Short Usage Preference Strings for Automated Processing

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Rust Implementation

This includes a simple Rust implementation, which can be used as follows:

use sup_ai::{UsagePreferences, UsagePreference::Allowed};

// Construct usage preferences with the default usages.
let mut up = UsagePreferences::default();

// An expression is a string or bytes, as dictated by the source.
// This might be sourced from robots.txt, an HTTP header, metadata, or anywhere.
let expression = "tdm=y,ai=n";
up.parse(expression);

// Evaluation determines whether the preference is to allow or deny the usage.
let result = up.eval("search", Allowed);
assert_eq!(result, Allowed);

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Command Line Usage

Formatted text and HTML versions of the draft can be built using make.

$ make

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