Borrowing error using macros - rust

Question

I'm trying to use the code I found here with some problems, basically it's a borrowing error using some macros, the error:
Compiling playground v0.0.1 (file:///playground)
error[E0597]: `body` does not live long enough
--> src/main.rs:12:3
|
6 | let raw_structure = borrow_function(&body);
| ---- borrow occurs here
...
12 | }
| ^ `body` dropped here while still borrowed
...
31 | let body = get_body_as!(&str, "Hello", function1);
| -------------------------------------- in this macro invocation
32 | println!("Hello");
33 | }
| - borrowed value needs to live until here
I manage to create a Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable example, I was thinking that a solution would be to transform the macros into functions, but I'm not completely sure how to do that either (Playground
):
macro_rules! get_body_as {
($structure:ty, $req:expr, $error_fn:ident) => {
{
let body = get_body!($req, $error_fn);
let raw_structure = borrow_function(&body);
match raw_structure {
Ok(structure) => structure,
Err(error) => "Error"
}
}
}
}
macro_rules! get_body {
($req:expr, $error_fn:ident) => {
{
let mut payload = String::new();
payload
}
}
}
fn borrow_function(s: &str) -> Result<&str, &str> {
Ok(s)
}
fn main() {
let function1 = |s: &str| s;
let body = get_body_as!(&str, "Hello", function1);
println!("Hello");
}

Answer 1

The problem is that you are trying to return a reference to a body variable from a block which owns the body variable, but body is to be dropped at the end of that block, so the reference would outlive the data it references.
If you want your example to compile, you can alter your code so that body is declared within the main function using ident parameter added to get_body_as macro:
macro_rules! get_body_as {
($structure:ty, $req:expr, $error_fn:ident, $body: ident) => {
let $body = get_body!($req, $error_fn);
let raw_structure = borrow_function(&$body);
match raw_structure {
Ok(structure) => structure,
Err(error) => "Error"
}
}
}
macro_rules! get_body {
($req:expr, $error_fn:ident) => {
{
let mut payload = String::new();
payload
}
}
}
fn borrow_function(s: &str) -> Result<&str, &str> {
Ok(s)
}
fn main() {
let function1 = |s: &str| s;
get_body_as!(&str, "Hello", function1, body);
println!("Hello");
}
This example compiles, but still has warnings about unused variables, I have made only minimal changes for compilation to succeed.