A struct with more than one field containing an unsized type cannot implement
`CoerceUnsized`. This only occurs when you are trying to coerce one of the
types in your struct to another type in the struct. In this case we try to
impl `CoerceUnsized` from `T` to `U` which are both types that the struct
takes. An [unsized type][1] is any type that the compiler doesn't know the
length or alignment of at compile time. Any struct containing an unsized type
is also unsized.
Example of erroneous code:
```compile_fail,E0375
#![feature(coerce_unsized)]
use std::ops::CoerceUnsized;
struct Foo<T: ?Sized, U: ?Sized> {
a: i32,
b: T,
c: U,
}
// error: Struct `Foo` has more than one unsized field.
impl<T, U> CoerceUnsized<Foo<U, T>> for Foo<T, U> {}
```
`CoerceUnsized` only allows for coercion from a structure with a single
unsized type field to another struct with a single unsized type field.
In fact Rust only allows for a struct to have one unsized type in a struct
and that unsized type must be the last field in the struct. So having two
unsized types in a single struct is not allowed by the compiler. To fix this
use only one field containing an unsized type in the struct and then use
multiple structs to manage each unsized type field you need.
Example:
```
#![feature(coerce_unsized)]
use std::ops::CoerceUnsized;
struct Foo<T: ?Sized> {
a: i32,
b: T,
}
impl <T, U> CoerceUnsized<Foo<U>> for Foo<T>
where T: CoerceUnsized<U> {}
fn coerce_foo<T: CoerceUnsized<U>, U>(t: T) -> Foo<U> {
Foo { a: 12i32, b: t } // we use coercion to get the `Foo<U>` type we need
}
```
[1]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch19-04-advanced-types.html#dynamically-sized-types-and-the-sized-trait