/docs/reference/protocol-spec/#simple-errors).

The tester will then send another `XADD` command with a smaller value for the time and a larger value for the sequence number.

```bash
$ redis-cli XADD stream_key 0-3 baz foo
(error) ERR The ID specified in XADD is equal or smaller than the target stream top item
```

Your server should also respond with the same error message.

After that, the tester will send another `XADD` command with `0-0` as the ID.

```bash
$ redis-cli XADD stream_key 0-0 baz foo
```

Your server should respond with "-ERR The ID specified in XADD must be greater than 0-0\r\n", which is the error message above encoded as a
[RESP simple error](https://redis.io/docs/reference/protocol-spec/#simple-errors).

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll enhance the `XADD` command by extending support for explicit IDs.

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In this stage, you'll add support for reading multiple string values from an RDB file.

The tester will create an RDB file with multiple keys and execute your program like this:

```bash
$ ./your_program.sh --dir <dir> --dbfilename <filename>
```

It'll then send multiple `GET <key>` commands to your server.

```bash
$ redis-cli GET "foo"
$ redis-cli GET "bar"
```

The response to each `GET <key>` command should be a RESP bulk string with the value corresponding to the key.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll add support for reading multiple string values from an RDB file.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for creating a [Redis stream](https://redis.io/docs/data-types/streams/) using the `XADD` command.

### Redis Streams & Entries

Streams are one of the data types that Redis supports. A stream is identified by a key, and it contains multiple entries.

Each entry consists of one or more key-value pairs, and is assigned a unique ID.

For example, if you were using a Redis stream to store real-time data from a temperature & humidity monitor, the contents of the stream might look like this:

```yaml
entries:
  - id: 1526985054069-0 # (ID of the first entry)
    temperature: 36 # (A key value pair in the first entry)
    humidity: 95 # (Another key value pair in the first entry)

  - id: 1526985054079-0 # (ID of the second entry)
    temperature: 37 # (A key value pair in the first entry)
    humidity: 94 # (Another key value pair in the first entry)

  # ... (and so on)
```

We'll take a closer look at the format of entry IDs (`1526985054069-0` and `1526985054079-0` in the example above) in the upcoming stages.

### The XADD command

The [XADD](https://redis.io/commands/xadd/) command appends an entry to a stream. If a stream doesn't exist already, it is created.

Here's how it works:

```bash
$ redis-cli XADD stream_key 1526919030474-0 temperature 36 humidity 95
"1526919030474-0" # (ID of the entry created)
```

The return value is the ID of the entry created, encoded as a [bulk string](https://redis.io/docs/reference/protocol-spec/#bulk-strings).

`XADD` supports other optional arguments, but we won't deal with them in this challenge.

`XADD` also supports auto-generating entry IDs. We'll add support for that in later stages. For now, we'll only deal with
explicit IDs (like `1526919030474-0` in the example above).

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
$ ./your_program.sh
```

It'll then send an `XADD` command to your server and expect the ID as a response.

```bash
$ redis-cli XADD stream_key 0-1 foo bar
"0-1"
```

Your server should respond with `$3\r\n0-1\r\n`, which is `0-1` encoded as a [RESP bulk string](https://redis.io/docs/reference/protocol-spec/#bulk-strings).

The tester will then send a `TYPE` command to your server.

```bash
$ redis-cli TYPE stream_key
"stream"
```

Your server should respond with `+stream\r\n`, which is `stream` encoded as a [RESP simple string](https://redis.io/docs/reference/protocol-spec/#simple-strings).

### Notes

- You still need to handle the "string" and "none" return values for the `TYPE` command. "stream" should only be returned for keys that are streams.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll add support for creating a [Redis stream](https://redis.io/docs/data-types/streams/) using the `XADD` command.

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In this stage, you'll add support for the `TYPE` command.

### The TYPE command

The [TYPE](https://redis.io/commands/type/) command returns the type of value stored at a given key.

It returns one of the following types: string, list, set, zset, hash, and stream.

Here's how it works:

```bash
$ redis-cli SET some_key foo
"OK"
$ redis-cli TYPE some_key
"string"
```

If a key doesn't exist, the return value will be "none".

```bash
$ redis-cli TYPE missing_key
"none"
```

The return value is encoded as a [simple string](https://redis.io/docs/reference/protocol-spec/#simple-strings).

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
$ ./your_program.sh
```

It'll then send a `SET` command to your server.

```bash
$ redis-cli SET some_key foo
```

It'll then send a `TYPE` command to your server.

```bash
$ redis-cli TYPE some_key
```

Your server should respond with `+string\r\n`, which is `string` encoded as a [RESP simple string](https://redis.io/docs/reference/protocol-spec/#simple-strings).

It'll then send another `TYPE` command with a missing key.

```bash
$ redis-cli TYPE missing_key
```

Your server should respond with `+none\r\n`, which is `none` encoded as a [RESP simple string](https://redis.io/docs/reference/protocol-spec/#simple-strings).

### Notes

- For now, you only need to handle the "string" and "none" types. We'll add support for the "stream" type in the next stage.

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In this stage, you'll add support for the `TYPE` command.

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In this stage, you'll add support for reading multiple keys from an RDB file.

The tester will create an RDB file with multiple keys and execute your program like this:

```bash
$ ./your_program.sh --dir <dir> --dbfilename <filename>
```

It'll then send a `KEYS *` command to your server.

```bash
$ redis-cli KEYS "*"
```

The response to `KEYS *` should be a RESP array with the keys as elements.

For example, let's say the RDB file contains two keys: `foo` and `bar`. The expected response will be:

```
*2\r\n$3\r\nfoo\r\n$3\r\nbar\r\n
```

- `*2\r\n` indicates that the array has two elements
- `$3\r\nfoo\r\n` indicates that the first element is a bulk string with the value `foo`
- `$3\r\nbar\r\n` indicates that the second element is a bulk string with the value `bar`

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
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In this stage, you'll add support for queuing commands within a transaction.

### Queuing commands

After [MULTI](https://redis.io/docs/latest/commands/multi/) is executed, any further commands
from a connection are queued until [EXEC](https://redis.io/docs/latest/commands/exec/) is executed.

The response to all of these commands is `+QUEUED\r\n` (That's `QUEUED` encoded as a [Simple String](https://redis.io/docs/latest/develop/reference/protocol-spec/#simple-strings)).

Example:

```bash
$ redis-cli
> MULTI
OK
> SET foo 41
QUEUED
> INCR foo
QUEUED

... (and so on, until EXEC is executed)
```

When commands are queued, they should not be executed or alter the database in any way.

In the example above, until `EXEC` is executed, the key `foo` will not exist.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
$ ./your_program.sh
```

The tester will then connect to your server as a Redis client, and send multiple commands using the same connection:

```bash
$ redis-cli
> MULTI
> SET foo 41 (expecting "+QUEUED\r\n")
> INCR foo (expecting "+QUEUED\r\n")
```

Since these commands were only "queued", the key `foo` should not exist yet. The tester will verify this by creating
another connection and sending this command:

```bash
$ redis-cli GET foo (expecting `$-1\r\n` as the response)
```

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In this stage, you'll implement queueing commands to a transaction.

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In this stage, you'll extend support for `XRANGE` to allow querying using `+`.

### Using XRANGE with +

In the previous stage, we saw that `XRANGE` takes `start` and `end` as arguments.

In addition to accepting an explicit entry ID, `end` can also be specified as `+`. When `+` is used, `XRANGE` retrieves entries until the end of the stream.

Here's an example of how that works.

We'll use our previous example for entries existing in a stream.

```bash
$ redis-cli XADD some_key 1526985054069-0 temperature 36 humidity 95
"1526985054069-0"
$ redis-cli XADD some_key 1526985054079-0 temperature 37 humidity 94
"1526985054079-0"
$ redis-cli XRANGE some_key 1526985054069 +
1) 1) 1526985054069-0
   2) 1) temperature
      2) 36
      3) humidity
      4) 95
2) 1) 1526985054079-0
   2) 1) temperature
      2) 37
      3) humidity
      4) 94
```

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
$ ./your_program.sh
```

It'll then create a few entries.

```bash
$ redis-cli XADD stream_key 0-1 foo bar
$ redis-cli XADD stream_key 0-2 bar baz
$ redis-cli XADD stream_key 0-3 baz foo
```

It'll then send an `XRANGE` command to your server.

```bash
$ redis-cli XRANGE stream_key 0-2 +
```

Your server should respond with the following:

```text
*2\r\n
*2\r\n
$3\r\n0-2\r\n
*2\r\n
$3\r\nbar\r\n
$3\r\nbaz\r\n
*2\r\n
$3\r\n0-3\r\n
*2\r\n
$3\r\nbaz\r\n
$3\r\nfoo\r\n
```

This is the RESP encoded representation of the following.

```json
[
  [
    "0-2",
    [
      "bar",
      "baz"
    ]
  ],
  [
    "0-3",
    [
      "baz",
      "foo"
    ]
  ]
]
```

### Notes
- In the response, the items are separated onto new lines for readability. The tester expects all of these to be in one line.

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In this stage, you'll extend support for `XRANGE` to allow querying using `+`.

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In this stage, you'll add support for the `MULTI` command.

### The MULTI command

The [MULTI](https://redis.io/docs/latest/commands/multi/) command starts a transaction.

After a `MULTI` command is executed, any further commands from the same connection will be "queued" but not executed.

Example usage:

```bash
$ redis-cli
> MULTI
OK
> SET foo 41
QUEUED
> INCR foo
QUEUED
```

The queued commands can be executed using [EXEC](https://redis.io/docs/latest/commands/exec/), which we'll cover in later stages.

In this stage, you'll just add support for handling the `MULTI` command and returning `+OK\r\n`. We'll get to queueing commands in later stages.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```
./your_program.sh
```

The tester will then connect to your server as a Redis client and run the following command:

```bash
$ redis-cli MULTI
```

The tester will expect `+OK\r\n` as the response.

### Notes

- We'll test queueing commands & executing a transaction in later stages.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement the MULTI command.

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In this stage, you'll implement a TCP server that listens on port 6379.

[TCP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol) is the underlying protocol used by protocols like HTTP, SSH and others
you're probably familiar with. Redis clients & servers use TCP to communicate with each other.

Don't worry if you're unfamiliar with the TCP protocol, or what Redis clients & servers are. You'll learn more about this in the
next stages.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
$ ./your_program.sh
```

It'll then try to connect to your TCP server on port 6379. If the connection succeeds, you'll pass this stage.

### Notes

- 6379 is the default port that Redis uses.
- If you already have a Redis server running on your machine and listening on port 6379, you'll see a "port already in use" error when running your code. Try stopping the existing Redis server and running your code again.

{{#reader_is_bot}}
- In this stage, you can assume that you only need to handle a single client. We'll get to handling multiple clients & multiple requests per client in later stages.
{{/reader_is_bot}}

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In this stage, you'll start a TCP server on port 6379, which is the
default port that Redis uses.

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In this stage, you'll implement support for the [PING](https://redis.io/commands/ping) command.

Redis clients communicate with Redis servers by sending "[commands](https://redis.io/commands/)". For each command, a Redis server sends a response back to the client.
Commands and responses are both encoded using the [Redis protocol](https://redis.io/topics/protocol) (we'll learn more about this in later stages).

[PING](https://redis.io/commands/ping/) is one of the simplest Redis commands. It's used to check whether a Redis server is healthy.

The response for the `PING` command is `+PONG\r\n`. This is the string "PONG" encoded using the [Redis protocol](https://redis.io/docs/reference/protocol-spec/).

In this stage, we'll cut corners by ignoring client input and hardcoding `+PONG\r\n` as a response. We'll learn to parse client input in later stages.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
$ ./your_program.sh
```

It'll then send a `PING` command to your server and expect a `+PONG\r\n` response.

```bash
$ redis-cli PING
```

Your server should respond with `+PONG\r\n`, which is "PONG" encoded as a [RESP simple string](https://redis.io/docs/reference/protocol-spec/#resp-simple-strings).

### Notes

- You can ignore the data that the tester sends you for this stage. We'll get to parsing
client input in later stages. For now, you can just hardcode `+PONG\r\n` as the response.
- You can also ignore handling multiple clients and handling multiple PING commands in the stage, we'll get to that in later stages.
- The exact bytes your program will receive won't be just `PING`, you'll receive something like this: `*1\r\n$4\r\nPING\r\n`,
which is the Redis protocol encoding of the `PING` command. We'll learn more about this in later stages.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll respond to the
[PING](https://redis.io/commands/ping) command. You'll use [the Redis
protocol](https://redis.io/topics/protocol) to encode the reply.

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In this stage, you'll extend support to `XREAD` to allow for turning it into a blocking command.

### Understanding blocking

`BLOCK` is one of the optional parameters that could be passed in to the `XREAD` command.

Without blocking, the current implementation of our command is synchronous. This means that the command can get new data as long as there are items available.

If we want to wait for new data coming in, we need blocking.

Here's how it works.

Let's use the entries previously shown as an example.

```yaml
entries:
  - id: 1526985054069-0 # (ID of the first entry)
    temperature: 36 # (A key value pair in the first entry)
    humidity: 95 # (Another key value pair in the first entry)

  - id: 1526985054079-0 # (ID of the second entry)
    temperature: 37 # (A key value pair in the first entry)
    humidity: 94 # (Another key value pair in the first entry)

  # ... (and so on)
```

On one instance of the redis-cli, we'd add an entry and send  a blocking `XREAD` command.

```bash
$ redis-cli XADD some_key 1526985054069-0 temperature 36 humidity 95
"1526985054069-0"
$ redis-cli XREAD block 1000 streams some_key 1526985054069-0
```

Then, on another instance of the redis-cli, we add another entry.

```bash
$ other-redis-cli XADD some_key 1526985054079-0 temperature 37 humidity 94
"1526985054079-0"
```

If the command was sent within 1000 milliseconds, the redis-cli will respond with the added entry.

```bash
$ redis-cli XADD some_key 1526985054069-0 temperature 36 humidity 95
"1526985054069-0"
$ redis-cli XREAD block 1000 streams some_key 1526985054069-0
1) 1) "some_key"
   2) 1) 1) 1526985054079-0
         2) 1) temperature
            2) 37
            3) humidity
            4) 94
```

If not, the response would be a null representation of a bulk string.

```bash
$ redis-cli XADD some_key 1526985054069-0 temperature 36 humidity 95
"1526985054069-0"
$ redis-cli XREAD block 1000 streams some_key 1526985054069-0
(nil)
```

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
$ ./your_program.sh
```

First, an entry will be added to a stream.

```bash
$ redis-cli XADD stream_key 0-1 temperature 96
```

It'll then send an `XREAD` command to your server with the `BLOCK` command.

```bash
$ redis-cli XREAD block 1000 streams stream_key 0-1
```

On another instance of the redis-cli, another entry will be added in 500 milliseconds after sending the `XREAD` command.

```bash
$ redis-cli XADD stream_key 0-2 temperature 95
```

Your server should respond with the following:

```text
*1\r\n
*2\r\n
$10\r\stream_key\r\n
*1\r\n
*2\r\n
$3\r\n0-2\r\n
*2\r\n
$11\r\ntemperature\r\n
$2\r\n96\r\n
```

This is the RESP encoded representation of the following.

```json
[
  [
    "stream_key",
    [
      "0-2",
      [
        "temperature",
        "96"
      ]
    ]
  ]
]
```

It'll send another `XREAD` command to your server with the `BLOCK` command but this time, it'll wait for 2000 milliseconds before checking the response of your server.

```bash
$ redis-cli XREAD block 1000 streams stream_key 0-2
```

Your server should respond with `$-1\r\n` which is a `null` representation of a RESP bulk string.

### Notes
- In the response, the items are separated onto new lines for readability. The tester expects all of these to be in one line.

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In this stage, you'll add extend support to `XREAD` to allow querying multiple streams.

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Welcome to the RDB Persistence Extension! In this extension, you'll add support for reading [RDB files](https://redis.io/docs/management/persistence/) (Redis Database files).

In this stage, you'll add support for two configuration parameters related to RDB persistence, as well as the [CONFIG GET](https://redis.io/docs/latest/commands/config-get/) command.

### RDB files

An RDB file is a point-in-time snapshot of a Redis dataset. When RDB persistence is enabled, the Redis server syncs its in-memory state with an RDB file, by doing the following:

1. On startup, the Redis server loads the data from the RDB file.
2. While running, the Redis server periodically takes new snapshots of the dataset, in order to update the RDB file.

### `dir` and `dbfilename`

The configuration parameters `dir` and `dbfilename` specify where an RDB file is stored:
- `dir` - the path to the directory where the RDB file is stored (example: `/tmp/redis-data`)
- `dbfilename` - the name of the RDB file (example: `rdbfile`)

### The `CONFIG GET` command

The [`CONFIG GET`](https://redis.io/docs/latest/commands/config-get/) command returns the values of configuration parameters.

It takes in one or more configuration parameters and returns a [RESP array](https://redis.io/docs/latest/develop/reference/protocol-spec/#arrays) of key-value pairs:

```bash
$ redis-cli CONFIG GET dir
1) "dir"
2) "/tmp/redis-data"
```

Although `CONFIG GET` can fetch multiple parameters at a time, the tester will only send `CONFIG GET` commands with one parameter at a time.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
./your_program.sh --dir /tmp/redis-files --dbfilename dump.rdb
```

It'll then send the following commands:

```bash
$ redis-cli CONFIG GET dir
$ redis-cli CONFIG GET dbfilename
```

Your server must respond to each `CONFIG GET` command with a RESP array containing two elements:

1. The parameter **name**, encoded as a [RESP Bulk string](https://redis.io/docs/latest/develop/reference/protocol-spec/#bulk-strings)
2. The parameter **value**, encoded as a RESP Bulk string

For example, if the value of `dir` is `/tmp/redis-files`, then the expected response to `CONFIG GET dir` is:

```bash
*2\r\n$3\r\ndir\r\n$16\r\n/tmp/redis-files\r\n
```

### Notes

- You don't need to read the RDB file in this stage, you only need to store `dir` and `dbfilename`. Reading from the file will be covered in later stages.
- If your repository was created before 5th Oct 2023, it's possible that your `./your_program.sh` script is not passing arguments to your program. To fix this, you'll need to edit `./your_program.sh`. Check the [update CLI args PR](https://github.com/codecrafters-io/build-your-own-redis/pull/89/files) for details on how to do this.

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In this stage, you'll add support for reading the config values related to where RDB files are stored. You'll implement the `CONFIG GET` command.

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In this stage, you'll add support for the DISCARD command.

### The DISCARD command

[DISCARD](https://redis.io/docs/latest/commands/discard/) is used to abort a transactions. It discards all commands queued in a transaction,
and returns `+OK\r\n`.

Example:

```bash
$ redis-cli
> MULTI
OK
> SET foo 41
QUEUED
> DISCARD
OK
> DISCARD
(error) ERR DISCARD without MULTI
```

In the above example, note that the first `DISCARD` returns `OK`, but the second `DISCARD` returns an error since the transaction was aborted.

### DISCARD

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
$ ./your_program.sh
```

The tester will then connect to your server as a Redis client, and send multiple commands using the same connection:

```bash
$ redis-cli
> MULTI
> SET foo 41 (expecting "+QUEUED\r\n")
> INCR foo (expecting "+QUEUED\r\n")
> DISCARD (expecting "+OK\r\n")
> GET foo (expecting "$-1\r\n" as the response)
> DISCARD (expecting "-ERR DISCARD without MULTI\r\n" as the response)
```

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In this stage, you'll implement the DISCARD command.

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In this stage, you'll add support for executing an empty transaction.

### Empty trasactions

If [EXEC](https://redis.io/docs/latest/commands/exec/) is executed soon after [MULTI](https://redis.io/docs/latest/commands/multi/),
it returns an empty array.

The empty array signifies that no commands were queued, and that the transaction was executed successfully.

Example usage:

```bash
$ redis-cli
> MULTI
OK
> EXEC
(empty array)
```

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
$ ./your_program.sh
```

The tester will then connect to your server as a Redis client and run the following commands:

```bash
$ redis-cli
> MULTI (expecting "+OK\r\n")
> EXEC (expecting "*0\r\n" as the response)
> EXEC (expecting "-ERR EXEC without MULTI\r\n" as the response)
```

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement an empty transaction.

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In this stage, you'll add support for executing a transaction that contains multiple commands.

### Executing a transaction

When the [EXEC](https://redis.io/docs/latest/commands/exec/) command is sent within a transaction,
all commands queued in that transaction are executed.

The response to [EXEC](https://redis.io/docs/latest/commands/exec/) is an array of the responses of the queued commands.

Example:

```bash
$ redis-cli
> MULTI
OK
> SET foo 41
QUEUED
> INCR foo
QUEUED
> EXEC
1) OK
2) (integer) 42
```

In the above example, `OK` is the response of the `SET` command, and `42` is the response of the `INCR` command.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
$ ./your_program.sh
```

The tester will then connect to your server as a Redis client, and send multiple commands using the same connection:

```bash
$ redis-cli MULTI
> SET foo 6 (expecting "+QUEUED\r\n")
> INCR foo (expecting "+QUEUED\r\n")
> INCR bar (expecting "+QUEUED\r\n")
> GET bar (expecting "+QUEUED\r\n")
> EXEC (expecting an array of responses for the queued commands)
```

Since the transaction was executed, the key `foo` should exist and have the value `7`.

The tester will verify this by running a GET command:

```bash
$ redis-cli GET foo (expecting "7" encoded as a bulk string)
```

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In this stage, you'll add support for multiple concurrent transactions.

### Multiple transactions

There can be multiple transactions open (i.e. `MULTI` has been called, but `EXEC` has not been called yet) at the same time. Each
transaction gets its own command queue.

For example, say you started transaction 1 from one connection:

```bash
$ redis-cli
> MULTI
OK
> SET foo 41
QUEUED
> INCR foo
QUEUED
```

and started transaction 2 from another connection:

```bash
$ redis-cli
> MULTI
OK
> INCR foo
QUEUED
```

If you then run `EXEC` in transaction 1, you should see the following:

```bash
> EXEC
1) OK
2) (integer) 42
```

`OK` is the response to `SET foo 41`, and `42` is the response to `INCR foo`.

And for transaction 2, running `EXEC` should return:

```bash
> EXEC
1) (integer) 43
```

43 is the response to `INCR foo`. The key `foo` was updated to `42` by transaction 1, and `INCR foo` further increments it to `43`.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
$ ./your_program.sh
```

The tester will then connect to your server as multiple Redis clients, and send multiple commands from each connection:

```bash
$ redis-cli MULTI
> INCR foo
> EXEC
```

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In this stage, you'll extend your [INFO](https://redis.io/commands/info/) command to run on a replica.

### The `--replicaof` flag

By default, a Redis server assumes the "master" role. When the `--replicaof` flag is passed, the server assumes the "slave" role instead.

Here's an example usage of the `--replicaof` flag:

```
./your_program.sh --port 6380 --replicaof "localhost 6379"
```

In this example, we're starting a Redis server in replica mode. The server itself will listen for connections on port 6380, but it'll
also connect to a master (another Redis server) running on localhost port 6379 and replicate all changes from the master.

We'll learn more about how this replication works in later stages. For now, we'll focus on adding support for the `--replicaof` flag, and
extending the `INFO` command to support returning `role: slave` when the server is a replica.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```
./your_program.sh --port <PORT> --replicaof "<MASTER_HOST> <MASTER_PORT>"
```

It'll then send the `INFO` command with `replication` as an argument to your server.

```bash
$ redis-cli -p <PORT> info replication
```

Your program should respond with a [Bulk string](https://redis.io/docs/reference/protocol-spec/#bulk-strings) where each line
is a key value pair separated by `:`. The tester will only look for the `role` key, and assert that the value is `slave`.

### Notes

- Your program still needs to pass the previous stage tests, so if `--replicaof` isn't specified, you should default to the `master` role.
- Just like the last stage, you only need to support the `role` key in the response for this stage. We'll add support for the other keys in later stages.
- You don't need to actually connect to the master server specified via `--replicaof` in this stage. We'll get to that in later stages.

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In this stage, you'll respond to multiple
[PING](https://redis.io/commands/ping) commands sent by the same connection.

A Redis server starts to listen for the next command as soon as it's done responding to the previous one. This allows
Redis clients to send multiple commands using the same connection.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
$ ./your_program.sh
```

It'll then send multiple PING commands using the same connection. For example, it might send:

```bash
$ echo -e "PING\nPING" | redis-cli
```

The tester will expect to receive multiple `+PONG\r\n` responses (one for each command sent).

{{#lang_is_javascript}}
In most languages, you'd need to run a loop that reads input from a connection and sends a
response back. In JavaScript however, if you're listening to the
[`data`](https://nodejs.org/api/net.html#net_event_data) event, this should be automatically handled for you. **It
is very likely that the code you had for the previous stage will pass this stage without any changes!**
{{/lang_is_javascript}}

{{^lang_is_javascript}}
You'll need to run a loop that reads input from a connection and sends a
response back.
{{/lang_is_javascript}}

### Notes

- Just like the previous stage, you can hardcode `+PONG\r\n` as the response for this stage. We'll get to parsing
 client input in later stages.
- The PING commands will be sent using the same connection. We'll get to handling multiple connections in later stages.

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In this stage, you'll respond to multiple
[PING](https://redis.io/commands/ping) commands sent by the same client.

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In this stage, you'll add support for receiving the [`PSYNC`](https://redis.io/commands/psync/) command from the replica.

### Handshake (continued from previous stage)

As a recap, there are three parts to the handshake:

- The master receives a `PING` from the replica (You've already implemented this)
- The master receives `REPLCONF` twice from the replica (You've already implemented this)
- The master receives `PSYNC` from the replica (**This stage**)

After the replica sends `REPLCONF` twice, it'll send a `PSYNC ? -1` command to the master.

- The first argument is `?`
  - This is the replication ID of the master, it is `?` because this is the first time the replica is connecting to the master.
- The second argument is `-1`
  - This is the replication offset, it is `-1` because this is the first time the replica is connecting to the master.

The final command you receive will look something like this:

```
*3\r\n$5\r\nPSYNC\r\n$1\r\n?\r\n$2\r\n-1\r\n
```

(That's `["PSYNC", "?", "-1"]` encoded as a RESP Array)

The master needs to respond with `+FULLRESYNC <REPL_ID> 0\r\n` ("FULLRESYNC <REPL_ID> 0" encoded as a RESP Simple String). Here's what
the response means:

- `FULLRESYNC` means that the master cannot perform incremental replication with the replica, and will thus start a "full" resynchronization.
- `<REPL_ID>` is the replication ID of the master. You've already set this in the "Replication ID & Offset" stage.
  - As an example, you can hardcode `8371b4fb1155b71f4a04d3e1bc3e18c4a990aeeb` as the replication ID.
- `0` is the replication offset of the master. You've already set this in the "Replication ID & Offset" stage.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```
./your_program.sh --port <PORT>
```

It'll then connect to your TCP server as a replica and execute the following commands:

1. `PING` (expecting `+PONG\r\n` back)
2. `REPLCONF listening-port <PORT>` (expecting `+OK\r\n` back)
3. `REPLCONF capa eof capa psync2` (expecting `+OK\r\n` back)
4. `PSYNC ? -1` (expecting `+FULLRESYNC <REPL_ID> 0\r\n` back)

**Notes**:

- In the response, `<REPL_ID>` needs to be replaced with the replication ID of the master which you've initialized in previous stages.

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In this stage, you'll extend your `XADD` command implementation to support auto-generating the
sequence number part of the entry ID.

### Specifying entry IDs in XADD

As a recap, there are multiple formats in which the ID can be specified in the `XADD` command:

- Explicit ("1526919030473-0") (Previous stage)
- Auto-generate only sequence number ("1526919030474-*") (**This stage**)
- Auto-generate time part and sequence number ("*") (Next stage)

We dealt with explicit IDs in the last stage. We'll handle the second case in this stage.

When `*` is used for the sequence number, Redis picks the last sequence number used in the
stream (for the same time part) and increments it by 1.

The default sequence number is 0. The only exception is when the time part is also 0. In that case, the default sequence number is 1.

Here's an example of adding an entry with `*` as the sequence number:

```bash
$ redis-cli XADD some_key "1-*" foo bar
"1-0" # If there are no entries, the sequence number will be 0
$ redis-cli XADD some_key "1-*" bar baz
"1-1" # Adding another entry will increment the sequence number
```

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
$ ./your_program.sh
```

It'll send an `XADD` command with `*` as the sequence number.

```bash
$ redis-cli XADD stream_key 0-* foo bar
```

Your server should respond with `$3\r\n0-1\r\n`, which is `0-1` encoded as a RESP bulk string.

It'll then send another `XADD` command with `*` as the sequence number, but this time with a
random number as the time part.

```bash
$ redis-cli XADD stream_key 5-* foo bar
```

Your server should respond with `$3\r\n5-0\r\n`, which is `5-0` encoded as a [RESP bulk string](https://redis.io/docs/reference/protocol-spec/#bulk-strings)

It'll send the same command again.

```bash
$ redis-cli XADD stream_key 5-* bar baz
```

Your server should respond with `$3\r\n5-1\r\n`, which is `5-1` encoded as a [RESP bulk string](https://redis.io/docs/reference/protocol-spec/#bulk-strings)

### Notes

- The tester will use a random number for the time part (we use `5` in the example above).

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In this stage, you'll add support for the `EXEC` command when the `MULTI` command has not been called.

### The EXEC command

The [EXEC](https://redis.io/docs/latest/commands/exec/) command executes all commands queued in a transaction.

It returns an array of the responses of the queued commands.

Example usage:

```bash
$ redis-cli
> MULTI
OK
> SET foo 41
QUEUED
> INCR foo
QUEUED
> EXEC
1) OK
2) (integer) 42
```

### EXEC without MULTI

If `EXEC` is executed without having called `MULTI`, it returns an error.

Example usage:

```bash
$ redis-cli EXEC
(error) ERR EXEC without MULTI
```

The returned value is a [Simple error](https://redis.io/docs/latest/develop/reference/protocol-spec/#simple-errors), the
exact bytes are `-ERR EXEC without MULTI\r\n`.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
$ ./your_program.sh
```

The tester will then connect to your server as a Redis client and run the following commands:

```bash
$ redis-cli EXEC
```

The tester will expect "-ERR EXEC without MULTI\r\n" as the response.

### Notes

- In this stage you only need to implement `EXEC` when `MULTI` hasn't been called.
- We'll test handling `EXEC` after `MULTI` in later stages.

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**🚧 We're still working on instructions for this stage**. You can find notes on how the tester works below.

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In this stage you will implement WAIT, when some replicas are connected to Master, but there have been NO commands propagated from master to replica. So offset is essentially 0. In this case, the Master can just return the count of `connected_slaves` asap.  (The replicas will finish the sync handshake with Master, so they are actually connnected.)
(The master will return the count of `connected_slaves` no matter how many replicas we pass in the WAIT command parameter. As the offset is 0, it knows all replicas are in sync.)

-->

### Tests

The tester will execute your program as a master like this:

```
./your_program.sh
```

It'll then start **multiple** replicas that connect to your server. Each will complete the handshake and expect to receive an empty RDB file.

It'll then connect to your master as a Redis client (not one of the replicas) and send commands like this:

```bash
$ redis-cli WAIT 3 500 # (expecting 7 back)
$ redis-cli WAIT 7 500 # (expecting 7 back)
$ redis-cli WAIT 9 500 # (expecting 7 back)
```

The response to each of these commands should be encoded as a RESP integer (i.e. `:7\r\n`).

### Notes

- Even if WAIT is called with a number lesser than the number of connected replicas, the master should return the count of connected replicas.
- The number of replicas created in this stage will be random, so you can't hardcode `7` as the response like in the example above.

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In this stage, you'll add support for handling failures within a transaction.

### Failures within transactions

When executing a transaction, if a command fails, the error is captured and returned within the response for `EXEC`. All other commands in
the transaction are still executed.

You can read more about this behaviour [in the official Redis docs](https://redis.io/docs/latest/develop/interact/transactions/#errors-inside-a-transaction).

Example:

```bash
$ redis-cli
> MULTI
OK
> SET foo xyz
QUEUED
> INCR foo
QUEUED
> SET bar 7
> EXEC
1) OK
2) (error) ERR value is not an integer or out of range
3) OK
```

In the example above, note that the error for the `INCR` command was returned as the second array element. The third command (`SET bar 7`) was
still executed successfully.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
$ ./your_program.sh
```

The tester will then connect to your server as a Redis client, and send multiple commands using the same connection:

```bash
$ redis-cli
> SET foo abc
OK
> SET bar 41
OK
> MULTI
OK
> INCR foo
QUEUED
> INCR bar
QUEUED
> EXEC
1) (error) ERR value is not an integer or out of range
2) (integer) 42
```

The expected response for `EXEC` is a [RESP array](https://redis.io/docs/latest/develop/reference/protocol-spec/#arrays) of
the responses of the queued commands. The exact bytes will be:

```bash
*2\r\n-ERR value is not an integer or out of range\r\n:42\r\n
```

The tester will also verify that the last command was successfully executed and that the key `bar` exists:

```bash
$ redis-cli
> GET foo (expecting "$3\r\nabc\r\n" as the response)
> GET bar (expecting "$2\r\n42\r\n" as the response)
```

### Notes

- There are a subset of command failures (like syntax errors) that will cause a transaction to be aborted entirely. We won't
  cover those in this challenge.

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In this stage, you'll add support for reading the value corresponding to a key from an RDB file.

Just like with the previous stage, we'll stick to supporting RDB files that contain a single key for now.

The tester will create an RDB file with a single key and execute your program like this:

```
./your_program.sh --dir <dir> --dbfilename <filename>
```

It'll then send a `GET <key>` command to your server.

```bash
$ redis-cli GET "foo"
```

The response to `GET <key>` should be a RESP bulk string with the value of the key.

For example, let's say the RDB file contains a key called `foo` with the value `bar`. The expected response will be `$3\r\nbar\r\n`.

Strings can be encoded in three different ways in the RDB file format:

- Length-prefixed strings
- Integers as strings
- Compressed strings

In this stage, you only need to support length-prefixed strings. We won't cover the other two types in this challenge.

We recommend using [this blog post](https://rdb.fnordig.de/file_format.html) as a reference when working on this stage.

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Welcome to the Replication extension!

In this extension, you'll extend your Redis server to support [leader-follower replication](https://redis.io/docs/management/replication/). You'll be able to run
multiple Redis servers with one acting as the "master" and the others as "replicas". Changes made to the master will be automatically replicated to replicas.

Since we'll need to run multiple instances of your Redis server at once, we can't run all of them on port 6379.

In this stage, you'll add support for starting the Redis server on a custom port. The port number will be passed to your program via the `--port` flag.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```
./your_program.sh --port 6380
```

It'll then try to connect to your TCP server on the specified port number (`6380` in the example above). If the connection succeeds, you'll pass this stage.

### Notes

- Your program still needs to pass the previous stages, so if `--port` isn't specified, you should default to port 6379.
- The tester will pass a random port number to your program, so you can't hardcode the port number from the example above.
- If your repository was created before 5th Oct 2023, it's possible that your `./your_program.sh` script
might not be passing arguments on to your program. You'll need to edit `./your_program.sh` to fix this, check
[this PR](https://github.com/codecrafters-io/build-your-own-redis/pull/89/files) for details.

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In this stage, you'll add support for querying data from a stream using the `XRANGE` command.

### The XRANGE command

The [XRANGE](https://redis.io/commands/xrange/) command retrieves a range of entries from a stream.

It takes two arguments: `start` and `end`. Both are entry IDs. The command returns all entries in the
stream with IDs between the `start` and `end` IDs. This range is "inclusive", which means that the response
will includes entries with IDs that are equal to the `start` and `end` IDs.

Here's an example of how it works:

```bash
$ redis-cli XADD some_key 1526985054069-0 temperature 36 humidity 95
"1526985054069-0" # (ID of the first added entry)
$ redis-cli XADD some_key 1526985054079-0 temperature 37 humidity 94
"1526985054079-0"
$ redis-cli XRANGE some_key 1526985054069 1526985054079
1) 1) 1526985054069-0
   2) 1) temperature
      2) 36
      3) humidity
      4) 95
2) 1) 1526985054079-0
   2) 1) temperature
      2) 37
      3) humidity
      4) 94
```

The sequence number doesn't need to be included in the start and end IDs provided to the command. If not provided,
XRANGE defaults to a sequence number of 0 for the start and the maximum sequence number for the end.

The return value of the command is not exactly what is shown in the example above. This is already formatted by redis-cli.

The actual return value is a [RESP Array](https://redis.io/docs/reference/protocol-spec/#arrays) of arrays.

- Each inner array represents an entry.
- The first item in the inner array is the ID of the entry.
- The second item is a list of key value pairs, where the key value pairs are represented as a list of strings.
  - The key value pairs are in the order they were added to the entry.

The return value of the example above is actually something like this:

```json
[
  [
    "1526985054069-0",
    [
      "temperature",
      "36",
      "humidity",
      "95"
    ]
  ],
  [
    "1526985054079-0",
    [
      "temperature",
      "37",
      "humidity",
      "94"
    ]
  ],
]
```

When encoded as a RESP list, it looks like this:

```text
*2\r\n
*2\r\n
$15\r\n1526985054069-0\r\n
*4\r\n
$11\r\ntemperature\r\n
$2\r\n36\r\n
$8\r\nhumidity\r\n
$2\r\n95\r\n
*2\r\n
$15\r\n1526985054079-0\r\n
*4\r\n
$11\r\ntemperature\r\n
$2\r\n37\r\n
$8\r\nhumidity\r\n
$2\r\n94\r\n
```

In the code block above, the response is separated into multiple lines for readability. The actual
return value doesn't contain any additional newlines.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
$ ./your_program.sh
```

First, it'll add a few entries.

```bash
$ redis-cli XADD stream_key 0-1 foo bar
"0-1"
$ redis-cli XADD stream_key 0-2 bar baz
"0-2"
$ redis-cli XADD stream_key 0-3 baz foo
"0-3"
```

Then, it'll send an `XRANGE` command to your server.

```bash
$ redis-cli XRANGE stream_key 0-2 0-3
```

Your server should respond with the following (encoded as a RESP Array):

```json
[
  [
    "0-2",
    [
      "bar",
      "baz"
    ]
  ],
  [
    "0-3",
    [
      "baz",
      "foo"
    ]
  ]
]
```

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In this stage, you'll extend support to `XREAD` to allow for the blocking command not timing out.

### Understanding blocking without timeout

Here's how it works.

Let's use the entries previously shown as an example.

```yaml
entries:
  - id: 1526985054069-0 # (ID of the first entry)
    temperature: 36 # (A key value pair in the first entry)
    humidity: 95 # (Another key value pair in the first entry)

  - id: 1526985054079-0 # (ID of the second entry)
    temperature: 37 # (A key value pair in the first entry)
    humidity: 94 # (Another key value pair in the first entry)

  # ... (and so on)
```

On one instance of the redis-cli, we'd add an entry and send a blocking `XREAD` command with 0 as the time passed in.

```bash
$ redis-cli XADD some_key 1526985054069-0 temperature 36 humidity 95
"1526985054069-0"
$ redis-cli XREAD block 0 streams some_key 1526985054069-0
```

Then, on another instance of the redis-cli, we add another entry.

```bash
$ other-redis-cli XADD some_key 1526985054079-0 temperature 37 humidity 94
"1526985054079-0"
```

The difference now is that the first instance of the redis-cli doesn't time out and responds with null no matter how much time passes. It will wait until another entry is added. The return value after an entry is added is similar to the last stage.

```bash
$ redis-cli XADD some_key 1526985054069-0 temperature 36 humidity 95
"1526985054069-0"
$ redis-cli XREAD block 0 streams some_key 1526985054069-0
1) 1) "some_key"
   2) 1) 1) 1526985054079-0
         2) 1) temperature
            2) 37
            3) humidity
            4) 94
```

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
$ ./your_program.sh
```

First, an entry will be added to a stream.

```bash
$ redis-cli XADD stream_key 0-1 temperature 96
```

It'll then send an `XREAD` command to your server with the `BLOCK` command with the time passed in being 0.

```bash
$ redis-cli XREAD block 0 streams stream_key 0-1
```

It'll then wait for 1000 milliseconds before checking if there is a response. Your server should not have a new response. It'll then add another entry.

```bash
$ redis-cli XADD stream_key 0-2 temperature 95
```

Your server should respond with the following:

```text
*1\r\n
*2\r\n
$10\r\stream_key\r\n
*1\r\n
*2\r\n
$3\r\n0-2\r\n
*2\r\n
$11\r\ntemperature\r\n
$2\r\n95\r\n
```

This is the RESP encoded representation of the following.

```json
[
  [
    "stream_key",
    [
      "0-2",
      [
        "temperature",
        "95"
      ]
    ]
  ]
]
```

### Notes
- In the response, the items are separated onto new lines for readability. The tester expects all of these to be in one line.

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In this stage, you'll add support for multiple concurrent clients.

In addition to handling multiple commands from the same client, Redis servers are also designed to handle multiple clients at once.

{{#lang_is_javascript}}
In most languages, you'd need to either use threads or implement an
[Event Loop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_loop) to do this. In JavaScript however, since [the concurrency
model itself is based on an event loop](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/EventLoop), most
standard library functions are designed to support this kind of concurrent behaviour out of the box. **It is very
likely that the code you had for the previous stage will pass this stage without any changes!**
{{/lang_is_javascript}}

{{^lang_is_javascript}}
To implement this, you'll need to either use threads, or, if you're feeling
adventurous, an [Event Loop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_loop) (like
the official Redis implementation does).
{{/lang_is_javascript}}

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
$ ./your_program.sh
```

It'll then send two PING commands concurrently using two different connections:

```bash
# These two will be sent concurrently so that we test your server's ability to handle concurrent clients.
$ redis-cli PING
$ redis-cli PING
```

The tester will expect to receive two `+PONG\r\n` responses.

### Notes

- Since the tester client _only_ sends the PING command at the moment, it's okay to
  ignore what the client sends and hardcode a response. We'll get to parsing
  client input in later stages.

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In this stage, you'll add support for multiple concurrent clients to your
Redis server. To achieve this you'll use an [Event
Loop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_loop),
like the official Redis implementation does.

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In this stage, you'll add support for propagating write commands to a single replica as a master.

### Command propagation

After the replication handshake is complete and the master has sent the RDB file to the replica, the
master starts propagating commands to the replica.

When a master receives a "write" command from a client, it propagates the command to the replica. The
replica processes the command and updates its state. More on how this propagation works in the
"Replication connection" section below.

Commands like `PING`, `ECHO` etc. are not considered "write" commands, so they aren't propagated. Commands like
`SET`, `DEL` etc. are considered "write" commands, so they are propagated.

### Replication connection

Command propagation happens over the replication connection. This is the same connection that was used for the handshake.

Propagated commands are sent as RESP arrays. For example, if the master receives `SET foo bar` as a command from a client,
it'll send `*3\r\n$3\r\nSET\r\n$3\r\nfoo\r\n$3\r\nbar\r\n` to all connected replicas over their respective replication connections.

Replicas process commands received over the replication connection just like they would process commands received from a client,
but with one difference: Replicas don't send responses back to the master. They just process the command silently and update their
state.

Similarly, the master doesn't wait for a response from the replica when propagating commands. It just keeps sending commands as they
come in.

There is one exception to this "no response" rule, the `REPLCONF GETACK` command. We'll learn about this in later stages.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```
./your_program.sh --port <PORT>
```

It'll then connect to your TCP server as a replica and execute the following commands:

1. `PING` (expecting `+PONG\r\n` back)
2. `REPLCONF listening-port <PORT>` (expecting `+OK\r\n` back)
3. `REPLCONF capa eof capa psync2` (expecting `+OK\r\n` back)
4. `PSYNC ? -1` (expecting `+FULLRESYNC <REPL_ID> 0\r\n` back)

The tester will then wait for your server to send an RDB file.

Once the RDB file is received, the tester will send series of write commands to your program (as a separate Redis client, not the replica).

```bash
$ redis-cli SET foo 1
$ redis-cli SET bar 2
$ redis-cli SET baz 3
```

It'll then assert that these commands were propagated to the replica, in order. The tester will
expect to receive these commands (encoded as RESP arrays) on the replication connection (the one used for the handshake).

### Notes

- A true implementation would buffer the commands so that they can be sent to the replica after it loads the RDB file. For the
  purposes of this challenge, you can assume that the replica is ready to receive commands immediately after receiving the RDB file.

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In this stage, you'll implement part 1 of the handshake that happens when a replica connects to master.

### Handshake

When a replica connects to a master, it needs to go through a handshake process before receiving updates from the master.

There are three parts to this handshake:

- The replica sends a `PING` to the master (**This stage**)
- The replica sends `REPLCONF` twice to the master (Next stages)
- The replica sends `PSYNC` to the master (Next stages)

We'll learn more about `REPLCONF` and `PSYNC` in later stages. For now, we'll focus on the first part of the handshake: sending `PING` to the master.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```
./your_program.sh --port <PORT> --replicaof "<MASTER_HOST> <MASTER_PORT>"
```

It'll then assert that the replica connects to the master and sends the `PING` command.

### Notes

- The `PING` command should be sent as a RESP Array, like this : `*1\r\n$4\r\nPING\r\n`

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In this stage, you'll add support for reading values that have an expiry set.

The tester will create an RDB file with multiple keys. Some of these keys will have an expiry set, and some won't. The expiry timestamps
will also be random, some will be in the past and some will be in the future.

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
$ ./your_program.sh --dir <dir> --dbfilename <filename>
```

It'll then send multiple `GET <key>` commands to your server.

```bash
$ redis-cli GET "foo"
$ redis-cli GET "bar"
```

When a key has expired, the expected response is `$-1\r\n` (a "null bulk string").

When a key hasn't expired, the expected response is a RESP bulk string with the value corresponding to the key.

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In this stage, you'll extend your implementation to support propagating commands to multiple replicas.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```
./your_program.sh --port <PORT>
```

It'll then start **multiple** replicas that connect to your server and execute the following commands:

1. `PING` (expecting `+PONG\r\n` back)
2. `REPLCONF listening-port <PORT>` (expecting `+OK\r\n` back)
3. `REPLCONF capa psync2` (expecting `+OK\r\n` back)
4. `PSYNC ? -1` (expecting `+FULLRESYNC <REPL_ID> 0\r\n` back)

Each replica will expect to receive an RDB file from the master after the handshake is complete.

It'll then send `SET` commands to the master from a client (a separate Redis client, not the replicas).

```bash
$ redis-cli SET foo 1
$ redis-cli SET bar 2
$ redis-cli SET baz 3
```

It'll then assert that each replica received those commands, in order.

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In this stage, we'll start implementing support for receiving a replication handshake as a master.

### Handshake (continued from previous stage)

We'll now implement the same handshake we did in the previous stages, but on the master instead of the replica.

As a recap, there are three parts to the handshake:

- The master receives a `PING` from the replica
  - Your Redis server already supports the `PING` command, so there's no additional work to do here
- The master receives `REPLCONF` twice from the replica (**This stage**)
- The master receives `PSYNC` from the replica (Next stage)

In this stage, you'll add support for receiving the `REPLCONF` command from the replica.

You'll receive `REPLCONF` twice from the replica. For the purposes of this challenge, you can safely ignore the arguments for both commands and just
respond with `+OK\r\n` ("OK" encoded as a RESP Simple String).

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```
./your_program.sh --port <PORT>
```

It'll then send the following commands:

1. `PING` (expecting `+PONG\r\n` back)
2. `REPLCONF listening-port <PORT>` (expecting `+OK\r\n` back)
3. `REPLCONF capa psync2` (expecting `+OK\r\n` back)

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In the next 3 stages, you will implement the WAIT command on your master.
The WAIT command is used to find out how many replicas a write command was propagated to, with the replica ACKing it back. This way we can know how durable the write was. As we haven't implemented periodic ACKs from the replica, in this stage, for WAIT, the master has to send a GETACK to the replica, if the replica replies back with the proper offset, before the WAIT expires, the master can count that replica's write to be a success.

In this stage you will implement WAIT, when exactly 0 replicas are connected to Master. The Master can just return 0 asap. This way we will gently dive into the implementation.
-->

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```
./your_program.sh
```

A redis client will then connect to your master and send `WAIT 0 60000`:

```bash
$ redis-cli WAIT 0 60000
```

It'll expect to receive `0` back immediately, since no replicas are connected.

### Notes

- You can hardcode `0` as the response for the WAIT command in this stage. We'll get to tracking the number of replicas and responding
  accordingly in the next stages.

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In this stage, you'll add support for reading a single key from an RDB file.

### RDB file format

<details>
  <summary>Click to expand/collapse</summary>
#### RDB file format overview

Here are the different sections of the RDB file, in order:

1.  Header section
2.  Metadata section
3.  Database section
4.  End of file section

RDB files use special encodings to store different types of data. The ones relevant to this stage are "size encoding" and "string encoding." These are explained near the end of this page.

The following breakdown of the RDB file format is based on [Redis RDB File Format](https://rdb.fnordig.de/file_format.html) by Jan-Erik Rediger. We’ve only included the parts that are relevant to this stage.

#### Header section

RDB files begin with a header section, which looks something like this:
```
52 45 44 49 53 30 30 31 31  // Magic string + version number (ASCII): "REDIS0011".
```

The header contains the magic string `REDIS`, followed by a four-character RDB version number. In this challenge, the test RDB files all use version 11. So, the header is always `REDIS0011`.

#### Metadata section

Next is the metadata section. It contains zero or more "metadata subsections," which each specify a single metadata attribute. Here's an example of a metadata subsection that specifies `redis-ver`:
```
FA                             // Indicates the start of a metadata subsection.
09 72 65 64 69 73 2D 76 65 72  // The name of the metadata attribute (string encoded): "redis-ver".
06 36 2E 30 2E 31 36           // The value of the metadata attribute (string encoded): "6.0.16".
```

The metadata name and value are always string encoded.

#### Database section

Next is the database section. It contains zero or more "database subsections," which each describe a single database. Here's an example of a database subsection:
```
FE                       // Indicates the start of a database subsection.
00                       /* The index of the database (size encoded).
                            Here, the index is 0. */

FB                       // Indicates that hash table size information follows.
03                       /* The size of the hash table that stores the keys and values (size encoded).
                            Here, the total key-value hash table size is 3. */
02                       /* The size of the hash table that stores the expires of the keys (size encoded).
                            Here, the number of keys with an expiry is 2. */
```

```
00                       /* The 1-byte flag that specifies the value’s type and encoding.
                            Here, the flag is 0, which means "string." */
06 66 6F 6F 62 61 72     // The name of the key (string encoded). Here, it's "foobar".
06 62 61 7A 71 75 78     // The value (string encoded). Here, it's "bazqux".
```

```
FC                       /* Indicates that this key ("foo") has an expire,
                            and that the expire timestamp is expressed in milliseconds. */
15 72 E7 07 8F 01 00 00  /* The expire timestamp, expressed in Unix time,
                            stored as an 8-byte unsigned long, in little-endian (read right-to-left).
                            Here, the expire timestamp is 1713824559637. */
00                       // Value type is string.
03 66 6F 6F              // Key name is "foo".
03 62 61 72              // Value is "bar".
```

```
FD                       /* Indicates that this key ("baz") has an expire,
                            and that the expire timestamp is expressed in seconds. */
52 ED 2A 66              /* The expire timestamp, expressed in Unix time,
                            stored as an 4-byte unsigned integer, in little-endian (read right-to-left).
                            Here, the expire timestamp is 1714089298. */
00                       // Value type is string.
03 62 61 7A              // Key name is "baz".
03 71 75 78              // Value is "qux".
```

Here's a more formal description of how each key-value pair is stored:

1. Optional expire information (one of the following):
    * Timestamp in seconds:
          1.  `FD`
          2.  Expire timestamp in seconds (4-byte unsigned integer)
    * Timestamp in milliseconds:
          1.  `FC`
          2.  Expire timestamp in milliseconds (8-byte unsigned long)
2. Value type (1-byte flag)
3. Key (string encoded)
4. Value (encoding depends on value type)

#### End of file section

This section marks the end of the file. It looks something like this:
```
FF                       /* Indicates that the file is ending,
                            and that the checksum follows. */
89 3b b7 4e f8 0f 77 19  // An 8-byte CRC64 checksum of the entire file.
```

#### Size encoding

Size-encoded values specify the size of something. Here are some examples:
- The database indexes and hash table sizes are size encoded.
- String encoding begins with a size-encoded value that specifies the number of characters in the string.
- List encoding begins with a size-encoded value that specifies the number of elements in the list.

The first two bits of a size-encoded value indicate how the value should be parsed. Here's a guide (bits are shown in both hexadecimal and binary):
```
/* If the first two bits are 0b00:
   The size is the remaining 6 bits of the byte.
   In this example, the size is 10: */
0A
00001010

/* If the first two bits are 0b01:
   The size is the next 14 bits
   (remaining 6 bits in the first byte, combined with the next byte),
   in big-endian (read left-to-right).
   In this example, the size is 700: */
42 BC
01000010 10111100

/* If the first two bits are 0b10:
   Ignore the remaining 6 bits of the first byte.
   The size is the next 4 bytes, in big-endian (read left-to-right).
   In this example, the size is 17000: */
80 00 00 42 68
10000000 00000000 00000000 01000010 01101000

/* If the first two bits are 0b11:
   The remaining 6 bits specify a type of string encoding.
   See string encoding section. */
```

#### String encoding

A string-encoded value consists of two parts:
1.  The size of the string (size encoded).
2.  The string.

Here's an example:
```
/* The 0x0D size specifies that the string is 13 characters long.
   The remaining characters spell out "Hello, World!". */
0D 48 65 6C 6C 6F 2C 20 57 6F 72 6C 64 21
```

For sizes that begin with `0b11`, the remaining 6 bits indicate a type of string format:
```
/* The 0xC0 size indicates the string is an 8-bit integer.
   In this example, the string is "123". */
C0 7B

/* The 0xC1 size indicates the string is a 16-bit integer.
   The remaining bytes are in little-endian (read right-to-left).
   In this example, the string is "12345". */
C1 39 30

/* The 0xC2 size indicates the string is a 32-bit integer.
   The remaining bytes are in little-endian (read right-to-left),
   In this example, the string is "1234567". */
C2 87 D6 12 00

/* The 0xC3 size indicates that the string is compressed with the LZF algorithm.
   You will not encounter LZF-compressed strings in this challenge. */
C3 ...
```
</details>


### The `KEYS` command
<details>
  <summary>Click to expand/collapse</summary>

The [`KEYS command`](https://redis.io/docs/latest/commands/keys/) returns all the keys that match a given pattern, as a RESP array:
```
$ redis-cli SET foo bar
OK
$ redis-cli SET baz qux
OK
$ redis-cli KEYS "f*"
1) "foo"
```

When the pattern is `*`, the command returns all the keys in the database:
```
$ redis-cli KEYS "*"
1) "baz"
2) "foo"
```

In this stage, you must add support for the `KEYS` command. However, you only need to support the `*` pattern.
</details>

### Tests

The tester will create an RDB file with a single key and execute your program like this:
```
$ ./your_program.sh --dir <dir> --dbfilename <filename>
```

It'll then send a `KEYS "*"` command to your server.
```
$ redis-cli KEYS "*"
```

Your server must respond with a RESP array that contains the key from the RDB file:
```
*1\r\n$3\r\nfoo\r\n
```

### Notes

- The RDB file provided by `--dir` and `--dbfilename` might not exist. If the file doesn't exist, your program must treat the database as empty.
- RDB files use both little-endian and big-endian to store numbers. See the [MDN article on endianness](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Endianness) to learn more.
- To generate an RDB file, use the [`SAVE` command](https://redis.io/docs/latest/commands/save/).

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In this stage, you'll extend your `XADD` command implementation to support auto-generating entry IDs.

### Specifying entry IDs in XADD (Continued...)

As a recap, there are multiple formats in which the ID can be specified in the `XADD` command:

- Explicit ("1526919030474-0") (Previous stages)
- Auto-generate only sequence number ("1526919030473-*") (Previous stages)
- Auto-generate time part and sequence number ("*") (**This stage**)

We'll now handle the third case.

When `*` is used with the `XADD` command, Redis auto-generates a unique auto-incrementing ID for the message being appended to the stream.

Redis defaults to using the current unix time in milliseconds for the time part and 0 for the sequence number. If the
time already exists in the stream, the sequence number for that record incremented by one will be used.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
$ ./your_program.sh
```

It'll then create an entry with `*` as the ID.

```bash
$ redis-cli XADD stream_key * foo bar
```

Your server should respond with a string like `$15\r\n1526919030474-0\r\n`, which is `1526919030474-0` encoded as a RESP bulk string.

### Notes

- The time part of the ID should be the current unix time in **milliseconds**, not seconds.
- The tester doesn't test the case where a time part already exists in the stream and the sequence
  number is incremented. This is difficult to test reliably since we'd need to send 2 commands within the same millisecond.

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In this stage you'll implement support for responding to the `REPLCONF GETACK` command as a replica.

### ACKs

<details>
  <summary>Click to expand/collapse</summary>

  Unlike regular commands, when a master forwards commands to a replica via the replication connection, the replica doesn't
  respond to each command. It just silently processes the commands and updates its state.

  Since the master doesn't receive a response for each command, it needs another way to keep track of whether a replica is "in sync".
  That's what ACKs are for.

  ACK is short for "acknowledgement". Redis masters periodically ask replicas to send ACKs.

  Each ACK contains an "offset", which is the number of bytes of commands processed by the replica.

  We'll learn about how this offset is calculated and used in later stages. In this stage, we'll focus on implementing the
  mechanism through which a master asks for an ACK from a replica: the `REPLCONF GETACK` command.
</details>

### The `REPLCONF GETACK` command

<details>
  <summary>Click to expand/collapse</summary>

  When a master requires an ACK from a replica, it sends a `REPLCONF GETACK *` command to the replica. This is sent over
  the replication connection (i.e. the connection that remains after the replication handshake is complete).

  When the replica receives this command, it responds with a `REPLCONF ACK <offset>` response. The offset is the
  number of bytes of commands processed by the replica. It starts at 0 and is incremented for every command processed by the replica.

  In this stage, you'll implement support for receiving the `REPLCONF GETACK *` command and responding with `REPLCONF ACK 0`.

  You can hardcode the offset to 0 for now. We'll implement proper offset tracking in the next stage.

  The exact command received by the replica will look something like this: `*3\r\n$8\r\nreplconf\r\n$6\r\ngetack\r\n$1\r\n*\r\n` (that's
  `["replconf", "getack", "*"]` encoded as a [RESP Array](https://redis.io/docs/reference/protocol-spec/#arrays)).
</details>

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```
./your_program.sh --port <PORT> --replicaof "<HOST> <PORT>"
```

Just like in the previous stages, your replica should complete the handshake with the master and receive an empty RDB file.

The master will then send `REPLCONF GETACK *` to your replica. It'll expect to receive `REPLCONF ACK 0` as a reply.

### Notes

- The response should be encoded as a [RESP Array](https://redis.io/docs/reference/protocol-spec/#arrays), like
  this: `*3\r\n$8\r\nREPLCONF\r\n$3\r\nACK\r\n$1\r\n0\r\n`.
- We'll implement proper offset tracking in the next stage, for now you can hardcode the offset to 0.
- After the master-replica handshake is complete, a replica should **only** send responses to `REPLCONF GETACK` commands. All
  other propagated commands (like `PING`, `SET` etc.) should be read and processed, but a response should not be sent back to the master.

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In this stage, you'll implement part 2 of the handshake that happens when a replica connects to master.

### Handshake (continued from previous stage)

As a recap, there are three parts to the handshake:

- The replica sends a `PING` to the master (Previous stage)
- The replica sends `REPLCONF` twice to the master (**This stage**)
- The replica sends `PSYNC` to the master (Next stage)

After receiving a response to `PING`, the replica then sends 2 [REPLCONF](https://redis.io/commands/replconf/) commands to the master.

The `REPLCONF` command is used to configure replication. Replicas will send this command to the master twice:

- The first time, it'll be sent like this: `REPLCONF listening-port <PORT>`
  - This is the replica notifying the master of the port it's listening on
- The second time, it'll be sent like this: `REPLCONF capa psync2`
  - This is the replica notifying the master of its capabilities ("capa" is short for "capabilities")
  - You can safely hardcode these capabilities for now, we won't need to use them in this challenge.

These commands should be sent as RESP Arrays, so the exact bytes will look something like this:

```
# REPLCONF listening-port <PORT>
*3\r\n$8\r\nREPLCONF\r\n$14\r\nlistening-port\r\n$4\r\n6380\r\n

# REPLCONF capa psync2
*3\r\n$8\r\nREPLCONF\r\n$4\r\ncapa\r\n$6\r\npsync2\r\n
```

For both commands, the master will respond with `+OK\r\n` ("OK" encoded as a RESP Simple String).

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```
./your_program.sh --port <PORT> --replicaof "<MASTER_HOST> <MASTER_PORT>"
```

It'll then assert that the replica connects to the master and:

- **(a)** sends the `PING` command
- **(b)** sends the `REPLCONF` command with `listening-port` and `<PORT>` as arguments
- **(c)** sends the `REPLCONF` command with `capa psync2` as arguments

**Notes**

- The response to `REPLCONF` will always be `+OK\r\n` ("OK" encoded as a RESP Simple String)

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In this stage, you'll add support for the `INCR` command.

### The INCR command

The [INCR](https://redis.io/docs/latest/commands/incr/) command is used to increment the value of a key by 1.

Example usage:

```bash
$ redis-cli SET foo 5
"OK"
$ redis-cli INCR foo
(integer) 6
$ redis-cli INCR foo
(integer) 7
```

If the key doesn't exist, the value will be set to 1.

We'll split the implementation of this command into three stages:

- Key exists and has a numerical value (**This stage**)
- Key doesn't exist (later stages)
- Key exists but doesn't have a numerical value (later stages)

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
$ ./your_program.sh
```

The tester will then connect to your server as a Redis client and run the following commands:

```bash
$ redis-cli
> SET foo 41 (expecting "+OK" as the response)
> INCR foo (expecting ":42\r\n" as the response)
```

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In this stage, you'll extend your `INFO` command to return two additional values: `master_replid` and `master_repl_offset`.

### The replication ID and offset

Every Redis master has a replication ID: it is a large pseudo random string. This is set when the master is booted. Every time
a master instance restarts from scratch, its replication ID is reset.

Each master also maintains a "replication offset" corresponding to how many bytes of commands have been added to the replication
stream. We'll learn more about this offset in later stages. For now, just know that the value starts from `0` when a master is
booted and no replicas have connected yet.

In this stage, you'll initialize a replication ID and offset for your master:

- The ID can be any pseudo random alphanumeric string of 40 characters.
  - For the purposes of this challenge, you don't need to actually generate a random string, you can hardcode it instead.
  - As an example, you can hardcode `8371b4fb1155b71f4a04d3e1bc3e18c4a990aeeb` as the replication ID.
- The offset is to be 0.

These two values should be returned as part of the INFO command output, under the `master_replid` and `master_repl_offset` keys respectively.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```
./your_program.sh
```

It'll then send the `INFO` command with `replication` as an argument to your server.

```bash
$ redis-cli INFO replication
```

Your program should respond with a [Bulk string](https://redis.io/docs/reference/protocol-spec/#bulk-strings) where each line
is a key value pair separated by `:`. The tester will look for the following keys:

- `master_replid`, which should be a 40 character alphanumeric string
- `master_repl_offset`, which should be `0`

### Notes

- Your code should still pass the previous stage tests, so the `role` key still needs to be returned

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In this stage, you'll extend support to `XREAD` to allow for passing in `$` as the ID for a blocking command.

### Understanding $

Using `$` as the ID passed to a blocking `XREAD` command signals that we only want new entries. This is similar to passing in the maximum ID we currently have in the stream.

Here's how it works.

Let's use the entries previously shown as an example.

```yaml
entries:
  - id: 1526985054069-0 # (ID of the first entry)
    temperature: 36 # (A key value pair in the first entry)
    humidity: 95 # (Another key value pair in the first entry)

  - id: 1526985054079-0 # (ID of the second entry)
    temperature: 37 # (A key value pair in the first entry)
    humidity: 94 # (Another key value pair in the first entry)

  # ... (and so on)
```

On one instance of the redis-cli, we'd add an entry and send a blocking `XREAD` command with `1000` as the time passed in and `$` as the id passed in.

```bash
$ redis-cli XADD some_key 1526985054069-0 temperature 36 humidity 95
"1526985054069-0"
$ redis-cli XREAD block 1000 streams some_key $
```

Then, on another instance of the redis-cli, we add another entry.

```bash
$ other-redis-cli XADD some_key 1526985054079-0 temperature 37 humidity 94
"1526985054079-0"
```

Similar to the behavior detailed in the earlier stages, if the command was sent within 1000 milliseconds, the redis-cli will respond with the new entry.

```bash
$ redis-cli XADD some_key 1526985054069-0 temperature 36 humidity 95
"1526985054069-0"
$ redis-cli XREAD block 1000 streams some_key 1526985054069-0
1) 1) "some_key"
   2) 1) 1) 1526985054079-0
         2) 1) temperature
            2) 37
            3) humidity
            4) 94
```

If not, the return type would still be a null representation of a bulk string.

```bash
$ redis-cli XADD some_key 1526985054069-0 temperature 36 humidity 95
"1526985054069-0"
$ redis-cli XREAD block 1000 streams some_key 1526985054069-0
(nil)
```

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
$ ./your_program.sh
```

First, an entry will be added to a stream.

```bash
$ redis-cli XADD stream_key 0-1 temperature 96
```

It'll then send an `XREAD` command to your server with the `BLOCK` command with `0` as the time and `$` as the ID.

```bash
$ redis-cli XREAD block 0 streams stream_key $
```

On another instance of the redis-cli, another entry will be added in 500 milliseconds after sending the `XREAD` command.

```bash
$ redis-cli XADD stream_key 0-2 temperature 95
```

Your server should respond with the following:

```text
*1\r\n
*2\r\n
$10\r\stream_key\r\n
*1\r\n
*2\r\n
$3\r\n0-2\r\n
*2\r\n
$11\r\ntemperature\r\n
$2\r\n96\r\n
```

This is the RESP encoded representation of the following.

```json
[
  [
    "stream_key",
    [
      "0-2",
      [
        "temperature",
        "95"
      ]
    ]
  ]
]
```

It'll send another `XREAD` command to your server with the `BLOCK` command but this time, it'll wait for 2000 milliseconds before checking the response of your server.

```bash
$ redis-cli XREAD block 1000 streams stream_key $
```

Your server should respond with `$-1\r\n` which is a `null` representation of a RESP bulk string.

### Notes
- In the response, the items are separated onto new lines for readability. The tester expects all of these to be in one line.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll add extend support to `XREAD` to allow for passing in `$` as the ID for a blocking command.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for handling the `INCR` command when a key does not exist.

### Recap

The implementation of [`INCR`](https://redis.io/docs/latest/commands/incr/) is split into three stages:

- Key exists and has a numerical value (previous stages)
- Key doesn't exist (**This stage**)
- Key exists but doesn't have a numerical value (later stages)

When a key doesn't exist, `INCR` sets the value to 1. Example:

```bash
$ redis-cli INCR missing_key
(integer) 1
$ redis-cli GET missing_key
"1"
```

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
$ ./your_program.sh
```

The tester will then connect to your server as a Redis client and run the following commands:

```bash
$ redis-cli
> INCR foo (expecting ":1\r\n" as the response)
> INCR bar (expecting ":1\r\n" as the response)
```

### Notes

- Your implementation still needs to pass the tests in the previous stage.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll continue implementing the INCR command.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support to querying a stream using the `XREAD` command.

### The XREAD command

[XREAD](https://redis.io/commands/xread/) is used to read data from one or more streams, starting from a specified entry ID.

Here's how it works.

Let's use the entries previously shown as an example.

```yaml
entries:
  - id: 1526985054069-0 # (ID of the first entry)
    temperature: 36 # (A key value pair in the first entry)
    humidity: 95 # (Another key value pair in the first entry)

  - id: 1526985054079-0 # (ID of the second entry)
    temperature: 37 # (A key value pair in the first entry)
    humidity: 94 # (Another key value pair in the first entry)

  # ... (and so on)
```

```bash
$ redis-cli XADD some_key 1526985054069-0 temperature 36 humidity 95
"1526985054069-0"
$ redis-cli XADD some_key 1526985054079-0 temperature 37 humidity 94
"1526985054079-0"
$ redis-cli XREAD streams some_key 1526985054069-0
1) 1) "some_key"
   2) 1) 1) 1526985054079-0
         2) 1) temperature
            2) 37
            3) humidity
            4) 94
```

`XREAD` is somewhat similar to `XRANGE`. The primary difference is that `XREAD` only takes a single argument and not a start-end pair.

Another difference is that `XREAD` is exclusive. This means that only entries with the ID greater than what was provided will be included in the response.

Another difference is the return type. `XREAD` returns an array where each element is an array composed of two elements, which are the ID and the list of fields and values.

Here's what the response in the example above actually looks like:

```json
[
  [
    "some_key",
    [
      [
        "1526985054079-0",
        [
          "temperature",
          "37",
          "humidity",
          "94"
        ]
      ]
    ]
  ]
]
```

When encoded as RESP, it looks like this:

```text
*1\r\n
*2\r\n
$8\r\nsome_key\r\n
*1\r\n
*2\r\n
$15\r\n1526985054079-0\r\n
*4\r\n
$11\r\ntemperature\r\n
$2\r\n37\r\n
$8\r\nhumidity\r\n
$2\r\n94\r\n
```

The lines are separated into new lines for readability. The return value is just one line.

`XREAD` supports other optional arguments, but we won't deal with them right now.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
$ ./your_program.sh
```

First, an entry will be added.

```bash
$ redis-cli XADD stream_key 0-1 temperature 96
```

It'll then send an `XREAD` command to your server.

```bash
$ redis-cli XREAD streams stream_key 0-0
```

Your server should respond with the following:

```text
*1\r\n
*2\r\n
$10\r\nstream_key\r\n
*1\r\n
*2\r\n
$3\r\n0-1\r\n
*2\r\n
$11\r\ntemperature\r\n
$2\r\n96\r\n
```

This is the RESP encoded representation of the following.

```json
[
  [
    "stream_key",
    [
      [
        "0-1",
        [
          "temperature",
          "96"
        ]
      ]
    ]
  ]
]
```

### Notes
- In the response, the items are separated onto new lines for readability. The tester expects all of these to be in one line.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
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**🚧 We're still working on instructions for this stage**. You can find notes on how the tester works below.

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(The replicas will finish the sync handshake with Master, and process any commands you send it, but they WON'T send periodic ACKs, so you need to basically send a REPLCONF GETACK to get their current offset. )
-->

### Tests

The tester will execute your program as a master like this:

```
./your_program.sh
```

It'll then start **multiple** replicas that connect to your server. Each will complete the handshake and expect to receive an empty RDB file.

The tester will then connect to your master as a Redis client (not one of the replicas) and send multiple write commands interleaved
with `WAIT` commands:

```bash
$ redis-cli SET foo 123
$ redis-cli WAIT 1 500 # (must wait until either 1 replica has processed previous commands or 500ms have passed)

$ redis-cli SET bar 456
$ redis-cli WAIT 2 500 # (must wait until either 2 replicas have processed previous commands or 500ms have passed)
```

### Notes

- The `WAIT` command should return when either (a) the specified number of replicas have acknowledged the command, or (b) the timeout expires.
- The `WAIT` command should always return the number of replicas that have acknowledged the command, even if the timeout expires.
- The returned number of replicas might be lesser than or greater than the expected number of replicas specified in the `WAIT` command.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll finish implementing the WAIT command on your master.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for handling the `INCR` command when a key exists but doesn't have a numerical value.

### Recap

The implementation of [`INCR`](https://redis.io/docs/latest/commands/incr/) is split into three stages:

- Key exists and has a numerical value (previous stages)
- Key doesn't exist (previous stages)
- Key exists but doesn't have a numerical value (**This stage**)

When a key exists but doesn't have a numerical value, `INCR` will return an error. Example:

```bash
$ redis-cli SET foo xyz
"OK"
$ redis-cli INCR foo
(error) ERR value is not an integer or out of range
```

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
$ ./your_program.sh
```

The tester will then connect to your server as a Redis client and run the following commands:

```bash
$ redis-cli
> SET foo xyz (expecting "+OK\r\n" as the response)
> INCR foo (expecting "-ERR value is not an integer or out of range\r\n" as the response)
```

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll finish implementing the INCR command.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll implement part 3 of the handshake that happens when a replica connects to master.

### Handshake (continued from previous stage)

As a recap, there are three parts to the handshake:

- The replica sends a `PING` to the master (Previous stages)
- The replica sends `REPLCONF` twice to the master (Previous stages)
- The replica sends `PSYNC` to the master (**This stage**)

After receiving a response to the second `REPLCONF`, the replica then sends a [PSYNC](https://redis.io/commands/psync/) command to the master.

The `PSYNC` command is used to synchronize the state of the replica with the master. The replica will send this command to the master with two arguments:

- The first argument is the replication ID of the master
  - Since this is the first time the replica is connecting to the master, the replication ID will be `?` (a question mark)
- The second argument is the offset of the master
  - Since this is the first time the replica is connecting to the master, the offset will be `-1`

So the final command sent will be `PSYNC ? -1`.

This should be sent as a RESP Array, so the exact bytes will look something like this:

```
*3\r\n$5\r\nPSYNC\r\n$1\r\n?\r\n$2\r\n-1\r\n
```

The master will respond with a [Simple string](https://redis.io/docs/reference/protocol-spec/#simple-strings) that looks like this:

```
+FULLRESYNC <REPL_ID> 0\r\n
```

You can ignore the response for now, we'll get to handling it in later stages.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```
./your_program.sh --port <PORT> --replicaof "<MASTER_HOST> <MASTER_PORT>"
```

It'll then assert that the replica connects to the master and:

- **(a)** sends `PING` command
- **(b)** sends `REPLCONF listening-port <PORT>`
- **(c)** sends `REPLCONF capa eof capa psync2`
- **(d)** sends `PSYNC ? -1`

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll add support for finishing the handshake from the Replica side, by sending PSYNC.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for the [SET](https://redis.io/commands/set) &
[GET](https://redis.io/commands/get) commands.

The `SET` command is used to set a key to a value. The `GET` command is used to retrieve the value of a key.

```bash
$ redis-cli SET foo bar
OK
$ redis-cli GET foo
bar
```

The `SET` command supports a number of extra options like `EX` (expiry time in seconds), `PX` (expiry time in milliseconds) and more. We
won't cover these extra options in this stage. We'll get to them in later stages.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
./your_program.sh
```

It'll then send a `SET` command to your server:

```bash
$ redis-cli SET foo bar
```

The tester will expect to receive `+OK\r\n` as a response (that's the string `OK` encoded as a [RESP simple string](https://redis.io/docs/reference/protocol-spec/#resp-simple-strings)).

This command will be followed by a `GET` command:

```bash
$ redis-cli GET foo
```

The tester will expect to receive `$3\r\nbar\r\n` as a response (that's the string `bar` encoded as a [RESP bulk string](https://redis.io/docs/reference/protocol-spec/#bulk-strings).

### Notes

- If you implemented a proper Redis protocol parser in the previous stage, you should be able to reuse it in this stage.
- Just like the previous stage, the values used for keys and values will be random, so you won't be able to hardcode the response to pass this stage.
- If a key doesn't exist, the `GET` command should return a "null bulk string" (`$-1\r\n`). We won't explicitly test this in this stage, but you'll need it for the next stage (expiry).

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll need to implement the
[SET](https://redis.io/commands/set) &
[GET](https://redis.io/commands/get) commands.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for setting a key with an expiry.

The expiry for a key can be provided using the "PX" argument to the [SET](https://redis.io/commands/set) command. The expiry is provided in milliseconds.

```bash
$ redis-cli SET foo bar px 100 # Sets the key "foo" to "bar" with an expiry of 100 milliseconds
OK
```

After the key has expired, a `GET` command for that key should return a "null bulk string" (`$-1\r\n`).

{{#lang_is_haskell}}
The [time](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/time) package is available
to use as a dependency.
{{/lang_is_haskell}}

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
$ ./your_program.sh
```

It'll then send a `SET` command to your server to set a key with an expiry:

```bash
$ redis-cli SET foo bar px 100
```

It'll then immediately send a `GET` command to retrieve the value:

```bash
$ redis-cli GET foo
```

It'll expect the response to be `bar` (encoded as a RESP bulk string).

It'll then wait for the key to expire and send another `GET` command:

```bash
$ sleep 0.2 && redis-cli GET foo
```

It'll expect the response to be `$-1\r\n` (a "null bulk string").

### Notes

- Just like command names, command arguments are also case-insensitive. So `PX`, `px` and `pX` are all valid.
- The keys, values and expiry times used in the tests will be random, so you won't be able to hardcode a response to pass this stage.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll add support for setting a key with an expiry. The
expiry is provided using the "PX" argument to the
[SET](https://redis.io/commands/set) command.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for the [ECHO](https://redis.io/commands/echo) command.

`ECHO` is a command like `PING` that's used for testing and debugging. It accepts a single argument and returns it back as a
RESP bulk string.

```bash
$ redis-cli PING # The command you implemented in previous stages
PONG
$ redis-cli ECHO hey # The command you'll implement in this stage
hey
```

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
$ ./your_program.sh
```

It'll then send an `ECHO` command with an argument to your server:

```bash
$ redis-cli ECHO hey
```

The tester will expect to receive `$3\r\nhey\r\n` as a response (that's the string `hey` encoded as a [RESP bulk string](https://redis.io/docs/reference/protocol-spec/#bulk-strings).

### Notes

- We suggest that you implement a proper Redis protocol parser in this stage. It'll come in handy in later stages.
- Redis command names are case-insensitive, so `ECHO`, `echo` and `EcHo` are all valid commands.
- The tester will send a random string as an argument to the `ECHO` command, so you won't be able to hardcode the response to pass this stage.
- The exact bytes your program will receive won't be just `ECHO hey`, you'll receive something like this: `*2\r\n$4\r\nECHO\r\n$3\r\nhey\r\n`. That's
  `["ECHO", "hey"]` encoded using the [Redis protocol](https://redis.io/docs/reference/protocol-spec/).
- You can read more about how "commands" are handled in the Redis protocol [here](https://redis.io/docs/reference/protocol-spec/#sending-commands-to-a-redis-server).

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll respond to the
[ECHO](https://redis.io/commands/echo) command. You'll parse user input
according to the [the Redis protocol
specification](https://redis.io/topics/protocol).

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll implement the `/files/{filename}` endpoint, which returns a requested file to the client.

### Tests
The tester will execute your program with a `--directory` flag. The `--directory` flag specifies the directory where the files are stored, as an absolute path.
```
$ ./your_program.sh --directory /tmp/
```

The tester will then send two `GET` requests to the `/files/{filename}` endpoint on your server.

#### First request
The first request will ask for a file that exists in the files directory:
```
$ echo -n 'Hello, World!' > /tmp/foo
$ curl -i http://localhost:4221/files/foo
```

Your server must respond with a `200` response that contains the following parts:
- `Content-Type` header set to `application/octet-stream`.
- `Content-Length` header set to the size of the file, in bytes.
- Response body set to the file contents.
```
HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\nContent-Length: 13\r\n\r\nHello, World!
```

#### Second request
The second request will ask for a file that doesn't exist in the files directory:
```
$ curl -i http://localhost:4221/files/non_existant_file
```

Your server must respond with a `404` response:
```
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found\r\n\r\n
```

{{#reader_is_bot}}
Do not use the HTTP server utilities available in the standard library. Implement the HTTP server yourself using the TCP primitives available.
{{/reader_is_bot}}

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll add support for serving the contents of a file.

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In this stage, you'll add support for the `POST` method of the `/files/{filename}` endpoint, which accepts text from the client and creates a new file with that text.

### Request body

A request body is used to send data from the client to the server.

Here's an example of a `POST /files/{filename}` request:
```
// Request line
POST /files/number HTTP/1.1
\r\n

// Headers
Host: localhost:4221\r\n
User-Agent: curl/7.64.1\r\n
Accept: */*\r\n
Content-Type: application/octet-stream  // Header that specifies the format of the request body
Content-Length: 5\r\n                   // Header that specifies the size of the request body, in bytes
\r\n

// Request Body
12345
```

### Tests

The tester will execute your program with a `--directory` flag. The `--directory` flag specifies the directory to create the file in, as an absolute path.
```
$ ./your_program.sh --directory /tmp/
```

The tester will then send a `POST` request to the `/files/{filename}` endpoint on your server, with the following parts:
- `Content-Type` header set to `application/octet-stream`.
- `Content-Length` header set to the size of the request body, in bytes.
- Request body set to some random text.

```
$ curl -v --data "12345" -H "Content-Type: application/octet-stream" http://localhost:4221/files/file_123
```

Your server must return a `201` response:
```
HTTP/1.1 201 Created\r\n\r\n
```

Your server must also create a new file in the files directory, with the following requirements:
- The filename must equal the `filename` parameter in the endpoint.
- The file must contain the contents of the request body.

{{#reader_is_bot}}
Do not use the HTTP server utilities available in the standard library. Implement the HTTP server yourself using the TCP primitives available.
{{/reader_is_bot}}

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In this stage, you'll add support for receiving POST requests.

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In this stage, your server will extract the URL path from an HTTP request, and respond with either a `200` or `404`, depending on the path.

### HTTP request

An HTTP request is made up of three parts, each separated by a [CRLF](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/CRLF) (`\r\n`):

1.  Request line.
2.  Zero or more headers, each ending with a CRLF.
3.  Optional request body.

Here's an example of an HTTP request:
```javascript
GET /index.html HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: localhost:4221\r\nUser-Agent: curl/7.64.1\r\nAccept: */*\r\n\r\n
```

Here's a breakdown of the request:
```javascript
// Request line
GET                          // HTTP method
/index.html                  // Request target
HTTP/1.1                     // HTTP version
\r\n                         // CRLF that marks the end of the request line

// Headers
Host: localhost:4221\r\n     // Header that specifies the server's host and port
User-Agent: curl/7.64.1\r\n  // Header that describes the client's user agent
Accept: */*\r\n              // Header that specifies which media types the client can accept
\r\n                         // CRLF that marks the end of the headers

// Request body (empty)
```

The "request target" specifies the URL path for this request. In this example, the URL path is `/index.html`.

Note that each header ends in a CRLF, and the entire header section also ends in a CRLF.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:
```bash
$ ./your_program.sh
```

The tester will then send two HTTP requests to your server.

First, the tester will send a `GET` request, with a random string as the path:
```bash
$ curl -v http://localhost:4221/abcdefg
```

Your server must respond to this request with a `404` response:
```javascript
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found\r\n\r\n
```

Then, the tester will send a `GET` request, with the path `/`:
```bash
$ curl -v http://localhost:4221
```

Your server must respond to this request with a `200` response:
```javascript
HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n\r\n
```

### Notes

- You can ignore the headers for now. You'll learn about parsing headers in a later stage.
- In this stage, the request target is written as a URL path. But the request target actually has [four possible formats](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9112#section-3.2). The URL path format is called the "origin form," and it's the most commonly used format. The other formats are used for more niche scenarios, like sending a request through a proxy.
- For more information about HTTP requests, see the [MDN Web Docs on HTTP requests](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Messages#http_requests) or the [HTTP/1.1 specification](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9112#name-message).

{{#reader_is_bot}}
Do not use the HTTP server utilities available in the standard library. Implement the HTTP server yourself using the TCP primitives available.
{{/reader_is_bot}}

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll add support for returning a 404 response if a path isn't valid.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll create a TCP server that listens on port 4221.

[TCP](https://www.cloudflare.com/en-ca/learning/ddos/glossary/tcp-ip/) is the underlying protocol used by HTTP servers.


### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh
```

Then, the tester will try to connect to your server on port 4221. The connection must succeed for you to pass this stage.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll build a TCP server that listens on port 4221.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll implement the `/echo/{str}` endpoint, which accepts a string and returns it in the response body.

### Response body

A response body is used to return content to the client. This content may be an entire web page, a file, a string, or anything else that can be represented with bytes.

Your `/echo/{str}` endpoint must return a `200` response, with the response body set to given string, and with a `Content-Type` and `Content-Length` header.

Here's an example of an `/echo/{str}` request:
```javascript
GET /echo/abc HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: localhost:4221\r\nUser-Agent: curl/7.64.1\r\nAccept: */*\r\n\r\n
```

And here's the expected response:
```javascript
HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nContent-Type: text/plain\r\nContent-Length: 3\r\n\r\nabc
```

Here's a breakdown of the response:
```javascript
// Status line
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
\r\n                          // CRLF that marks the end of the status line

// Headers
Content-Type: text/plain\r\n  // Header that specifies the format of the response body
Content-Length: 3\r\n         // Header that specifies the size of the response body, in bytes
\r\n                          // CRLF that marks the end of the headers

// Response body
abc                           // The string from the request
```

The two headers are required for the client to be able to parse the response body. Note that each header ends in a CRLF, and the entire header section also ends in a CRLF.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:
```bash
$ ./your_program.sh
```

The tester will then send a `GET` request to the `/echo/{str}` endpoint on your server, with some random string.
```bash
$ curl -v http://localhost:4221/echo/abc
```

Your server must respond with a `200` response that contains the following parts:
- `Content-Type` header set to `text/plain`.
- `Content-Length` header set to the length of the given string.
- Response body set to the given string.
```javascript
HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nContent-Type: text/plain\r\nContent-Length: 3\r\n\r\nabc
```

### Notes
- For more information about HTTP responses, see the [MDN Web Docs on HTTP responses](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Messages#http_responses) or the [HTTP/1.1 specification](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9112#name-message).

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In this stage, you'll add support for responding with a custom body in your HTTP response.

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In this stage, your server will respond to an HTTP request with a `200` response.

### HTTP response

An HTTP response is made up of three parts, each separated by a [CRLF](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/CRLF) (`\r\n`):
1.  Status line.
2.  Zero or more headers, each ending with a CRLF.
3.  Optional response body.

In this stage, your server's response will only contain a status line. Here's the response your server must send:
```javascript
HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n\r\n
```

Here's a breakdown of the response:
```javascript
// Status line
HTTP/1.1  // HTTP version
200       // Status code
OK        // Optional reason phrase
\r\n      // CRLF that marks the end of the status line

// Headers (empty)
\r\n      // CRLF that marks the end of the headers

// Response body (empty)
```

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:
```bash
$ ./your_program.sh
```

The tester will then send an HTTP `GET` request to your server:
```bash
$ curl -v http://localhost:4221
```

Your server must respond to the request with the following response:
```javascript
HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n\r\n
```

### Notes

- You can ignore the contents of the request. We'll cover parsing requests in later stages.
- For more information about HTTP responses, see the [MDN Web Docs on HTTP responses](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Messages#http_responses) or the [HTTP/1.1 specification](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9112#name-message).
- This challenge uses HTTP/1.1.

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In this stage, you'll extend your TCP server to respond to a HTTP request with a 200 response.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll implement the `/user-agent` endpoint, which reads the `User-Agent` request header and returns it in the response body.

### The `User-Agent` header

The [`User-Agent`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/User-Agent) header describes the client's user agent.

Your `/user-agent` endpoint must read the `User-Agent` header, and return it in your response body. Here's an example of a `/user-agent` request:
```javascript
// Request line
GET
/user-agent
HTTP/1.1
\r\n

// Headers
Host: localhost:4221\r\n
User-Agent: foobar/1.2.3\r\n  // Read this value
Accept: */*\r\n
\r\n

// Request body (empty)
```

Here is the expected response:
```javascript
// Status line
HTTP/1.1 200 OK               // Status code must be 200
\r\n

// Headers
Content-Type: text/plain\r\n
Content-Length: 12\r\n
\r\n

// Response body
foobar/1.2.3                  // The value of `User-Agent`
```

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:
```bash
$ ./your_program.sh
```

The tester will then send a `GET` request to the `/user-agent` endpoint on your server. The request will have a `User-Agent` header.
```bash
$ curl -v --header "User-Agent: foobar/1.2.3" http://localhost:4221/user-agent
```

Your server must respond with a `200` response that contains the following parts:
- `Content-Type` header set to `text/plain`.
- `Content-Length` header set to the length of the `User-Agent` value.
- Message body set to the `User-Agent` value.
```javascript
HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nContent-Type: text/plain\r\nContent-Length: 12\r\n\r\nfoobar/1.2.3
```

### Notes
- Header names are [case-insensitive](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9112#name-field-syntax).

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In this stage, you'll add support for parsing HTTP request headers.

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In this stage, you'll add support for `Accept-Encoding` headers that contain multiple compression schemes.

### Multiple compression schemes

A client can specify that it supports multiple compression schemes by setting `Accept-Encoding` to a comma-separated list:
```
Accept-Encoding: encoding-1, encoding-2, encoding-3
```

For this extension, assume that your server only supports the `gzip` compression scheme.

For this stage, you don't need to compress the body. You'll implement compression in a later stage.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:
```
$ ./your_program.sh
```

The tester will then send two `GET` requests to the `/echo/{str}` endpoint on your server.

#### First request

For the first request, the `Accept-Encoding` header will contain `gzip`, along with some invalid encodings:
```
$ curl -v -H "Accept-Encoding: invalid-encoding-1, gzip, invalid-encoding-2" http://localhost:4221/echo/abc
```

Your server's response must contain this header: `Content-Encoding: gzip`.
```javascript
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Encoding: gzip

// Body omitted.
```

#### Second request

For the second request, the `Accept-Encoding` header will only contain invalid encodings:
```
$ curl -v -H "Accept-Encoding: invalid-encoding-1, invalid-encoding-2" http://localhost:4221/echo/abc
```

Your server's response must not contain a `Content-Encoding` header:
```javascript
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/plain

// Body omitted.
```

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll add support for reading multiple compression values from `Accept-Encoding` header sent by clients, and respond with `Content-Encoding` header in your response.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for [`gzip` compression](https://www.gzip.org/) to your HTTP server.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:
```
$ ./your_program.sh
```

Then, the tester will send a `GET` request to the `/echo/{str}` endpoint on your server. The request will contain an `Accept-Encoding` header that includes `gzip`.
```
$ curl -v -H "Accept-Encoding: gzip" http://localhost:4221/echo/abc | hexdump -C
```

Your server's response must contain the following:
- `200` response code.
- `Content-Type` header set to `text/plain`.
- `Content-Encoding` header set to `gzip`.
- `Content-Length` header set to the size of the compressed body.
- Response body set to the `gzip`-compressed `str` parameter.

```
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Length: 23

1F 8B 08 00 00 00 00 00  // Hexadecimal representation of the response body
00 03 4B 4C 4A 06 00 C2
41 24 35 03 00 00 00
```

### Notes

- To check that your compressed body is correct, you can run `echo -n <uncompressed-str> | gzip | hexdump -C`.
- It's normal for a very short string like `abc` to increase in size when compressed.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll add support for encoding the response body using `gzip`.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
Welcome to the HTTP Compression extension! In this extension, you'll add support for [compression](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_compression) to your HTTP server.

In this stage, you'll add support for the `Accept-Encoding` and `Content-Encoding` headers.

### `Accept-Encoding` and `Content-Encoding`

An HTTP client uses the `Accept-Encoding` header to specify the compression schemes it supports. In the following example, the client specifies that it supports the `gzip` compression scheme:
```
> GET /echo/foo HTTP/1.1
> Host: localhost:4221
> User-Agent: curl/7.81.0
> Accept: */*
> Accept-Encoding: gzip  // Client specifies it supports the gzip compression scheme.
```

The server then chooses one of the compression schemes listed in `Accept-Encoding` and compresses the response body with it.

Then, the server sends a response with the compressed body and a `Content-Encoding` header. `Content-Encoding` specifies the compression scheme that was used.

In the following example, the response body is compressed with `gzip`:
```
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Content-Encoding: gzip    // Server specifies that the response body is compressed with gzip.
< Content-Type: text/plain  // Original media type of the body.
< Content-Length: 23        // Size of the compressed body.
< ...                       // Compressed body.
```

If the server doesn't support any of the compression schemes specified by the client, then it will not compress the response body. Instead, it will send a standard response and omit the `Content-Encoding` header.

For this extension, assume that your server only supports the `gzip` compression scheme.

For this stage, you don't need to compress the body. You'll implement compression in a later stage.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:
```
$ ./your_program.sh
```

The tester will then send two `GET` requests to the `/echo/{str}` endpoint on your server.

#### First request

First, the tester will send a request with this header: `Accept-Encoding: gzip`.
```
$ curl -v -H "Accept-Encoding: gzip" http://localhost:4221/echo/abc
```

Your server's response must contain this header: `Content-Encoding: gzip`.
```
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Encoding: gzip

...  // Body omitted.
```

#### Second request

Next, the tester will send a request with this header: `Accept-Encoding: invalid-encoding`.
```
$ curl -v -H "Accept-Encoding: invalid-encoding" http://localhost:4221/echo/abc
```

Your server's response must not contain a `Content-Encoding` header:
```
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/plain

...  // Body omitted.
```

### Notes

- You'll add support for `Accept-Encoding` headers with multiple compression schemes in a later stage.
- There's another method for HTTP compression that uses the `TE` and `Transfer-Encoding` headers. We won't cover that method in this extension.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll add support for reading the `Accept-Encoding` header sent by clients, and respond with `Content-Encoding` header in your response.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for concurrent connections.

{{#lang_is_javascript}}
In most languages, you'd need to either use threads or implement an
[Event Loop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_loop) to do this. In JavaScript however, since [the concurrency
model itself is based on an event loop](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/EventLoop), most
standard library functions are designed to support this kind of concurrent behaviour out of the box. **It is very
likely that the code you had for the previous stage will pass this stage without any changes!**
{{/lang_is_javascript}}

{{#lang_is_typescript}}
In most languages, you'd need to either use threads or implement an
[Event Loop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_loop) to do this. In TypeScript however, since [the concurrency
model itself is based on an event loop](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/EventLoop), most
standard library functions are designed to support this kind of concurrent behaviour out of the box. **It is very
likely that the code you had for the previous stage will pass this stage without any changes!**
{{/lang_is_typescript}}

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:
```bash
$ ./your_program.sh
```

Then, the tester will create multiple concurrent TCP connections to your server. (The exact number of connections is determined at random.) After that, the tester will send a single `GET` request through each of the connections.
```bash
$ (sleep 3 && printf "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\n\r\n") | nc localhost 4221 &
$ (sleep 3 && printf "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\n\r\n") | nc localhost 4221 &
$ (sleep 3 && printf "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\n\r\n") | nc localhost 4221 &
```

Your server must respond to each request with the following response:
```javascript
HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n\r\n
```

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# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, we'll add support for `.`, which matches any character.

**Example**: `d.g` should match "dog", but not "cog".

Your program will be executed like this:

```bash
$ echo -n "dog" | ./your_program.sh -E "d.g"
```

You program must exit with 0 if the input matches the given pattern, and 1 if not.

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# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, we'll add support for `.`, which matches any character.

**Example**:

- `d.g` should match "dog", but not "cog".

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, we'll add support for backreferences.

A backreference lets you reuse a captured group in a regular expression. It is denoted by `\` followed by a number, indicating the position of the captured group.

**Examples:**
- `(cat) and \1` should match "cat and cat", but not "cat and dog".
  - `\1` refers to the first captured group, which is `(cat)`.
- `(\w+) and \1` should match "cat and cat" and "dog and dog", but not "cat and dog".
  - `\1` refers to the first captured group, which is `(\w+)`.

Your program will be executed like this:

```
$ echo -n "<input>" | ./your_program.sh -E "<pattern>"
```

Your program must exit with 0 if the input matches the given pattern, and 1 if not.

**Note:** You only need to focus on one backreference and one capturing group in this stage. We'll get to handling multiple backreferences in the next stage.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll add support for single backreferences. You'll implement support for `\1`.

**Example:**
- `(cat) and \1` should match "cat and cat", but not "cat and dog".

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, we'll add support for `?`, the [zero or one](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/quantifiers-in-regular-expressions#match-one-or-more-times-) quantifier (also known as the "optional" quantifier).

**Example**: `dogs?` should match "dogs" and "dog", but not "cat".

Your program will be executed like this:

```bash
$ echo -n "dogs" | ./your_program.sh -E "dogs?"
```

You program must exit with 0 if the input matches the given pattern, and 1 if not.

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# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, we'll add support for `?`, the [zero or one](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/quantifiers-in-regular-expressions#match-one-or-more-times-) quantifier (also known as the "optional" quantifier).

**Example**:

- `dogs?` should match "dogs" and "dog", but not "cat".

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, we'll add support for [negative character groups](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/character-classes-in-regular-expressions#negative-character-group-).

Negative character groups match any character that is not present within a pair of square brackets.

**Example:** `[^abc]` should match "dog", but not "cab" (since all characters are either "a", "b" or "c").

Your program will be executed like this:

```bash
$ echo -n "apple" | ./your_program.sh -E "[^abc]"
```

You program must exit with 0 if the input contains characters that aren't part of the negative character group, and 1 if not.

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# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, we'll add support for [negative character groups](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/character-classes-in-regular-expressions#negative-character-group-).

Negative character groups match any character that is not present within a pair of square brackets.

**Example:**

`[^abc]` should match "dog", but not "cab" (since all characters are either "a", "b" or "c").

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, we'll add support for the `|` keyword, which allows combining multiple patterns in an either/or fashion.

**Example**: `(cat|dog)` should match "dog" and "cat", but not "apple".

Your program will be executed like this:

```bash
$ echo -n "cat" | ./your_program.sh -E "(cat|dog)"
```

You program must exit with 0 if the input matches the given pattern, and 1 if not.

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# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, we'll add support for the `|` keyword, which allows combining multiple patterns in an either/or fashion.

**Example**:

- `(cat|dog)` should match "dog" and "cat", but not "apple".

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, we'll handle the simplest regex possible: a single character.

**Example:** `a` should match "apple", but not "dog".

Your program will be executed like this:

```bash
$ echo -n "apple" | ./your_program.sh -E "a"
```

The `-E` flag instructs `grep` to interprets patterns as extended regular expressions (with support
for metacharacters like `+`, `?` etc.). We'll use this flag in all stages.

You program must [exit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit_status) with 0 if the character is found, and 1 if not.

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# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, we'll handle the simplest regex possible: a single character.

**Example:**

`a` should match "apple", but not "dog".

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, we'll implement support for the `\w`
[character class](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Regular_Expressions/Character_Classes).

`\w` matches any alphanumeric character (`a-z`, `A-Z`, `0-9`, `_`).

**Example:** `\w` should match "foo101", but not "$!?".

Your program will be executed like this:

```bash
$ echo -n "alpha-num3ric" | ./your_program.sh -E "\w"
```

You program must exit with 0 if an alphanumeric character is found in the string, and 1 if not.

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# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, we'll implement support for the `\w`
[character class](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Regular_Expressions/Character_Classes).

`\w` matches any alphanumeric character (`a-z`, `A-Z`, `0-9`, `_`).

**Example:**

`\w` should match "foo101", but not "$!?".

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, we'll add support for `^`, the [Start of String or Line anchor](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/anchors-in-regular-expressions#start-of-string-or-line-).

`^` doesn't match a character, it matches the start of a line.

**Example:** `^log` should match "log", but not "slog".

Your program will be executed like this:

```bash
$ echo -n "log" | ./your_program.sh -E "^log"
```

You program must exit with 0 if the input starts with the given pattern, and 1 if not.

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# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, we'll add support for `^`, the [Start of String or Line anchor](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/anchors-in-regular-expressions#start-of-string-or-line-).

`^` doesn't match a character, it matches the start of a line.

**Example:**

`^log` should match "log", but not "slog".

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, we'll add support for `$`, the [End of String or Line anchor](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/anchors-in-regular-expressions#start-of-string-or-line-).

`$` doesn't match a character, it matches the end of a line.

**Example:** `dog$` should match "dog", but not "dogs".

Your program will be executed like this:

```bash
$ echo -n "dog" | ./your_program.sh -E "dog$"
```

You program must exit with 0 if the input matches the given pattern, and 1 if not.

{{#reader_is_bot}}
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# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, we'll add support for `$`, the [End of String or Line anchor](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/anchors-in-regular-expressions#start-of-string-or-line-).

`$` doesn't match a character, it matches the end of a line.

**Example:**

`dog$` should match "dog", but not "dogs".

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, we'll add support for nested backreferences. This means that a backreference is part of a larger capturing group, which itself is referenced again.

**Example:** `('(cat) and \2') is the same as \1` should match "'cat and cat' is the same as 'cat and cat'".

Your program will be executed like this:

```
$ echo -n "<input>" | ./your_program.sh -E "<pattern>"
```

Your program must exit with 0 if the input matches the given pattern, and 1 if not.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll add support for nested backreferences.

**Example:**
- `('(cat) and \2') is the same as \1` should match "'cat and cat' is the same as 'cat and cat'".

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, we'll add support for patterns that combine the character classes we've seen so far.

This is where your regex matcher will start to _feel_ useful.

Keep in mind that this stage is harder than the previous ones. You'll likely need to rework your
implementation to process user input character-by-character instead of the whole line at once.

We recommend taking a look at the example code in ["A Regular Expression Matcher"](https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spr09/cos333/beautiful.html)
by Rob Pike to guide your implementation.

**Examples:**

- `\d apple` should match "1 apple", but not "1 orange".
- `\d\d\d apple` should match "100 apples", but not "1 apple".
- `\d \w\w\ws` should match "3 dogs" and "4 cats" but not "1 dog" (because the "s" is not present at the end).

Your program will be executed like this:

```bash
$ echo -n "1 apple" | ./your_program.sh -E "\d apple"
```

You program must exit with 0 if the pattern matches the input, and 1 if not.

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# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, we'll support patterns that combine the character classes we've seen so far.

**Examples:**

- `\d apple` should match "1 apple", but not "1 orange".
- `\d\d\d apple` should match "100 apples", but not "1 apple".
- `\d \w\w\ws` should match "3 dogs" and "4 cats" but not "1 dog" (because the "s" is not present at the end).

This stage is significantly harder than the previous ones. You'll likely need to rework your
implementation to process user input character-by-character instead of the whole line at once.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, we'll add support for multiple backreferences.

Multiple backreferences allow you to refer to several different captured groups within the same regex pattern.

**Example:** `(\d+) (\w+) squares and \1 \2 circles` should match "3 red squares and 3 red circles" but should not match "3 red squares and 4 red circles".

Your program will be executed like this:

```
$ echo -n "<input>" | ./your_program.sh -E "<pattern>"
```

Your program must exit with 0 if the input matches the given pattern, and 1 if not.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll add support for multiple backreferences (`\1`, `\2` etc.) in the same pattern.

**Example:**
- `(\d+) (\w+) squares and \1 \2 circles` should match "3 red squares and 3 red circles" but should not match "3 red squares and 4 red circles".

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, we'll implement support for the `\d`
[character class](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Regular_Expressions/Character_Classes).

`\d` matches any digit.

**Example:** `\d` should match "3", but not "c".

Your program will be executed like this:

```bash
$ echo -n "apple123" | ./your_program.sh -E "\d"
```

You program must exit with 0 if a digit is found in the string, and 1 if not.

{{#reader_is_bot}}
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{{/reader_is_bot}}

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, we'll implement support for the `\d`
[character class](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Regular_Expressions/Character_Classes).

`\d` matches any digit.

**Example:**

`\d` should match "1", but not "a".

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, we'll add support for [positive character groups](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/character-classes-in-regular-expressions#positive-character-group--).

Positive character groups match any character that is present within a pair of square brackets.

**Example:** `[abc]` should match "apple", but not "dog".

Your program will be executed like this:

```bash
$ echo -n "apple" | ./your_program.sh -E "[abc]"
```

You program must exit with 0 if an any of the characters are found in the string, and 1 if not.

{{#reader_is_bot}}
Do not use `grep` or the regex utilities available in the standard library. Implement the regex matcher yourself.
{{/reader_is_bot}}

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, we'll add support for [positive character groups](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/character-classes-in-regular-expressions#positive-character-group--).

Positive character groups match any character that is present within a pair of square brackets.

**Example:**

`[abc]` should match "apple", but not "dog".

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, we'll add support for `+`, the [one or more](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/quantifiers-in-regular-expressions#match-one-or-more-times-) quantifier.

**Example**: `a+` should match "apple" and "SaaS", but not "dog".

Your program will be executed like this:

```bash
$ echo -n "caats" | ./your_program.sh -E "ca+ts"
```

You program must exit with 0 if the input matches the given pattern, and 1 if not.

{{#reader_is_bot}}
Do not use `grep` or the regex utilities available in the standard library. Implement the regex matcher yourself.
{{/reader_is_bot}}

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, we'll add support for `+`, the [one or more](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/quantifiers-in-regular-expressions#match-one-or-more-times-) quantifier.

**Example**:

- `a+` should match "apple" and "SaaS", but not "dog".

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for return statements in functions in your lox interpreter.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 10.5: Return Statements](https://craftinginterpreters.com/functions.html#return-statements).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain programs with return statements in functions.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following

```
fun foo() { return 10; }
print foo();
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh run test.lox
10
```

The tester will run multiple such tests with randomized expressions, for example:

Test Case 1:

Input:

```
fun fib(n) {
  if (n < 2) return n;
  return fib(n - 2) + fib(n - 1);
}

var start = clock();
print fib(32) == 2178309;
print (clock() - start) < 5; // 5 seconds
```

Expected Output:

```
true
true
```

Test Case 2:

Input:

```
fun f() {
  if (false) return "no"; else return "ok";
}

print f();
```

Expected Output:

```
ok
```

Test Case 3:

Input:

```
fun f() {
  while (!true) return "ok";
}

print f();
```

Expected Output:

```
nil
```

Test Case 4:

Input:

```
fun f() {
  return;
  print "bad";
}

print f();
```

Expected Output:

```
nil
```

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above, and that the exit code is 0.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/4a840f70f69c6ddd17cfef4f6964f8e1bcd8c3d4/test/function/local_recursion.lox)

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll add support for return statements in functions to your lox interpreter.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for parsing string literals.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 6.2: Recursive Descent Parsing](https://craftinginterpreters.com/parsing-expressions.html#recursive-descent-parsing).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain string literals, it can contain whitespaces, and numbers too, but everything is inside double quotes.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following:

```
"hello"
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh parse test.lox
hello
```

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/expressions/parse.lox)

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement support for parsing string literals.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for scanning lexical errors, which span multiple lines.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 4.5.1: Lexical Errors](https://craftinginterpreters.com/scanning.html#lexical-errors).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain lexical errors spanning multiple lines.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following:

```
#<|SPACE|>(
)<|TAB|>@
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh tokenize test.lox
[line 1] Error: Unexpected character: #
[line 2] Error: Unexpected character: @
LEFT_PAREN ( null
RIGHT_PAREN ) null
EOF  null
```

Errors should be printed to the stderr stream, starting with the `[line N]` prefix. If lexical errors were present,
your program must exit with exit code 65.

The tester will assert that:

- The stderr stream contains one line for each lexical error (if present)
  - Each line must match the format `[line N] Error: Unexpected character: <character>`
- The stdout stream contains one line for each valid token (even if other lexical errors are present)
- Your program exits with exit code 65 if lexical errors are present, and exit code 0 if not

Line numbers should start at 1.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/tree/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/scanning)
- Since stdout and stderr are separate streams, the relative order of errors vs. valid tokens doesn't matter. You're free to print
  errors first, errors last, or errors interleaved with valid tokens.
- Only lines that start with `[line N]` are considered errors, so you can still print other lines to stderr for debugging purposes.
- When scanning for tokens, it's valid to have "unbalanced" parentheses or braces. When we get to parsing expressions in later stages, these cases will be highlighted as errors.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement support for scanning multi-line errors.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for runtime errors in your lox interpreter.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 10.4: Function Objects](https://craftinginterpreters.com/functions.html#function-objects).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain programs with runtime errors.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following

```
85();
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh run test.lox
Can only call functions and classes.
[line 1]
```

The tester will run multiple such tests with randomized expressions, for example:

Test Case 1:

Input:

```
"not a function"();
```

Expected Output:

```
Can only call functions and classes.
[line 1]
```

Test Case 2:

Input:

```
fun f(a, b) {
  print a;
  print b;
}

f(1, 2, 3, 4);
```

Expected Output:

```
Expected 2 arguments but got 4.
[line 6]
```

Test Case 3:

Input:

```
fun f(a, b) {}

f(1);
```

Expected Output:

```
Expected 2 arguments but got 1.
[line 3]
```

Test Case 4:

Input:

```
false();
```

Expected Output:

```
Can only call functions and classes.
[line 1]
```

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above, and that the exit code is 70.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/4a840f70f69c6ddd17cfef4f6964f8e1bcd8c3d4/test/function/body_must_be_block.lox)
- Error messages should be printed to `stderr`, not `stdout`.
- The tester won't check the exact error message in this stage, it will only check that the program exits with code 70.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll add handling for runtime errors in your lox interpreter.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for the logical AND operator in your interpreter. The logical AND operator combines two conditions and returns the first falsy value. If all values are truthy, it returns the last value.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 9.3: Logical Operators](https://craftinginterpreters.com/control-flow.html#logical-operators).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain programs with the logical AND operator.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following

```
print false and "ok";
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh run test.lox
false
```

The tester will run multiple such tests with randomized expressions, for example:

Test Case 1:

Input:

```
if (false and "bad") print "foo";
if (nil and "bad") print "foo";

if (true and "hello") print "hello";
if (97 and "baz") print "baz";
if ("baz" and "baz") print "baz";
if ("" and "bar") print "bar";
```

Expected Output:

```
hello
baz
baz
bar
```

Test Case 2:

Input:

```
print false and 1;
print true and 1;
print 23 and "hello" and false;

print 23 and true;
print 23 and "hello" and 23;
```

Expected Output:

```
false
1
false
true
23
```

Test Case 3:

Input:

```
var a = "quz";
var b = "quz";
(a = true) and (b = false) and (a = "bad");
print a;
print b;
```

Expected Output:

```
true
false
```

Test Case 4:

Input:

```
var stage = "unknown";
var age = 14;
if (age < 18) { stage = "child"; }
if (age >= 18) { stage = "adult"; }
print stage;

var isAdult = age >= 18;
if (isAdult) { print "eligible for voting: true"; }
if (!isAdult) { print "eligible for voting: false"; }
```

Expected Output:

```
child
eligible for voting: false
```

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above, and that the exit code is 0.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/4a840f70f69c6ddd17cfef4f6964f8e1bcd8c3d4/test/logical_operator/and.lox)

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll add support for the logical AND operator in your interpreter.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for higher order functions in your lox interpreter.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 10.4: Function Objects](https://craftinginterpreters.com/functions.html#function-objects).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain programs with higher order functions.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following

```
var globalGreeting = "Hello";

fun makeGreeter() {
  fun greet(name) {
    print globalGreeting + " " + name;
  }
  return greet;
}

var sayHello = makeGreeter();
sayHello("Bob");
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh run test.lox
Hello Bob
```

The tester will run multiple such tests with randomized expressions, for example:

Test Case 1:

Input:

```
var globalGreeting = "Hello";

fun makeGreeter() {
  fun greet(name) {
    print globalGreeting + " " + name;
  }
  return greet;
}

var sayHello = makeGreeter();
sayHello("Bob");
```

Expected Output:

```
Hello Bob
```

Test Case 2:

Input:

```
fun returnArg(arg) {
  return arg;
}

fun returnFunCallWithArg(func, arg) {
  return returnArg(func)(arg);
}

fun printArg(arg) {
  print arg;
}

returnFunCallWithArg(printArg, "foo");
```

Expected Output:

```
foo
```

Test Case 3:

Input:

```
fun makeAdder(x) {
  fun add(y) {
    return x + y;
  }
  return add;
}

fun applyTwice(f, x) {
  return f(f(x));
}

var addx = makeAdder(2);
var addy = makeAdder(2);

print applyTwice(addx, 2);
print applyTwice(addy, 2);
```

Expected Output:

```
6
6
```

Test Case 4:

Input:

```
fun makeFilter(min) {
  fun filter(n) {
    if (n < min) {
      return false;
    }
    return true;
  }
  return filter;
}

// This function applies a function to a list of numbers
fun applyToNumbers(f, count) {
  var n = 0;
  while (n < count) {
    if (f(n)) {
      print n;
    }
    n = n + 1;
  }
}

var greaterThanX = makeFilter(55);
var greaterThanY = makeFilter(10);

print "Numbers >= 55:";
applyToNumbers(greaterThanX, 55 + 5);

print "Numbers >= 10:";
applyToNumbers(greaterThanY, 10 + 5);
```

Expected Output:

```
Numbers >= 55:
55
56
57
58
59
Numbers >= 10:
10
11
12
13
14
```

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above, and that the exit code is 0.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/4a840f70f69c6ddd17cfef4f6964f8e1bcd8c3d4/test/function/local_recursion.lox)

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll add support for higher order functions to your lox interpreter.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
Before starting this stage, make sure you've read the "Welcome" section of the book that contains these chapters:

- [Introduction](https://craftinginterpreters.com/introduction.html) (chapter 1)
- [A Map of the Territory](https://craftinginterpreters.com/a-map-of-the-territory.html) (chapter 2)
- [The Lox Language](https://craftinginterpreters.com/the-lox-language.html) (chapter 3)

These chapters don't involve writing code, so they won't be covered in this challenge. This challenge will start
from chapter 4, [Scanning](https://craftinginterpreters.com/scanning.html).

---

In this stage, you'll implement basic support for the `tokenize` command.

### The `tokenize` command

The `tokenize` command tokenizes a Lox program and prints the tokens to stdout. We'll use this for testing
all stages in the [Scanning](https://craftinginterpreters.com/scanning.html) chapter.

If there's a file named `test.lox` with the following contents:

```
var language = "lox";
```

The `tokenize` command will return the following:

```
$ ./your_program.sh tokenize test.lox
VAR var null
IDENTIFIER language null
EQUAL = null
STRING "lox" lox
SEMICOLON ; null
EOF  null
```

This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/tree/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/scanning).

Each line corresponds to a token in the file (Image from [Section 4.2: Lexemes & Tokens](https://craftinginterpreters.com/scanning.html#lexemes-and-tokens)):

![img](https://craftinginterpreters.com/image/scanning/lexemes.png)

This is the format for each line:

```
<token_type> <lexeme> <literal>
```

- `<token_type>`: The type of the token.
  - Examples: `VAR`, `IDENTIFIER`, `STRING`, `EOF` etc.
- `<lexeme>`: The actual sequence of characters that formed the token.
  - Examples: `var`, `breakfast`, `"bagels"` etc.
  - For an `EOF` token, the lexeme is an empty string.
- `<literal>`: The literal value of the token.
  - For most tokens this is `null`.
  - For `STRING`/`NUMBER` tokens, it holds the value of the string/number.

The `EOF` token is a special token that represents the end of the file. All calls to `tokenize` will include an `EOF` token at the end.

### Tests

The tester will write an empty file to `test.lox`. It'll then run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh tokenize test.lox
EOF  null
```

Since the file is empty, only one token is expected in the output: `EOF`. The tester will verify that `EOF<space><space>null` is printed to stdout.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/tree/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/scanning)
- There are two spaces between `EOF` and `null`. This is because the `<lexeme>` part is an empty string for the `EOF` token.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement basic support for the `tokenize` command which we'll use in all stages that are part of the [Scanning](https://craftinginterpreters.com/scanning.html) chapter.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for scanning the division operator & comments.
Comments start with `//`, and the division operator is `/`.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 4.6: Longer Lexemes](https://craftinginterpreters.com/scanning.html#longer-lexemes).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain `/` & `//` mixed with previously introduced tokens.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following:

```
()// Comment
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh tokenize test.lox
LEFT_PAREN ( null
RIGHT_PAREN ) null
EOF  null
```

Similarly, if `test.lox` contains the following:

```
/()
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh tokenize test.lox
SLASH / null
LEFT_PAREN ( null
RIGHT_PAREN ) null
EOF  null
```

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/tree/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/scanning)
- There's no token type for comments, your scanner just needs to ignore any characters after `//`.
- When scanning for tokens, it's valid to have "unbalanced" parentheses or braces. When we get to parsing expressions in later stages, these cases will be highlighted as errors.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement support for scanning the division operator & comments.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for declaring, defining and interpreting user defined functions with arguments in your lox interpreter.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 10.3: Function declarations](https://craftinginterpreters.com/functions.html#function-declarations).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain programs with user defined functions with arguments.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following

```
fun foo(a) { print a; }
foo(10);
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh run test.lox
10
```

The tester will run multiple such tests with randomized expressions, for example:

Test Case 1:

Input:

```
fun f1(a) {
  print a;
}
f1(76);
```

Expected Output:

```
76
```

Test Case 2:

Input:

```
fun f3(a, b, c) { print a + b + c; }
f3(24, 24, 24);
```

Expected Output:

```
72
```

Test Case 3:

Input:

```
fun f8(a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h) { print a - b + c * d + e - f + g - h; }
f8(51, 51, 51, 51, 51, 51, 51, 51);
```

Expected Output:

```
2601
```

Test Case 4:

Input:

```
fun calculateGrade(score, bonus) {
  var finalScore = score + bonus;

  if (finalScore >= 90) {
    print "A";
  } else if (finalScore >= 80) {
    print "B";
  } else if (finalScore >= 70) {
    print "C";
  } else if (finalScore >= 60) {
    print "D";
  } else {
    print "F";
  }
}

var score = 81;
var bonus = 3;
print "Grade for given score is: ";
calculateGrade(score, bonus);
```

Expected Output:

```
Grade for given score is:
B
```

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above, and that the exit code is 0.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/4a840f70f69c6ddd17cfef4f6964f8e1bcd8c3d4/test/function/parameters.lox)

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll add support for user defined functions with arguments to your lox interpreter.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for redeclaring variables using the `var` statement.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 8.2: Global Variables](https://craftinginterpreters.com/statements-and-state.html#global-variables).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain the `var` statement.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following

```
var a = 1;
var a = 2;
print a;
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh run test.lox
2
```

The tester will run multiple such tests with randomized expressions, for example:

Test Case 1:

Input:

```
var baz = "before";
print baz;
var baz = "after";
print baz;
```

Expected Output:

```
before
after
```

Test Case 2:

Input:

```
var hello = "after";
var hello = "before";
var hello = hello;
print hello;
```

Expected Output:

```
before
```

Test Case 3:

Input:

```
var world = 2;
print world;
var world = 3;
print world;
var hello = 5;
print hello;
var world = hello;
print world;
```

Expected Output:

```
2
3
5
5
```

Test Case 4:

Input:

```
var baz = bar;
```

Expected Output:

```
Undefined variable 'bar'.
[line 1]
```

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above, and that the exit code is 0.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/variable/in_nested_block.lox)

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll add support for redeclaring variables.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for global and local scope in your lox interpreter.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 10.6: Local functions & Closures](https://craftinginterpreters.com/functions.html#local-functions-and-closures).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain programs with global and local scope.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following

```
var a = 20;
{
  var a = 30;
  print a;
}
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh run test.lox
30
```

The tester will run multiple such tests with randomized expressions, for example:

Test Case 1:

Input:

```
var a = 20;
{
  print a;
  var a = 42;
  print a;
}
print a;
```

Expected Output:

```
20
42
20
```

Test Case 2:

Input:

```
var count = 3;

fun tick() {
  if (count > 0) {
    print count;
    count = count - 1;
    return false;
  }
  print "Blast off!";
  return true;
}

while (!tick()) {}
```

Expected Output:

```
3
2
1
Blast off!
```

Test Case 3:

Input:

```
var counter = 99;
{
  counter = counter + 5;
  {
    counter = counter + 5;
    print counter;
  }
}
print counter;
{
  var counter = 99;
  print counter;
}
print counter;
```

Expected Output:

```
109
109
99
109
```

Test Case 4:

Input:

```
var x = 1;
var y = 2;

fun printBoth() {
  if (x < y) {
    print "x is less than y:";
    print x;
    print y;
  } else {
    print "x is not less than y:";
    print x;
    print y;
  }
}

{
  var x = 10;
  {
    var y = 20;

    var i = 0;
    while (i < 3) {
      x = x + 1;
      y = y - 1;
      print "Local x: ";
      print x;
      print "Local y: ";
      print y;
      i = i + 1;
    }

    if (x > y) {
      print "Local x > y";
    }

    printBoth();
  }
}
```

Expected Output:

```
Local x:
11
Local y:
19
Local x:
12
Local y:
18
Local x:
13
Local y:
17
x is less than y:
1
2
```

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above, and that the exit code is 0.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/4a840f70f69c6ddd17cfef4f6964f8e1bcd8c3d4/test/closure/open_closure_in_function.lox)

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll add support for global and local scope to your lox interpreter.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for overloading the `+` operator. When the `+` operator is applied to two strings, it should concatenate them.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 7.2.5: Evaluating binary operators](https://craftinginterpreters.com/evaluating-expressions.html#evaluating-binary-operators).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain expressions with the operator `+`.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following:

```
"hello" + " world!"
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh evaluate test.lox
hello world!
```

The tester will run multiple such tests with randomized expressions, for example:

| Input | Expected output |
| :---: | :-------------: |
| `"hello" + " world!"` | `hello world!` |
| `"42" + "24"` | `4224` |
| `"foo" + "bar"` | `foobar` |

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/expressions/evaluate.lox)
- In this stage, you can assume we will not test for error cases. Runtime errors will be introduced in later stages. For now, we will only pass 2 strings to the `+` operator in this stage.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement support for overloading the `+` operator. When the `+` operator is applied to two strings, it should concatenate them.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for scanning braces.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 4.5: Recognizing Lexemes](https://craftinginterpreters.com/scanning.html#recognizing-lexemes).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain braces combined with parentheses.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following:

```{{=<~ ~>=}}
{{}}
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh tokenize test.lox
LEFT_BRACE { null
LEFT_BRACE { null
RIGHT_BRACE } null
RIGHT_BRACE } null
EOF  null
```

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/tree/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/scanning)
- When scanning for tokens, it's valid to have "unbalanced" braces. When we get to parsing expressions in later stages, these cases will be highlighted as errors.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement support for scanning braces.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for reporting errors when scanning invalid tokens like `$`, `#`, etc.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 4.5.1: Lexical Errors](https://craftinginterpreters.com/scanning.html#lexical-errors).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain unknown tokens mixed with other previously introduced token types.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following:

```
,.$(#
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh tokenize test.lox
[line 1] Error: Unexpected character: $
[line 1] Error: Unexpected character: #
COMMA , null
DOT . null
LEFT_PAREN ( null
EOF  null
```

Errors should be printed to the stderr stream, starting with the `[line N]` prefix. If lexical errors were present,
your program must exit with exit code 65.

The tester will assert that:

- The stderr stream contains one line for each lexical error (if present)
  - Each line must match the format `[line N] Error: Unexpected character: <character>`
- The stdout stream contains one line for each valid token (even if other lexical errors are present)
- Your program exits with exit code 65 if lexical errors are present, and exit code 0 if not

Since we haven't introduced the newline character yet, all errors will start with `[line 1]`. We'll get to multi-line errors in later stages.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/tree/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/scanning)
- Since stdout and stderr are separate streams, the relative order of errors vs. valid tokens doesn't matter. You're free to print
  errors first, errors last, or errors interleaved with valid tokens.
- Only lines that start with `[line N]` are considered errors, so you can still print other lines to stderr for debugging purposes.
- When scanning for tokens, it's valid to have "unbalanced" parentheses or braces. When we get to parsing expressions in later stages, these cases will be highlighted as errors.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement support for scanning lexical errors.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for handling multiple statements in a single `program`. From here on, we will create test programs that span across multiple statements.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 8.1: Statements](https://craftinginterpreters.com/statements-and-state.html#statements).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain multiple statements.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following

```
print "Hello, World!";
print 42;
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh run test.lox
Hello, World!
42
```

The tester will run multiple such tests with randomized expressions, for example:

Test Case 1:

Input:

```
print "world" + "baz" + "bar";
print 27 - 26;
print "bar" == "quz";
```

Expected Output:

```
worldbazbar
1
false
```

Test Case 2:

Input:

```
print "hello"; print true;
print false;
print "bar"; print 43;
```

Expected Output:

```
hello
true
false
bar
43
```

Test Case 3:

Input:

```
print 81;
    print 81 + 46;
        print 81 + 46 + 19;
```

Expected Output:

```
81
127
146
```

Test Case 4:

Input:

```
print true != true;

print "36
10
78
";

print "There should be an empty line above this.";
```

Expected Output:

```
false
36
10
78

There should be an empty line above this.
```

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above, and that the exit code is 0.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/string/literals.lox)

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll add support for handling multiple statements in a single `program`.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for evaluating binary operators `*` and `/`.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 7.2.5: Evaluating binary operators](https://craftinginterpreters.com/evaluating-expressions.html#evaluating-binary-operators).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain expressions with the arithmetic operators `*` and `/`.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following:

```
(18 * 3 / (3 * 6))
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh evaluate test.lox
3
```

The tester will run multiple such tests with randomized expressions, for example:

| Input | Expected output |
| :---: | :-------------: |
| `42 / 5` | `8.4` |
| `18 * 3 / (3 * 6)` | `3` |
| `(10.40 * 2) / 2` | `10.4` |

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/expressions/evaluate.lox)
- In this stage, you can assume we will not test for error cases. Runtime errors will be introduced in later stages. For now, all arithmetic operations will involve only two numbers.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement support for evaluating binary operators `*` and `/`.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for parsing the addition operator (`+`) & the subtraction operator (`-`).

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 6.2: Recursive Descent Parsing](https://craftinginterpreters.com/parsing-expressions.html#recursive-descent-parsing).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain additive algebraic operators, combined with previously introduced tokens.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following:

```
52 + 80 - 94
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh parse test.lox
(- (+ 52.0 80.0) 94.0)
```

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/expressions/parse.lox)

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement support for parsing additive algebraic operators `+` and `-`.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for block syntax in your interpreter. Blocks are enclosed in curly braces `{}` and are used to group statements together. They are also used to create local scopes. We will test scopes in the next stage, in this stage you just need to handle the block syntax.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 8.5.2: Block syntax and semantics](https://craftinginterpreters.com/statements-and-state.html#block-syntax-and-semantics).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain the assignment operation.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following

```
{
    var foo = "before";
    print foo;
}
{
    var foo = "after";
    print foo;
}
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh run test.lox
before
after
```

The tester will run multiple such tests with randomized expressions, for example:

Test Case 1:

Input:

```
{
    var hello = "baz";
    print hello;
}
```

Expected Output:

```
baz
```

Test Case 2:

Input:

```
{
    var world = "before";
    print world;
}
{
    var world = "after";
    print world;
}
```

Expected Output:

```
before
after
```

Test Case 3:

Input:

```
{
    var hello = 88;
    {
        var foo = 88;
        print foo;
    }
    print hello;
}
```

Expected Output:

```
88
88
```

Test Case 4:

Input:

```
{
    var bar = 11;
    var world = 11;
    {
        print bar + world;
}
```

Expected Output:

```
[line 6] Error at end: Expect '}' .
```

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above, and that the exit code is 0. If there is any blocks that are opened but not closed, it should throw a syntax error, the exit code in that case should be 65.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/string/literals.lox)

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll add support for block syntax using curly braces `{}`.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for `while` statements in your interpreter. `while` statements are used to execute a block of code repeatedly while a condition is true.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 9.4: While loops](https://craftinginterpreters.com/control-flow.html#while-loops).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain programs with `while` statements.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following

```
var foo = 0;
while (foo < 3) print foo = foo + 1;
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh run test.lox
1
2
3
```

The tester will run multiple such tests with randomized expressions, for example:

Test Case 1:

Input:

```
var foo = 0;
while (foo < 3) print foo = foo + 1;
```

Expected Output:

```
1
2
3
```

Test Case 2:

Input:

```
var quz = 0;
while (quz < 3) {
  print quz;
  quz = quz + 1;
}
```

Expected Output:

```
0
1
2
```

Test Case 3:

Input:

```
while (false) {
  print "should not print";
}

var product = 1;
var i = 1;

while (i <= 5) {
  product = product * i;
  i = i + 1;
}

print "Product of numbers 1 to 5: "; print product;
```

Expected Output:

```
Product of numbers 1 to 5:
120
```

Test Case 4:

Input:

```
var n = 10;
var fm = 0;
var fn = 1;
var index = 0;

while (index < n) {
  print fm;
  var temp = fm;
  fm = fn;
  fn = temp + fn;
  index = index + 1;
}
```

Expected Output:

```
0
1
1
2
3
5
8
13
21
34
```

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above, and that the exit code is 0.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/4a840f70f69c6ddd17cfef4f6964f8e1bcd8c3d4/test/while/syntax.lox)

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll add support for `while` statements in your interpreter.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for scanning identifiers.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 4.7: Reserved Words and Identifiers](https://craftinginterpreters.com/scanning.html#reserved-words-and-identifiers).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain identifiers mixed with previously introduced tokens.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following:

```
foo bar _hello
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh tokenize test.lox
IDENTIFIER foo null
IDENTIFIER bar null
IDENTIFIER _hello null
EOF  null
```

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/tree/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/scanning)
- When scanning for tokens, it's valid to have "unbalanced" parentheses or braces. When we get to parsing expressions in later stages, these cases will be highlighted as errors.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement support for scanning identifiers.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for handling expression statements. An expression statement lets you place an expression where a statement is expected. They exist to evaluate expressions that have side effects.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 8.1: Statements](https://craftinginterpreters.com/statements-and-state.html#statements).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain expressions that have side effects, combined with the `print` statement.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following

```
"foo" + "bar";
print "baz";
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh run test.lox
baz
```

The tester will run multiple such tests with randomized expressions, for example:

Test Case 1:

Input:

```
(37 + 42 - 21) > (76 - 37) * 2;
print !false;
"baz" + "hello" + "quz" + "bar" == "bazhelloquzbar";
print !false;
```

Expected Output:

```
true
true
```

Test Case 2:

Input:

```
27 - 60 >= -99 * 2 / 99 + 76;
true == true;
("world" == "bar") == ("baz" != "hello");
print true;
```

Expected Output:

```
true
```

Test Case 3:

Input:

```
print "the expression below is invalid";
49 + "baz";
print "this should not be printed";
```

Expected Output:

```
the expression below is invalid
Operands must be two numbers or two strings.
[line 2]
```

Test Case 4:

Input:

```
print "79" + "baz";
print false * (18 + 84);
```

Expected Output:

```
79baz
Operands must be numbers.
[line 2]
```

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above, and that the exit code is 0.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/string/literals.lox)

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll add support for handling expression statements.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for handling syntax errors in expressions.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 6.3: Syntax Errors](https://craftinginterpreters.com/parsing-expressions.html#syntax-errors).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain syntax errors.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following:

```
(72 +)
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh parse test.lox
[line 1] Error at ')': Expect expression.
```

The tester will assert that the exit code is 65.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/expressions/parse.lox)
- Error messages should be printed to `stderr`, not `stdout`.
- The tester won't check the exact error message in this stage, it will only check that the program exits with code 65.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement support for handling syntax errors in expressions.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for evaluating number and string literals.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 7.2.1: Evaluating Literals](https://craftinginterpreters.com/evaluating-expressions.html#evaluating-literals).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain number literals and string literals.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following:

```
"hello world!"
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh evaluate test.lox
hello world!
```

The tester will run multiple such tests with randomized expressions, for example:

| Input | Expected output |
| :---: | :-------------: |
| `"hello world!"` | `hello world!` |
| `10.40` | `10.4` |
| `10` | `10` |

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/expressions/evaluate.lox)
- For the string literals, the tester will check that the program prints the string without quotes.
- For the number literals, the tester will check that the program prints the number with the minimum number of decimal places without losing precision. (For example, 10.40 should be printed as 10.4).

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement support for evaluating number and string literals.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for assigning values to variables using the `=` operator. You need to only support variables that have already been declared on the left side of the assignment.
Note that assignment is right associative, so `a = b = 1` is equivalent to `a = (b = 1)`.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 8.4: Assignment](https://craftinginterpreters.com/statements-and-state.html#assignment).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain the assignment operation.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following

```
var a;
var b = 2;
var a = b = 1;
print a;
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh run test.lox
1
```

The tester will run multiple such tests with randomized expressions, for example:

Test Case 1:

Input:

```
var quz;
quz = 1;
print quz;
print quz = 2;
print quz;
```

Expected Output:

```
1
2
2
```

Test Case 2:

Input:

```
var hello = 93;
var bar = 93;
bar = hello;
hello = bar;
print hello + bar;
```

Expected Output:

```
186
```

Test Case 3:

Input:

```
var quz;
var hello;

quz = hello = 16 + 34 * 92;
print quz;
print hello;
```

Expected Output:

```
3144
3144
```

Test Case 4:

Input:

```
var hello = 65;
var baz;
var quz;

hello = baz = quz = hello * 2;
print hello;
print baz;
print baz;
```

Expected Output:

```
130
130
130
```

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above, and that the exit code is 0.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/string/literals.lox)

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll add support for the assignment operation (=).

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for scanning other single-character tokens, namely `,`, `.`, `-`, `+`, `;` and `*`.
`/` is not covered here, it's covered in later stages.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 4.5: Recognizing Lexemes](https://craftinginterpreters.com/scanning.html#recognizing-lexemes).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain parentheses, braces combined with all the new single-character tokens.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following:

```
({*.,+*})
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh tokenize test.lox
LEFT_PAREN ( null
LEFT_BRACE { null
STAR * null
DOT . null
COMMA , null
PLUS + null
STAR * null
RIGHT_BRACE } null
RIGHT_PAREN ) null
EOF  null
```

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/tree/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/scanning)
- When scanning for tokens, it's valid to have "unbalanced" parentheses or braces. When we get to parsing expressions in later stages, these cases will be highlighted as errors.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement support for scanning other single-character tokens.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for parsing comparison operators: `>`, `<`, `>=` & `<=`.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 6.2: Recursive Descent Parsing](https://craftinginterpreters.com/parsing-expressions.html#recursive-descent-parsing).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain comparison operators, combined with previously introduced tokens.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following:

```
83 < 99 < 115
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh parse test.lox
(< (< 83.0 99.0) 115.0)
```

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/expressions/parse.lox)

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement support for parsing comparison operators `>`, `<`, `>=` & `<=`.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for the `else-if` statement in your interpreter. The `else-if` statement is used to conditionally execute statements when the `if` condition is false.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 9.2: Conditional execution](https://craftinginterpreters.com/control-flow.html#conditional-execution).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain programs with `if` statements.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following

```
if (false) print "if branch"; else if (false) print "else-if branch";
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh run test.lox
```

The tester will run multiple such tests with randomized expressions, for example:

Test Case 1:

Input:

```
if (true) print "if branch"; else if (false) print "else-if branch";
```

Expected Output:

```
if branch
```

Test Case 2:

Input:

```
if (true) {
  print "hello";
} else if (true) print "hello";

if (true) print "hello"; else if (true) {
  print "hello";
}
```

Expected Output:

```
hello
hello
```

Test Case 3:

Input:

```
var age = 88;
var stage = "unknown";
if (age < 18) { stage = "child"; }
else if (age >= 18) { stage = "adult"; }
else if (age >= 65) { stage = "senior"; }
else if (age >= 100) { stage = "centenarian"; }
print stage;
```

Expected Output:

```
adult
```

Test Case 4:

Input:

```
var age = 67;

var isAdult = age >= 18;
if (isAdult) { print "eligible for voting: true"; }
else { print "eligible for voting: false"; }

if (age < 16) { print "eligible for driving: false"; }
else if (age < 18) { print "eligible for driving: learner's permit"; }
else { print "eligible for driving: full license"; }

if (age < 21) { print "eligible for drinking (US): false"; }
else { print "eligible for drinking (US): true"; }
```

Expected Output:

```
eligible for voting: true
eligible for driving: full license
eligible for drinking (US): true
```

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above, and that the exit code is 0.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/4a840f70f69c6ddd17cfef4f6964f8e1bcd8c3d4/test/if/else.lox)

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll add support for the `else-if` statement in your interpreter.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for evaluating expressions inside parentheses.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 7.2.2: Evaluating parentheses](https://craftinginterpreters.com/evaluating-expressions.html#evaluating-parentheses).

### Tests

The tester will test your program using a `test.lox` file that contains an expression with parentheses.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following:

```
("hello world!")
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh evaluate test.lox
hello world!
```

The tester will run multiple such tests with randomized expressions, for example:

| Input | Expected output |
| :---: | :-------------: |
| `("hello world!")` | `hello world!` |
| `(true)` | `true` |
| `(10.40)` | `10.4` |
| `((false))` | `false` |

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/expressions/evaluate.lox)
- String literals & number literals must be formatted using the same rules as the previous stage.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement support for evaluating expressions inside parentheses.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for evaluating equality operators `==` and `!=`.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 7.2.5: Evaluating binary operators](https://craftinginterpreters.com/evaluating-expressions.html#evaluating-binary-operators).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain expressions with the equality operators `==` and `!=`.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following:

```
156 == (89 + 67)
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh evaluate test.lox
true
```

The tester will run multiple such tests with randomized expressions, for example:

| Input | Expected output |
| :---: | :-------------: |
| `"hello" == "world"` | `false` |
| `"foo" != "bar"` | `true` |
| `"foo" == "foo"` | `true` |
| `61 == "61"` | `false` |

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/expressions/evaluate.lox)
- In this stage, you can assume we will not test for error cases. Runtime errors will be introduced in later stages. For now, all equality operations will involve only two numbers or two strings.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement support for evaluating equality operators `==` and `!=`.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for parsing equality operators: `==` & `!=`.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 6.2: Recursive Descent Parsing](https://craftinginterpreters.com/parsing-expressions.html#recursive-descent-parsing).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain comparison operators, combined with previously introduced tokens.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following:

```
"baz" == "baz"
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh parse test.lox
(== baz baz)
```

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/expressions/parse.lox)

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement support for parsing equality operators `==` & `!=`.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for handling runtime errors while evaluating the binary operators `*` & `/`.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 7.3: Runtime Errors](https://craftinginterpreters.com/evaluating-expressions.html#runtime-errors).

### Tests

The tester will test your program using a `test.lox` file that contains an expression with the binary operators `*` or `/`. This expression
will contain a usage of the `*` or `/` operator that should throw a runtime error.

The binary operators `*` & `/` will throw a runtime error if the operands are not both numbers.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following:

```
"foo" / 42
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh evaluate test.lox
Operands must be numbers.
[line 1]
```

The tester will run multiple such tests with randomized expressions, for example:

| Input | Expected output |
| :---: | :-------------: |
| `"foo" * 42` | `Operands must be numbers.` |
| `true / 2` | `Operands must be numbers.` |
| `("foo" * "bar")` | `Operands must be numbers.` |
| `false / true` | `Operands must be numbers. `|

The tester will assert that the exit code is 70, signifying a runtime error. Note that this is different from the expected exit code for a syntax error, which is 65.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/expressions/evaluate.lox)
- Error messages should be printed to `stderr`, not `stdout`.
- The tester won't check the exact error message in this stage, it will only check that the program exits with code 70.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement support for handling runtime errors while evaluating the binary operators `*` & `/`.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for detecting and handling syntax errors in user defined functions in your lox interpreter.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 10.3: Function Declarations](https://craftinginterpreters.com/functions.html#function-declarations).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain programs with user defined functions with arguments.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following

```
clock(;
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh run test.lox
[line 2] Error at ';': Expect expression.
```

The tester will run multiple such tests with randomized expressions, for example:

Test Case 1:

Input:

```
print clock(;
```

Expected Output:

```
[line 1] Error at ';': Expect expression.
```

Test Case 2:

Input:

```
print clock)));
```

Expected Output:

```
[line 1] Error at ')': Expect ';' after value.
```

Test Case 3:

Input:

```
fun f() 74;
print f();
```

Expected Output:

```
[line 2] Error at '74': Expect '{' before function body.
```

Test Case 4:

Input:

```
fun foo(a, b c, d, e, f) {}
foo();
```

Expected Output:

```
[line 2] Error at 'c': Expect ')' after parameters.
```

The tester will assert that the exit code of your program is 65, when there is a compilation error.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/4a840f70f69c6ddd17cfef4f6964f8e1bcd8c3d4/test/function/body_must_be_block.lox)
- Error messages should be printed to `stderr`, not `stdout`.
- The tester won't check the exact error message in this stage, it will only check that the program exits with code 65.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll add support for detecting and handling syntax errors.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for handling runtime errors while evaluating the binary operators `+` & `-`.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 7.3: Runtime Errors](https://craftinginterpreters.com/evaluating-expressions.html#runtime-errors).

### Tests

The tester will test your program using a `test.lox` file that contains an expression with the binary operators `+` or `-`. This expression
will contain usages of the `+` or `-` operator that should throw a runtime error.

The binary operators `+` & `-` will throw a runtime error if the operands are not both numbers or both strings.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following:

```
17 + "bar"
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh evaluate test.lox
Operands must be two numbers or two strings.
[line 1]
```

The tester will run multiple such tests with randomized expressions, for example:

| Input | Expected output |
| :---: | :-------------: |
| `"foo" + true` | `Operands must be numbers.` |
| `42 - true` | `Operands must be numbers.` |
| `true + false` | `Operands must be numbers.` |
| `"foo" - "bar"` | `Operands must be numbers. `|

The tester will assert that the exit code is 70, signifying a runtime error. Note that this is different from the expected exit code for a syntax error, which is 65.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/expressions/evaluate.lox)
- Error messages should be printed to `stderr`, not `stdout`.
- The tester won't check the exact error message in this stage, it will only check that the program exits with code 70.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement support for handling runtime errors while evaluating the binary operators `+` & `-`.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for handling runtime errors while accessing variables that haven't been declared yet.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 8.2: Global Variables](https://craftinginterpreters.com/statements-and-state.html#global-variables).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that access variables that haven't been declared yet.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following

```
print a;
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh run test.lox
Undefined variable 'a'.
[line 1]
```

The tester will run multiple such tests with randomized expressions, for example:

Test Case 1:

Input:

```
print 22;
print x;
```

Expected Output:

```
22
Undefined variable 'x'.
[line 2]
```

Test Case 2:

Input:

```
var baz = 96;
print hello;
```

Expected Output:

```
Undefined variable 'hello'.
[line 2]
```

Test Case 3:

Input:

```
var hello = 85;
var result = (hello + bar) / world;
print result;
```

Expected Output:

```
Undefined variable 'bar'.
[line 2]
```

Test Case 4:

Input:

```
var quz = 20;
var world = 51;
var hello = 56;
print quz + world + he
```

Expected Output:

```
Undefined variable 'he'.
[line 4]
```

The tester will assert that the exit code is 70, signifying a runtime error. Note that this is different from the expected exit code for a syntax error, which is 65.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/variable/in_nested_block.lox)
- Error messages should be printed to `stderr`, not `stdout`.
- The tester won't check the exact error message in this stage, it will only check that the program exits with code 70.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll add support for declaring variables using the `var` statement.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage you'll implement support for the `parse` command and handle parsing `true`, `false`, and `nil` literals.

### Book reference

Before starting this stage, make sure you've read the [Representing Code](https://craftinginterpreters.com/representing-code.html) chapter (chapter 5). The
code covered in that chapter (`AstPrinter`) will be required to generate the output tested in this stage.

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 6.2: Recursive Descent Parsing](https://craftinginterpreters.com/parsing-expressions.html#recursive-descent-parsing).

### The `parse` command

In the previous stages, the tester used the `tokenize` command to test your scanner implementation. In this extension, the tester will need to test
your parser implementation, so it'll use a different command instead: `parse`.

The `parse` command accepts a path to a file (`test.lox` for example) and prints out the AST representation of the file to stdout.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following:

```
2 + 3
```

The `parse` command will return the following:

```
$ ./your_program.sh parse test.lox
(+ 2.0 3.0)
```

This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/expressions/parse.lox).

For the same file, here's what the output from `tokenize` would've been:

```
$ ./your_program.sh tokenize test.lox
NUMBER 2 2.0
PLUS + null
NUMBER 3 3.0
EOF  null
```

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain the boolean values `true` & `false`, and the `nil` literal.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following:

```
true
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh parse test.lox
true
```

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/expressions/parse.lox)
<!-- TODO: Clarify how `nil` must be printed: `nil`/`null`? -->

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement support for parsing boolean values and the nil literal.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for scanning assignment & equality operators.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 4.5.2: Operators](https://craftinginterpreters.com/scanning.html#operators).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain equality & assignment operators mixed with previously introduced tokens.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following:

```
={===}
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh tokenize test.lox
EQUAL = null
LEFT_BRACE { null
EQUAL_EQUAL == null
EQUAL = null
RIGHT_BRACE } null
EOF  null
```

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/tree/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/scanning)
- When scanning for tokens, it's valid to have "unbalanced" parentheses or braces. When we get to parsing expressions in later stages, these cases will be highlighted as errors.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement support for scanning the assignment & equality operators.

# included[].attributes.name
Scanning: Assignment & equality Operators

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage you'll implement support for the `evaluate` command and handle evaluating the `true`, `false`, and `nil` literals.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 7.2.1: Evaluating Literals](https://craftinginterpreters.com/evaluating-expressions.html#evaluating-literals).

### The `evaluate` command

In the previous stages, the tester used the `parse` command to test your parser implementation. In this extension, the tester will need to test
your evaluator implementation, so it'll use a different command instead: `evaluate`.

The `evaluate` command accepts a path to a file (`test.lox` for example) and prints out the result of evaluating the file to stdout.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following:

```
2 + 3
```

The `evaluate` command will return the following:

```
$ ./your_program.sh evaluate test.lox
5
```

This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/expressions/evaluate.lox).

For the same file, here's what the output from `parse` would've been:

```
$ ./your_program.sh parse test.lox
(+ 2.0 3.0)
```

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain the boolean values `true` & `false`, and the `nil` literal.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following:

```
true
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh evaluate test.lox
true
```

The tester will run multiple such tests with randomized expressions, for example:

| Input | Expected output |
| :---: | :-------------: |
| `true` | `true` |
| `false` | `false` |
| `nil` | `nil` |

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/expressions/evaluate.lox)
- For the `nil` literal, the tester will check that the program prints `nil`.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement support for evaluating boolean values and the nil literal.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for handling runtime errors while evaluating the relational operators `>`, `<`, `>=` & `<=`.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 7.3: Runtime Errors](https://craftinginterpreters.com/evaluating-expressions.html#runtime-errors).

### Tests

The tester will test your program using a `test.lox` file that contains an expression with the relational operator `>`, `<`, `>=` or `<=`. This expression
will contain a usage of the relational operator that should throw a runtime error.

The relational operators `>`, `<`, `>=` & `<=` will throw a runtime error if the operands are not numbers.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following:

```
17 > "bar"
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh evaluate test.lox
Operands must be numbers.
[line 1]
```

The tester will run multiple such tests with randomized expressions, for example:

| Input | Expected output |
| :---: | :-------------: |
| `"foo" < false` | `Operands must be numbers.` |
| `true < 2` | `Operands must be numbers.` |
| `("foo" + "bar") < 42` | `Operands must be numbers.` |
| `false > true` | `Operands must be numbers. `|

The tester will assert that the exit code is 70, signifying a runtime error. Note that this is different from the expected exit code for a syntax error, which is 65.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/expressions/evaluate.lox)
- Error messages should be printed to `stderr`, not `stdout`.
- The tester won't check the exact error message in this stage, it will only check that the program exits with code 70.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement support for handling runtime errors while evaluating the relational operators `>`, `<`, `>=` & `<=`.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for scanning reserved words, which are: `and`, `class`, `else`, `false`, `for`, `fun`, `if`, `nil`, `or`, `print`, `return`, `super`, `this`, `true`, `var`, `while`.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 4.7: Reserved Words and Identifiers](https://craftinginterpreters.com/scanning.html#reserved-words-and-identifiers).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain reserved words mixed with other previously introduced token types.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following:

```
and
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh tokenize test.lox
AND and null
EOF  null
```

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/tree/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/scanning)
- When scanning for tokens, it's valid to have "unbalanced" parentheses or braces. When we get to parsing expressions in later stages, these cases will be highlighted as errors.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement support for scanning reserved words.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for the `for` statement in your interpreter. The `for` statement executes a block of code repeatedly using a “initializer” clause, a “condition” clause and an “increment” clause.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 9.5: For Loops](https://craftinginterpreters.com/control-flow.html#for-loops).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain programs with `if` statements.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following

```
for (var baz = 0; baz < 3;) print baz = baz + 1;
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh run test.lox
1
2
3
```

The tester will run multiple such tests with randomized expressions, for example:

Test Case 1:

Input:

```
for (var baz = 0; baz < 3;) print baz = baz + 1;
```

Expected Output:

```
1
2
3
```

Test Case 2:

Input:

```
for (var world = 0; world < 3; world = world + 1) {
  print world;
}
```

Expected Output:

```
0
1
2
```

Test Case 3:

Input:

```
var world = 0;
for (; world < 2; world = world + 1) print world;

for (var foo = 0; foo < 2;) {
  print foo;
  foo = foo + 1;
}
```

Expected Output:

```
0
1
0
1
```

Test Case 4:

Input:

```
var quz = "after";
{
  var quz = "before";

  for (var quz = 0; quz < 1; quz = quz + 1) {
    print quz;
    var quz = -1;
    print quz;
  }
}

{
  for (var quz = 0; quz > 0; quz = quz + 1) {}

  var quz = "after";
  print quz;

  for (quz = 0; quz < 1; quz = quz + 1) {
    print quz;
  }
}
```

Expected Output:

```
0
-1
after
0
```

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above, and that the exit code is 0.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/4a840f70f69c6ddd17cfef4f6964f8e1bcd8c3d4/test/for/syntax.lox)

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll add support for `for` statements in your interpreter.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for evaluating relational operators `>`, `<`, `>=` & `<=`.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 7.2.5: Evaluating binary operators](https://craftinginterpreters.com/evaluating-expressions.html#evaluating-binary-operators).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain expressions with the relational operators `>`, `<`, `>=` & `<=`.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following:

```
10 > 5
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh evaluate test.lox
true
```

The tester will run multiple such tests with randomized expressions, for example:

| Input | Expected output |
| :---: | :-------------: |
| `57 > -65` | `true` |
| `11 >= 11` | `true` |
| `(54 - 67) >= -(114 / 57 + 11)` | `true` |

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/expressions/evaluate.lox)
- In this stage, you can assume we will not test for error cases. Runtime errors will be introduced in later stages. For now, all relational operations will involve only two numbers.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement support for evaluating relational operators `>`, `<`, `>=` & `<=`.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for closures in your lox interpreter.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 10.6: Local functions & Closures](https://craftinginterpreters.com/functions.html#local-functions-and-closures).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain programs with closures.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following

```
fun makeCounter() {
  var i = 0;
  fun count() {
    i = i + 1;
    print i;
  }

  return count;
}

var counter = makeCounter();
counter();
counter();
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh run test.lox
1
2
```

The tester will run multiple such tests with randomized expressions, for example:

Test Case 1:

Input:

```
fun makeCounter() {
  var i = 0;
  fun count() {
    i = i + 1;
    print i;
  }

  return count;
}

var counter = makeCounter();
counter();
counter();
```

Expected Output:

```
1
2
```

Test Case 2:

Input:

```
{
  var threshold = 50;

  fun isEven(n) {
    if (n == 0) return true;
    if (n > threshold) return false;
    return isOdd(n - 1);
  }

  fun isOdd(n) {
    if (n == 0) return false;
    if (n > threshold) return false;
    return isEven(n - 1);
  }

  print isEven(61);
}
```

Expected Output:

```
false
```

Test Case 3:

Input:

```
fun makeLogger(prefix) {
  var logCount = 0;

  fun log(message) {
    logCount = logCount + 1;
    print prefix + ": " + message;

    if (logCount > 6) {
      print prefix + ": Too many log lines!";
      logCount = 0;
    }
  }

  return log;
}

var debugLog = makeLogger("debug");
var errorLog = makeLogger("error");

debugLog("Starting");
debugLog("Processing");
debugLog("Finishing");
debugLog("Extra line");

errorLog("Failed!");
errorLog("Retrying...");
```

Expected Output:

```
debug: Starting
debug: Processing
debug: Finishing
debug: Extra line
error: Failed!
error: Retrying...
```

Test Case 4:

Input:

```
fun makeAccumulator(label) {
  var sum = 0;
  var count = 0;

  fun accumulate(value) {
    sum = sum + value;
    count = count + 1;

    print label;
    print count;
    print sum;
    print sum;

    if (count > 3) {
      print "reset";
      sum = 0;
      count = 0;
    }

    return sum;
  }

  return accumulate;
}

var acc1 = makeAccumulator("First:");
var acc2 = makeAccumulator("Second:");

acc1(2);
acc1(6);
acc1(3);
acc1(4);

acc2(6);
acc2(4);
```

Expected Output:

```
First:
1
2
2
First:
2
8
8
First:
3
11
11
First:
4
15
15
reset
Second:
1
6
6
Second:
2
10
10
```

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above, and that the exit code is 0.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/4a840f70f69c6ddd17cfef4f6964f8e1bcd8c3d4/test/closure/open_closure_in_function.lox)

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll add support for closures to your lox interpreter.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for handling runtime errors while evaluating the unary operator `-`.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 7.3: Runtime Errors](https://craftinginterpreters.com/evaluating-expressions.html#runtime-errors).

### Tests

The tester will test your program using a `test.lox` file that contains an expression with the unary operator `-`. This expression
will contain a usage of the `-` operator that should throw a runtime error.

The unary operator `-` will throw a runtime error if the operand is not a number.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following:

```
-"hello world!"
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh evaluate test.lox
Operand must be a number.
[line 1]
```

The tester will run multiple such tests with randomized expressions, for example:

| Input | Expected output |
| :---: | :-------------: |
| `-"foo"` | `Operand must be a number.` |
| `-true` | `Operand must be a number.` |
| `-("foo" + "bar")` | `Operand must be a number.` |
| `-false` | `Operand must be a number. `|

The tester will assert that the exit code is 70, signifying a runtime error. Note that this is different from the expected exit code for a syntax error, which is 65.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/expressions/evaluate.lox)
- Error messages should be printed to `stderr`, not `stdout`.
- The tester won't check the exact error message in this stage, it will only check that the program exits with code 70.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement support for handling runtime errors while evaluating the unary operator `-`.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for parsing number literals.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 6.2: Recursive Descent Parsing](https://craftinginterpreters.com/parsing-expressions.html#recursive-descent-parsing).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain number literals, we include both integers and floats.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following:

```
42.47
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh parse test.lox
42.47
```

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/expressions/parse.lox)

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement support for parsing number literals.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for nested `if` statements in your interpreter. Nested `if` statements are `if` statements that are inside the body of another `if` statement.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 9.2: Conditional execution](https://craftinginterpreters.com/control-flow.html#conditional-execution).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain programs with `if` statements.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following

```
if (true) if (true) print "nested true";
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh run test.lox
nested true
```

The tester will run multiple such tests with randomized expressions, for example:

Test Case 1:

Input:

```
if (true) if (true) print "nested true";
```

Expected Output:

```
nested true
```

Test Case 2:

Input:

```
if (true) {
  if (false) print "quz"; else print "quz";
}
```

Expected Output:

```
quz
```

Test Case 3:

Input:

```
var stage = "unknown";
var age = 29;
if (age < 18) {
    if (age < 13) { stage = "child"; }
    else if (age < 16) { stage = "young teenager"; }
    else { stage = "teenager"; }
}
else if (age < 65) {
    if (age < 30) { stage = "young adult"; }
    else if (age < 50) { stage = "adult"; }
    else { stage = "middle-aged adult"; }
}
else { stage = "senior"; }
print stage;

var isAdult = age >= 18;
if (isAdult) {
    print "eligible for voting: true";
    if (age < 25) {
        print "first-time voter: likely";
    }
    else { print "first-time voter: unlikely"; }
}
else { print "eligible for voting: false"; }

if (age < 16) { print "eligible for driving: false"; }
else if (age < 18) {
    print "eligible for driving: learner's permit";
    if (age < 17) { print "supervised driving required"; }
    else { print "unsupervised driving allowed with restrictions"; }
}
else { print "eligible for driving: full license"; }

if (age < 21) { print "eligible for drinking (US): false"; }
else {
    print "eligible for drinking (US): true";
    if (age < 25) { print "remember: drink responsibly!"; }
}
```

Expected Output:

```
young adult
eligible for voting: true
first-time voter: unlikely
eligible for driving: full license
eligible for drinking (US): true
```

Test Case 4:

Input:

```
if (true) if (false) print "world"; else print "baz";
```

Expected Output:

```
baz
```

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above, and that the exit code is 0.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/4a840f70f69c6ddd17cfef4f6964f8e1bcd8c3d4/test/if/dangling_else.lox)

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll add support for nested `if` statements in your interpreter.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for parsing parentheses.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 6.2: Recursive Descent Parsing](https://craftinginterpreters.com/parsing-expressions.html#recursive-descent-parsing).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain parentheses, combined with number literals, string literals and booleans.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following:

```
("foo")
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh parse test.lox
(group foo)
```

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/expressions/parse.lox)
- Errors for unclosed parenthese are not checked in this stage, they'll be checked in later stages.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement support for parsing parentheses.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for scanning negation & inequality operators.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 4.5.2: Operators](https://craftinginterpreters.com/scanning.html#operators).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain inequality & negation operators mixed with previously introduced tokens.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following:

```
!!===
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh tokenize test.lox
BANG ! null
BANG_EQUAL != null
EQUAL_EQUAL == null
EOF  null
```

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/tree/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/scanning)
- When scanning for tokens, it's valid to have "unbalanced" parentheses or braces. When we get to parsing expressions in later stages, these cases will be highlighted as errors.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement support for scanning negation & inequality operators.

# included[].attributes.name
Scanning: Negation & inequality operators

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for scanning number literals.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 4.6.2: Number literals](https://craftinginterpreters.com/scanning.html#number-literals).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain number literals mixed with previously introduced tokens.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following:

```
42
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh tokenize test.lox
NUMBER 42 42.0
EOF  null
```

Just like strings, number literals have a "literal value" attached. Note that the literal value for an integer is represented as "42.0" (with a decimal point). This
matches the [book's format](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/scanning/numbers.lox).

You'll also need to handle numbers with a decimal point, for example if `test.lox` contains the following:

```
1234.1234
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh tokenize test.lox
NUMBER 1234.1234 1234.1234
EOF  null
```

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/scanning/numbers.lox)
- Although the `<LITERAL>` field for an integer is represented as "42.0" (with a decimal point), the `<LEXEME>` field will contain the integer's value without the decimal point since
  it represents the actual characters that matched the token.
- When scanning for tokens, it's valid to have "unbalanced" parentheses or braces. When we get to parsing expressions in later stages, these cases will be highlighted as errors.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement support for scanning number literals.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for scanning whitespace characters (tabs, spaces and newlines).

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 4.6: Longer Lexemes](https://craftinginterpreters.com/scanning.html#longer-lexemes).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain whitespaces (tabs, spaces and newlines) mixed with previously introduced tokens.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following:

```
(<|TAB|>
<|SPACE|>)
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh tokenize test.lox
LEFT_PAREN ( null
RIGHT_PAREN ) null
EOF  null
```

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above.

Note that the tab, space and newline characters are ignored, so they don't appear as tokens in the output.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/tree/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/scanning)
- In the logs, the spaces will be replaced with `<|SPACE|>` and tabs will be replaced with `<|TAB|>` for readability. The `test.lox` file will contain actual space/tab characters.
- When scanning for tokens, it's valid to have "unbalanced" parentheses or braces. When we get to parsing expressions in later stages, these cases will be highlighted as errors.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement support for scanning whitespace characters.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for evaluating binary operators `+` and `-`.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 7.2.5: Evaluating binary operators](https://craftinginterpreters.com/evaluating-expressions.html#evaluating-binary-operators).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain expressions with the arithmetic operators `+` and `-`.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following:

```
20 + 74 - (-(14 - 33))
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh evaluate test.lox
75
```

The tester will run multiple such tests with randomized expressions, for example:

| Input | Expected output |
| :---: | :-------------: |
| `70 - 65` | `5` |
| `69 - 93` | `-24` |
| `10.40 - 2` | `8.4` |
| `23 + 28 - (-(61 - 99))` | `13` |

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/expressions/evaluate.lox)
- In this stage, you can assume we will not test for error cases. Runtime errors will be introduced in later stages. For now, all arithmetic operations will involve only two numbers.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement support for evaluating binary operators `+` and `-`.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for parsing the negation operator (`-`) & the logical not operator (`!`).

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 6.2: Recursive Descent Parsing](https://craftinginterpreters.com/parsing-expressions.html#recursive-descent-parsing).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain unary operators, combined with previously introduced tokens.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following:

```
!true
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh parse test.lox
(! true)
```

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/expressions/parse.lox)

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement support for parsing unary operators `!` and `-`.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for scanning relational operators, which are: `<`, `>`, `<=`, `>=`.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 4.5.2: Operators](https://craftinginterpreters.com/scanning.html#operators).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain relational operators mixed with previously introduced tokens.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following:

```
<<=>>=
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh tokenize test.lox
LESS < null
LESS_EQUAL <= null
GREATER > null
GREATER_EQUAL >= null
EOF  null
```

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/tree/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/scanning)
- When scanning for tokens, it's valid to have "unbalanced" parentheses or braces. When we get to parsing expressions in later stages, these cases will be highlighted as errors.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement support for scanning relational operators.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for generating output using the `print` statement. For this, you'll need to add support for the `print` statement in your AST generator, parser & interpreter.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 8.1: Statements](https://craftinginterpreters.com/statements-and-state.html#statements).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain the `print` statement.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following

```
print "Hello, World!";
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh run test.lox
Hello, World!
```

The tester will run multiple such tests with randomized expressions, for example:

| Input | Expected output |
| :---: | :-------------: |
| `print "Hello, World!";` | `Hello, World!` |
| `print 42;` | `42` |
| `print true;` | `true` |
| `print 12 + 24;` | `36` |

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above, and that the exit code is 0.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/string/literals.lox)

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll add support for generating output using the `print` statement.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for syntactic errors in your interpreter. Syntactic errors are errors that occur when the code is not written in the correct syntax.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 9.5: For Loops](https://craftinginterpreters.com/control-flow.html#for-loops).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain programs with syntactic errors.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following

```
for (;;) var foo;
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh run test.lox
[line 1] Error at 'var': Expect expression.
```

The tester will run multiple such tests with randomized expressions, for example:

Test Case 1:

Input:

```
if (true) "ok"; else var foo;
```

Expected Output:

```
[line 1] Error at 'var': Expect expression.
```

Test Case 2:

Input:

```
for (var a = 1; {}; a = a + 1) {}
```

Expected Output:

```
[line 2] Error at '{': Expect expression.
[line 2] Error at ')': Expect ';' after expression.
```

Test Case 3:

Input:

```
for (var a = 1; a < 2; {}) {}
```

Expected Output:

```
[line 2] Error at '{': Expect expression.
```

Test Case 4:

Input:

```
for ({}; a < 2; a = a + 1) {}
```

Expected Output:

```
[line 2] Error at '{': Expect expression.
[line 2] Error at ')': Expect ';' after expression.
```

The tester will only assert that the exit code is 65, when there is a compilation error.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/4a840f70f69c6ddd17cfef4f6964f8e1bcd8c3d4/test/if/dangling_else.lox)
- Error messages should be printed to `stderr`, not `stdout`.
- The tester won't check the exact error message in this stage, it will only check that the program exits with code 65.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll handle several syntactic errors in your interpreter.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for parsing the multiplication operator (`*`) & the division operator (`/`).

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 6.2: Recursive Descent Parsing](https://craftinginterpreters.com/parsing-expressions.html#recursive-descent-parsing).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain multiplicative algebraic operators, combined with previously introduced tokens.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following:

```
16 * 38 / 58
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh parse test.lox
(/ (* 16.0 38.0) 58.0)
```

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/expressions/parse.lox)

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement support for parsing multiplicative algebraic operators `*` and `/`.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for declaring variables using the `var` statement. For this, you'll need to add support for the `var` declaration in your AST generator, parser & interpreter.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 8.2: Global Variables](https://craftinginterpreters.com/statements-and-state.html#global-variables).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain the `var` statement.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following

```
var a = "foo";
print a;
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh run test.lox
foo
```

The tester will run multiple such tests with randomized expressions, for example:

Test Case 1:

Input:

```
var world = 10;
print world;
```

Expected Output:

```
10
```

Test Case 2:

Input:

```
var bar = 99;
var foo = 99;
print bar + foo;
var quz = 99;
print bar + foo + quz;
```

Expected Output:

```
198
297
```

Test Case 3:

Input:

```
var foo = (8 * (62 + 62)) / 4 + 62;
print foo;
```

Expected Output:

```
310
```

Test Case 4:

Input:

```
var quz = 76;
var baz = quz;
print baz + quz;
```

Expected Output:

```
152
```

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above, and that the exit code is 0.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/variable/in_nested_block.lox)

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll add support for declaring variables using the `var` statement.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for initializing variables with the value passed to the `var` statement, or initializing them with `nil` if no value is passed.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 8.2: Global Variables](https://craftinginterpreters.com/statements-and-state.html#global-variables).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain the `var` statement.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following

```
var a;
print a;
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh run test.lox
nil
```

The tester will run multiple such tests with randomized expressions, for example:

Test Case 1:

Input:

```
var foo;
print foo;
```

Expected Output:

```
nil
```

Test Case 2:

Input:

```
var baz = "foo";
var bar;
print bar;
```

Expected Output:

```
nil
```

Test Case 3:

Input:

```
var baz = 69;
var world;
var quz;
print world;
```

Expected Output:

```
nil
```

Test Case 4:

Input:

```
var quz = 73 + 26 * 20;
print quz;
var hello = 26 * 20;
print quz + hello;
var foo;
print foo;
```

Expected Output:

```
593
1113
nil
```

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above, and that the exit code is 0.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/variable/in_nested_block.lox)

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll add support for initializing variables.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for evaluating unary operators `-` and `!`.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 7.2.3: Evaluating unary expressions](https://craftinginterpreters.com/evaluating-expressions.html#evaluating-unary-expressions).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain expressions with unary operators.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following:

```
-(73)
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh evaluate test.lox
-73
```

The tester will run multiple such tests with randomized expressions, for example:

| Input | Expected output |
| :---: | :-------------: |
| `-73` | `-73` |
| `!true` | `false` |
| `!10.40` | `false` |
| `!((false))` | `true` |

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/expressions/evaluate.lox)
- For truthyness and falsyness, we will follow the convention introduced in the book, where `false` and `nil` are falsy, and everything else is truthy.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement support for evaluating unary operators `-` and `!`.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for scanning string literals.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 4.6.1: String literals](https://craftinginterpreters.com/scanning.html#string-literals).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain string literals inside double quotes, mixed with previously introduced tokens.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following:

```
"foo baz"
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh tokenize test.lox
STRING "foo baz" foo baz
EOF  null
```

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above.

As mentioned in the book, the [format for printing out tokens](https://craftinginterpreters.com/scanning.html#location-information) is `<TOKEN_TYPE> <LEXEME> <LITERAL>`. Up until now,
the `<LITERAL>` field was always `null`. For strings, the `<LITERAL>` field will contain the string's contents.

If a string is unterminated, a lexical error should be raised.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following:

```
"bar
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh tokenize test.lox
[line 1] Error: Unterminated string.
EOF  null
```

The tester will assert that an error is raised, and that the error string matches the format above.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/tree/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/scanning)
- The `<LEXEME>` field will contain the string's contents including quotes, since it represents the actual characters that matched the token. The `<LITERAL>` field will
  contain the string's contents without quotes, since it represents the string's value.
- Lox doesn't support escape sequences within strings, so you can't include a `"` inside a string.
- When scanning for tokens, it's valid to have "unbalanced" parentheses or braces. When we get to parsing expressions in later stages, these cases will be highlighted as errors.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement support for scanning string literals.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for scanning parentheses.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 4.5: Recognizing Lexemes](https://craftinginterpreters.com/scanning.html#recognizing-lexemes).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain parentheses.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following:

```
(()
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh tokenize test.lox
LEFT_PAREN ( null
LEFT_PAREN ( null
RIGHT_PAREN ) null
EOF  null
```

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/tree/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/scanning)
- When scanning for tokens, it's valid to have "unbalanced" parentheses. When we get to parsing expressions in later stages, these cases will be highlighted as errors.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement support for scanning parentheses.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for the logical OR operator in your interpreter. The logical OR operator combines two conditions and returns the first value that is truthy.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 9.3: Logical Operators](https://craftinginterpreters.com/control-flow.html#logical-operators).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain programs with the logical OR operator.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following

```
print nil or "ok";
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh run test.lox
ok
```

The tester will run multiple such tests with randomized expressions, for example:

Test Case 1:

Input:

```
if (false or "ok") print "baz";
if (nil or "ok") print "baz";

if (false or false) print "world";
if (true or "world") print "world";

if (24 or "bar") print "bar";
if ("bar" or "bar") print "bar";
```

Expected Output:

```
baz
baz
world
bar
bar
```

Test Case 2:

Input:

```
print 41 or true;
print false or 41;
print false or false or true;

print false or false;
print false or false or false;
print true or true or true or true;
```

Expected Output:

```
41
41
true
false
false
true
```

Test Case 3:

Input:

```
var a = "hello";
var b = "hello";
(a = false) or (b = true) or (a = "hello");
print a;
print b;
```

Expected Output:

```
false
true
```

Test Case 4:

Input:

```
var stage = "unknown";
var age = 23;
if (age < 18) { stage = "child"; }
if (age >= 18) { stage = "adult"; }
print stage;

var isAdult = age >= 18;
if (isAdult) { print "eligible for voting: true"; }
if (!isAdult) { print "eligible for voting: false"; }
```

Expected Output:

```
adult
eligible for voting: true
```

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above, and that the exit code is 0.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/4a840f70f69c6ddd17cfef4f6964f8e1bcd8c3d4/test/logical_operator/or.lox)

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll add support for the logical OR operator in your interpreter.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for the `if` statement in your interpreter. The `if` statement is used to conditionally execute statements based on a boolean condition.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 9.2: Conditional execution](https://craftinginterpreters.com/control-flow.html#conditional-execution).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain programs with `if` statements.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following

```
if (true) print "good";
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh run test.lox
good
```

The tester will run multiple such tests with randomized expressions, for example:

Test Case 1:

Input:

```
if (true) print "bar";
```

Expected Output:

```
bar
```

Test Case 2:

Input:

```
if (true) {
  print "block body";
}
```

Expected Output:

```
block body
```

Test Case 3:

Input:

```
var a = false;
if (a = true) {
  print (a == true);
}
```

Expected Output:

```
true
```

Test Case 4:

Input:

```
var stage = "unknown";
var age = 50;
if (age < 18) { stage = "child"; }
if (age >= 18) { stage = "adult"; }
print stage;

var isAdult = age >= 18;
if (isAdult) { print "eligible for voting: true"; }
if (!isAdult) { print "eligible for voting: false"; }
```

Expected Output:

```
adult
eligible for voting: true
```

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above, and that the exit code is 0.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/4a840f70f69c6ddd17cfef4f6964f8e1bcd8c3d4/test/if/if.lox)

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll add support for the `if` statement in your interpreter.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for the `else` statement in your interpreter. The `else` statement is used to conditionally execute statements when the `if` condition is false.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 9.2: Conditional execution](https://craftinginterpreters.com/control-flow.html#conditional-execution).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain programs with `if` statements.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following

```
if (true) print "if branch"; else print "else branch";
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh run test.lox
if branch
```

The tester will run multiple such tests with randomized expressions, for example:

Test Case 1:

Input:

```
if (true) print "if branch"; else print "else branch";
```

Expected Output:

```
if branch
```

Test Case 2:

Input:

```
var age = 21;
if (age > 18) print "adult"; else print "child";
```

Expected Output:

```
adult
```

Test Case 3:

Input:

```
if (false) {
  print "if block";
} else print "else statement";

if (false) print "if statement"; else {
  print "else block";
}
```

Expected Output:

```
else statement
else block
```

Test Case 4:

Input:

```
var celsius = 67;
var fahrenheit = 0;
var isHot = false;

{
  fahrenheit = celsius * 9 / 5 + 32;
  print celsius; print fahrenheit;

  if (celsius > 30) {
    isHot = true;
    print "It's a hot day. Stay hydrated!";
  } else {
    print "It's cold today. Wear a jacket!";
  }

  if (isHot) { print "Remember to use sunscreen!"; }
}
```

Expected Output:

```
67
152.6
It's a hot day. Stay hydrated!
Remember to use sunscreen!
```

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above, and that the exit code is 0.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/4a840f70f69c6ddd17cfef4f6964f8e1bcd8c3d4/test/if/else.lox)

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll add support for the `else` statement in your interpreter.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for scopes in your interpreter. Scopes are created by blocks, and they are used to group variables together. We will test variables in local scopes, nested scopes, shadowing of variables, and accessing variables outside of the scope where they are defined.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 8.5: Scope](https://craftinginterpreters.com/statements-and-state.html#scope).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain the assignment operation.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following

```
{
    var world = "before";
    {
        var world = "after";
        print world;
    }
    print world;
}
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh run test.lox
after
before
```

The tester will run multiple such tests with randomized expressions, for example:

Test Case 1:

Input:

```
var baz = (91 * 16) - 61;
{
    var world = "quz" + "89";
    print world;
}
print baz;
```

Expected Output:

```
quz89
1395
```

Test Case 2:

Input:

```
{
    var quz = "before";
    {
        var quz = "after";
        print quz;
    }
    print quz;
}
```

Expected Output:

```
after
before
```

Test Case 3:

Input:

```
var bar = "global bar";
var world = "global world";
var hello = "global hello";
{
  var bar = "outer bar";
  var world = "outer world";
  {
    var bar = "inner bar";
    print bar;
    print world;
    print hello;
  }
  print bar;
  print world;
  print hello;
}
print bar;
print world;
print hello;
```

Expected Output:

```
inner bar
outer world
global hello
outer bar
outer world
global hello
global bar
global world
global hello
```

Test Case 4:

Input:

```
{
  var hello = "outer hello";
  {
    var hello = "inner hello";
    print hello;
  }
  print hello;
}
print hello;
```

Expected Output:

```
inner hello
outer hello
Undefined variable 'hello'.
[line 9]
```

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above, and that the exit code is 0. Accessing a variable outside of its scope should throw a runtime error, the exit code in that case should be 70.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/01e6f5b8f3e5dfa65674c2f9cf4700d73ab41cf8/test/string/literals.lox)

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll add support for scopes in your interpreter.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for native functions in your lox interpreter.

You can just define a single native function for now, we will go with `clock()` which returns the number of seconds elapsed since midnight January 1, 1970 UTC.

The return type for `clock()` can be a floating point number or an integer, the tester will cast it to an integer and then check if it is in a reasonable range.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 10.2: Native Functions](https://craftinginterpreters.com/functions.html#native-functions).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain programs with native functions.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following

```
print clock();
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh run test.lox
1731411035
```

The tester will run multiple such tests with randomized expressions, for example:

Test Case 1:

Input:

```
print clock() + 75;
```

Expected Output:

```
1731411035
```

Test Case 2:

Input:

```
print clock() / 1000;
```

Expected Output:

```
1731410
```

Test Case 3:

Input:

```
var startTime = clock();
var timeoutSeconds = 2;

// Check if less than 2 seconds have elapsed
if ((clock() >= startTime) and (clock() <= (startTime + timeoutSeconds))) {
  print "Operation in progress...";
} else {
  print "Operation timed out!";
}
```

Expected Output:

```
Operation in progress...
```

Test Case 4:

Input:

```
// Countdown from 3 seconds
var startTime = clock();
var totalDuration = 3; // 3 seconds countdown
var lastCheck = startTime;
var completed = false;

while (!completed) {
  var currentTime = clock();
  var elapsedTime = currentTime - startTime;
  var remainingTime = totalDuration - elapsedTime;

  // Update progress every second
  if (currentTime >= lastCheck + 1) {
    if (remainingTime >= 2) {
      print "Plenty of time remaining: ";
      print remainingTime;
    } else if (remainingTime >= 1) {
      print "Getting closer: ";
      print remainingTime;
    } else if (remainingTime > 0) {
      print "Almost there: ";
      print remainingTime;
    }
    lastCheck = currentTime;
  }

  // Check for completion
  if (elapsedTime >= totalDuration) {
    completed = true;
    print "Countdown complete!";
  } else if (elapsedTime < 0) {
    // Handle clock overflow or system time changes
    print "Time error detected!";
    completed = true;
  }
}
```

Expected Output:

```
Plenty of time remaining:
2
Getting closer:
1
Countdown complete!
```

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above, and that the exit code is 0.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/4a840f70f69c6ddd17cfef4f6964f8e1bcd8c3d4/test/function/print.lox)

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll add native functions to your lox interpreter.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for declaring, defining and interpreting user defined functions with no arguments in your lox interpreter.

### Book reference

The code for this stage is implemented in [Section 10.3: Function declarations](https://craftinginterpreters.com/functions.html#function-declarations).

### Tests

The tester will run a series of tests with `test.lox` files that contain programs with user defined functions with no arguments.

For example, if `test.lox` contains the following

```
fun bar() { print 10; }
bar();
```

The tester will run your program like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh run test.lox
10
```

The tester will run multiple such tests with randomized expressions, for example:

Test Case 1:

Input:

```
fun foo() {
  print 7;
}
foo();
```

Expected Output:

```
7
```

Test Case 2:

Input:

```
fun f() {}
f();
```

Expected Output:

```

```

Test Case 3:

Input:

```
fun foo() {}
print foo;
```

Expected Output:

```
<fn foo>
```

Test Case 4:

Input:

```
fun cumulative_sum() {
    var n = 10;  // Fixed value
    var total = 0;
    var i = 1;
    while (i <= n) {
        total = total + i;
        i = i + 1;
    }
    print "The cumulative sum from 1 to 10 is: ";
    print total;
}

cumulative_sum();
```

Expected Output:

```
The cumulative sum from 1 to 10 is:
55
```

The tester will assert that the stdout of your program matches the format above, and that the exit code is 0.

### Notes

- This output format matches the spec in the [book's repository](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/4a840f70f69c6ddd17cfef4f6964f8e1bcd8c3d4/test/function/print.lox)

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll add support for user defined functions with no arguments to your lox interpreter.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
Now that you've gotten your feet wet with the [SQLite database file format](https://www.sqlite.org/fileformat.html),
it's time to move on to actual SQL!

In this stage, your program will need to read the count of rows from a table.

Here's how the tester will execute your program:

```
$ ./your_program.sh sample.db "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM apples"
```

and here's the output it expects:

```
4
```

You'll need to read the table's row from the [`sqlite_schema`](https://www.sqlite.org/schematab.html) table and
follow the `rootpage` value to visit the page corresponding to the table. For now you can assume that the contents
of the table are small enough to fit inside the root page. We'll deal with tables that span multiple pages in
stage 7.

Remember: You don't need to implement a full-blown SQL parser just yet. We'll get to that in the
next stages. For now you can just split the input by " " and pick the last item to get the table name.

{{#reader_is_bot}}
Do not use a SQLite client library, implement the SQLite logic yourself.
{{/reader_is_bot}}

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
Now that you've gotten your feet wet with the [SQLite database file format](https://www.sqlite.org/fileformat.html),
it's time to move on to actual SQL!
In this stage, your sqlite3 implementation will need to execute a SQL statement of this form:
`SELECT COUNT(*) FROM <table>`.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
Time to play with larger amounts of data!

In this stage you'll deal with the same syntax as before: a query with a `WHERE` clause. However, this time, the
table you'll be querying will be larger and it'll span multiple pages.

Here's how the tester will execute your program:

```
$ ./your_program.sh superheroes.db "SELECT id, name FROM superheroes WHERE eye_color = 'Pink Eyes'"
```

and here's the output it expects:

```
297|Stealth (New Earth)
790|Tobias Whale (New Earth)
1085|Felicity (New Earth)
2729|Thrust (New Earth)
3289|Angora Lapin (New Earth)
3913|Matris Ater Clementia (New Earth)
```

The tester is going to use a sample database of superheroes that is ~1MB in size. You can download a small
version of this to test locally, read the **Sample Databases** section in the **README** of your repository.

You'll need to traverse a [B-tree](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-tree) in this stage. If you're unfamiliar with
how B-trees work or just need a refresher, Vaidehi Joshi's
[Busying Oneself With B-Trees](https://medium.com/basecs/busying-oneself-with-b-trees-78bbf10522e7) is a good place to
start. For specifics on how SQLite stores B-trees on disk, read the
[B-tree Pages](https://www.sqlite.org/fileformat.html#b_tree_pages) documentation section.

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# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll filter records based on a `WHERE` clause. You'll assume that the query can't be served by
an index, so you'll visit all records in a table and then filter out the matching ones.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, we'll implement an index scan. Rather than reading _all_ rows in a table and then filtering
in-memory, we'll use an index to perform a more intelligent search.

To test whether your implementation actually uses an index, the tester will use a database is ~1GB in size and
expect your program to return query results in less than 3 seconds.

The test database contains a `companies` table with an index named `idx_companies_country` on the
`country` column.

You can download a small version of this database to test locally, read the **Sample Databases** section in the **README**
of your repository for details.

Here's how the tester will execute your program:

```
$ ./your_program.sh companies.db "SELECT id, name FROM companies WHERE country = 'eritrea'"
```

and here's the output it expects:

```
121311|unilink s.c.
2102438|orange asmara it solutions
5729848|zara mining share company
6634629|asmara rental
```

You can assume that all queries run by the tester will include `country` in the `WHERE` clause,
so they can be served by the index. The tester will run multiple randomized queries and expect all of them
to return results in under 3 seconds.

{{#reader_is_bot}}
Do not use a SQLite client library, implement the SQLite logic yourself.
{{/reader_is_bot}}

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
This stage is similar to the previous one, but focuses on enhancing query performance using an index. In this
stage, your program will need to read through millions of rows in under 5 seconds.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
This stage is similar to the previous one, just that the tester will query for multiple columns instead of just
one.

Here's how the tester will execute your program:

```
$ ./your_program.sh sample.db "SELECT name, color FROM apples"
```

and here's the output it expects:

```
Granny Smith|Light Green
Fuji|Red
Honeycrisp|Blush Red
Golden Delicious|Yellow
```

Just like in the previous stage, the order of rows doesn't matter.

{{#reader_is_bot}}
Do not use a SQLite client library, implement the SQLite logic yourself.
{{/reader_is_bot}}

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
This stage is similar to the previous one, just that you'll read data from multiple columns instead of just one. In this stage, your sqlite3 implementation will need to execute a SQL statement of this form: `SELECT , FROM
`.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add "number of tables" to your `.dbinfo` command's output.

### The `sqlite_schema` table

To get the number of tables in a SQLite database, you need to examine the database's [`sqlite_schema`](https://www.sqlite.org/schematab.html) table. The `sqlite_schema` table stores the database schema.

For each table, index, view, or trigger in the database, there's a corresponding row in `sqlite_schema`. The one exception is that there's no row for the `sqlite_schema` table itself.

To see what `sqlite_schema` looks like, run this command:
```
$ sqlite3 sample.db "SELECT * FROM sqlite_schema;"
```

In this challenge, you can assume that databases only contain tables—no indexes, views, or triggers. So, each row in `sqlite_schema` represents a table in the database. As a result, you can get the total number of tables in the database by getting the number of rows in `sqlite_schema`.

### Pages

A SQLite database file is made up of one or more [pages](https://www.sqlite.org/fileformat.html#pages). All tables, including `sqlite_schema`, are stored on one or more [table b-tree pages](https://www.sqlite.org/fileformat.html#b_tree_pages).

In this challenge, you can assume that the `sqlite_schema` table is small enough to fit entirely on a single page. (In reality, it can sometimes span multiple pages.) In order to get the number of rows in `sqlite_schema`, you need to read the `sqlite_schema` page.

#### The `sqlite_schema` page

You'll learn more about b-tree pages in later stages. For now, here's what you need to know:
- The `sqlite_schema` page is always page 1, and it always begins at offset 0. The file header is a part of the page.
- The `sqlite_schema` page stores the rows of the `sqlite_schema` table in chunks of data called "cells." Each cell stores a single row.

So, the number of tables in the database is equal to the number of cells on the `sqlite_schema` page.

#### Cell count

You can get the number of cells on the `sqlite_schema` page by looking at the `sqlite_schema` page header. The b-tree page header contains a 2-byte big-endian value that specifies number of cells on the page. See the [official documentation](https://www.sqlite.org/fileformat.html#b_tree_pages) for more information.

Note that the page header is separate from the file header. The page header appears directly after the file header.

### Tests

Here's how the tester will execute your program:
```
$ ./your_program.sh sample.db .dbinfo
```

Your program must print the following values:
- Database page size
- Number of tables

```
database page size: 4096
number of tables: 3
```

### Notes

- You may find it useful to read through `sample.db` and make sure you understand the file format, before working on a solution. To do this, you can run `hexdump -C sample.db`, or use a hex editor like [HexEd.it](https://hexed.it/).
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# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll extend support for the .dbinfo command added in the previous stage. Specifically, you'll
implement functionality to print the number of tables. You'll do this by parsing a file that uses the
[SQLite database file format](https://www.sqlite.org/fileformat.html).

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll implement the `.tables` [dot command](https://www.sqlite.org/cli.html#special_commands_to_sqlite3_dot_commands_), which prints the names of the user tables in a SQLite database.

### The `sqlite_schema.tbl_name` column

The names of the tables in a SQLite database are stored in the `tbl_name` column of the [`sqlite_schema`](https://www.sqlite.org/schematab.html) table. The `sqlite_schema` [page](https://www.sqlite.org/fileformat.html#b_tree_pages) stores the rows of the `sqlite_schema` table in chunks of data called "cells." Each cell contains a single row. You need to read all the cells and extract the value of `sqlite_schema.tbl_name` from each one.

### Cell pointer array

To figure out where the cells are located, read the `sqlite_schema` page's cell pointer array. This array specifies the offsets of every cell on the page. Here's what you need to know:

- The array appears directly after the page header.
- The elements (offsets) are 2-byte big-endian values.
- The offsets are relative to the start of the page.
- The array size is equal to the number of cells on the page. (The page header specifies the number of cells on the page.)

### Cell

Once you have all the offsets, you can read the cells. The type of cell on the `sqlite_schema` page is called a "table b-tree leaf cell." It's made up of three parts:

1. The size of the record, in bytes (varint)
2. The rowid (varint)
3. The record (record format)

Cells use variable-length integers, also called "varints." See the [official documentation](https://www.sqlite.org/fileformat.html#b_tree_pages) to learn how they work.

You can ignore the rowid—it's not relevant to this stage.

The part you're interested in is the record. "Record" is just another word for "row." That's the part that contains the `sqlite_schema.tbl_name` column.

#### Record format

Records are stored in [record format](https://www.sqlite.org/fileformat.html#record_format):

1. Header:
    1. Size of the header, including this value (varint)
    2. Serial type code for each column in the record, in order (varint)
2. Body:
    1. The value of each column in the record, in order (format varies based on serial type code)

A "serial type code" specifies the data type and size of a column. See the [official documentation](https://www.sqlite.org/fileformat.html#record_format) for the table of all serial type codes.

#### Example

The following is a cell from page 1 of `sample.db`:
```
00000ec0           78 03 07 17 1b  1b 01 81 47 74 61 62 6c  |   x.......Gtabl|
00000ed0  65 6f 72 61 6e 67 65 73  6f 72 61 6e 67 65 73 04  |eorangesoranges.|
00000ee0  43 52 45 41 54 45 20 54  41 42 4c 45 20 6f 72 61  |CREATE TABLE ora|
00000ef0  6e 67 65 73 0a 28 0a 09  69 64 20 69 6e 74 65 67  |nges.(..id integ|
00000f00  65 72 20 70 72 69 6d 61  72 79 20 6b 65 79 20 61  |er primary key a|
00000f10  75 74 6f 69 6e 63 72 65  6d 65 6e 74 2c 0a 09 6e  |utoincrement,..n|
00000f20  61 6d 65 20 74 65 78 74  2c 0a 09 64 65 73 63 72  |ame text,..descr|
00000f30  69 70 74 69 6f 6e 20 74  65 78 74 0a 29           |iption text.)   |
```

Here's an analysis of the cell:
```
// Size of the record (varint): 120
78

// The rowid (safe to ignore)
03

// Record header
07     // Size of record header (varint): 7

17     // Serial type for sqlite_schema.type (varint):     23
       // Size of sqlite_schema.type =                     (23-13)/2 = 5

1b     // Serial type for sqlite_schema.name (varint):     27
       // Size of sqlite_schema.name =                     (27-13)/2 = 7

1b     // Serial type for sqlite_schema.tbl_name (varint): 27
       // Size of sqlite_schema.tbl_name =                 (27-13)/2 = 7

01     // Serial type for sqlite_schema.rootpage (varint): 1
       // 8-bit twos-complement integer

81 47  // Serial type for sqlite_schema.sql (varint):      199
       // Size of sqlite_schema.sql =                      (199-13)/2 = 93

// Record body
74 61 62 6c 65        // Value of sqlite_schema.type:     "table"
6f 72 61 6e 67 65 73  // Value of sqlite_schema.name:     "oranges"
6f 72 61 6e 67 65 73  // Value of sqlite_schema.tbl_name: "oranges"  <---
...
```

### Tests

Here's how the tester will execute your program:
```
$ ./your_sqlite3.sh sample.db .tables
```

Your program must print the names of the tables in the database file:
```
apples oranges
```

### Notes

- The actual `.tables` command accepts an optional pattern argument, and also adds additional spaces between each table name, for formatting purposes. You do not need to implement either of these features for your `.tables` command.
- If a cell's payload is too large to fit on a single page, the remainder of the payload will be stored on [cell payload overflow pages](https://www.sqlite.org/fileformat.html#cell_payload_overflow_pages). You do not need to handle payload overflow in this challenge.
- The record part of a cell is called "payload," in the official documentation.

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# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement another dot-command:
[`.tables`](https://www.sqlite.org/cli.html#special_commands_to_sqlite3_dot_commands_). Instead of just printing
the count of tables like in the previous stage, you'll print out the names of tables too.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll support filtering records using a `WHERE` clause.

Here's how the tester will execute your program:

```
$ ./your_program.sh sample.db "SELECT name, color FROM apples WHERE color = 'Yellow'"
```

and here's the output it expects:

```
Golden Delicious|Yellow
```

For now you can assume that the contents of the table are small enough to fit inside the root page. We'll deal
with tables that span multiple pages in the next stage.

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# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll filter records based on a `WHERE` clause. You'll assume that the query can't be served by
an index, so you'll visit all records in a table and then filter out the matching ones.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll implement the `.dbinfo` [dot command](https://www.sqlite.org/cli.html#special_commands_to_sqlite3_dot_commands_), which prints metadata about a SQLite database.

### `.dbinfo`

The `.dbinfo` command is executed like this:
```
$ sqlite3 sample.db .dbinfo
```

It outputs metadata about the database file:
```yaml
database page size:  4096
write format:        1
read format:         1
...
number of tables:    5
schema size:         330
data version:        1
```

In this stage, your `.dbinfo` command only needs to output the "database page size."

### Database file

The SQLite database file begins with the database header. The database page size is stored in the header, right after the magic string. It's a 2-byte, big-endian value (read left-to-right).
```
// Start of file
53 51 4c 69 74 65 20 66 6f 72 6d 61 74 20 33 00  // Magic string: "SQLite format 3" + null terminator.
10 00                                            /* Database page size, in bytes.
                                                    Here, the page size is 4096 bytes. */
...
```

### Tests

Here's how the tester will execute your program:
```
$ ./your_program.sh sample.db .dbinfo
```

Your program must print the database page size of the database file, like this:
```
database page size: 4096
```

### Notes

- For more information about the SQLite database file format, see the [Database File Format](https://www.sqlite.org/fileformat.html#the_database_header) guide.
- Database headers use big-endian to store multi-byte fields. See the [MDN article on endianness](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Endianness) to learn more.

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# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement one of SQLite's
[dot-commands](https://www.sqlite.org/cli.html#special_commands_to_sqlite3_dot_commands_): `.dbinfo`. This command
prints metadata related a SQLite database, and you'll implement one of these values: the database page size. You'll
do this by parsing a file that uses the [SQLite database file format](https://www.sqlite.org/fileformat.html).

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
Now that you're comfortable with jumping across database pages, let's dig a little deeper and read data from
rows in a table.

Here's how the tester will execute your program:

```
$ ./your_program.sh sample.db "SELECT name FROM apples"
```

and here's the output it expects:

```
Granny Smith
Fuji
Honeycrisp
Golden Delicious
```

The order of rows returned doesn't matter.

Rows are stored on disk in the [Record Format](https://www.sqlite.org/fileformat.html#record_format), which is
just an ordered sequence of values. To extract data for a single column, you'll need to know the order of that
column in the sequence. You'll need to parse the table's `CREATE TABLE` statement to do this. The `CREATE TABLE`
statement is stored in the [`sqlite_schema`](https://www.sqlite.org/schematab.html) table's `sql` column.

{{#lang_is_python}}
Not interested in implementing a SQL parser from scratch? [`sqlparse`](https://pypi.org/project/sqlparse/)
is available as a dependency if you'd like to use it.
{{/lang_is_python}}
{{#lang_is_go}}
Not interested in implementing a SQL parser from scratch? [`xwb1989/sqlparser`](https://github.com/xwb1989/sqlparser)
is available as a dependency if you'd like to use it.
{{/lang_is_go}}
{{#lang_is_rust}}
Not interested in implementing a SQL parser from scratch? The [`nom`](https://crates.io/crates/nom),
[`peg`](https://crates.io/crates/peg) and [`regex`](https://crates.io/crates/regex) crates are available in
`Cargo.toml` if you'd like to use them.
{{/lang_is_rust}}

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# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, your sqlite3 implementation will need to execute a SQL statement of this form: `SELECT FROM
`.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
[Bencode](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bencode) (pronounced *Bee-encode*) is a serialization format used in [the BitTorrent protocol](https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0003.html). It is used in torrent files and in communication between trackers and peers.

Bencode supports four data types:
- strings
- integers
- arrays
- dictionaries

In this stage, we'll focus on decoding strings.

Strings are encoded as `<length>:<contents>`. For example, the string `"hello"` is encoded as `"5:hello"`.

You'll implement a `decode` command which takes a bencoded value as input and prints the decoded value as JSON.

Here’s how the tester will execute your program:

```
$ ./your_bittorrent.sh decode 5:hello
"hello"
```

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
[Bencode](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bencode) is a binary serialization format used in BitTorrent protocol. In this stage, you’ll decode a bencoded string.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll parse a torrent file and print information about the torrent.

A torrent file (also known as a [metainfo file](https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0003.html#metainfo-files)) contains a bencoded dictionary with the following keys and values:

- `announce`:
    - URL to a "tracker", which is a central server that keeps track of peers participating in the sharing of a torrent.
- `info`:
    - A dictionary with keys:
        - `length`: size of the file in bytes, for single-file torrents
        - `name`: suggested name to save the file / directory as
        - `piece length`: number of bytes in each piece
        - `pieces`: concatenated SHA-1 hashes of each piece

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**Note**: .torrent files contain bytes that aren’t valid UTF-16 characters. You’ll run into problems if you try to read the contents of this file as a `String`. Use `byte[]` instead.
{{/lang_is_java}}
{{#lang_is_kotlin}}
**Note**: .torrent files contain bytes that aren’t valid UTF-16 characters. You’ll run into problems if you try to read the contents of this file as a `String`. Use `byte[]` instead.
{{/lang_is_kotlin}}
{{#lang_is_rust}}
**Note:** .torrent files contain bytes that aren’t valid UTF-8 characters. You'll run into problems if you try to read the contents of this file as a `String`. Use `&[u8]` or `Vec<u8>` instead.
{{/lang_is_rust}}
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**Note:** .torrent files contain bytes that aren’t valid UTF-8 characters. You'll run into problems if you try to read the contents of this file as a `String`. Use `binary` instead, see `IO.iodata_to_binary()`.
{{/lang_is_elixir}}

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**Note:** .torrent files contain bytes that aren’t valid UTF-8 characters. If the language you're using treats strings as a sequence of unicode characters (like Python's [str](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#text-sequence-type-str)), you'll need to use a byte sequence (like Python's [bytes](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#bytes-objects)) instead.
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{{/lang_is_java}}

**Note**: The `info` dictionary looks slightly different for multi-file torrents. For this challenge, we'll only implement support for single-file torrents.

In this stage, we'll focus on extracting the tracker URL and the length of the file (in bytes).

Here’s how the tester will execute your program:

```
$ ./your_bittorrent.sh info sample.torrent
```

and here’s the output it expects:

```
Tracker URL: http://bittorrent-test-tracker.codecrafters.io/announce
Length: 92063
```

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you’ll parse a .torrent file and extract information about the torrent.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll download an entire file and save it to disk using a magnet link.

### The `magnet_download` command

To test your program, we'll introduce a new command in this stage: `magnet_download`. Here's how it works:

```bash
$ ./your_bittorrent.sh magnet_download -o /tmp/sample <magnet-link>
```

This is similar to the `magnet_download_piece` command from the previous stage, just that it downloads the entire file instead of a single piece. You'll
need to download all the pieces and then concatenate them in order to get the complete file.

### Tests

Here's how the tester will execute your program:
```
$ ./your_bittorrent.sh magnet_download -o /tmp/sample <magnet-link>
```

The tester will validate that the file was downloaded correctly.

### Notes

- To test your program locally, you can use [these magnet links](https://github.com/codecrafters-io/bittorrent-test-seeder/blob/main/torrent_files/magnet_links.txt)
- To improve download speeds, you can consider pipelining your requests. [BitTorrent Economics Paper](http://bittorrent.org/bittorrentecon.pdf) recommends having upto 5 requests pending at once to avoid a delay between blocks being sent.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll download the entire file and save it to disk using a magnet link.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll modify the handshake message to indicate that your client supports extensions.

### Extension handshake

Exchanging torrent metadata between peers wasn't originally part of the standard BitTorrent protocol, it was introduced as
an [extension](https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0009.html). This extension uses BitTorrent's [extension protocol](https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0010.html) that is designed to add
functionality without breaking backward-compatibility.

During the "Peer handshake" stage, the handshake message includes eight reserved bytes (64 bits), all set to zero. To signal
support for extensions, a client must set the 20th bit from the right (counting starts at 0) in the reserved bytes to 1.

In Hex, here's how the reserved bytes will look like after setting the 20th bit from the right to 1:

```bash
00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00
```

(`10` in hex is `16` in decimal, which is `00010000` in binary)

When looking at individual bits, here's how it'll look like (left side truncated):

```bash
.... 00010000 00000000 00000000
        ^ 20th bit from the right, counting starts at 0
```

All the other reserved bits will stay zero.

### The `magnet_handshake` command

To test your program, we'll introduce a new command in this stage: `magnet_handshake`. Here's how it works:

```bash
$ ./your_bittorrent.sh magnet_handshake <magnet-link>
Peer ID: 0102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f1011121314
```

Your program will need to:

- Parse the magnet link to get the tracker URL
- Perform the tracker GET request to get a list of peers
- Establish a TCP connection with a peer, and perform a handshake
  - In this handshake, your program will need to set the correct reserved bit to indicate support for extensions
- Print the peer ID received during the handshake

### Tests

Here's how the tester will execute your program:

```
$ ./your_bittorrent.sh magnet_handshake <magnet-link>
```

and here's the output it expects:

```
Peer ID: 0102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f1011121314
```

Tester will also assert that correct bit is set in the reserved bytes of the handshake message.

### Notes

- You can use [these magnet links](https://github.com/codecrafters-io/bittorrent-test-seeder/blob/main/torrent_files/magnet_links.txt) to test your program locally. You may need to surround links with double quotes to escape special characters in terminal.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll announce to other clients that you support extensions.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll download one piece and save it to disk using a magnet link.

### The `magnet_download_piece` command

To test your program, we'll introduce a new command in this stage: `magnet_download_piece`. Here's how it works:

```bash
$ ./your_bittorrent.sh magnet_download_piece -o /tmp/test-piece-0 <magnet-link> 0
```

This is similar to the `download_piece` command you've worked on previously, just that it takes a magnet link instead of a .torrent file path.

For this command, the overall flow you need to implement will look like this:

- Parse magnet link to get the tracker URL
- Perform the tracker GET request to get the list of peers
- Establish a TCP connection with a peer, perform a base handshake
- Perform the extension handshake
- Get the info dictionary using the metadata extension (send `request` message, get `data` message)
- Download blocks of the piece (same as the `download_piece` command from previous stages)
- Save the piece to disk

### Tests

Here's how the tester will execute your program:

```
$ ./your_bittorrent.sh magnet_download_piece -o /tmp/test-piece-0 <magnet_link> 0
```

The tester will validate that the piece was downloaded correctly.

### Notes

- To test your program locally, you can use [these magnet links](https://github.com/codecrafters-io/bittorrent-test-seeder/blob/main/torrent_files/magnet_links.txt)

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll download one piece and save it to disk using a magnet link.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll extend the `decode` command to support bencoded lists.

Lists are encoded as `l<bencoded_elements>e`.

For example, `["hello", 52]` would be encoded as `l5:helloi52ee`. Note that there are no separators between the elements.

Here’s how the tester will execute your program:
```
$ ./your_bittorrent.sh decode l5:helloi52ee
[“hello”,52]
```

{{#lang_is_go}}
If you'd prefer to use a library for this stage, [bencode-go](https://github.com/jackpal/bencode-go) is available for you to use.
{{/lang_is_go}}
{{#lang_is_python}}
If you'd prefer to use a library for this stage, [bencode.py](https://pypi.org/project/bencode.py/) is available for you to use.
{{/lang_is_python}}
{{#lang_is_rust}}
If you'd prefer to use a library crate for this stage, [serde-bencode](https://github.com/toby/serde-bencode/) is available for you to use.
{{/lang_is_rust}}
{{#lang_is_java}}
If you'd prefer to use a library for this stage, [bencode](https://github.com/dampcake/bencode) parser is available for you to use.
{{/lang_is_java}}
{{#lang_is_kotlin}}
If you'd prefer to use a library for this stage, [bencode](https://github.com/dampcake/bencode) parser is available for you to use.
{{/lang_is_kotlin}}

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you’ll decode a bencoded list.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you’ll download the entire file and save it to disk.

You can start with using a single peer to download all the pieces. You’ll need to download all the pieces, verify their integrity using piece hashes, and combine them to assemble the file.

### Tests

Here’s how the tester will execute your program:

```
$ ./your_bittorrent.sh download -o /tmp/test.txt sample.torrent
```

The tester will validate that the file was downloaded correctly.

**Optional:** To improve download speeds, you can download from multiple peers at once. You could have a work queue consisting of each piece that needs to be downloaded. Your worker (connection with a peer) could pick a piece from the work queue, attempt to download it, check the integrity, and write the downloaded piece into a buffer. Any failure (network issue, hashes not matching, peer not having the piece etc.) would put the piece back into the work queue to be tried again.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll download the entire file. You'll download all the pieces, verify them using SHA-1 and save them to disk.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll extend the `decode` command to support bencoded integers.

Integers are encoded as `i<number>e`. For example, `52` is encoded as `i52e` and `-52` is encoded as `i-52e`.

Here's how the tester will execute your program:

```
$ ./your_bittorrent.sh decode i52e
52
```

{{#lang_is_go}}
If you'd prefer to use a library for this stage, [bencode-go](https://github.com/jackpal/bencode-go) is available for you to use.
{{/lang_is_go}}
{{#lang_is_python}}
If you'd prefer to use a library for this stage, [bencode.py](https://pypi.org/project/bencode.py/) is available for you to use.
{{/lang_is_python}}
{{#lang_is_rust}}
If you'd prefer to use a library crate for this stage, [serde-bencode](https://github.com/toby/serde-bencode/) is available for you to use.
{{/lang_is_rust}}
{{#lang_is_java}}
If you'd prefer to use a library for this stage, [bencode](https://github.com/dampcake/bencode) parser is available for you to use.
{{/lang_is_java}}
{{#lang_is_kotlin}}
If you'd prefer to use a library for this stage, [bencode](https://github.com/dampcake/bencode) parser is available for you to use.
{{/lang_is_kotlin}}

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you’ll decode a bencoded integer.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for receiving the extension handshake message back.

### Extension handshake (part 2)

In the previous stage, your client sent an extension handshake message to the other peer. In this stage, you'll
add support for receiving the peer's extension handshake message back.

The message will follow the same structure as the one you sent in the previous stage. The payload dictionary
will contain the following keys: `{"m": {"ut_metadata": <PEER'S ID>}}`.

Your program will need to store the ID for the `ut_metadata` extension and print it out. This'll be used in later stages to send extension messages specific to the `ut_metadata` extension.

To recap, the overall flow will look like this:

- Establish a TCP connection with a peer
- Send the base handshake message
- Receive the base handshake message
- Send the bitfield message (safe to ignore in this challenge)
- Receive the bitfield message
- If the peer supports extensions (based on the reserved bit in the base handshake):
  - Send the extension handshake message (previous stage)
  - Receive the extension handshake message (**this stage**)

### Tests

Here's how the tester will execute your program:

```bash
$ ./your_bittorrent.sh magnet_handshake <magnet-link>
```

and here's the output it expects:

```
Peer ID: 0102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f1011121314
Peer Metadata Extension ID: 123
```

The `Peer Metadata Extension ID` will be randomly generated, you'll need to fetch it from the dictionary in the extension handshake message.

### Notes

- You can use [these magnet links](https://github.com/codecrafters-io/bittorrent-test-seeder/blob/main/torrent_files/magnet_links.txt) to test your program locally. You may need to surround links with double quotes to escape special characters in terminal.
- Extension IDs need to be stored for every peer, as different peers may use different IDs for the same extension.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll receive the list of extensions your peer supports.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you’ll establish a TCP connection with a peer and complete a handshake.

The handshake is a message consisting of the following parts as described in the [peer protocol](https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0003.html#peer-protocol):

1. length of the protocol string (BitTorrent protocol) which is `19` (1 byte)
2. the string `BitTorrent protocol` (19 bytes)
3. eight reserved bytes, which are all set to zero (8 bytes)
4. sha1 infohash (20 bytes) (**NOT** the hexadecimal representation, which is 40 bytes long)
5. peer id (20 bytes) (generate 20 random byte values)

After we send a handshake to our peer, we should receive a handshake back in the same format.

Your program should print the hexadecimal representation of the peer id you've received during the handshake.

Here’s how the tester will execute your program:
```
$ ./your_bittorrent.sh handshake sample.torrent <peer_ip>:<peer_port>
```
and here’s the output it expects:
```
Peer ID: 0102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f1011121314
```
(Exact value will be different as it is randomly generated.)

**Note**: To get a peer IP & port to test this locally, run `./your_bittorrent.sh peers sample.torrent` and pick any peer from the list.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you’ll establish a TCP connection with a peer and complete a handshake according to [BitTorrent Peer Protocol](https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0003.html#peer-protocol)

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll extend the `decode` command to support bencoded dictionaries.

A dictionary is encoded as `d<key1><value1>...<keyN><valueN>e`. `<key1>`, `<value1>` etc. correspond to the bencoded keys & values. The keys are sorted in lexicographical order and must be strings.

For example, `{"hello": 52, "foo":"bar"}` would be encoded as: `d3:foo3:bar5:helloi52ee` (note that the keys were reordered).

Here’s how the tester will execute your program:
```
$ ./your_bittorrent.sh decode d3:foo3:bar5:helloi52ee
{"foo":"bar","hello":52}
```

{{#lang_is_go}}
If you'd prefer to use a library for this stage, [bencode-go](https://github.com/jackpal/bencode-go) is available for you to use.
{{/lang_is_go}}
{{#lang_is_python}}
If you'd prefer to use a library for this stage, [bencode.py](https://pypi.org/project/bencode.py/) is available for you to use.
{{/lang_is_python}}
{{#lang_is_rust}}
If you'd prefer to use a library crate for this stage, [serde-bencode](https://github.com/toby/serde-bencode/) is available for you to use.
{{/lang_is_rust}}
{{#lang_is_java}}
If you'd prefer to use a library for this stage, [bencode](https://github.com/dampcake/bencode) parser is available for you to use.
{{/lang_is_java}}
{{#lang_is_kotlin}}
If you'd prefer to use a library for this stage, [bencode](https://github.com/dampcake/bencode) parser is available for you to use.
{{/lang_is_kotlin}}

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you’ll decode a bencoded dictionary.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
Trackers are central servers that maintain information about peers participating in the sharing and downloading of a torrent.

In this stage, you'll make a GET request to a HTTP tracker to discover peers to download the file from.

### Tracker GET request

You'll need to make a request to the tracker URL you extracted in the previous stage, and include these query params:

- `info_hash`: the info hash of the torrent
    - 20 bytes long, will need to be URL encoded
    - **Note**: this is **NOT** the hexadecimal representation, which is 40 bytes long
- `peer_id`: a unique identifier for your client
    - A string of length 20 that you get to pick.
- `port`: the port your client is listening on
    - You can set this to `6881`, you will not have to support this functionality during this challenge.
- `uploaded`: the total amount uploaded so far
    - Since your client hasn't uploaded anything yet, you can set this to `0`.
- `downloaded`: the total amount downloaded so far
    - Since your client hasn't downloaded anything yet, you can set this to `0`.
- `left`: the number of bytes left to download
    - Since you client hasn't downloaded anything yet, this'll be the total length of the file (you've extracted this value from the torrent file in previous stages)
- `compact`: whether the peer list should use the [compact representation](https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0023.html)
    - For the purposes of this challenge, set this to `1`.
    - The compact representation is more commonly used in the wild, the non-compact representation is mostly supported for backward-compatibility.

Read [the BitTorrent Protocol Specification](https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0003.html#trackers) for more information about these query parameters.

### Tracker response

The tracker's response will be a bencoded dictionary with two keys:

- `interval`:
    - An integer, indicating how often your client should make a request to the tracker.
    - You can ignore this value for the purposes of this challenge.
- `peers`.
    - A string, which contains list of peers that your client can connect to.
    - Each peer is represented using 6 bytes. The first 4 bytes are the peer's IP address and the last 2 bytes are the peer's port number.

---

Here’s how the tester will execute your program:
```
$ ./your_bittorrent.sh peers sample.torrent
```
and here’s the output it expects:
```
165.232.41.73:51556
165.232.38.164:51532
165.232.35.114:51437
```

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you’ll interact with a tracker, a central server that keeps track of peers participating in the sharing of a torrent. You'll make a GET request to a HTTP tracker to discover peers from whom you can download the file.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll receive torrent metadata from a peer.

### The metadata `data` message

The `data` message is the response to the `request` message that your peer sent in the previous stage.

It contains the actual metadata, which you'll need to download the file.

This message follows the standard BitTorrent extension message format:

- message length prefix (4 bytes)
- message id (1 byte)
  - This will be 20, since this is a message implemented by an extension
- payload (variable size)
    - extension message id (1 byte)
      - This will be your peer's metadata extension ID, which it sent as part of the extension handshake
    - bencoded dictionary (variable size)
      - This dictionary will look like this: `{'msg_type': 1, 'piece': 0, 'total_size': XXXX}`
      - `msg_type` will be 1, since this is a `data` message
      - `piece` will be 0, since we're only requesting one piece in this challenge
      - `total_size` will be the length of the metadata piece
    - metadata piece contents (variable size)

The "metadata piece contents" is what you're interested in. When these pieces are combined, they'll form a bencoded dictionary that
looks something like this (presented as JSON for readability):

```
{
  "piece length": 262144,
  "pieces": "<hash1><hash2>...",
  "name": "debian-12.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso",
  "length": 67108864
}
```

This is same as the [info dictionary](https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0003.html#info-dictionary) in a .torrent file, which you've seen in previous stages.

You should be able to compute the hash of this and validate it against the info hash present in the magnet link.

### Tests

Here's how the tester will execute your program:

```
$ ./your_bittorrent.sh magnet_info <magnet-link>
```

and here's the output it expects:

```
Tracker URL: http://bittorrent-test-tracker.codecrafters.io/announce
Length: 92063
Info Hash: d69f91e6b2ae4c542468d1073a71d4ea13879a7f
Piece Length: 32768
Piece Hashes:
6e2275e604a0766656736e81ff10b55204ad8d35
e876f67a2a8886e8f36b136726c30fa29703022d
f00d937a0213df1982bc8d097227ad9e909acc17
```

### Notes

- For this challenge, all torrents we use will have a single metadata piece (i.e. it'll fit in one 16kiB chunk).
- You can use [these magnet links](https://github.com/codecrafters-io/bittorrent-test-seeder/blob/main/torrent_files/magnet_links.txt) to test your program locally.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll receive torrent metadata from a peer.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
Info hash is a unique identifier for a torrent file. It's used when talking to trackers or peers.

In this stage, you'll calculate the info hash for a torrent file and print it in hexadecimal format.

To calculate the info hash, you'll need to:

- Extract the `info` dictionary from the torrent file after parsing
- Bencode the contents of the `info` dictionary
- Calculate the SHA-1 hash of this bencoded dictionary

Here’s how the tester will execute your program:
```
$ ./your_bittorrent.sh info sample.torrent
```
and here’s the output it expects:
```
Tracker URL: http://bittorrent-test-tracker.codecrafters.io/announce
Length: 92063
Info Hash: d69f91e6b2ae4c542468d1073a71d4ea13879a7f
```

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll calculate a unique identifier for a torrent, known as info hash, used in communication with trackers and peers.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll request torrent metadata from a peer using the metadata extension.

### Metadata extension messages

As mentioned earlier, a magnet link doesn't contain all the information found in a .torrent file, such as file length, piece length and piece hashes.

To fetch these additional details, your client will need to use messages defined by the [metadata extension](https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0009.html#extension-message).

The metadata extension supports the following message types:

- `request` (msg_type: 0)
  - Requests a piece of metadata from the peer
- `data` (msg_type: 1)
  - Sends a piece of metadata to the peer
- `reject` (msg_type: 2)
  - Signals that the peer doesn't have the piece of metadata that was requested

`msg_type` is an identifier for message types within the metadata extension.

Metadata is stored in "pieces", which are 16kiB chunks. For the purposes of this challenge, you can assume that the entire metadata for a torrent fits in a single piece.

You'll implement sending the `request` message (msg_type: 0) in this stage. We'll look at other `msg_type` values in later stages.

### The metadata `request` message

As seen above, the `request` message is part of the metadata extension.

Note that this `request` message is different from the request message (ID: 6) in the base [BitTorrent protocol](https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0003.html).

This message follows the standard BitTorrent extension message format:

- message length prefix (4 bytes)
- message id (1 byte)
    - This will be 20, since this is a message implemented by an extension
- payload (variable size)
    - extension message id (1 byte)
        - This will be the peer's metadata extension ID, which you received during the extension handshake
    - bencoded dictionary (variable size)
        - This dictionary will look like this: `{'msg_type': 0, 'piece': 0}` (encoded as a bencoded dictionary)
        - `msg_type` will be 0 since this is a `request` message
        - `piece` is the zero-based piece index of the metadata being requested
            - Since we're only requesting one piece in this challenge, this will always be 0

### The `magnet_info` command

To test your program, we'll introduce a new command in this stage: `magnet_info`. Here's how it works:

```bash
$ ./your_bittorrent.sh magnet_info <magnet-link>
Tracker URL: http://bittorrent-test-tracker.codecrafters.io/announce
Length: 92063
Info Hash: d69f91e6b2ae4c542468d1073a71d4ea13879a7f
Piece Length: 32768
Piece Hashes:
6e2275e604a0766656736e81ff10b55204ad8d35
e876f67a2a8886e8f36b136726c30fa29703022d
f00d937a0213df1982bc8d097227ad9e909acc17
```

To fetch this info, your program will need to:

- Parse the magnet link to get the tracker URL
- Perform the tracker GET request to get a list of peers
- Establish a TCP connection with a peer, and perform a handshake
- Perform the base handshake
- Send the bitfield message (can be ignored in this challenge)
- Receive the bitfield message
- Perform the extension handshake
- Send the metadata request message (**This stage**)
- Receive the metadata message (later stages)
- Print out the data received, as per the format above.

### Tests

Here's how the tester will execute your program:

```bash
$ ./your_bittorrent.sh magnet_info <magnet-link>
```

There's no expected output at this stage, the tester will just assert if it received a correct metadata request. We'll
verify the output in later stages.

### Notes

- If metadata is larger than 16kb, you would need to request multiple pieces, but for the purposes of this challenge there will only be one piece.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll request torrent metadata from a peer.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
Welcome to the BitTorrent Magnet Links extension! In this extension, you'll add support for downloading files using magnet links.

In this stage, you will parse a magnet link and print out the info hash and tracker URL.

### Magnet links

[Magnet links](https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0009.html) allow users to download files from peers without needing a torrent file.

For example, here's a magnet link:
```
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:ad42ce8109f54c99613ce38f9b4d87e70f24a165&dn=magnet1.gif&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fbittorrent-test-tracker.codecrafters.io%2Fannounce
```

Unlike .torrent files, magnet links don't contain information like file length, piece length and piece hashes. They only include the bare minimum
information necessary to discover peers. A client can then request the rest of the information from peers using the [metadata exchange protocol](https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0009.html#metadata-exchange). You'll implement this in later stages.

These are the query parameters in a magnet link:

- `xt`: `urn:btih:` followed by the 40-char hex-encoded info hash (example: `urn:btih:ad42ce8109f54c99613ce38f9b4d87e70f24a165`)
- `dn`: The name of the file to be downloaded (example: `magnet1.gif`)
- `tr`: The tracker URL (example: `http://bittorrent-test-tracker.codecrafters.io/announce`)

[This Wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_URI_scheme) has more information about the magnet link format.

### Magnet link example

Here's how the tester will execute your program:

```bash
$ ./your_bittorrent.sh magnet_parse <magnet-link>
```

and here's the output it expects:

```bash
Tracker URL: http://bittorrent-test-tracker.codecrafters.io/announce
Info Hash: d69f91e6b2ae4c542468d1073a71d4ea13879a7f
```

### Notes

- We'll be using v1 of [magnet URI format](https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0009.html#magnet-uri-format). v2 is not widely used yet.
- `xt` (info hash) is the only required parameter, all others are optional.
- A magnet link can contain multiple tracker URLs, but for the purposes of this challenge it'll only contain one.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll extract information from a magnet link.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll send back a list of extensions that your client supports.

### Extension IDs & handshake

Each peer maintains a mapping of extension names to IDs. The same extension name might map to different IDs on different peers (but it'll always remain stable for a given peer).

To communicate with other peers using the [metadata extension](https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0009.html#ut_metadata), your peer will
need to know the ID that the other peer uses for this extension. The name for the metadata extension is `ut_metadata`. To get the ID,
your peer will need to send an [extension handshake](https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0010.html#handshake-message) message and
wait for the corresponding handshake message back from the peer.

The extension handshake message contains a dictionary like this:

```json
{
  "m": {
    "ut_metadata": 16,
    ... (other extension names and IDs)
  }
}
```

In the example above, `16` is the ID that the peer uses for the metadata extension. This is just an example, you can use any value you want for this ID.

Your program will need to send the extension handshake message soon after receiving the bitfield message. Overall, the flow will look like this:

- Establish a TCP connection with a peer
- Send the base handshake message
- Receive the base handshake message
- Send the bitfield message (safe to ignore in this challenge)
- Receive the bitfield message
- If the peer supports extensions (based on the reserved bit in the base handshake):
  - Send the extension handshake message
  - Receive the extension handshake message

Note that the extension handshake message is only sent if the other peer supports extensions (indicated by the reserved bit in the base handshake). This
is how backward compatibility is maintained with peers that don't support extensions.

We'll implement sending extension handshake messages in this stage. Receiving extension handshake messages will be implemented in the next stage.

### Extension handshake format

Extension messages follow the standard BitTorrent message format:

- message length prefix (4 bytes)
- message id (1 byte)
  - This will be 20 for all messages implemented by extensions
- payload (variable size)

The payload will be structured as follows:

- extension message id (1 byte)
  - This will be 0 for the extension handshake
- bencoded dictionary (variable size)
  - This will contain a key "m" with another dictionary as its value.
  - The inner dictionary maps supported extension names to their corresponding message IDs.
  - For example, the inner dictionary contents might be `{"ut_metadata": 1, "ut_pex": 2}`, indicating that your peer supports the "ut_metadata" and "ut_pex" extensions with IDs 1 and 2 respectively.

The extension name we're interested in is "ut_metadata", which corresponds to the [metadata extension](https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0009.html#ut_metadata).

### Tests

Here's how the tester will execute your program:

```
$ ./your_bittorrent.sh magnet_handshake <magnet-link>
```

and here's the output it expects:

```
Peer ID: 0102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f1011121314
```

The expected output is same as last stage. In this stage, the tester will additionaly verify that:

- An extension handshake message is received.
- The extension handshake message contains a dictionary that looks like this: `{"m": {"ut_metadata": <PICK YOUR ID>}}`.
- The ID corresponding to `ut_metadata` is between 1 and 255 (it needs to be represented as an 8-bit unsigned integer, that isn't 0)

### Notes

- Your program must only send an extension handshake **if** the peer supports extensions
  - To know whether a peer supports the extension protocol, you'll need to look at the reserved bytes in the base handshake message
- The extension handshake message is defined in [handshake section](https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0010.html#handshake-message) of extension protocol doc.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll send the list of extensions your client supports.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll download one piece and save it to disk. In the next stage we'll combine these pieces into a file.

To download a piece, your program will need to send [peer messages](https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0003.html#peer-messages) to a peer. The overall flow looks like this:

- Read the torrent file to get the tracker URL
    - you've done this in previous stages
- Perform the tracker GET request to get a list of peers
    - you've done this in previous stages
- Establish a TCP connection with a peer, and perform a handshake
    - you've done this in previous stages
- Exchange multiple [peer messages](https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0003.html#peer-messages) to download the file
    - **This is the part you'll implement in this stage**

### Peer Messages

Peer messages consist of a message length prefix (4 bytes), message id (1 byte) and a payload (variable size).

Here are the peer messages you'll need to exchange once the handshake is complete:

- Wait for a `bitfield` message from the peer indicating which pieces it has
    - The message id for this message type is `5`.
    - You can read and ignore the payload for now, the tracker we use for this challenge ensures that all peers have all pieces available.
- Send an `interested` message
    - The message id for `interested` is `2`.
    - The payload for this message is empty.
- Wait until you receive an `unchoke` message back
    - The message id for `unchoke` is `1`.
    - The payload for this message is empty.
- Break the piece into blocks of 16 kiB (16 * 1024 bytes) and send a `request` message for each block
    - The message id for `request` is `6`.
    - The payload for this message consists of:
        - `index`: the zero-based piece index
        - `begin`: the zero-based byte offset within the piece
            - This'll be `0` for the first block, `2^14` for the second block, 2*2^14 for the third block etc.
        - `length`: the length of the block in bytes
            - This'll be `2^14` (16 * 1024) for all blocks except the last one.
            - The last block will contain `2^14` bytes or less, you'll need calculate this value using the piece length.
- Wait for a `piece` message for each block you've requested
    - The message id for `piece` is `7`.
    - The payload for this message consists of:
        - `index`: the zero-based piece index
        - `begin`: the zero-based byte offset within the piece
        - `block`: the data for the piece, usually `2^14` bytes long

After receiving blocks and combining them into pieces, you'll want to check the integrity of each piece by comparing its hash
with the piece hash value found in the torrent file.

Here’s how the tester will execute your program:

```
$ ./your_bittorrent.sh download_piece -o /tmp/test-piece sample.torrent <piece_index>
```

The tester will validate that the piece was downloaded correctly.

**Optional:** To improve download speeds, you can consider pipelining your requests. [BitTorrent Economics Paper](http://bittorrent.org/bittorrentecon.pdf) recommends having 5 requests pending at once, to avoid a delay between blocks being sent.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll connect to a peer and download a piece of the file. You'll download the piece in blocks, which you'll later combine and verify using SHA-1, a cryptographic hash value.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In a torrent, a file is split into equally-sized parts called **pieces**. A piece is usually 256 KB or 1 MB in size.

Each piece is assigned a SHA-1 hash value. On public networks, there may be malicious peers that send fake data. These hash values allow us to verify the integrity of each piece that we'll download.

Piece length and piece hashes are specified in the `info` dictionary of the torrent file under the following keys:

- `piece length`: number of bytes in each piece, an integer
- `pieces`: concatenated SHA-1 hashes of each piece (20 bytes each), a string

The [BitTorrent Protocol Specification](https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0003.html#info-dictionary) has more information about these keys.

In this stage, the tester will expect your program to print piece length and a list of piece hashes in hexadecimal format.

Here's how the tester will execute your program:
```
$ ./your_bittorrent.sh info sample.torrent
```
and here's the output it expects:
```
Tracker URL: http://bittorrent-test-tracker.codecrafters.io/announce
Length: 92063
Info Hash: d69f91e6b2ae4c542468d1073a71d4ea13879a7f
Piece Length: 32768
Piece Hashes:
e876f67a2a8886e8f36b136726c30fa29703022d
6e2275e604a0766656736e81ff10b55204ad8d35
f00d937a0213df1982bc8d097227ad9e909acc17
```

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll extract hash values for each piece of the file. On public networks, there may be malicious peers sending fake data. Piece hashes will help us ensure the integrity of downloaded pieces.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll implement the Fetch response for a Fetch request with no topics.

🚧 **We're still working on instructions for this stage**. You can find notes on how the tester works below.

In the meantime, please use
[this link](https://forum.codecrafters.io/new-topic?category=Challenges&tags=challenge%3Akafka&title=Question+about+dh6%3A+Fetch+with+no+topics&body=%3Cyour+question+here%3E)
to ask questions on the forum.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
$ ./your_program.sh
```

It'll then connect to your server on port 9092 and send a `Fetch` (v16) request. The request will contain an empty array of topics.

The tester will validate that:

- The first 4 bytes of your response (the "message length") are valid.
- The correlation ID in the response header matches the correlation ID in the request header.
- The error code in the response body is `0` (No Error).
- The `throttle_time_ms` field in the response is `0`.
- The `session_id` field in the response is `0`.
- The `responses` field in the response has 0 elements (since the request had an empty array of topics).

<!--
```
0000   00 00 00 11 5e 33 46 cc 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0a   ....^3F.........
0010   b9 c1 2e 01 00                                    .....
```
-->

### Notes

- You don't need to parse the fields in the `Fetch` request in this stage, we'll get to this in later stages.
- The official docs for the `Fetch` request can be found [here](https://kafka.apache.org/protocol.html#The_Messages_Fetch). Make sure
  to scroll down to the "Fetch Response (Version: 16)" section.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll start encoding your response to the `Fetch` requests.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for handling multiple sequential requests from the same client.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
$ ./your_program.sh
```

It'll then connect to your server on port 9092 and send a `APIVersions` (v4) request, read the response, & validate the response.

Once a response is received, the tester will re-use the same connection to send multiple other `APIVersions` (v4) requests.

For each response, the tester will validate that:

- The first 4 bytes of your response (the "message length") are valid.
- The correlation ID in the response header matches the correlation ID in the request header.
- The error code in the response body is `0` (No Error).
- The response body contains at least one entry for the API key `18` (API_VERSIONS).
- The `MaxVersion` for the `ApiKey` `18` is at least `4`.

### Notes

- The tester will only send APIVersions (v4) requests in this stage.
- If extra bytes are remaining after decoding all the fields of the response body, this will be considered an error.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll need to handle multiple sequential `APIVersions` requests.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll implement the Fetch response for a topic with a single message, reading it from disk.

🚧 **We're still working on instructions for this stage**. You can find notes on how the tester works below.

In the meantime, please use
[this link](https://forum.codecrafters.io/new-topic?category=Challenges&tags=challenge%3Akafka&title=Question+about+eg2%3A+Fetch+single+message+from+disk&body=%3Cyour+question+here%3E)
to ask questions on the forum.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
$ ./your_program.sh
```

It'll then connect to your server on port 9092 and send a `Fetch` (v16) request. The request will contain a single topic with a topic ID that exists. The topic has a single message assigned to it.

The tester will validate that:

- The first 4 bytes of your response (the "message length") are valid.
- The correlation ID in the response header matches the correlation ID in the request header.
- The error code in the response body is `0` (No Error).
- The `throttle_time_ms` field in the response is `0`.
- The `responses` field in the response has 1 element, and in that element:
  - The `topic_id` field matches what was sent in the request.
  - The `partitions` array has 1 element, and in that element:
    - The `partition_index` field is `0`.
    - The `error_code` field is `0` (No Error).
    - The `records` array has 1 element.
      - The entire `RecordBatch` content is read from disk. (We will compare the contents of the `RecordBatch` with the contents of the log file to verify this.)

### Notes

- You'll need to parse the `Fetch` request in this stage to get the `topic_id` to send in the response.
- The official docs for the `Fetch` request can be found [here](https://kafka.apache.org/protocol.html#The_Messages_Fetch). Make sure
  to scroll down to the "Fetch Response (Version: 16)" section.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement the Fetch response for a topic with a single message, reading it from disk.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll implement the Fetch response for a topic with multiple messages, reading them from disk.

🚧 **We're still working on instructions for this stage**. You can find notes on how the tester works below.

In the meantime, please use
[this link](https://forum.codecrafters.io/new-topic?category=Challenges&tags=challenge%3Akafka&title=Question+about+fd8%3A+Fetch+multiple+messages+from+disk&body=%3Cyour+question+here%3E)
to ask questions on the forum.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
$ ./your_program.sh
```

It'll then connect to your server on port 9092 and send a `Fetch` (v16) request. The request will contain a single topic with a topic ID that exists. The topic has multiple messages assigned to it (but written to a single partition).

The tester will validate that:

- The first 4 bytes of your response (the "message length") are valid.
- The correlation ID in the response header matches the correlation ID in the request header.
- The error code in the response body is `0` (No Error).
- The `throttle_time_ms` field in the response is `0`.
- The `responses` field in the response has 1 element, and in that element:
  - The `topic_id` field matches what was sent in the request.
  - The `partitions` array has 1 element, and in that element:
    - The `partition_index` field is `0`.
    - The `error_code` field is `0` (No Error).
    - The `records` array has the correct number of elements.
      - The entire `RecordBatch` content is read from disk. (We will compare the contents of the `RecordBatch` with the contents of the log file to verify this.)

### Notes

- You'll need to parse the `Fetch` request in this stage to get the `topic_id` to send in the response.
- The official docs for the `Fetch` request can be found [here](https://kafka.apache.org/protocol.html#The_Messages_Fetch). Make sure
  to scroll down to the "Fetch Response (Version: 16)" section.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement the Fetch response for a topic with multiple messages, reading them from disk.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll implement the Fetch response for an unknown topic.

🚧 **We're still working on instructions for this stage**. You can find notes on how the tester works below.

In the meantime, please use
[this link](https://forum.codecrafters.io/new-topic?category=Challenges&tags=challenge%3Akafka&title=Question+about+hn6%3A+Fetch+with+an+unknown+topic&body=%3Cyour+question+here%3E)
to ask questions on the forum.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
$ ./your_program.sh
```

It'll then connect to your server on port 9092 and send a `Fetch` (v16) request. This request will contain a single topic with an unknown topic ID (i.e. the topic doesn't exist yet).

The tester will validate that:

- The first 4 bytes of your response (the "message length") are valid.
- The correlation ID in the response header matches the correlation ID in the request header.
- The error code in the response body is `0` (No Error).
- The `throttle_time_ms` field in the response is `0`.
- The `responses` field in the response has 1 element, and in that element:
  - The `topic_id` field matches what was sent in the request.
  - The `partitions` array has 1 element, and in that element:
    - The `partition_index` field is `0`.
    - The `error_code` field is `100` (UNKNOWN_TOPIC).

### Notes

- You'll need to parse the `Fetch` request in this stage to get the `topic_id` to send in the response.
- The official docs for the `Fetch` request can be found [here](https://kafka.apache.org/protocol.html#The_Messages_Fetch). Make sure
  to scroll down to the "Fetch Response (Version: 16)" section.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll start encoding your response to the `Fetch` requests.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll implement the response body for the `APIVersions` request.

🚧 **We're still working on instructions for this stage**. You can find notes on how the tester works below.

In the meantime, please use
[this link](https://forum.codecrafters.io/new-topic?category=Challenges&tags=challenge%3Akafka&title=Question+about+pv1%3A+Handle+APIVersions+requests&body=%3Cyour+question+here%3E)
to ask questions on the forum.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
$ ./your_program.sh
```

It'll then connect to your server on port 9092 and send a valid `APIVersions` (v4) request.

The tester will validate that:

- The first 4 bytes of your response (the "message length") are valid.
- The correlation ID in the response header matches the correlation ID in the request header.
- The error code in the response body is `0` (No Error).
- The response body contains at least one entry for the API key `18` (API_VERSIONS).
- The `MaxVersion` for the `ApiKey` `18` is at least `4`.

### Notes

- The tester will always send you v4 of the APIVersions request.
  - As of Oct 30th 2024, v4 is "unreleased" so isn't available in the Kafka docs yet. It'll
    be available once Kafka 3.9 is released. Here's a link to the [Kafka source code](https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/84caaa6e9da06435411510a81fa321d4f99c351f/clients/src/main/resources/common/message/ApiVersionsRequest.json#L25C22-L25C33) mentioning this.
  - The structure for v4 is the same as v3 listed in the docs.
- From this stage onwards, the tester will start validating the first 4 bytes of your response (the "message length") in addition to the other checks.
- If extra bytes are remaining after decoding all the fields of the response body, this will be considered an error.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll need to implement the `APIVersions:V4` response.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll implement a TCP server that listens on port 9092.

[TCP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol) is the underlying protocol that Kafka brokers and clients use to communicate with each other.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:
```
$ ./your_program.sh
```

It'll then try to connect to your TCP server on port 9092. If the connection succeeds, you'll pass this stage.

### Notes

- If you already have a Kafka broker running on port 9092 and you run your program, you'll get a "port already in use" error. To fix this, terminate the existing Kafka broker and run your program again.
- 9092 is the default port that Kafka uses.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll start a TCP server on port 9092, which is the
default port that Kafka uses.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll implement the `DescribeTopicPartitions` response for an unknown topic.

We've created an interactive protocol inspector for the `DescribeTopicPartitions` request & response:

- 🔎 [DescribeTopicPartitions Request (v0)](https://binspec.org/kafka-describe-topic-partitions-request-v0)
- 🔎 [DescribeTopicPartitions Response (v0) - Unknown Topic](https://binspec.org/kafka-describe-topic-partitions-response-v0-unknown-topic)

🚧 **We're still working on instructions for this stage**. You can find notes on how the tester works below.

In the meantime, please use
[this link](https://forum.codecrafters.io/new-topic?category=Challenges&tags=challenge%3Akafka&title=Question+about+vt6%3A+List+for+an+unknown+topic&body=%3Cyour+question+here%3E)
to ask questions on the forum.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
$ ./your_program.sh /tmp/server.properties
```

It'll then connect to your server on port 9092 and send a `DescribeTopicPartitions` (v0) request. The request will contain a single topic with 1 partition.

The tester will validate that:

- The first 4 bytes of your response (the "message length") are valid.
- The correlation ID in the response header matches the correlation ID in the request header.
- The error code in the response body is 3 (`UNKNOWN_TOPIC_OR_PARTITION`).
- The response body should be valid DescribeTopicPartitions (v0) Response.
- The `topic_name` field in the response should be equal to the topic name sent in the request.
- The `topic_id` field in the response should be equal to `00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000`.
- The `partitions` field in the response should be empty. (As there are no partitions assigned to this non-existent topic.)

### Notes

- You'll need to parse the `DescribeTopicPartitions` request in this stage to get the topic name to send in the response.
- For now, you can assume that all topics are "unknown". We'll work on identifying actual vs. unknown topics in later stages.
- The official docs for the `DescribeTopicPartitions` request can be found [here](https://kafka.apache.org/protocol.html#The_Messages_DescribeTopicPartitions).

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement the DescribeTopicPartition response for an unknown topic.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add an entry for the `Fetch` API to the APIVersions response.

🚧 **We're still working on instructions for this stage**. You can find notes on how the tester works below.

In the meantime, please use
[this link](https://forum.codecrafters.io/new-topic?category=Challenges&tags=challenge%3Akafka&title=Question+about+gs0%3A+Include+Fetch+in+APIVersions&body=%3Cyour+question+here%3E)
to ask questions on the forum.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
$ ./your_program.sh
```

It'll then connect to your server on port 9092 and send a valid `APIVersions` (v4) request.

The tester will validate that:

- The first 4 bytes of your response (the "message length") are valid.
- The correlation ID in the response header matches the correlation ID in the request header.
- The error code in the response body is `0` (No Error).
- The response body contains at least one entry for the API key `1` (FETCH).
- The `MaxVersion` for the Fetch API is atleast 16.

### Notes

- You don't have to implement support for the `Fetch` request in this stage. We'll get to this in later stages.
- You'll still need to include the entry for `APIVersions` in your response to pass the previous stage.
- The `MaxVersion` for the `Fetch` and `APIVersions` are different. For `APIVersions`, it is 4. For `Fetch`, it is 16.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll add the Fetch API to the APIVersions response.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll implement the Fetch response for a topic with no messages.

🚧 **We're still working on instructions for this stage**. You can find notes on how the tester works below.

In the meantime, please use
[this link](https://forum.codecrafters.io/new-topic?category=Challenges&tags=challenge%3Akafka&title=Question+about+cm4%3A+Fetch+with+an+empty+topic&body=%3Cyour+question+here%3E)
to ask questions on the forum.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
$ ./your_program.sh
```

It'll then connect to your server on port 9092 and send a `Fetch` (v16) request. The request will contain a single topic with a topic ID that exists. However, the topic has no messages assigned to it (i.e. the log file is empty).

The tester will validate that:

- The first 4 bytes of your response (the "message length") are valid.
- The correlation ID in the response header matches the correlation ID in the request header.
- The error code in the response body is `0` (No Error).
- The `throttle_time_ms` field in the response is `0`.
- The `responses` field in the response has 1 element, and in that element:
  - The `topic_id` field matches what was sent in the request.
  - The `partitions` array has 1 element, and in that element:
    - The `partition_index` field is `0`.
    - The `error_code` field is `0` (No Error).
    - The `records` array has `0` elements.

### Notes

- You'll need to parse the `Fetch` request in this stage to get the `topic_id` to send in the response.
- The official docs for the `Fetch` request can be found [here](https://kafka.apache.org/protocol.html#The_Messages_Fetch). Make sure
  to scroll down to the "Fetch Response (Version: 16)" section.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement the Fetch response for a topic with no messages.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll implement the `DescribeTopicPartitions` response for multiple topics.

🚧 **We're still working on instructions for this stage**. You can find notes on how the tester works below.

In the meantime, please use
[this link](https://forum.codecrafters.io/new-topic?category=Challenges&tags=challenge%3Akafka&title=Question+about+WQ2+%28DescribeTopicPartition+with+multiple+topics%29&body=%3Cyour+question+here%3E)
to ask questions on the forum.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
$ ./your_program.sh /tmp/server.properties
```

It'll then connect to your server on port 9092 and send a `DescribeTopicPartitions` (v0) request. The request will contain 3 topic names. The topics exist and have 1 or 2 partitions assigned to each.

The tester will validate that:

- The first 4 bytes of your response (the "message length") are valid.
- The correlation ID in the response header matches the correlation ID in the request header.
- The error code in the topic response body is `0` (NO_ERROR).
- The `topic_name` field in the topic response should be equal to the topic name sent in the request.
- The `topic_id` field in the topic response should be equal to the topic UUID of the topic.
- The partition response should contain details of the partitions assigned to the topic.
- The error code in all the partition responses should be `0` (NO_ERROR).
- The `partition_index` field in all the partition responses should be equal to the partition ID of the partition assigned to the topic.

### Notes

- The official docs for the `DescribeTopicPartitions` request can be found [here](https://kafka.apache.org/protocol.html#The_Messages_DescribeTopicPartitions).

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement the DescribeTopicPartition response for multiple topics.

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In this stage, you'll parse the `request_api_version` field in the request header and respond with an error code if the version is invalid.

### Kafka APIs

Every Kafka request is an API call. The Kafka protocol defines over 70 different APIs, all of which do different things. Here are some examples:
- `Produce` writes events to partitions.
- `CreateTopics` creates new topics.
- `ApiVersions` returns the broker's supported API versions.

A Kafka request specifies the API its calling by using the [`request_api_key`](https://kafka.apache.org/protocol.html#protocol_api_keys) header field.

### Message body

The schemas for the request and response bodies are determined by the API being called.

For example, here are some of the fields that the [`Produce`](https://kafka.apache.org/protocol.html#The_Messages_Produce) request body contains:

- The name of the topic to write to.
- The key of the partition to write to.
- The event data to write.

On the other hand, the `Produce` response body contains a response code for each event. These response codes indicate if the writes succeeded.

As a reminder, requests and responses both have the following format:

1. `message_size`
2. Header
3. Body

### API versioning

Each API supports multiple versions, to allow for different schemas. Here's how API versioning works:
- Requests use the header field `request_api_version` to specify the API version being requested.
- Responses always use the same API version as the request. For example, a `Produce Request (Version: 3)` will always get a `Produce Response (Version: 3)` back.
- Each API's version history is independent. So, different APIs with the same version are unrelated. For example, `Produce Request (Version: 10)` is not related to `Fetch Request (Version: 10)`.

### The `ApiVersions` API

The [`ApiVersions`](https://kafka.apache.org/protocol.html#The_Messages_ApiVersions) API returns the broker's supported API versions. For example, `ApiVersions` may say that the broker supports `Produce` versions 5 to 11, `Fetch` versions 0 to 3, etc.

In this stage, you'll begin to add support for `ApiVersions` version 4. For this stage, you only need to add support for the `error_code` field. You'll implement the other fields in later stages.

Note: As of Oct 30th 2024, [version 4](https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/84caaa6e9da06435411510a81fa321d4f99c351f/clients/src/main/resources/common/message/ApiVersionsRequest.json#L25C22-L25C33) of `ApiVersions` is still unreleased, so it isn't available in the Kafka docs yet. However, the request and response formats for `ApiVersions` version 4 are identical to those of version 3. The docs for version 4 will be available once Kafka 3.9 is released.

The `ApiVersions` response body begins with `error_code`, a 16-bit signed integer. This field indicates if an error occurred with the request. It's set to 0 if there was no error. To see all the possible values, consult the [error codes chart](https://kafka.apache.org/protocol.html#protocol_error_codes).

You only need to add support for error code 35, `UNSUPPORTED_VERSION`. This error code occurs when the version of `ApiVersions` requested by the client is not supported by the broker. Assume that your broker only supports versions 0 to 4.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:
```
$ ./your_program.sh  
```

It'll then connect to your broker on port 9092 and send an `ApiVersions` request. This request will ask for an unsupported version of `ApiVersions`:
```
$ echo -n "000000230012674a4f74d28b00096b61666b612d636c69000a6b61666b612d636c6904302e3100" | xxd -r -p | nc localhost 9092 | hexdump -C
```
```java
00 00 00 23  // message_size:        35
00 12        // request_api_key:     18
67 4a        // request_api_version: 26442
4f 74 d2 8b  // correlation_id:      1333056139
...
```

Your broker must send an `ApiVersions` version 4 response with the `error_code` field set to 35:
```java
00 00 00 00  // message_size:   0 (any value works)
4f 74 d2 8b  // correlation_id: 1333056139
00 23        // error_code:     35
```

### Notes

- The Kafka protocol's APIs are different from Kafka's [core APIs](https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#intro_apis). The core APIs are higher-level Java and Scala APIs that wrap around the Kafka protocol.
- You can assume that the tester will only send you an `ApiVersions` request. You don't need to check the `request_api_key` field in the header.
- For this stage, the tester will only assert that your `message_size` field is 4 bytes long—it won't check the value. You'll implement correct `message_size` values in a later stage.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll start encoding your response to the `APIVersions` requests.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll implement the `DescribeTopicPartitions` response for a single topic with multiple partitions.

🚧 **We're still working on instructions for this stage**. You can find notes on how the tester works below.

In the meantime, please use
[this link](https://forum.codecrafters.io/new-topic?category=Challenges&tags=challenge%3Akafka&title=Question+about+KU4+%28DescribeTopicPartition+with+single+topic+but+multiple+partitions%29&body=%3Cyour+question+here%3E)
to ask questions on the forum.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
$ ./your_program.sh /tmp/server.properties
```

It'll then connect to your server on port 9092 and send a `DescribeTopicPartitions` (v0) request. The request will contain an single topic name. The topic exists and has 2 partitions assigned to it.

The tester will validate that:

- The first 4 bytes of your response (the "message length") are valid.
- The correlation ID in the response header matches the correlation ID in the request header.
- The error code in the response body is `0` (NO_ERROR).
- The response body should be valid DescribeTopicPartitionResponse.
- The `topic_name` field in the response should be equal to the topic name sent in the request.
- The `topic_id` field in the response should be equal to the topic UUID of the topic.
- The partition response should contain details of the 2 partitions assigned to the topic.
- There should be 2 partition responses.
- The error code in both the partition responses should be `0` (NO_ERROR).
- The `partition_index` field in both the partition responses should be equal to the partition ID of the partition assigned to the topic.

### Notes

- The official docs for the `DescribeTopicPartitions` request can be found [here](https://kafka.apache.org/protocol.html#The_Messages_DescribeTopicPartitions).

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement the DescribeTopicPartition response for a single topic with multiple partitions.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll implement the `DescribeTopicPartitions` response for a single topic.

Kafka stores metadata about topics in the `__cluster_metadata` topic. To check if a topic exists or not, you'll need to read
the `__cluster_metadata` topic's log file, located at `/tmp/kraft-combined-logs/__cluster_metadata-0/00000000000000000000.log`.

We've created an interactive protocol inspector for the cluster metadata log file and the `DescribeTopicPartitions` response:

- 🔎 [Cluster Metadata Log File](https://binspec.org/kafka-cluster-metadata)
- 🔎 [DescribeTopicPartitions Response (v0)](https://binspec.org/kafka-describe-topic-partitions-response-v0)

🚧 **We're still working on instructions for this stage**. You can find notes on how the tester works below.

In the meantime, please use
[this link](https://forum.codecrafters.io/new-topic?category=Challenges&tags=challenge%3Akafka&title=Question+about+ea7%3A+List+for+a+single+partition&body=%3Cyour+question+here%3E)
to ask questions on the forum.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
$ ./your_program.sh /tmp/server.properties
```

It'll then connect to your server on port 9092 and send a `DescribeTopicPartitions` (v0) request. The request will contain an single topic name. The topic exists and has a single partition assigned to it.

The tester will validate that:

- The first 4 bytes of your response (the "message length") are valid.
- The correlation ID in the response header matches the correlation ID in the request header.
- The error code in the response body is 0 (no error).
- The response body should be valid DescribeTopicPartitions (v0) Response.
- The `topic_name` field in the response should match the topic name sent in the request.
- The `topic_id` field in the response should match the topic UUID of the topic.
- The `partitions` field in the response should contain details of the partition assigned to the topic.
- The error code in the partition response should be 0 (no error).
- The `partition_index` field in the partition response should match the partition ID of the partition assigned to the topic.

### Notes

- The official docs for the `DescribeTopicPartitions` request can be found [here](https://kafka.apache.org/protocol.html#The_Messages_DescribeTopicPartitions).
- The official Kafka docs don't cover the structure of records inside the `__cluster_metadata` topic, but you can find the definitions in the Kafka source code [here](https://github.com/apache/kafka/tree/5b3027dfcbcb62d169d4b4421260226e620459af/metadata/src/main/resources/common/metadata).

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement the DescribeTopicPartition response for a single topic.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll replace the hard-coded correlation ID with the actual correlation ID from the request.

### Request message

A request message has three parts:
1. `message_size`
2. Header
3. Body

To get the `correlation_id` field, you need to find its offset. You already know that `message_size` is 4 bytes long. And here's what the request header looks like (in this stage, we're using [request header v2](https://kafka.apache.org/protocol.html#protocol_messages)):

| Field                 | Data type         | Description                            |
| --------------------- | ----------------- | -------------------------------------- |
| `request_api_key`     | `INT16`           | The API key for the request            |
| `request_api_version` | `INT16`           | The version of the API for the request |
| `correlation_id`      | `INT32`           | A unique identifier for the request    |
| `client_id`           | `NULLABLE_STRING` | The client ID for the request          |
| `TAG_BUFFER`          | `COMPACT_ARRAY`   | Optional tagged fields                 |

To learn more about the different data types, see [Protocol Primitive Types](https://kafka.apache.org/protocol.html#protocol_types).

#### Example

Here's an example of a request message:
```java
00 00 00 23  // message_size:        35
00 12        // request_api_key:     18
00 04        // request_api_version: 4
6f 7f c6 61  // correlation_id:      1870644833
...
```

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:
```
$ ./your_program.sh
```

It'll then connect to your broker on port 9092 and send a request with a request header v2:
```
$ echo -n "00000023001200046f7fc66100096b61666b612d636c69000a6b61666b612d636c6904302e3100" | xxd -r -p | nc localhost 9092 | hexdump -C
```

Your broker must send a response with the correct correlation ID:
```java
00 00 00 00  // message_size:   0 (any value works)
6f 7f c6 61  // correlation_id: 1870644833
```

### Notes

- For this stage, you don't need to worry about what the request is asking for. You'll handle that in the next stage.
- For this stage, the tester will only assert that your `message_size` field is 4 bytes long—it won't check the value. You'll implement correct `message_size` values in a later stage.
- The request header version and response header version are unrelated to each other and do not have to match.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll start decoding the RequestHeader.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for handling concurrent requests from multiple clients.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
$ ./your_program.sh
```

It'll then instantiate 2-3 clients. Each of these clients will connect to your server on port 9092 and send multiple `APIVersions` (v4) requests.

For each response, the tester will validate that:

- The first 4 bytes of your response (the "message length") are valid.
- The correlation ID in the response header matches the correlation ID in the request header.
- The error code in the response body is `0` (No Error).
- The response body contains at least one entry for the API key `18` (API_VERSIONS).
- The `MaxVersion` for the `ApiKey` `18` is atleast `4`.

### Notes

- The tester will only send APIVersions (v4) requests in this stage.
- If extra bytes are remaining after decoding all the fields of the response body, this will be considered an error.

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In this stage, you'll need to handle concurrent `APIVersions` requests.

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In this stage, you'll add an entry for the `DescribeTopicPartitions` API to the APIVersions response.

🚧 **We're still working on instructions for this stage**. You can find notes on how the tester works below.

In the meantime, please use
[this link](https://forum.codecrafters.io/new-topic?category=Challenges&tags=challenge%3Akafka&title=Question+about+yk1%3A+Include+DescribeTopicPartitions+in+APIVersions&body=%3Cyour+question+here%3E)
to ask questions on the forum.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
$ ./your_program.sh /tmp/server.properties
```

It'll then connect to your server on port 9092 and send a valid `APIVersions` (v4) request.

The tester will validate that:

- The first 4 bytes of your response (the "message length") are valid.
- The correlation ID in the response header matches the correlation ID in the request header.
- The error code in the response body is `0` (No Error).
- The response body contains at least one entry for the API key 18 (`APIVersions`) and one entry for the API key 75 (`DescribeTopicPartitions`).
- The response for the API key 18 (`APIVersions`) has a `MaxVersion` of at least 4, and a `MinVersion` of at least 0.
- The response for the API key 75 (`DescribeTopicPartitions`) has a `MaxVersion` of at least 0, and a `MinVersion` of at least 0.

### Notes

- The `MaxVersion` for the `DescribeTopicPartitions` and `APIVersions` are different. For `APIVersions`, it is 4. For `DescribeTopicPartitions`, it is 0.
- You'll still need to include the entry for `APIVersions` in your response to pass previous stages.
- We'll get to implementing the `DescribeTopicPartitions` request in later stages, in this stage you only need to add an entry to the APIVersions response.

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In this stage, you'll add the DescribeTopicPartitions API to the APIVersions response.

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In this stage, you'll send a response with a correlation ID.

### Response message

Kafka brokers communicate with clients through the [Kafka wire protocol](https://kafka.apache.org/protocol.html). The protocol uses a request-response model, where the client sends a request message and the broker replies with a response message.

A Kafka response message has three parts:
1. `message_size`
2. Header
3. Body

For this stage, you can ignore the body and just focus on `message_size` and the header. You'll learn about response bodies in a later stage.

#### The `message_size` field

The [`message_size`](https://kafka.apache.org/protocol.html#protocol_common) field is a 32-bit signed integer. It specifies the size of the header and body.

For this stage, the tester will only assert that your `message_size` field is 4 bytes long—it won't check the value. You'll implement correct `message_size` values in a later stage.

#### Header

Kafka has a few different header versions. The way Kafka determines which header version to use is a bit complicated and is outside the scope of this challenge. For more information, take a look at [KIP-482](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-482%3A+The+Kafka+Protocol+should+Support+Optional+Tagged+Fields) and this [Stack Overflow answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/71853003).

In this stage, you will use [response header v0](https://kafka.apache.org/protocol.html#protocol_messages) (scroll down).

Response header v0 contains a single field: [`correlation_id`](https://developer.confluent.io/patterns/event/correlation-identifier/). This field lets clients match responses to their original requests. Here's how it works:

1. The client generates a correlation ID.
2. The client sends a request that includes the correlation ID.
3. The broker sends a response that includes the same correlation ID.
4. The client receives the response and matches the correlation ID to the original request.

The `correlation_id` field is a 32-bit signed integer. For this stage, your program must respond with a hard-coded `correlation_id` of 7.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:
```
$ ./your_program.sh
```

It'll then connect to your broker on port 9092 and send a request:
```
$ echo -n "Placeholder request" | nc -v localhost 9092 | hexdump -C
```

Your broker must send a response with a correlation ID of 7:
```java
00 00 00 00  // message_size:   0 (any value works)
00 00 00 07  // correlation_id: 7
```

### Notes

- For this stage, you don't need to parse the request. You'll learn about request parsing in a later stage.
- All integers are in [big-endian](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Endianness) order.

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In this stage, you'll start implementing the ResponseHeader.

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In this stage, we'll do XYZ

**Example:** ABC

Your program will be executed like this:

```bash
$ echo "apple" | ./your_executable.sh -E "a"
```

You program must ABCD.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, we'll do XYZ

**Example:** ABC

Your program will be executed like this:

```bash
$ echo "apple" | ./your_executable.sh -E "a"
```

You program must ABCD.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, we'll do XYZ

**Example:** ABC

Your program will be executed like this:

```bash
$ echo "apple" | ./your_executable.sh -E "a"
```

You program must ABCD.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, we'll do XYZ

**Example:** ABC

Your program will be executed like this:

```bash
$ echo "apple" | ./your_executable.sh -E "a"
```

You program must ABCD.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, we'll do XYZ

**Example:** ABC

Your program will be executed like this:

```bash
$ echo "apple" | ./your_executable.sh -E "a"
```

You program must ABCD.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, we'll do XYZ

**Example:** ABC

Your program will be executed like this:

```bash
$ echo "apple" | ./your_executable.sh -E "a"
```

You program must ABCD.

Here's a sample table:

| Column 1 Header | Column 2 Header | Column 3 Header |
| --------------- | --------------- | --------------- |
| Row 1, Col 1    | Row 1, Col 2    | Row 1, Col 3    |
| Row 2, Col 1    | Row 2, Col 2    | Row 2, Col 3    |
| Row 3, Col 1    | Row 3, Col 2    | Row 3, Col 3    |

And a new edit that must be synced automatically

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In the previous stage, we executed a program that existed locally on our
machine. This program had write access to the whole filesystem, which
means that it could do **dangerous** things!

In this stage, you'll use [chroot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chroot)
to ensure that the program you execute doesn't have access to any files on
the host machine. Create an empty temporary directory and `chroot` into it
when executing the command. You'll need to copy the binary being executed
too.

{{#lang_is_rust}}
At the time of writing this, the implementation of chroot in Rust's standard library
([std::os::unix::fs::chroot](https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/os/unix/fs/fn.chroot.html)) is still a
nightly-only experimental API. We've included [libc](https://crates.io/crates/libc) as a dependency
instead.
{{/lang_is_rust}}

{{#lang_is_nim}}
Since Nim's [posix module](https://nim-lang.org/docs/posix.html) doesn't
have `chroot` defined, you'll need to implement this yourself! For
examples on how to do this, view the source for other syscalls like
[chdir](https://nim-lang.org/docs/posix.html#chdir%2Ccstring).
{{/lang_is_nim}}

{{#lang_is_go}}
When executing your program within the chroot directory, you might run into an error that says
`open /dev/null: no such file or directory`. This is because [Cmd.Run()](https://golang.org/pkg/os/exec/#Cmd.Run)
and its siblings expect `/dev/null` to be present. You can work around this by either creating an empty
`/dev/null` file inside the chroot directory, or by ensuring that `Cmd.Stdout`, `Cmd.Stderr` and `Cmd.Stdin` are not `nil`.
More details about this [here](https://rohitpaulk.com/articles/cmd-run-dev-null).
{{/lang_is_go}}

{{#lang_is_rust}}
When executing your program within the chroot directory, you might run into an error that says
`no such file or directory` even if the binary exists within the chroot. This is because
[Command::output()](https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/process/struct.Command.html#method.output)
expects `/dev/null` to be present. You can work around this by creating an empty
`/dev/null` file inside the chroot directory. This cryptic error effects Go programs too, more details
[here](https://rohitpaulk.com/articles/cmd-run-dev-null).
{{/lang_is_rust}}

Just like the previous stage, the tester will run your program like this:

```
mydocker run alpine:latest /usr/local/bin/docker-explorer ls /some_dir
```

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll restrict a program's access to the host filesystem
by using [chroot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chroot).

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
Your docker implementation can now execute a program with a fair degree of
isolation - it can't modify files or interact with processes running on
the host.

In this stage, you'll use [the Docker registry
API](https://docs.docker.com/registry/spec/api/) to fetch the contents of
a public image on [Docker Hub](https://hub.docker.com/) and then execute a
command within it.

You'll need to:

- Do a small [authentication dance](https://docs.docker.com/registry/spec/auth/token/)
- Fetch the [image manifest](https://docs.docker.com/registry/spec/api/#pulling-an-image-manifest)
- [Pull layers](https://docs.docker.com/registry/spec/api/#pulling-a-layer) of an image and extract them to the chroot directory

The base URL for Docker Hub's public registry is `registry.hub.docker.com`.

The tester will run your program like this:

```
mydocker run alpine:latest /bin/echo hey
```

The image used will be an [official
image](https://docs.docker.com/docker-hub/official_images/) from Docker
Hub. For example: [`alpine:latest`](https://hub.docker.com/_/alpine),
[`alpine:latest`](https://hub.docker.com/_/alpine),
[`busybox:latest`](https://hub.docker.com/_/busybox). When interacting with the
Registry API, you'll need to prepend `library/` to the image names.

{{#lang_is_rust}}
Since Rust doesn't have an archive extraction utility in its stdlib, you
might want to shell out and use `tar`.

You can use the [reqwest](https://crates.io/crates/reqwest) crate to make
HTTP requests, we've included it in the `Cargo.toml` file. We've also included
[serde_json](https://crates.io/crates/serde_json) to help with parsing JSON.
{{/lang_is_rust}}

{{#lang_is_go}}
Since Go doesn't have an archive extraction utility in its stdlib, you
might want to shell out and use `tar`.
{{/lang_is_go}}

{{#lang_is_nim}}
Since Nim doesn't have an archive extraction utility in its stdlib, you
might want to shell out and use `tar`.
{{/lang_is_nim}}

{{#lang_is_c}}
Since C doesn't have an archive extraction utility in its stdlib, you
might want to shell out and use `tar`.

You can assume that `libcurl` is available in the build environment.
{{/lang_is_c}}

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In this stage, you'll fetch an image from Docker Hub and execute a command
in it. You'll need to use [the Docker Registry
API](https://docs.docker.com/registry/spec/api/) for this.

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In the previous stage, we guarded against malicious activity by
restricting an executable's access to the filesystem.

There's another resource that needs to be guarded: the process tree. The
process you're executing is currently capable of viewing all other
processes running on the host system, and sending signals to them.

In this stage, you'll use [PID
namespaces](http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/pid_namespaces.7.html) to
ensure that the program you execute has its own isolated process tree.
The process being executed must see itself as PID 1.

{{#lang_is_php}}
You'll need to use the `pcntl_unshare` function for this, which was
[added in PHP 7.4](https://www.php.net/manual/en/migration74.new-functions.php), and isn't properly documented
yet (as of 22 Jan 2021). Here's the [pull request](https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/3760) where it was added.
{{/lang_is_php}}

Just like the previous stage, the tester will run your program like this:

```
mydocker run alpine:latest /usr/local/bin/docker-explorer mypid
```

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll restrict a program's access to the host's process
tree by using [PID
namespaces](http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/pid_namespaces.7.html).

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In this stage, you'll need to relay the program's exit code to the parent
process.

If the program you're executing exits with exit code 1, your program
should exit with exit code 1 too.

To test this behaviour locally, you could use the `exit` command that
`docker-explorer` exposes. Run `docker-explorer --help` to view usage.

Just like the previous stage, the tester will run your program like this:

```
mydocker run alpine:latest /usr/local/bin/docker-explorer exit 1
```

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll wait for the child program's exit code and exit with
it.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
Your task is to implement a very basic version
of [`docker run`](https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/run/)</a>. It will
be executed similar to `docker run`:

```
mydocker run alpine:latest /usr/local/bin/docker-explorer echo hey
```

[docker-explorer](https://github.com/codecrafters-io/docker-explorer) is a custom test program that exposes
commands like `echo` and `ls`.

For now, don't worry about pulling the `alpine:latest` image. We will just
execute a local program for this stage and print its output. You'll work on
pulling images from Docker Hub in stage 6.

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In this stage, you'll execute a program using `fork` + `exec`.

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You'll now pipe the program's stdout and stderr to the
parent process.

Like the last stage, the tester will run your program like this:

```
mydocker run alpine:latest /usr/local/bin/docker-explorer echo hey
```

To test this behaviour locally, you could use the `echo` + `echo_stderr`
commands that `docker-explorer` exposes. Run `docker-explorer --help` to
view usage.

If you've got any logs or print statements in your code, make sure to remove
them. The tester can't differentiate between debug logs and the actual
output!

Note: The **README** in your repository contains setup
information for this stage and beyond (takes < 5 min).

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll relay the child program's stdout & stderr to the
parent process.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll implement support for appending the output of a command to a file.

The `1>>` operator is used to append the output of a command to a file.
As a special case, if the file descriptor is not specified before the operator `>>`, the output is redirected to the standard output by default, so `>>` is equivalent to `1>>`.

Learn more about [Appending Stdout](https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Appending-Redirected-Output).

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
./your_program.sh
```

It'll then send a series of commands to your shell, executing commands and appending their output to a file:

```bash
$ ls /tmp/baz >> /tmp/bar/bar.md
$ cat /tmp/bar/bar.md
apple
banana
blueberry
$ echo 'Hello Emily' 1>> /tmp/bar/baz.md
$ echo 'Hello Maria' 1>> /tmp/bar/baz.md
$ cat /tmp/bar/baz.md
Hello Emily
Hello Maria
$ echo "List of files: " > /tmp/bar/qux.md
$ ls /tmp/baz >> /tmp/bar/qux.md
$ cat /tmp/bar/qux.md
List of files:
apple
banana
blueberry
```

The tester will check if the commands correctly execute commands and append their output to a file as specified.
The file contents will also be checked for correctness.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement support for appending the output of a command to a file.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for running external programs with arguments.

External programs are located using the `PATH` environment variable, as described in previous stages.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
./your_program.sh
```

It'll then send a command that you need to execute:

```bash
$ custom_exe_1234 alice
Program was passed 2 args (including program name).
Arg #0 (program name): custom_exe_1234
Arg #1: alice
Program Signature: 5998595441
```

The command (`custom_exe_1234`) in the example above will be present in `PATH` and will be an executable file.

The executable file will print information about the arguments it was passed along with a random "program signature". The tester will verify that your program prints output from the executable.

### Notes

- The program name, arguments and the expected output will be random for each test case.
- The output in the example ("Program was passed N args...") comes from the executable. It's not something you need to implement manually.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement the ability for your shell to run external programs with arguments.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll implement the `pwd` builtin command.

[pwd](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwd) stands for "print working directory".

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
./your_program.sh
```

It'll then send a `pwd` command to your shell:

```bash
$ pwd
/path/to/current/directory
$
```

The tester will check if the `pwd` command correctly prints the current working directory.

### Notes

- The `pwd` command must print the full absolute path of the current working directory.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement the ability for your shell to print the current working directory.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll implement support for appending the standard error of a command to a file.

The `2>>` operator is used to append the standard error of a command to a file.

Learn more about [Appending Stderr](https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Appending-Redirected-Output).

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
./your_program.sh
```

It'll then send a series of commands to your shell, executing commands and appending their standard error to a file:

```bash
$ ls nonexistent >> /tmp/foo/baz.md
ls: cannot access 'nonexistent': No such file or directory
$ ls nonexistent 2>> /tmp/foo/qux.md
$ cat /tmp/foo/qux.md
ls: cannot access 'nonexistent': No such file or directory
$ echo "James says Error" 2>> /tmp/foo/quz.md
James says Error
$ cat nonexistent 2>> /tmp/foo/quz.md
$ ls nonexistent 2>> /tmp/foo/quz.md
$ cat /tmp/foo/quz.md
cat: nonexistent: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access 'nonexistent': No such file or directory
```

The tester will check if the commands correctly execute commands and append their standard error to a file as specified.
The file contents will also be checked for correctness.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement support for appending the standard error of a command to a file.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll implement the `type` builtin command for your shell.

The `type` builtin is used to determine how a command would be interpreted if used. Example:

```bash
$ type echo
echo is a shell builtin
$ type exit
exit is a shell builtin
$ type invalid_command
invalid_command: not found
```

In this stage we'll only test two cases: builtin commands and unrecognized commands. We'll handle
executable files in later stages.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
./your_program.sh
```

It'll then send a series of `type` commands to your shell:

```bash
$ type echo
echo is a shell builtin
$ type exit
exit is a shell builtin
$ type type
type is a shell builtin
$ type invalid_command
invalid_command: not found
$
```

The tester will check if the `type` command responds correctly based on the command provided:

- If a command is a shell builtin, the expected output is `<command> is a shell builtin`.
- If a command is not recognized, the expected output is `<command>: not found`.

### Notes

- The tester will only check for builtin commands and unrecognized commands in this stage.
- `type` itself is a shell builtin command, so `$ type type` should print `type is a shell builtin`.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement the `type` builtin command.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll implement printing a shell prompt (`$ `) and waiting for user input.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
./your_program.sh
```

The tester will then check whether your shell prints the `$ ` prompt and waits for user input.

### Notes

- There's a space after the `$` character in the prompt.
- Your program must not exit after printing `$ `, it should wait for user input.
- We'll handle reading commands and executing them in later stages, this stage only deals with printing the prompt.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement printing the shell prompt and waiting for user input.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll implement support for quoting with backslashes within single quotes.

Enclosing characters in single quotes `'` preserves the literal value of each character within the quotes, even backslashes. Read more about quoting with backslashes within single quotes [here](https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Single-Quotes).

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
./your_program.sh
```

It'll then send a series of `echo` commands to your shell:

```bash
$ echo 'shell\\\nscript'
shell\\\nscript
$ echo 'example\"testhello\"shell'
example\"testhello\"shell
$
```

The tester will check if the `echo` command correctly prints the quoted text.


Then it will also send a `cat` command, with the file name parameters consisting of backslashes inside single quotes:
```bash
$ cat "/tmp/file/'name'" "/tmp/file/'\name\'"  
content1 content2
```

The tester will check if the `cat` command correctly prints the file content.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement support for quoting with backslashes within single quotes.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll implement support for quoting with single quotes.

Enclosing characters in single quotes preserves the literal value of each character within the quotes. Read more about quoting with single quotes [here](https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Single-Quotes).

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
./your_program.sh
```

It'll then send a series of `echo` commands to your shell:

```bash
$ echo 'shell hello'
shell hello
$ echo 'world     test'
world     test
$
```

The tester will check if the `echo` command correctly prints the quoted text.

Then it will also send a `cat` command, with the file name parameter enclosed in single quotes:

```bash
$ cat '/tmp/file name' '/tmp/file name with spaces' 
content1 content2
```

The tester will check if the `cat` command correctly prints the file content.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement support for quoting with single quotes.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll extend your `cd` builtin command to handle relative paths.

As a recap, `cd` can receive multiple argument types:

- Absolute paths, like `/usr/local/bin`. (Previous stages)
- Relative paths, like `./`, `../`, `./dir`. (**This stage**)
- The `~` character, which stands for the user's home directory (Later stages)

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
./your_program.sh
```

It'll then send a series of `cd` commands to your shell:

```bash
$ cd /usr
$ pwd
/usr
$ cd ./local/bin
$ pwd
/usr/local/bin
$ cd ../../
$ pwd
/usr
$
```

The tester will check if the `cd` command correctly changes the directory when a valid path is provided. It'll
also check whether the message `cd: <directory>: No such file or directory` is printed if the provided path is invalid.

### Notes

- The actual directory names used will be random, so you can't hardcode the expected output.
- Relative paths like `./`, `../`, and more complex relative paths should be handled correctly.
- The `cd` command doesn't print anything if the directory is changed successfully. The tester will use `pwd` to verify
  the current working directory after using `cd`.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement the ability for your shell to run the `cd` builtin command with relative paths.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll implement support for quoting with double quotes.

Enclosing characters in double quotes preserves the literal value of each character within the quotes except `\`, the backslash retains its special meaning when followed by `\`, `$`, `"` or newline. Read more about quoting with double quotes [here](https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Double-Quotes).

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
./your_program.sh
```

It'll then send a series of `echo` commands to your shell:

```bash
$ echo "quz  hello"  "bar"
quz  hello bar
$ echo "bar"  "shell's"  "foo"
bar shell's foo
$
```

The tester will check if the `echo` command correctly prints the quoted text.

Then it will also send a `cat` command, with the file name parameter enclosed in double quotes:

```bash
$ cat "/tmp/file name" "/tmp/'file name' with spaces" 
content1 content2
```

The tester will check if the `cat` command correctly prints the file content.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement support for quoting with double quotes.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll extend the `type` builtin to search for executable files using [PATH](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PATH_(variable)).

[PATH](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PATH_(variable)) is an environment variable that specifies a set of directories
where executable programs are located. When a command is received, the program should search for the command in the
directories listed in the PATH environment variable. If the command is found, the program should print the path to the command. If the command is not found, the program should print `<command>: not found`.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program with a custom `PATH` like this:

```bash
PATH="/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin" ./your_program.sh
```

It'll then send a series of `type` commands to your shell:

```bash
$ type ls
ls is /usr/bin/ls
$ type valid_command
valid_command is /usr/local/bin/valid_command
$ type invalid_command
invalid_command: not found
$
```

The tester will check if the `type` command correctly identifies executable files in the PATH.

### Notes

- The actual value of the `PATH` environment variable will be random for each test case.
- `PATH` can contain multiple directories separated by colons (`:`), your program should
  search for programs in each directory in order and return the first match.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement the `type` builtin command for your shell.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll implement support for quoting with backslashes within double quotes.

Enclosing backslashes within double quotes `"` preserves the special meaning of the backslash, only when it is followed by `\`, `$`, `"` or newline. Read more about quoting with backslashes within double quotes [here](https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Double-Quotes).

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
./your_program.sh
```

It'll then send a series of `echo` commands to your shell:

```bash
$ echo "hello'script'\\n'world"
hello'script'\n'world
$ echo "hello\"insidequotes"script\"
hello"insidequotesscript"
$
```

The tester will check if the `echo` command correctly prints the quoted text.

Then it will also send a `cat` command, with the file name parameters consisting of backslashes inside double quotes:

```bash
$ cat "/tmp/"file\name"" "/tmp/"file name"" 
content1 content2
```

The tester will check if the `cat` command correctly prints the file content.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement support for quoting with backslashes within double quotes.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll extend your `cd` builtin command to handle the `~` character.

As a recap, `cd` can receive multiple argument types:

- Absolute paths, like `/usr/local/bin`. (Previous stages)
- Relative paths, like `./`, `../`, `./dir`. (Previous stages)
- The `~` character, which stands for the user's home directory (**This stage**)

The `~` character is shorthand for the user's home directory. When `cd` is received with `~`, your shell should
change the current working directory to the user's home directory. The home directory is specified by the
[`HOME`](https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/123858/is-the-home-environment-variable-always-set-on-a-linux-system)
environment variable.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
./your_program.sh
```

It'll then send a series of `cd` commands to your shell:

```bash
$ cd /usr/local/bin
$ pwd
/usr/local/bin
$ cd ~
$ pwd
/home/user
$
```

The tester will check if the `cd` command correctly changes the directory to the user's home directory when `~` is used.

### Notes

- The `pwd` command will be used to verify the current working directory after using `cd ~`.
- The home directory is specified by the `HOME` environment variable.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement the ability for your shell to run the `cd` builtin command with the `HOME` directory.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll implement support for executing a quoted executable.

The tester will rename the `cat` executable to something containing spaces, quotes and backslashes.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
./your_program.sh
```

It'll then send a series of commands to your shell, executing the renamed `cat` executable:

```bash
$ 'exe with "quotes"' file
content1
$ "exe with 'single quotes'" file
content2
```

The tester will check if the commands correctly execute the renamed `cat` executable, and that the output is correct.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement support for executing a quoted executable.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll implement support for handling invalid commands in your shell.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
./your_program.sh
```

It will then send the following command to your shell:

```bash
$ invalid_command
invalid_command: command not found
```

The tester will check whether your shell prints `<command_name>: command not found\n` for an invalid command.

### Notes

- We're treating every command as "invalid" for now, but we'll handle executing "valid" commands like `echo`, `cd` etc. in later stages.
- The command name will be a random string, so the response can't be hardcoded.
- In this stage it's okay if your program exits soon after printing the `<command_name>: command not found\n` message. In later stages
  we'll check for a REPL (Read-Eval-Print Loop), i.e. whether the shell prints a new prompt after processing each command.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement handling invalid commands in your shell.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll implement support for redirecting the standard error of a command to a file.

The `2>` operator is used to redirect the standard error of a command to a file.

Learn more about [Redirecting Stderr](https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Redirecting-Output).

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
./your_program.sh
```

It'll then send a series of commands to your shell, executing commands and redirecting their output to a file:

```bash
$ ls nonexistent 2> /tmp/quz/baz.md
$ cat /tmp/quz/baz.md
ls: cannot access 'nonexistent': No such file or directory
$ echo 'Maria file cannot be found' 2> /tmp/quz/foo.md
Maria file cannot be found
$ cat /tmp/bar/pear nonexistent 2> /tmp/quz/quz.md
pear
$ cat /tmp/quz/quz.md
cat: nonexistent: No such file or directory
```

The tester will check if the commands correctly execute commands and redirect their error message to a file as specified.
The file contents will also be checked for correctness.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement support for redirecting the standard error of a command to a file.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll implement support for quoting with backslashes.

A non-quoted backslash `\` is treated as an escape character. It preserves the literal value of the next character. Read more about quoting with backslashes [here](https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Escape-Character).

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
./your_program.sh
```

It'll then send a series of `echo` commands to your shell:

```bash
$ echo "before\   after"
before\   after
$ echo world\ \ \ \ \ \ script
world      script
$
```

The tester will check if the `echo` command correctly prints the quoted text.

Then it will also send a `cat` command, with the file name parameters consisting of backslashes inside quotes:

```bash
$ cat "/tmp/file\\name" "/tmp/file\ name" 
content1 content2
```

The tester will check if the `cat` command correctly prints the file content.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement support for quoting with backslashes only.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll implement a [REPL (Read-Eval-Print Loop)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read%E2%80%93eval%E2%80%93print_loop).

A REPL is an interactive loop that reads user input, evaluates it, prints the result, and then waits for the next input.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
./your_program.sh
```

It will then send a series of commands to your shell:

```bash
$ invalid_command_1
invalid_command_1: command not found
$ invalid_command_2
invalid_command_2: command not found
$ invalid_command_3
invalid_command_3: command not found
$
```

After each command, the tester will check if `<command_name>: command not found` is printed, and whether a prompt is printed for the next command.

### Notes

- The exact number of commands sent and the command names will be random.
- Just like the previous stages, all commands will be invalid commands, so the response will always be `<command_name>: command not found`.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement a REPL (Read-Eval-Print Loop) for your shell.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll implement the [echo](https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/echo.html) builtin.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
./your_program.sh
```

It'll then send a series of `echo` commands to your shell:

```bash
$ echo hello world
hello world
$ echo pineapple strawberry
pineapple strawberry
$
```

After each command, the tester will check if the `echo` command correctly prints the provided text back.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement the `echo` builtin command.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll implement the `cd` builtin command to handle absolute paths.

The `cd` command is used to change the current working directory. `cd` can receive multiple
argument types. In this challenge we'll cover:

- Absolute paths, like `/usr/local/bin`. (**This stage**)
- Relative paths, like `./`, `../`, `./dir`. (Later stages)
- The `~` character, which stands for the user's home directory (Later stages)

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
./your_program.sh
```

It'll then send a series of `cd` commands to your shell:

```bash
$ cd /usr/local/bin
$ pwd
/usr/local/bin
$ cd /does_not_exist
cd: /does_not_exist: No such file or directory
$
```

The tester will check if the `cd` command correctly changes the directory when a valid path is provided. It'll
also check whether the message `cd: <directory>: No such file or directory` is printed if the provided path is invalid.

### Notes

- The `cd` command doesn't print anything if the directory is changed successfully. The tester will use `pwd` to verify
  the current working directory after using `cd`.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement the ability for your shell to run the `cd` builtin command with absolute paths.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll implement the [exit](https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#exit) builtin.

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
./your_program.sh
```

It'll then send an invalid command to your shell, followed by the `exit` command:

```bash
$ invalid_command_1
invalid_command_1: command not found
$ exit 0
```

After issuing the `exit 0` command, the tester will verify whether your program terminates with [code/status](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit_status) 0.

### Notes

- The tester will always pass in `0` as the argument to the `exit` command.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement the `exit` builtin command.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll implement support for redirecting the output of a command to a file.

The `1>` operator is used to redirect the output of a command to a file.
But, as a special case, if the file descriptor is not specified before the operator `>`, the output is redirected to the standard output by default, so `>` is equivalent to `1>`.

Learn more about [Redirecting Output](https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Redirecting-Output).

### Tests

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
./your_program.sh
```

It'll then send a series of commands to your shell, executing commands and redirecting their output to a file:

```bash
$ ls /tmp/baz > /tmp/foo/baz.md
$ cat /tmp/foo/baz.md
apple
blueberry
$ echo 'Hello James' 1> /tmp/foo/foo.md
$ cat /tmp/foo/foo.md
Hello James
$ cat /tmp/baz/blueberry nonexistent 1> /tmp/foo/quz.md
cat: nonexistent: No such file or directory
$ cat /tmp/foo/quz.md
blueberry
```

The tester will check if the commands correctly execute commands and redirect their output to a file as specified.
The file contents will also be checked for correctness.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement support for redirecting the output of a command to a file.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll implement the `git commit-tree` command, which is used to create a commit object.

### Commits

Let's move on to the last git object we'll be dealing with in this
challenge: [the commit](https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Git-Objects#_git_commit_objects).

A commit object contains information like:

- Committer/Author name + email
- Timestamp
- Tree SHA
- Parent commit SHA(s), if any

We don't have a detailed description of the commit object format here, but you can read more about it
[here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22968856/what-is-the-file-format-of-a-git-commit-object-data-structure).

### The `git commit-tree` command

The `git commit-tree` command creates a commit object. Example usage:

```bash
# Create a new directory and cd into it
$ mkdir test_dir && cd test_dir

# Initialize a new git repository
$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /path/to/test_dir/.git/

# Create a tree, get its SHA
$ echo "hello world" > test.txt
$ git add test.txt
$ git write-tree
4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904

# Create the initial commit
$ git commit-tree 4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904 -m "Initial commit"
3b18e512dba79e4c8300dd08aeb37f8e728b8dad

# Write some changes, get another tree SHA
$ echo "hello world 2" > test.txt
$ git add test.txt
$ git write-tree
5b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904

# Create a new commit with the new tree SHA
$ git commit-tree 5b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904 -p 3b18e512dba79e4c8300dd08aeb37f8e728b8dad -m "Second commit"
```

The output of `git commit-tree` is the 40-char SHA hash of the commit object that was written to `.git/objects`.

### Tests

Your program will be invoked like this:

```
$ ./your_program.sh commit-tree <tree_sha> -p <commit_sha> -m <message>
```

Your program must create a commit object and print its 40-char SHA to
stdout.

To keep things simple:

- You'll receive exactly one parent commit
- You'll receive exactly one line in the message
- You're free to hardcode any valid name/email for the author/committer fields


To verify your changes, the tester will read the commit object from the
`.git` directory. It'll use the `git show` command to do this.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
Let's move on to the last git object we'll be dealing with in this
challenge: the commit. In this stage, you'll create a commit by
implementing the [`git commit-tree`](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-commit-tree)
command.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll implement cloning a public repository from GitHub.

This is the last stage of the challenge, and probably the hardest across all of CodeCrafters!

We might split this into an extension with multiple stages in the future, but for now it's just one big stage.

We don't have detailed instructions for this stage, so you're all on your own here. A few pointers to get you started:

- You'll need to use Git's [Smart HTTP transfer protocol](https://www.git-scm.com/docs/http-protocol) for this.
- To know more about the protocol format, we recommend reading:
  - [gitprotocol-pack.txt](https://github.com/git/git/blob/795ea8776befc95ea2becd8020c7a284677b4161/Documentation/gitprotocol-pack.txt)
  - [gitformat-pack.txt](https://github.com/git/git/blob/795ea8776befc95ea2becd8020c7a284677b4161/Documentation/gitformat-pack.txt)
  - [Unpacking Git packfiles](https://codewords.recurse.com/issues/three/unpacking-git-packfiles)
  - [Sneaky git number encoding](https://medium.com/@concertdaw/sneaky-git-number-encoding-ddcc5db5329f).

{{#lang_is_rust}}
You can use the [reqwest](https://crates.io/crates/reqwest) crate to make
HTTP requests, we've included it in the `Cargo.toml` file.
{{/lang_is_rust}}

### Tests

The tester will run your program like this:

```bash
$ /path/to/your_program.sh clone https://github.com/blah/blah <some_dir>
```

Your program must create `<some_dir>` and clone the given repository into it.

To verify your changes, the tester will:

- Check the contents of a random file
- Read commit object attributes from the `.git` directory

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
This is the last stage of the challenge, and probably the hardest! In this
stage, you'll clone a public repository from GitHub. To do this, you'll
use one of Git's [Transfer
protocols](https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Transfer-Protocols).

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll implement the `git ls-tree` command, which is used to inspect a tree object.

### Tree objects

<details>
  <summary>Click to expand/collapse</summary>

  In this stage, we'll deal with our next Git object type: [trees](https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Git-Objects#_tree_objects).

  Trees are used to store directory structures.

  A tree object has multiple "entries". Each entry includes:

  - A SHA hash that points to a blob or tree object
    - If the entry is a file, this points to a blob object
    - If the entry is a directory, this points to a tree object
  - The name of the file/directory
  - The mode of the file/directory
    - This is a simplified version of the permissions you'd see in a Unix file system.
    - For files, the valid values are:
        - `100644` (regular file)
        - `100755` (executable file)
        - `120000` (symbolic link)
    - For directories, the value is `40000`
    - There are other values for submodules, but we won't be dealing with those in this challenge.

  For example, if you had a directory structure like this:

  ```
  your_repo/
    - file1
    - dir1/
      - file_in_dir_1
      - file_in_dir_2
    - dir2/
      - file_in_dir_3
  ```

  The entries in the tree object would look like this:

  ```
  40000 dir1 <tree_sha_1>
  40000 dir2 <tree_sha_2>
  100644 file1 <blob_sha_1>
  ```

  - Line 1 (`40000 dir1 <tree_sha_1>`) indicates that `dir1` is a directory with the SHA hash `<tree_sha_1>`
  - Line 2 (`40000 dir2 <tree_sha_2>`) indicates that `dir2` is a directory with the SHA hash `<tree_sha_2>`
  - Line 3 (`100644 file1 <blob_sha_1>`) indicates that `file1` is a regular file with the SHA hash `<blob_sha_1>`

  `dir1` and `dir2` would be tree objects themselves, and their entries would contain the files/directories inside them.

</details>

### The `ls-tree` command

<details>
  <summary>Click to expand/collapse</summary>

  The `git ls-tree` command is used to inspect a tree object.

  For a directory structure like this:

  ```
  your_repo/
    - file1
    - dir1/
      - file_in_dir_1
      - file_in_dir_2
    - dir2/
      - file_in_dir_3
  ```

  The output of `git ls-tree` would look like this:

  ```bash
  $ git ls-tree <tree_sha>
  040000 tree <tree_sha_1>	dir1
  040000 tree <tree_sha_2>	dir2
  100644 blob <blob_sha_1>	file1
  ```

  Note that the output is alphabetically sorted, this is how Git stores entries in the tree object internally.

  In this stage you'll implement the `git ls-tree` command with the `--name-only` flag. Here's how the output looks with
  the `--name-only` flag:

  ```bash
  $ git ls-tree --name-only <tree_sha>
  dir1
  dir2
  file1
  ```

  The tester uses `--name-only` since this output format is easier to test against.

  We recommend implementing the full `ls-tree` output too since that'll require that you parse all data
  in the tree object, not just filenames.

</details>

### Tree Object Storage

<details>
  <summary>Click to expand/collapse</summary>

  Just like blobs, tree objects are stored in the `.git/objects` directory. If the hash of a tree object is `e88f7a929cd70b0274c4ea33b209c97fa845fdbc`,
  the path to the object would be `./git/objects/e8/8f7a929cd70b0274c4ea33b209c97fa845fdbc`.

  The format of a tree object file looks like this (after Zlib decompression):

  ```
  tree <size>\0
  <mode> <name>\0<20_byte_sha>
  <mode> <name>\0<20_byte_sha>
  ```

  (The above code block is formatted with newlines for readability, but the actual file doesn't contain newlines)

  - The file starts with `tree <size>\0`. This is the "object header", similar to what we saw with blob objects.
  - After the header, there are multiple entries. Each entry is of the form `<mode> <name>\0<sha>`.
    - `<mode>` is the mode of the file/directory (check the previous section for valid values)
    - `<name>` is the name of the file/directory
    - `\0` is a null byte
    - `<20_byte_sha>` is the 20-byte SHA-1 hash of the blob/tree (this is **not** in hexadecimal format)

  You can read more about the internal format of a tree object [here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14790681/what-is-the-internal-format-of-a-git-tree-object).

</details>

### Tests

The tester will use your program to initialize a new repository:

```bash
$ mkdir test_dir && cd test_dir
$ /path/to/your_program.sh init
```

It'll then write a tree object to the `.git/objects` directory.

It'll then run your program like this:

```bash
$ /path/to/your_program.sh ls-tree --name-only <tree_sha>
```

It'll verify that the output of your program matches the contents of the tree object.

For a directory structure like this:

```
your_repo/
  - file1
  - dir1/
    - file_in_dir_1
    - file_in_dir_2
  - dir2/
    - file_in_dir_3
```

The output expected is:

```
dir1
dir2
file1
```

### Notes

- In a tree object file, the SHA hashes are not in hexadecimal format. They're just raw bytes (20 bytes long).
- In a tree object file, entries are sorted by their name. The output of `ls-tree` matches this order.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
Now that we've learnt how to read/write blobs, let's move onto our next
Git object: [the tree](https://developer.github.com/v3/git/trees/). In
this stage, you'll read a tree object from storage by implementing the
`git ls-tree` command.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll implement the `git init` command.

### The `git init` command

<details>
  <summary>Click to expand/collapse</summary>

  `git init` initializes a Git repository by creating a `.git` directory with some files
  & directories inside it.

  You can learn more about what's inside the `.git` folder [here](https://blog.meain.io/2023/what-is-in-dot-git/). We've
  included a description of the files & directores we'll be dealing with in this stage below.

</details>

### The `.git` directory

<details>
  <summary>Click to expand/collapse</summary>

  At a bare minimum, a `.git` directory should contain the following files & directories:

  ```
  - .git/
    - objects/
    - refs/
    - HEAD (should contain "ref: refs/heads/main\n" for a new repository)
  ```

  - `objects/`
    - This directory contains [Git objects](https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Git-Objects).
    - We'll learn more about what Git objects are in later stages.
  - `refs/`
    - This directory contains [Git references](https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Git-References).
    - We'll deal with this in later stages too.
  - `HEAD`
    - This file contains a reference to the currently checked out branch.
    - For a new repository, it's contents will be `ref: refs/heads/main\n`.

  You can learn more about these in detail [here](https://blog.meain.io/2023/what-is-in-dot-git/).
</details>

### Tests

The tester will run your program in a new empty directory like this:

```bash
# Create a new directory and cd into it
$ mkdir test_dir && cd test_dir

# Run your program
$ /path/to/your_program.sh init
```

It'll then check if the `.git` directory and its contents are created correctly.

```bash
# Check if .git directory exists
$ test -d .git

# Check if .git/objects directory exists
$ test -d .git/objects

# Check if .git/refs directory exists
$ test -d .git/refs

# Check if .git/HEAD file exists
$ test -f .git/HEAD

# Check if .git/HEAD contains either "ref: refs/heads/main\n" or "ref: refs/heads/master\n"
$ cat .git/HEAD
```

### Notes

- Git actually creates more files & directories than the ones mentioned above when you run `git init`. We've only included the ones
  that are absolutely necessary for Git to function properly.
- The `.git/HEAD` file has a newline at the end.
- The `.git/HEAD` file can contain either `ref: refs/heads/main\n` or `ref: refs/heads/master\n`, the tester will
  work with either of these.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll implement the `git init` command. You'll initialize
a git repository by creating a `.git` directory and some files inside it.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll implement writing a tree to the `.git/objects` directory.

### The `git write-tree` command

<details>
  <summary>Click to expand/collapse</summary>

  The `git write-tree` command creates a tree object from the current state of the "staging area". The
  staging area is a place where changes go when you run `git add`.

  In this challenge we won't implement a staging area, we'll just assume that all files in the working directory are staged.

  Here's an example of using `git write-tree`:

  ```bash
  # Create a file with some content
  $ echo "hello world" > test.txt

  # Add the file to the staging area (we won't implement a staging area in this challenge)
  $ git add test.txt

  # Write the tree to .git/objects
  $ git write-tree
  4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904
  ```

  The output of `git write-tree` is the 40-char SHA hash of the tree object that was written to `.git/objects`.

  To implement this, you'll need to:

  - Iterate over the files/directories in the working directory
  - If the entry is a file, create a blob object and record its SHA hash
  - If the entry is a directory, recursively create a tree object and record its SHA hash
  - Once you have all the entries and their SHA hashes, write the tree object to the `.git/objects` directory

  If you're testing this against `git` locally, make sure to run `git add .` before `git write-tree`, so that
  all files in the working directory are staged.

</details>

### Tree File Storage (recap)

<details>
  <summary>Click to expand/collapse</summary>

  We covered the format of a tree object file in the previous stage. Here's a quick recap of what
  a tree object file looks like (before Zlib compression):

  ```
  tree <size>\0
  <mode> <name>\0<20_byte_sha>
  <mode> <name>\0<20_byte_sha>
  ```

  (The above code block is formatted with newlines for readability, but the actual file doesn't contain newlines)

  - The file starts with `tree <size>\0`. This is the "object header", similar to what we saw with blob objects.
  - After the header, there are multiple entries. Each entry is of the form `<mode> <name>\0<sha>`.
    - `<mode>` is the mode of the file/directory
    - `<name>` is the name of the file/directory
    - `\0` is a null byte
    - `<20_byte_sha>` is the 20-byte SHA-1 hash of the blob/tree (this is **not** in hexadecimal format)

  You can read more about the internal format of a tree object [here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14790681/what-is-the-internal-format-of-a-git-tree-object).

</details>

### Tests

The tester will initialize a new Git repository using your program:

```bash
$ mkdir test_dir && cd test_dir
$ /path/to/your_program.sh init
```

It'll create some random files and directories:

```bash
$ echo "hello world" > test_file_1.txt
$ mkdir test_dir_1
$ echo "hello world" > test_dir_1/test_file_2.txt
$ mkdir test_dir_2
$ echo "hello world" > test_dir_2/test_file_3.txt
```

And then run your program like this:

```bash
$ /path/to/your_program.sh write-tree
4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904
```

You're expected to write the entire working directory as a tree object
and print the 40-char SHA to stdout.

The tester will verify that the output of your program matches the SHA hash
of the tree object that the official `git` implementation would write.

### Notes

- Remember to ignore the `.git` directory when creating entries in the tree object.
- Your implementation of `git write-tree` will need to handle nested directories. A recursive implementation
  will help here, since you'll need to create tree objects for each subdirectory to be able to create the
  parent directory's tree object.
- The implementation of `git write-tree` here differs slightly from the official `git` implementation. The
  official `git` implementation uses the staging area to determine what to write to the tree object. We'll
  just assume that all files in the working directory are staged.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll write a tree to git storage by implementing the [`git
write-tree`](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-write-tree) command.

To keep things simple, we won't implement an `index`, we'll just assume
that all changes in the worktree are staged.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll implement support for creating a blob using the [`git
hash-object`](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-hash-object) command.

### The `git hash-object` command

<details>
  <summary>Click to expand/collapse</summary>

  `git hash-object` is used to compute the SHA hash of a Git object. When used with the `-w` flag, it
  also writes the object to the `.git/objects` directory.

  Here's an example of using `git hash-object`:

  ```bash
  # Create a file with some content
  $ echo -n "hello world" > test.txt

  # Compute the SHA hash of the file + write it to .git/objects
  $ git hash-object -w test.txt
  95d09f2b10159347eece71399a7e2e907ea3df4f

  # Verify that the file was written to .git/objects
  $ file .git/objects/95/d09f2b10159347eece71399a7e2e907ea3df4f
  .git/objects/95/d09f2b10159347eece71399a7e2e907ea3df4f: zlib compressed data
  ```

</details>

### Blob Object Storage (Recap)

<details>
  <summary>Click to expand/collapse</summary>

  As mentioned in the previous stage, each Git Blob is stored as a separate file in the `.git/objects` directory. The file
  contains a header and the contents of the blob object, compressed using Zlib.

  The format of a blob object file looks like this (after Zlib decompression):

  ```
  blob <size>\0<content>
  ```

  - `<size>` is the size of the content (in bytes)
  - `\0` is a null byte
  - `<content>` is the actual content of the file

  For example, if the contents of a file are `hello world`, the blob object file would look like this (after Zlib decompression):

  ```
  blob 11\0hello world
  ```

</details>

### Tests

The tester will first initialize a new git repository using your program:

```bash
$ mkdir test_dir && cd test_dir
$ /path/to/your_program.sh init
```

It'll write some random data to a file:

```bash
$ echo "hello world" > test.txt
```

It'll then run your program like this:

```bash
$ ./your_program.sh hash-object -w test.txt
3b18e512dba79e4c8300dd08aeb37f8e728b8dad
```

The tester will verify that:

- Your program prints a 40-character SHA hash to stdout
- The file written to `.git/objects` matches what the official `git` implementation would write

### Notes

- Although the object file is stored with zlib compression, the SHA hash needs to be computed over
  the "uncompressed" contents of the file, not the compressed version.
- The input for the SHA hash is the header (`blob <size>\0`) + the actual contents of the file,
  not just the contents of the file.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In the previous stage, we learnt how to read a blob. In this stage, we'll
persist a blob by implementing the `git hash-object` command.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll add support for reading a blob using the `git cat-file` command.

### Git objects

<details>
  <summary>Click to expand/collapse</summary>

  In this challenge, we'll deal with three [Git
  objects](https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Git-Objects):

  - Blobs (**This stage**)
    - These are used to store file data.
    - Blobs only store the contents of a file, not its name or permissions.
  - Trees (Future stages)
    - These are used to store directory structures.
    - The information stored can include things like what files/directories are in a tree, their names and permissions.
  - Commits (Future stages)
    - These are used to store commit data.
    - The information stored can include things like the commit message, author, committer, parent commit(s) and more.


  All Git objects are identifiable by a 40-character SHA-1 hash, also known as the "object hash".

  Here's an example of an object hash: `e88f7a929cd70b0274c4ea33b209c97fa845fdbc`.
</details>

### Git Object Storage

<details>
  <summary>Click to expand/collapse</summary>

  Git objects are stored in the `.git/objects` directory. The path to an object is derived from its hash.

  The path for the object with the hash `e88f7a929cd70b0274c4ea33b209c97fa845fdbc` would be:

  ```bash
  ./.git/objects/e8/8f7a929cd70b0274c4ea33b209c97fa845fdbc
  ```

  You'll see that the file isn't placed directly in the `./git/objects` directory. Instead, it's placed in a directory named with the
  first two characters of the object's hash. The remaining 38 characters are used as the file name.

  Each Git object has its own format for storage. We'll look at how Blobs are stored in this stage, and we'll cover
  other objects in future stages.
</details>

### Blob Object Storage

<details>
  <summary>Click to expand/collapse</summary>

  Each Git Blob is stored as a separate file in the `.git/objects` directory. The file contains a header and the contents of
  the blob object, compressed using Zlib.

  The format of a blob object file looks like this (after Zlib decompression):

  ```
  blob <size>\0<content>
  ```

  - `<size>` is the size of the content (in bytes)
  - `\0` is a null byte
  - `<content>` is the actual content of the file

  For example, if the contents of a file are `hello world`, the blob object file would look like this (after Zlib decompression):

  ```
  blob 11\0hello world
  ```
</details>

### The cat-file command

<details>
  <summary>Click to expand/collapse</summary>

  In this stage, you'll read a blob from a git repository by reading its contents from the `.git/objects` directory.

  You'll do this using the first of multiple ["plumbing" commands](https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Plumbing-and-Porcelain)
  we'll encounter in this challenge: [`git cat-file`](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-cat-file).

  `git cat-file` is used to view the type of an object, its size, and its content. Example usage:

  ```bash
  $ git cat-file -p <blob_sha>
  hello world # This is the contents of the blob
  ```

  To implement this, you'll need to:

  - Read the contents of the blob object file from the `.git/objects` directory
  - Decompress the contents using Zlib
  - Extract the actual "content" from the decompressed data
  - Print the content to stdout

</details>

### Tests

The tester will first initialize a new git repository using your program, and then insert a blob with random contents into the `.git/objects` directory:

```bash
$ mkdir /tmp/test_dir && cd /tmp/test_dir
$ /path/to/your_program.sh init
$ echo "hello world" > test.txt # The tester will use a random string, not "hello world"
$ git hash-object -w test.txt
3b18e512dba79e4c8300dd08aeb37f8e728b8dad
```

After that, it'll run your program like this:

```bash
$ /path/to/your_program.sh cat-file -p 3b18e512dba79e4c8300dd08aeb37f8e728b8dad
hello world
```

The tester will verify that the output of your program matches the contents of the blob.

### Notes

- In many programming languages the default print function (like [`fmt.Println`](https://pkg.go.dev/fmt#example-Println))
  will append a newline to the output. The output of `cat-file` must not contain a
  newline at the end, so you might need to use a different function to print the output.

{{#lang_is_python}}
- Keep in mind that Git uses [Zlib](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlib) to
  compress objects. You can use Python's built-in
  [zlib](https://docs.python.org/3/library/zlib.html) library to read these
  compressed files.
{{/lang_is_python}}

{{#lang_is_ruby}}
- Keep in mind that Git uses [Zlib](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlib) to
  compress objects. You can use Ruby's built-in
  [Zlib](https://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.7.0/libdoc/zlib/rdoc/Zlib.html)
  library to read these compressed files.
{{/lang_is_ruby}}

{{#lang_is_go}}
- Keep in mind that Git uses [Zlib](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlib) to
  compress objects. You can use Go's built-in
  [compress/zlib](https://golang.org/pkg/compress/zlib/) package to read
 these compressed files.
{{/lang_is_go}}

{{#lang_is_rust}}
- Keep in mind that Git uses [Zlib](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlib) to
  compress objects. You can use the
  [flate2](https://crates.io/crates/flate2) crate to read these compressed
  files, we've included it in the `Cargo.toml` file.
{{/lang_is_rust}}

{{^lang_is_python}}
{{^lang_is_ruby}}
{{^lang_is_go}}
{{^lang_is_rust}}
- Keep in mind that Git uses [Zlib](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlib) to
  compress objects. Many languages have utils for dealing with zlib data in their standard library. If not,
  you might need to use a third-party library to read these compressed files.
{{/lang_is_rust}}
{{/lang_is_go}}
{{/lang_is_ruby}}
{{/lang_is_python}}

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, you'll read a blob from your git repository by fetching its
contents from the `.git/objects` directory.

You'll do this using the first of multiple ["plumbing"
commands](https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Plumbing-and-Porcelain)
we'll encounter in this challenge: [`git
cat-file`](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-cat-file).

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, we'll setup a UDP server that can receive and respond to UDP packets on port 2053.

The tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
$ ./your_program.sh
```

The tester will then send a UDP packet to port 2053.

Your program should respond back with a UDP packet. It's okay to ignore the contents of the packet for now,
we'll work on that in the next stage.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, we'll start a UDP server on port 2053.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
Up until now, we were ignoring the contents of the DNS packet that we received and hardcoding `1234` as the ID in the response. In
this stage, you'll have to parse the DNS packet that you receive and respond with the same ID in the response. You'll also need to set
some other fields in the header section.

Just like the previous stage, the tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
./your_program.sh
```

It'll then send a UDP packet (containing a DNS query) to port 2053.

Your program will need to respond with a DNS reply packet that contains a header section with the following values:

| Field                              | Size    | Expected value                                                              |
| ---------------------------------- | ------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Packet Identifier (ID)             | 16 bits | Mimic the 16 bit packet identifier from the request packet sent by tester   |
| Query/Response Indicator (QR)      | 1 bit   | 1                                                                           |
| Operation Code (OPCODE)            | 4 bits  | Mimic the OPCODE value sent by the tester                                   |
| Authoritative Answer (AA)          | 1 bit   | 0                                                                           |
| Truncation (TC)                    | 1 bit   | 0                                                                           |
| Recursion Desired (RD)             | 1 bit   | Mimic the RD value sent by the tester                                       |
| Recursion Available (RA)           | 1 bit   | 0                                                                           |
| Reserved (Z)                       | 3 bits  | 0                                                                           |
| Response Code (RCODE)              | 4 bits  | 0 (no error) if OPCODE is 0 (standard query) else 4 (not implemented)       |
| Question Count (QDCOUNT)           | 16 bits | Any valid value                                                             |
| Answer Record Count (ANCOUNT)      | 16 bits | Any valid value                                                             |
| Authority Record Count (NSCOUNT)   | 16 bits | Any valid value                                                             |
| Additional Record Count (ARCOUNT)  | 16 bits | Any valid value                                                             |

The tester will not check what follows the header section as long as it is a valid DNS packet.

**Note**: Your code will still need to pass tests for the previous stages. You shouldn't need to hardcode `1234` as the request ID anymore
since the tester sends `1234` as the ID in the previous stages. As long as you implement this stage correctly, your code should automatically pass
the previous stages as well.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, we'll parse a DNS packet's header section

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage we will parse the DNS question section which has compressed the question label sequences. You will be sent multiple values in the question section and you have to parse the queries and respond with the same question section (no need for compression) in the response along with answers for them. As for the answer section, respond with an `A` record type for each question. The values for these A records can be anything of your choosing.

As we already know how the Question Section and Answer Section look like from the previous stages, we will just give high level details of the packet that you are sent and what the tester expects.

Here is what the tester will send you:

```
| ------------------------------------------ |
| Header                                     |
| ------------------------------------------ |
| Question 1 (un-compressed label sequence)  |
| ------------------------------------------ |
| Question 2 (compressed label sequence)     |
| ------------------------------------------ |
```

What the tester expects in response:

```
| ------------------------------------------ |
| Header                                     |
| ------------------------------------------ |
| Question 1 (un-compressed label sequence)  |
| ------------------------------------------ |
| Question 2 (un-compressed label sequence)  |
| ------------------------------------------ |
| Answer 1 (un-compressed label sequence)    |
| ------------------------------------------ |
| Answer 2 (un-compressed label sequence)    |
| ------------------------------------------ |
```

You don't need to compress your response. We will never ask you to do something that will overflow the buffer size restriction of UDP, so compressing your response packet is not something you have to worry about. Though if you like an extra challenge feel free to compress the DNS packet, the tester will work with it too.

The question type will always be `A` and the question class will always be `IN`.

[This section](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1035#section-4.1.4) of the RFC covers how this compression works.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, we'll parse a DNS packet's question in which the label sequences have been compressed

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll extend your DNS server to respond with the "question" section, the second section of a DNS message.

### Question section structure

The question section contains a list of questions (usually just 1) that the sender wants to ask the receiver. This section is present
in both query and reply packets.

Each question has the following structure:

- **Name**: A domain name, represented as a sequence of "labels" (more on this below)
- **Type**: 2-byte int; the type of record (1 for an A record, 5 for a CNAME record etc., full list [here](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1035#section-3.2.2))
- **Class**: 2-byte int; usually set to `1` (full list [here](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1035#section-3.2.4))

[Section 4.1.2](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1035#section-4.1.2) of the RFC covers the question section format in
detail. [Section 3.2](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1035#section-3.2) has more details on Type and class.

### Domain name encoding

Domain names in DNS packets are encoded as a sequence of labels.

Labels are encoded as `<length><content>`, where `<length>` is a single byte that specifies the length of the label,
and `<content>` is the actual content of the label. The sequence of labels is terminated by a null byte (`\x00`).

For example:

- `google.com` is encoded as `\x06google\x03com\x00` (in hex: `06 67 6f 6f 67 6c 65 03 63 6f 6d 00`)
  - `\x06google` is the first label
      - `\x06` is a single byte, which is the length of the label
      - `google` is the content of the label
  - `\x03com` is the second label
      - `\x03` is a single byte, which is the length of the label
      - `com` is the content of the label
  - `\x00` is the null byte that terminates the domain name

---

Just like in the previous stage, the tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
./your_program.sh
```

It'll then send a UDP packet (containing a DNS query) to port 2053. Your program will need to respond with a
DNS reply packet that contains the question section described above (along with the header section from the previous stage).

Here are the expected values for the question section:

| Field | Expected value                                                                                          |
| ----- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Name  | `\x0ccodecrafters\x02io` followed by a null byte (that's `codecrafters.io` encoded as a label sequence) |
| Type  | 1 encoded as a 2-byte big-endian int (corresponding to the "A" record type)                             |
| Class | 1 encoded as a 2-byte big-endian int (corresponding to the "IN" record class)                           |

Make sure to update the `QDCOUNT` field in the header section accordingly, and remember to set the id to `1234`.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, we'll write a DNS packet's question section

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage you'll extend your DNS server to parse the question section of the DNS message you receive.

Just like the previous stage, the tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
./your_program.sh
```

It'll then send a UDP packet (containing a DNS query) to port 2053 that contains a question section as follows:

| Field  | Value sent by the tester                                                        |
| ------ | --------------------------                                                      |
| Name   | A random domain encoded as a label sequence (refer to stage #3 for details)     |
| Type   | `1` encoded as a 2-byte big-endian int (corresponding to the "A" record type)   |
| Class  | `1` encoded as a 2-byte big-endian int (corresponding to the "IN" record class) |

The question type will always be `A` for this stage and the question class will always be `IN`. So your parser only needs to account for those record types for now.

Your program will need to respond with a DNS reply packet that contains:

- a header section (same as in stage #5)
- a question section (**new in this stage**)
- an answer section (**new in this stage**)

**Expected values for the question section**:

| Field  | Expected value                                                                  |
| ------ | --------------------------                                                      |
| Name   | Mimic the domain name (as label sequence)                                       |
| Type   | `1` encoded as a 2-byte big-endian int (corresponding to the "A" record type)   |
| Class  | `1` encoded as a 2-byte big-endian int (corresponding to the "IN" record class) |

**Expected values for the answer section**:

| Field   | Expected Value                                                                                                                     |
| ------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Name    | Mimic the domain name (as label sequence)                                                                                          |
| Type    | `1` encoded as a 2-byte big-endian int (corresponding to the "A" record type)                                                      |
| Class   | `1` encoded as a 2-byte big-endian int (corresponding to the "IN" record class)                                                    |
| TTL     | Any value, encoded as a 4-byte big-endian int. For example: `60`.                                                                  |
| Length  | `4`, encoded as a 2-byte big-endian int (corresponds to the length of the RDATA field)                                             |
| Data    | Any IP address, encoded as a 4-byte big-endian int. For example: `\x08\x08\x08\x08` (that's `8.8.8.8` encoded as a 4-byte integer) |

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, we'll parse a DNS packet's question section

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you'll extend your DNS server to respond with the "answer" section, the third section of a DNS message.

### Answer section structure

The answer section contains a list of RRs (Resource Records), which are answers to the questions asked in the question section.

Each RR has the following structure:

| Field                 | Type            | Description                                                                                                              |
| --------------------- | --------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Name                  | Label Sequence  | The domain name encoded as a sequence of labels.                                                                         |
| Type                  | 2-byte Integer  | `1` for an A record, `5` for a CNAME record etc., full list [here](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1035#section-3.2.2) |
| Class                 | 2-byte Integer  | Usually set to `1` (full list [here](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1035#section-3.2.4))                              |
| TTL (Time-To-Live)    | 4-byte Integer  | The duration in seconds a record can be cached before requerying.                                                        |
| Length (`RDLENGTH`)   | 2-byte Integer  | Length of the RDATA field in bytes.                                                                                      |
| Data (`RDATA`)        | Variable        | Data specific to the record type.                                                                                        |

[Section 3.2.1](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1035#section-3.2.1) of the RFC covers the answer section format in detail.

In this stage, we'll only deal with the "A" record type, which maps a domain name to an IPv4 address. The RDATA field for an "A" record
type is a 4-byte integer representing the IPv4 address.

---

Just like in the previous stage, the tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
./your_program.sh
```

It'll then send a UDP packet (containing a DNS query) to port 2053.

Your program will need to respond with a DNS reply packet that contains:

- a header section (same as in stage #2)
- a question section  (same as in stage #3)
- an answer section (**new in this stage!**)

Your answer section should contain a single RR, with the following values:

| Field   | Expected Value                                                                                                                     |
| ------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Name    | `\x0ccodecrafters\x02io` followed by a null byte (that's `codecrafters.io` encoded as a label sequence)                            |
| Type    | `1` encoded as a 2-byte big-endian int (corresponding to the "A" record type)                                                      |
| Class   | `1` encoded as a 2-byte big-endian int (corresponding to the "IN" record class)                                                    |
| TTL     | Any value, encoded as a 4-byte big-endian int. For example: `60`.                                                                  |
| Length  | `4`, encoded as a 2-byte big-endian int (corresponds to the length of the RDATA field)                                             |
| Data    | Any IP address, encoded as a 4-byte big-endian int. For example: `\x08\x08\x08\x08` (that's `8.8.8.8` encoded as a 4-byte integer) |

Make sure to update the `ANCOUNT` field in the header section accordingly, and remember to set the id to `1234`.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, we'll write a DNS packet's answer section

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
In this stage, you will implement a forwarding DNS server.

A forwarding DNS server, also known as a DNS forwarder, is a DNS server that is configured to pass DNS queries it receives from clients to another DNS server for resolution. Instead of directly resolving DNS queries by looking up the information in its own local cache or authoritative records.

---
In this stage the tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
./your_server --resolver <address>
```
* where `<address>` will be of the form `<ip>:<port>`

It'll then send a UDP packet (containing a DNS query) to port 2053. Your program will be responsible for forwarding DNS queries to a specified DNS server, and then returning the response to the original requester (i.e. the tester).

Your program will need to respond with a DNS reply packet that contains:
- a header section (same as in stage #5)
- a question section (same as in stage #6)
- an answer section (new in this stage) mimicing what you received from the DNS server to which you forwarded the request.

Here are a few assumptions you can make about the tester -
* It will always send you queries for `A` record type. So your parsing logic only needs to take care of this.

Here are few assumptions you can make about the DNS server you are forwarding the requests to -
* It will always respond with an answer section for the queries that originate from the tester.
* It will not contain other sections like (authority section and additional section)
* It will only respond when there is only one question in the question section. If you send multiple questions in the question section, it will not respond at all. So when you receive multiple questions in the question section you will need to split it into two DNS packets and then send them to this resolver then merge the response in a single packet.

Remember to mimic the packet identifier value sent by the tester in your response.

# included[].attributes.marketing-markdown
In this stage, we'll call a DNS server which will do the actual DNS resolution.

# included[].attributes.description-markdown-template
All communications in the DNS protocol are carried in a single format called a "message". Each message consists of
5 sections: header, question, answer, authority, and an additional space.

In this stage, we'll focus on the "header" section. We'll look at the other sections in later stages.

### Header section structure

The header section of a DNS message contains the following fields: (we've also included the values that the tester expects in this stage)

| Field                             | Size    | Description                                                                                                            |
| ----------------------------------| ------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Packet Identifier (ID)            | 16 bits | A random ID assigned to query packets. Response packets must reply with the same ID. <br />**Expected value**: 1234.   |
| Query/Response Indicator (QR)     | 1 bit   | 1 for a reply packet, 0 for a question packet. <br />**Expected value**: 1.                                            |
| Operation Code (OPCODE)           | 4 bits  | Specifies the kind of query in a message. <br />**Expected value**: 0.                                                 |
| Authoritative Answer (AA)         | 1 bit   | 1 if the responding server "owns" the domain queried, i.e., it's authoritative. <br />**Expected value**: 0.           |
| Truncation (TC)                   | 1 bit   | 1 if the message is larger than 512 bytes. Always 0 in UDP responses. <br />**Expected value**: 0.                     |
| Recursion Desired (RD)            | 1 bit   | Sender sets this to 1 if the server should recursively resolve this query, 0 otherwise. <br />**Expected value**: 0.   |
| Recursion Available (RA)          | 1 bit   | Server sets this to 1 to indicate that recursion is available. <br />**Expected value**: 0.                            |
| Reserved (Z)                      | 3 bits  | Used by DNSSEC queries. At inception, it was reserved for future use. <br />**Expected value**: 0.                     |
| Response Code (RCODE)             | 4 bits  | Response code indicating the status of the response. <br />**Expected value**: 0 (no error).                           |
| Question Count (QDCOUNT)          | 16 bits | Number of questions in the Question section. <br />**Expected value**: 0.                                              |
| Answer Record Count (ANCOUNT)     | 16 bits | Number of records in the Answer section. <br />**Expected value**: 0.                                                  |
| Authority Record Count (NSCOUNT)  | 16 bits | Number of records in the Authority section. <br />**Expected value**: 0.                                               |
| Additional Record Count (ARCOUNT) | 16 bits | Number of records in the Additional section. <br />**Expected value**: 0.                                              |

The header section is always 12 bytes long. Integers are encoded in big-endian format.

You can read more about the full DNS packet format on [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System#DNS_message_format), or
in [RFC 1035](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1035#section-4.1). [This link](https://github.com/EmilHernvall/dnsguide/blob/b52da3b32b27c81e5c6729ac14fe01fef8b1b593/chapter1.md)
is a good tutorial that walks through the DNS packet format in detail.

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Just like in the previous stage, the tester will execute your program like this:

```bash
./your_program.sh
```

It'll then send a UDP packet (containing a DNS query) to port 2053. Your program will need to respond with
a DNS reply packet that contains the header information described above.

We recommend creating an internal structure for a "DNS message" in your code, as we will build on this in later stages.

Note: The tester sends an extra packet at the start of testing each stage. You can ignore it.

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In this stage, we'll write a DNS packet's header contents