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README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+# Simple Flash Key Value store
+
+Tries to keep flash wear low by continuously appending data,
+automatically erasing and rewriting when full.
+
+## Store requirements
+
+* Reading must be possible by memory-mapping a `&[u8]` slice
+* Must support `erase()` for compaction, 
+* Writing must support `program()` with an offset and `&[u8]` payload
+
+For details see `trait StoreBackend`.
+
+## TODO
+
+* NoFlash backend
+* read_int()
+* write_str()
+* automatic value coercion
+* support for floats
+
+### Ideas
+
+* iterator (quadratic)
+* compaction to a second backend instead on stack
+* StoreBackend-configurable erased data detection

src/error.rs

@@ -18,10 +18,14 @@ impl<B> From<WriteError<B>> for Error<B> {
     }
 }
 
+/// Errors decoding the store
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
 pub enum ReadError {
+    /// invalid record size
     InvalidSize { offset: usize, size: usize },
+    /// missing separator
     MissingSeparator { offset: usize },
+    /// `str::from_utf8` error
     Utf8Error(str::Utf8Error),
 }
 
@@ -38,9 +42,13 @@ impl fmt::Display for ReadError {
     }
 }
 
+/// Errors when writing to the store
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
 pub enum WriteError<B> {
+    /// store is full even after automatic compaction
     SpaceExhausted,
+    /// error passed from the StoreBackend's `erase()` and `program()`
+    /// methods
     Backend(B),
 }
 

src/lib.rs

@@ -20,26 +20,25 @@ pub trait StoreBackend {
         size_of::<Self::Data>()
     }
 
-    /// utility for compaction, requires compile-time knowledge of the data length
-    
     type Error;
     fn erase(&mut self) -> Result<(), Self::Error>;
     fn program(&mut self, offset: usize, payload: &[u8]) -> Result<(), Self::Error>;
-    /// called after many `program()` invocations to allow for eg. cache flushing
+    /// called after repeated `program()` invocations to allow for eg. cache flushing
     fn program_done(&mut self) {}
 }
 
-// TODO: NoFlash
+/// Simple Flash Key Value Store
-
 pub struct Store<B: StoreBackend> {
     backend: B,
 }
 
 impl<B: StoreBackend> Store<B> {
+    /// wrap a `StoreBackend` into a store
     pub fn new(backend: B) -> Self {
         Store { backend }
     }
 
+    /// read from `key`
     pub fn read(&self, key: &str) -> Result<Option<&[u8]>, ReadError> {
         let mut iter = Iter::new(self.backend.data().as_ref());
         let mut value = None;
@@ -53,6 +52,7 @@ impl<B: StoreBackend> Store<B> {
         Ok(value)
     }
 
+    /// read from `key`, decode UTF-8
     pub fn read_str(&self, key: &str) -> Result<Option<&str>, ReadError> {
         self.read(key)
             .and_then(|value| value
@@ -134,6 +134,7 @@ impl<B: StoreBackend> Store<B> {
         Ok(())
     }
 
+    /// store a buffer `value` at `key`
     pub fn write(&mut self, key: &str, value: &[u8]) -> Result<(), Error<B::Error>> {
         match self.append(key, value) {
             Err(Error::Write(WriteError::SpaceExhausted)) => {
@@ -144,6 +145,7 @@ impl<B: StoreBackend> Store<B> {
         }
     }
 
+    /// serialize 32-bit as ASCII, store at `key`
     pub fn write_int(&mut self, key: &str, value: u32) -> Result<(), Error<B::Error>> {
         let mut buf = [0; 16];
         let mut wrapper = FmtWrapper::new(&mut buf);
@@ -151,6 +153,7 @@ impl<B: StoreBackend> Store<B> {
         self.write(key, wrapper.contents())
     }
 
+    /// store a 0-byte tombstone value at `key`
     pub fn remove(&mut self, key: &str) -> Result<(), Error<B::Error>> {
         self.write(key, &[])
     }
@@ -162,5 +165,3 @@ impl<B: StoreBackend> Store<B> {
         Ok(())
     }
 }
-
-// TODO: quadratic iterator