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Add Deref implementation for HSTRING#3291

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@kennykerr kennykerr commented Sep 23, 2024

The HSTRING type represents a UTF-16 string that is modeled as a [u16] slice in Rust. This update replaces the as_wide method to retrieve the HSTRING as a slice with a Deref implementation. This makes it a lot easier to work with an HSTRING in Rust as conversion is implicit in many cases.

The same is done for BSTR for consistency and code reduction.

Fixes: rust-lang/rustup#3896 (comment)

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kennykerr commented Sep 23, 2024

Build break is due to unrelated Rust nightly update - investigating.

Workaround is here: #3292

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djc commented Sep 23, 2024

Nice!

@kennykerr kennykerr merged commit 0f7466c into master Sep 23, 2024
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pub fn len(&self) -> usize {
if self.0.is_null() {
fn deref(&self) -> &[u16] {
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What's the reason for this signature rather than its more conventional spelling

fn deref(&self) -> &Self::Target

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I'm just curious if there's a particular reason.

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No reason, just seemed more succinct in this case.

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