There are few reasons to do this:
- it's difficult to add symbol interning to combine-based parsers like
tx-parser -- literally every type changes to reflect the interner,
and that means every convenience macro we've built needs to chagne.
It's trivial to add interning to rust-peg-based parsers.
- combine has rolled forward to 3.2, and I spent a similar amount of
time investigating how to upgrade tx-parser (to take advantage of
the new parser! macros in combine that I think are necessary for
adapting to changing types) as I did just converting to rust-peg.
- it's easy to improve the error messages in rust-peg, where-as I have
tried twice to improve the nested error messages in combine and am
stumped.
- it's roughly 4x faster to parse strings directly as opposed to
edn::ValueAndSpan, and it'll be even better when we intern directly.
Fixes from @kevinmehall.
* Prefer character sets over backtracking in the EDN parser.
* Avoid duplicate effort when parsing floats in the EDN parser.
* Clean up duplicate position tracking code.
This turns out to have little performance impact, but makes the grammar
much cleaner.
* Fix EDN work to pass tests with correct numeric precedence.
* Update some dependencies.
* Update rusqlite to 0.12.
* Update error-chain to a forked version that implements Sync.
* Fix some compiler warnings.
* Remove unused imports in tests.
* Parse errors no longer naturally print with the expected symbol.
* Pre: unused import in translate.rs.
* Part 2: take a dependency on rusqlite for query arguments.
* Part 1: flatten V2 schema into V1. Add UUID and URI.
Bump expected ident and bootstrap datom count in tests.
* Part 5: parse edn::Value::Uuid.
* Part 3: extend ValueType and TypedValue to include Uuid.
* Part 4: add Uuid to query arguments.
* Part 6: extend db to support Uuid.
* Part 8: add a tx-parser test for #f NaN and #uuid.
* Part 7: parse and algebrize UUIDs in queries.
* Part 1: parse #inst in EDN and throughout query engine.
* Part 3: handle instants in db.
* Part 2: instants never matches integers in queries.
* Part 4: use DateTime for tx_instants.
* Add a test for adding and querying UUIDs and instants.
* Review comments.
* Pre: Expose more in edn.
* Pre: Make it easier to work with ValueAndSpan.
with_spans() is a temporary hack, needed only because I don't care to
parse the bootstrap assertions from text right now.
* Part 1a: Add `value_and_span` for parsing nested `edn::ValueAndSpan` instances.
I wasn't able to abstract over `edn::Value` and `edn::ValueAndSpan`;
there are multiple obstacles. I chose to roll with
`edn::ValueAndSpan` since it exposes the additional span information
that we will want to form good error messages in the future.
* Part 1b: Add keyword_map() parsing an `edn::Value::Vector` into an `edn::Value::map`.
* Part 1c: Add `Log`/`.log(...)` for logging parser progress.
This is a terrible hack, but it sure helps to debug complicated nested
parsers. I don't even know what a principled approach would look
like; since our parser combinators are so frequently expressed in
code, it's hard to imagine a data-driven interpreter that can help
debug things.
* Part 2: Use `value_and_span` apparatus in tx-parser/.
I break an abstraction boundary by returning a value column
`edn::ValueAndSpan` rather than just an `edn::Value`. That is, the
transaction processor shouldn't care where the `edn::Value` it is
processing arose -- even we care to track that information we should
bake it into the `Entity` type. We do this because we need to
dynamically parse the value column to support nested maps, and parsing
requires a full `edn::ValueAndSpan`. Alternately, we could cheat and
fake the spans when parsing nested maps, but that's potentially
expensive.
* Part 3: Use `value_and_span` apparatus in query-parser/.
* Part 4: Use `value_and_span` apparatus in root crate.
* Review comment: Make Span and SpanPosition Copy.
* Review comment: nits.
* Review comment: Make `or` be `or_exactly`.
I baked the eof checking directly into the parser, rather than using
the skip and eof parsers. I also took the time to restore some tests
that were mistakenly commented out.
* Review comment: Extract and use def_matches_* macros.
* Review comment: .map() as late as possible.
The parser mostly works and has a decent test suite. It parses all the
queries issued by the Tofino UAS, with some caveats. Known flaws:
* No support for tagged elements, comments, discarded elements or "'".
* Incomplete support for escaped characters in strings and the range of
characters that are allowed in keywords and symbols.
* Possible whitespace handling problems.
