Struct `SyncWrapper`

struct SyncWrapper<T>(_)

A mutual exclusion primitive that relies on static type information only

In some cases synchronization can be proven statically: whenever you hold an exclusive &mut reference, the Rust type system ensures that no other part of the program can hold another reference to the data. Therefore it is safe to access it even if the current thread obtained this reference via a channel. Whenever this is the case, the overhead of allocating and locking a Mutex can be avoided by using this static version.

One example where this is often applicable is Future, which requires an exclusive reference for its poll method: While a given Future implementation may not be safe to access by multiple threads concurrently, the executor can only run the Future on one thread at any given time, making it Sync in practice as long as the implementation is Send. You can therefore use the static mutex to prove that your data structure is Sync even though it contains such a Future.

Example

use sync_wrapper::SyncWrapper;
use std::future::Future;

struct MyThing {
    future: SyncWrapper<Box<dyn Future<Output = String> + Send>>,
}

impl MyThing {
    // all accesses to `self.future` now require an exclusive reference or ownership
}

fn assert_sync<T: Sync>() {}

assert_sync::<MyThing>();

Implementations

`impl<T> SyncWrapper<T>`

const fn new(value: T) -> Self

Creates a new static mutex containing the given value.

Examples

use sync_wrapper::SyncWrapper;

let mutex = SyncWrapper::new(42);

fn get_mut(self: &mut Self) -> &mut T

Acquires a reference to the protected value.

This is safe because it requires an exclusive reference to the mutex. Therefore this method neither panics nor does it return an error. This is in contrast to Mutex::get_mut which returns an error if another thread panicked while holding the lock. It is not recommended to send an exclusive reference to a potentially damaged value to another thread for further processing.

Examples

use sync_wrapper::SyncWrapper;

let mut mutex = SyncWrapper::new(42);
let value = mutex.get_mut();
*value = 0;
assert_eq!(*mutex.get_mut(), 0);

fn get_pin_mut(self: Pin<&mut Self>) -> Pin<&mut T>

Acquires a pinned reference to the protected value.

See Self::get_mut for why this method is safe.

Examples

use std::future::Future;
use std::pin::Pin;
use std::task::{Context, Poll};

use pin_project_lite::pin_project;
use sync_wrapper::SyncWrapper;

pin_project! {
    struct FutureWrapper<F> {
        #[pin]
        inner: SyncWrapper<F>,
    }
}

impl<F: Future> Future for FutureWrapper<F> {
    type Output = F::Output;

    fn poll(self: Pin<&mut Self>, cx: &mut Context<'_>) -> Poll<Self::Output> {
        self.project().inner.get_pin_mut().poll(cx)
    }
}

fn into_inner(self: Self) -> T

Consumes this mutex, returning the underlying data.

This is safe because it requires ownership of the mutex, therefore this method will neither panic nor does it return an error. This is in contrast to Mutex::into_inner which returns an error if another thread panicked while holding the lock. It is not recommended to send an exclusive reference to a potentially damaged value to another thread for further processing.

Examples

use sync_wrapper::SyncWrapper;

let mut mutex = SyncWrapper::new(42);
assert_eq!(mutex.into_inner(), 42);

`impl<T> Any for SyncWrapper<T>`

fn type_id(self: &Self) -> TypeId

`impl<T> Borrow for SyncWrapper<T>`

fn borrow(self: &Self) -> &T

`impl<T> BorrowMut for SyncWrapper<T>`

fn borrow_mut(self: &mut Self) -> &mut T

`impl<T> Debug for SyncWrapper<T>`

fn fmt(self: &Self, f: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> Result

`impl<T> Freeze for SyncWrapper<T>`

`impl<T> From for SyncWrapper<T>`

fn from(value: T) -> Self

`impl<T> From for SyncWrapper<T>`

fn from(t: never) -> T

`impl<T> From for SyncWrapper<T>`

fn from(t: T) -> T: Returns the argument unchanged.

`impl<T> RefUnwindSafe for SyncWrapper<T>`

`impl<T> Send for SyncWrapper<T>`

`impl<T> Sync for SyncWrapper<T>`

`impl<T> Unpin for SyncWrapper<T>`

`impl<T> UnsafeUnpin for SyncWrapper<T>`

`impl<T> UnwindSafe for SyncWrapper<T>`

`impl<T, U> Into for SyncWrapper<T>`

fn into(self: Self) -> U

Calls U::from(self).

That is, this conversion is whatever the implementation of [From]<T> for U chooses to do.

`impl<T, U> TryFrom for SyncWrapper<T>`

fn try_from(value: U) -> Result<T, <T as TryFrom<U>>::Error>

`impl<T, U> TryInto for SyncWrapper<T>`

fn try_into(self: Self) -> Result<U, <U as TryFrom<T>>::Error>

`impl<T: Default> Default for SyncWrapper<T>`

fn default() -> Self