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ownref

This crate provides the smart pointer type that bundles the data with its owner. It has the folloing features:

The data is either a reference to a portion of the owner, or a data type that may contain references to the owner.
The refernce can be ordered by data content or data pointer address.
The owner is contained in Box or Arc.

The following table shows Box-based reference types. The generic O denotes the owner type and I denotes the data type.

data type (`I`) \ ordering	Content ordered	Pointer address ordered
Reference	`BoxRefC<O, I>`	`BoxRefA<O, I>`
Owned	`BoxOwnedC<O, I>`	`BoxOwnedA<O, I>`

The following table shows Arc-based reference types.

data type (`I`) \ ordering	Content ordered	Pointer address ordered
Reference	`ArcRefC<O, I>`	`ArcRefA<O, I>`
Owned	`ArcOwnedC<O, I>`	`ArcOwnedA<O, I>`

For example,

BoxRefA<Vec<str>, str> is a reference to str within the owner Vec<str>, which is ordered by pointer address.
ArcOwnedC<Vec<str>, Option<&str>> stores the data type Option<&str>, which contains a reference within the owner Vec<str>. The reference is ordered by the data content.

License

MIT license. See license file.