kerfaCommon

kerfaCommon is a software library designed as a shared utility layer for the Kerfa software ecosystem. It provides a collection of core abstractions and facilities intended to be used by multiple Kerfa components to reduce duplication and promote consistency. The library is platform-agnostic and emphasizes portability, performance, and a stable API surface.

Key features include a set of common data structures (such as optional values and result types), robust error handling helpers, configuration and option parsing, input/output utilities, and serialization helpers for common formats. It also offers cross-language bindings or interfaces to ease reuse from different programming environments within Kerfa, and provides logging primitives and testing helpers to support module development.

kerfaCommon is designed with a modular architecture. A core module supplies the essential primitives, while optional extensions add domain-specific utilities without altering the public API of the core. The project typically adheres to semantic versioning and a permissive open-source license, with source code and build scripts hosted in a public repository. It is maintained by the Kerfa project with contributions from community developers and external partners.

Usage patterns include importing the core library into Kerfa modules to share configuration schemas, error types, and I/O helpers, thereby improving consistency and reducing boilerplate. It is commonly used as a dependency for higher-level Kerfa components and as a reference for implementing new integrations that operate within Kerfa's data model and runtime conventions.