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Context
Note: This is an alternative implementation of the previous
Header*
traits I drafted. I'm not sure whether this is better, main "objective improvement" in this PR is just working it intoAsAccount
.One of the pain points of
Pod
account data is storing collections of items, especially collections whose lengths may differ across different accounts.More generally, lots of times it's nice to "parse a header first, then parse the rest," as demonstrated by programs in the wild like Bonfida's agnostic-orderbook, SPL Account Compression, or this random dude's account history program.
In Steel's case, the header type can be
Discriminator + Pod
. Then, using the header, the remaining bytes can be deserialized. For example, collections could resolve to either generically sized arrays, or structs with slices whose lengths are stored in the header. This PR provides a way to define these fancy "two-step" types with theAsAccount
interface.Implementation
AsAccount
interface.FromHeader
andFromHeaderMut
. Removed the old header-related traits.FromHeader<'_, T>
orFromHeaderMut<'_, T>
for someT: AccountDeserialize
can be used in the following ways:A Couple Call-Outs