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//! A framework for Rust wrappers over C APIs.
//!
//! Ownership is as important in C as it is in Rust, but the semantics are often implicit. In
//! particular, pointer-to-value is commonly used to pass C values both when transferring ownership
//! or a borrow.
//!
//! This crate provides a framework to define a Rust wrapper over these kinds of raw C APIs in a way
//! that allows ownership semantics to be expressed in an ergonomic manner. The framework takes a
//! dual-type approach similar to APIs in the standard library such as `PathBuf`/`Path` or `String`/
//! `str`. One type represents an owned value and references to the other represent borrowed
//! values.
//!
//! # Examples
//!
//! ```
//! use foreign_types::{ForeignType, ForeignTypeRef, Opaque};
//! use std::ops::{Deref, DerefMut};
//! use std::ptr::NonNull;
//!
//! mod foo_sys {
//! pub enum FOO {}
//!
//! extern {
//! pub fn FOO_free(foo: *mut FOO);
//! }
//! }
//!
//! // The borrowed type is a newtype wrapper around an `Opaque` value.
//! //
//! // `FooRef` values never exist; we instead create references to `FooRef`s
//! // from raw C pointers.
//! pub struct FooRef(Opaque);
//!
//! unsafe impl ForeignTypeRef for FooRef {
//! type CType = foo_sys::FOO;
//! }
//!
//! // The owned type is simply a newtype wrapper around the raw C type.
//! //
//! // It dereferences to `FooRef`, so methods that do not require ownership
//! // should be defined there.
//! pub struct Foo(NonNull<foo_sys::FOO>);
//!
//! unsafe impl Sync for FooRef {}
//! unsafe impl Send for FooRef {}
//!
//! unsafe impl Sync for Foo {}
//! unsafe impl Send for Foo {}
//!
//! impl Drop for Foo {
//! fn drop(&mut self) {
//! unsafe { foo_sys::FOO_free(self.as_ptr()) }
//! }
//! }
//!
//! unsafe impl ForeignType for Foo {
//! type CType = foo_sys::FOO;
//! type Ref = FooRef;
//!
//! unsafe fn from_ptr(ptr: *mut foo_sys::FOO) -> Foo {
//! Foo(NonNull::new_unchecked(ptr))
//! }
//!
//! fn as_ptr(&self) -> *mut foo_sys::FOO {
//! self.0.as_ptr()
//! }
//!
//! fn into_ptr(self) -> *mut foo_sys::FOO {
//! let inner = self.as_ptr();
//! ::core::mem::forget(self);
//! inner
//! }
//! }
//!
//! impl Deref for Foo {
//! type Target = FooRef;
//!
//! fn deref(&self) -> &FooRef {
//! unsafe { FooRef::from_ptr(self.as_ptr()) }
//! }
//! }
//!
//! impl DerefMut for Foo {
//! fn deref_mut(&mut self) -> &mut FooRef {
//! unsafe { FooRef::from_ptr_mut(self.as_ptr()) }
//! }
//! }
//!
//! // add in Borrow, BorrowMut, AsRef, AsRefMut, Clone, ToOwned...
//! ```
//!
//! The `foreign_type!` macro can generate this boilerplate for you:
//!
//! ```
//! use foreign_types::foreign_type;
//!
//! mod foo_sys {
//! pub enum FOO {}
//!
//! extern {
//! pub fn FOO_free(foo: *mut FOO);
//! pub fn FOO_duplicate(foo: *mut FOO) -> *mut FOO; // optional
//! }
//! }
//!
//! foreign_type! {
//! /// A Foo.
//! pub unsafe type Foo
//! : Sync + Send // optional
//! {
//! type CType = foo_sys::FOO;
//! fn drop = foo_sys::FOO_free;
//! fn clone = foo_sys::FOO_duplicate; // optional
//! }
//!
//! /// A Foo with generic parameters.
//! pub unsafe type GenericFoo<T> {
//! type CType = foo_sys::FOO;
//! // This type is added as a `PhantomData` field to handle variance
//! // of the parameters. However, it has no impact on trait impls:
//! // `GenericFoo<T>` is always `Clone`, even if `T` is not.
//! type PhantomData = T;
//! fn drop = foo_sys::FOO_free;
//! fn clone = foo_sys::FOO_duplicate;
//! }
//! }
//!
//! # fn main() {}
//! ```
//!
//! If `fn clone` is specified, then it must take `CType` as an argument and return a copy of it as `CType`.
//! It will be used to implement `Clone`, and if the `std` Cargo feature is enabled, `ToOwned`.
//!
//! Say we then have a separate type in our C API that contains a `FOO`:
//!
//! ```
//! mod foo_sys {
//! pub enum FOO {}
//! pub enum BAR {}
//!
//! extern {
//! pub fn FOO_free(foo: *mut FOO);
//! pub fn BAR_free(bar: *mut BAR);
//! pub fn BAR_get_foo(bar: *mut BAR) -> *mut FOO;
//! }
//! }
//! ```
//!
//! The documentation for the C library states that `BAR_get_foo` returns a reference into the `BAR`
//! passed to it, which translates into a reference in Rust. It also says that we're allowed to
//! modify the `FOO`, so we'll define a pair of accessor methods, one immutable and one mutable:
//!
//! ```
//! use foreign_types::{ForeignTypeRef, foreign_type};
//!
//! mod foo_sys {
//! pub enum FOO {}
//! pub enum BAR {}
//!
//! extern {
//! pub fn FOO_free(foo: *mut FOO);
//! pub fn BAR_free(bar: *mut BAR);
//! pub fn BAR_get_foo(bar: *mut BAR) -> *mut FOO;
//! }
//! }
//!
//! foreign_type! {
//! /// A Foo.
//! pub unsafe type Foo: Sync + Send {
//! type CType = foo_sys::FOO;
//! fn drop = foo_sys::FOO_free;
//! }
//!
//! /// A Bar.
//! pub unsafe type Bar: Sync + Send {
//! type CType = foo_sys::BAR;
//! fn drop = foo_sys::BAR_free;
//! }
//! }
//!
//! impl BarRef {
//! fn foo(&self) -> &FooRef {
//! unsafe { FooRef::from_ptr(foo_sys::BAR_get_foo(self.as_ptr())) }
//! }
//!
//! fn foo_mut(&mut self) -> &mut FooRef {
//! unsafe { FooRef::from_ptr_mut(foo_sys::BAR_get_foo(self.as_ptr())) }
//! }
//! }
//!
//! # fn main() {}
//! ```
#![no_std]
#![warn(missing_docs)]
#![doc(html_root_url = "https://docs.rs/foreign-types/0.5")]
#[cfg(feature = "std")]
extern crate std;
#[doc(hidden)]
pub use foreign_types_macros::foreign_type_impl;
#[doc(inline)]
pub use foreign_types_shared::{ForeignType, ForeignTypeRef, Opaque};
#[doc(hidden)]
pub mod export {
pub use core::borrow::{Borrow, BorrowMut};
pub use core::clone::Clone;
pub use core::convert::{AsMut, AsRef};
pub use core::marker::{PhantomData, Send, Sync};
pub use core::ops::{Deref, DerefMut, Drop};
pub use core::ptr::NonNull;
#[cfg(feature = "std")]
pub use std::borrow::ToOwned;
}
/// A macro to easily define wrappers for foreign types.
///
/// # Examples
///
/// ```
/// use foreign_types::foreign_type;
///
/// # mod openssl_sys { pub type SSL = (); pub unsafe fn SSL_free(_: *mut SSL) {} pub unsafe fn SSL_dup(x: *mut SSL) -> *mut SSL {x} }
/// # mod foo_sys { pub type THING = (); pub unsafe fn THING_free(_: *mut THING) {} }
/// foreign_type! {
/// /// Documentation for the owned type.
/// pub unsafe type Ssl: Sync + Send {
/// type CType = openssl_sys::SSL;
/// fn drop = openssl_sys::SSL_free;
/// fn clone = openssl_sys::SSL_dup;
/// }
///
/// /// This type immutably borrows other data and has a limited lifetime!
/// pub unsafe type Thing<'a>: Send {
/// type CType = foo_sys::THING;
/// type PhantomData = &'a ();
/// fn drop = foo_sys::THING_free;
/// }
/// }
///
/// # fn main() {}
/// ```
#[macro_export(local_inner_macros)]
macro_rules! foreign_type {
($($t:tt)*) => {
$crate::foreign_type_impl!($crate $($t)*);
};
}