Add documentation of call_fn to README.

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Stephen Chung 2020-03-06 11:26:58 +08:00
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@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Rhai's current feature set:
* Support for overloaded functions
* No additional dependencies
**Note:** Currently, the version is 0.10.1, so the language and API's may change before they stabilize.
**Note:** Currently, the version is 0.10.2, so the language and API's may change before they stabilize.
## Installation
@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ You can install Rhai using crates by adding this line to your dependencies:
```toml
[dependencies]
rhai = "0.10.1"
rhai = "0.10.2"
```
or simply:
@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ You can also evaluate a script file:
if let Ok(result) = engine.eval_file::<i64>("hello_world.rhai") { ... }
```
If you want to repeatedly evaluate a script, you can compile it first into an AST form:
If you want to repeatedly evaluate a script, you can _compile_ it first into an AST (abstract syntax tree) form:
```rust
// Compile to an AST and store it for later evaluations
@ -130,12 +130,25 @@ for _ in 0..42 {
}
```
Compiling a script file into AST is also supported:
Compiling a script file is also supported:
```rust
let ast = Engine::compile_file("hello_world.rhai").unwrap();
```
Rhai also allows you to work _backwards_ from the other direction - i.e. calling a Rhai-scripted function from Rust.
You do this via `call_fn`, which takes a compiled AST (output from `compile`) and the
function call arguments:
```rust
// Define a function in a script and compile to AST
let ast = Engine::compile("fn hello(x, y) { x.len() + y }")?;
// Evaluate the function in the AST, passing arguments into the script as a tuple
// (beware, arguments must be of the correct types because Rhai does not have built-in type conversions)
let result: i64 = engine.call_fn("hello", ast, (&mut String::from("abc"), &mut 123_i64))?;
```
# Values and types
The following primitive types are supported natively: