jdn-loader

A utility for loading JDNs using janet's import mechanism. This tool is still in its early stages, and the API could still have breaking changes. Use at your own risk.

Why?

Because sometimes you want to load runtime configuration during compile-time, because you want a standalone executable. Also, I was curious and because Janet allows me to. :D

Installation

Either add jdn-loader.janet to your project or jpm install https://github.com/levitanong/jdn-loader in a project with a project.janet or Manually add https://github.com/levitanong/jdn-loader to your project.janet

Usage

There are two ways to use jdn-loader, loading individual jdns, or loading an entire directory of jdns.

Individual

Say you have a directory sample-jdns and inside you have a file foo.jdn.

(import jdn-loader)
(import sample-jdns/foo :as single-foo)

single-foo/value

Directory

Individually loading jdns is going to be quite a chore if you have an entire directory full of jdn files, so jdn-loader allows you to load all the jdns in a directory.

To load a directory, there are two options. You can load the entire directory as a struct (with the filenames as the keys), or you can bind each jdn file in the directory to the environment. To switch between these two modes, add the import argument :jdn-loader/binding-type, with either :struct or :env as the value.

Both methods require you to prefix your directory with jdn::. This is because there's no other way for us to infer that a directory, which has no extensions, should be loaded using jdn-loader.

struct

This mode is useful for when you expect the data to grow over time in your repo, such as in a linter where you expect users to contribute PEGs. In other words, this is useful for an open set.

(import jdn-loader)
(import jdn::sample-data/jdn-samples :as sample-jdns :jdn-loader/binding-type :struct)

sample-jdns/jdns # {:file1 {:field1 0 :field2 [0 1]} :file2 [{:otherfield1 "hi"}]}

env

This mode is useful if you have a closed set. This is closer in spirit to the individual loading method.

(import jdn-loader)
(import jdn::sample-data/jdn-samples :as sample-jdns-env :jdn-loader/binding-type :env)

sample-jdns/file1 # {:field1 0 :field2 [0 1]}
sample-jdns/file2 # [{:otherfield1 "hi"}]

License

jdn-loader is licensed under the MIT License