Export ADBLOCK_RUST_DAT_VERSION constant

[gutchin1]

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[gutchin1]

I need to have this variable accessible from outside of the crate, for proper .dat handling

[antonok-edm]

Can you say more about your use case?

[gutchin1]

Can you say more about your use case?

I am emedding the crate in my project, and since the serialization format gets updated, I need a way for other components to be aware of this change and provide the serialized input accordingly

[gutchin1]

@antonok-edm
pls take a look again

[antonok-edm]

I am emedding the crate in my project, and since the serialization format gets updated, I need a way for other components to be aware of this change and provide the serialized input accordingly

I think you might be misinterpreting the purpose of the serialized format... it's intended to be used as a local cache, so that it's faster to load previously-parsed filters (e.g. at application startup). It's not intended as a full replacement for filter lists.

If the format version number has incremented, deserialize will immediately exit with a VersionMismatch error. So the worst case is that cheap check to discover that the format is outdated followed by reparsing the filters (which still shouldn't be extremely slow either).