pycapnp/capnp/helpers/deserialize.h
Rowan Reeve a5c29a74d2 Schema loading from the wire
Cap'n Proto provides a schema loader, which can be used to dynamically
load schemas during runtime. To port this functionality to pycapnp,
a new class is provided `C_SchemaLoader`, which exposes the Cap'n
Proto C++ interface, and `SchemaLoader`, which is part of the pycapnp
library.

The specific use case for this is when a capnp message contains
a Node.Reader: The schema for a yet unseen message can be loaded
dynamically, allowing the future message to be properly processed.

If the message is a struct containing other structs, all the schemas for
every struct must be loaded to correctly parse the message. See
https://github.com/DaneSlattery/capnp_generic_poc for a
proof-of-concept.

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#pragma once
#include "capnp/dynamic.h"
#include "capnp/schema.capnp.h"
/// @brief Convert the dynamic struct to a Node::Reader
::capnp::schema::Node::Reader toReader(capnp::DynamicStruct::Reader reader)
{
// requires an intermediate step to AnyStruct before going directly to Node::Reader,
// since there exists no direct conversion from DynamicStruct::Reader to Node::Reader.
return reader.as<capnp::AnyStruct>().as<capnp::schema::Node>();
}