AccessorsExtra.jl

Advanced optics/lenses and relevant tools, based on the Accessors.jl framework.

The Accessors.jl package defines a unified interface to modify immutable data structures — so-called optics or lenses. See its docs for details and background.
AccessorsExtra.jl defines more optics and relevant tools that are too involved/opinionated/experimental to be included into a package as foundational as Accessors itself.

Following Accessors itself, optics and operations in AccessorsExtra aim to have as little overhead as possible, often zero, with tests checking this.

Some highlights:

julia> obj = (a=1, b=(2, 3, "4"))

# multi-valued optics
julia> o = @optic₊ (_.a, _.b[2])
julia> o(obj)
(1, 3)
julia> @set o(obj) = (:x, :y)
(a = :x, b = (2, :y, "4"))

# recursive optics
julia> o = RecursiveOfType(Number)
julia> getall(obj, o)
(1, 2, 3)
julia> modify(x -> x+1, obj, o)
(a = 2, b = (3, 4, "4"))

# optional optics
julia> o = maybe(@optic _.b[2])
julia> o(obj)
3
julia> o((a=1, c=3))
nothing

See the Pluto notebooks for more details:

• Usage examples notebook showcases widely applicable optics defined in AccessorsExtra
• Optimization.jl integration demonstrates using optics together with Optimization.jl to optimize functions with respect to arbitrary struct parameters