如何在WebAssembly中从Rust返回字符串(或类似内容)?

WebAssembly只支持少数几个 numeric types ,这是通过导出函数可以返回的全部内容。

编译到WebAssembly时,字符串将保存在模块的线性内存中。为了从宿主JavaScript中读取该字符串,需要返回对其在内存中位置的引用,以及字符串的长度,即两个整数。这允许您从内存中读取字符串。

无论编译到WebAssembly的是哪种语言,都使用相同的技术。 How can I return a JavaScript string from a WebAssembly function 提供问题的详细背景。

对于Rust,您需要使用外部函数接口(FFI),使用 CString 类型如下:

use std::ffi::CString;
use std::os::raw::c_char;

static HELLO: &'static str = "hello from rust";

#[no_mangle]
pub fn get_hello() -> *mut c_char {
    let s = CString::new(HELLO).unwrap();
    s.into_raw()
}

#[no_mangle]
pub fn get_hello_len() -> usize {
    HELLO.len()
}

上面的代码导出了两个函数, get_hello 返回对字符串的引用,并且 get_hello_len 返回其长度。

通过将上述代码编译成wasm模块,可以按如下方式访问字符串:

const res = await fetch('chip8.wasm');
const buffer = await res.arrayBuffer();
const module = await WebAssembly.compile(buffer);
const instance = await WebAssembly.instantiate(module);

// obtain the module memory
const linearMemory = instance.exports.memory;

// create a buffer starting at the reference to the exported string
const offset = instance.exports.get_hello();
const stringBuffer = new Uint8Array(linearMemory.buffer, offset,
  instance.exports.get_hello_len());

// create a string from this buffer
let str = '';
for (let i=0; i<stringBuffer.length; i++) {
  str += String.fromCharCode(stringBuffer[i]);
}

console.log(str);

C等价物 can be seen in action in a WasmFiddle .

你不能直接退回铁锈 String 或者 &str . 相反,分配并返回一个原始字节指针,其中包含必须在JavaScript端编码为JS字符串的数据。

您可以看一看SHA1示例 here .

感兴趣的功能是

• demos/bundle.js - copyCStr
• demos/sha1/sha1-digest.rs - digest

更多示例: https://www.hellorust.com/demos/sha1/index.html

我看到的大多数示例都会复制字符串两次。首先在WASM一侧,进入 CString 或者通过缩小 Vec 然后在解码UTF-8的同时在JS端。

考虑到我们经常使用WASM是为了提高速度,我试图实现一个可以重用Rust向量的版本。

use std::collections::HashMap;

/// Byte vectors shared with JavaScript.
///
/// A map from payload's memory location to `Vec<u8>`.
///
/// In order to deallocate memory in Rust we need not just the memory location but also it's size.
/// In case of strings and vectors the freed size is capacity.
/// Keeping the vector around allows us not to change it's capacity.
///
/// Not thread-safe (assuming that we're running WASM from the single JavaScript thread).
static mut SHARED_VECS: Option<HashMap<u32, Vec<u8>>> = None;

extern "C" {
    fn console_log(rs: *const u8);
    fn console_log_8859_1(rs: *const u8);
}

#[no_mangle]
pub fn init() {
    unsafe { SHARED_VECS = Some(HashMap::new()) }
}

#[no_mangle]
pub fn vec_len(payload: *const u8) -> u32 {
    unsafe {
        SHARED_VECS
            .as_ref()
            .unwrap()
            .get(&(payload as u32))
            .unwrap()
            .len() as u32
    }
}

pub fn vec2js<V: Into<Vec<u8>>>(v: V) -> *const u8 {
    let v = v.into();
    let payload = v.as_ptr();
    unsafe {
        SHARED_VECS.as_mut().unwrap().insert(payload as u32, v);
    }
    payload
}

#[no_mangle]
pub extern "C" fn free_vec(payload: *const u8) {
    unsafe {
        SHARED_VECS.as_mut().unwrap().remove(&(payload as u32));
    }
}

#[no_mangle]
pub fn start() {
    unsafe {
        console_log(vec2js(format!("Hello again!")));
        console_log_8859_1(vec2js(b"ASCII string." as &[u8]));
    }
}

JavaScript部分:

(function (iif) {

  function rs2js (mod, rs, utfLabel = 'utf-8') {
    const view = new Uint8Array (mod.memory.buffer, rs, mod.vec_len (rs))
    const utf8dec = new TextDecoder (utfLabel)
    const utf8 = utf8dec.decode (view)
    mod.free_vec (rs)
    return utf8}

  function loadWasm (cache) {
    // https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/WebAssembly/instantiateStreaming
    WebAssembly.instantiateStreaming (fetch ('main.wasm', {cache: cache ? "default" : "no-cache"}), {env: {
      console_log: function (rs) {if (window.console) console.log ('main]', rs2js (iif.main, rs))},
      console_log_8859_1: function (rs) {if (window.console) console.log ('main]', rs2js (iif.main, rs, 'iso-8859-1'))}
    }}) .then (results => {
      const exports = results.instance.exports
      exports.init()
      iif.main = exports
      iif.main.start()})}

  // Hot code reloading.
  if (window.location.hostname == '127.0.0.1' && window.location.port == '43080') {
    window.setInterval (
      function() {
        // Check if the WASM was updated.
        fetch ('main.wasm.lm', {cache: "no-cache"}) .then (r => r.text()) .then (lm => {
          lm = lm.trim()
          if (/^\d+$/.test (lm) && lm != iif.lm) {
            iif.lm = lm
            loadWasm (false)}})},
      200)
  } else loadWasm (true)

} (window.iif = window.iif || {}))

这里的权衡是我们正在使用 HashMap 在WASM中,可能会增加尺寸,除非 哈希图 已需要。

一个有趣的替代方法是使用 tables 与JavaScript共享(负载、长度、容量)三元组,并在释放字符串时将其取回。但我还不知道如何使用这些桌子。

P、 有时我们不想分配 Vec公司 首先。

extern "C" {
    fn new_js_string(utf8: *const u8, len: i32) -> i32;
    fn console_log(js: i32);
}

fn rs2js(rs: &str) -> i32 {
    assert!(rs.len() < i32::max_value() as usize);
    unsafe { new_js_string(rs.as_ptr(), rs.len() as i32) }
}

#[no_mangle]
pub fn start() {
    unsafe {
        console_log(rs2js("Hello again!"));
    }
}

(function (iif) {
  function loadWasm (cache) {
    WebAssembly.instantiateStreaming (fetch ('main.wasm', {cache: cache ? "default" : "no-cache"}), {env: {
      new_js_string: function (utf8, len) {
        const view = new Uint8Array (iif.main.memory.buffer, utf8, len)
        const utf8dec = new TextDecoder ('utf-8')
        const decoded = utf8dec.decode (view)
        let stringId = iif.lastStringId
        while (typeof iif.strings[stringId] !== 'undefined') stringId += 1
        if (stringId > 2147483647) {  // Can't easily pass more than that through WASM.
          stringId = -2147483648
          while (typeof iif.strings[stringId] !== 'undefined') stringId += 1
          if (stringId > 2147483647) throw new Error ('Out of string IDs!')}
        iif.strings[stringId] = decoded
        return iif.lastStringId = stringId},
      console_log: function (js) {
        if (window.console) console.log ('main]', iif.strings[js])
        delete iif.strings[js]}
    }}) .then (results => {
      iif.main = results.instance.exports
      iif.main.start()})}

  loadWasm (true)
} (window.iif = window.iif || {strings: {}, lastStringId: 1}))