Trait rustc_graphviz::GraphWalk
source · pub trait GraphWalk<'a> {
type Node: Clone;
type Edge: Clone;
// Required methods
fn nodes(&'a self) -> Nodes<'a, Self::Node>;
fn edges(&'a self) -> Edges<'a, Self::Edge>;
fn source(&'a self, edge: &Self::Edge) -> Self::Node;
fn target(&'a self, edge: &Self::Edge) -> Self::Node;
}
Expand description
GraphWalk is an abstraction over a directed graph = (nodes,edges)
made up of node handles N
and edge handles E
, where each E
can be mapped to its source and target nodes.
The lifetime parameter 'a
is exposed in this trait (rather than
introduced as a generic parameter on each method declaration) so
that a client impl can choose N
and E
that have substructure
that is bound by the self lifetime 'a
.
The nodes
and edges
method each return instantiations of
Cow<[T]>
to leave implementors the freedom to create
entirely new vectors or to pass back slices into internally owned
vectors.