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``AnyMap``
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If you’re familiar with Go and Go web frameworks, you may have come across the common “environment” pattern for storing data related to the request. It’s typically something like ``map[string]interface{}`` and is accessed with arbitrary strings which may clash and type assertions which are a little unwieldy and must be used very carefully.
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This is madness. Hare-brained, stark, raving madness, just *asking* for things to blow up in your face. Unfortunately for people in Go, it’s the best that they can have because of its weak type system; such a thing cannot possibly be made safe without generics.
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Fortunately, we can do better in Rust. Our type system is quite equal to easy, robust expression of such problems.
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The ``AnyMap`` type is a friendly wrapper around a ``HashMap<TypeId, Box<Any>:'static>``, exposing a nice, easy typed interface, perfectly safe and absolutely robust.
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What this means is that in an ``AnyMap`` you may store zero or one values for every type.
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Instructions
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make
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Future work
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I think that the only thing left for this is filling out additional methods from ``HashMap`` as appropriate.
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It’s a very simple thing.
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Author
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[Chris Morgan](http://chrismorgan.info/) ([chris-morgan](https://github.com/chris-morgan)) is the primary author and maintainer of AnyMap.
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License
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This library is distributed under similar terms to Rust: dual licensed under the MIT license and the Apache license (version 2.0).
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See LICENSE-APACHE, LICENSE-MIT, and COPYRIGHT for details.
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