The new serialization format use "t " as in typed. The rest of the
message is a JSON array describing the typed data. The type is
described by types.TypeRef
Fixes#384
Issues #281, #304
The TypeRef function for a Noms Struct should be the (Name, PkgRef) and
not the description of the struct fields. This is important because
when serializing we need to write the package ref.
Towards #281#304
Also, switch to using a ref.Ref when getting/setting the package
ref in a TypeRef. Using a types.Ref just led to lots of manual
boxing and unboxing every time I wanted to use the reference.
Toward issue #294
This patch mostly merges parse.Package and types.Package, though it
can't quite go all the way. A types.Package doesn't have 'using'
declarations, while the parsed representation of a .noms file needs to
have that information. Hence, the parse package is moved to the 'pkg'
package, and pkg.Parsed is introduced. This type embeds types.Package
and adds the necessary additional information.
To make inroads on handling imports, I enhanced ParsePackage() (now
called ParseNomDL()) to actually process the 'alias' and 'import'
statements in the input and go replace namespaced type names in the
package with refs of imported packages. For example, the TypeRef for
'Bar' generated in the following package
alias Foo = import "sha1-ffffffff"
struct Bar {
f: Foo.RockinStruct
}
will actually return types.Ref{sha1-ffffffff} when you call PackageRef()
on it.
In addition, I've added a function to the new 'pkg' package,
which allows the caller to get the dependencies of a type package
from a chunk store.
Fixes issue #353, towards issue #294
The initial, naive generated code that adds type info to Noms structs
built a new Package object every time a new struct instance was
created. They always had the same ref, so the result was correct, but
there was a lot of work for nothing. This patch caches Package objects
so that we only build them once.
We want to explore encoding type information about Noms data in
the Noms database. So, we need some way to describe types. This
takes the shortest path to making a Noms type called "TypeRef" that
is a peer of Set, Map et al and can describe all the types we currently
use.
Erik Arvidsson