I'm currently working on the webwire project and would like to write the following code... I have one crate that defines the common structs and traits (simplified): use std::collections::HashMap; #[derive(Debug)] struct Request { service: String, method: String, data: usize, } type R…

Sorry, you can't work around this. You have to use a wrapper to make it work.

Implement a trait for all types that implement another trait with multiple crates

TomP July 1, 2020, 5:41pm 3

Your problem here arises form what are termed Rust's orphan rules. That link provides the best summary explanation that I've seen.

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