
Description
This library enables you to write certain types of disjoint impls that Rust compiler doesn't (yet?) allow.
Namely, disjoint impls where a type is bounded by an associated type. One would expect the following
syntax to compile without the need to invoke disjoint_impls!, but it doesn't:
use disjoint_impls::disjoint_impls;
pub trait Dispatch {
type Group;
}
pub enum GroupA {}
impl Dispatch for String {
type Group = GroupA;
}
pub enum GroupB {}
impl Dispatch for i32 {
type Group = GroupB;
}
disjoint_impls! {
pub trait BasicKita {
const BASIC_NAME: &'static str;
fn basic_name() -> &'static str {
"Default blanket"
}
}
impl<T: Dispatch<Group = GroupA>> BasicKita for T {
const BASIC_NAME: &'static str = "Blanket A";
}
impl<U: Dispatch<Group = GroupB>> BasicKita for U {
const BASIC_NAME: &'static str = "Blanket B";
fn basic_name() -> &'static str {
"Blanket B"
}
}
}
disjoint_impls! {
pub trait ComplexKita {
const COMPLEX_NAME: &'static str;
}
impl<T: Dispatch<Group = GroupA>, U: Dispatch<Group = GroupA>> ComplexKita for (T, U) {
const COMPLEX_NAME: &'static str = "Blanket AA";
}
impl<U, T> ComplexKita for (U, T)
where
U: Dispatch<Group = GroupA>,
T: Dispatch<Group = GroupB>
{
const COMPLEX_NAME: &'static str = "Blanket AB";
}
impl<T: Dispatch<Group = GroupB>, U: Dispatch> ComplexKita for (T, U) {
const COMPLEX_NAME: &'static str = "Blanket B*";
}
impl<T: Dispatch<Group = GroupA>> ComplexKita for T {
const COMPLEX_NAME: &'static str = "Blanket A";
}
impl<U: Dispatch<Group = GroupB>> ComplexKita for U {
const COMPLEX_NAME: &'static str = "Blanket B";
}
}
fn main() {
assert_eq!("Blanket A", String::BASIC_NAME);
assert_eq!("Blanket B", i32::BASIC_NAME);
assert_eq!("Default blanket", String::basic_name());
assert_eq!("Blanket B", i32::basic_name());
assert_eq!("Blanket A", String::COMPLEX_NAME);
assert_eq!("Blanket B", i32::COMPLEX_NAME);
assert_eq!("Blanket AA", <(String, String)>::COMPLEX_NAME);
assert_eq!("Blanket AB", <(String, i32)>::COMPLEX_NAME);
assert_eq!("Blanket B*", <(i32, String)>::COMPLEX_NAME);
}
Other much more complex examples can be found in tests