feat(platform)!: document references resolved through a unique index (PV14)

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Issue being fixed or feature implemented

A permanentDocument reference holds the referenced document's id. The moderation charters contract (#4898) needs a reference that is not an id. An elected charter's members must each be the owner of a joinRequest for the charter's own submitted charter, and a join request is found by (submittedCharterId, $ownerId), not by its id. This adds lookup to permanentDocument references at protocol version 14. The value, or each element of a typed array (#4928), becomes one part of a key. The referenced document is the one a unique index of the referenced type finds for that key:

"members": {
  "type": "array", "minItems": 0, "maxItems": 15, "uniqueItems": true,
  "items": {
    "type": "array", "byteArray": true, "minItems": 32, "maxItems": 32,
    "contentMediaType": "application/x.dash.dpp.identifier",
    "distinctFrom": "$ownerId",
    "refersTo": {
      "type": "permanentDocument",
      "documentType": "joinRequest",
      "lookup": {
        "index": "bySubmittedCharter",
        "keys": { "submittedCharterId": "submittedCharterId", "$ownerId": "." }
      }
    }
  },
  "position": 2
}

reads: every member must be the owner of a joinRequest whose submittedCharterId equals this document's submittedCharterId. keys maps every property of the index, by its name on the referenced side, to one of:

• a property path of the referring type;
• "$ownerId" (the writer);
• "." (the value or the element, exactly once).

The same form works on a scalar identifier property.

deletableDocument references do not take a lookup (Sam's call on review). Once the document a key found is deleted, a new document with the same key would make the reference resolve again, to different content. An id is produced at most once, so a dead id reference stays dead.

What was done?

The declaration (rs-dpp, meta-schema v3 edited in place)

A lookup reference parses to a new variant, DocumentPropertyReferenceTarget::PermanentDocumentLookup, appended to the @append_only enum. It carries the PermanentDocument fields plus lookup: DocumentReferenceLookup, which holds index and keys: BTreeMap<String, LookupKeySource>. A source is ReferenceValue for ".", OwnerId, or Property(path).

• A variant, not a field of PermanentDocument: the enum is embedded in reference errors, so PermanentDocument keeps variant 3 and every id reference keeps its encoding (pinned by a test). Code that matches PermanentDocument as "the value is a document id" cannot mistake a lookup for one.
• No change for existing contracts: a contract without a lookup parses to exactly the targets it did, and serializes exactly as before (round-trip test).
• Two accessors: as_document_reference returns only references whose value is a document id, the one by-id joins use. as_any_document_reference returns every document reference, and its DocumentReferenceDeclaration::lookup carries the lookup; the validators use it. Display names the index.
• Meta-schema: refersTo gains lookup (index 1 to 32 characters, keys 1 to 10 entries), refused on every other reference type. Element refersTo reuses the same definition, so it is admitted on the items of a typed array too.
• Parser: apply_property_reference 0 is PV14-only, and apply_element_reference delegates to it for elements. It reads lookup with the same per-type admission as contractRequirements, and refuses keys that use "." twice or not at all.

Before (v4.2-dev), registering the schema above was refused with a JsonSchemaError: meta-schema v3's refersTo is additionalProperties: false and had no lookup. After, the elements parse to:

PropertyReference::Elements {
    target: &DocumentPropertyReferenceTarget::PermanentDocumentLookup {
        contract_id: None,
        document_type_name: "joinRequest".into(),
        property_agreement: BTreeMap::new(),
        lookup: DocumentReferenceLookup {
            index: "bySubmittedCharter".into(),
            keys: [("$ownerId".into(), LookupKeySource::ReferenceValue),
                   ("submittedCharterId".into(), LookupKeySource::Property("submittedCharterId".into()))].into(),
        },
    },
    max_items: 15,
}

Registration checks

The rules live on DocumentReferenceLookup (referring_side_error, referenced_side_error), so the two places that run them cannot drift. Value kinds use a new DocumentPropertyType::value_kind, which is now also the propertyAgreement rule in drive-abci; that copy had been kept separately.

• Referring side, every parse (generation 3):

  • each property a key reads exists;
  • it is required, and so is every object around it;
  • it is not transient;
  • it is a single value;
  • it is not the reference property itself;
  • a "$ownerId" source needs a referring type that can be neither transferred nor traded.

• Referenced side:

  • the index exists and is unique, carries no timeRange, and is not on an indexOnly type;
  • keys covers its properties exactly once;
  • every source holds the value kind of its index property.

  For a type of the same contract this runs in the contract parse under full validation (create_document_types_from_document_schemas 1, next to feat(platform)!: keyRequirements on identity key references (PV14) #4918's boundTo check). A deletable target is left to registration, which reports 40122. For a type of another contract it runs in the registration state validation and refuses with a new ReferencedDocumentLookupInvalidError (40137).

• Fixed key (my call, see below): the key must stay with the document it found.

  • Every schema property of the index must be fixed: an immutable type, or listed under immutable.
  • $ownerId may only be a key part on a type that cannot be transferred or traded.
  • On the referring side, only a replace may move a key part, since a replace re-validates. A key that reads the writer is refused on a transferable or tradeable referring type (CodeRabbit's review).

Each example below is refused at registration. Before this PR, each was refused only for carrying lookup at all.

"lookup": { "index": "byMessage", "keys": { "message": "." } }
// invalid contract structure: document type "electedCharter" property "members" refersTo lookup:
//   index "byMessage" of "joinRequest" is not unique: a lookup must find at most one document

"lookup": { "index": "bySubmittedCharter", "keys": { "$ownerId": "." } }
// ... keys does not map "submittedCharterId", a property of index "bySubmittedCharter": every index property needs a source

"lookup": { "index": "bySubmittedCharter", "keys": { "submittedCharterId": ".", "$ownerId": "." } }
// permanentDocument refersTo lookup keys must fill exactly one index property from ".", the reference's own value, found 2

"keys": { "submittedCharterId": "alternateCharterId", "$ownerId": "." }   // alternateCharterId is optional
// ... key "submittedCharterId" reads "alternateCharterId", which is not required: a lookup never runs with a missing key part, ...

"keys": { "submittedCharterId": "title", "$ownerId": "." }                // title is a string
// ... key "submittedCharterId" is filled from "title", which holds a different kind of value: no document could ever match

// joinRequest with "documentsMutable": true
// ... index "bySubmittedCharter" of "joinRequest" keys documents by "submittedCharterId", which a replace can change: ...

"keys": { "submittedCharterId": "requestedCharterId", "$ownerId": "$ownerId" }   // on a "transferable": 1 type
// ... key "$ownerId" reads "$ownerId", which a transfer or a purchase of the referring document changes
//   without re-validating the reference: a lookup may read the writer only on a document type that cannot be
//   transferred or traded

{ "type": "deletableDocument", "documentType": "joinRequest", "lookup": { ... } }
// JsonSchemaError (meta-schema); without it: deletableDocument refersTo does not take lookup

// lookup into another contract naming an index it does not have
// ReferencedDocumentLookupInvalidError (40137): invalid refersTo lookup through index byMessage declared at vote.voterId:
//   the referenced document type "joinRequest" has no index named "byMessage"

A changed, added or removed lookup is an incompatible schema change on update, like the rest of a refersTo. The compatibility rule already freezes all of refersTo; this PR adds the test.

Enforcement at create and replace (drive-abci, document reference validation v0 extended in place)

validate_reference_v0 (#4928) checks one value at a time, the property's or an element's. It now resolves a lookup through fetch_document_through_lookup, which sits next to fetch_document_with_id in fetch_documents.rs. That is an equality query over the unique index's properties with limit 1, the shape the unique-index conflict check builds, billed exactly as the id fetch is. No match refuses the write, paid, with ReferencedEntityNotFoundError (40120), naming the property or the element by its list path. A propertyAgreement beside the lookup is checked against the document found.

With joinRequests by B and C for charter X in state, a charter by A for X:

members = [B, C]              -> success
members = [B, S]              -> PaidConsensusError 40120: referenced permanent document (own contract, document type
                                  joinRequest, found through unique index bySubmittedCharter) S not found for path members[1]
memberId = B (B asked for Y)  -> 40120 at memberId

Before, the nearest declaration was an id reference, the same refersTo without lookup. members = [B] was then refused with 40120, since no joinRequest has the id B, and the writer had to find and store the request's own id instead.

On replace, a lookup reference is re-validated when a property its key reads changed. Then every element is re-checked, not only the ones the stored list did not hold, since the key of each moved. Nothing else can move a key part. The writer is fixed on a type allowed to read it, and the referenced side's key is fixed by the rule above.

charter(X, members = [B, C]); replace title only                   -> success (keys unchanged)
charter(X, members = [B, C]); replace submittedCharterId -> Y       -> 40120 at members[0]

A key that reads the writer on a transferable type (review of 8b157f8):

Before: charter(Z, requestedCharterId = X) by A registers on a transferable type; A transfers it to S -> success,
        and the reference now finds nothing (S never asked to join X) until S's next replace is refused
After:  such a type does not register (the refusal above); on a non-transferable type the writer never moves

Queries

A lookup reference's value is not the referenced document's $id. A chained query or a composite by-id join through one would look for documents that never exist, and on a permanentDocument join report them as dangling. Both shapes now refuse such a join property while validating, on the server and in the verifier alike, with an error naming the index (without the check, the new variant would fall to the existing "not a document reference" refusal). preallocation_bindings matches PermanentDocument only, so it never binds through one; a test pins that. The wasm-sdk query docs say so.

chained query joining on like.authorId (a lookup reference)
Without the refusal: the outer by-ids query finds nothing, reported as a dangling reference on a permanentDocument join
Now: QuerySyntaxError::Unsupported: chained query join property "authorId" refers to its document through the
     unique index "byOwner", so its value is not the outer document's id: ...

Clients

wasm-dpp2 reports the lookup on the reference surface, for a property and for path[] element declarations, and maps 40137 on DocumentReferenceErrorCode:

contract.documentTypeReferences('charter')
// Before: [{ path: 'members[]', type: 'permanentDocument', contractId, documentType: 'joinRequest' }]  (lookup unseen)
// After:  [{ path: 'members[]', type: 'permanentDocument', contractId, documentType: 'joinRequest',
//            lookup: { index: 'bySubmittedCharter', keys: { $ownerId: '.', submittedCharterId: 'submittedCharterId' } } }]

Legacy wasm-dpp maps the new error generically. Swift and Kotlin are out of scope: neither models refersTo.

Docs

• Book: a "Resolved through a unique index (lookup)" subsection under "Document References (refersTo)".
• Changelog: item 32 of the v14 list. The base had a truncated sentence in item 26, which this completes.

Design calls for review

• Fixed-key rule. Without it, a lookup could stop resolving without anything being deleted: the owner of a mutable joinRequest replaces submittedCharterId, or a transferable one changes hands. That would quietly weaken the "a validated permanent reference never dangles" guarantee. The charter's joinRequest is immutable and not transferable, so it passes.
• Refused index shapes: timeRange indexes (the stored key is a bucket start no referring value names) and indexOnly referenced types. Contested unique indexes are allowed.
• Errors: only the cross-contract registration failure is a new state error (40137). A same-contract failure is caught by the contract parse, like every other parse rule (BasicError::ContractError(InvalidContractStructure)). A write-time miss reuses 40120, whose entity_id is then the reference value, not a document id.
• Codes and discriminants: feat(platform)!: keyRequirements on identity key references (PV14) #4918 (merged) holds 40136 and StateError discriminant 144, so this takes 40137 and 145.
• Variant over field: a lookup field on PermanentDocument would have changed the encoding of every 40120 error for an id reference, and every PermanentDocument { .. } match would have taken a lookup for an id unless it checked the field. Both were raised in review; the appended variant avoids both.
• Adding a deletable form later: it would be one more appended variant (DeletableDocumentLookup), with no encoding cost for the existing ones.

In-place changes to shipped generations

• create_document_types_from_document_schemas v1 (rs-dpp): selected by every protocol version from 2 to 14. The added loop acts only on a parsed refersTo carrying a lookup. A parsed reference exists only where the tables carry apply_property_reference: Some(_), which no version before 14 does: their meta-schemas refuse refersTo, and their parser ignores it. So the loop finds nothing there and the output is unchanged. feat(platform)!: keyRequirements on identity key references (PV14) #4918 edited the same generation in place on the same argument, and the comment at the loop says so.
• Document reference validation v0 and contract reference validation v0 (drive-abci): they appear as 0 in every validation table, but are only called from generations selected at 14 (document create state 2, document replace state 1, data contract create and update state 1). The edits cannot run before 14.
• same_value_kind in contract reference validation v0: now DocumentPropertyType::value_kind, the same normalization (identifier with or without a reference, u32 with or without a key reference), so the output is unchanged.
• as_document_reference callers: the validators now call as_any_document_reference, which returns exactly what as_document_reference did for every variant that existed before; only the new variant differs. Index::preallocation_bindings is unchanged code, and its PermanentDocument pattern never matches the new variant.
• Chained and composite query validation (rs-drive): query surface, not block execution. The new refusal applies only to a join property carrying a lookup.

How Has This Been Tested?

New tests (names start with should):

• rs-dpp property/reference_lookup.rs:
  • A covering unique index with the right kinds passes.
  • Refused: a missing or non-unique index; keys that miss or add an index property; a source of the wrong kind; an optional, missing or self-referring source; other system sources.
  • A key id reference (feat(platform)!: key references on the writer's own identity (PV14) #4916) is a valid source for a u32 index property.
  • The key is assembled from the value, the owner and the document, and not at all with a part missing.
  • A key a replace, transfer or purchase could move is refused, and passes when the property is under immutable.
  • A key reading the writer is refused on a transferable or tradeable referring type.
• rs-dpp try_from_schema/v3/reference_lookup_tests.rs (through DataContract::from_value):
  • Parses with a property source, a $ownerId source and ".", and beside a propertyAgreement.
  • Parses on the elements of a typed array exactly as the charter declares members, and an element lookup is checked as a single one is.
  • Refused on identity, contract, token, identityPublicKey and deletableDocument, by the parser and by the meta-schema.
  • Refused: a missing or non-unique index; keys that miss or add a property; "." twice or not at all; a wrong-kind source; an optional, transient, missing or self-referring source, and a required leaf of an optional object.
  • Refused below PV14, accepted at PlatformVersion::latest().
  • A lookup into another contract is left to registration.
  • A lookup into a mutable type is refused unless the key property is immutable.
  • A key reading the writer is refused on a transferable or tradeable referring type, and a transferable one may still refer through a key that does not read it.
  • Round trip through serialize_to_bytes_with_platform_version, with and without a lookup.
  • Malformed declarations are refused by the parser and the meta-schema.
  • A document type parsed alone checks only the referring side.
• rs-dpp, other:
  • meta-schema accept and refuse cases;
  • validate_update refuses an added, removed or changed lookup;
  • Display names the index;
  • only as_any_document_reference returns a lookup reference;
  • preallocation does not bind through a lookup;
  • StateError discriminant 145 is frozen;
  • the bincode bytes of a 40120 error for an id reference are pinned (PermanentDocument stays variant 3, the lookup form is 6).
• rs-drive: a chained join and a composite by-id join through a lookup reference are refused.
• drive-abci, fixture reference-validation-contract-lookup.json: a joinRequest unique on (submittedCharterId, $ownerId), and a transferable charter referring to it through memberId, the charter-shaped members, agreedMemberId, requestedCharterId and the nested metaMemberId, plus a vote in a second contract.
  • Scalar: a value owning a request succeeds; one without is refused with 40120 naming the property and the value; a request for another target does not satisfy it.
  • Replace: an unrelated property passes, and one moving the target source is refused.
  • Agreement: a propertyAgreement beside the lookup is checked against the request found.
  • Writer as key part: a key reading the writer resolves (the fixture's charter is neither transferable nor tradeable, as the rule requires).
  • Nested: a nested key part (meta.charterId) is read.
  • Members: one element without a request is refused as members[1], all asked succeeds, and moving the target re-validates every element (members[0]).
  • Cross-contract: a lookup into another contract resolves there.
  • Billing: the lookup is billed as one document query, refused or not, and nothing is billed without the reference.
  • Registration: a lookup into a unique index of another contract registers; one naming an index the other contract lacks is refused with 40137; one into a non-unique index of the same contract is refused by the parse.
  • The replace re-validation was mutation-checked: dropping lookup_key_may_have_changed fails exactly the tests for it.
• wasm-dpp2: the reference spec gains the lookup on a property and on members[] elements, its absence on an id reference, a refused non-unique index and code 40137. The Rust code-mirror test includes 40137.

Run locally, on the tree rebased over #4931 (cc7c3b6):

• cargo test -p dpp --lib, the whole library: 4646 passed, plus feat(dpp): exact and untagged untrusted state transition decode via the derive's consumed byte count #4931's untrusted_decode tests
• cargo test -p drive --lib over query, lookup and contract insert: 834 passed
• cargo test -p drive-abci --lib over reference, deletable, immutable, contract create and update, distinctFrom, system agreement, index-only, key, typed array and lookup: 590 passed
• cargo test -p wasm-dpp2: 10 passed; cargo test -p platform-version: 24 passed
• yarn workspace @dashevo/wasm-dpp2 build, then mocha over the whole unit suite: 1311 passing, 7 pending; eslint on the spec is clean (before the owner rule, which touches no wasm code or JS fixture)
• cargo clippy -p dpp -p drive -p drive-abci -p platform-version --all-targets, cargo clippy -p wasm-dpp2 -p wasm-dpp -p wasm-sdk --target wasm32-unknown-unknown and cargo fmt --all -- --check are clean

Breaking Changes

Protocol version 14 (unreleased) admits lookup on permanentDocument references, on properties and on typed array elements, and adds state error 40137 (StateError discriminant 145).

• Wire: DocumentPropertyReferenceTarget gains an appended variant (PermanentDocumentLookup, index 6). Errors for id references encode exactly as before. A client built from a 4.2 beta cannot decode a 40120 or 40137 error for a lookup reference, which no earlier node produces.
• Rust API: code matching DocumentPropertyReferenceTarget exhaustively needs an arm for the new variant, and DocumentReferenceDeclaration gains a public lookup field.
• Contracts and documents without a lookup are unaffected.

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A new protocol v14 lookup declaration resolves permanentDocument references through unique indexes. The change adds schema parsing, contract registration checks, runtime index queries, consensus errors, serialization, and validation coverage. Lookup references are excluded from scalar bindings and document-id joins.

Unique-index reference declarations

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Lookup declaration and contract validation book/src/data-model/documents.md, packages/rs-dpp/schema/..., packages/rs-dpp/src/data_contract/document_type/...	permanentDocument references can carry an index and key-source map. Parsers validate key syntax and referring-side sources. Contract validation checks index uniqueness, key coverage, value kinds, immutability, protocol gating, and schema updates.
Registration and error surfaces packages/rs-drive-abci/src/execution/validation/state_transition/..., packages/rs-dpp/src/errors/..., packages/wasm-dpp*/*	Registration validates referenced indexes, including foreign contracts. Error code 40137 and its Rust and WebAssembly representations are added. Lookup metadata is exposed through serialization.
Runtime lookup resolution packages/rs-drive-abci/src/execution/validation/state_transition/...	Document validation assembles lookup keys and queries the referenced unique index. Missing matches return the existing referenced-entity error. Relevant replaces trigger re-validation, and lookup queries are billed.
Binding and query constraints packages/rs-dpp/src/data_contract/document_type/index/preallocation.rs, packages/rs-drive/src/query/..., packages/wasm-sdk/src/queries/...	Lookup references do not produce scalar preallocation bindings and are rejected as chained or composite by-id join sources.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Contract
  participant DocumentValidation
  participant UniqueIndex
  participant ReferencedDocument
  Contract->>DocumentValidation: declare permanentDocument lookup
  DocumentValidation->>UniqueIndex: assemble and query key
  UniqueIndex-->>DocumentValidation: matching document or no match
  DocumentValidation->>ReferencedDocument: validate resolved reference
  ReferencedDocument-->>DocumentValidation: reference result

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• packages/rs-dpp/src/data_contract/document_type/class_methods/create_document_types_from_document_schemas/v1/mod.rs
• packages/rs-dpp/src/data_contract/document_type/class_methods/try_from_schema/mod.rs
• packages/rs-dpp/src/data_contract/document_type/class_methods/try_from_schema/v3/mod.rs
• packages/rs-dpp/src/data_contract/document_type/class_methods/try_from_schema/v3/reference_lookup_tests.rs
• packages/rs-dpp/src/data_contract/document_type/class_methods/try_from_schema/v3/typed_array_reference_tests.rs
• packages/rs-dpp/src/data_contract/document_type/index/preallocation.rs
• packages/rs-dpp/src/data_contract/document_type/methods/validate_update/common/mod.rs
• packages/rs-dpp/src/data_contract/document_type/mod.rs
• packages/rs-dpp/src/data_contract/document_type/property/mod.rs
• packages/rs-dpp/src/data_contract/document_type/property/reference_lookup.rs
• packages/rs-dpp/src/errors/consensus/codes.rs
• packages/rs-dpp/src/errors/consensus/state/document/mod.rs
• packages/rs-dpp/src/errors/consensus/state/document/referenced_document_lookup_invalid_error.rs
• packages/rs-dpp/src/errors/consensus/state/state_error.rs
• packages/rs-dpp/src/validation/meta_validators/mod.rs
• packages/rs-drive-abci/src/execution/validation/state_transition/state_transitions/batch/action_validation/document/document_reference_validation/v0/mod.rs
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• packages/rs-drive-abci/src/execution/validation/state_transition/state_transitions/data_contract_common/data_contract_reference_validation/v0/mod.rs
• packages/rs-drive-abci/src/execution/validation/state_transition/state_transitions/data_contract_create/mod.rs
• packages/rs-drive-abci/tests/supporting_files/contract/reference-validation/reference-validation-contract-lookup-registration-foreign-missing-index.json
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• packages/rs-drive/src/drive/contract/insert/insert_contract/v0/tests/lookup_reference_join_tests.rs
• packages/rs-drive/src/drive/contract/insert/insert_contract/v0/tests/mod.rs
• packages/rs-drive/src/query/chained_document_query/mod.rs
• packages/rs-drive/src/query/composite_document_query/mod.rs
• packages/rs-platform-version/src/version/v14.rs
• packages/wasm-dpp/src/errors/consensus/consensus_error.rs
• packages/wasm-dpp2/src/consensus_error.rs
• packages/wasm-dpp2/src/data_contract/document_type_reference.rs
• packages/wasm-dpp2/tests/unit/DocumentPropertyReference.spec.ts
• packages/wasm-sdk/src/queries/chained_document.rs
• packages/wasm-sdk/src/queries/composite_document.rs

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Revalidate OwnerId lookup references when ownership changes.

LookupKeySource::OwnerId reads the referring document's owner. Transfer and purchase change that owner, but reference validation only rechecks this lookup during replace. The same reference can therefore resolve to no document or to a different document without validation, violating the permanentDocument guarantee.

Choose one fix:

• Reject OwnerId sources in referring_side_error for transferable or tradeable referring types.
• Revalidate references during transfer and purchase.

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In `@packages/rs-dpp/src/data_contract/document_type/property/reference_lookup.rs`
around lines 138 - 146, The OwnerId lookup path must be revalidated when the
referring document changes ownership, including transfer and purchase
operations, so permanentDocument references remain valid. Implement this by
either rejecting LookupKeySource::OwnerId in referring_side_error for
transferable or tradeable referring types, or by invoking the existing reference
validation during those transfer and purchase flows; preserve current behavior
for non-owner lookups.

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