Rework heed to be lightweight and simpler to maintain

.github/workflows/test.yml → .github/workflows/rust.yml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ---
 on: [pull_request]
 
-name: Cargo test
+name: Rust
 jobs:
   check:
     name: Test the heed project
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ jobs:
 
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+        with:
+          submodules: recursive
       - uses: actions-rs/toolchain@v1
         with:
           profile: minimal
@@ -26,6 +28,30 @@ jobs:
           cargo clean
           cargo test
 
+  examples:
+    name: Run the heed examples
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        os: [ubuntu-latest, macos-latest]
+        include:
+          - os: ubuntu-latest
+          - os: macos-latest
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+        with:
+          submodules: recursive
+      - uses: actions-rs/toolchain@v1
+        with:
+          profile: minimal
+          toolchain: stable
+          override: true
+      - name: Run the examples
+        run: |
+          cargo clean
+          cargo run --example 2>&1 | grep -E '^ ' | xargs -n1 cargo run --example
+
   fmt:
     name: Ensure the heed project is formatted
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest

.gitignore

@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 heed/target
 **/*.rs.bk
 Cargo.lock
-/*.mdb
+*.mdb

.gitmodules

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+[submodule "lmdb-master-sys/lmdb"]
+	path = lmdb-master-sys/lmdb
+	url = https://github.com/LMDB/lmdb
+	branch = mdb.master

Cargo.toml

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 [workspace]
-members = ["heed", "heed-traits", "heed-types"]
+members = ["lmdb-master-sys", "heed", "heed-traits", "heed-types"]

README.md

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # heed
-A fully typed [LMDB](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Memory-Mapped_Database) wrapper with minimum overhead, uses zerocopy internally.
+A fully typed [LMDB](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Memory-Mapped_Database) wrapper with minimum overhead, uses bytemuck internally.
 
 [![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-green)](#LICENSE)
 [![Crates.io](https://img.shields.io/crates/v/heed)](https://crates.io/crates/heed)
@@ -11,36 +11,22 @@ A fully typed [LMDB](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Memory-Mapped_Datab
 
 This library is able to serialize all kind of types, not just bytes slices, even _Serde_ types are supported.
 
-## Example Usage
+Go check out [the examples](heed/examples/).
 
-```rust
-fs::create_dir_all("target/heed.mdb")?;
-let env = EnvOpenOptions::new().open("target/heed.mdb")?;
+## Building from Source
 
-// We open the default unamed database.
-// Specifying the type of the newly created database.
-// Here we specify that the key is an str and the value a simple integer.
-let db: Database<Str, OwnedType<i32>> = env.create_database(None)?;
+### Using the system LMDB if available
 
-// We then open a write transaction and start writing into the database.
-// All of those puts are type checked at compile time,
-// therefore you cannot write an integer instead of a string.
-let mut wtxn = env.write_txn()?;
-db.put(&mut wtxn, "seven", &7)?;
-db.put(&mut wtxn, "zero", &0)?;
-db.put(&mut wtxn, "five", &5)?;
-db.put(&mut wtxn, "three", &3)?;
-wtxn.commit()?;
+If you don't already have clone the repository you can use this command:
 
-// We open a read transaction to check if those values are available.
-// When we read we also type check at compile time.
-let rtxn = env.read_txn()?;
+```bash
+git clone --recursive https://github.com/meilisearch/heed.git
+cd heed
+cargo build
+```
 
-let ret = db.get(&rtxn, "zero")?;
-assert_eq!(ret, Some(0));
+However, if you already cloned it and forgot about the initialising the submodules:
 
-let ret = db.get(&rtxn, "five")?;
-assert_eq!(ret, Some(5));
+```bash
+git submodule update --init
 ```
-
-You want to see more about all the possibilities? Go check out [the examples](heed/examples/).

heed-traits/Cargo.toml

@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 [package]
 name = "heed-traits"
-version = "0.7.0"
+version = "0.20.0-alpha.0"
 authors = ["Kerollmops <renault.cle@gmail.com>"]
 description = "The traits used inside of the fully typed LMDB wrapper, heed"
 license = "MIT"
 repository = "https://github.com/Kerollmops/heed"
 readme = "../README.md"
-edition = "2018"
+edition = "2021"
 
 [dependencies]

heed-traits/src/lib.rs

@@ -1,13 +1,19 @@
 use std::borrow::Cow;
+use std::error::Error as StdError;
 
+/// A boxed `Send + Sync + 'static` error.
+pub type BoxedError = Box<dyn StdError + Send + Sync + 'static>;
+
+/// A trait that represents an encoding structure.
 pub trait BytesEncode<'a> {
     type EItem: ?Sized + 'a;
 
-    fn bytes_encode(item: &'a Self::EItem) -> Option<Cow<'a, [u8]>>;
+    fn bytes_encode(item: &'a Self::EItem) -> Result<Cow<'a, [u8]>, BoxedError>;
 }
 
+/// A trait that represents a decoding structure.
 pub trait BytesDecode<'a> {
     type DItem: 'a;
 
-    fn bytes_decode(bytes: &'a [u8]) -> Option<Self::DItem>;
+    fn bytes_decode(bytes: &'a [u8]) -> Result<Self::DItem, BoxedError>;
 }

heed-types/Cargo.toml

@@ -1,19 +1,23 @@
 [package]
 name = "heed-types"
-version = "0.7.2"
+version = "0.20.0-alpha.0"
 authors = ["Kerollmops <renault.cle@gmail.com>"]
 description = "The types used with the fully typed LMDB wrapper, heed"
 license = "MIT"
 repository = "https://github.com/Kerollmops/heed"
 readme = "../README.md"
-edition = "2018"
+edition = "2021"
 
 [dependencies]
-bincode = { version = "1.2.1", optional = true }
-heed-traits = { version = "0.7.0", path = "../heed-traits" }
-serde = { version = "1.0.117", optional = true }
-serde_json = { version = "1.0.59", optional = true }
-zerocopy = "0.3.0"
+bincode = { version = "1.3.3", optional = true }
+bytemuck = { version = "1.12.3", features = ["extern_crate_alloc", "extern_crate_std"] }
+byteorder = "1.4.3"
+heed-traits = { version = "0.20.0-alpha.0", path = "../heed-traits" }
+serde = { version = "1.0.151", optional = true }
+serde_json = { version = "1.0.91", optional = true }
+
+[dev-dependencies]
+rand = "0.8.5"
 
 [features]
 default = ["serde-bincode", "serde-json"]

heed-types/src/cow_slice.rs

@@ -1,10 +1,7 @@
 use std::borrow::Cow;
-use std::{mem, ptr};
 
-use heed_traits::{BytesDecode, BytesEncode};
-use zerocopy::{AsBytes, FromBytes, LayoutVerified};
-
-use crate::aligned_to;
+use bytemuck::{pod_collect_to_vec, try_cast_slice, AnyBitPattern, NoUninit, PodCastError};
+use heed_traits::{BoxedError, BytesDecode, BytesEncode};
 
 /// Describes a slice that must be [memory aligned] and
 /// will be reallocated if it is not.
@@ -23,47 +20,22 @@ use crate::aligned_to;
 /// [`OwnedSlice`]: crate::OwnedSlice
 pub struct CowSlice<T>(std::marker::PhantomData<T>);
 
-impl<'a, T: 'a> BytesEncode<'a> for CowSlice<T>
-where
-    T: AsBytes,
-{
+impl<'a, T: NoUninit> BytesEncode<'a> for CowSlice<T> {
     type EItem = [T];
 
-    fn bytes_encode(item: &'a Self::EItem) -> Option<Cow<[u8]>> {
-        Some(Cow::Borrowed(<[T] as AsBytes>::as_bytes(item)))
+    fn bytes_encode(item: &'a Self::EItem) -> Result<Cow<[u8]>, BoxedError> {
+        try_cast_slice(item).map(Cow::Borrowed).map_err(Into::into)
     }
 }
 
-impl<'a, T: 'a> BytesDecode<'a> for CowSlice<T>
-where
-    T: FromBytes + Copy,
-{
+impl<'a, T: AnyBitPattern + NoUninit> BytesDecode<'a> for CowSlice<T> {
     type DItem = Cow<'a, [T]>;
 
-    fn bytes_decode(bytes: &'a [u8]) -> Option<Self::DItem> {
-        match LayoutVerified::<_, [T]>::new_slice(bytes) {
-            Some(layout) => Some(Cow::Borrowed(layout.into_slice())),
-            None => {
-                let len = bytes.len();
-                let elem_size = mem::size_of::<T>();
-
-                // ensure that it is the alignment that is wrong
-                // and the length is valid
-                if len % elem_size == 0 && !aligned_to(bytes, mem::align_of::<T>()) {
-                    let elems = len / elem_size;
-                    let mut vec = Vec::<T>::with_capacity(elems);
-
-                    unsafe {
-                        let dst = vec.as_mut_ptr() as *mut u8;
-                        ptr::copy_nonoverlapping(bytes.as_ptr(), dst, len);
-                        vec.set_len(elems);
-                    }
-
-                    return Some(Cow::Owned(vec));
-                }
-
-                None
-            }
+    fn bytes_decode(bytes: &'a [u8]) -> Result<Self::DItem, BoxedError> {
+        match try_cast_slice(bytes) {
+            Ok(items) => Ok(Cow::Borrowed(items)),
+            Err(PodCastError::AlignmentMismatch) => Ok(Cow::Owned(pod_collect_to_vec(bytes))),
+            Err(error) => Err(error.into()),
         }
     }
 }

heed-types/src/cow_type.rs

@@ -1,10 +1,7 @@
 use std::borrow::Cow;
-use std::{mem, ptr};
 
-use heed_traits::{BytesDecode, BytesEncode};
-use zerocopy::{AsBytes, FromBytes, LayoutVerified};
-
-use crate::aligned_to;
+use bytemuck::{bytes_of, bytes_of_mut, try_from_bytes, AnyBitPattern, NoUninit, PodCastError};
+use heed_traits::{BoxedError, BytesDecode, BytesEncode};
 
 /// Describes a type that must be [memory aligned] and
 /// will be reallocated if it is not.
@@ -29,44 +26,26 @@ use crate::aligned_to;
 /// [`CowSlice`]: crate::CowSlice
 pub struct CowType<T>(std::marker::PhantomData<T>);
 
-impl<'a, T: 'a> BytesEncode<'a> for CowType<T>
-where
-    T: AsBytes,
-{
+impl<'a, T: NoUninit> BytesEncode<'a> for CowType<T> {
     type EItem = T;
 
-    fn bytes_encode(item: &'a Self::EItem) -> Option<Cow<[u8]>> {
-        Some(Cow::Borrowed(<T as AsBytes>::as_bytes(item)))
+    fn bytes_encode(item: &'a Self::EItem) -> Result<Cow<[u8]>, BoxedError> {
+        Ok(Cow::Borrowed(bytes_of(item)))
     }
 }
 
-impl<'a, T: 'a> BytesDecode<'a> for CowType<T>
-where
-    T: FromBytes + Copy,
-{
+impl<'a, T: AnyBitPattern + NoUninit> BytesDecode<'a> for CowType<T> {
     type DItem = Cow<'a, T>;
 
-    fn bytes_decode(bytes: &'a [u8]) -> Option<Self::DItem> {
-        match LayoutVerified::<_, T>::new(bytes) {
-            Some(layout) => Some(Cow::Borrowed(layout.into_ref())),
-            None => {
-                let len = bytes.len();
-                let elem_size = mem::size_of::<T>();
-
-                // ensure that it is the alignment that is wrong
-                // and the length is valid
-                if len == elem_size && !aligned_to(bytes, mem::align_of::<T>()) {
-                    let mut data = mem::MaybeUninit::<T>::uninit();
-
-                    unsafe {
-                        let dst = data.as_mut_ptr() as *mut u8;
-                        ptr::copy_nonoverlapping(bytes.as_ptr(), dst, len);
-                        return Some(Cow::Owned(data.assume_init()));
-                    }
-                }
-
-                None
+    fn bytes_decode(bytes: &'a [u8]) -> Result<Self::DItem, BoxedError> {
+        match try_from_bytes(bytes) {
+            Ok(item) => Ok(Cow::Borrowed(item)),
+            Err(PodCastError::TargetAlignmentGreaterAndInputNotAligned) => {
+                let mut item = T::zeroed();
+                bytes_of_mut(&mut item).copy_from_slice(bytes);
+                Ok(Cow::Owned(item))
             }
+            Err(error) => Err(error.into()),
         }
     }
 }