rust-flatbuffers: Upgrading from flat 1.12 to 25.x

[cisaacson]

In the older version of rust-flatbuffers the code gen for enum types were standard Rust enums, like:

#[repr(u16)]
enum MyEnum {
A = 0,
B = 1
}

Now in the latest version it builds a struct with accessors. Is the functionality the same? Can we access the new struct type just like an enum? We use strum to work with enum types to make it easy to do things like get a string value for the variant (and others). We also have a lot of cases like MyEnum::B as u16

In addition, we now see this warning in the generated code: #[deprecated(since = "2.0.0", note = "Use associated constants instead. This will no longer be generated in 2021.")]

I read about the issue, looks like it is not resolve yet. Is there anything we should do to accommodate this? Or just wait until it is resolved in the future?

We did try out the new version and it is functionally compatible with what we have been doing (without the need for strum). However I wonder why it was done this way? In other languages like Python and TypeScript it just generates idiomatic native enums, and in Rust you could have used impl on the enum to add other functionality?

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