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diff --git a/third_party/rust/strck/README.md b/third_party/rust/strck/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..02471df01c --- /dev/null +++ b/third_party/rust/strck/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,103 @@ +[![github-img]][github-url] [![crates-img]][crates-url] [![docs-img]][docs-url] + +Checked owned and borrowed strings. + +# Overview + +The Rust standard library provides the `String` and `str` types, which wrap +`Vec<u8>` and `[u8]` respectively, with the invariant that the contents +are valid UTF-8. + +This crate abstracts the idea of type-level invariants on strings by +introducing the immutable `Check` and `Ck` types, where the invariants +are determined by a generic `Invariant` type parameter. Implementing +the `Invariant` trait is left to other crates, such as [`strck_ident`]. + +"strck" comes from "str check", similar to how rustc has typeck and +borrowck for type check and borrow check respectively. + +See [the documentation][docs-url] for more details. + +# Motivation + +Libraries working with string-like types with certain properties, like identifiers, +quickly become confusing as `&str` and `String` begin to pollute type signatures +everywhere. One solution is to manually implement an owned checked string type +like `syn::Ident` to disambiguate the type signatures and validate the string. +The downside is that new values cannot be created without allocation, +which is unnecessary when only a borrowed version is required. + +`strck` solves this issue by providing a checked borrowed string type, `Ck`, +alongside a checked owned string type, `Check`. These serve as thin wrappers +around `str` and `String`[^1] respectively, and prove at the type level that +the contents satisfy the `Invariant` that the wrapper is generic over. + +[^1]: `Check` can actually be backed by any `'static + AsRef<str>` type, +but `String` is the default. + +# Use cases + +### Checked strings without allocating + +The main benefit `strck` offers is validating borrowed strings via the +`Ck` type without having to allocate in the result. + +```rust +use strck_ident::{Ck, IntoCk, rust::RustIdent}; + +let this_ident: &Ck<RustIdent> = "this".ck().unwrap(); +``` + +### Checked zero-copy deserialization + +When the `serde` feature flag is enabled, `Ck`s can be used to perform +checked zero-copy deserialization, which requires the +`#[serde(borrow)]` attribute. + +```rust +use strck_ident::{Ck, unicode::UnicodeIdent}; + +#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)] +struct Player<'a> { + #[serde(borrow)] + username: &'a Ck<UnicodeIdent>, + level: u32, +} +``` + +Note that this code sample explicitly uses `Ck<UnicodeIdent>` to demonstrate +that the type is a `Ck`. However, `strck_ident` provides `Ident` as an +alias for `Ck<UnicodeIdent>`, which should be used in practice. + + +### Infallible parsing + +For types where string validation is relatively cheap but parsing is costly +and fallible, `strck` can be used with a custom `Invariant` as an input to +make an infallible parsing function. + +# Postfix construction with `IntoCk` and `IntoCheck` + +This crate exposes two helper traits, `IntoCk` and `IntoCheck`. When in +scope, the `.ck()` and `.check()` functions can be used to create +`Ck`s and `Check`s respectively: + +```rust +use strck_ident::{IntoCheck, IntoCk, unicode::UnicodeIdent}; + +let this_ident = "this".ck::<UnicodeIdent>().unwrap(); +let this_foo_ident = format!("{}_foo", this_ident).check::<UnicodeIdent>().unwrap(); +``` + +# Documentation + +See the [crate-level documentation][docs-url] for more details. + +[`strck_ident`]: https://docs.rs/strck_ident + +[github-url]: https://github.com/QnnOkabayashi/strck +[crates-url]: https://crates.io/crates/strck +[docs-url]: https://docs.rs/strck +[github-img]: https://img.shields.io/badge/github-8da0cb?style=for-the-badge&labelColor=555555&logo=github +[crates-img]: https://img.shields.io/badge/crates.io-fc8d62?style=for-the-badge&labelColor=555555&logo=rust +[docs-img]: https://img.shields.io/badge/docs.rs-66c2a5?style=for-the-badge&labelColor=555555&logoColor=white&logo=data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyByb2xlPSJpbWciIHhtbG5zPSJodHRwOi8vd3d3LnczLm9yZy8yMDAwL3N2ZyIgdmlld0JveD0iMCAwIDUxMiA1MTIiPjxwYXRoIGZpbGw9IiNmNWY1ZjUiIGQ9Ik00ODguNiAyNTAuMkwzOTIgMjE0VjEwNS41YzAtMTUtOS4zLTI4LjQtMjMuNC0zMy43bC0xMDAtMzcuNWMtOC4xLTMuMS0xNy4xLTMuMS0yNS4zIDBsLTEwMCAzNy41Yy0xNC4xIDUuMy0yMy40IDE4LjctMjMuNCAzMy43VjIxNGwtOTYuNiAzNi4yQzkuMyAyNTUuNSAwIDI2OC45IDAgMjgzLjlWMzk0YzAgMTMuNiA3LjcgMjYuMSAxOS45IDMyLjJsMTAwIDUwYzEwLjEgNS4xIDIyLjEgNS4xIDMyLjIgMGwxMDMuOS01MiAxMDMuOSA1MmMxMC4xIDUuMSAyMi4xIDUuMSAzMi4yIDBsMTAwLTUwYzEyLjItNi4xIDE5LjktMTguNiAxOS45LTMyLjJWMjgzLjljMC0xNS05LjMtMjguNC0yMy40LTMzLjd6TTM1OCAyMTQuOGwtODUgMzEuOXYtNjguMmw4NS0zN3Y3My4zek0xNTQgMTA0LjFsMTAyLTM4LjIgMTAyIDM4LjJ2LjZsLTEwMiA0MS40LTEwMi00MS40di0uNnptODQgMjkxLjFsLTg1IDQyLjV2LTc5LjFsODUtMzguOHY3NS40em0wLTExMmwtMTAyIDQxLjQtMTAyLTQxLjR2LS42bDEwMi0zOC4yIDEwMiAzOC4ydi42em0yNDAgMTEybC04NSA0Mi41di03OS4xbDg1LTM4Ljh2NzUuNHptMC0xMTJsLTEwMiA0MS40LTEwMi00MS40di0uNmwxMDItMzguMiAxMDIgMzguMnYuNnoiPjwvcGF0aD48L3N2Zz4K |