rust-pyo3: retrieving the InnerRevlog of hg-cpython...
rust-pyo3: retrieving the InnerRevlog of hg-cpython
This allows PyO3-based code to use the InnerRevlog, access its shared data
(core InnerRevlog), which will then allow, e.g., to retrieve references on
the core Index.
On the `hg-cpython` (`rusthg` crate, `rustext` Python extension module),
we had to also build as a Rust library, and open up some accesses (see
notably the public accessor for `inner`, the core `InnerRevlog`).
Retrieving the Rust struct underlying a Python object defined by another
extension module written in Rust is tricky because the Python type objects
are duplicated in the extension modules, leading to failure of the normal
type checking. See the doc-comment of `convert_cpython::extract_inner_revlog`
for a complete explanation.
To solve this, we import the Python type object of `rustext` (defined
by `hg-cpython`) and perform a manual check. Checking the Python type is
necessary, as PyO3 documentation clearly state that downcasting an object
that has not the proper type is Undefined Behaviour.
At this point, we do not have conversion facilities for exceptions (`PyErr`
on both sides), hence the remaining unwraps).
