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interpres/decode.go
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petrbalvin 9874464213 perf(decode): resolve interfaces through cached type flags
The decoder asked every value whether it implements Unmarshaler or encoding.TextUnmarshaler by boxing it into an interface and asserting, which allocated on every scalar field. A per-type flag cache answers first and an interface value is built only where the assertion can succeed; interface destinations are still asked dynamically. A monomorphic hint in front of the cache keeps the hot walk off the sync.Map probe, and it re-points at published cache entries so a miss allocates nothing.

Representative document: 233 to 167 allocations; long document typed decode: 107 674 to 63 772 allocations, about 6.1 to about 3.8 ms.
2026-09-20 22:15:23 +02:00

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// Copyright (c) 2026 Petr Balvín <opensource@petrbalvin.org> (https://petrbalvin.org)
// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
package interpres
import (
"encoding"
"fmt"
"reflect"
"slices"
"strings"
"sync"
"sync/atomic"
"time"
)
// decoder maps a parsed TOML tree onto Go values via reflection.
type decoder struct {
disallowUnknown bool
}
func newDecoder() *decoder { return &decoder{} }
var timeType = reflect.TypeFor[time.Time]()
var (
unmarshalerType = reflect.TypeFor[Unmarshaler]()
textUnmarshalerType = reflect.TypeFor[encoding.TextUnmarshaler]()
)
// The per-type flags record which interface lookups a decode into that type
// can succeed at, so the hot path consults the cache instead of boxing every
// value into an interface to ask. The bits name the receiver the method is
// found on: the value itself, or its address.
const (
flagUnmarshaler uint8 = 1 << iota
flagAddrUnmarshaler
flagTextUnmarshaler
flagAddrTextUnmarshaler
)
// typeFlagCache holds one flag entry per destination type. A set is immutable
// once published, the same trade-off structSchemaCache makes; the cache grows
// with the number of distinct types decoded, never per document. The hint
// below re-points at these published entries, so a hot lookup allocates
// nothing.
var typeFlagCache sync.Map // reflect.Type -> *flagHintEntry
// flagHintEntry pairs a type with its cached flags for the monomorphic hint
// below. Both caches share the entry shape.
type flagHintEntry struct {
typ reflect.Type
flags uint8
}
// typeFlagHint remembers the entry resolved last, because a decode walks one
// type across consecutive fields and elements. A lost race loses only the
// hint: every value it can hold came from the cache.
var typeFlagHint atomic.Pointer[flagHintEntry]
func typeFlags(t reflect.Type) uint8 {
if e := typeFlagHint.Load(); e != nil && e.typ == t {
return e.flags
}
if v, ok := typeFlagCache.Load(t); ok {
entry := v.(*flagHintEntry)
typeFlagHint.Store(entry)
return entry.flags
}
var f uint8
if t.Implements(unmarshalerType) {
f |= flagUnmarshaler
}
pt := reflect.PointerTo(t)
if pt.Implements(unmarshalerType) {
f |= flagAddrUnmarshaler
}
// The date-time types are excluded from the text path: they carry
// time.Time's UnmarshalText through an embedded field while their only
// accepted form is a bare timestamp.
if !isDateTimeType(t) {
if t.Implements(textUnmarshalerType) {
f |= flagTextUnmarshaler
}
if pt.Implements(textUnmarshalerType) {
f |= flagAddrTextUnmarshaler
}
}
actual, _ := typeFlagCache.LoadOrStore(t, &flagHintEntry{t, f})
published := actual.(*flagHintEntry)
typeFlagHint.Store(published)
return published.flags
}
// unmarshalerOf resolves the Unmarshaler for dst through the flag cache, so
// an interface value is built only where the cache says the assertion can
// succeed. An interface destination is asked dynamically, because the value
// it will hold may implement the interface even when the interface type
// itself does not.
func unmarshalerOf(dst reflect.Value) (Unmarshaler, bool) {
if dst.Kind() == reflect.Interface {
u, ok := dst.Interface().(Unmarshaler)
return u, ok
}
f := typeFlags(dst.Type())
if f&flagUnmarshaler != 0 {
u, ok := dst.Interface().(Unmarshaler)
return u, ok
}
if f&flagAddrUnmarshaler != 0 && dst.CanAddr() {
u, ok := dst.Addr().Interface().(Unmarshaler)
return u, ok
}
return nil, false
}
func (d *decoder) decode(tree map[string]any, v any) error {
rv := reflect.ValueOf(v)
if rv.Kind() != reflect.Pointer || rv.IsNil() {
return fmt.Errorf("interpres: decode target must be a non-nil pointer")
}
return d.assign(tree, rv.Elem())
}
// assign stores data into dst, converting between the TOML value kinds and the
// destination's Go type.
func (d *decoder) assign(data any, dst reflect.Value) error {
if dst.Kind() == reflect.Pointer {
if dst.IsNil() {
dst.Set(reflect.New(dst.Type().Elem()))
}
return d.assign(data, dst.Elem())
}
// An any destination takes the value as-is.
if dst.Kind() == reflect.Interface && dst.NumMethod() == 0 {
dst.Set(reflect.ValueOf(data))
return nil
}
// Types implementing Unmarshaler get the parsed data wholesale and are
// responsible for setting their own state. The decoder does not consult
// any return value; whatever the receiver stores is kept. The lookup
// covers both T and *T so a pointer-receiver UnmarshalTOML method is
// invoked on an addressable struct field.
if dst.CanInterface() {
u, ok := dst.Interface().(Unmarshaler)
if !ok && dst.CanAddr() {
u, ok = dst.Addr().Interface().(Unmarshaler)
}
if ok {
if err := u.UnmarshalTOML(data); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("unmarshal: %w", err)
}
return nil
}
}
// A TOML string fills a destination that implements
// encoding.TextUnmarshaler, the rule encoding/json follows. Every other
// value kind keeps its own rule, so an integer still reaches a numeric
// destination.
if s, isString := data.(string); isString {
if tu, ok := textUnmarshalerOf(dst); ok {
if err := tu.UnmarshalText([]byte(s)); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("unmarshal text: %w", err)
}
return nil
}
}
switch v := data.(type) {
case map[string]any:
return d.assignTable(v, dst)
case []map[string]any:
return d.assignTableSlice(v, dst)
case []any:
return d.assignSlice(v, dst)
case string:
if dst.Type() == durationType {
return setDuration(dst, v)
}
return setBasic(dst, reflect.ValueOf(v), "string")
case bool:
return setBasic(dst, reflect.ValueOf(v), "bool")
case int64:
return setInt(dst, v)
case float64:
return setFloat(dst, v)
case OffsetDateTime:
return setOffsetDateTime(v, dst)
case time.Time:
return setDateTime(v, dst)
default:
rv := reflect.ValueOf(data)
if rv.IsValid() && dst.Type() == rv.Type() {
dst.Set(rv)
return nil
}
return fmt.Errorf("interpres: cannot assign %T to %s", data, dst.Type())
}
}
// textUnmarshalerOf is the same resolution for encoding.TextUnmarshaler,
// with the date-time types excluded for the reason typeFlags records.
func textUnmarshalerOf(dst reflect.Value) (encoding.TextUnmarshaler, bool) {
if !dst.CanInterface() || isDateTimeType(dst.Type()) {
return nil, false
}
if dst.Kind() == reflect.Interface {
tu, ok := dst.Interface().(encoding.TextUnmarshaler)
return tu, ok
}
f := typeFlags(dst.Type())
if f&flagTextUnmarshaler != 0 {
tu, ok := dst.Interface().(encoding.TextUnmarshaler)
return tu, ok
}
if f&flagAddrTextUnmarshaler != 0 && dst.CanAddr() {
tu, ok := dst.Addr().Interface().(encoding.TextUnmarshaler)
return tu, ok
}
return nil, false
}
func (d *decoder) assignTable(tbl map[string]any, dst reflect.Value) error {
switch dst.Kind() {
case reflect.Struct:
return d.assignStruct(tbl, dst)
case reflect.Map:
return d.assignMap(tbl, dst)
default:
return fmt.Errorf("interpres: cannot assign table to %s", dst.Type())
}
}
func (d *decoder) assignStruct(tbl map[string]any, dst reflect.Value) error {
schema := cachedStructSchema(dst.Type())
if d.disallowUnknown {
// Map iteration order is random, so pick the unknown key to report
// deterministically: the smallest one.
unknown := ""
for key := range tbl {
if _, ok := schema.byName[key]; ok {
continue
}
if _, ok := schema.byName[strings.ToLower(key)]; ok {
continue
}
if unknown == "" || key < unknown {
unknown = key
}
}
if unknown != "" {
return fmt.Errorf("interpres: unknown field %q for %s", unknown, dst.Type())
}
}
for key, val := range tbl {
// A key that is already lowercase, which document keys usually are,
// hits the map directly; only a miss pays for the case fold.
field, ok := schema.byName[key]
if !ok {
field, ok = schema.byName[strings.ToLower(key)]
}
if !ok {
if schema.embedMaps != nil {
// Leftover keys land in an untagged embedded map, the inverse
// of the encoder inlining that map's entries.
mv, err := fieldByIndex(dst, schema.embedMaps[0])
if err != nil {
return newDecodeError(key, err)
}
if err := d.assignMap(map[string]any{key: val}, mv); err != nil {
return newDecodeError(key, err)
}
}
continue
}
fv, err := fieldByIndex(dst, field.index)
if err != nil {
return newDecodeError(key, err)
}
if err := d.assign(val, fv); err != nil {
return newDecodeError(key, err)
}
}
return nil
}
func (d *decoder) assignMap(tbl map[string]any, dst reflect.Value) error {
if dst.Type().Key().Kind() != reflect.String {
return fmt.Errorf("interpres: map key must be a string, got %s", dst.Type().Key())
}
if dst.IsNil() {
dst.Set(reflect.MakeMap(dst.Type()))
}
elemType := dst.Type().Elem()
for key, val := range tbl {
elem := reflect.New(elemType).Elem()
if err := d.assign(val, elem); err != nil {
return newDecodeError(key, err)
}
dst.SetMapIndex(reflect.ValueOf(key), elem)
}
return nil
}
func (d *decoder) assignSlice(items []any, dst reflect.Value) error {
if dst.Kind() != reflect.Slice {
return fmt.Errorf("interpres: cannot assign array to %s", dst.Type())
}
out := reflect.MakeSlice(dst.Type(), len(items), len(items))
for i, item := range items {
if err := d.assign(item, out.Index(i)); err != nil {
return newDecodeError(fmt.Sprintf("[%d]", i), err)
}
}
dst.Set(out)
return nil
}
func (d *decoder) assignTableSlice(items []map[string]any, dst reflect.Value) error {
if dst.Kind() != reflect.Slice {
return fmt.Errorf("interpres: cannot assign array of tables to %s", dst.Type())
}
out := reflect.MakeSlice(dst.Type(), len(items), len(items))
for i, item := range items {
if err := d.assign(item, out.Index(i)); err != nil {
return newDecodeError(fmt.Sprintf("[%d]", i), err)
}
}
dst.Set(out)
return nil
}
// --- low-level setters -----------------------------------------------------
// setOffsetDateTime stores an offset date-time: in a wrapper destination as it
// is, and in a plain time.Time, which takes the instant with the offset the
// document wrote, so a timestamp field does not have to name the wrapper.
func setOffsetDateTime(v OffsetDateTime, dst reflect.Value) error {
switch dst.Type() {
case offsetDateTimeType:
dst.Set(reflect.ValueOf(v))
case timeType:
dst.Set(reflect.ValueOf(v.Time))
default:
return fmt.Errorf("interpres: cannot assign datetime to %s", dst.Type())
}
return nil
}
// setDateTime stores a time.Time that reached the tree directly, which is the
// shape a tree built by hand carries. Dates the parser produced arrive as
// OffsetDateTime instead.
func setDateTime(v time.Time, dst reflect.Value) error {
switch dst.Type() {
case timeType:
dst.Set(reflect.ValueOf(v))
case offsetDateTimeType:
dst.Set(reflect.ValueOf(OffsetDateTime{v}))
default:
return fmt.Errorf("interpres: cannot assign datetime to %s", dst.Type())
}
return nil
}
func setBasic(dst, val reflect.Value, kind string) error {
if dst.Kind() != val.Kind() {
return fmt.Errorf("interpres: cannot assign %s to %s", kind, dst.Type())
}
// Convert rather than assign: a value of the predeclared type is not
// assignable to a defined type of the same kind, so a plain Set panics on
// a destination such as `type Name string`.
dst.Set(val.Convert(dst.Type()))
return nil
}
// setDuration reads a duration literal into a time.Duration destination. TOML
// has no duration type, so the encoder writes the canonical Go form and the
// decoder reads that back; a bare integer stays the nanosecond count it has
// always been, and reaches the destination through setInt.
func setDuration(dst reflect.Value, s string) error {
d, err := time.ParseDuration(s)
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("interpres: invalid duration %q", s)
}
dst.SetInt(int64(d))
return nil
}
func setInt(dst reflect.Value, v int64) error {
switch dst.Kind() {
case reflect.Int, reflect.Int8, reflect.Int16, reflect.Int32, reflect.Int64:
if dst.OverflowInt(v) {
return fmt.Errorf("interpres: integer %d overflows %s", v, dst.Type())
}
dst.SetInt(v)
case reflect.Uint, reflect.Uint8, reflect.Uint16, reflect.Uint32, reflect.Uint64:
if v < 0 {
return fmt.Errorf("interpres: cannot assign negative %d to %s", v, dst.Type())
}
// OverflowUint knows every width, uint included on platforms where it
// is narrower than uint64; SetUint would silently truncate instead.
if dst.OverflowUint(uint64(v)) {
return fmt.Errorf("interpres: integer %d overflows %s", v, dst.Type())
}
dst.SetUint(uint64(v))
case reflect.Float32, reflect.Float64:
// A finite value beyond the float32 range would silently become ±Inf;
// infinities and NaN themselves pass through. An int64 never
// overflows either float width.
f := float64(v)
if dst.OverflowFloat(f) {
return fmt.Errorf("interpres: integer %d overflows %s", v, dst.Type())
}
dst.SetFloat(f)
default:
return fmt.Errorf("interpres: cannot assign integer to %s", dst.Type())
}
return nil
}
func setFloat(dst reflect.Value, v float64) error {
switch dst.Kind() {
case reflect.Float32, reflect.Float64:
if dst.OverflowFloat(v) {
return fmt.Errorf("interpres: float %g overflows %s", v, dst.Type())
}
dst.SetFloat(v)
return nil
default:
return fmt.Errorf("interpres: cannot assign float to %s", dst.Type())
}
}
// structFieldLoc locates one destination field by its index path from the
// struct root and by the depth the field sits at, which breaks name clashes
// in favour of the shallower field.
type structFieldLoc struct {
index []int
depth int
}
// structSchema flattens the exported fields of t for decode, mirroring the
// encoder: an untagged embedded struct is inlined, so its own fields match
// keys of the same table, and an untagged embedded map is recorded in
// embedMaps (first declaration first) as the destination for leftover keys.
// When two fields resolve to one name, the shallower wins, then the later
// declaration.
type structSchema struct {
byName map[string]structFieldLoc
embedMaps [][]int
}
// structSchemaCache holds one schema per struct type. A schema is immutable
// once published, so concurrent callers only race to build an identical value,
// the same trade-off encoding/json's field cache makes. The cache grows with
// the number of distinct types decoded or encoded, never per document.
var structSchemaCache sync.Map // reflect.Type -> structSchema
func cachedStructSchema(t reflect.Type) structSchema {
if s, ok := structSchemaCache.Load(t); ok {
return s.(structSchema)
}
s := newStructSchema(t)
actual, _ := structSchemaCache.LoadOrStore(t, s)
return actual.(structSchema)
}
func newStructSchema(t reflect.Type) structSchema {
s := structSchema{byName: make(map[string]structFieldLoc, t.NumField())}
// A struct may embed a pointer to itself, which is legal Go, so the walk
// tracks the struct types on the current path and stops when one repeats;
// without the guard the recursion never terminates. A self-promoted key
// always loses to the shallower original, so skipping it changes nothing.
visiting := map[reflect.Type]bool{}
var walk func(t reflect.Type, prefix []int, depth int)
walk = func(t reflect.Type, prefix []int, depth int) {
visiting[t] = true
defer delete(visiting, t)
for i := range t.NumField() {
f := t.Field(i)
if f.PkgPath != "" { // unexported
continue
}
path := append(append([]int{}, prefix...), i)
name := ""
if tag, ok := f.Tag.Lookup("toml"); ok {
name, _, _ = strings.Cut(tag, ",")
if name == "-" {
continue
}
}
if f.Anonymous && name == "" {
ft := f.Type
for ft.Kind() == reflect.Pointer {
ft = ft.Elem()
}
switch {
case ft.Kind() == reflect.Struct && !isScalarStruct(ft):
if !visiting[ft] {
walk(ft, path, depth+1)
}
continue
case ft.Kind() == reflect.Map && ft.Key().Kind() == reflect.String:
s.embedMaps = append(s.embedMaps, path)
continue
}
name = f.Name
}
if name == "" {
name = f.Name
}
key := strings.ToLower(name)
if existing, ok := s.byName[key]; !ok || depth <= existing.depth {
s.byName[key] = structFieldLoc{index: path, depth: depth}
}
}
}
walk(t, nil, 0)
return s
}
// ownsKey reports whether the field at path is the one that resolves key.
// The encoder consults it to emit exactly the field the decoder would fill,
// so a struct with two fields mapping to one key does not marshal into a
// duplicate TOML key.
func (s structSchema) ownsKey(key string, path []int) bool {
loc, ok := s.byName[key]
return ok && slices.Equal(loc.index, path)
}
// fieldByIndex walks an index path from a struct value, allocating nil
// pointers along the way so a key can reach through an embedded pointer
// struct. Every field on the path is exported, so each step is settable.
func fieldByIndex(v reflect.Value, path []int) (reflect.Value, error) {
for i, x := range path {
v = v.Field(x)
if i < len(path)-1 && v.Kind() == reflect.Pointer {
if v.IsNil() {
if !v.CanSet() {
return reflect.Value{}, fmt.Errorf("cannot allocate nil embedded pointer")
}
v.Set(reflect.New(v.Type().Elem()))
}
v = v.Elem()
}
}
return v, nil
}