CHR-based Constraint Systems

This sub-module implements a collection of CHR-based constraint systems, and a generic framework for abstracting Rust ASTs using constraints.

Overview

The end user interface to this module is captured through two main elements:

• LocalConstraint - a trait that your custom constraint should implement

  /// Abstract encoding of a Local Constraint
  pub trait LocalConstraint : Any + Display + Clone {
  
      /// static CHR rules for the constraint system
      const CHR_RULES: &'static str;
  
  
      /// parse a single constraint rule
      fn parse(s: &str) -> nom::IResult<&str, Self>;
  
      /// Collect CHR rules from a function definition
      fn collect<'a>(fun: &Annotated<'a, syn::ItemFn>) -> Vec<Self>;
  }
  

• ConstraintManager - used to represent a collection of constraint systems, encapsulating the process of running each individual constraint

  let mut constraint_manager : ConstraintManager = Default::default();
  constraint_manager.add_constraint::<ArrayConstraint>();
  constraint_manager.add_constraint::<MutabilityConstraint>();
  
  // ...
  constraint_manager.analyze(fun);
  
  // ..
  let arr_constraints : Vec<ArrayConstraint> = constraint_manager.get_constraints::<ArrayConstraint>();
  let mut_constraints : Vec<MutabilityConstraint> = constraint_manager.get_constraints::<MutabilityConstraint>();
  

Project structure

./src/
├── constraint.rs
├── annotation.rs
├── chr.rs
├── common.rs
└── lib.rs

1 directory, 10 files

The sub-component is composed of the following modules:

• constraint.rs -- defines the core generic constraint collection framework
• annotation.rs -- defines a visitor to label the syn ASTs
• chr.rs -- defines a wrapper around SwiPL to run CHR rules over a list of constraints
• common.rs -- defines a few instantiations of the constraint system for mutability and arrays

Parser should be moved to utils, and constraint specific parts moved into common Solver should be moved to rewrite