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Consider moving objc2_foundation into the objc2 crate #39

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@madsmtm

There's a lot of places in objc2_foundation that would benefit from being able to implement From for specific Ids:

  • NSArray::from_vec
  • NSArray::into_vec
  • NSData::from_vec
  • NSDictionary::from_keys_and_objects
  • NSString::from_str
  • And so on...

Same goes for traits like Default.

But unfortunately, we can't create these implementations because Id is defined in another crate, see RFC 2451. I tried creating a helper trait FromId for this purpose, but that doesn't work either:

pub trait FromId<T, O: Ownership> {
    fn from_id(obj: Id<T, O>) -> Self;
}

impl<T, O: Ownership, X: FromId<T, O>> From<Id<T, O>> for X {
    fn from(obj: Id<T, O>) -> Self {
        Self::from_id(obj)
    }
}

// Errors with:
// note: conflicting implementation in crate `core`:
// - impl<T> From<T> for T;
// note: downstream crates may implement trait `FromId<_, _>` for type `Id<_, _>`

Though doing it for Default would:

// In objc2:

pub trait IdDefault: Sized {
    type Ownership: Ownership;
    fn id_default() -> Id<Self, Self::Ownership>;
}

impl<T: IdDefault> Default for Id<T, T::Ownership> {
    fn default() -> Self {
        T::id_default()
    }
}

// In objc2_foundation:

impl IdDefault for NSString {
    type Ownership = <NSString as INSObject>::Ownership;
    fn id_default() -> Id<Self, Self::Ownership> {
        <NSString as INSObject>::new()
    }
}

So possible solutions:

  • Move objc2_foundation to objc2::foundation (under a feature flag)
  • Move Id to objc2_foundation?

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