Hi everyone,
I'm still getting my head around rust a bit. Its a bit of a rollercoaster.
Here is my latest dilemma which I'm sure is a general problem.
I have a program which is for converting between different storage systems. Right now it could be an sqlite file which we want to write the contents to postgres. There could also be a http server in the future.
So I created a LogWriter and LogReader trait to cover the use cases with various methods borrowing self. Logically I thought - they aren't logically changing the structure - just causing side effects in files etc.
I started with the sqlite reader and that all worked well. Now I'm trying to do the postgres writer and I've hit a snag.
The postgres methods require a mutable borrow to execute. So do I go back and make the trait borrow mutable? Or should I use some sort of interior mutability?
I think it makes sense for the trait to borrow mutably. An external side effect seems as important as an internal one to control. But is there a general course of action to follow here? If I had got further and found this it would have meant a breaking change to all trait implementations so should you just start with &mut self unless the method is an obvious getter?