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@kpreid kpreid commented Feb 15, 2025

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Part of addressing #6974

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This PR adds functions to make BufferSlice usable in more situations.

  • BufferSlice::buffer(), BufferSlice::offset() and BufferSlice::size() allow decomposing a BufferSlice. This allows a function which receives a BufferSlice to use it, for example, in texture copy operations. I'd like to have a more ergonomic interface to that, but I haven’t thought of one; adding these getters ensures that there is never any unavoidable inexpressiveness. However,
    • It is arguably undesirable to allow going from a BufferSlice to its Buffer and accessing data outside the slice. I think that this is worth considering, but that on net it is more important to be flexible than to be strict, here, particularly as buffers are interior mutable and clonable so there is no fundamental mutability-xor-sharing like &mut [u8] would have.
    • BufferSlice::size() returns a BufferSize rather than an Option<BufferSize>. See Refactor: eliminate unnecessary Option<BufferSize> #7147 for context on why I think this is the right choice — the Option should, I think, be considered an obsolete implementation detail.
  • impl From<BufferSlice> for BufferBinding
  • impl From<BufferSlice> for BindingResource

Please merge this PR without squashing; the commits are self-contained.

Testing
Added and ran API tests.

Checklist

  • Run cargo fmt.
  • Run taplo format.
  • Run cargo clippy. If applicable, add:
    • --target wasm32-unknown-unknown
  • Run cargo xtask test to run tests.
  • Add change to CHANGELOG.md. See simple instructions inside file.

@kpreid kpreid requested a review from a team as a code owner February 15, 2025 01:58
@nical nical merged commit 9da04c2 into gfx-rs:trunk Feb 17, 2025
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sharmajai pushed a commit to sharmajai/wgpu that referenced this pull request Oct 12, 2025
* Add getters to `BufferSlice` to obtain its parts.

* Add conversions from `BufferSlice` to `BufferBinding` and `BindingResource`.
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