Is there support for nested data structures?

[paholg]

Say I want to have an array of maps. In yrs, this looks very straightforward -- just create a MapPrelim and insert it into the array.

I can find no analog in yrb. I am curious if I'm missing something, or if this feature is not currently supported, is it planned? If not, I may take a crack at it if I have some spare time -- my intuition says that it shouldn't be too hard, but that could very wrong.

Finally, if I use a Y::Array of Hashs and wish to sync individual field updates, would you expect this to generally work well, and just be less efficient than if they were proper Y::Maps?

Thanks so much!

[eliias]

Say I want to have an array of maps. In yrs, this looks very straightforward -- just create a MapPrelim and insert it into the array.

I can find no analog in yrb. I am curious if I'm missing something, or if this feature is not currently supported, is it planned? If not, I may take a crack at it if I have some spare time -- my intuition says that it shouldn't be too hard, but that could very wrong.

Finally, if I use a Y::Array of Hashs and wish to sync individual field updates, would you expect this to generally work well, and just be less efficient than if they were proper Y::Maps?

Thanks so much!

Hey,

those are all valid questions. I am currently not invested in developing yrb further, as there is no urgent need to extend it for any of my own projects, but I am always happy to help with contributions.

yrb is quite behind the most recent developments in yrs (yrb is basically just a wrapper around this rust lib), so it is possible that there are a bunch of features that are not working in yrb today. Historically, there were some limitations with simply mixing the various data-structures, so I think some of those restrictions might still be true. That said, there was and is pretty good support for nested JSON-like data in yrs (and therefore yrb), so some stuff might just work. You could try to take a look at the test cases, maybe you find some pattern there that would work for your use case.

I would love to see the yrs dep being bumped to the latest version, but there were some significant changes since I last checked. I am not saying this would result in a full rewrite of yrb, but there is definitely some work required to get it working.

[paholg]

Thanks for the quick reply!

It's unlikely that I'll be able to do much in the short-term, but updating yrb sounds like a fun project that I may be able to visit in the future.