Editing the contents of Tables and Values

[toml-rs]

Editing the contents of Tables and Values

[alexcrichton]

Yeah unfortunately this library doesn't support this use case very well right now. I'm hoping to update it at some point in the future to have a more feature-ful AST (with a different API) to allow preserving components such as whitespace and comments.

That being said it's pretty far off, so I wouldn't hold your breath any time soon :(

[alexcrichton]

I've rewritten the parser in #137 and the lowest layer (tokenization) supports whitespace/comments and otherwise preserving the original source where appropriate, but beyond that I haven't made much progress on this.

[sedrik]

Do you have a work in progress that we can look at and contribute to? I think the idea of parsing into a AST that can then later on be serialized into different formats (among others JSON and back to TOML) is the best approach.

[alexcrichton]

Nah unfortunately not much more that #137. The src/tokens.rs is likely the starting point (as it preserves everything), but much more support is going to be needed.

[epage]

Maintenance of this crate has moved to the https://github.com/toml-rs/toml repo. As a heads up, we plan to move toml to be on top of toml_edit, see toml-rs/toml#340.

Closing this out. If this is still a problem, feel free to recreate this issue in the new repo.