Interface::run returns a Cow<'a> #5
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Changed `Interface::run` to return a `Cow` with the lifetime of the borrowed slice of strings. The `Owned` case occurs when the search does not match anything. In that case, the search string is taken out of the `Interface` and replaced by an empty string. Using a `Cow` with the lifetime of the given strings allows to drop the `Interface` struct after a run, without needing to clone the returned `&str` to keep the result. It also allows the caller to know whether the result is from the given list, or comes from a search that had no match.
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I recently used this crate as a lib for a personal project, and I really appreciated it!
I once tried to simply call
Interface::new(&stuff).run()and got errors with lifetime. Looking further I found out that the result ofrunis not a reference with the lifetime ofstuff, because it may return a reference to the search string.So I changed the return type of
runand the functionresultto take the search string in the case of no matches. This allows droppingInterfaceand keep the result.This is a breaking change to the API, as the return type and lifetime are changed, and
runnow clear the search string if it did not match.