This crate provides a Clone
trait that can be used in trait objects, and a
clone_box
function that can clone any sized or dynamically sized
implementation of Clone
. Types that implement the standard library's
[std::clone::Clone
] trait are automatically usable this way.
The signature of clone_box
is:
rust
fn clone_box<T>(t: &T) -> Box<T>
where
T: ?Sized + objekt::Clone
```rust trait MyTrait: objekt::Clone { fn recite(&self); }
impl MyTrait for String { fn recite(&self) { println!("{} ♫", self); } }
fn main() { let line = "The slithy structs did gyre and gimble the namespace";
// Build a trait object holding a String.
// This requires String to implement MyTrait and std::clone::Clone.
let x: Box<MyTrait> = Box::new(String::from(line));
x.recite();
// The type of x2 is a Box<MyTrait> cloned from x.
let x2 = objekt::clone_box(&*x);
x2.recite();
} ```
This crate includes a macro for concisely implementing impl std::clone::Clone
for Box<MyTrait>
in terms of objekt::clone_box
.
```rust // As before. trait MyTrait: objekt::Clone { /* ... */ }
objekt::clonetraitobject!(MyTrait);
// Now data structures containing Box
struct Container {
trait_object: Box
Licensed under either of Apache License, Version 2.0 or MIT license at your option.
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