Generics Error: expected type parameter, found struct

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First error: you create a Rustmark object with the field parser of type DefaultParser and the field renderer of type HTMLRenderer, but the function is expected to return Rustmark <P, R>. In general P is not of type DefaultParser and R is not of type HTMLRenderer, so it will never compile. A good solution if you want have default values of the right type is to bound P and R to implement the Default trait, this way:

use std::default:Default;

impl <P: MarkParser + Default, R: MarkRenderer + Default> Rustmark <P, R> {
    fn new() -> Rustmark <P, R> {
        Rustmark {
            parser: P::default(),
            renderer: R:default(),
        }
    }
}

Second error: that main problem is that you return a reference of something that probably will die inside the rendermethod (the String you allocate in the inner rendermethod probably). The compiler is telling you that it doesn’t know the lifetime of the object that is pointed by that reference, so it cannot guarantee that the reference is valid. You can specify a lifetime parameter but in your case probably the best solution is to return the String object itself, not a reference.

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