Little sparks, and we see all this activity.
Maybe data from rohit.com can be combined with the new ffi reflection
stuff to create some rapid runtime driven interop goodness. I think
it would be dramatically funny if all that was needed to communicate
with a library was the .pdb and a little bit of Lua glue. that would
be a very fun and easy world to live in I think.
It's also good to see several XML projects laying out there. I like
the ones where it's direct Lua code, but that's just my preference,
because I can't figure out all the myriad build systems that projects
tend to use.
-- William
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Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2012 21:33:05 -0700
From: malkia@xxxxxxxxx
To: luajit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: need to do some xml manipulation
I had to use XML, I've found this wonderful Windows tool called API
Monitor (rohitab.com), that can trace by injecting any process, and it
knows (in xml form) about almost all windows functions (sadly OpenGL
excluded) - this includes structs, functions, etc.
I've started on reimporting this...
But anyhow, as I've never used XML before in my life, or at least
never parsed, I've reused expat.
I had expat already precompiled, as Apache APR needs it, and put some
ffi bindings for it:
https://github.com/malkia/ufo/blob/master/ffi/expat.lua
Here is an example of how to use it:
https://github.com/malkia/ufo/blob/master/samples/Windows/api.lua
https://github.com/malkia/ufo/blob/master/samples/Windows/apis.lua
it's work in progress.
I'm not sure how the guy behind the project got all this info, but I
suspect it's done using the diasdk (from Microsoft). It can read
plenty of info from the pdb.
It might be the way to go with Windows for massive import of libs.
If someone can transfer these xmls into ffi for WIndows that would be
great.
I might do it, but I'm at heavy crunch at work (shipping a game), so
don't have much time.
Cheers!
Here is the awesome tool I was trying to rip it's data
http://www.rohitab.com/apimonitor
It might get useful for lots of Windows folks.
On 6/2/12 5:11 PM, William Adams wrote:
This isn't exactly an announcement, but for those of you who might
be doing any XML manipulation, I've added some native lua
'parsing' to the Laphlibs: https://github.com/Wiladams/LAPHLibs
It's called luxl.lua
If you're familiar with things like pico xml and tiny xml, it
stems from that.
My criteria were things like:
Do no allocations
Deal with straight 0 based buffers (like coming off the net)
Be a pull model parser
Expose an iterator model
I say it's not a 'parser' because a real XML parser is quite a
beast. Luxl can scan through a lot of simple xml files, the kind
that are typically found while doing quick exchanges of data, and
the like.
My particular needs are dealing with XSD, and SAML, but it works
find for lots of other things.
If you need more robust validation parsing, you could build atop this.
The benefit I see to such a thing is that there's no interop. I
don't have to carry along a .c file and worry about how to build
the same on all sorts of other platforms. It's small (less than
400 lines), and relatively simple to use:
At any rate, give it a try if you like.
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