casserole  

The casserole crate provides a custom derive and a trait to perform break-down serialization and de-serialization of Rust types into stores.

The most common use case is to break down large objects to be stored in content-addressable storage, like in a Git database. Hence the name 'CAS-ser-role'.

The trait which Casserole auto-derives generates smaller types that contain references to keys instead of the original data. For example HashMap<String, BigValue> is replaced with HashMap<String, S::Key> where S is a type parameter to a user-provided storage engine. In addition, fields on which the store attribute is given e.g. #[casserole(store)], are also replaced with S::Key.

For example:

/// Example Tree to be stored in the database
#[derive(Casserole)]
struct Node {
    header: String,

    // Tells that 'map' is replaced by a database key in the type returned from
    // the 'casserole' trait method. The 'decasserole' trait method will do the
    // reverse, restoring it from the database.
    #[casserole(store)]
    map: BTreeMap<String, Node>,
}

Basic usage demonstration (given big_value as a large value to work with):

// Create a our serde-ready type for the root. `stored_root` is our unique
// representation for `big_value`, but it is very small, like a Git hash.
let stored_root = big_value.casserole(&mut store).unwrap();

// <...do other stuff...>

// Restore the origin value from the database
let restored_big_value = Casserole::decasserole(&stored, &mut store).unwrap();
assert_eq!(restored_big_value, big_value);

Bigger example

See the output of the example, that demonstrates how a tree of maps can be stored and restored using Casserole.

cargo run --example casserole-main --features="json-store"

Casseroled value:

    {"header":"This is a header","map":"<~qeR*N3Rnt7@>:%S/YY.75bj&+~>"}

Stored:

    <~H6^Sl@aFY>Z7&GQ)I7e6";^uZ~> : {"header":"A different sub item","map":"<~1rX#GJ]0qpYGM>gGMhu8ZU6AI~>"}
    <~9da9I?4'pU=L)h3U:qYePcH-U~> : {"header":"Header","map":"<~(2R.\\0-3,2.L4\"Y5>.hBh=;7A~>"}
    <~1rX#GJ]0qpYGM>gGMhu8ZU6AI~> : {"map":{}}
    <~Od]K[j+dl0Zp#g^7PMg1gAL&k~> : {"header":"Dublicate sub item","map":"<~1rX#GJ]0qpYGM>gGMhu8ZU6AI~>"}
    <~(2R.\0-3,2.L4"Y5>.hBh=;7A~> : {"map":{"x":"<~Od]K[j+dl0Zp#g^7PMg1gAL&k~>","y":"<~Od]K[j+dl0Zp#g^7PMg1gAL&k~>","z":"<~H6^Sl@aFY>Z7&GQ)I7e6\";^uZ~>"}}
    <~qeR*N3Rnt7@>:%S/YY.75bj&+~> : {"map":{"A large duplicate sub-tree":"<~9da9I?4'pU=L)h3U:qYePcH-U~>","A unique-subtree":"<~Od]K[j+dl0Zp#g^7PMg1gAL&k~>"}}

License

casserole is licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in casserole by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.