Timelines work starts to perform modifications on the partitions
that go beyond simple allocations. This change pre-emptively protects
partition integrity by asserting that index modifications are legal.
Generally, I think that Mentat is using too many small traits rather
than wrapping types into newtypes. Wrapping into newtypes is cheap in
Rust, and it makes it easier to reason about the code.
* Part 1: Extract low-level test framework into mentat_db::debug for re-use.
* Part 2: Improve assert_matches!.
This corrects an incorrect pattern: a conversion method taking &self
but returning an owned value should be named like `to_FOO(&self) -> FOO`. (A
reference-to-reference conversion should be named like `as_FOO(&self)
-> &FOO`. A consuming conversion should be named like `into_FOO(self)
-> FOO`.)
In addition, this pushes the conversion via `to_edn` into the
`assert_matches!` macro, which lets consumers get a real data
structure (say, `Datoms`) and use it directly before or after
`assert_matches!`. (Currently, consumers get back `edn::Value`
instances, which aren't nearly as pleasant to use as real data
structures.)
Co-authored-by: Grisha Kruglov <gkruglov@mozilla.com>
* Part 3: Use mentat_db::debug framework in Tolstoy crate.
The advantage of this approach is that compiling Tolstoy (or anything
that's not db, really) can be quite a bit faster than compiling db.
* Add a top-level "syncable" feature.
Tested with:
cargo test --all
cargo test --all --no-default-features
cargo build --manifest-path tools/cli/Cargo.toml --no-default-features
cargo run --manifest-path tools/cli/Cargo.toml --no-default-features debugcli
Co-authored-by: Nick Alexander <nalexander@mozilla.com>
* Add 'syncable' feature to 'db' crate to conditionally derive serialization for Partition*
This is leading up to syncing with partition support.
These build on #778, and implement a variety of small fixes (related
parts are labelled as such), and one non-trivial part -- matching
tuple results with the `BindingTuple` trait. In practice, this is very
helpful, and greatly streamlined the logins API.
Right now, we write code like
```rust
match q_once(q, inputs)?.into_tuple()? {
Some(vs) => match (vs.len(), vs.get(0), vs.get(1)) {
(2, &Some(Binding::Scalar(TypedValue::Long(a))), &Some(Binding::Scalar(TypedValue::Instant(ref b)))) => Some((a, b.clone())),
_ => panic!(),
},
None => None,
}
```
to length-check tuples coming out of the database. It can also lead
to a lot of cloning because references are the easiest thing to hand.
This commit allows to write code like
```rust
match q_once(q, inputs)?.into_tuple()? {
Some((Binding::Scalar(TypedValue::Long(a)), Binding::Scalar(TypedValue::Instant(b)))) => Some((a, b)),
Some(_) => panic!(),
None => None,
}
```
which is generally much easier to reason about.
Perhaps we actually want to subdivide the top-level namespace so that
there is a `mentat::time` module, but I'd prefer to make part of the
process of fixing the public API as we get ready to christen version
1.0.
I think this is just oversight. Generally, we should anticipate what
our consumers need to do to interact with Mentat, and producing milli-
and micro-second timestamps is part of that need.
These are functions on `TermBuilder` itself to prevent mixing mutable
and immutable references in the most natural style. That is,
```
builder.add(e, a, builder.lookup_ref(...))
```
fails because `add` borrows `builder` mutably and `lookup_ref` borrows
`builder` immutably. There's nothing here that requires a specific
builder (since we're not interning lookup refs on the builder, like we
are tempids) so we don't need an instance.
There are a few tricky details to call out here. The first is the
`TransactableValueMarker` trait. This is strictly a marker (like
`Sized`, for example) to give some control over what types can be used
as value types in `Entity` instances. This expression is needed due
to the network of `Into` and `From` relations between the parts of
valid `Entity` instances. This allows to drop the `IntoThing`
work-around trait and use the established patterns. (Observe that
`KnownEntid` makes this a little harder, due to the cross-crate
consistency restrictions.)
The second is that we can get rid `{add,retract}_kw`, since the
network of relations expresses the coercions directly.
The third is that this commit doesn't change the name `TermBuilder`,
even though it is now building `Entity` instances. This is because
there's _already_ an `EntityBuilder` which fixes the `EntityPlace`.
It's not clear whether the existing entity building interface should
be removed or whether both should be renamed. That can be follow-up.
This is all part of moving the entity builder away from building term
instances and toward building entity instances. One of the nice
things that the existing term interface does is allow consumers to use
lightweight reference counted tempid handles; I don't want to lose
that, so we'll build it into the entity data structures directly.
We haven't observed performance issues using `Arc` instead of `Rc`,
and we want to be able to include things that are interned (including,
soon, `TempId` instances) in errors coming out of the
transactor. (And `Rc` isn't `Sync`, so it can't be included in errors
directly.)
It's not great to keep lifting functionality higher and higher up the
crate hierarchy, but we really do want to intern while we parse.
Eventually, I expect that we will split the `edn` crate into `types`
and `parsing`, and the `types` crate can depend on a more efficient
interning dependency.
With the transition toward parsing with `rust-peg` and away from
`combine`, we're not using some of the many helpers we built to
support our unusual `combine` usage. They can just go!
* Fix broken API doc links
Create symlink for latest to point to v0.7.
Group APIs by top version number rather than individual
* Update swift and android version numbers to match Mentats
* Update documentation
* Update top level .gitignore to ignore docs site & metatdata
* Add README to help with building documentation site
* Address review comments @ncalexan
In the language of
868273409c/book/src/error-errorkind.md
Mentat is a mid-level API, not an application, and therefore we should
prefer our own error types. Writing an initial consumer of Mentat (a
Rust logins API targeting Mozilla Lockbox), I have found this to be
true: my consumer wants to consume concrete Mentat error types.
This doesn't go "all the way" and convert all sub-crates to the
Error/ErrorKind, but it does go part of the way.
We're not exposing a uniform API with `mentat::Result` yet, meaning
that early consumers (e.g., the logins work for Mozilla Lockbox) need
to wrap errors from all over the Mentat crate hierarchy.
I elected to keep Tolstoy using `failure::Error`, because Tolstoy
looks rather more like a high-level application (and will continue to
do so for a while) than a production-ready mid- or low-level API.
* Delete the (apparently unused) EntId
* Rename edn's Entid to EntidOrIdent to avoid confusion with the Entid that's actually an i64
* Fix travis beta bustage (This is actually unrelated to entids, but is a trivial fix nonetheless)
