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Rename spans in the serialized form of Value (#11972)
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Span fields were previously renamed to `internal_span` to discourage
their use in Rust code, but this change also affected the serde I/O for
Value. I don't believe the Python plugin was ever updated to reflect
this change.

This effectively changes it back, but just for the serialized form.
There are good reasons for doing this:

1. `internal_span` is a much longer name, and would be one of the most
common strings found in serialized Value data, probably bulking up the
plugin I/O

2. This change was never really meant to have implications for plugins,
and was just meant to be a hint that `.span()` should be used instead in
Rust code.

When Span refactoring is complete, the serialized form of Value will
probably change again in some significant way, so I think for now it's
best that it's left like this.

This has implications for #11911, particularly for documentation and for
the Python plugin as that was already updated in that PR to reflect
`internal_span`. If this is merged first, I will update that PR.

This would probably be considered a breaking change as it would break
plugin I/O compatibility (but not Rust code). I think it can probably go
in any major release though - all things considered, it's pretty minor,
and users are already expected to recompile plugins for new major
versions. However, it may also be worth holding off to do it together
with #11911 as that PR makes breaking changes in general a little bit
friendlier.

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Requires plugin recompile.

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- 🟢 `toolkit test stdlib`

Nothing outside of `Value` itself had to be changed to make tests pass.
I did not check the Python plugin and whether it works now, but it was
broken before. It may work again as I think the main incompatibility it
had was expecting to use `span`

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2024-02-25 15:49:10 -06:00
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src Rename spans in the serialized form of Value (#11972) 2024-02-25 15:49:10 -06:00
tests Name the Value conversion functions more clearly (#11851) 2024-02-17 18:14:16 +00:00
Cargo.toml fix format date based on users locale (#11908) 2024-02-20 11:08:49 -06:00
LICENSE Fix rest of license year ranges (#8727) 2023-04-04 09:03:29 +12:00
README.md Add nu-protocol 2021-09-02 13:29:43 +12:00

nu-protocol

The nu-protocol crate holds the definitions of structs/traits that are used throughout Nushell. This gives us one way to expose them to many other crates, as well as make these definitions available to each other, without causing mutually recursive dependencies.