wireproto: syntax for encoding CBOR into frames
We just vendored a library for encoding and decoding the CBOR
data format. While the intent of that vendor was to support state
files, CBOR is really a nice data format. It is extensible and
compact.
I've been feeling dirty inventing my own data formats for
frame payloads. While custom formats can always beat out a generic
format, there is a cost to be paid in terms of implementation,
comprehension, etc. CBOR is compact enough that I'm not too
worried about efficiency loss. I think the benefits of using
a standardized format outweigh rolling our own formats. So
I plan to make heavy use of CBOR in the wire protocol going
forward.
This commit introduces support for encoding CBOR data in frame
payloads to our function to make a frame from a human string.
We do need to employ some low-level Python code in order to
evaluate a string as a Python expression. But other than that,
this should hopefully be pretty straightforward.
Unit tests for this function have been added.
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2948
from __future__ import absolute_import, print_function
import sys
globalvars = {}
lines = sys.stdin.readlines()
while lines:
l = lines.pop(0)
if l.startswith('SALT'):
print(l[:-1])
elif l.startswith('>>> '):
snippet = l[4:]
while lines and lines[0].startswith('... '):
l = lines.pop(0)
snippet += l[4:]
c = compile(snippet, '<heredoc>', 'single')
try:
exec(c, globalvars)
except Exception as inst:
print(repr(inst))