Basically, I want to write a function that returns a closure. How can I do this without having to return Box<FnOnce(u32)>
?
From the closures chapter of the rust book, I read that a closure is just syntactic sugar for a struct and an impl of FnOnce
. Here is my attempt:
#[derive(Debug)]
struct MyError {
code: u32,
location: &'static str,
}
// Here is my closure:
struct MyErrorPartial {
location: &'static str,
}
impl FnOnce(u32) for MyErrorPartial {
type Output = MyError;
fn call_once(self, args: u32) -> MyError {
MyError {
code: args,
location: self.location,
}
}
}
fn error_at(location: &'static str) -> MyErrorPartial {
MyErrorPartial {location: location}
}
fn function_returning_code() -> Result<(), u32> {
Err(123)
}
fn function_with_error() -> Result<(), MyError> {
try!(function_returning_code().map_err(error_at("line1")));
try!(function_returning_code().map_err(error_at("line2")));
Ok(())
}
fn main() {
function_with_error().unwrap();
}
It currently gives an error:
<anon>:11:12: 11:17 error: associated type bindings are not allowed here [E0229]
<anon>:11 impl FnOnce(u32) for MyErrorPartial {
^~~~~
The syntax for manually implementing a Fn*
trait on a struct is this one:
impl FnOnce<(Arg1,Arg2,Arg3,)> for MyStruct {
type Output = MyOutput;
extern "rust-call" fn call_once(args: (Arg1, Arg2, Arg3,)) -> MyOutput {
// implementation here
}
}
Note that all the arguments are given as a single tuple.
Also, this syntax is unstable and require #![feature(core, unboxed_closures)]
, thus you cannot use it on the beta channel, only nightlies.
In you case, it would translate like this:
impl FnOnce<(u32,)> for MyErrorPartial {
type Output = MyError;
extern "rust-call" fn call_once(self, args: (u32,)) -> MyError {
MyError {
code: args.0,
location: self.location,
}
}
}