Morphir Rust

Rust-based tooling for the Morphir ecosystem. This project provides a multi-crate workspace of core libraries for working with Morphir IR (Intermediate Representation). These crates power the canonical morphir CLI, which lives in finos/morphir.

Overview

Morphir Rust is part of the Morphir ecosystem, which includes:

• finos/morphir - Core Morphir specification
• finos/morphir-elm - Reference implementation (Elm)
• finos/morphir-jvm - JVM implementation
• finos/morphir-scala - Scala implementation
• finos/morphir-dotnet - .NET implementation

Workspace crates

This table lists the crates in the Cargo workspace.

Crate	Description
morphir-avro-extension	Apache Avro backend that projects Morphir v3/v4 specifications to Avro JSON schemas, protocols, and IDL.
morphir-builtins	Bundled native and WebAssembly extensions, currently including Morphir IR migration.
morphir-common	Shared IR transport, loading, virtual filesystem, remote, home, cache, and pipeline utilities.
morphir-config	Portable configuration parsing, merging, and environment rules.
morphir-core	Morphir IR models, format versions, migration, traversal, and naming.
morphir-daemon	Workspace, build, IDE, and extension services for long-running Morphir tooling.
morphir-devkit	Workspace, configuration, and extension discovery APIs for developer tools.
morphir-distribution	Verified Morphir artifact acquisition, installation, and activation.
morphir-elm-binding	Tree-sitter based Elm frontend and backend for type declarations in Morphir IR v3 and v4, with incremental compilation, available natively and as a WebAssembly extension.
morphir-ext	Actor-based extension runtime built on Kameo.
morphir-ext-core	Core extension ABI and envelope protocol types.
morphir-ext-example	Example TEA counter WebAssembly component extension.
morphir-extension-sdk	SDK and MEP contracts for WebAssembly extensions.
morphir-gleam-binding	Gleam frontend and backend extension integration.
morphir-kb	Operational layer for OKF knowledge bundles.
morphir-mck-adapter	The Morphir Compatibility Kit adapter: mck-adapter-rust, a JSON-lines transport for IR and opt-in package operations.
morphir-okf	Pure OKF model, parsing, and loading support.
morphir-openapi-extension	OpenAPI and JSON Schema backend that projects Morphir v3/v4 specifications to OpenAPI 3.1, OpenAPI 3.0, and JSON Schema 2020-12 documents.
morphir-package	Experimental model-package normalization, digests, offline schema validation, and closed Library-set verification.
morphir-projection	Shared Morphir IR normalization that backend extensions project from.
morphir-python-binding	Ruff-based frontend and backend for a Morphir IR v4 subset of Python ADTs, tuples and conditional functions, available natively and as a WebAssembly extension.
morphir-runtime	Reserved runtime crate; currently a minimal scaffold.
morphir-rust-binding	Syn-based Rust frontend and code generator for types, conditional functions, exhaustive pattern matching, calls and typed lambdas in Morphir IR v3 and v4, available natively and as a WebAssembly extension.
morphir-tests	Shared acceptance and Cucumber test harness.
morphir-wasm-binding	Backend extension that generates WebAssembly and WAT from Morphir IR.
morphir-workspace	Portable workspace discovery protocol and algorithms.
morphir-workspace-wasm	Browser-facing JSON and WebAssembly adapter for workspace discovery.

Extensions

This table lists independently releasable extensions. Registrations come from .github/extensions.toml, and versions come from package manifests.

Extension	Package	Version	Description
morphir-avro	morphir-avro-extension	0.1.2	Generates Avro JSON schemas or protocols and Avro IDL from Morphir specifications.
morphir-elm-native	morphir-elm-binding	0.1.0	Compiles Elm type declarations to IR v3 and v4 and generates Elm back; incremental.
morphir-gleam	morphir-gleam-binding	0.3.0	Native Gleam frontend and backend using the official Gleam parser; IR v3/v4 types and incremental compilation.
morphir-openapi	morphir-openapi-extension	0.1.1	Generates OpenAPI 3.1, OpenAPI 3.0, and JSON Schema 2020-12 documents from Morphir specifications.
morphir-python	morphir-python-binding	0.2.0	Compiles and generates Python ADTs, fixed tuples, conditional functions, typed calls and unary lambdas across multiple modules, using IR v3 or v4.
morphir-rust	morphir-rust-binding	0.1.0	Compiles and generates Rust types, conditional functions, pattern matches, calls and typed lambdas using IR v3 and v4.

Prerequisites

• Rust (latest stable version recommended)
• Cargo (comes with Rust)

The Morphir CLI

The canonical morphir CLI is built and released from the finos/morphir repository, which consumes this workspace's crates through a git submodule.

• Install: Installing Morphir
• Command reference: CLI Reference

Documentation Generation

Generate the release notes page:

mise run docs:generate

CLI Reference Documentation

The Morphir CLI reference (markdown docs, man page, and shell completions) is generated in the finos/morphir repository with mise run docs:cli there, and published at morphir.finos.org. To add examples to CLI docs, edit the long_about help text in the CLI source in that repository.

Development Setup

# Install Rust toolchain (if not already installed)
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

# Clone and navigate to the project
git clone https://github.com/finos/morphir-rust.git
cd morphir-rust

# Build the project
cargo build

# Run tests
cargo test

# Format code
cargo fmt

# Check for linting issues
cargo clippy

Mise Tasks

This project uses mise for task automation:

# Install all dev tools (Rust, Ruby, etc.)
mise install

# List available tasks
mise tasks

# Run checks
mise run check:fmt    # Format check
mise run check:lint   # Lint check

# Documentation
mise run docs:generate     # Generate release notes page

# Jekyll Site (test locally)
mise run docs:serve        # Serve at http://localhost:4000

# Release management
mise run release:check     # Pre-release checks
mise run release:version-bump <version>
mise run release:changelog-validate

Testing Documentation Site Locally

The documentation site uses Jekyll with the Poole theme. To test locally:

# Install dependencies (Ruby via mise)
mise install

# Serve the site with live reload
mise run docs:serve

This starts a local server at http://localhost:4000 with live reload enabled.

Design Principles

This project follows Functional Domain Modeling principles:

• Immutability: Data structures are immutable by default
• Type Safety: Strong typing throughout the codebase
• Composability: Functions and data structures are designed to compose
• Purity: Functions are pure where possible, with clear separation of side effects

Contributing

1. Fork it (https://github.com/finos/morphir-rust/fork)
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/fooBar)
3. Read our contribution guidelines and Community Code of Conduct
4. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some fooBar')
5. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/fooBar)
6. Create a new Pull Request

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License

Copyright 2022 FINOS

Distributed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

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