[ykakade]

Closes #66

Add OpenBrowserReaderAt and OpenStreamReaderAt, with context variants, for ZIP and conda sources that support random access. They read from the source without copying the complete compressed archive.

How it works

The constructors take an io.ReaderAt and the complete archive size. The byte-slice and random-access paths share one parser. It counts central headers through a buffered reader before archive/zip builds its file list. Each browser pass opens a stream over the same source.

Unread ZIP members are skipped without decoding. Their declared sizes still count against entry and expansion limits. Reading a member through EOF checks its CRC. The source stays open and belongs to the caller.

These constructors return Browser and Stream, so they add no hashing contract to Reader. Hash the original source separately when needed. Existing constructors keep their behavior.

Validation

Tests cover a real file, repeated browsing, instrumented reads, limits, cancellation, a parity test that runs malformed central directories through both paths, ZIP64, executable prefixes, and conda input.

A benchmark lists a ZIP with a 16 MiB stored member and extracts one small member. One local run (-count=3) produced:

buffered     36,262,991 B/op  136 allocs/op
reader-at        37,453 B/op  108 allocs/op

Notes

The parser enforces only the entry limit. archive/zip accepts or rejects malformed directories, so both paths return the same result. Unread members do not receive CRC checks.

The parser does not reject an advertised count. archive/zip can preallocate its file slice from that count before it reads headers. A forged ZIP64 count on a 512 MiB source allocated 129 MiB before the open failed.

TinyGo and Wasmtime are unavailable locally. The TinyGo extraction stub tests and both Go WebAssembly builds pass.

Checklist

• Add random-access constructors and document ownership and skipped-member checks
• Add tests and an allocation benchmark
• go build ./...
• go test -race ./...
• go test -tags=tinygo ./...
• GOOS=js GOARCH=wasm go build ./...
• GOOS=wasip1 GOARCH=wasm go build ./...
• golangci-lint run ./...

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added streaming and browsing for ZIP and conda archives using random-access data sources, without buffering the complete archive.
  • Added context-aware variants that support cancellation during archive processing.
  • Enforced archive-size and configured input and entry limits. Sources must remain open and unchanged while streaming, browsing, or extracting; these APIs do not close them.
  • Reading a ZIP member through to the end validates its CRC. Skipped members are not decoded or CRC-validated.

[andrew]

The API shape and the limit handling look right. The problem is checkZipReaderAt in random_access.go, which is a second copy of zipCentralDirectoryBounds and checkZipEntryCountLimitContext from zip.go, and the two copies accept different archives:

• A non-ZIP64 archive whose 16-bit end-record count has wrapped (for example 70,000 entries, under the default maxArchiveEntries of 100,000) opens through OpenBrowserBytes, because archive/zip compares the count modulo 65536. checkZipReaderAt compares as uint64 and returns zip.ErrFormat.
• checkZipReaderAt rejects an advertised count over the limit before reading any headers. The bytes path ignores the advertised count.
• On a bad central header signature, checkZipReaderAt returns zip.ErrFormat. The bytes path stops scanning and returns nil.

Please replace both with a single parser that reads the end record and central directory from an io.ReaderAt, and have the bytes path call it through bytes.NewReader. Read the directory headers through a bufio.Reader over an io.SectionReader instead of one 46-byte ReadAt per header. As written, a 100k-entry archive on an *os.File makes 100k pread calls before zip.NewReader reads the same directory again, and Browser repeats that on every pass.

Also add a test that runs the malformed-directory cases through both OpenStreamBytes and OpenStreamReaderAt and checks they return the same result, so the two paths can't drift apart again.

[ykakade]

Thanks, fixed in 5ba6b23. There's now one parser. It reads from an io.ReaderAt through a bufio.Reader, and the bytes path calls it through bytes.NewReader. TestZIPParserParity runs the malformed-directory cases through both paths and compares the results.

This has two costs:

• Forged counts: The parser ignores the advertised count, so archive/zip can preallocate from a false value. On a 512 MiB source, a forged ZIP64 count allocated 129 MiB before the open failed. I didn't add a guard because it would make the two paths different again. If you want one for the ReaderAt path, let me know.
• Bytes path: Each open now allocates up to 65 KiB to find the end record. BenchmarkZipExtract went from about 65 KB to 143 KB per op.

I can't run the TinyGo and Wasmtime tests locally. The other CI steps pass locally.

[andrew]

Thanks, the single parser and the parity test are what I was after, and the overflow guards look right.

One regression from the unification: zipCentralDirectoryBounds now allocates and reads the full 65 KiB search window on every open, and every bytes-path caller (openZip, newZipStream, conda) goes through it. With the 4 KiB bufio.Reader in the header scan that's the ~65 KB → ~143 KB/op you saw on BenchmarkZipExtract. The end record is at size-22 whenever there's no archive comment, which is almost always. Please match archive/zip's own search: try a 1 KiB tail first and only widen to 65 KiB when the signature isn't in it. That keeps the one parser and brings the bytes path back near where it was.

In TestZIPParserParity, add wantOpen: true to the advertised count over limit and underreported count cases so the test pins the behaviour, not just parity. Those are the cases the previous round diverged on and I'd like them locked in.

On the forged ZIP64 count: leave it as is. archive/zip already caps the preallocation by size, so it's bounded by MaxInputBytes on both paths and the open still fails. A guard on only the ReaderAt path would reintroduce the divergence.

[ykakade]

Thanks. I made the changes in 64ba90f.

End record search: The parser now reads the last 1 KiB first. It reads the 65 KiB window only when the end record is not in the 1 KiB tail. This is the same search that archive/zip uses. BenchmarkZipExtract went from about 127 KB to 54 KB per op. This is less than the 65 KB before the parsers were unified. BenchmarkBrowserReaderAt/reader-at went from 256 KB to 37 KB per op.

Parity test: I added wantOpen: true to the two cases. But I had to change the fixtures. With the old fixtures, archive/zip rejects the archive on both paths. It compares the advertised count to the header count modulo 65536, and 1 or 40,000 is not equal to 2. The new fixtures still disagree with the headers, but archive/zip opens them:

• underreported count: 65,537 headers. The end record advertises 1 (65,537 modulo 65536). MaxEntries is 65,537.
• advertised count over limit: 2 headers. A ZIP64 record advertises 65,538. MaxEntries is 2. The parser from the first round rejected this case before it read the headers.

I also added a comment past short window case. It has a 4 KiB archive comment, so the parser must use the 65 KiB search.

Forged ZIP64 count: I did not change it.

go test -race, go test -tags=tinygo, both WebAssembly builds and golangci-lint pass locally.

[andrew]

Thanks, the short-window search matches archive/zip and the two count cases are pinned now.

The comment past short window case in TestZIPParserParity passes without the 65 KiB search. With the loop in zipDirectoryEndRecord cut down to only zipDirectoryEndShortWindow, the test still passes: the parser finds no end record, the count check returns nil, and archive/zip opens the archive anyway, so wantOpen holds either way. Give that case a limit only the wide search can enforce, for example maxEntries: 1 on the two-entry fixture with wantErr: ErrEntryLimit.

The doc comment on zipDirectoryEndRecord says it searches "the same way archive/zip does", but on a truncated comment length archive/zip gives up on the window while this loop keeps scanning back. Please cut the four lines to one, e.g. // Search 1 KiB before 65 KiB, as archive/zip does; most archives have no comment.

[ykakade]

Thanks for checking this. I made both changes in a59701f.

I changed the comment past short window case to maxEntries: 1 with wantErr: ErrEntryLimit. Then I cut the loop down to zipDirectoryEndShortWindow again, and the case still passed. The cause is the len(reader.File) > MaxEntries check after zip.NewReader. When the parser finds no end record, archive/zip opens the archive and that check returns ErrEntryLimit. So the public API gives the same result with or without the 65 KiB search.

I kept that case in the table, and I added TestZIPEntryCountSearchesPastShortWindow. This test calls checkZipEntryCountLimitContext directly on the same fixture. With only the short window, it fails with error = <nil>. With the full loop, it passes.

I cut the doc comment to the single line you suggested.

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Walkthrough

The change adds ReaderAt-based stream and browser constructors for ZIP and conda archives. It validates ZIP central directories through random access and adds tests and documentation for limits, cancellation, source ownership, and browsing.

Changes: Random-access archive access

Layer / File(s)	Summary
ZIP directory validation zip.go, stream_zip.go, random_access_test.go	Entry-count validation reads ZIP directory data through ReaderAt, including ZIP64 metadata and executable prefixes. Tests compare byte-backed and ReaderAt parsing across valid, malformed, and limit cases.
ReaderAt streams and browsing random_access.go, browse.go, stream_zip.go, random_access_test.go, README.md	New constructors open streams and browsers over caller-owned ReaderAt sources. Browser access uses the random-access source, and ZIP streams can skip unread entries. Tests and documentation cover limits, cancellation, source lifetime, and browsing behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant OpenBrowserReaderAtContext
  participant OpenStreamReaderAtContext
  participant ReaderAtSource
  Caller->>OpenBrowserReaderAtContext: provide source and archive size
  OpenBrowserReaderAtContext->>OpenStreamReaderAtContext: open validation stream
  OpenStreamReaderAtContext->>ReaderAtSource: read archive metadata
  OpenBrowserReaderAtContext->>Caller: return browser after validation
  Caller->>OpenStreamReaderAtContext: browse or extract through browser
  OpenStreamReaderAtContext->>ReaderAtSource: read archive data

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Possibly related issues

• Accept smaller reader interfaces in filesystem, extraction, and diff APIs #67: This PR adds constructors that return Browser, but it does not change NewFS, ExtractAll, or diff.Compare to address the reported interface limitations.

Suggested reviewers: andrew

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 05e44

This change adds random-access ZIP and conda constructors, leaves the existing APIs unchanged, and has no unresolved actionable merge-blocking concern. The forged ZIP64 count allocation caveat is documented by the author, and callers can bound it by lowering the maximum input size.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 05e44

The new APIs preserve archive limits and explicitly require callers to keep their sources open and unchanged. Skipping unread members intentionally omits their CRC checks. A ZIP metadata-allocation limitation predates this change; no material worsening was established, but its behavior under the declared Go toolchain remains unconfirmed.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The relevant attacker-controlled input is archive metadata supplied through the caller's ReaderAt. Resource exhaustion would affect the hosting process and workloads sharing it. The inspected entrypoints operate through the supplied handle and do not introduce a service identity, credential, or filesystem-write authority.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — In the inspected Go 1.27.3 implementation, a forged ZIP64 count can influence file-slice preallocation before actual entries are parsed or the package's post-construction limit runs. Both base and head leave that advertised count uncapped, and both support the same configured compressed-input bound. This is an inherited metadata-memory limitation rather than an established PR regression. Its exact behavior under the declared Go 1.26.7 toolchain remains unresolved.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The new API retains input-size, actual-entry-count, per-entry, and aggregate expansion controls. Completely unread members retain their declared-size reservations despite avoiding decoding. Source immutability is a caller obligation rather than an internally enforced snapshot, so validation and later extraction depend on that documented contract.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Sequential transition inspection shows entry reservations before exposure, terminal error handling with explicit recovery, decoder cleanup on recovery and close, and separate outer-container and visible-entry accounting for conda. Closing those layers does not transfer ownership of the caller's source.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Consider a distinct ZIP metadata-allocation budget enforced before archive construction, with compatibility checks for wrapped counts and allocation-focused regression coverage on supported Go versions. This would harden the inherited limitation rather than repair an established regression from this PR.

Pre-merge checks: 3 · 2

Failed checks: 2 warnings

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Linked Issues check		[#66] Met in part. OpenStreamReaderAt, OpenStreamReaderAtContext, OpenBrowserReaderAt, and OpenBrowserReaderAtContext (random_access.go) accept io.ReaderAt and size. The source is read thr…	Before calling zip.NewReader on the random-access path, read the advertised entry count from the end-of-central-directory record. When the ZIP64 locator selects the ZIP64 end record, read the count from that record. Return ErrEntryLimit…
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 42.31% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: adding random-access constructors for ZIP and conda archives.
Out of Scope Changes check		All changed areas connect to #66. The changes are the random-access APIs and README documentation (random_access.go, README.md). browse.go adds the random and size fields and routes openStream…

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Explanation

All changed areas connect to #66. The changes are the random-access APIs and README documentation (random_access.go, README.md). browse.go adds the random and size fields and routes openStream to the random-access source. stream_zip.go adds skipUnread for unread-member skipping. zip.go moves the entry-count scan to io.ReaderAt so that both paths share one parser. The end-record search window and the parity fixtures support the parser and the parity requirement. random_access_test.go covers the tests and the benchmark that #66 requests. No unrelated functional change was identified in the summary or the inspected files.

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Explanation

[#66] Met in part. OpenStreamReaderAt, OpenStreamReaderAtContext, OpenBrowserReaderAt, and OpenBrowserReaderAtContext (random_access.go) accept io.ReaderAt and size. The source is read through io.SectionReader and zip.NewReader(input, size). Unread members are skipped (skipUnread: true, stream_zip.go). Declared sizes count toward limits. Ownership is documented, and hashing is left to the caller. Conda input is wrapped. Tests and the benchmark are reported.

[#66] Not met: entry-count checks before ZIP metadata allocation. checkZipEntryCountLimitContext (zip.go) counts central-directory header records that it reads. It does not read the advertised entry count from the end-of-central-directory record or the ZIP64 end record. zip.NewReader then allocates its file slice from that advertised count. The len(reader.File) > options.MaxEntries check in random_access.go runs after zip.NewReader. The PR description reports a 129 MiB allocation for a forged ZIP64 count on a 512 MiB source. The PR does not guard this case. The byte-slice openZip path has the same gap.

Resolution

Before calling zip.NewReader on the random-access path, read the advertised entry count from the end-of-central-directory record. When the ZIP64 locator selects the ZIP64 end record, read the count from that record. Return ErrEntryLimit when the advertised count exceeds options.MaxEntries. Also reject a count that cannot fit within the declared central-directory size. Add a test that opens a forged ZIP64 count and asserts that the open fails before zip.NewReader allocates the file slice. Document whether the byte-slice openZip path receives the same guard.

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Docstring coverage is 42.31% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surviving functions are included; unchanged diff context and fully deleted functions are excluded. Analyzed 26 functions across 5 files.

Resolution

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