fixup borrows on nasty iterators

src/citer.rs

@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+use std::ops::Deref;
+use std::marker::PhantomData;
+
 pub trait RawIterator {
     type View;
 
@@ -26,11 +29,30 @@ where
     }
 }
 
+pub struct Borrowed<'i, R>
+where
+    R: 'i + RawIterator,
+{
+    it: PhantomData<&'i CIterator<R>>,
+    val: R::View,
+}
+
+impl<'i, R> Deref for Borrowed<'i, R>
+where
+    R: RawIterator,
+{
+    type Target = R::View;
+
+    fn deref(&self) -> &R::View {
+        &self.val
+    }
+}
+
 impl<R> CIterator<R>
 where
     R: RawIterator,
 {
-    pub fn next(&mut self) -> Option<R::View> {
+    pub fn next<'i>(&mut self) -> Option<Borrowed<R>> {
         if self.raw.is_end() {
             return None;
         }
@@ -45,7 +67,10 @@ where
         if self.raw.is_end() {
             None
         } else {
-            Some(self.raw.as_view())
+            Some(Borrowed {
+                it: PhantomData,
+                val: self.raw.as_view(),
+            })
         }
     }
 

src/lib.rs

@@ -13,8 +13,7 @@
 //! a bit more like Rust `Iterator`s, but is crippled by the insanity.
 //!
 //! Methods which "find" something will reposition one of these "iterators" at the right place
-//! in an existing stream of items. Note that currently you don't technically need to call
-//! `next()` before observing the result of a `find..()`, but hopefully this will be fixed.
+//! in an existing stream of items.
 //!
 //! I recommend using `.map()` to turn an "iterator" into a Rust type as soon as possible.
 //! The returned map-like thing *is* a Rust `Iterator`, so you can do normal operations on it.
@@ -25,7 +24,7 @@
 //!
 //! ```rust,no_run
 //! extern crate apt_pkg_native;
-//! let cache = apt_pkg_native::Cache::get_singleton();
+//! let mut cache = apt_pkg_native::Cache::get_singleton();
 //! let total_packages = cache.iter().map(|_| ()).count();
 //! ```
 //!
@@ -63,20 +62,14 @@ mod tests {
             panic!("not found!");
         }
 
-        assert!(cache.find_by_name(
-            "this-package-doesnt-exist-and-if-someone-makes-it-ill-be-really-angry",
-        ).next().is_none());
+        assert!(
+            cache
+                .find_by_name(
+                    "this-package-doesnt-exist-and-if-someone-makes-it-ill-be-really-angry",
+                )
+                .next()
+                .is_none()
+        );
 
     }
-
-    // TODO: this should not even remotely compile
-    #[test]
-    fn demonstrate_insane_iterator_behaviour() {
-        let mut cache = Cache::get_singleton();
-        let mut it = cache.iter();
-        let first = it.next().unwrap();
-        let second = it.next().unwrap();
-        assert_eq!(first.arch(), second.arch());
-        assert_eq!(first.name(), second.name());
-    }
 }

src/raw.rs

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ pub type PCache = *mut c_void;
 pub type PPkgIterator = *mut c_void;
 pub type PVerIterator = *mut c_void;
 
+#[link(name = "apt-pkg-c", kind = "static")]
 #[link(name = "apt-pkg")]
 extern "C" {
     /// Must be called exactly once, before anything else?