docs for input queries

ARCHITECTURE.md

@@ -91,7 +91,9 @@ We use [salsa][https://github.com/salsa-rs/salsa] crate for incremental and
 on-demand computation. Roughly, you can think of salsa as a key-value store, but
 it also can compute derived values using specified functions. The `ra_db` crate
 provides a basic infrastructure for interracting with salsa. Crucially, it
-defines most of the "input" queries: facts supplied by the client of the analyzer.
+defines most of the "input" queries: facts supplied by the client of the
+analyzer. Reading the docs of the `ra_db::input` module should be useful:
+everithing else is strictly derived from thouse inputs.
 
 ### `crates/ra_hir`
 

Cargo.lock

@@ -546,7 +546,7 @@ name = "parking_lot"
 version = "0.7.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 dependencies = [
- "lock_api 0.1.4 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
+ "lock_api 0.1.5 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "parking_lot_core 0.4.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
 ]
 
@@ -567,10 +567,10 @@ name = "parking_lot_core"
 version = "0.4.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 dependencies = [
- "libc 0.2.43 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
+ "libc 0.2.45 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "rand 0.6.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "rustc_version 0.2.3 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
- "smallvec 0.6.5 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
+ "smallvec 0.6.7 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "winapi 0.3.6 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
 ]
 

crates/ra_analysis/src/imp.rs

@@ -105,9 +105,6 @@ impl AnalysisHostImpl {
             self.db
                 .query_mut(ra_db::FileTextQuery)
                 .set(remove_file.file_id, Default::default());
-            self.db
-                .query_mut(ra_db::FileRelativePathQuery)
-                .set(remove_file.file_id, Default::default());
             source_root.files.remove(&remove_file.path);
         }
         self.db

crates/ra_db/src/input.rs

@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+/// This modules specifies the input to rust-analyzer. In some sense, this is
+/// **the** most important module, because all other fancy stuff is strickly
+/// derived from this input.
 use std::sync::Arc;
 
 use rustc_hash::{FxHashMap};
@@ -5,20 +8,48 @@ use relative_path::RelativePathBuf;
 use ra_syntax::SmolStr;
 use salsa;
 
-#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Hash, PartialOrd, Ord)]
-pub struct SourceRootId(pub u32);
-
+/// `FileId` is an integer which uniquely identifies a file. File paths are
+/// messy and system-dependent, so most of the code should work directly with
+/// `FileId`, without inspecting the path. The mapping between `FileId` and path
+/// and `SourceRoot` is constant. File rename is represented as a pair of
+/// deletion/creation.
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, PartialOrd, Ord, Hash)]
 pub struct FileId(pub u32);
 
-#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, PartialOrd, Ord, Hash)]
-pub struct CrateId(pub u32);
+/// Files are grouped into source roots. A source root is a directory on the
+/// file systems which is watched for changes. Typically it corresponds to a
+/// Cargo package. Source roots *might* be nested: in this case, file belongs to
+/// the nearest enclosing source root. Path to files are always relative to a
+/// source root, and analyzer does not know the root path of the source root at
+/// all. So, a file from one source root can't refere a file in another source
+/// root by path.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Hash, PartialOrd, Ord)]
+pub struct SourceRootId(pub u32);
 
+#[derive(Default, Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
+pub struct SourceRoot {
+    pub files: FxHashMap<RelativePathBuf, FileId>,
+}
+
+/// `CrateGraph` is a bit of information which turns a set of text files into a
+/// number of Rust crates. Each Crate is the `FileId` of it's root module, the
+/// set of cfg flags (not yet implemented) and the set of dependencies. Note
+/// that, due to cfg's, there might be several crates for a single `FileId`! As
+/// in the rust-lang proper, a crate does not have a name. Instead, names are
+/// specified on dependency edges. That is, a crate might be known under
+/// different names in different dependant crates.
+///
+/// Note that `CrateGraph` is build-system agnostic: it's a concept of the Rust
+/// langauge proper, not a concept of the build system. In practice, we get
+/// `CrateGraph` by lowering `cargo metadata` output.
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, Default, PartialEq, Eq)]
 pub struct CrateGraph {
     arena: FxHashMap<CrateId, CrateData>,
 }
 
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, PartialOrd, Ord, Hash)]
+pub struct CrateId(pub u32);
+
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
 struct CrateData {
     file_id: FileId,
@@ -57,7 +88,7 @@ impl CrateGraph {
         assert!(prev.is_none());
         crate_id
     }
-    //FIXME: check that we don't have cycles here.
+    // FIXME: check that we don't have cycles here.
     // Just a simple depth first search from `to` should work,
     // the graph is small.
     pub fn add_dep(&mut self, from: CrateId, name: SmolStr, to: CrateId) {
@@ -83,6 +114,7 @@ impl CrateGraph {
 
 salsa::query_group! {
     pub trait FilesDatabase: salsa::Database {
+        /// Text of the file.
         fn file_text(file_id: FileId) -> Arc<String> {
             type FileTextQuery;
             storage input;
@@ -92,30 +124,32 @@ salsa::query_group! {
             type FileRelativePathQuery;
             storage input;
         }
+        /// Source root of the file.
         fn file_source_root(file_id: FileId) -> SourceRootId {
             type FileSourceRootQuery;
             storage input;
         }
+        /// Contents of the source root.
         fn source_root(id: SourceRootId) -> Arc<SourceRoot> {
             type SourceRootQuery;
             storage input;
         }
+        /// The set of "local" (that is, from the current workspace) roots.
+        /// Files in local roots are assumed to change frequently.
         fn local_roots() -> Arc<Vec<SourceRootId>> {
             type LocalRootsQuery;
             storage input;
         }
+        /// The set of roots for crates.io libraries.
+        /// Files in libraries are assumed to never change.
         fn library_roots() -> Arc<Vec<SourceRootId>> {
             type LibraryRootsQuery;
             storage input;
         }
+        /// The crate graph.
         fn crate_graph() -> Arc<CrateGraph> {
             type CrateGraphQuery;
             storage input;
         }
     }
 }
-
-#[derive(Default, Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
-pub struct SourceRoot {
-    pub files: FxHashMap<RelativePathBuf, FileId>,
-}