pycapnp/capnp/helpers/serialize.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 "kj/io.h"
#include "capnp/dynamic.h"
#include "capnp/serialize-packed.h"
kj::Array< ::capnp::byte> messageToPackedBytes(capnp::MessageBuilder & message, size_t wordCount)
{
kj::Array<capnp::byte> result = kj::heapArray<capnp::byte>(wordCount * 8);
kj::ArrayOutputStream out(result.asPtr());
capnp::writePackedMessage(out, message);
return heapArray(out.getArray()); // TODO: make this non-copying somehow
}