Rust High Performance

Implementing setters

The second part of this exercise will be to implement setters for our structure. Usually this is done by creating a set_{field}() function for each field. Moreover, it's common practice to use generics for it so that they can be used with many different types. For example, for a String field, it would be great if we didn't need to always use an actual String type and we could use a &str, a Cow<_, str>, or a Box<str>.

We only need to declare the input as Into<String>. This makes things a little bit more complex, but our API will look much better. To implement the new setters, it would only mean changing a little bit of what we saw earlier and most of the code would be duplicated.

To avoid that, we will use the strategy ...