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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-19 00:47:55 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-19 00:47:55 +0000 |
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Adding upstream version 124.0.1.upstream/124.0.1
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diff --git a/third_party/rust/yoke/README.md b/third_party/rust/yoke/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..23c1ac8c38 --- /dev/null +++ b/third_party/rust/yoke/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +# yoke [![crates.io](https://img.shields.io/crates/v/yoke)](https://crates.io/crates/yoke) + +<!-- cargo-rdme start --> + +This crate provides [`Yoke<Y, C>`][Yoke], which allows one to "yoke" (attach) a zero-copy deserialized +object (say, a [`Cow<'a, str>`](alloc::borrow::Cow)) to the source it was deserialized from, (say, an [`Rc<[u8]>`](alloc::rc::Rc)), +known in this crate as a "cart", producing a type that looks like `Yoke<Cow<'static, str>, Rc<[u8]>>` +and can be moved around with impunity. + +Succinctly, this allows one to "erase" static lifetimes and turn them into dynamic ones, similarly +to how `dyn` allows one to "erase" static types and turn them into dynamic ones. + +Most of the time the yokeable `Y` type will be some kind of zero-copy deserializable +abstraction, potentially with an owned variant (like [`Cow`](alloc::borrow::Cow), +[`ZeroVec`](https://docs.rs/zerovec), or an aggregate containing such types), and the cart `C` will be some smart pointer like + [`Box<T>`](alloc::boxed::Box), [`Rc<T>`](alloc::rc::Rc), or [`Arc<T>`](std::sync::Arc), potentially wrapped in an [`Option<T>`](Option). + +The key behind this crate is [`Yoke::get()`], where calling [`.get()`][Yoke::get] on a type like +`Yoke<Cow<'static, str>, _>` will get you a short-lived `&'a Cow<'a, str>`, restricted to the +lifetime of the borrow used during [`.get()`](Yoke::get). This is entirely safe since the `Cow` borrows from +the cart type `C`, which cannot be interfered with as long as the `Yoke` is borrowed by [`.get()`](Yoke::get). +[`.get()`](Yoke::get) protects access by essentially reifying the erased lifetime to a safe local one +when necessary. + +See the documentation of [`Yoke`] for more details. + +<!-- cargo-rdme end --> + +## More Information + +For more information on development, authorship, contributing etc. please visit [`ICU4X home page`](https://github.com/unicode-org/icu4x). |