do i have to use the same builder, or can I use mutiple builders

[walksanatora]

so I am writing a flatbuffer program in rust
and I am wondering, do i have to pass the Flatbuffer builder into every function that makes a table, or can I make a temporary builder then just return the WipOffset

[mikemccarty-vertex]

It is possible to define a schema that is recursive in nature but more than likely, you want everything encoded by a single builder. One of the features of flatbuffers is that messages are encoded into a single flat buffer (hence the name).

[walksanatora]

so in my project I have a temp FBB made in a function since it would be annoying to juggle lifetimes by passing the fbb into it
and I put the WipOffset into a &mut Vec which is passed as the first argument
would this be okay, or should I work in a argument to pass the fbb

[dylanetaft]

I had a similar thought and I think the answer is to use the same builder. Not sure though. To avoid confusion I am using the object API and only pack and build at the end.

The object API, ie tablenameT, you can absolutely nest them and build something to serialize later with fbb.