How to use self while spawning a thread from method

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To put the whole struct in Arc you'll just need to actually two structs – the inner one and the outer one (although wrapping separate fields would be a better idea, especially if you don't want the thread to acces the whole struct). You can implement start only on the outer one.

struct MyInner { s: String }
struct My { inner: Arc<MyInner> }

impl My {
	fn start(&self) {
		let local_self = self.inner.clone();
		thread::spawn(move || {
			local_self.test();
		});
	}
}

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Note that I've changed &str to String, which was a direct cause of the error (you can't share references in non-scoped threads).

Note that if you want the thread to make changes to original fields, you'll need to wrap this field in a Mutex or some atomic type.

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