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 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.
