#Rust 🦀 – Let’s create a Generic log() Function👍

Hi !

Let’s create a generic log function. This will not make a lot of sense, since the println! function already support lots of data types. However, this is a nice way to understand how generics works.

Here is the log function.

use std::fmt::Display;

// Generic Function to print data to the console
fn console_log<T: Display>(x: T) {
    println!("{}", x);
}

The log function receives a parameter x, that support any type from Display, and then it prints the parameter to the console.

The following sample shows

  • Print a String
  • Print an Integer
  • Print a Struct, that implements a function to show the struct data

And the output is

output of the sample app
Hello World
123
Pet Name: Ace the Puppy - Age: 1

Source Code

/*
Copyright (c) 2023
Author : Bruno Capuano
Create Time : 2023 January
Change Log :
– Demos working with generics in Rust
The MIT License (MIT)
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of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
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THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
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LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
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THE SOFTWARE.
*/
use std::fmt::Display;
// Generic Function to print data to the console
fn console_log<T: Display>(x: T) {
println!("{}", x);
}
fn main() {
// create a new Pet named Ace
let ace = Pet {
name: String::from("Ace the Puppy"),
age: 1,
};
// print different types of data
console_log("Hello World");
console_log(123);
console_log(ace.log_pet_info());
}
struct Pet {
name: String,
age: u32,
}
// Player specific methods
impl Pet {
fn log_pet_info(self) -> String {
return format!("Pet Name: {} – Age: {}", self.name, self.age);
}
}

Super cool !

Happy coding!

Greetings

El Bruno

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