Preliminary implementation of the formatted packer #416
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Hi @HalosGhost, thank you for sending the PR. It seems that the code is for C11. Could you tell me you have any plan to support C99 or older one? |
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Well, the schema I had planned for the initial run is so much simpler to implement in C11 (mainly because it lets us dispatch on type). As a result, I had really only planned to support C11 right away. I can do C99, but the specifier scheme will be far more complex (we will need a separate specifier or a modifier for each of the integer types and for both floats). In fact, because we would probably want to keep backwards-compatibility, if we support C99 at all, it would radically increase the amount of work for this. Would it be a requirement for merge to have C99- support? |
No. I just wanted to know your plan. Please proceed the step. I think that it is better to merge after finishing implementation including tests. You can do additional commit and push the branch that corresponding to the pull request. I can review that step by step. The reason that I don't want to merge step by step is due to unpredictable issues, design could be change in the future, and then I can't keep commit logs clean. I look forward to the next commit :) |
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Oh, that's perfectly understandable! Yeah, if it is not going to be a problem, I would definitely prefer to do this in C11 for now. Thanks for the heads-up and I'll keep pushing forward! |
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@redboltz, I have a question. I would like to add tests for these two dispatcher macros before I begin getting into the meat of the |
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I don't know much about C11. msgpack-c uses google test. Unfortunately, it seems not to be supported C11. I think that a C11 testing framework is required. I searched "C11 testing framework", and just glance the results, but I didn't get useful information. If you know a good testing framework, please introduce it. This PR is a C11 code for the first time in the msgpack-c. We might need to overcome many problems ;) |
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Haha, fair enough. I am not terribly familiar with writing tests for my C code as I tend to just take a scorched-earth approach to error-handling so that 100 percent of cases (outside of undefined behavior) are handled correctly (or, at least, in a predictable fashion). I completely recognize the importance of tests for a large project though and would love to contribute tests for all the code that I write. I will take a look at what good test suites are available for C11-proper and will let you know what I find so we can move forward. |
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It looks good to me. We already have tests for the C part of msgpack-c that use googletest. I think that the first step is that the tests for formatted packer only use the |
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@redboltz, sounds good to me. I will take a look at implementing the checks as soon as I have a chance. |
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For unit testing C, I strongly recommend https://github.com/ThrowTheSwitch/Unity |
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I just realized this thread a few years old... feel free to disregard my comments |
This is the first bit of sugar I would like to add to msgpack-c.
Eventually, this will be used by my implementation of
msgpack_packf()as discussed in #393.Note: this is incredibly preliminary.