mavinspect 0.6.6

Library for parsing MAVLink XML definitions
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//! # Common utils

use heck::AsSnakeCase;

/// Since [`protocol`](crate::protocol) entities are immutable by design (after all, they just
/// represent XML definitions), we use
/// [builder](https://rust-unofficial.github.io/patterns/patterns/creational/builder.html) pattern
/// instead of constructor.
pub trait Builder {
    /// Entity with is subjected to `builder` pattern.
    type Buildable: Buildable;

    /// Create an instance of builder.
    ///
    /// An implementation of [`Builder`] returned by this function is initialized
    /// with default values. Once desired values are set, you can call [`Builder::build`] to
    /// obtain [`Buildable`].
    fn build(&self) -> Self::Buildable;
}

/// Subject of the `builder` pattern.
///
/// See: [`Builder`].
pub trait Buildable {
    /// Builder for this entity.
    type Builder: Builder;

    /// Instantiates builder initialised with current values.
    fn to_builder(&self) -> Self::Builder;
}

/// Converts dialect `name` into its canonical form (`ID`) used as a key in
/// [`Protocol::dialects`](crate::protocol::Protocol::dialects).
///
/// See [`DialectXmlDefinition`](crate::parser::DialectXmlDefinition) and
/// [`Dialect::canonical_name`](crate::protocol::Dialect::canonical_name) for details.
pub fn dialect_canonical_name(name: &str) -> String {
    AsSnakeCase(name).to_string()
}

pub(crate) trait Named {
    fn name(&self) -> &str;
}