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Rust deserialize XML first crack
use std;
import io::reader_util;
enum node {
tag_node({
name: str,
attributes: [attribute],
children: [node]
}),
text_node(str)
}
type attribute = {
name: str,
value: str
};
fn is_eof(c: char) -> bool { c == -1 as char }
fn parse_tag_name(rdr: io::reader, first_c: char) -> str {
let mut c = rdr.read_char();
let mut tag_name = str::from_char(first_c);
while !is_eof(c) && c != '>' {
tag_name += str::from_char(c);
c = rdr.read_char();
}
ret tag_name;
}
#[doc = "Deserializes an xml node value from an io::reader"]
fn from_reader(rdr: io::reader) -> node {
let mut c = rdr.read_char();
let mut tag_name = "";
while !is_eof(c) {
if c == '<' {
c = rdr.read_char();
if c != '/' {
tag_name = parse_tag_name(rdr, c);
}
}
c = rdr.read_char();
}
ret tag_node({ name: tag_name, attributes: [], children: [] });
}
#[doc = "Deserializes an xml node value from a string"]
fn from_str(s: str) -> node {
io::with_str_reader(s, from_reader)
}
#[test]
fn test_empty_tag() {
assert from_str("<tag></tag>") == tag_node({ name: "tag", attributes: [], children: [] });
}
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lmarlow commented Apr 4, 2012

I see list([json]) in json implementation, is list a builtin type or would that be useful instead of children?

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jsanders commented Apr 4, 2012

list is actually just the name of the subtype, and the [json] syntax means that the list subtype is an alias for an array (or vector maybe, not clear on the difference yet) of json types. You can reference json in the subtype because it's an enum. If it were a type, it would give you a recursive type error.

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