prysm-pulse/proto/prysm/storage/beacon_storage.proto

// Copyright 2021 Prysmatic Labs.
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syntax = "proto3";

package ethereum.eth.storage;

import "proto/prysm/storage/version.proto";


// BeaconStateForStorage is used only inside db/kv package and it there for the sole purpose of
// storing the state objects efficiently. With normalizing the fields in the "state" bucket
// it also stores some indexes and other metadata fields that cannot be stored in the
// BeaconState object itself.
message BeaconStateForStorage {
  oneof storageState{
    StorageBeaconStateV1 state_v1 = 1;
  }
}

// StorageBeaconStateV1 is the first version of the indexed data structure that would be used
// by the BeaconStateForStorage object. Version 1 has only three fields, the version, the
// validator indexes and the ssz encoded state bytes/
message StorageBeaconStateV1 {
  Version version = 1001;           // Used to identify the state object
  bytes validatorIndexes = 1002;    // stores the compressed indexes of the validator entry hashes
  bytes state = 2000;               // store the ssz marshalled state
}