Add item indexing support to windows-metadata
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Builds on #3562 to add item indexing support to the
windows-metadata
reader - this is a slightly higher-level index needed to quickly look up Win32-style global types, functions and constants. This is needed for the eventual replacement of thewindows-bindgen
metadata reader and just generally makes it a lot easier to develop tooling for COM and Win32-style APIs.The
TypeIndex
provides indexing over the ECMA-335TypeDef
table that inexplicably never provided sorting directly. TheItemIndex
provides indexing on top of that while further categorizing. If you're only working with WinRT metadata then theTypeIndex
should suffice.