Add associated type to link request and response types? about rust-ipfs-api HOT 2 OPEN

Yeah, I like the idea of the associated type. I was planning on making a macro to implement the ApiRequest trait, since a large portion of it is just boiler plate. Since I was pretty consistent with the type naming, I think it might be possible to make a macro where you just pass in the request name, and it would automatically link the response as an associated type. I think a combination of the associated type, and the macro would make it really difficult to ever make a naming issue.

Also I'm okay with making path an associated const. I didn't know about associated consts, but the path method is pretty much acting like one right now.

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I think it might be possible to make a macro where you just pass in the request name, and it would automatically link the response as an associated type

Let me know if you work this out, but afaik synthesizing new identifiers in macros is not currently feasible... :-(

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