Text codecs allow to customize the conversion of data from/to XML,
in particular in two scenarios:
1. When the type for which the behaviour is to be defined comes from a
foreign crate, preventing the implementation of
FromXmlText/IntoXmlText.
2. When there is not one obvious, or more than one sensible, way to
convert a value to XML text and back.
This is bare-bones and is missing many features which we intend to add
in future commits, such as parsing from attributes whose names differ
from the field names and parsing into non-String types.
Well, not really, of course. All of this will make sense once we start
adding support for fields and non-struct types. Refactoring the code now
before we start to add actual member field parsing is much easier.
How do I know that this will work out? Well, my crystal ball knows it.
Don't believe me? Okay, ChatGPT told me ... Alright alright, I went
through the entire process of implementing this feature *twice* at this
point and have a pretty good idea of where to draw the abstraction lines
so that everything falls neatly into place. You'll have to trust me on
this one.
(Or, you know, check out old branches in my xmpp-rs repo. That might
work, too. `feature/derive-macro-streaming-full` might be a name to look
for if you dare.)
This is a large change and as such, it needs good motivation. Let me
remind you of the ultimate goal: we want a derive macro which allows us
to FromXml/IntoXml, and that derive macro should be usable from
`xmpp_parsers` and other crates.
For that, any code generated by the derive macro mustn't depend on any
code in the `xmpp_parsers` crate, because you cannot name the crate you
are in portably (`xmpp_parsers::..` wouldn't resolve within
`xmpp_parsers`, and `crate::..` would point at other crates if the macro
was used in other crates).
We also want to interoperate with code already implementing
`TryFrom<Element>` and `Into<Element>` on structs. This ultimately
requires that we have an error type which is shared by the two
implementations and that error type must be declared in the `xso` crate
to be usable by the macros.
Thus, we port the error type over to use the type declared in `xso`.
This changes the structure of the error type greatly; I do not think
that `xso` should have to know about all the different types we are
parsing there and they don't deserve special treatment. Wrapping them in
a `Box<dyn ..>` seems more appropriate.
This adds shims which provide FromXml and IntoXml implementations to
*all* macro-generated types in `xmpp_parsers`. Mind that this does not
cover all types in `xmpp_parsers`, but a good share of them.
This is another first step toward real, fully streamed parsing.
This allows constructs like:
```rust
let residual = match Iq::try_from(stanza) {
Ok(iq) => return handle_iq(..),
Err(Error::TypeMismatch(_, _, v)) => v,
Err(other) => return handle_parse_error(..),
};
let residual = match Message::try_from(stanza) {
..
};
let residual = ..
log::warn!("unhandled object: {:?}", residual);
```
The interesting part of this is that this could be used in a loop over a
Vec<Box<dyn FnMut(Element) -> ControlFlow<SomeResult, Element>>, i.e. in
a parsing loop for a generic XML/XMPP stream.
The advantage is that the stanza.is() check runs only once (in
check_self!) and doesn't need to be duplicated outside, and it reduces
the use of magic strings.
That one accepts both uppercase and lowercase hexadecimal input, and
outputs in lowercase.
It requires no separator between bytes, unlike ColonSeparatedHex.
Version 0.21 replaced base64::decode() with an Engine trait and multiple
structs implementing it for various alphabets, various performance
profiles, etc. It is slightly longer to import but in the end does the
very same thing.
Since Rust 1.32.0 (so basically forever ago) we can use the $(…)?
construct in macros to mean one or zero times this chunk of tokens.
This allows making the last comma optional in lists of things.
