FromIterator in std::iter - Rust (original) (raw)
Trait FromIterator
1.0.0 · Source
pub trait FromIterator<A>: Sized {
// Required method
fn from_iter<T>(iter: T) -> Self
where T: IntoIterator<Item = A>;
}Expand description
Conversion from an Iterator.
By implementing FromIterator for a type, you define how it will be created from an iterator. This is common for types which describe a collection of some kind.
If you want to create a collection from the contents of an iterator, theIterator::collect() method is preferred. However, when you need to specify the container type, FromIterator::from_iter() can be more readable than using a turbofish (e.g. ::<Vec<_>>()). See theIterator::collect() documentation for more examples of its use.
See also: IntoIterator.
§Examples
Basic usage:
let five_fives = std::iter::repeat(5).take(5);
let v = Vec::from_iter(five_fives);
assert_eq!(v, vec![5, 5, 5, 5, 5]);Using Iterator::collect() to implicitly use FromIterator:
let five_fives = std::iter::repeat(5).take(5);
let v: Vec<i32> = five_fives.collect();
assert_eq!(v, vec![5, 5, 5, 5, 5]);Using FromIterator::from_iter() as a more readable alternative toIterator::collect():
use std::collections::VecDeque;
let first = (0..10).collect::<VecDeque<i32>>();
let second = VecDeque::from_iter(0..10);
assert_eq!(first, second);Implementing FromIterator for your type:
// A sample collection, that's just a wrapper over Vec<T>
#[derive(Debug)]
struct MyCollection(Vec<i32>);
// Let's give it some methods so we can create one and add things
// to it.
impl MyCollection {
fn new() -> MyCollection {
MyCollection(Vec::new())
}
fn add(&mut self, elem: i32) {
self.0.push(elem);
}
}
// and we'll implement FromIterator
impl FromIterator<i32> for MyCollection {
fn from_iter<I: IntoIterator<Item=i32>>(iter: I) -> Self {
let mut c = MyCollection::new();
for i in iter {
c.add(i);
}
c
}
}
// Now we can make a new iterator...
let iter = (0..5).into_iter();
// ... and make a MyCollection out of it
let c = MyCollection::from_iter(iter);
assert_eq!(c.0, vec![0, 1, 2, 3, 4]);
// collect works too!
let iter = (0..5).into_iter();
let c: MyCollection = iter.collect();
assert_eq!(c.0, vec![0, 1, 2, 3, 4]);1.0.0 · Source
Creates a value from an iterator.
See the module-level documentation for more.
§Examples
let five_fives = std::iter::repeat(5).take(5);
let v = Vec::from_iter(five_fives);
assert_eq!(v, vec![5, 5, 5, 5, 5]);This trait is not dyn compatible.
In older versions of Rust, dyn compatibility was called "object safety", so this trait is not object safe.
Collapses all unit items from an iterator into one.
This is more useful when combined with higher-level abstractions, like collecting to a Result<(), E> where you only care about errors:
use std::io::*;
let data = vec![1, 2, 3, 4, 5];
let res: Result<()> = data.iter()
.map(|x| writeln!(stdout(), "{x}"))
.collect();
assert!(res.is_ok());This implementation turns an iterator of tuples into a tuple of types which implementDefault and Extend.
This is similar to Iterator::unzip, but is also composable with other FromIteratorimplementations:
let string = "1,2,123,4";
// Example given for a 2-tuple, but 1- through 12-tuples are supported
let (numbers, lengths): (Vec<_>, Vec<_>) = string
.split(',')
.map(|s| s.parse().map(|n: u32| (n, s.len())))
.collect::<Result<_, _>>()?;
assert_eq!(numbers, [1, 2, 123, 4]);
assert_eq!(lengths, [1, 1, 3, 1]);This trait is implemented for tuples up to twelve items long. The impls for 1- and 3- through 12-ary tuples were stabilized after 2-tuples, in 1.85.0.
§Allocation behavior
In general Vec does not guarantee any particular growth or allocation strategy. That also applies to this trait impl.
Note: This section covers implementation details and is therefore exempt from stability guarantees.
Vec may use any or none of the following strategies, depending on the supplied iterator:
- preallocate based on Iterator::size_hint()
- and panic if the number of items is outside the provided lower/upper bounds
- use an amortized growth strategy similar to
pushingone item at a time - perform the iteration in-place on the original allocation backing the iterator
The last case warrants some attention. It is an optimization that in many cases reduces peak memory consumption and improves cache locality. But when big, short-lived allocations are created, only a small fraction of their items get collected, no further use is made of the spare capacity and the resulting Vec is moved into a longer-lived structure, then this can lead to the large allocations having their lifetimes unnecessarily extended which can result in increased memory footprint.
In cases where this is an issue, the excess capacity can be discarded with Vec::shrink_to(),Vec::shrink_to_fit() or by collecting into Box<[T]> instead, which additionally reduces the size of the long-lived struct.
static LONG_LIVED: Mutex<Vec<Vec<u16>>> = Mutex::new(Vec::new());
for i in 0..10 {
let big_temporary: Vec<u16> = (0..1024).collect();
// discard most items
let mut result: Vec<_> = big_temporary.into_iter().filter(|i| i % 100 == 0).collect();
// without this a lot of unused capacity might be moved into the global
result.shrink_to_fit();
LONG_LIVED.lock().unwrap().push(result);
}