feat(core/registrystorage): Persist OCI manifest content-type in sidecar and normalize manifest body handling

ts/00_commitinfo_data.ts

@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@
  */
 export const commitinfo = {
   name: '@push.rocks/smartregistry',
-  version: '2.1.2',
+  version: '2.2.0',
   description: 'A composable TypeScript library implementing OCI, NPM, Maven, Cargo, Composer, PyPI, and RubyGems registries for building unified container and package registries'
 }

ts/core/classes.registrystorage.ts

@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ export class RegistryStorage implements IStorageBackend {
   }
 
   /**
-   * Get OCI manifest
+   * Get OCI manifest and its content type
    */
   public async getOciManifest(repository: string, digest: string): Promise<Buffer | null> {
     const path = this.getOciManifestPath(repository, digest);
@@ -137,7 +137,17 @@ export class RegistryStorage implements IStorageBackend {
   }
 
   /**
-   * Store OCI manifest
+   * Get OCI manifest content type
+   * Returns the stored content type or null if not found
+   */
+  public async getOciManifestContentType(repository: string, digest: string): Promise<string | null> {
+    const typePath = this.getOciManifestPath(repository, digest) + '.type';
+    const data = await this.getObject(typePath);
+    return data ? data.toString('utf-8') : null;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Store OCI manifest with its content type
    */
   public async putOciManifest(
     repository: string,
@@ -146,7 +156,11 @@ export class RegistryStorage implements IStorageBackend {
     contentType: string
   ): Promise<void> {
     const path = this.getOciManifestPath(repository, digest);
-    return this.putObject(path, data, { 'Content-Type': contentType });
+    // Store manifest data
+    await this.putObject(path, data, { 'Content-Type': contentType });
+    // Store content type in sidecar file for later retrieval
+    const typePath = path + '.type';
+    await this.putObject(typePath, Buffer.from(contentType, 'utf-8'));
   }
 
   /**

ts/oci/classes.ociregistry.ts

@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ export class OciRegistry extends BaseRegistry {
     const digest = query.digest;
     if (digest && body) {
       // Monolithic upload: complete upload in single POST
-      const blobData = Buffer.isBuffer(body) ? body : Buffer.from(JSON.stringify(body));
+      const blobData = this.toBuffer(body);
 
       // Verify digest
       const calculatedDigest = await this.calculateDigest(blobData);
@@ -320,10 +320,17 @@ export class OciRegistry extends BaseRegistry {
       };
     }
 
+    // Get stored content type, falling back to detecting from manifest content
+    let contentType = await this.storage.getOciManifestContentType(repository, digest);
+    if (!contentType) {
+      // Fallback: detect content type from manifest content
+      contentType = this.detectManifestContentType(manifestData);
+    }
+
     return {
       status: 200,
       headers: {
-        'Content-Type': 'application/vnd.oci.image.manifest.v1+json',
+        'Content-Type': contentType,
         'Docker-Content-Digest': digest,
       },
       body: manifestData,
@@ -356,10 +363,18 @@ export class OciRegistry extends BaseRegistry {
 
     const manifestData = await this.storage.getOciManifest(repository, digest);
 
+    // Get stored content type, falling back to detecting from manifest content
+    let contentType = await this.storage.getOciManifestContentType(repository, digest);
+    if (!contentType && manifestData) {
+      // Fallback: detect content type from manifest content
+      contentType = this.detectManifestContentType(manifestData);
+    }
+    contentType = contentType || 'application/vnd.oci.image.manifest.v1+json';
+
     return {
       status: 200,
       headers: {
-        'Content-Type': 'application/vnd.oci.image.manifest.v1+json',
+        'Content-Type': contentType,
         'Docker-Content-Digest': digest,
         'Content-Length': manifestData ? manifestData.length.toString() : '0',
       },
@@ -388,16 +403,7 @@ export class OciRegistry extends BaseRegistry {
 
     // Preserve raw bytes for accurate digest calculation
     // Per OCI spec, digest must match the exact bytes sent by client
-    let manifestData: Buffer;
-    if (Buffer.isBuffer(body)) {
-      manifestData = body;
-    } else if (typeof body === 'string') {
-      // String body - convert directly without JSON transformation
-      manifestData = Buffer.from(body, 'utf-8');
-    } else {
-      // Body was already parsed as JSON object - re-serialize as fallback
-      manifestData = Buffer.from(JSON.stringify(body));
-    }
+    const manifestData = this.toBuffer(body);
     const contentType = headers?.['content-type'] || headers?.['Content-Type'] || 'application/vnd.oci.image.manifest.v1+json';
 
     // Calculate manifest digest
@@ -525,7 +531,7 @@ export class OciRegistry extends BaseRegistry {
 
   private async uploadChunk(
     uploadId: string,
-    data: Buffer,
+    data: Buffer | Uint8Array | unknown,
     contentRange: string
   ): Promise<IResponse> {
     const session = this.uploadSessions.get(uploadId);
@@ -537,8 +543,9 @@ export class OciRegistry extends BaseRegistry {
       };
     }
 
-    session.chunks.push(data);
-    session.totalSize += data.length;
+    const chunkData = this.toBuffer(data);
+    session.chunks.push(chunkData);
+    session.totalSize += chunkData.length;
     session.lastActivity = new Date();
 
     return {
@@ -555,7 +562,7 @@ export class OciRegistry extends BaseRegistry {
   private async completeUpload(
     uploadId: string,
     digest: string,
-    finalData?: Buffer
+    finalData?: Buffer | Uint8Array | unknown
   ): Promise<IResponse> {
     const session = this.uploadSessions.get(uploadId);
     if (!session) {
@@ -567,7 +574,7 @@ export class OciRegistry extends BaseRegistry {
     }
 
     const chunks = [...session.chunks];
-    if (finalData) chunks.push(finalData);
+    if (finalData) chunks.push(this.toBuffer(finalData));
     const blobData = Buffer.concat(chunks);
 
     // Verify digest
@@ -665,6 +672,59 @@ export class OciRegistry extends BaseRegistry {
   // HELPER METHODS
   // ========================================================================
 
+  /**
+   * Detect manifest content type from manifest content.
+   * OCI Image Index has "manifests" array, OCI Image Manifest has "config" object.
+   * Also checks the mediaType field if present.
+   */
+  private detectManifestContentType(manifestData: Buffer): string {
+    try {
+      const manifest = JSON.parse(manifestData.toString('utf-8'));
+
+      // First check if manifest has explicit mediaType field
+      if (manifest.mediaType) {
+        return manifest.mediaType;
+      }
+
+      // Otherwise detect from structure
+      if (Array.isArray(manifest.manifests)) {
+        // OCI Image Index (multi-arch manifest list)
+        return 'application/vnd.oci.image.index.v1+json';
+      } else if (manifest.config) {
+        // OCI Image Manifest
+        return 'application/vnd.oci.image.manifest.v1+json';
+      }
+
+      // Fallback to standard manifest type
+      return 'application/vnd.oci.image.manifest.v1+json';
+    } catch (e) {
+      // If parsing fails, return default
+      return 'application/vnd.oci.image.manifest.v1+json';
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Convert any binary-like data to Buffer.
+   * Handles Buffer, Uint8Array (modern cross-platform), string, and objects.
+   *
+   * Note: Buffer.isBuffer(Uint8Array) returns false even though Buffer extends Uint8Array.
+   * This is because Uint8Array is the modern, cross-platform standard while Buffer is Node.js-specific.
+   * Many HTTP frameworks pass request bodies as Uint8Array for better compatibility.
+   */
+  private toBuffer(data: unknown): Buffer {
+    if (Buffer.isBuffer(data)) {
+      return data;
+    }
+    if (data instanceof Uint8Array) {
+      return Buffer.from(data);
+    }
+    if (typeof data === 'string') {
+      return Buffer.from(data, 'utf-8');
+    }
+    // Fallback: serialize object to JSON (may cause digest mismatch for manifests)
+    return Buffer.from(JSON.stringify(data));
+  }
+
   private async getTagsData(repository: string): Promise<Record<string, string>> {
     const path = `oci/tags/${repository}/tags.json`;
     const data = await this.storage.getObject(path);