Wasmex.Instance (Wasmex v0.4.0)

Instantiates a WebAssembly module represented by bytes and allows calling exported functions on it.

# Get the Wasm module as bytes.
{:ok, bytes } = File.read("wasmex_test.wasm")

# Instantiates the Wasm module.
{:ok, instance } = Wasmex.Instance.from_bytes(bytes)

# Test for existence of a function
true = Wasmex.Instance.function_export_exists(instance, "sum")

All exported functions are accessible via call_exported_function. Arguments of these functions are automatically casted to WebAssembly values. Note that WebAssembly only knows number datatypes (floats and integers of various sizes).

You can pass arbitrary data to WebAssembly, though, by writing this data into its memory. The memory function returns a Memory struct representing the memory of that particular instance, e.g.:

{:ok, memory} = Wasmex.Instance.memory(instance, :uint8, 0)

This module, especially call_exported_function is assumed to be called within a GenServer context.

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Functions

Calls a function with the given name and params on the WebAssembly instance. This function assumes to be called within a GenServer context, it expects a from argument as given by handle_call etc.

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Specs

t() :: %Wasmex.Instance{reference: reference(), resource: binary()}

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call_exported_function(instance, name, params, from)

Specs

call_exported_function(t(), binary(), [any()], GenServer.from()) :: any()

Calls a function with the given name and params on the WebAssembly instance. This function assumes to be called within a GenServer context, it expects a from argument as given by handle_call etc.

The WebAssembly function will be invoked asynchronously in a new OS thread. The calling process will receive a {:returned_function_call, result, from} message once the execution finished. The result either is an {:error, reason} or {:ok, results} tuple with results containing a list of the results form the called WebAssembly function.

Calling call_exported_function usually returns an :ok atom but may throw a BadArg exception when given unexpected input data.

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from_bytes(bytes, imports)

Specs

from_bytes(binary(), %{optional(binary()) => (... -> any())}) ::
  {:error, binary()} | {:ok, t()}
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function_export_exists(instance, name)

Specs

function_export_exists(t(), binary()) :: boolean()
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memory(instance, size, offset)

Specs

memory(t(), atom(), pos_integer()) ::
  {:error, binary()} | {:ok, Wasmex.Memory.t()}