Trait Default

1.6.0 · Source

pub trait Default: Sized {
    // Required method
    fn default() -> Self;
}

Expand description

A trait for giving a type a useful default value.

Sometimes, you want to fall back to some kind of default value, and don’t particularly care what it is. This comes up often with structs that define a set of options:

struct SomeOptions {
    foo: i32,
    bar: f32,
}

How can we define some default values? You can use Default:

#[derive(Default)]
struct SomeOptions {
    foo: i32,
    bar: f32,
}

fn main() {
    let options: SomeOptions = Default::default();
}

Now, you get all of the default values. Rust implements Default for various primitives types.

If you want to override a particular option, but still retain the other defaults:

fn main() {
    let options = SomeOptions { foo: 42, ..Default::default() };
}

§Derivable

This trait can be used with #[derive] if all of the type’s fields implement Default. When derived, it will use the default value for each field’s type.

§`enum`s

When using #[derive(Default)] on an enum, you need to choose which unit variant will be default. You do this by placing the #[default] attribute on the variant.

#[derive(Default)]
enum Kind {
    #[default]
    A,
    B,
    C,
}

You cannot use the #[default] attribute on non-unit or non-exhaustive variants.

The #[default] attribute was stabilized in Rust 1.62.0.

§How can I implement `Default`?

Provide an implementation for the default() method that returns the value of your type that should be the default:

enum Kind {
    A,
    B,
    C,
}

impl Default for Kind {
    fn default() -> Self { Kind::A }
}

§Examples

#[derive(Default)]
struct SomeOptions {
    foo: i32,
    bar: f32,
}

Required Methods§

1.0.0 · Source

fn default() -> Self

Returns the “default value” for a type.

Default values are often some kind of initial value, identity value, or anything else that may make sense as a default.

§Examples

Using built-in default values:

let i: i8 = Default::default();
let (x, y): (Option<String>, f64) = Default::default();
let (a, b, (c, d)): (i32, u32, (bool, bool)) = Default::default();

Making your own:

enum Kind {
    A,
    B,
    C,
}

impl Default for Kind {
    fn default() -> Self { Kind::A }
}

Dyn Compatibility§

This trait is not dyn compatible.

In older versions of Rust, dyn compatibility was called "object safety", so this trait is not object safe.

Implementors§

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impl Default for &str

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impl Default for &CStr

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impl Default for &OsStr

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Trait DefaultCopy item path

§Derivable

§enums

§How can I implement Default?

§Examples

Required Methods§

fn default() -> Self

§Examples

Dyn Compatibility§

Implementors§

impl Default for &str

impl Default for &CStr

impl Default for &OsStr

impl Default for &mut str

impl Default for MemoryInitialization

impl Default for AsciiChar

impl Default for DwarfFileType

impl Default for RunTimeEndian

impl Default for Pointer

impl Default for Prefilter

impl Default for Endianness

impl Default for ColorChoice

impl Default for bool

impl Default for char

impl Default for f16

impl Default for f32

impl Default for f64

impl Default for f128

impl Default for i8

impl Default for i16

impl Default for i32

impl Default for i64

impl Default for i128

impl Default for isize

impl Default for u8

impl Default for u16

impl Default for u32

impl Default for u64

impl Default for u128

impl Default for ()

impl Default for usize

impl Default for ComponentDfg

impl Default for CanonicalAbiInfo

impl Default for wasmtime_environ::component::Component

impl Default for ComponentTypes

impl Default for ResourcesBuilder

impl Default for TypeComponent

impl Default for TypeComponentInstance

impl Default for TypeModule

impl Default for Box<str>

impl Default for Box<CStr>

impl Default for Box<OsStr>

impl Default for String

impl Default for AddressMapSection

impl Default for FilePos

impl Default for wasmtime_environ::Module

impl Default for ModuleTypes

impl Default for TableInitialization

impl Default for TrapEncodingBuilder

impl Default for VMSharedTypeIndex

impl Default for WasmFileInfo

impl Default for WasmFunctionInfo

impl Default for wasmtime_environ::wasmparser::collections::hash::RandomState

impl Default for FuncValidatorAllocations

impl Default for Parser

impl Default for SegmentFlags

impl Default for SymbolFlags

impl Default for Validator

impl Default for ValidatorId

impl Default for WasmFeatures

impl Default for Remapping

impl Default for Error

impl Default for SipHasher

impl Default for PhantomPinned

impl Default for Alignment

impl Default for RangeFull

impl Default for AtomicBool

impl Default for AtomicI8

impl Default for AtomicI16

impl Default for AtomicI32

Trait Default

§`enum`s

§How can I implement `Default`?