[Libguestfs] [libnbd PATCH] RFC: Add bindings for Rust language

[Richard W.M. Jones]

The patch seems OK in general.

On Sun, Jul 07, 2019 at 11:39:29PM +0200, Martin Kletzander wrote:
> The way the code is generated is also not nice, I wish there was
> more code actually written in some files and not generated by the
> generator (as much hard-coded static strings as possible), maybe
> similarly to the states.c, I don't know.

Can you expand on what you mean by this?

> Also up for discussion is whether the libnbd crate should be
> separate since the higher-level functionality it should provide will
> not be tightly coupled with libnbd itself and the releases
> (especially the numbers) do not need to happen in sync.

I also didn't understand what this means.

It's a matter of personal preference but you can use multi-line string
constants in OCaml which can be unlimited in length, so this:

> +  pr "#[allow(unused_imports)]\n";
> +  pr "use std::os::raw::{c_char, c_int, c_uint, c_void};\n";
> +  pr "use std::os::unix::io::RawFd;\n";
> +  pr "use std::ffi::CStr;\n";
> +  pr "use libnbd_sys::*;\n";
> +  pr "use libc;\n";
> +  pr "\n";
(etc)

can be written as:

  pr "\
#[allow(unused_imports)]
use std::os::raw::{c_char, c_int, c_uint, c_void};
use std::os::unix::io::RawFd;
[...]
";

These are still C-like printf-like strings so you still need to escape
%, " and \.

Rich.

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