Stream: general

Topic: Rust-like data-definition-language

Joshua Caleb Pedrick (Apr 10 2024 at 22:11):

I'd like to implement a small subset of Rust language features into a JIT data definition language to implement a kind of strongly typed serde. The language would include a subset of struct initialization like:

MyStruct{
   a: 0, // i32
   b: B{ c: 123,  //usize
       ..B::default() }, // B
   d: [ 1,2,3,4,5 ], // [ u32; 5 ]
   e: ( true, 1, 1.6 ), // ( bool, i32, f32 )
   .. MyStruct::default() // defaults a-z
}

MyStruct, B, <T>::default() and everything from a to z would be defined in Rust and the struct definitions made available to the JIT directly from Rust. I wouldn't support control structures of any form, but some impl functions would be included(e.g. default).

Where do I start?

IFcoltransG (Apr 11 2024 at 00:48):

You might be able to get more specific support from a Rust community. I believe there's a Zulip for Rust, for example. Perhaps you'd also be interested in the RON format, which seems to do some of what you're interested in.
https://www.rust-lang.org/community

Joshua Caleb Pedrick (Apr 11 2024 at 03:16):

IFcoltransG said:

You might be able to get more specific support from a Rust community. I believe there's a Zulip for Rust, for example. Perhaps you'd also be interested in the RON format, which seems to do some of what you're interested in.
https://www.rust-lang.org/community

Thanks. So, what I'm trying to accomplish is a data definition language that's a subset of Rust, so that I can do something like the following, which would give me compile errors when running cargo test.

#[cfg(test)]
mod test {
    fn test_data() {
        use crate::my_data_objects::*;
        let _data = include!("my_data/data.rd");
    }
}

fn load_data( path: &str ) -> MyStruct { // path = "my_data/data.rd"
   micro_rust::jit::load::<MyStruct>(path)
}

So, I'm really am looking to implement a Jit using cranelift

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