rust-v8worker2

This is a minimal binding between Rust (and V8 JavaScript. Basic concept is to only expose two methods to JavaScript: send and receive.

Based on ry/v8worker2.

Usage

Add this to your Config.toml:

[dependencies]
v8worker2 = { git = "https://github.com/matiasinsaurralde/rust-v8worker2" }

Note: If you include this repository as a dependency, the cargo build command may take some time to fetch and build V8, on my box it takes around 20 minutes. There's a condition that prevents this build step to run if the library is already present. If detailed build logging is required consider using cargo build -vv.

To use the crate:

extern crate v8worker2;
extern crate bytes;

use v8worker2::worker::Worker as Worker;

fn main() {
    // Initialize V8 (V8::InitializePlatform and V8::Initialize):
    let mut _handler = v8worker2::new_handler();
    _handler.init();

    // Setup a callback that receives bytes and returns boxed bytes:
    let cb = |incoming_data: bytes::Bytes| -> Box<bytes::Bytes> {
        println!("Getting data from V8, length is {}", incoming_data.len());

        // Send some stuff to V8, this is not in use at the moment but we still require it:
        let data = Bytes::from(&b"reply"[..]);
        Box::new(data)
    };

    // Initialize a worker with the callback:
    let mut worker = Worker::new(cb);

    // Send an empty ArrayBuffer (V8 -> Rust), the callback will print the length of it:
    worker.load("code.js", "V8Worker2.send(new ArrayBuffer(10))".to_string());
}

Setup

If you want to see the detailed output of the V8 build, run:

$ ./build.py --enable-ccache

Otherwise you may run cargo build directly, the V8 build steps are part of build.rs.

To run the tests, use cargo test -- --nocapture.

Requirements

• Python (required by the build script)
• C/C++ compiler
• pkg-config
• ccache (OS X: brew install ccache)
• Git
• Rust 1.26 or newer

Supported platforms

My development box runs OS X, the CI environment runs Linux. These two platforms should be ok.

License

This project contains code written by Ryan Dahl, I'm using the same license for my additional Rust codebase:

MIT