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I've been trying to use OneCell, but I keep having errors trying to set it up to handle a mutable vector that I can push to.

I know there's going to be some answers telling me maybe not to use a singleton, but the alternative of passing a vector all around throughout my code is not ergonmic at all.

I've tried lots of things, but this is where I'm at right now. Specifically I'm just having trouble initializing it.

`/**

  • LOG_CELL
  • Stores a vec of Strings that is added to throughout the algorithm with information to report
  • To the end user and developer */ pub static LOG_CELL: OnceLock<&mut Vec> = OnceLock::new();

pub fn set_log() { LOG_CELL.set(Vec::new()); }

pub fn push_log(message: String) { if let Some(vec_of_messages) = LOG_CELL.get() { let something = *vec_of_messages; something.push(message); } } `

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[โ€“] Barbacamanitu 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Maybe lazy_static? Personally I'd just pass a borrow to the vec around. It's very common for programs to have some global state that they pass around to different parts.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

๐Ÿค” I thought lazy_static was deprecated in favor of one_cell

[โ€“] Barbacamanitu 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ah I didn't realize most people have moved onto OnceCell. The issue with both lazy static and oncecell is that they can only be assigned to once. You need a global mutable state, so neither OnceCell or lazy_static are the right choice.

You're going to be fighting the borrow checker if you try to have global mutable state. It will bite you eventually. You can potentially use an interior mutablity pattern along with a mutex. Have you looked into interior mutability?