this is tricky

mission/tmtc/PersistentTmStore.cpp

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
 using namespace returnvalue;
 
-static constexpr bool DEBUG_DUMPS = false;
+static constexpr bool DEBUG_DUMPS = true;
 
 PersistentTmStore::PersistentTmStore(PersistentTmStoreArgs args)
     : SystemObject(args.objectId),
@@ -74,18 +74,23 @@ ReturnValue_t PersistentTmStore::buildDumpSet(uint32_t fromUnixSeconds, uint32_t
         continue;
       }
 
-      DumpIndex dumpIndex;
-      dumpIndex.epoch = fileEpoch;
-      dumpIndex.suffixIdx = extractSuffix(file.string());
       if (DEBUG_DUMPS) {
         sif::debug << "Inserting file " << fileOrDir.path() << std::endl;
-        if (dumpIndex.suffixIdx.has_value()) {
-          sif::debug << "Suffix: " << static_cast<int>(dumpIndex.suffixIdx.value()) << std::endl;
-        }
       }
+      DumpIndex dumpIndex;
+      dumpIndex.epoch = fileEpoch;
+      // Multiple files for the same time are supported via a special suffix. We smply count the
+      // number of copies and later try to dump the same number of files with the additonal
+      // suffixes
+      auto& iter = dumpParams.orderedDumpFilestamps.find(dumpIndex);
+      if (iter != dumpParams.orderedDumpFilestamps.end()) {
+        iter->additionalFiles++;
+      } else {
+        dumpIndex.additionalFiles = 0;
         dumpParams.orderedDumpFilestamps.emplace(dumpIndex);
       }
     }
+  }
   return returnvalue::OK;
 }
 
@@ -301,7 +306,7 @@ ReturnValue_t PersistentTmStore::loadNextDumpFile() {
     timeval tv{};
     tv.tv_sec = dumpIndex.epoch;
     size_t fullPathLength = 0;
-    createFileName(tv, dumpIndex.suffixIdx, fullPathLength);
+    createFileName(tv, dumpParams.currentSameFileIdx, fullPathLength);
     dumpParams.currentFile =
         path(std::string(reinterpret_cast<const char*>(filePathBuf.data()), fullPathLength));
     dumpParams.fileSize = std::filesystem::file_size(dumpParams.currentFile, e);
@@ -321,6 +326,22 @@ ReturnValue_t PersistentTmStore::loadNextDumpFile() {
     }
     ifile.read(reinterpret_cast<char*>(fileBuf.data()),
                static_cast<std::streamsize>(dumpParams.fileSize));
+    if (dumpIndex.additionalFiles > 0) {
+      dumpParams.currentSameFileIdx++;
+    }
+    if (dumpIndex.additionalFiles > 0 and not dumpParams.currentSameFileIdx.has_value()) {
+      if (not dumpParams.currentSameFileIdx.has_value()) {
+        // Initialze the file index and stay on same file
+        dumpParams.currentSameFileIdx = 0;
+        continue;
+
+      } else if (dumpParams.currentSameFileIdx.value() < dumpIndex.additionalFiles) {
+        dumpParams.currentSameFileIdx += 1;
+        continue;
+      }
+    }
+    // File will change, reset this field for correct state-keeping.
+    dumpParams.currentSameFileIdx = std::nullopt;
     // Increment iterator for next cycle.
     dumpParams.dumpIter++;
     return returnvalue::OK;

mission/tmtc/PersistentTmStore.h

@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@ struct PersistentTmStoreArgs {
 
 struct DumpIndex {
   uint32_t epoch;
-  std::optional<uint8_t> suffixIdx;
+  // Number of additional files with a suffix like .0, .1 etc.
+  uint8_t additionalFiles;
   // Define a custom comparison function based on the epoch variable
   bool operator<(const DumpIndex& other) const { return epoch < other.epoch; }
 };
@@ -120,6 +121,7 @@ class PersistentTmStore : public TmStoreFrontendSimpleIF, public SystemObject {
     std::filesystem::path currentFile;
     std::set<DumpIndex> orderedDumpFilestamps{};
     std::set<DumpIndex>::iterator dumpIter;
+    std::optional<uint8_t> currentSameFileIdx = 0;
     size_t fileSize = 0;
     size_t currentSize = 0;
   };