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Pratik Mankawde 21dad9a17d docs(telemetry): sync runbook, dashboards, and configs with code
- Add 14 missing spans to runbook (6 TxQ + 8 consensus)
- Fix tx.receive attributes and config table in runbook
- Document dispute.resolve and tx.included span events
- Add spanmetrics dimensions for close_time_correct and tx.suppressed
- Fix Close Time Agreement and TX Receive vs Suppressed panel PromQL
- Wire $consensus_mode template variable to all consensus panels
- Add 10 Tempo search filters for operational attributes
- Apply rename script artifacts

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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protocol

Classes and functions for handling data and values associated with the XRP Ledger protocol.

Serialized Objects

Objects transmitted over the network must be serialized into a canonical format. The prefix "ST" refers to classes that deal with the serialized format.

The term "Tx" or "tx" is an abbreviation for "Transaction", a commonly occurring object type.

Optional Fields

Our serialized fields have some "type magic" to make optional fields easier to read:

  • The operation x[sfFoo] means "return the value of 'Foo' if it exists, or the default value if it doesn't."
  • The operation x[~sfFoo] means "return the value of 'Foo' if it exists, or nothing if it doesn't." This usage of the tilde/bitwise NOT operator is not standard outside of the xrpld codebase.
    • As a consequence of this, x[~sfFoo] = y[~sfFoo] assigns the value of Foo from y to x, including omitting Foo from x if it doesn't exist in y.

Typically, for things that are guaranteed to exist, you use x[sfFoo] and avoid having to deal with a container that may or may not hold a value. For things not guaranteed to exist, you use x[~sfFoo] because you want such a container. It avoids having to look something up twice, once just to see if it exists and a second time to get/set its value. (Real example)

The source of this "type magic" is in SField.h.