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Cross-reference Rust API guidelines\n\n## Core Capabilities\n\n- **Rust 2024 Edition**: Async fn in traits, async drop, async closures, inherent vs accidental complexity focus\n- **Ownership/Borrowing**: Move semantics, borrowing rules, lifetimes, smart pointers (Box, Rc, Arc)\n- **Async Programming**: tokio runtime, async/await, futures, Arc<Mutex> for thread-safe state\n- **Error Handling**: Result<T,E>, Option<T>, thiserror for library errors, anyhow for applications\n- **Trait System**: Trait bounds, associated types, trait objects, composition over inheritance\n- **Zero-Cost Abstractions**: Iterator patterns, generics without runtime overhead\n- **Concurrency**: Send/Sync traits, Arc<Mutex>, message passing with channels\n- **Testing**: Unit tests, integration tests, doc tests, property-based with proptest\n\n## Architecture Patterns (Service-Oriented Design)\n\n### When to Use Service-Oriented Architecture\n\n**Use DI/SOA Pattern For:**\n- Web services and REST APIs (actix-web, axum, rocket)\n- Microservices with multiple service layers\n- Applications with swappable implementations (mock DB for testing)\n- Domain-driven design with repositories and services\n- Systems requiring dependency injection for testing\n- Long-lived services with complex business logic\n\n**Keep It Simple For:**\n- CLI tools and command-line utilities\n- One-off scripts and automation tasks\n- Prototypes and proof-of-concepts\n- Single-responsibility binaries\n- Performance-critical tight loops\n- Embedded systems with size constraints\n\n### Dependency Injection with Traits\n\nRust achieves DI through trait-based abstractions and constructor injection.\n\n**Pattern 1: Constructor Injection with Trait Bounds**\n```rust\n// Define trait interface (contract)\ntrait UserRepository: Send + Sync {\n    async fn find_by_id(&self, id: u64) -> Result<Option<User>, DbError>;\n    async fn save(&self, user: &User) -> Result<(), DbError>;\n}\n\n// Service depends on trait, not concrete 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UserRepository>,\n    cache: Arc<dyn Cache>,\n}\n\nimpl UserService {\n    pub fn new(\n        repository: Arc<dyn UserRepository>,\n        cache: Arc<dyn Cache>,\n    ) -> Self {\n        Self { repository, cache }\n    }\n}\n\n// Easy to swap implementations for testing\n#[cfg(test)]\nmod tests {\n    use super::*;\n    \n    struct MockUserRepository;\n    \n    #[async_trait]\n    impl UserRepository for MockUserRepository {\n        async fn find_by_id(&self, id: u64) -> Result<Option<User>, DbError> {\n            // Return test data\n            Ok(Some(User::test_user()))\n        }\n        \n        async fn save(&self, user: &User) -> Result<(), DbError> {\n            Ok(())\n        }\n    }\n    \n    #[tokio::test]\n    async fn test_get_user() {\n        let mock_repo = Arc::new(MockUserRepository);\n        let mock_cache = Arc::new(InMemoryCache::new());\n        let service = UserService::new(mock_repo, mock_cache);\n        \n        let user = service.get_user(1).await.unwrap();\n        assert_eq!(user.id, 1);\n    }\n}\n```\n\n**Pattern 3: Builder Pattern for Complex Construction**\n```rust\n// Builder for services with many dependencies\nstruct AppBuilder {\n    db_url: Option<String>,\n    cache_ttl: Option<Duration>,\n    log_level: Option<String>,\n}\n\nimpl AppBuilder {\n    pub fn new() -> Self {\n        Self {\n            db_url: None,\n            cache_ttl: None,\n            log_level: None,\n        }\n    }\n    \n    pub fn with_database(mut self, url: String) -> Self {\n        self.db_url = Some(url);\n        self\n    }\n    \n    pub fn with_cache_ttl(mut self, ttl: Duration) -> Self {\n        self.cache_ttl = Some(ttl);\n        self\n    }\n    \n    pub async fn build(self) -> Result<App, BuildError> {\n        let db_url = self.db_url.ok_or(BuildError::MissingDatabase)?;\n        let cache_ttl = self.cache_ttl.unwrap_or(Duration::from_secs(300));\n        \n        // Construct dependencies\n        let db_pool = create_pool(&db_url).await?;\n        let repository = Arc::new(PostgresUserRepository::new(db_pool));\n        let cache = Arc::new(RedisCache::new(cache_ttl));\n        \n        // Inject into services\n        let user_service = Arc::new(UserService::new(repository, cache));\n        \n        Ok(App { user_service })\n    }\n}\n\n// Usage\nlet app = AppBuilder::new()\n    .with_database(\"postgres://localhost/db\".to_string())\n    .with_cache_ttl(Duration::from_secs(600))\n    .build()\n    .await?;\n```\n\n**Repository Pattern for Data Access**\n```rust\n// Abstract data access behind trait\ntrait Repository<T>: Send + Sync {\n    async fn find(&self, id: u64) -> Result<Option<T>, DbError>;\n    async fn save(&self, entity: &T) -> Result<(), DbError>;\n    async fn delete(&self, id: u64) -> Result<(), DbError>;\n}\n\n// Concrete implementation\nstruct PostgresUserRepository {\n    pool: PgPool,\n}\n\n#[async_trait]\nimpl Repository<User> for PostgresUserRepository 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