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                        <h1><a class="header" href="#passing-rust-closures-to-imported-javascript-functions" id="passing-rust-closures-to-imported-javascript-functions">Passing Rust Closures to Imported JavaScript Functions</a></h1>
<p>The <code>#[wasm_bindgen]</code> attribute supports Rust closures being passed to
JavaScript in two variants:</p>
<ol>
<li>
<p>Stack-lifetime closures that should not be invoked by JavaScript again after
the imported JavaScript function that the closure was passed to returns.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Heap-allocated closures that can be invoked any number of times, but must be
explicitly deallocated when finished.</p>
</li>
</ol>
<h2><a class="header" href="#stack-lifetime-closures" id="stack-lifetime-closures">Stack-Lifetime Closures</a></h2>
<p>Closures with a stack lifetime are passed to JavaScript as either <code>&amp;Fn</code> or <code>&amp;mut FnMut</code> trait objects:</p>
<pre><pre class="playpen"><code class="language-rust">
# #![allow(unused_variables)]
#fn main() {
// Import JS functions that take closures

#[wasm_bindgen]
extern &quot;C&quot; {
    fn takes_immutable_closure(f: &amp;Fn());

    fn takes_mutable_closure(f: &amp;mut FnMut());
}

// Usage

takes_immutable_closure(&amp;|| {
    // ...
});

let mut times_called = 0;
takes_mutable_closure(&amp;mut || {
    times_called += 1;
});
#}</code></pre></pre>
<p><strong>Once these imported functions return, the closures that were given to them
will become invalidated, and any future attempts to call those closures from
JavaScript will raise an exception.</strong></p>
<p>Closures also support arguments and return values like exports do, for example:</p>
<pre><pre class="playpen"><code class="language-rust">
# #![allow(unused_variables)]
#fn main() {
#[wasm_bindgen]
extern &quot;C&quot; {
    fn takes_closure_that_takes_int_and_returns_string(x: &amp;Fn(u32) -&gt; String);
}

takes_closure_that_takes_int_and_returns_string(&amp;|x: u32| -&gt; String {
    format!(&quot;x is {}&quot;, x)
});
#}</code></pre></pre>
<h2><a class="header" href="#heap-allocated-closures" id="heap-allocated-closures">Heap-Allocated Closures</a></h2>
<p>Sometimes the discipline of stack-lifetime closures is not desired. For example,
you'd like to schedule a closure to be run on the next turn of the event loop in
JavaScript through <code>setTimeout</code>. For this, you want the imported function to
return but the JavaScript closure still needs to be valid!</p>
<p>For this scenario, you need the <code>Closure</code> type, which is defined in the
<code>wasm_bindgen</code> crate, exported in <code>wasm_bindgen::prelude</code>, and represents a
&quot;long lived&quot; closure.
The <code>Closure</code> type is currently behind a feature which needs to be enabled:</p>
<pre><code class="language-toml">[dependencies]
wasm-bindgen = {version = &quot;^0.2&quot;, features = [&quot;nightly&quot;]}
</code></pre>
<p>The validity of the JavaScript closure is tied to the lifetime of the <code>Closure</code>
in Rust. <strong>Once a <code>Closure</code> is dropped, it will deallocate its internal memory
and invalidate the corresponding JavaScript function so that any further
attempts to invoke it raise an exception.</strong></p>
<p>Like stack closures a <code>Closure</code> supports both <code>Fn</code> and <code>FnMut</code> closures, as well
as arguments and returns.</p>
<pre><pre class="playpen"><code class="language-rust">
# #![allow(unused_variables)]
#fn main() {
#[wasm_bindgen]
extern &quot;C&quot; {
    fn setInterval(closure: &amp;Closure&lt;FnMut()&gt;, millis: u32) -&gt; f64;
    fn cancelInterval(token: f64);

    #[wasm_bindgen(js_namespace = console)]
    fn log(s: &amp;str);
}

#[wasm_bindgen]
pub struct Interval {
    closure: Closure&lt;FnMut()&gt;,
    token: f64,
}

impl Interval {
    pub fn new&lt;F: 'static&gt;(millis: u32, f: F) -&gt; Interval
    where
        F: FnMut()
    {
        // Construct a new closure.
        let closure = Closure::new(f);

        // Pass the closuer to JS, to run every n milliseconds.
        let token = setInterval(&amp;closure, millis);

        Interval { closure, token }
    }
}

// When the Interval is destroyed, cancel its `setInterval` timer.
impl Drop for Interval {
    fn drop(&amp;mut self) {
        cancelInterval(self.token);
    }
}

// Keep logging &quot;hello&quot; every second until the resulting `Interval` is dropped.
#[wasm_bindgen]
pub fn hello() -&gt; Interval {
    Interval::new(1_000, || log(&quot;hello&quot;))
}
#}</code></pre></pre>

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