elastic API

main.rs

// Our request type. Owned by someone else
trait Request {
    fn url(&self) -> String;
}

trait IntoRequest<R> where R: Request {
    fn into_request(self) -> R;
}

impl <R, I> IntoRequest<R> for I where
R: Request,
I: Into<R> {
    fn into_request(self) -> R {
        self.into()
    }
}

struct IndexRequest;
impl Request for IndexRequest {
    fn url(&self) -> String {
        "/index".to_string()
    }
}

struct MappingRequest;
impl Request for MappingRequest {
    fn url(&self) -> String {
        "/mapping".to_string()
    }
}

struct TypeToIndex {
    pub id: i32
}

// For types we don't own, we need to implement IntoRequest<R> directly
impl <'a> IntoRequest<IndexRequest> for (&'a str, TypeToIndex) {
    fn into_request(self) -> IndexRequest {
        IndexRequest
    }
}

// For types we do own, we can implement Into<R> and have IntoRequest<R> automagically derived
impl Into<IndexRequest> for TypeToIndex {
    fn into(self) -> IndexRequest {
        IndexRequest
    }
}

impl Into<MappingRequest> for TypeToIndex {
    fn into(self) -> MappingRequest {
        MappingRequest
    }
}

// A function that takes a Request and does some stuff
fn request<R>(req: R) where
R: Request {
    println!("{}", req.url());
}

fn main() {
    request::<IndexRequest>(("idx", TypeToIndex { id: 1 }).into_request());
    request::<IndexRequest>(TypeToIndex { id: 1 }.into_request());
    request::<MappingRequest>(TypeToIndex { id: 1 }.into_request());
    
    request(IndexRequest);
    request(MappingRequest);
}

Note this needs to be rethought given most types won't e part of this library. elastic_types is probably going to need an elastic_requests feature to implement Into<IndexRequest> and Into<MappingRequest>.