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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};
//!
//! 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);
//!
//! 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(*mut foo_sys::FOO);
//!
//! impl Drop for Foo {
//! fn drop(&mut self) {
//! unsafe { foo_sys::FOO_free(self.0) }
//! }
//! }
//!
//! impl ForeignType for Foo {
//! type CType = foo_sys::FOO;
//! type Ref = FooRef;
//!
//! unsafe fn from_ptr(ptr: *mut foo_sys::FOO) -> Foo {
//! Foo(ptr)
//! }
//!
//! fn as_ptr(&self) -> *mut foo_sys::FOO {
//! self.0
//! }
//! }
//!
//! impl Deref for Foo {
//! type Target = FooRef;
//!
//! fn deref(&self) -> &FooRef {
//! unsafe { FooRef::from_ptr(self.0) }
//! }
//! }
//!
//! impl DerefMut for Foo {
//! fn deref_mut(&mut self) -> &mut FooRef {
//! unsafe { FooRef::from_ptr_mut(self.0) }
//! }
//! }
//! ```
//!
//! The `foreign_type!` macro can generate this boilerplate for you:
//!
//! ```
//! #[macro_use]
//! extern crate foreign_types;
//!
//! 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! {
//! type CType = foo_sys::FOO;
//! fn drop = foo_sys::FOO_free;
//! fn clone = foo_sys::FOO_duplicate; // Optional
//! /// A Foo.
//! pub struct Foo;
//! /// A borrowed Foo.
//! pub struct FooRef;
//! }
//!
//! # 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 `ToOwned` and `Clone`.
//!
//! `#[derive(…)] is permitted before the lines with `pub struct`.
//! `#[doc(hidden)]` before the `type CType` line will hide the `foreign_type!` implementations from documentation.
//!
//! 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:
//!
//! ```
//! #[macro_use]
//! extern crate foreign_types;
//!
//! use foreign_types::ForeignTypeRef;
//!
//! 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! {
//! #[doc(hidden)]
//! type CType = foo_sys::FOO;
//! fn drop = foo_sys::FOO_free;
//! /// A Foo.
//! pub struct Foo;
//! /// A borrowed Foo.
//! pub struct FooRef;
//! }
//!
//! foreign_type! {
//! type CType = foo_sys::BAR;
//! fn drop = foo_sys::BAR_free;
//! /// A Foo.
//! pub struct Bar;
//! /// A borrowed Bar.
//! pub struct BarRef;
//! }
//!
//! 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/0.3")]
extern crate foreign_types_shared;
#[doc(inline)]
pub use foreign_types_shared::*;
/// A macro to easily define wrappers for foreign types.
///
/// # Examples
///
/// ```
/// #[macro_use]
/// extern crate foreign_types;
///
/// # mod openssl_sys { pub type SSL = (); pub unsafe fn SSL_free(_: *mut SSL) {} pub unsafe fn SSL_dup(x: *mut SSL) -> *mut SSL {x} }
/// foreign_type! {
/// type CType = openssl_sys::SSL;
/// fn drop = openssl_sys::SSL_free;
/// fn clone = openssl_sys::SSL_dup;
/// /// Documentation for the owned type.
/// pub struct Ssl;
/// /// Documentation for the borrowed type.
/// pub struct SslRef;
/// }
///
/// # fn main() {}
/// ```
#[macro_export]
macro_rules! foreign_type {
(
$(#[$impl_attr:meta])*
type CType = $ctype:ty;
fn drop = $drop:expr;
$(fn clone = $clone:expr;)*
$(#[$owned_attr:meta])*
pub struct $owned:ident;
$(#[$borrowed_attr:meta])*
pub struct $borrowed:ident;
) => {
$(#[$owned_attr])*
pub struct $owned(*mut $ctype);
$(#[$impl_attr])*
impl $crate::ForeignType for $owned {
type CType = $ctype;
type Ref = $borrowed;
#[inline]
unsafe fn from_ptr(ptr: *mut $ctype) -> $owned {
$owned(ptr)
}
#[inline]
fn as_ptr(&self) -> *mut $ctype {
self.0
}
}
impl Drop for $owned {
#[inline]
fn drop(&mut self) {
unsafe { $drop(self.0) }
}
}
$(
impl Clone for $owned {
#[inline]
fn clone(&self) -> $owned {
unsafe {
let handle: *mut $ctype = $clone(self.0);
$crate::ForeignType::from_ptr(handle)
}
}
}
impl ::std::borrow::ToOwned for $borrowed {
type Owned = $owned;
#[inline]
fn to_owned(&self) -> $owned {
unsafe {
let handle: *mut $ctype = $clone($crate::ForeignTypeRef::as_ptr(self));
$crate::ForeignType::from_ptr(handle)
}
}
}
)*
impl ::std::ops::Deref for $owned {
type Target = $borrowed;
#[inline]
fn deref(&self) -> &$borrowed {
unsafe { $crate::ForeignTypeRef::from_ptr(self.0) }
}
}
impl ::std::ops::DerefMut for $owned {
#[inline]
fn deref_mut(&mut self) -> &mut $borrowed {
unsafe { $crate::ForeignTypeRef::from_ptr_mut(self.0) }
}
}
impl ::std::borrow::Borrow<$borrowed> for $owned {
#[inline]
fn borrow(&self) -> &$borrowed {
&**self
}
}
impl ::std::convert::AsRef<$borrowed> for $owned {
#[inline]
fn as_ref(&self) -> &$borrowed {
&**self
}
}
$(#[$borrowed_attr])*
pub struct $borrowed($crate::Opaque);
$(#[$impl_attr])*
impl $crate::ForeignTypeRef for $borrowed {
type CType = $ctype;
}
}
}