Added preliminary type protocol for Ice via Protocol Buffers. This does not include encode / decode of basic types but sets the stage for future development.

Author: Edward Tate

proto/type.proto

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+message IceValue {
+  enum IceType {
+    IceBool    = 1;
+    IceInteger = 2;
+    IceFloat   = 3;
+    IceChar    = 4;
+    IceString  = 5;
+  }
+
+  required IceType type = 1;
+  required bytes value  = 2;
+}
+
+message IceTuple {
+  required IceValue left  = 1;
+  required IceValue right = 2;
+}
+
+message IceContext {
+  repeated IceTuple tuple = 1;
+}
+
+message IceDemand {
+  required IceValue   var  = 1;
+  required IceContext ctxt = 2;
+  required IceValue   val  = 3;
+}

rebar.config

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 %% -*- erlang -*-
 
 {deps, [ {iceparser, ".*", {git, "[email protected]:esl/iceparser.git"}}
+       , {protobuffs, ".*", {git, "[email protected]:basho/erlang_protobuffs.git"}}
        , {meck, ".*", {git, "[email protected]:eproxus/meck.git", {tag, "0.8.1"}}}
        ]}.