windows-bindgen now uses Ref and OutRef for COM interface traits
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Earlier this year I was working on improving COM authoring support and came up with
RefandOutRefto simplify support for the complex memory layout and lifetime management required by COM interface parameters. #3025This was only available as an opt-in for hand-written code and your own COM interfaces defined with the
interfacemacro. In particular, the traits generated by thewindows-bindgencrate did not useRefandOutRefand instead continued to useOptionin various ways.With this update the two streams converge and
windows-bindgenwill now useRefandOutRefas appropriate. This makes programming across custom and generated COM interfaces more consistent and easier to understand. It also avoids a few pitfalls thatRefandOutRefsolve that would otherwise not be possible to rectify without it.The
Reftype now also has a few more convenience methods to directly support common COM programming scenarios.This does not quite close #3233 but it does get us closer.