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defaults and which ones build C (checked with `cargo tree`), and links to
the top-level docs.

Corrections to the old stubs:
- clawhdf5-derive: the derive is `H5Type`, not `HDF5Type`, and it needs
  clawhdf5-format as a dependency.
- clawhdf5-filters: deflate backends only, and no library crate depends
  on it; the filter pipeline and every other codec are in -format.
- clawhdf5-gpu: vector distance compute, not I/O; not used by
  HDF5Memory::search.
- clawhdf5-io: MpiVol is root-read + broadcast, not collective MPI-IO.
- clawhdf5-ann: from_hdf5/search(q, k) did not exist; load_from_hdf5 and
  search(q, k, ef).
- clawhdf5-accel: checksum::crc32_simd did not exist; the SSE4 and wasm
  backends are reported but run the scalar kernels.
- clawhdf5-gpu: the old example called l2_distances, which does not
  exist (l2_search).
- clawhdf5-agent: it described a "vector store" with "GPU acceleration";
  it now covers HDF5Memory, search options, WAL, signing, the graph.
- crates.io/docs.rs badges removed and `cargo install <crate>` replaced:
  nothing is published; depend on git.
- fuzz: the opt-in CLAWHDF5_FUZZ_SECONDS smoke run in ci-test.sh.
- tools: the FileEditor interop tests that live in this crate.
- remote, py: license, other front ends, limits, File.mode/flush/chunks.

The Rust examples of the facade, format, filters, accel, ann, derive and
agent READMEs were compiled and run as tests (netcdf4, gpu and remote
compiled only) in a scratch crate; the CLI example was run.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
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clawhdf5-derive

#[derive(H5Type)]: maps a Rust struct with named fields to an HDF5 compound datatype. The derive generates three inherent methods:

  • hdf5_datatype() -> clawhdf5_format::datatype::Datatype — the Datatype::Compound (members in field order, packed, little-endian);
  • to_bytes(&self) -> Vec<u8> — one element in that layout;
  • from_bytes(&[u8]) -> Self — the reverse (panics if the slice is shorter than the compound).

Supported field types: f32, f64, i8–i64, u8–u64, bool (stored as u8) and fixed-size arrays [T; N] of those numeric types. Tuple structs, enums and nested structs are refused at compile time.

The generated code names clawhdf5_format, so the crate using the derive must depend on clawhdf5-format too. Not on crates.io yet:

[dependencies]
clawhdf5-derive = { git = "https://git.redclaw.dev/quantumclaw/clawhdf5" }
clawhdf5-format = { git = "https://git.redclaw.dev/quantumclaw/clawhdf5" }

Example

use clawhdf5_derive::H5Type;
use clawhdf5_format::datatype::Datatype;

#[derive(H5Type, Debug, PartialEq)]
struct Point {
    id: u32,
    pos: [f64; 3],
    valid: bool,
}

let p = Point { id: 7, pos: [1.0, 2.0, 3.0], valid: true };
let bytes = p.to_bytes();
assert_eq!(bytes.len(), 4 + 24 + 1);
assert_eq!(Point::from_bytes(&bytes), p);
assert!(matches!(Point::hdf5_datatype(), Datatype::Compound { size: 29, .. }));

Tests: crates/clawhdf5-format/tests/derive_tests.rs.

License

MIT