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This is hopefully the last large refactoring on the way of UDF.
In UDF we have to convert internal types to Lua and back. Currently
almost all our types and hidden in types.cc and expose functionality
via virtual functions. While it should be possible to add a
convert_{to|from}_lua virtual functions, that seems like a bad design.
In compilers, the type definition is normally public and different
passes know how to reason about each type. The alias analysis knows
about int and floats, not the other way around.
This patch series is inspired by both the LLVM RTTI
(https://www.llvm.org/docs/HowToSetUpLLVMStyleRTTI.html) and
std::variant.
The series makes the types public, adds a visit function and converts
the various virtual methods to just use visit. As a small example of
why this is useful, it then moves a bit of cql3 and json specific
logic out of types.cc and types.hh. In a similar way, the UDF code
will be able to used visit to convert objects to Lua.
In comparison with the previous versions, this series doesn't require the intermediate step of converting void* to data_value& in a few member functions.
This version also has fewer double dispatches I a am fairly confident has all the tools for avoiding all double dispatches.
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* 'simplify-types-v3' of https://github.com/espindola/scylla: (80 commits)
types: Move abstract_type visit to a header
types: Move uuid_type_impl to a header
types: Move inet_addr_type_impl to a header
types: Move varint_type_impl to a header
types: Move timeuuid_type_impl to a header
types: Move date_type_impl to a header
types: Move bytes_type_impl to a header
types: Move utf8_type_impl to a header
types: Move ascii_type_impl to a header
types: Move string_type_impl to a header
types: Move time_type_impl to a header
types: Move simple_date_type_impl to a header
types: Move timestamp_type_impl to a header
types: Move duration_type_impl to a header
types: Move decimal_type_impl to a header
types: Move floating point types to a header
types: Move boolean_type_impl to a header
types: Move integer types to a header
types: Move integer_type_impl to a header
types: Move simple_type_impl to a header
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