iderive: Inner Derive

iderive is a drop-in replacement for derive that doesn't directly depend on generic bounds. It only checks the types of a struct's fields when deriving a trait.

Example

#[derive(Clone, Copy)]
struct TaggedIndex<T: ?Sized> {
    index: usize,
    _tag: PhantomData<T>,
}

let a = TaggedIndex::<String> { index: 0, _tag: PhantomData };
let b = a;
let c = a; // Error: Value used after move

This won't work because derive requires that T implements Copy for TaggedIndex to be able to derive it.

In contrast, iderive only checks the struct's fields to determine if a trait can be derived. Because usize and PhantomData<T> implements Copy regardless of the type of T, iderive(Copy) will implement Copy for TaggedIndex:

#[iderive(Clone, Copy)]
struct TaggedIndex<T: ?Sized> {
    index: usize,
    _tag: PhantomData<T>,
}

let a = TaggedIndex::<String> { index: 0, _tag: PhantomData };
let b = a;
let c = a; // Works!

Supported traits

iderive is currently implemented for Clone, Copy, Debug, Default, PartialEq, Eq, PartialOrd, Ord and Hash.

Version history

• 1.2.3
  • Fix parsing of field visibility, attributes and function trait bounds
• 1.2.0
  • Rewrite; iderive now has no dependencies
  • Don't use canonical implementations, because this breaks if the other trait fails bounds
• 1.1.2
  • Remove the non-exhaustive support added in 1.1.1 as it doesn't make sense when all fields are displayed anyway. This matches the output of #[derive(Debug)]
• 1.1.1
  • Indicate non-exhausiveness in the output of the Debug trait for named structs
  • Guard against redefinitions of the bool type
  • Don't require syn's full feature
  • Add more license options
• 1.1.0
  • Use canonical implementations of Clone/PartialOrd if Copy/Ord is also derived
  • Update to syn 2.0
• 1.0.0
  • Remove debug output that was left in by accident
• 0.1.0
  • First release