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<h1><a class="header" href="#communicating-types-to-wasm-bindgen" id="communicating-types-to-wasm-bindgen">Communicating types to <code>wasm-bindgen</code></a></h1>
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<p>The last aspect to talk about when converting Rust/JS types amongst one another
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is how this information is actually communicated. The <code>#[wasm_bindgen]</code> macro is
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running over the syntactical (unresolved) structure of the Rust code and is then
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responsible for generating information that <code>wasm-bindgen</code> the CLI tool later
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reads.</p>
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<p>To accomplish this a slightly unconventional approach is taken. Static
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information about the structure of the Rust code is serialized via JSON
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(currently) to a custom section of the wasm executable. Other information, like
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what the types actually are, unfortunately isn't known until later in the
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compiler due to things like associated type projections and typedefs. It also
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turns out that we want to convey "rich" types like <code>FnMut(String, Foo, &JsValue)</code> to the <code>wasm-bindgen</code> CLI, and handling all this is pretty tricky!</p>
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<p>To solve this issue the <code>#[wasm_bindgen]</code> macro generates <strong>executable
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functions</strong> which "describe the type signature of an import or export". These
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executable functions are what the <code>WasmDescribe</code> trait is all about:</p>
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<pre><pre class="playpen"><code class="language-rust">
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# #![allow(unused_variables)]
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#fn main() {
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pub trait WasmDescribe {
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fn describe();
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}
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#}</code></pre></pre>
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<p>While deceptively simple this trait is actually quite important. When you write,
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an export like this:</p>
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<pre><pre class="playpen"><code class="language-rust">
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# #![allow(unused_variables)]
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#fn main() {
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#[wasm_bindgen]
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fn greet(a: &str) {
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// ...
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}
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#}</code></pre></pre>
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<p>In addition to the shims we talked about above which JS generates the macro
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<em>also</em> generates something like:</p>
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<pre><code>#[no_mangle]
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pub extern "C" fn __wbindgen_describe_greet() {
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<Fn(&str)>::describe();
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}
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</code></pre>
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<p>Or in other words it generates invocations of <code>describe</code> functions. In doing so
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the <code>__wbindgen_describe_greet</code> shim is a programmatic description of the type
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layouts of an import/export. These are then executed when <code>wasm-bindgen</code> runs!
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These executions rely on an import called <code>__wbindgen_describe</code> which passes one
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<code>u32</code> to the host, and when called multiple times gives a <code>Vec<u32></code>
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effectively. This <code>Vec<u32></code> can then be reparsed into an <code>enum Descriptor</code>
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which fully describes a type.</p>
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<p>All in all this is a bit roundabout but shouldn't have any impact on the
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generated code or runtime at all. All these descriptor functions are pruned from
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the emitted wasm file.</p>
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