Type-safe terms

[NotJustAnna]

What is this?

Make a list of valid argument types, valid optargs keys with valid value types for each key., preferably in JSON.

Example

{
    "TABLE": {
        "arguments": [
            [
                {"type": "DATUM", "datumType": "T_STRING"}
            ],
            [
                {"type": "DB"},
                {"type": "DATUM", "datumType": "T_STRING"}
            ]
        ],
        "optArgs": {
            "read_mode": {"acceptedValues": ["majority", "single", "outdated"]},
            "identifier_format": {"acceptedValues": ["name", "uuid"]}
        }
    } 
}

Source of knowledge

https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/tree/next/src/rdb_protocol/terms

Things to keep in mind

According to srh:

E.g., to pick a random file, https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/blob/next/src/rdb_protocol/terms/db_table.cc , you can see the table_term_t showing the r.table term takes 1-2 arguments and three optargs, where the constructor takes an argspec_t and an optargspec_t. But then the body of the function describes what constitutes a valid set of arguments. (E.g. with 1 argument, it must be a table name, with 2 arguments, there must be a db term and a table name.)