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Description
It would be nice if we could break up spin-test-virt
into several different components which could be swapped out or reused by other projects. One of the most central pieces of spin-test-virt
is wasi:io
which powers a lot of different interfaces in wasi (e.g., wasi:filesystem
and wasi:http
).
The approach one would imagine to take would be to create a component with the following wit:
package fermyon:wasi-io-virt;
/// Configurable virtualized implementation of `wasi:io`.
world io {
export wasi:io/streams@0.2.0;
export wasi:io/error@0.2.0;
export wasi:io/poll@0.2.0;
import wasi:io/streams@0.2.0;
import wasi:io/error@0.2.0;
import wasi:io/poll@0.2.0;
export config;
}
interface config {
use wasi:io/poll@0.2.0.{pollable};
/// Create a new pollable.
new-poll: func(config: pollable-config) -> pollable;
variant pollable-config {
/// The pollable comes from the host.
host(pollable),
/// The pollable is virtualized.
virtualized
}
// Imagine similar interfaces for `input-stream` and `output-stream`
}
This component both imports and exports wasi:io
as well as an additional config
interface. The component can virtualize all io interfaces in terms of the imported interfaces (either be implementing them within the component or by delegating to the imported interfaces. The config
interface allows users of the component to create new io
resources that are either virtualized or backed by some imported resource.
This, however, won't work as imagined as the pollable
used in config
refers to the exported pollable
resource where we would need for it to refer to the imported pollable
resource. Unfortunately WIT doesn't allow you to refer to imported items in an exported interface. While this is possible in the component model, it is not possible in WIT today.