toml-rs VS rust

I updated the toml<->json online converter after the ValueAfterTable error has been fixed with toml 0.6. Very nice to see progress on the toml and toml_edit crates.

use std::fs::File; use std::io::Write; use std::collections::BTreeMap as Map; use serde_derive::{Serialize, Deserialize}; #[derive(Debug)] #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)] #[serde(tag = "type0")] enum FooBarTwo<'a> { FooBarOne { string1: &'a str }, } #[derive(Debug)] #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)] #[serde(tag = "type1")] enum FooBarThree<'a> { FooBarFour { string2: &'a str }, } #[derive(Debug)] #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)] struct FooBarFour<'a> { black: &'a str, #[serde(borrow)] green: FooBarTwo<'a>, #[serde(borrow)] blue: FooBarThree<'a>, } #[derive(Debug)] #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)] struct FooBarFourList<'a> { // Uasing a Map to workaround a known bug (#303) when using top level Vec // see https://github.com/alexcrichton/toml-rs/issues/303 #[serde(borrow)] foo_bar_six: Map<&'a str, FooBarFour<'a>> } fn main() { let red = FooBarFour { black: "aaa", green: FooBarTwo::FooBarOne { string1: "aaaabbbb" }, blue: FooBarThree::FooBarFour { string2: "ccccccc" }, }; let pink = FooBarFour { black: "aaa", green: FooBarTwo::FooBarOne { string1: "aaaabbbb" }, blue: FooBarThree::FooBarFour { string2: "ccccccc" }, }; let mut white = Map::new(); white.insert("pink", pink); white.insert("red", red); let fbfl = FooBarFourList { foo_bar_six: white }; println!("\nTL: {:?}\n", fbfl); let filename = "./data/test.toml"; let data = toml::to_string(&fbfl).expect("Error serialising fbfl"); println!("\nTL as TOML: {:?}\n", data); let mut f = File::create(filename).expect("Unable to create file"); f.write_all(data.as_bytes()).expect("Error writing data to file"); let toml_in: FooBarFour = toml::from_str(&data).expect("Error deserialising fbfl"); println!("\n{:?}\n", toml_in); }

This is especially useful for data deserialization: Just by implementing the Serialize and Deserialize traits from the serde crate, the (almost) universally used serialization library in the Rust world, we can then serialize and deserialize our types to a lot of data formats: JSON, YAML, TOML, BSON and so on...

It looks like the fields are public now (https://github.com/alexcrichton/toml-rs/pull/455, https://docs.rs/toml/latest/toml/value/struct.Date.html), so just upgrading the crate should do it :-)

Pair that with Serde for serialization/deserialization (JSON, TOML, YAML, CSV/TSV, XML, URL query strings, etc.), Figment for configuration, and ignore for filesystem traversal with blacklist support, and Rust is a real joy for writing CLI utilities.

Added toml-rs-compatible API via the toml_edit::easy module for when developers want to ensure consistency between format-preserving and general TOML work, with one caveat.

A quick example off the top of the head of my head is some tests in the toml package. It has a few different approaches. One is to use macros as in parser.rs. In valid.rs and invalid.rs it uses macros to generate a separate test for each input file. This allows you to run just one individual test from the list. These examples aren't perfect, and there are more sophisticated test utilities (like insta) that can abstract the process of "here are a bunch of inputs, test them all".

I want to read a toml file with default value. I tried toml-rs but it doesn't allow for default values.

If you haven't dipped your touch-typing fingers into Rust yet, you really owe it to yourself. Rust is a modern programming language with features that make it suitable not only for systems programming -- its original purpose, but just about any other environment, too; there are frameworks that let your build web services, web applications including user interfaces, software for embedded devices, machine learning solutions, and of course, command-line tools. Since a custom GitHub Action is essentially a command-line tool that interacts with the system through files and environment variables, Rust is perfectly suited for that as well.

Here's an example of someone citing a disagreement between CRT and shell32:

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/44650

This in addition to the Rust CVE mentioned elsewhere in the thread which was rooted in this issue:

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/04/09/cve-2024-24576.html

Here are some quick programs to test contrasting approaches. I don't have examples of inputs where they parse differently on hand right now, but I know they exist. This was also a problem that was frequently discussed internally when I worked at MSFT.

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> instead of choosing a certain numbered version of the random library (if I remember correctly) I let cargo download the latest version which had a completely different API.

Yeah, they didn't follow the instructions and got burned. I still think that multiple things went wrong simultaneously for that experience. I wonder if more prevalent uses of `#[doc(alias = "name")]` being leveraged by https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/120730 (which now that I check only accounts for methods and not functions, I should get on that!) so that when changing APIs around people at least get a slightly better experience.

Almost fixed the compiler: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/123325

Rust: A secure, efficient, and modern programming language (omitting ten thousand words). You can simply follow the installation instructions provided on the official website.

Recently did something similar in Rust but for generating SVGs. We've adopted it for snapshot testing of cargo and rustc's output. Don't have a good PR handy for showing Github's rendering of changes in the SVG (text, side-by-side, swiping) but https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/121877/files has newly added SVGs.

To see what is supported, see the screenshot in the docs: https://docs.rs/anstyle-svg/latest/anstyle_svg/

We strongly believe in Rust as a powerful language for building production-grade software, especially for systems like ours that run alongside Kubernetes.

The above Assert<{N % 2 == 1}> requires #![feature(generic_const_exprs)] and the nightly toolchain. See https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/76560 for more info.