collections-fromstr

This crate provides a FromStr derive for newtypes on iterable collections on single types, such Vec<T> or HashSet<T>. The element is parsed by splitting the input along a pattern that you specify though the #[item_separator] attribute. The individual items are then parsed using their respective FromStr implementations.

Requirements

• The macro will take the first field in your struct that has a type with a path argument <T> and assume that it is the inner type. It will assume that T in this example is the item type.
• The item type T must not be an actual type (no trait type) that implements FromStr.
• As inner type you can use any type that implements FromIterator<Item = T> (like Vec<T> or HashSet<T>).
• From needs to be implemented between your newtype and its inner type. Crates like derive_more take easy care of that.

Example

use collections_fromstr::FromStr;
use derive_more::From;
use std::str::FromStr;

#[derive(From, FromStr, PartialEq)]
#[item_separator = ","]
struct NewVec(Vec<i32>);

fn main(){
    static VALUES: &str = "1,2,3,-3,-2,-1";
    assert!(NewVec::from_str(VALUES).unwrap() == NewVec(vec![1,2,3,-3,-2,-1]));
}

Wait... you know that I could just use Iterator::split for this, right?

Okay, hear me out. Say you've got data like this:

1-3:B,I,U//43-60:I//83-87:I,U//99-104: B,I// [etc.]

Let's say this data represents text markup: You've got character ranges on the left of the colon :, and highlighting information on the right side (B = bold, I = italics, U = underline, but you'll probably expand it later once you get that hedgefund money), of which there might be multiple, separated by commas ,. Each markup is separated by double slashes //.

... Now look at the magic of FromStr doing its thing:

use std::collections::HashSet;
use derive_more::From;
use std::ops::Range;

#[derive(parse_display::FromStr)]
#[display("{0.start}-{0.end}")]
struct CharRange(#[from_str(default)] Range<u32>);

#[derive(parse_display::FromStr, Hash, PartialEq, Eq)]
#[non_exhaustive]
enum MarkupOperation {
    #[display("B")]
    Bold,
    #[display("I")]
    Italics, 
    #[display("U")]
    Underline,
}

#[derive(From, collections_fromstr::FromStr)]
#[item_separator=","]
struct Operations(HashSet<MarkupOperation>);

#[derive(parse_display::FromStr)]
#[display("{range}:{operations}")]
struct Markup{
    range: CharRange,
    operations: Operations,
}

#[derive(From, collections_fromstr::FromStr)]
#[item_separator="//"]
struct MarkupVec(Vec<Markup>);

Look at this code. It's. So. Clean. 🥺 You'll also be less likely to produce bugs, like forgetting about the case of an empty input string.

License

collections-fromstr is distributed under the terms of both the MIT license and the Apache License (Version 2.0).

See LICENSE-APACHE and LICENSE-MIT for details.