Expand description

Utilities for dumping data to an ICU4X filesystem tree.

The export feature enables you to pull all data from some other data provider and persist it in a blob of data to be read by StaticDataProvider at runtime.

For a command-line user interface, see the icu_datagen crate.

Examples

use icu_provider::prelude::*;
use icu_provider::export::DataExporter;
use icu_provider::hello_world::*;
use icu_provider_blob::BlobDataProvider;
use icu_provider_blob::export::BlobExporter;
use std::borrow::Cow;
use std::io::Read;
use std::rc::Rc;

let mut buffer: Vec<u8> = Vec::new();

let payload = DataPayload::<HelloWorldV1Marker>::from_owned(
    HelloWorldV1 { message: Cow::Borrowed("Hi") }
);

// Export something
{
    let mut exporter = BlobExporter::new_with_sink(Box::new(&mut buffer));
    exporter.put_payload(
        HelloWorldV1Marker::KEY,
        Default::default(),
        payload.clone().into_serializable(),
    ).expect("Should successfully export");
    exporter.close().expect("Should successfully dump to buffer");
}

// Create a blob provider reading from the buffer
let provider = BlobDataProvider::new_from_rc_blob(buffer.into())
    .expect("Should successfully read from buffer");

// Read the key from the filesystem and ensure it is as expected
let req = DataRequest {
    options: Default::default(),
    metadata: Default::default(),
};
let response: DataPayload<HelloWorldV1Marker> =
    provider.load_resource(&req).unwrap().take_payload().unwrap();

assert_eq!(
    response.get(),
    payload.get(),
);

Structs

A data exporter that writes data to a single-file blob. See the module-level docs for an example.