- Mastering Rust
- Rahul Sharma Vesa Kaihlavirta
- 296字
- 2021-07-02 13:35:29
Generic implementations
We can also write impl blocks for our generic types too, but it gets verbose here because of the extra generic type parameters, as we'll see. Let's implement a new() method on our Container<T> struct:
// generic_struct_impl.rs
struct Container<T> {
item: T
}
impl Container<T> {
fn new(item: T) -> Self {
Container { item }
}
}
fn main() {
// stuff
}
Let's compile this:

The error message cannot find our generic type T. When writing an impl block for any generic type, we need to declare the generic type parameter before using it within our type. T is just like a variable—a type variable—and we need to declare it. Therefore, we need to modify the implementation block a bit by adding <T> after impl, like so:
impl<T> Container<T> {
fn new(item: T) -> Self {
Container { item }
}
}
With that change, the preceding code compiles. The previous impl block basically means that we are implementing these methods for all types T, which appear in Container<T>. This impl block is a generic implementation. Therefore, every concrete Container that ever gets generated will have these methods. Now, we could have also written a more specific impl block for Container<T> by putting any concrete type in place of T. This is what it would look like:
impl Container<u32> {
fn sum(item: u32) -> Self {
Container { item }
}
}
In the preceding code, we implemented a method called sum, which is only present on Container<u32> types. Here, we don't need the <T> after impl because of the presence of u32 as a concrete type. This is another nice property of impl blocks, which allows you to specialize generic types by implementing methods independently.
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