// Copyright 2014 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT // file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at // http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT. // // Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 or the MIT license // , at your // option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed // except according to those terms. use std::container::Container; use std::iter::FromIterator; use std::slice; // Note: Once Dynamically Sized Types (DST) lands, this should be // replaced with something like `enum Owned<'a, Sized? U>{ Owned(~U), // Borrowed(&'a U) }`; and then `U` could be instantiated with `[T]` // or `str`, etc. /// MaybeOwnedVector<'a,T> abstracts over `Vec` and `&'a [T]`. /// /// Some clients will have a pre-allocated vector ready to hand off in /// a slice; others will want to create the set on the fly and hand /// off ownership. #[deriving(Eq)] pub enum MaybeOwnedVector<'a,T> { Growable(Vec), Borrowed(&'a [T]), } impl<'a,T> MaybeOwnedVector<'a,T> { pub fn iter(&'a self) -> slice::Items<'a,T> { match self { &Growable(ref v) => v.iter(), &Borrowed(ref v) => v.iter(), } } } impl<'a,T> Container for MaybeOwnedVector<'a,T> { fn len(&self) -> uint { match self { &Growable(ref v) => v.len(), &Borrowed(ref v) => v.len(), } } } // The `Vector` trait is provided in the prelude and is implemented on // both `&'a [T]` and `Vec`, so it makes sense to try to support it // seamlessly. The other vector related traits from the prelude do // not appear to be implemented on both `&'a [T]` and `Vec`. (It // is possible that this is an oversight in some cases.) // // In any case, with `Vector` in place, the client can just use // `as_slice` if they prefer that over `match`. impl<'b,T> slice::Vector for MaybeOwnedVector<'b,T> { fn as_slice<'a>(&'a self) -> &'a [T] { match self { &Growable(ref v) => v.as_slice(), &Borrowed(ref v) => v.as_slice(), } } } impl<'a,T> FromIterator for MaybeOwnedVector<'a,T> { fn from_iter>(iterator: I) -> MaybeOwnedVector { Growable(FromIterator::from_iter(iterator)) } }