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Add `Package::from_wit` convenience

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
rust, wasm
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by comparing the existing wac_cli handling of wit_parser files and directories with the wac_types::Package::from_bytes path shown in the issue. Add a convenience entry point that covers both input forms and produces the equivalent package; verify that the resulting package matches the current manual sequence.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

It would be nice to have some sort of convenience for declaring a wac_types::Package from wit files.

Essentially replacing this code:

let mut resolve = wit_parser::Resolve::new();
let pkg = if path.is_dir()
   let (pkg, _) = resolve.push_dir(path)?;
   pkg
} else {
  let unresolved = wit_parser::UnresolvedPackage::parse_file(&path)?;
  resolve.push(unresolved)?
};
let bytes = wit_component::encode(Some(true), &resolve, pkg)?;
wac_graph::types::Package::from_bytes(
  name,
  None,
  bytes.to_owned(),
  types,
)

Of course, this ties wac_types to the convention from wit_parser, but the wac_cli already does this, so I don't see why it would be inappropriate in wac_types.

Dominant language
Rust
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Merged PRs (30d)
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