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Refs opentdf/platform#3513. The read half of #405, split out so it can land on its own.

Problem

The OpenTDF spec names the manifest entry in a .tdf archive manifest.json:

The manifest.json file MUST be in JSON format and reside within the root of the OpenTDF Zip archive.

This SDK writes and reads 0.manifest.json. On the read side TDFReader does an exact containsKey with no fallback, so a TDF produced by any implementation written against the published spec is rejected with tdf doesn't contain a manifest before any schema check runs. SDK.isTDF carries its own copy of the literal, so such an archive is screened out one step earlier still.

The 0. prefix is a holdover from an early design that anticipated several payload/manifest pairs per archive. That design never shipped.

Change

ReadTDFReader prefers manifest.json and falls back to 0.manifest.json. Preference matters rather than first-match: an archive carrying both must not have its conformant entry passed over for the superseded one.

SniffingSDK.isTDF accepts either name, so it does not reject an archive the reader can now read. It also no longer requires the archive to hold exactly two entries. That check was scoped out at first as unrelated to the entry name, but review pointed out it is not: an archive carrying both manifest names holds three entries, and prefersTheSpecNameWhenAnArchiveCarriesBoth is precisely the case the reader now handles — so the sniffer would reject what the reader it screens for accepts. The count was never part of the structure isTDF describes; the spec fixes where the manifest lives, not what else the archive may hold.

Write is untouched. TDFWriter still emits 0.manifest.json, so this release produces byte-identical archives and every existing reader keeps working. The new TDF_MANIFEST_FILE_NAME_SPEC constant is read-side only. Flipping the writer is the breaking half and stays in #405.

0.payload is untouched. It is recorded in the manifest's payload.url, so renaming it would alter manifest contents rather than just archive layout, and neither the spec nor opentdf/platform#4049 fixes it.

Testing

Ported from #405, minus the write-side test:

Test Failure without the change
TDFReaderTest.readsManifestUnderTheSpecName IllegalArgumentException: tdf doesn't contain a manifest
TDFReaderTest.readsThePayloadAlongsideASpecNamedManifest same
TDFReaderTest.prefersTheSpecNameWhenAnArchiveCarriesBoth returned the off-spec manifest
SDKTest.testExaminingTDFWithSpecManifestName false
SDKTest.testExaminingTDFWithBothManifestNames false -- three entries
SDKTest.testExaminingTDFWithAnExtraEntry false -- three entries

prefersTheSpecNameWhenAnArchiveCarriesBoth files a different manifest under each name, so it cannot pass by reading whichever entry the reader happened to pick.

Guarding behavior that must not change: TDFReaderTest.readsManifestUnderTheOffspecName, TDFReaderTest.rejectsAnArchiveWithNoManifestUnderEitherName, SDKTest.testExaminingZipWithNoManifest, SDKTest.testExaminingZipWithNoPayload, and the pre-existing SDKTest.testExaminingValidZTDF / testExaminingManifest, which run against the checked-in off-spec-named sample.txt.tdf fixture. The two negative isTDF cases hold two entries each, so they failed for the name they were missing rather than for their entry count even before the count check came out.

Not run locally. This machine has no JDK or Maven, so nothing was compiled or executed here; the tests themselves were watched failing against unmodified production code on #405's branch, where the shared code is identical. Draft until CI confirms.

Downstream impact

None. Readers gain a name they accept and isTDF gains archive shapes it recognizes; nothing either previously accepted is taken away, and no archive this SDK writes changes.

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  • Compatibility

    • Improved support for TDF archives using the standard manifest.json entry name.
    • Continued support for archives using the SDK’s existing 0.manifest.json entry name.
    • When both manifest names are present, the standard manifest.json entry is used.
  • Bug Fixes

    • TDF detection now correctly recognizes valid archives and rejects those missing a manifest or payload.

The OpenTDF spec puts the manifest at the archive root under
`manifest.json`. `TDFReader` looked the entry up by exact name with no
fallback, so a TDF produced by any implementation written against the
published spec was rejected with `tdf doesn't contain a manifest` before
any schema check ran. `SDK.isTDF` carried its own copy of the literal and
screened such archives out one step earlier.

The reader now accepts either name, preferring `manifest.json` when an
archive carries both so a conformant entry is never passed over for a
superseded one. `SDK.isTDF` accepts either name too.

Read side only: the writer still emits `0.manifest.json`. Changing that
is a breaking file-format change and is left to a separate change.

Refs opentdf/platform#3513

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Flynn <pflynn-virtru@users.noreply.github.com>
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The SDK adds a spec-defined manifest.json constant, while retaining 0.manifest.json for writing. TDF detection accepts both names. TDFReader prefers manifest.json when both names are present. Tests cover detection, reading, precedence, missing manifests, and payload reads.

Changes

Manifest compatibility

Layer / File(s) Summary
Manifest name contract
sdk/src/main/java/io/opentdf/platform/sdk/TDFWriter.java
Adds TDF_MANIFEST_FILE_NAME_SPEC for manifest.json and retains TDF_MANIFEST_FILE_NAME for 0.manifest.json.
Manifest detection and resolution
sdk/src/main/java/io/opentdf/platform/sdk/SDK.java, sdk/src/main/java/io/opentdf/platform/sdk/TDFReader.java
SDK.isTDF accepts either manifest name with 0.payload. TDFReader prefers manifest.json when both manifest entries exist.
Compatibility validation
sdk/src/test/java/io/opentdf/platform/sdk/SDKTest.java, sdk/src/test/java/io/opentdf/platform/sdk/TDFReaderTest.java
Tests cover both manifest names, entry precedence, missing manifest or payload cases, and payload reading with a spec-named manifest.

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Change: Bug fix

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sequenceDiagram
  participant ZIP archive
  participant SDK.isTDF
  participant TDFReader
  ZIP archive->>SDK.isTDF: Provide manifest and payload entries
  SDK.isTDF-->>ZIP archive: Return true when a supported manifest and 0.payload exist
  ZIP archive->>TDFReader: Provide archive entries
  TDFReader-->>ZIP archive: Read manifest.json or 0.manifest.json
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Archives carrying both the legacy and spec manifest names are rejected by SDK detection even though the reader can process them. Align detection with reader compatibility before merging.

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Sonar java:S9358 on the ternary around the two `entries.get` calls: the
conditional belongs inside the operation. `getOrDefault` says the same
thing in one lookup-shaped expression -- the spec name if present, the
off-spec name otherwise -- and drops the separate `containsKey` probe.
Entry values are never null, so the absent case is unambiguous.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Flynn <pflynn-virtru@users.noreply.github.com>
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In `@sdk/src/main/java/io/opentdf/platform/sdk/SDK.java`:
- Around line 175-176: Update isTDF so it validates that the required archive
entries are present without rejecting archives solely because entries.size() is
not exactly two. Preserve compatibility with archives containing both
manifest.json and 0.manifest.json, matching TDFReader’s selection of
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Comment thread sdk/src/main/java/io/opentdf/platform/sdk/SDK.java Outdated
isTDF required the archive to hold exactly two entries. An archive
carrying both manifest names holds three, and TDFReader now reads it by
preferring the spec name -- so the sniffer rejected what the reader it
screens for accepts. The count also made isTDF stricter than the reader
generally: the spec fixes where the manifest lives, not what else the
archive may hold.

Entry presence is what isTDF was checking for; the count was never part
of the structure it describes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Flynn <pflynn-virtru@users.noreply.github.com>
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