Crate fieldfilter

fieldfilter is a pretty simple crate to use. Basically what it offers is a way to essentially “filter” a struct to a smaller set of itself.

Here’s an example:

use std::collections::HashSet;
use fieldfilter::FieldFilterable;

struct User {
    id: u32,
    name: String,
    email: String,
}
#[derive(Debug, FieldFilterable)]
#[field_filterable_on(User)]
struct FilteredUser {
    id: u32,
    name: Option<String>,
    email: Option<String>,
}

let user = User {
    id: 1,
    name: "Allen".to_string(),
    email: "allen@example.org".to_string(),
};

let fields = HashSet::from(["name".to_owned()]);

let filtered_user: FilteredUser = FieldFilterable::field_filter(user, fields);
println!("{:?}", filtered_user);

This kind of behavior is quite useful for whenever you have some struct or entity you want to skim off the visibility of certain fields, whether that be some SQL row being returned as some REST or GraphQL response, or just as a simple sanitization routine.

Traits

FieldFilterable

A struct that acts as a filter of another struct given a set of fields.

Derive Macros

FieldFilterable