cow_vec_item

Provides CowVec, a lazy copy-on-write wrapper around Vec.

extern crate cow_vec_item;
use cow_vec_item::CowVec;


let mut big_vec = vec!["lion", "tiger", "dragon"];

let mut copy_on_write_ref = CowVec::from(&big_vec);

// Just ensure there are no dragons, then print stuff
for mut item in copy_on_write_ref.iter_mut() {
    // Do lots of stuff
    if *item == "dragon" { //Dragons are not allowed here.
        *item = "sparrow"; // The entire big_vec will be cloned here
    }
}

for item in copy_on_write_ref.iter() {
    println!("Animal: {}", item); //Don't worry, no dragons here
}

// You can also get an owned vector, in this example only when changes were detected
if copy_on_write_ref.is_owned() {
    let my_private_vec : Vec<&str> = copy_on_write_ref.to_owned();
}

Docs

The docs are available at: https://docs.rs/crate/cow_vec_item/

License

cow_vec_item is licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

MIT License text:

Copyright 2020 Anders Musikka

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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