When building #rustlang libraries, and you have result payloads (structs), is it more idiomatic to expose public struct fields or to create getter methods?
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if the only thing that struct is for is returning, the public fields is better.
also, bear in mind, with public fields, you can move out of the struct.
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That makes sense. The structs are basically serialization anchors for JSON going to and from a REST endpoint. Thinking of using builder pattern to create and just pub immutable fields for read
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Note that public fields can make it hard to update an API without bumping a version (folks might be pattern matching on it). Having a single private field could solve that.