Crate iderive

iderive: Inner Derive

iderive is a drop-in replacement for derive that doesn’t directly depend on generic bounds. It only checks the types of a struct’s fields when deriving a trait.

Example

#[derive(Clone, Copy)]
struct TaggedIndex<T: ?Sized> {
    index: usize,
    _tag: PhantomData<T>,
}

let a = TaggedIndex::<String> { index: 0, _tag: PhantomData };
let b = a;
let c = a; // Error: Value used after move

This won’t work because derive requires that T implements Copy for TaggedIndex to be able to derive it.

In contrast, iderive only checks the struct’s fields to determine if a trait can be derived. Because usize and PhantomData<T> implements Copy regardless of the type of T, iderive(Copy) will implement Copy for TaggedIndex:

#[iderive(Clone, Copy)]
struct TaggedIndex<T: ?Sized> {
    index: usize,
    _tag: PhantomData<T>,
}

let a = TaggedIndex::<String> { index: 0, _tag: PhantomData };
let b = a;
let c = a; // Works!

Supported traits

iderive is currently implemented for Clone, Copy, Debug, Default, PartialEq, Eq, PartialOrd, Ord and Hash.

Version history

See README.md for version history.

Attribute Macros

• iderive
  Inner derive. Used like derive. See the crate documentation for details.