Colpetto

Colpetto is a modern Rust library that provides asynchronous bindings for libinput, enabling efficient handling of input device events on Linux systems. Built on tokio, it offers a stream-based API that seamlessly integrates with async applications while maintaining low latency and efficient resource usage for real-time operations.

Key Features

Colpetto transforms libinput's traditional callback-based interface into an ergonomic Rust API with:

• Stream-based event handling powered by tokio
• Low-overhead event polling optimized for performance
• Flexible logging system with built-in basic loggers

Examples

Here's a basic example demonstrating event handling using rustix:

use colpetto::{event::AsRawEvent, Libinput, Result};
use rustix::{
    fd::{FromRawFd, IntoRawFd, OwnedFd},
    fs::{open, Mode, OFlags},
    io::Errno,
};
use tokio_stream::StreamExt;

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<()> {
    let mut libinput = Libinput::new(
        |path, flags| {
            open(path, OFlags::from_bits_retain(flags as u32), Mode::empty())
                .map(IntoRawFd::into_raw_fd)
                .map_err(Errno::raw_os_error)
        },
        |fd| drop(unsafe { OwnedFd::from_raw_fd(fd) }),
    )?;
    
    libinput.assign_seat(c"seat0")?;
    let mut stream = libinput.event_stream()?;

    while let Some(event) = stream.try_next().await? {
        println!(
            "Got \"{}\" event from \"{}\"",
            event.event_type(),
            event.device().name().to_string_lossy()
        )
    }

    Ok(())
}

For more examples, check out the examples directory:

• Simple: Basic event handling demonstration
• Print Keys: Advanced example with custom logging and keyboard event handling
• Task: Showcases how to work around libinput's thread safety limitations in tokio tasks

Supported libinput Versions

Colpetto requires libinput 1.22 or higher (current version in Debian stable).

Contributions to support older versions are welcome provided they:

• Don't compromise the existing async functionality
• Maintain API consistency
• Include appropriate version-specific tests if applicable

If you're using an older version of libinput, you may need to upgrade your system packages or consider using input-rs which supports earlier versions.

Comparison with input-rs

While input-rs is an established alternative, Colpetto takes a different approach in several key areas:

Interface Design

Colpetto uses direct function passing for device management, while input-rs employs a trait-based approach:

// Colpetto: Function-based approach with closure support
let mut libinput = Libinput::new(
    |path, flags| {  // Open function
        open(path, OFlags::from_bits_retain(flags as u32), Mode::empty())
            .map(IntoRawFd::into_raw_fd)
            .map_err(Errno::raw_os_error)
    },
    |fd| drop(unsafe { OwnedFd::from_raw_fd(fd) })  // Close function
)?;

// input-rs: Trait-based approach
struct Interface;

impl LibinputInterface for Interface {
    fn open_restricted(&mut self, path: &Path, flags: i32) -> Result<OwnedFd, i32> {
        open(path, OFlags::from_bits_retain(flags as u32), Mode::empty())
            .map_err(Errno::raw_os_error)
    }
    fn close_restricted(&mut self, fd: OwnedFd) {
        drop(fd);
    }
}
let mut input = Libinput::new_with_udev(Interface);

Version Support

While input-rs supports a wider range of libinput versions (1.9+), Colpetto focuses on modern versions (1.22+) to provide comprehensive bindings for newer libinput features and async capabilities.

Colpetto also requires a modern rust version since it depends on edition 2024 which was introduced on rust 1.85

Some other differences

• Native tokio integration for async/await support with stream-based event handling via event_stream()
• Safe handling of non-UTF8 strings using CStr instead of implicit panics
• Comprehensive event type safety through more exhaustive enum matching
• More robust context lifetime management

License

This project is licensed under the Apache-2.0 License. For more information, please see the LICENSE file.