Lifetimes implementing AsRef

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I need to create NewType wrappers for interfacing with FFI. I want to create an interface similar to Rust's String and str types, so I can have a wrapper for an owned type, and a wrapper for a reference. Because some times I'm dealing with references that came from raw pointers that the FFI library will free, and other times I need to take ownership so that rust will free the memory. I want to be able to easily use the methods on the reference type by implementing AsRef on the owned type, but I'm having an issue with lifetimes.

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pub struct MyInt(i64);

pub struct MyIntRef<'a>(&'a i64);

impl AsRef<MyIntRef<'_>> for MyInt {
    fn as_ref(&self) -> &MyIntRef<'_> {
        todo!()
    }
}

This code fails to compile with the following error:

= note: expected `fn(&MyInt) -> &MyIntRef<'_>`
           found `fn(&MyInt) -> &MyIntRef<'_>`

The error seems to indicate that I do have the correct signature. Why is this failing?

rust
1 Answers

I think you've just got your trait parameter type mixed up.

pub struct MyInt(i64);

pub struct MyIntRef<'a>(&'a i64);

impl AsRef<i64> for MyInt {
    fn as_ref(&self) -> &i64 {
        &self.0
    }
}

impl<'a> AsRef<i64> for MyIntRef<'a> {
    fn as_ref(&self) -> &i64 {
        self.0
    }
}
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