Crate refloctopus

Runtime reflection of Rust values.

serde_derive is infamous for the sheer amount of code its liberal use can introduce to a workspace. refloctopus tries to combat that: avoid deriving Serialize and Deserialize for most of your types, instead deriveing Reflect. The reflection metadata for each type is reasonably small. Using the reflection metadata, a single Serialize/Deserialize implementation can marshall any Rust type.

Structs

Db	Home of serialize and deserialize.
EnumArm	An arm of an enum declaration, describing a variant.
Expect	Token indicating what type to expect in the field metadata.
ExpectArr	Token indicating length and type of an array to expect in the field metadata.
Field	A named or unnamed field, offset from the base of its containing type.
FieldsCursor	A cursor into the in-memory densely packed field metadata for a particular type.
FieldsStorage	An area of memory, owned or borrowed, storing the field data for a particular ReflectedType.
ReflectedType	A Rust type, of some kind, with a unique TypeId.
ShapedLocation	A location in memory with a known reflected type.
ShapedOutputLocation	A destination in memory with a known eventual type.

Enums

Attr	An #[attribute].
DataShape	The world of rust type representation, according to reflectopus.
DeclKind	We don't care much how the source code is written, but serde does.
Expectables	The sorts of things in a FieldsCursor that can be expected, but owned.
RefKind	Whether a reference is a fat or thin pointer.
RustBuiltin	Builtin scalar rust types (u8, char, bool, etc)
RustPrimitive	A primitive Rust value that can occur in an attribute.

Traits

Reflect	Trait for types which can ponder at runtime and produce a description of themselves.
StaticReflect	A type with a StaticType available.

Type Definitions

DynamicType	A (often owned) ReflectedType which was not generated at compile-time.
StaticType	A (usually borrowed) ReflectedType