In Rust 1.3, the default object lifetime bounds are expected to change, as described in RFC 1156. You are getting a warning because the compiler thinks it is possible that this change will cause a compilation error in your code. It is possible, though unlikely, that this is a false alarm.
The heart of the change is that where &'a Box<SomeTrait>
used to default to &'a Box<SomeTrait+'a>
, it now defaults to &'a Box<SomeTrait+'static>
(here, SomeTrait
is the name of some trait type). Note that the only types which are affected are references to boxes, like &Box<SomeTrait>
or &[Box<SomeTrait>]
. More common types like &SomeTrait
or Box<SomeTrait>
are unaffected.
To silence this warning, edit your code to use an explicit bound. Most of the time, this means that you will want to change the signature of a function that you are calling. For example, if the error is reported on a call like foo(x)
, and foo
is defined as follows:
# trait SomeTrait {} fn foo(arg: &Box<SomeTrait>) { /* ... */ }
You might change it to:
# trait SomeTrait {} fn foo<'a>(arg: &'a Box<SomeTrait+'a>) { /* ... */ }
This explicitly states that you expect the trait object SomeTrait
to contain references (with a maximum lifetime of 'a
).