stream reading features

CHANGES.md

@@ -26,9 +26,10 @@
     geojson::ser::to_feature_collection_string(&my_structs).unwrap();
     ```
   * PR: <https://github.com/georust/geojson/pull/199>
-* Added `geojson::{FeatureReader, FeatureWriter}` to stream the reading/writing of your custom struct to and from GeoJSON.
-  * PR: <https://github.com/georust/geojson/pull/199> 
+* Added `geojson::{FeatureReader, FeatureWriter}` to stream the reading/writing of your custom struct to and from GeoJSON, greatly reducing the memory required to process a FeatureCollection.
+  * PR: <https://github.com/georust/geojson/pull/199>
   * PR: <https://github.com/georust/geojson/pull/205>
+  * PR: <https://github.com/georust/geojson/pull/206>
 * Added IntoIter implementation for FeatureCollection.
   * <https://github.com/georust/geojson/pull/196>
 * Added `geojson::Result<T>`.

src/de.rs

@@ -150,21 +150,17 @@ pub fn deserialize_feature_collection<'de, T>(
 where
     T: Deserialize<'de>,
 {
-    let mut deserializer = serde_json::Deserializer::from_reader(feature_collection_reader);
-
-    // PERF: rather than deserializing the entirety of the `features:` array into memory here, it'd
-    // be nice to stream the features. However, I ran into difficulty while trying to return any
-    // borrowed reference from the visitor methods (e.g. MapAccess)
-    let visitor = FeatureCollectionVisitor::new();
-    let objects = deserializer.deserialize_map(visitor)?;
-
-    Ok(objects.into_iter().map(|feature_value| {
-        let deserializer = feature_value.into_deserializer();
-        let visitor = FeatureVisitor::new();
-        let record: T = deserializer.deserialize_map(visitor)?;
-
-        Ok(record)
-    }))
+    #[allow(deprecated)]
+    let iter = crate::FeatureIterator::new(feature_collection_reader).map(
+        |feature_value: Result<JsonValue>| {
+            let deserializer = feature_value?.into_deserializer();
+            let visitor = FeatureVisitor::new();
+            let record: T = deserializer.deserialize_map(visitor)?;
+
+            Ok(record)
+        },
+    );
+    Ok(iter)
 }
 
 /// Build a `Vec` of structs from a GeoJson `&str`.
@@ -295,62 +291,6 @@ where
     Ok(deserializer.deserialize_map(visitor)?)
 }
 
-struct FeatureCollectionVisitor;
-
-impl FeatureCollectionVisitor {
-    fn new() -> Self {
-        Self
-    }
-}
-
-impl<'de> serde::de::Visitor<'de> for FeatureCollectionVisitor {
-    type Value = Vec<JsonValue>;
-
-    fn expecting(&self, formatter: &mut Formatter) -> std::fmt::Result {
-        write!(formatter, "a valid GeoJSON Feature object")
-    }
-
-    fn visit_map<A>(self, mut map_access: A) -> std::result::Result<Self::Value, A::Error>
-    where
-        A: serde::de::MapAccess<'de>,
-    {
-        let mut has_feature_collection_type = false;
-        let mut features = None;
-        while let Some((key, value)) = map_access.next_entry::<String, JsonValue>()? {
-            if key == "type" {
-                if value == JsonValue::String("FeatureCollection".to_string()) {
-                    has_feature_collection_type = true;
-                } else {
-                    return Err(Error::custom("invalid type for feature collection"));
-                }
-            } else if key == "features" {
-                if let JsonValue::Array(value) = value {
-                    if features.is_some() {
-                        return Err(Error::custom(
-                            "Encountered more than one list of `features`",
-                        ));
-                    }
-                    features = Some(value);
-                } else {
-                    return Err(Error::custom("`features` had unexpected value"));
-                }
-            } else {
-                log::warn!("foreign members are not handled by FeatureCollection deserializer")
-            }
-        }
-
-        if let Some(features) = features {
-            if has_feature_collection_type {
-                Ok(features)
-            } else {
-                Err(Error::custom("No `type` field was found"))
-            }
-        } else {
-            Err(Error::custom("No `features` field was found"))
-        }
-    }
-}
-
 struct FeatureVisitor<D> {
     _marker: PhantomData<D>,
 }

src/feature_iterator.rs

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 
 use crate::{Feature, Result};
 
+use serde::Deserialize;
 use std::io;
 use std::marker::PhantomData;
 
@@ -32,10 +33,11 @@ use std::marker::PhantomData;
 /// Based on example code found at <https://github.com/serde-rs/serde/issues/903#issuecomment-297488118>.
 ///
 /// [GeoJSON Format Specification § 3.3](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7946#section-3.3)
-pub struct FeatureIterator<R> {
+pub struct FeatureIterator<'de, R, D = Feature> {
     reader: R,
     state: State,
-    marker: PhantomData<Feature>,
+    output: PhantomData<D>,
+    lifetime: PhantomData<&'de ()>,
 }
 
 #[derive(Debug, Copy, Clone)]
@@ -45,17 +47,18 @@ enum State {
     AfterFeatures,
 }
 
-impl<R> FeatureIterator<R> {
+impl<'de, R, D> FeatureIterator<'de, R, D> {
     pub fn new(reader: R) -> Self {
         FeatureIterator {
             reader,
             state: State::BeforeFeatures,
-            marker: PhantomData,
+            output: PhantomData,
+            lifetime: PhantomData,
         }
     }
 }
 
-impl<R> FeatureIterator<R>
+impl<'de, R, D> FeatureIterator<'de, R, D>
 where
     R: io::Read,
 {
@@ -98,11 +101,12 @@ where
     }
 }
 
-impl<R> Iterator for FeatureIterator<R>
+impl<'de, R, D> Iterator for FeatureIterator<'de, R, D>
 where
     R: io::Read,
+    D: Deserialize<'de>,
 {
-    type Item = Result<Feature>;
+    type Item = Result<D>;
 
     fn next(&mut self) -> Option<Self::Item> {
         match self.seek_to_next_feature() {
@@ -124,9 +128,9 @@ where
 
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
-    use crate::FeatureIterator;
-    use crate::Geometry;
-    use crate::Value;
+    use super::*;
+    use crate::{Geometry, Value};
+
     use std::io::BufReader;
 
     fn fc() -> &'static str {
@@ -179,7 +183,7 @@ mod tests {
 
     #[test]
     fn stream_read_test() {
-        let mut fi = FeatureIterator::new(BufReader::new(fc().as_bytes()));
+        let mut fi = FeatureIterator::<_, Feature>::new(BufReader::new(fc().as_bytes()));
         assert_eq!(
             Geometry {
                 bbox: None,