[WIP] wasm-bindgen support

[Tarnadas]

Hey!

I am trying to add wasm-bindgen support and stumbled across several problems. This PR is still very wip.

• I don't know how to define a feature for a sub-crate for conditional compilation. See commented out cfg! code
• wasm-bindgen does not support pub vectors within structs, so I just removed the pub for them (see Vectors not working in structs rustwasm/wasm-bindgen#439)
• probably the biggest problem so far: oneof gets converted to enums holding data, which isn't supported by wasm-bindgen and it will probably take a lot of effort to support them within wasm-bindgen (see Support for C-Style Enums rustwasm/wasm-bindgen#31). It might be easier to change code generation of proto files for oneofs instead

[danburkert]

Hi sorry for slow feedback - is this still a going concern? I would ideally like prost to be compatible with wasm, but the concerns about enums with data seems like a pretty hard blocker. For context I have no wasm experience, so I don't know if the state of the world has changed in the last 18 months.

[Tarnadas]

Hey,
it doesn't look like anything has changed regarding enums, so a workaround for a WebAssembly version would be required.

I was rather new to Rust when I started this PR and I think I might get this working somehow.
As a reference, I will see how other Protobuf libraries in JavaScript do their code generation and try to make something similar for the WebAssembly version.

[ImJeremyHe]

It is better to do this work after wasm-bindgen supporting enums: rustwasm/wasm-bindgen#2631

[caspermeijn]

@Tarnadas Are you still working on this, or can it be closed?

[Tarnadas]

Hey, it can be closed