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[Help] Is there a way to detect all structs in the current crate that implement a certain trait? (self.rust)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by thevoidzero to c/[email protected]

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Hi all.

I want to develop a plugin system within my program, and I have a trait that functions defined by plugins should implement.

Currently, my code gets all the functions in a HashMap and then calls them by their name. Problem is, I have to create that hashmap myself by inserting every function myself.

I would really appreciate it if there was a way to say, suppose, all pub members of mod functions:: that implement this trait PluginFunction call register(hashmap) function. So as I add more functions as mod in functions it'll be automatically added on compile.

Pseudocode:

Files:

src/
├── attrs.rs
├── functions
│   ├── attrs.rs
│   ├── export.rs
│   └── render.rs
├── functions.rs
├── lib.rs

Basically, in mod functions I want:

impl AllFunctions{
    pub fn new() -> Self {
       let mut functions_map = HashMap::new();[[
       register_all!(crate::functions::* implementing PluginFunction, &mut functions_map);
       Self { function_map }
  }
}

Right now I'm doing:

impl AllFunctions{
    pub fn new() -> Self {
       let mut functions_map = HashMap::new();[[
       crate::functions::attrs::PrintAttr{}.register(&mut functions_map);
       crate::functions::export::ExportCSV{}.register(&mut functions_map);
       crate::functions::render::RenderText{}.register(&mut functions_map);
       // More as I add more functions
       Self { function_map }
  }
}

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[–] VegOwOtenks 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You could wrap the entirety of your file in a monster macro but you'd still have to assign the macro result to a variable you need to register, which doesn't sound viable to me at least.

Maybe you can use a script that would extract all the trait implementations and create the boilerplate glue code for you, something like this:

grep --recursive --only-matching "impl PluginFunction for \w*" functions/ | sed --quiet "s/functions\/\(.*\)\.rs:impl PluginFunction for \(\w*\)/crate::functions::\1::\2{}.register(\&mut functions_map)/p"

I tried to recreate your situation locally but it may not match perfectly, maybe you'll have to adjust it a little. When I run it on my file tree which looks like this

functions
├── attr.rs
├── export.rs
└── render.rs

1 directory, 3 files

where every file has a content like this

// comment

pub struct MyAttrStructName {}

impl PluginFunction for MyAttrStructName {

}

Then I receive the following output:

crate::functions::attr::MyAttrStructName{}.register(&mut functions_map)
crate::functions::export::MyExportStructName{}.register(&mut functions_map)
crate::functions::render::MyRenderStructName{}.register(&mut functions_map)

[–] thevoidzero 1 points 1 week ago

Thank you. Yeah, something like this would work for me as I can add in a script and run it before compiling. But it won't be a cross platform solution and windows/mac users are probably not going to be able to do anything. Maybe if I do the same thing but from build.rs it'll work. I'll try that.