Thanks for the patch!

The changes looks good to me. Frankly, I didn't perform a byte-exact 
comparison of factorization between files - testing is green for the branch.

Regards,
Sergos


>Thursday, November  7, 2019 1:53 PM +03:00 from Vladislav Shpilevoy <v.shpilevoy@tarantool.org>:
>
>I gave up trying to split these changes, because they
>are either too minor, or are not separable at all. Kostja
>proposed to describe them in a changelist, and here is a
>new commit message:
>
>====================================================================
>
>tuple: rework updates to improve code extendibility
>
>Before the patch update was implemented as a set of operations
>applicable for arrays only. It was ok until field names and JSON
>paths appearance, because tuple is an array on the top level.
>
>But now there are four reasons to allow more complex updates of
>tuple field internals by JSON paths:
>
>  - tuple field access by JSON path is allowed so for consistency
>    JSON paths should be allowed in updates as well;
>
>  - JSON indexes are supported. JSON update should be able to
>    change an indexed field without rewriting half of a tuple, and
>    its full replacement;
>
>  - Tarantool is going to support documents in storage so JSON
>    path updates is one more step forward;
>
>  - JSON updates are going to be faster and more compact in WAL
>    than get + in-memory Lua/connector update + replace (or update
>    of a whole tuple field).
>
>The patch reworks the current update code in such a way, that now
>update is not just an array of operations, applied to tuple's top
>level fields. Now it is a tree, just like tuples are.
>
>The concept is to build a tree of xrow_update_field objects. Each
>updates a part of a tuple. Leafs in the tree contain update
>operations, specified by a user, as xrow_update_op objects.
>
>To make the code support and understanding simpler, the patch
>splits update implementation into several independent
>files-modules for each type of an updated field. One file
>describes how to update an array field, another file - how to
>update a map field, etc. This commit introduces only array. Just
>because it was already supported before the patch. Next commits
>will introduce more types one by one.
>
>Besides, the patch makes some minor changes, not separable from
>this commit:
>
>  - The big comment about xrow updates in xrow_update.c is
>    updated. Now it describes the tree-idea presented above;
>
>  - Comments were properly aligned by 66 symbols in all the moved
>    or changed code. Not affected code is kept as is so as not to
>    increase the diff even more;
>
>  - Added missing comments to moved or changed structures and
>    their attributes such as struct xrow_update,
>    struct xrow_update_op_meta, struct xrow_update_op.
>
>  - Struct xrow_update_field was significantly reworked. Now it is
>    not just a couple of pointers at tuple's top level array. From
>    now it stores type of the updated field, range of its source
>    data in the original tuple, and a subtree of other update
>    fields applied to the original data.
>
>  - Added missing comments to some functions which I moved and
>    decided worth commenting alongside, such as
>    xrow_update_op_adjust_field_no(), xrow_update_alloc().
>
>  - Functions xrow_update_op_do_f, xrow_update_op_read_arg_f,
>    xrow_update_op_store_f are separated from struct xrow_update,
>    so as they could be called on any updated field in the tree.
>    From this moment they are methods of struct xrow_update_op.
>    They take an op as a first argument (like 'this' in C++), and
>    are applied to a given struct xrow_update_field.
>
>Another notable, but not separable, change is a new naming schema
>for the methods of struct xrow_update_field and struct
>xrow_update_op. This is motivated by the fact that struct
>xrow_update_field now has a type, and might be not a terminal.
>
>There are now two groups of functions. Generic functions working
>with struct xrow_update_field of any type:
>
>    xrow_update_field_sizeof
>    xrow_update_field_store
>    xrow_update_op_do_field_<operation>
>
>And typed functions:
>
>    xrow_update_<type>_sizeof
>    xrow_update_<type>_store
>    xrow_update_op_do_<type>_<operation>
>
>Where
>    operation = insert/delete/set/arith ...
>         type = array/map/bar/scalar ...
>
>Common functions are used when type of a field to update is not
>known in advance. For example, when an operation is applied to one
>of fields of an array, it is not known what a type this field has:
>another array, scalar, not changed field, map, etc. Common
>functions do nothing more than just a switch by field type to
>choose a more specific function.
>
>Typed functions work with a specific type. They may change the
>given field (add a new array element, replace it with a new value,
>...), or may forward an operation deeper in case they see that its
>JSON path is not fully passed yet.
>
>Part of #1261