A Transaction can be used to make changes to an iterator and only apply the changes if the transaction is committed. When the Transaction is aborted, the changes are discarded. This is useful for implementing backtracking searches, parsers, undo functionality, unlimited peeking and more.

The original iterator must implement 'Clone' to be useable with the transactional iterator.

Policies

Transactions can be created with 3 different policies:

• Panic:
  Will panic on drop if not committed or aborted.
• Abort:
  Will abort changes on drop or panic.
• AutoCommit:
  Will commit changes on drop or panic.

Example

use transactional_iterator::{Transaction, Panic};

let mut iter = vec![1, 2, 3].into_iter();
let mut transaction = Transaction::new(&mut iter, Panic);

// iterate within the transaction
assert_eq!(transaction.next(), Some(1));
assert_eq!(transaction.next(), Some(2));

// Commit the transaction
transaction.commit();

// The changes are now applied
assert_eq!(iter.next(), Some(3));