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# Enumflags
`enumflags2` implements the classic bitflags datastructure. Annotate an enum
with `#[bitflags]`, and `BitFlags<YourEnum>` will be able to hold arbitrary combinations
of your enum within the space of a single integer.
## Features
- [x] Uses enums to represent individual flags—a set of flags is a separate type from a single flag.
- [x] Automatically chooses a free bit when you don't specify.
- [x] Detects incorrect BitFlags at compile time.
- [x] Has a similar API compared to the popular [bitflags](https://crates.io/crates/bitflags) crate.
- [x] Does not expose the generated types explicity. The user interacts exclusively with `struct BitFlags<Enum>;`.
- [x] The debug formatter prints the binary flag value as well as the flag enums: `BitFlags(0b1111, [A, B, C, D])`.
- [x] Optional support for serialization with the [`serde`](https://serde.rs/) feature flag.
## Example
```rust
use enumflags2::{bitflags, make_bitflags, BitFlags};
#[bitflags]
#[repr(u8)]
#[derive(Copy, Clone, Debug, PartialEq)]
enum Test {
A = 0b0001,
B = 0b0010,
C, // unspecified variants pick unused bits automatically
D = 0b1000,
}
let a_c = Test::A | Test::C;
let b_c_d = make_bitflags!(Test::{B | C | D});
// The debug output lets you inspect both the numeric value and
// the actual flags:
// But if you'd rather see only one of those, that's available too:
assert_eq!(format!("{}", a_b), "A | B");
assert_eq!(format!("{:04b}", a_b), "0011");
// Iterate over the flags like a normal set
assert_eq!(a_b.iter().collect::<Vec<_>>(), &[Test::A, Test::B]);
// Query the contents with contains and intersects
assert!(a_b.contains(Test::A));
assert!(a_b.intersects(a_c));
assert!(!(a_b.intersects(Test::C | Test::D)));
```
## Optional Feature Flags
- [`serde`](https://serde.rs/) implements `Serialize` and `Deserialize`
for `BitFlags<T>`.
- `std` implements `std::error::Error` for `FromBitsError`.
## `const fn`-compatible APIs
**Background:** The subset of `const fn` features currently stabilized is pretty limited.
Most notably, [const traits are still at the RFC stage][const-trait-rfc],
which makes it impossible to use any overloaded operators in a const
context.
**Naming convention:** If a separate, more limited function is provided
for usage in a `const fn`, the name is suffixed with `_c`.
**Blanket implementations:** If you attempt to write a `const fn` ranging
over `T: BitFlag`, you will be met with an error explaining that currently,
the only allowed trait bound for a `const fn` is `?Sized`. You will probably
want to write a separate implementation for `BitFlags<T, u8>`,
`BitFlags<T, u16>`, etc — probably generated by a macro.
This strategy is often used by `enumflags2` itself; to avoid clutter, only
one of the copies is shown in the documentation.
## Customizing `Default`
By default, creating an instance of `BitFlags<T>` with `Default` will result in an empty
set. If that's undesirable, you may customize this:
```rust
#[bitflags(default = B | C)]
#[repr(u8)]
#[derive(Copy, Clone, Debug, PartialEq)]
enum Test {
A = 0b0001,
B = 0b0010,
C = 0b0100,
D = 0b1000,
}
assert_eq!(BitFlags::default(), Test::B | Test::C);
```
[const-trait-rfc]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2632