# auto-registry -- Automatic registration via proc-macros
`auto-registry` is a crate that lets you automatically collect types to later call a macro on them.
The main goal of this macro is to allow painless automatic registration by constructing the registered types on demand.
This crate uses the `proc_macros_span` span, thus requiring a nightly compiler.
# auto-registry in action
Basic example use of `auto-registry`:
```rust
pub trait Listener { ... }
#[auto_registry::auto_registry(registry = "listeners")]
pub struct KeyboardListener { ... }
impl Listener for KeyboardListener { ... }
#[auto_registry::auto_registry(registry = "listeners")]
pub struct MouseListener { ... }
impl Listener for MouseListener { ... }
macro_rules! collect_listeners { // Collects to a Vec<Box<dyn Listener>>
( $($construct:expr);+ $(;)? ) => {{ // Macro must accepts `;`-separated arguments
vec![$(Box::new($construct) as Box<dyn crate::Listener + Send + Sync>,)+]
}};
}
/// Calling the `get_listeners!()` will generate the Vec containing all our listeners.
#[auto_registry::generate_registry(
registry = "listeners",
collector = collect_listeners,
output = get_listeners)]
```
In this example, all registered types are mapped to expressions for the `collect_listeners` macro using `::default()`.
You can also specify how each types gets mapped to an expression via the `mapper` attribute:
```rust
pub trait Listener { ... }
#[auto_registry::auto_registry(registry = "listeners")]
pub struct KeyboardListener { ... }
impl Listener for KeyboardListener { ... }
#[auto_registry::auto_registry(registry = "listeners")]
pub struct MouseListener { ... }
impl Listener for MouseListener { ... }
macro_rules! map_listeners { // Maps a type to an expression
($t:ty) => {{
Box::new(<$t>::new()) as Box<dyn Listener + Send + Sync>
}};
}
macro_rules! collect_listeners { // Collects to a Vec<Box<dyn Listener>>
( $($construct:expr);+ $(;)? ) => {{ // Macro must accepts `;`-separated arguments
vec![$($construct,)+]
}};
}
/// Calling the `get_listeners!()` will generate the Vec containing all our listeners.
#[auto_registry::generate_registry(
registry = "listeners",
mapper = map_listeners,
collector = collect_listeners,
output = get_listeners)]
```
# License
This crate is licensed under the MIT license.