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<h1class="fqn"><spanclass="in-band">Struct <ahref="index.html">actix_identity</a>::<wbr><aclass="struct"href="#">Identity</a><buttonid="copy-path"onclick="copy_path(this)"title="Copy item path to clipboard"><imgsrc="../clipboard.svg"width="19"height="18"alt="Copy item path"></button></span></h1><spanclass="out-of-band"><aclass="srclink"href="../src/actix_identity/identity.rs.html#45"title="goto source code">source</a> · <aid="toggle-all-docs"href="javascript:void(0)"title="collapse all docs">[<spanclass="inner">−</span>]</a></span></div><divclass="docblock item-decl"><preclass="rust struct"><code>pub struct Identity(_);</code></pre></div><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle top-doc"open><summaryclass="hideme"><span>Expand description</span></summary><divclass="docblock"><p>The extractor type to obtain your identity from a request.</p>
</div></details><h2id="implementations"class="small-section-header">Implementations<ahref="#implementations"class="anchor"></a></h2><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle implementors-toggle"open><summary><divid="impl"class="impl has-srclink"><divclass="rightside"><aclass="srclink"href="../src/actix_identity/identity.rs.html#47-74"title="goto source code">source</a></div><ahref="#impl"class="anchor"></a><h3class="code-header in-band">impl <aclass="struct"href="struct.Identity.html"title="struct actix_identity::Identity">Identity</a></h3></div></summary><divclass="impl-items"><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle method-toggle"open><summary><divid="method.identity"class="method has-srclink"><divclass="rightside"><aclass="srclink"href="../src/actix_identity/identity.rs.html#50-52"title="goto source code">source</a></div><ahref="#method.identity"class="anchor"></a><h4class="code-header">pub fn <ahref="#method.identity"class="fnname">identity</a>(&self) -><aclass="enum"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/option/enum.Option.html"title="enum core::option::Option">Option</a><<aclass="struct"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/alloc/string/struct.String.html"title="struct alloc::string::String">String</a>></h4></div></summary><divclass="docblock"><p>Return the claimed identity of the user associated request or <code>None</code> if no identity can be
</div></details><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle method-toggle"open><summary><divid="method.forget"class="method has-srclink"><divclass="rightside"><aclass="srclink"href="../src/actix_identity/identity.rs.html#63-68"title="goto source code">source</a></div><ahref="#method.forget"class="anchor"></a><h4class="code-header">pub fn <ahref="#method.forget"class="fnname">forget</a>(&self)</h4></div></summary><divclass="docblock"><p>This method is used to ‘forget’ the current identity on subsequent requests.</p>
</div></details></div></details><h2id="trait-implementations"class="small-section-header">Trait Implementations<ahref="#trait-implementations"class="anchor"></a></h2><divid="trait-implementations-list"><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle implementors-toggle"open><summary><divid="impl-Clone"class="impl has-srclink"><divclass="rightside"><aclass="srclink"href="../src/actix_identity/identity.rs.html#44"title="goto source code">source</a></div><ahref="#impl-Clone"class="anchor"></a><h3class="code-header in-band">impl <aclass="trait"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/clone/trait.Clone.html"title="trait core::clone::Clone">Clone</a> for <aclass="struct"href="struct.Identity.html"title="struct actix_identity::Identity">Identity</a></h3></div></summary><divclass="impl-items"><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle method-toggle"open><summary><divid="method.clone"class="method trait-impl has-srclink"><divclass="rightside"><aclass="srclink"href="../src/actix_identity/identity.rs.html#44"title="goto source code">source</a></div><ahref="#method.clone"class="anchor"></a><h4class="code-header">fn <ahref="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/clone/trait.Clone.html#tymethod.clone"class="fnname">clone</a>(&self) -><aclass="struct"href="struct.Identity.html"title="struct actix_identity::Identity">Identity</a></h4></div></summary><divclass='docblock'><p>Returns a copy of the value. <ahref="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/clone/trait.Clone.html#tymethod.clone">Read more</a></p>
</div></details><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle method-toggle"open><summary><divid="method.clone_from"class="method trait-impl has-srclink"><divclass="rightside"><spanclass="since"title="Stable since Rust version 1.0.0">1.0.0</span> · <aclass="srclink"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/src/core/clone.rs.html#130"title="goto source code">source</a></div><ahref="#method.clone_from"class="anchor"></a><h4class="code-header">fn <ahref="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/clone/trait.Clone.html#method.clone_from"class="fnname">clone_from</a>(&mut self, source: <aclass="primitive"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/primitive.reference.html">&</a>Self)</h4></div></summary><divclass='docblock'><p>Performs copy-assignment from <code>source</code>. <ahref="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/clone/trait.Clone.html#method.clone_from">Read more</a></p>
</div></details></div></details><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle implementors-toggle"open><summary><divid="impl-FromRequest"class="impl has-srclink"><divclass="rightside"><aclass="srclink"href="../src/actix_identity/identity.rs.html#92-100"title="goto source code">source</a></div><ahref="#impl-FromRequest"class="anchor"></a><h3class="code-header in-band">impl FromRequest for <aclass="struct"href="struct.Identity.html"title="struct actix_identity::Identity">Identity</a></h3></div></summary><divclass="docblock"><p>Extractor implementation for Identity type.</p>
</div><divclass="impl-items"><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle"open><summary><divid="associatedtype.Error"class="type trait-impl has-srclink"><ahref="#associatedtype.Error"class="anchor"></a><h4class="code-header">type <ahref="#associatedtype.Error"class="associatedtype">Error</a> = Error</h4></div></summary><divclass='docblock'><p>The associated error which can be returned.</p>
</div></details><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle"open><summary><divid="associatedtype.Future"class="type trait-impl has-srclink"><ahref="#associatedtype.Future"class="anchor"></a><h4class="code-header">type <ahref="#associatedtype.Future"class="associatedtype">Future</a> = Ready<<aclass="enum"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/result/enum.Result.html"title="enum core::result::Result">Result</a><<aclass="struct"href="struct.Identity.html"title="struct actix_identity::Identity">Identity</a>, Error>></h4></div></summary><divclass='docblock'><p>Future that resolves to a Self.</p>
</div></details><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle method-toggle"open><summary><divid="method.from_request"class="method trait-impl has-srclink"><divclass="rightside"><aclass="srclink"href="../src/actix_identity/identity.rs.html#97-99"title="goto source code">source</a></div><ahref="#method.from_request"class="anchor"></a><h4class="code-header">fn <aclass="fnname">from_request</a>(req: &HttpRequest, _: &mut Payload) -> Self::Future</h4></div></summary><divclass='docblock'><p>Create a Self from request parts asynchronously.</p>
</div></details></div></details><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle implementors-toggle"open><summary><divid="impl-Instrument"class="impl has-srclink"><divclass="rightside"><aclass="srclink"href="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.29/src/tracing/instrument.rs.html#276"title="goto source code">source</a></div><ahref="#impl-Instrument"class="anchor"></a><h3class="code-header in-band">impl<T><aclass="trait"href="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.29/tracing/instrument/trait.Instrument.html"title="trait tracing::instrument::Instrument">Instrument</a> for T</h3></div></summary><divclass="impl-items"><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle method-toggle"open><summary><divid="method.instrument"class="method trait-impl has-srclink"><divclass="rightside"><aclass="srclink"href="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.29/src/tracing/instrument.rs.html#82"title="goto source code">source</a></div><ahref="#method.instrument"class="anchor"></a><h4class="code-header">fn <ahref="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.29/tracing/instrument/trait.Instrument.html#method.instrument"class="fnname">instrument</a>(self, span: <aclass="struct"href="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.29/tracing/span/struct.Span.html"title="struct tracing::span::Span">Span</a>) -><aclass="struct"href="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.29/tracing/instrument/struct.Instrumented.html"title="struct tracing::instrument::Instrumented">Instrumented</a><Self></h4></div></summary><divclass='docblock'><p>Instruments this type with the provided <ahref="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.29/tracing/span/struct.Span.html"title="Span"><code>Span</code></a>, returning an
</div></details><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle method-toggle"open><summary><divid="method.in_current_span"class="method trait-impl has-srclink"><divclass="rightside"><aclass="srclink"href="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.29/src/tracing/instrument.rs.html#121"title="goto source code">source</a></div><ahref="#method.in_current_span"class="anchor"></a><h4class="code-header">fn <ahref="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.29/tracing/instrument/trait.Instrument.html#method.in_current_span"class="fnname">in_current_span</a>(self) -><aclass="struct"href="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.29/tracing/instrument/struct.Instrumented.html"title="struct tracing::instrument::Instrumented">Instrumented</a><Self></h4></div></summary><divclass='docblock'><p>Instruments this type with the <ahref="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.29/tracing/span/struct.Span.html#method.current">current</a><ahref="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.29/tracing/span/struct.Span.html"><code>Span</code></a>, returning an
</div></details></div></details><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle implementors-toggle"open><summary><divid="impl-Same%3CT%3E"class="impl has-srclink"><divclass="rightside"><aclass="srclink"href="https://docs.rs/typenum/1.15.0/src/typenum/type_operators.rs.html#34-36"title="goto source code">source</a></div><ahref="#impl-Same%3CT%3E"class="anchor"></a><h3class="code-header in-band">impl<T><aclass="trait"href="https://docs.rs/typenum/1.15.0/typenum/type_operators/trait.Same.html"title="trait typenum::type_operators::Same">Same</a><T> for T</h3></div></summary><divclass="impl-items"><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle"open><summary><divid="associatedtype.Output"class="type trait-impl has-srclink"><ahref="#associatedtype.Output"class="anchor"></a><h4class="code-header">type <ahref="https://docs.rs/typenum/1.15.0/typenum/type_operators/trait.Same.html#associatedtype.Output"class="associatedtype">Output</a> = T</h4></div></summary><divclass='docblock'><p>Should always be <code>Self</code></p>
</div></details></div></details><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle implementors-toggle"open><summary><divid="impl-ToOwned"class="impl has-srclink"><divclass="rightside"><aclass="srclink"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/src/alloc/borrow.rs.html#84-96"title="goto source code">source</a></div><ahref="#impl-ToOwned"class="anchor"></a><h3class="code-header in-band">impl<T><aclass="trait"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/alloc/borrow/trait.ToOwned.html"title="trait alloc::borrow::ToOwned">ToOwned</a> for T <spanclass="where fmt-newline">where<br> T: <aclass="trait"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/clone/trait.Clone.html"title="trait core::clone::Clone">Clone</a>, </span></h3></div></summary><divclass="impl-items"><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle"open><summary><divid="associatedtype.Owned"class="type trait-impl has-srclink"><ahref="#associatedtype.Owned"class="anchor"></a><h4class="code-header">type <ahref="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/alloc/borrow/trait.ToOwned.html#associatedtype.Owned"class="associatedtype">Owned</a> = T</h4></div></summary><divclass='docblock'><p>The resulting type after obtaining ownership.</p>
</div></details><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle method-toggle"open><summary><divid="method.to_owned"class="method trait-impl has-srclink"><divclass="rightside"><aclass="srclink"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/src/alloc/borrow.rs.html#89"title="goto source code">source</a></div><ahref="#method.to_owned"class="anchor"></a><h4class="code-header">pub fn <ahref="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/alloc/borrow/trait.ToOwned.html#tymethod.to_owned"class="fnname">to_owned</a>(&self) -> T</h4></div></summary><divclass='docblock'><p>Creates owned data from borrowed data, usually by cloning. <ahref="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/alloc/borrow/trait.ToOwned.html#tymethod.to_owned">Read more</a></p>
</div></details><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle method-toggle"open><summary><divid="method.clone_into"class="method trait-impl has-srclink"><divclass="rightside"><aclass="srclink"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/src/alloc/borrow.rs.html#93"title="goto source code">source</a></div><ahref="#method.clone_into"class="anchor"></a><h4class="code-header">pub fn <ahref="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/alloc/borrow/trait.ToOwned.html#method.clone_into"class="fnname">clone_into</a>(&self, target: <aclass="primitive"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/primitive.reference.html">&mut </a>T)</h4></div></summary><divclass="item-info"><divclass="stab unstable"><spanclass="emoji">🔬</span> This is a nightly-only experimental API. (<code>toowned_clone_into</code>)</div></div><divclass='docblock'><p>Uses borrowed data to replace owned data, usually by cloning. <ahref="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/alloc/borrow/trait.ToOwned.html#method.clone_into">Read more</a></p>
</div></details></div></details><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle implementors-toggle"open><summary><divid="impl-TryFrom%3CU%3E"class="impl has-srclink"><divclass="rightside"><aclass="srclink"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/src/core/convert/mod.rs.html#589-598"title="goto source code">source</a></div><ahref="#impl-TryFrom%3CU%3E"class="anchor"></a><h3class="code-header in-band">impl<T, U><aclass="trait"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/convert/trait.TryFrom.html"title="trait core::convert::TryFrom">TryFrom</a><U> for T <spanclass="where fmt-newline">where<br> U: <aclass="trait"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/convert/trait.Into.html"title="trait core::convert::Into">Into</a><T>, </span></h3></div></summary><divclass="impl-items"><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle"open><summary><divid="associatedtype.Error-1"class="type trait-impl has-srclink"><ahref="#associatedtype.Error-1"class="anchor"></a><h4class="code-header">type <ahref="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/convert/trait.TryFrom.html#associatedtype.Error"class="associatedtype">Error</a> = <aclass="enum"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/convert/enum.Infallible.html"title="enum core::convert::Infallible">Infallible</a></h4></div></summary><divclass='docblock'><p>The type returned in the event of a conversion error.</p>
</div></details></div></details><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle implementors-toggle"open><summary><divid="impl-TryInto%3CU%3E"class="impl has-srclink"><divclass="rightside"><aclass="srclink"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/src/core/convert/mod.rs.html#574-583"title="goto source code">source</a></div><ahref="#impl-TryInto%3CU%3E"class="anchor"></a><h3class="code-header in-band">impl<T, U><aclass="trait"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/convert/trait.TryInto.html"title="trait core::convert::TryInto">TryInto</a><U> for T <spanclass="where fmt-newline">where<br> U: <aclass="trait"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/convert/trait.TryFrom.html"title="trait core::convert::TryFrom">TryFrom</a><T>, </span></h3></div></summary><divclass="impl-items"><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle"open><summary><divid="associatedtype.Error-2"class="type trait-impl has-srclink"><ahref="#associatedtype.Error-2"class="anchor"></a><h4class="code-header">type <ahref="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/convert/trait.TryInto.html#associatedtype.Error"class="associatedtype">Error</a> = <U as <aclass="trait"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/convert/trait.TryFrom.html"title="trait core::convert::TryFrom">TryFrom</a><T>>::<aclass="associatedtype"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/convert/trait.TryFrom.html#associatedtype.Error"title="type core::convert::TryFrom::Error">Error</a></h4></div></summary><divclass='docblock'><p>The type returned in the event of a conversion error.</p>
</div></details><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle method-toggle"open><summary><divid="method.with_current_subscriber"class="method trait-impl has-srclink"><divclass="rightside"><aclass="srclink"href="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.29/src/tracing/instrument.rs.html#221"title="goto source code">source</a></div><ahref="#method.with_current_subscriber"class="anchor"></a><h4class="code-header">fn <ahref="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.29/tracing/instrument/trait.WithSubscriber.html#method.with_current_subscriber"class="fnname">with_current_subscriber</a>(self) -><aclass="struct"href="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.29/tracing/instrument/struct.WithDispatch.html"title="struct tracing::instrument::WithDispatch">WithDispatch</a><Self></h4></div></summary><divclass='docblock'><p>Attaches the current <ahref="https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.29/tracing/dispatcher/index.html#setting-the-default-subscriber">default</a><ahref="https://docs.rs/tracing-core/0.1.21/tracing_core/subscriber/trait.Subscriber.html"><code>Subscriber</code></a> to this type, returning a
