fix: replace string_view with string in RaxTreeMap::FindIterator #3982
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The main problem is that
find(std::string_view key)
returns aFindIterator
which contains thekey
that was passed as argument in the call tofind
and not the actualkey contained and allocated within rax
and is easy dangle:res now contains a dangling pointer because the internal string_view now points to the temporary (std::string("some_key")) which got deallocated at the end of the expression above.
The simplest solution is to make
FindIterator
own the key. (yes it does copy which is not great but it avoids dangling pointers).We can always optimize the copy later.
Also fixes a memory leak in the destructor: we need to iterate over all the available children in the rax tree and delete the data we allocated before we call
raxFree
.