Module Libobject

Libobject declares persistent objects, given with methods:

* a caching function specifying how to add the object in the current scope; If the object wishes to register its visibility in the Nametab, it should do so for all possible suffixes.

* a loading function, specifying what to do when the module containing the object is loaded; If the object wishes to register its visibility in the Nametab, it should do so for all suffixes no shorter than the "int" argument

* an opening function, specifying what to do when the module containing the object is opened (imported); If the object wishes to register its visibility in the Nametab, it should do so for the suffix of the length the "int" argument

* a classification function, specifying what to do with the object, when the current module (containing the object) is ended; The possibilities are: Dispose - the object dies at the end of the module Substitute - meaning the object is substitutive and the module name must be updated Keep - the object is not substitutive, but survives module closing Anticipate - this is for objects that have to be explicitly managed by the end_module function (like Require and Read markers)

The classification function is also an occasion for a cleanup (if this function returns Keep or Substitute of some object, the cache method is never called for it)

* a substitution function, performing the substitution; this function should be declared for substitutive objects only (see above). NB: the substitution might now be delayed instead of happening at module creation, so this function should _not_ depend on the current environment

* a discharge function, that is applied at section closing time to collect the data necessary to rebuild the discharged form of the non volatile objects

* a rebuild function, that is applied after section closing to rebuild the non volatile content of a section from the data collected by the discharge function

Any type defined as a persistent object must be pure (e.g. no references) and marshallable by the OCaml Marshal module (e.g. no closures).

type substitutivity =
| Dispose
| Substitute
| Keep
| Anticipate

Both names are passed to objects: a "semantic" kernel_name, which can be substituted and a "syntactic" full_path which can be printed

type object_name = Libnames.full_path * Names.KerName.t
type open_filter
type ('a, 'b) object_declaration = {
object_name : string;
cache_function : 'b -> unit;
load_function : int -> 'b -> unit;
open_function : open_filter -> int -> 'b -> unit;
classify_function : 'a -> substitutivity;
subst_function : (Mod_subst.substitution * 'a) -> 'a;
discharge_function : 'a -> 'a option;
rebuild_function : 'a -> 'a;
}
val unfiltered : open_filter
val make_filter : finite:bool -> string CAst.t list -> open_filter

Anomaly when the list is empty.

type category
val create_category : string -> category

Anomaly if called more than once for a given string.

val in_filter : cat:category option -> open_filter -> bool

On cat:None, returns whether the filter allows opening uncategorized objects.

On cat:(Some category), returns whether the filter allows opening objects in the given category.

val simple_open : ?cat:category -> ('i -> 'a -> unit) -> open_filter -> 'i -> 'a -> unit

Combinator for making objects with simple category-based open behaviour. When cat:None, can be opened by Unfiltered, but also by Filtered with a negative set.

val filter_and : open_filter -> open_filter -> open_filter option

Returns None when the intersection is empty.

val filter_or : open_filter -> open_filter -> open_filter

The default object is a "Keep" object with empty methods. Object creators are advised to use the construction {(default_object "MY_OBJECT") with cache_function = ... } and specify only these functions which are not empty/meaningless

val default_object : string -> ('a, 'b) object_declaration
val ident_subst_function : (Mod_subst.substitution * 'a) -> 'a

the identity substitution function

...

Given an object declaration, the function declare_object_full will hand back two functions, the "injection" and "projection" functions for dynamically typed library-objects.

module Dyn : Dyn.S
type obj = Dyn.t
type algebraic_objects =
| Objs of t list
| Ref of Names.ModPath.t * Mod_subst.substitution
and t =
| ModuleObject of Names.Id.t * substitutive_objects
| ModuleTypeObject of Names.Id.t * substitutive_objects
| IncludeObject of algebraic_objects
| KeepObject of Names.Id.t * t list
| ExportObject of {
mpl : (open_filter * Names.ModPath.t) list;
}
| AtomicObject of obj
and substitutive_objects = Names.MBId.t list * algebraic_objects

Object declaration and names: if you need the current prefix (typically to interact with the nametab), you need to have it passed to you.

val declare_object : ('a, 'a) object_declaration -> 'a -> obj
val declare_object_full : ('a, Nametab.object_prefix * 'a) object_declaration -> 'a Dyn.tag
val declare_named_object_full : ('a, object_name * 'a) object_declaration -> (Names.Id.t * 'a) Dyn.tag
val declare_named_object : ('a, object_name * 'a) object_declaration -> Names.Id.t -> 'a -> obj
val declare_named_object_gen : ('a, Nametab.object_prefix * 'a) object_declaration -> 'a -> obj
val cache_object : (Nametab.object_prefix * obj) -> unit
val load_object : int -> (Nametab.object_prefix * obj) -> unit
val open_object : open_filter -> int -> (Nametab.object_prefix * obj) -> unit
val subst_object : (Mod_subst.substitution * obj) -> obj
val classify_object : obj -> substitutivity
val discharge_object : obj -> obj option
val rebuild_object : obj -> obj

Higher-level API for objects with fixed scope.

We recommend to avoid declaring superglobal objects and using the nodischarge variants.

val local_object : string -> cache:('a -> unit) -> discharge:('a -> 'a option) -> ('a, 'a) object_declaration
val local_object_nodischarge : string -> cache:('a -> unit) -> ('a, 'a) object_declaration
val global_object : ?cat:category -> string -> cache:('a -> unit) -> subst:((Mod_subst.substitution * 'a) -> 'a) option -> discharge:('a -> 'a option) -> ('a, 'a) object_declaration
val global_object_nodischarge : ?cat:category -> string -> cache:('a -> unit) -> subst:((Mod_subst.substitution * 'a) -> 'a) option -> ('a, 'a) object_declaration
val superglobal_object : string -> cache:('a -> unit) -> subst:((Mod_subst.substitution * 'a) -> 'a) option -> discharge:('a -> 'a option) -> ('a, 'a) object_declaration
val superglobal_object_nodischarge : string -> cache:('a -> unit) -> subst:((Mod_subst.substitution * 'a) -> 'a) option -> ('a, 'a) object_declaration
Debug
val dump : unit -> (int * string) list