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* [RFC proxmox 00/22] New crate for firewall api types
@ 2026-02-16 10:43 Dietmar Maurer
  2026-02-16 10:43 ` [RFC proxmox 01/22] firewall-api-types: add new " Dietmar Maurer
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  0 siblings, 23 replies; 26+ messages in thread
From: Dietmar Maurer @ 2026-02-16 10:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pve-devel

The current PVE firewall implementation is written in Perl, and Rust type
definitions can be auto-generated from its API schemas. However, many of the
more complex types are represented as opaque strings, which limits type safety.

Verifiers for complex types like ports and address matches cannot be generated
automatically, so we need to implement them manually anyway.

To address this, the crate provides hand-crafted Rust types that parse and validate these
string-encoded values into proper enums and structs, while remaining fully
compatible with the existing API wire format. The initial type definitions were
seeded from the auto-generated `pve-api-types` crate and then refined by hand.

Types from proxmox-ve-rs/proxmox-ve-config/src/firewall/ are not really designed
to be used directly, as they are not fully compatible with the API wire format. they
also depends on system crates (nix, proxmox-sys, etc.) which we want to avoid for this crate. 
I tried to reuse some of those types, but in many cases it was easier to 
use types generated from the perl API schemas as a starting point and then modify them 
as needed.

Dependencies are minimal, so that we can use this crate for wasm targets (GUI).


This series depends on the CommaSeparatedList patch send recently.


Dietmar Maurer (22):
  firewall-api-types: add new crate for firewall api types
  firewall-api-types: add README.md
  firewall-api-types: add firewall policy types
  firewall-api-types: add logging types
  firewall-api-types: add FirewallClusterOptions
  firewall-api-types: add FirewallGuestOptions
  firewall-api-types: add FirewallConntrackHelper enum
  firewall-api-types: add FirewallNodeOptions struct
  firewall-api-types: add FirewallRef type
  firewall-api-types: add FirewallPortList types
  firewall-api-types: add FirewallIcmpType
  firewall-api-types: add FirewallIpsetReference type
  firewall-api-types: add FirewallAliasReference type
  firewall-api-types: add firewall address types
  firewall-api-types: add FirewallRule type
  firewall-api-types: use ConfigDigest from proxmox-config-digest crate
  firewall-api-types: use COMMENT_SCHEMA from proxmox-schema crate
  firewall-api-types: add FirewallRuleUpdater type
  firewall-api-types: refactor FirewallRule and add
    FirewallRuleListEntry
  firewall-api-types: add DeletableFirewallRuleProperty enum
  firewall-api-types: add FirewallAliasEntry API type
  firewall-api-types: add FirewallIpsetListEntry and FirewallIpsetEntry
    api types

 Cargo.toml                                    |   1 +
 proxmox-firewall-api-types/Cargo.toml         |  30 +
 proxmox-firewall-api-types/README.md          |  54 ++
 proxmox-firewall-api-types/debian/changelog   |   5 +
 proxmox-firewall-api-types/debian/control     |  52 ++
 proxmox-firewall-api-types/debian/copyright   |  18 +
 .../debian/debcargo.toml                      |   7 +
 proxmox-firewall-api-types/src/address.rs     | 229 +++++++
 proxmox-firewall-api-types/src/alias.rs       | 181 ++++++
 .../src/cluster_options.rs                    |  61 ++
 proxmox-firewall-api-types/src/conntrack.rs   |  52 ++
 .../src/firewall_ref.rs                       |  62 ++
 .../src/guest_options.rs                      |  97 +++
 proxmox-firewall-api-types/src/icmp_type.rs   | 559 ++++++++++++++++++
 proxmox-firewall-api-types/src/ipset.rs       | 254 ++++++++
 proxmox-firewall-api-types/src/lib.rs         |  46 ++
 proxmox-firewall-api-types/src/log.rs         | 312 ++++++++++
 .../src/node_options.rs                       | 240 ++++++++
 proxmox-firewall-api-types/src/policy.rs      | 151 +++++
 proxmox-firewall-api-types/src/port.rs        | 177 ++++++
 proxmox-firewall-api-types/src/rule.rs        | 351 +++++++++++
 21 files changed, 2939 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 proxmox-firewall-api-types/Cargo.toml
 create mode 100644 proxmox-firewall-api-types/README.md
 create mode 100644 proxmox-firewall-api-types/debian/changelog
 create mode 100644 proxmox-firewall-api-types/debian/control
 create mode 100644 proxmox-firewall-api-types/debian/copyright
 create mode 100644 proxmox-firewall-api-types/debian/debcargo.toml
 create mode 100644 proxmox-firewall-api-types/src/address.rs
 create mode 100644 proxmox-firewall-api-types/src/alias.rs
 create mode 100644 proxmox-firewall-api-types/src/cluster_options.rs
 create mode 100644 proxmox-firewall-api-types/src/conntrack.rs
 create mode 100644 proxmox-firewall-api-types/src/firewall_ref.rs
 create mode 100644 proxmox-firewall-api-types/src/guest_options.rs
 create mode 100644 proxmox-firewall-api-types/src/icmp_type.rs
 create mode 100644 proxmox-firewall-api-types/src/ipset.rs
 create mode 100644 proxmox-firewall-api-types/src/lib.rs
 create mode 100644 proxmox-firewall-api-types/src/log.rs
 create mode 100644 proxmox-firewall-api-types/src/node_options.rs
 create mode 100644 proxmox-firewall-api-types/src/policy.rs
 create mode 100644 proxmox-firewall-api-types/src/port.rs
 create mode 100644 proxmox-firewall-api-types/src/rule.rs

-- 
2.47.3




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2026-02-16 10:43 ` [RFC proxmox 02/22] firewall-api-types: add README.md Dietmar Maurer
2026-02-16 10:43 ` [RFC proxmox 03/22] firewall-api-types: add firewall policy types Dietmar Maurer
2026-02-16 10:43 ` [RFC proxmox 04/22] firewall-api-types: add logging types Dietmar Maurer
2026-02-16 10:43 ` [RFC proxmox 05/22] firewall-api-types: add FirewallClusterOptions Dietmar Maurer
2026-02-16 10:43 ` [RFC proxmox 06/22] firewall-api-types: add FirewallGuestOptions Dietmar Maurer
2026-02-16 10:43 ` [RFC proxmox 07/22] firewall-api-types: add FirewallConntrackHelper enum Dietmar Maurer
2026-02-16 10:43 ` [RFC proxmox 08/22] firewall-api-types: add FirewallNodeOptions struct Dietmar Maurer
2026-02-16 10:43 ` [RFC proxmox 09/22] firewall-api-types: add FirewallRef type Dietmar Maurer
2026-02-16 10:43 ` [RFC proxmox 10/22] firewall-api-types: add FirewallPortList types Dietmar Maurer
2026-02-16 10:43 ` [RFC proxmox 11/22] firewall-api-types: add FirewallIcmpType Dietmar Maurer
2026-02-16 10:43 ` [RFC proxmox 12/22] firewall-api-types: add FirewallIpsetReference type Dietmar Maurer
2026-02-16 10:43 ` [RFC proxmox 13/22] firewall-api-types: add FirewallAliasReference type Dietmar Maurer
2026-02-16 10:43 ` [RFC proxmox 14/22] firewall-api-types: add firewall address types Dietmar Maurer
2026-02-16 10:43 ` [RFC proxmox 15/22] firewall-api-types: add FirewallRule type Dietmar Maurer
2026-02-16 10:43 ` [RFC proxmox 16/22] firewall-api-types: use ConfigDigest from proxmox-config-digest crate Dietmar Maurer
2026-02-16 10:43 ` [RFC proxmox 17/22] firewall-api-types: use COMMENT_SCHEMA from proxmox-schema crate Dietmar Maurer
2026-02-16 10:43 ` [RFC proxmox 18/22] firewall-api-types: add FirewallRuleUpdater type Dietmar Maurer
2026-02-16 10:43 ` [RFC proxmox 19/22] firewall-api-types: refactor FirewallRule and add FirewallRuleListEntry Dietmar Maurer
2026-02-16 10:43 ` [RFC proxmox 20/22] firewall-api-types: add DeletableFirewallRuleProperty enum Dietmar Maurer
2026-02-16 10:43 ` [RFC proxmox 21/22] firewall-api-types: add FirewallAliasEntry API type Dietmar Maurer
2026-02-16 10:44 ` [RFC proxmox 22/22] firewall-api-types: add FirewallIpsetListEntry and FirewallIpsetEntry api types Dietmar Maurer
2026-02-17  6:17 ` [RFC proxmox 00/22] New crate for firewall " Hannes Laimer
2026-02-17  6:39   ` Dietmar Maurer
2026-02-17  8:17     ` Hannes Laimer

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