Struct ViewHandle 

pub struct ViewHandle { /* private fields */ }

A SwiftUI view value, kept concrete.

This used to be one word: a retained AnyView, which every modifier both consumed and produced. That made ownership trivial — a retain and a release — and made every type this crate built a lie by one layer. Swift’s Text("Fx").padding(4) is ModifiedContent<Text, _PaddingLayout>; erasing each step made it ModifiedContent<AnyView, _PaddingLayout>, and the documentation corpus could only ever match 18 of its 89 listings on type.

So the handle carries the value itself, with the metadata and View witness needed to hand it back to Swift. AnyView is not special here — it is simply one of the types a handle can hold, which is what Self::into_anyview produces for the places that genuinely need erasure: a @ViewBuilder closure returning heterogeneous branches, or a container’s children.

Ownership is the value witness table’s business now rather than the refcount’s: initialize_with_copy to clone, destroy to drop. For a view that is a single class reference those are still a retain and a release; for one with several stored properties they do the right thing for each.

Implementations

impl ViewHandle

pub fn into_anyview(self) -> Self

This view as an AnyView-typed handle.

pub fn as_ptr(&self) -> *mut c_void

The raw AnyView word, for the render path and the ObjC bridge.

Trait Implementations

impl Clone for ViewHandle

fn clone(&self) -> Self

Returns a duplicate of the value.

fn clone_from(&mut self, source: &Self)

Performs copy-assignment from source.

impl Debug for ViewHandle

fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> Result

Formats the value using the given formatter.

impl Drop for ViewHandle

fn drop(&mut self)

Executes the destructor for this type.

fn pin_drop(self: Pin<&mut Self>)

🔬This is a nightly-only experimental API. (pin_ergonomics)

Execute the destructor for this type, but different to Drop::drop, it requires self to be pinned.

impl IntoView for ViewHandle

fn into_view(self) -> View

impl Send for ViewHandle