Trait FlowNode

pub trait FlowNode {
    type Request: Serialize + DeserializeOwned;

    // Required methods
    fn imports(ctx: &mut ImportCtx<'_>);
    fn emit(requests: Vec<Self::Request>, ctx: &mut NodeCtx<'_>) -> Result<()>;
}

TODO: clearly verbalize what a FlowNode encompasses

Required Associated Types

type Request: Serialize + DeserializeOwned

TODO: clearly verbalize what a Request encompasses

Required Methods

fn imports(ctx: &mut ImportCtx<'_>)

A list of nodes that this node is capable of taking a dependency on.

Attempting to take a dep on a node that wasn’t imported via this method will result in an error during flow resolution time.

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To put it bluntly: This is boilerplate.

We (the flowey devs) are thinking about ways to avoid requiring this method, but do not have a good solution at this time.

fn emit(requests: Vec<Self::Request>, ctx: &mut NodeCtx<'_>) -> Result<()>

Given a set of incoming requests, emit various steps to run, set various dependencies, etc…

Dyn Compatibility

This trait is not dyn compatible.

In older versions of Rust, dyn compatibility was called "object safety", so this trait is not object safe.

Implementors