Creating responses

Let's implement a custom response for the User type. In Rocket, all types that implement rocket::response::Responder can be used as a return type in a function that handles routes.

Let's take a look at the signature of the Responder trait. This trait requires two lifetimes, 'r and 'o. The result 'o lifetime must at least be equal to the 'r lifetime:

pub trait Responder<'r, 'o: 'r> {

    fn respond_to(self, request: &'r Request<'_>) -> 

    Result<'o>;

}

First, we can include the required module to be used for implementing the Responder trait for the User struct:

use rocket::http::ContentType;

use rocket::response::{self, Responder, Response};

use std::io::Cursor;

After that, add the implementation signature for the User struct:

impl<'r> Responder<'r, 'r> for &'r User {

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