mlua-lshape

mlua wrapper for lshape — Pure Lua Schema-as-Data validator + LuaCATS codegen. The lshape/*.lua sources are vendored into this crate (under lua/lshape/) and embedded via include_str! at compile time.

Quick start

use mlua::Lua;
use mlua_lshape::install;

let lua = Lua::new();
install(&lua)?;
lua.load(r#"
    local lshape = require("lshape")
    local T = lshape.t
    local Voted = T.shape({ answer = T.string, reasoning = T.string })
    local ok, why = lshape.check.check({ answer = "42", reasoning = "..." }, Voted)
    assert(ok, why)
"#).exec()?;

Why vendored?

The upstream lshape is Pure Lua with no package manager dependency. Shipping the sources inside this crate keeps downstream builds hermetic — no LuaRocks, no filesystem probing, no version drift. The same pattern is used by mlua-probe-mcp / mlua-lspec.

Vendored sources

lua/lshape/*.lua is a verbatim copy of the upstream ynishi/lshape repository, pinned to v0.1.0. See CHANGELOG.md for the embedded surface. Refresh via:

cp /path/to/lshape/lshape/*.lua lua/lshape/

The LSHAPE_SOURCES public constant exposes the embedded sources (&[(name, src)]) for downstream consumers that want to inject them into another Lua VM or hash them for drift checks.

Lua version

This crate pins mlua to lua54 + vendored, matching the sibling mlua-* crates (mlua-probe, mlua-lspec, mlua-check). Other Lua versions are not currently supported.

License