Ability (short for ABI compatibility) provides macros for defining traits with compatible ABI's across compiler versions.
In the short term this allows for defining interfaces for application extensions distributed as shared libraries. Longer term, supporting more complex data types (and maybe generics?) should be supported.
Contributions are welcome
[dependencies]
ability = { git = "https://github.com/m-hilgendorf/ability.git"}
To add to a trait in your library, just add the #[interface] attribute
to your trait definition.
use ability::interface;
#[interface]
pub trait MyTrait {
fn foo(&self);
}
To implement interfaces for a binary
For the moment, the passing of POD/C types is supported (pointers, integers, float,
structs marked #[repr(C)], etc).
If you need to pass more complicated data, serialize it and pass as a pointer + length.
FAQs
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