pub trait GraphWalk<'a, N: Clone, E: Clone> {
// Required methods
fn nodes(&'a self) -> Nodes<'a, N>;
fn edges(&'a self) -> Edges<'a, E>;
fn source(&'a self, edge: &E) -> N;
fn target(&'a self, edge: &E) -> N;
}
Expand description
GraphWalk is an abstraction over a 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 implementers the freedom to create
entirely new vectors or to pass back slices into internally owned
vectors.