Convert component resource to a record - #17
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Resources are not composable from unique sources within the same component. For example, component resources in the wac-loader could only be consumed as resources from the wac-loader. This makes it impossible to actually bootstrap and compose a component. Switching to a record avoids these issues. A significant downside to using a record is that the bytes for the component must be initialized when the record is created. This makes lazy loading components on demand impossible. Likewise, if we wanted to change the list<u8> to stream<u8>, it could only be read once, and inherently less useful. Signed-off-by: Scott Andrews <scott@andrews.me>
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wit map's are now part of the component model spec. Unfortunately, the
key cannot be a complex type like a record, or even a type alias for a
supported type. So we're denormalizing the id types from records to
strings. Each id take the form of `type:{value}` so that the keys in
each map are unique.
Signed-off-by: Scott Andrews <scott@andrews.me>
Loaders may extract and populate the wit, or leave it empty until a consumer needs the wit content. Signed-off-by: Scott Andrews <scott@andrews.me>
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Resources are not composable from unique sources within the same component. For example, component resources in the wac-loader could only be consumed as resources from the wac-loader. This makes it impossible to actually bootstrap and compose a component.
Switching to a record avoids these issues.
A significant downside to using a record is that the bytes for the component must be initialized when the record is created. This makes lazy loading components on demand impossible. Likewise, if we wanted to change the list to stream, it could only be read once, and inherently less useful.