writeable

writeable is a utility crate of the [ICU4X] project.

It includes [Writeable], a core trait representing an object that can be written to a sink implementing std::fmt::Write. It is an alternative to std::fmt::Display with the addition of a function indicating the number of bytes to be written.

Writeable improves upon std::fmt::Display in two ways:

1. More efficient, since the sink can pre-allocate bytes.
2. Smaller code, since the format machinery can be short-circuited.

Types implementing Writeable have a defaulted writeabletostring function. If desired, types implementing Writeable can manually implement ToString to wrap writeabletostring.

Examples

```rust use writeable::Writeable; use writeable::LengthHint; use writeable::assertwriteableeq; use std::fmt;

struct WelcomeMessage<'s>{ pub name: &'s str, }

impl<'s> Writeable for WelcomeMessage<'s> { fn writeto(&self, sink: &mut W) -> fmt::Result { sink.writestr("Hello, ")?; sink.writestr(self.name)?; sink.writechar('!')?; Ok(()) }

fn write_len(&self) -> LengthHint {
    // "Hello, " + '!' + length of name
    LengthHint::exact(8 + self.name.len())
}

}

let message = WelcomeMessage { name: "Alice" }; assertwriteableeq!(&message, "Hello, Alice!"); ```

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