WIP: refactor daemon API types to daemon/api.rs

src/daemon/api.rs

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+use std::ops::Deref;
+
+use crate::prelude::*;
+
+use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
+
+mod impls;
+
+/// Unfortunately, empty-string identifiers are valid Nix...
+///
+/// This type does not provide a [`Default`] impl, however.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, PartialOrd, Ord, Hash)]
+#[derive(Deserialize, Serialize)]
+#[serde(untagged)]
+pub enum ConvenientAttrPath {
+    Dotted(Box<str>),
+    Split(Box<[Box<str>]>),
+}
+
+impl ConvenientAttrPath {
+    pub fn clone_from_dotted(s: &str) -> Self {
+        Self::Dotted(Box::from(s))
+    }
+
+    pub fn clone_from_split(s: &[&str]) -> Self {
+        Self::from_str_iter(s.iter().map(Deref::deref))
+    }
+
+    pub fn from_str_iter<'i, I>(iter: I) -> Self
+    where
+        I: IntoIterator<Item = &'i str>,
+    {
+        let iter = iter.into_iter();
+        let boxed = iter.map(Box::from);
+        Self::Split(Box::from_iter(boxed))
+    }
+
+    pub fn to_nix_decl(&self) -> Box<str> {
+        use ConvenientAttrPath::*;
+        match self {
+            Dotted(s) => s.clone(),
+            Split(path) => {
+                // FIXME: quote if necessary
+                path.join(".").into_boxed_str()
+            },
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq)]
+#[derive(serde::Deserialize, serde::Serialize)]
+#[serde(tag = "action", content = "args", rename_all = "snake_case")]
+// FIXME: rename to not confuse with the clap argument type.
+pub enum DaemonCmd {
+    Append {
+        name: ConvenientAttrPath,
+        value: Box<str>,
+    },
+}