deref_owned

This crate provides a smart pointer Owned, which points to an owned value. It's similar to Cow, except that it's always owning its pointee. Moreover, a trait IntoOwned is provided, which allows conversion of pointers to an owned value though an .into_owned() method. The trait IntoOwned is currently implemented for:

• &'a T where T: ?Sized + ToOwned
• Cow<'a, T> where T: ?Sized + ToOwned
• Owned<T>
• Box<T> where T: ?Sized
• Vec<T>
• String

Changelog

• 2022-06-28: Version 0.3.0
  • Added implementations of IntoOwned for Box<T> (where T: ?Sized), Vec<T>, and String, with IntoOwned::Owned being set to Self (replaces previous implementation for Box<T>)
• 2022-06-27: Version 0.2.0
  • Some more trait implementations (AsRef, AsMut, Borrow, BorrowMut, and Display) have been added for Owned (and Debug::fmt's output is transparent now)
  • Deref is now a supertrait of IntoOwned and IntoOwned::Owned must implement Borrow<<Self as Deref>::Target>
• 2022-06-26: Version 0.1.0
  • Initial release