From dc97fb10193db88cdce938e080042a5c26580b11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robbert van der Helm <mail@robbertvanderhelm.nl>
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2022 18:12:02 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Implement Params for Arc<P: Params>

This is useful for partial generic UIs.
---
 src/param/internals.rs | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/param/internals.rs b/src/param/internals.rs
index 2a47c4d0..a28365c2 100644
--- a/src/param/internals.rs
+++ b/src/param/internals.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 //! Implementation details for the parameter management.
 
 use std::collections::BTreeMap;
+use std::sync::Arc;
 
 use super::{Param, ParamFlags, ParamMut};
 
@@ -95,6 +96,21 @@ pub unsafe trait Params: 'static + Send + Sync {
     fn deserialize_fields(&self, serialized: &BTreeMap<String, String>) {}
 }
 
+/// This may be useful when building generic UIs using nested `Params` objects.
+unsafe impl<P: Params> Params for Arc<P> {
+    fn param_map(&self) -> Vec<(String, ParamPtr, String)> {
+        self.as_ref().param_map()
+    }
+
+    fn serialize_fields(&self) -> BTreeMap<String, String> {
+        self.as_ref().serialize_fields()
+    }
+
+    fn deserialize_fields(&self, serialized: &BTreeMap<String, String>) {
+        self.as_ref().deserialize_fields(serialized)
+    }
+}
+
 /// Internal pointers to parameters. This is an implementation detail used by the wrappers for type
 /// erasure.
 #[derive(Debug, PartialEq, Eq, Clone, Copy, Hash)]