在Rust中使用结构创建哈希表

Question

I am trying to set up a hashmap of objects / structs in rust... But I don't understand this concrete problem (a lifetime error).

#[derive(Hash, Eq, PartialEq)]
#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Debug)]
pub struct Node<'a> {
    identifier: &'a str,
    sha_id: Vec<u8>,
    successor_id: Option<Vec<u8>>,
    predecessor_id: Option<Vec<u8>>,
}


impl<'a> Node<'a> {
    ...
    ..
    .
}

pub struct Application<'a> {
    hash_map: HashMap<&'a str, Node>,
}

impl<'a> Application<'a> {
    fn join(&self, node: &Node) {
        self.hash_map.insert(node.identifier, node);
    }
}

The error is a missing lifetime specifier in the hash_map: HashMap<&'a str, Node> that I tried to solve changing Node to Node<'a> but It throws a "mismatched type" error when I try to insert...

I don't exactly why I have this problem missing the lifetime and I don't find solutions..

UPDATE:

#[derive(Hash, Eq, PartialEq)]
#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Debug)]
pub struct Node<'a> {
    identifier: &'a str,
    sha_id: Vec<u8>,
    successor_id: Option<Vec<u8>>,
    predecessor_id: Option<Vec<u8>>,
}


impl<'a> Node<'a> {
    ...
    ..
    .
}

pub struct Application<'a> {
    hash_map: HashMap<&'a str, Node<'a>>,
}

impl<'a> Application<'a> {
    fn join(&self, node: &Node) {
        self.hash_map.insert(node.identifier, *node);
    }
}

And the output is:

"explicit lifetime required in the type of `node`"

UPDATE2:

pub struct Application<'a> {
    hash_map: HashMap<&'a str, Node<'a>>,
}

impl<'a> Application<'a> {
    fn join(&mut self, node: &'a Node<'a>) {
        self.hash_map.insert(node.identifier, *node);
    }

}

And the output is:

self.hash_map.insert(node.identifier, *node); cannot move out of borrowed content

COMPLETE SOLUTION

#[derive(Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)]
#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Debug)]
pub struct Node<'a> {
    identifier: &'a str,
    sha_id: Vec<u8>,
    successor_id: Option<Vec<u8>>,
    predecessor_id: Option<Vec<u8>>,
}


impl<'a> Node<'a> {
...
..
.
}

pub struct Application<'a> {
    hash_map: HashMap<&'a str, Node<'a>>,
}

impl<'a> Application<'a> {
    fn join(&mut self, node: Node<'a>) {
        self.hash_map.insert(node.identifier, node);
    }

}

Answer 1

This simplified example seems to work:

use std::collections::HashMap;

#[derive(Clone)] // we'll be cloning it later on
struct Node<'a> {
    data: &'a i32 
}


struct Test<'a> {
    hash_map: HashMap<&'a str, Node<'a>>  // the hash map owns the struct
}

impl<'a> Test<'a> {
    fn new() -> Test<'a> {
        Test {hash_map: HashMap::new()}
    }

    fn join(
        &mut self, // must be mutable
        node: Node<'a>) { // do not pass a reference
        self.hash_map.insert("test", node);  // inserting moves `node`
    }
}

fn main() {
    let stuff = Node {data: &12};
    let mut test = Test::new();

    test.join(stuff.clone());  // if we don't clone, `stuff` will get moved

    println!("{}", *test.hash_map["test"].data);  // outputs "12"
}

Since std::collections::HashMap::insert attempts to move its second argument, one can't dereference a pointer to something and pass that to this method because otherwise the pointer will become uninitialized, which isn't permitted. A way so solve this is to pass a moved value and not a pointer to join .