Definition of storage map for stored items

Question

In the tutorial of learning substrate, a storage map for stored items is defined as follows, in which the symbol => appears, but this specification is not in the standard syntax of rust. How to understand it?

MyMap get(my_map): map u8 => Vec<u8>;

Answer 1

It's not standard Rust syntax because it makes use of the #[pallet::storage] macro. Please have a look at the official documentation for the macro and the StorageMap type for more information.

In short,

#[pallet::storage]
#[pallet::getter(fn some_map)]
pub(super) type SomeMap<T: Config> = StorageMap<_, Blake2_128Concat, SomeKey, SomeValue, ValueQuery>;

sets up a StorageMap with name SomeMap for SomeKey => SomeValue with getter function some_map using the Blake2_128Concat hasher. ValueQuery states that the resulting value lookup is not wrapped into an Option, which would be the case if you were using OptionQuery (default implementation of the QueryKind generic).