Deserialize `Prelude.Map` and `toMap` to a map instead of a list

3 files changed, 58 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/serde_dhall/src/static_type.rs b/serde_dhall/src/static_type.rs
index 26c70cd..3c5da18 100644
--- a/serde_dhall/src/static_type.rs
+++ b/serde_dhall/src/static_type.rs
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ use crate::SimpleType;
 /// `{ _1: T, _2: U }`  | `(T, U)`, structs
 /// `{ x: T, y: T }`  | `HashMap<String, T>`, structs
 /// `< x: T \| y: U >`  | enums
+/// `Prelude.Map.Type Text T`  | `HashMap<String, T>`, structs
 /// `T -> U`  | unsupported
 /// `Prelude.JSON.Type`  | unsupported
 /// `Prelude.Map.Type T U`  | unsupported
diff --git a/serde_dhall/src/value.rs b/serde_dhall/src/value.rs
index 03cfdba..0f0b256 100644
--- a/serde_dhall/src/value.rs
+++ b/serde_dhall/src/value.rs
@@ -144,13 +144,61 @@ impl SimpleValue {
             NirKind::NEOptionalLit(x) => {
                 SimpleValue::Optional(Some(Box::new(Self::from_nir(x)?)))
             }
-            NirKind::EmptyListLit(_) => SimpleValue::List(vec![]),
-            NirKind::NEListLit(xs) => SimpleValue::List(
-                xs.iter().map(Self::from_nir).collect::<Option<_>>()?,
-            ),
+            NirKind::EmptyListLit(t) => {
+                // Detect and handle the special records that make assoc maps
+                if let NirKind::RecordType(kts) = t.kind() {
+                    if kts.len() == 2
+                        && kts.contains_key("mapKey")
+                        && kts.contains_key("mapValue")
+                    {
+                        return Some(SimpleValue::Record(Default::default()));
+                    }
+                }
+                SimpleValue::List(vec![])
+            }
+            NirKind::NEListLit(xs) => {
+                // Detect and handle the special records that make assoc maps
+                if let NirKind::RecordLit(kvs) = xs[0].kind() {
+                    if kvs.len() == 2
+                        && kvs.contains_key("mapKey")
+                        && kvs.contains_key("mapValue")
+                    {
+                        let convert_entry = |x: &Nir| match x.kind() {
+                            NirKind::RecordLit(kvs) => {
+                                let k = match kvs.get("mapKey").unwrap().kind()
+                                {
+                                    NirKind::TextLit(t)
+                                        if t.as_text().is_some() =>
+                                    {
+                                        t.as_text().unwrap()
+                                    }
+                                    // TODO
+                                    _ => panic!(
+                                        "Expected `mapKey` to be a text \
+                                         literal"
+                                    ),
+                                };
+                                let v = Self::from_nir(
+                                    kvs.get("mapValue").unwrap(),
+                                )?;
+                                Some((k, v))
+                            }
+                            _ => unreachable!("Internal type error"),
+                        };
+                        return Some(SimpleValue::Record(
+                            xs.iter()
+                                .map(convert_entry)
+                                .collect::<Option<_>>()?,
+                        ));
+                    }
+                }
+                SimpleValue::List(
+                    xs.iter().map(Self::from_nir).collect::<Option<_>>()?,
+                )
+            }
             NirKind::RecordLit(kvs) => SimpleValue::Record(
                 kvs.iter()
-                    .map(|(k, v)| Some((k.into(), Self::from_nir(v)?)))
+                    .map(|(k, v)| Some((k.to_string(), Self::from_nir(v)?)))
                     .collect::<Option<_>>()?,
             ),
             NirKind::UnionLit(field, x, _) => SimpleValue::Union(
diff --git a/serde_dhall/tests/de.rs b/serde_dhall/tests/de.rs
index 41b4080..1932e26 100644
--- a/serde_dhall/tests/de.rs
+++ b/serde_dhall/tests/de.rs
@@ -80,6 +80,10 @@ fn test_de_untyped() {
         parse::<HashMap<String, usize>>("{ x = 1, y = 2 }"),
         expected_map
     );
+    assert_eq!(
+        parse::<HashMap<String, usize>>("toMap { x = 1, y = 2 }"),
+        expected_map
+    );
 
     let mut expected_map = HashMap::new();
     expected_map.insert("if".to_string(), 1);