I'm wondering with my game project how best to handle types. I'm basically fetching all the rows in a particular table and creating a struct to represent that data. I then have like 5 or 6 sequential steps I'm trying to go through where I need to modify those initial values from the db.

My first thought was to have a base type called 'BaseArmy', then I needed to add new temporary properties that are not in the db and not represented in the original struct, so I decided to create a new struct 'Army'. The problem is I keep running into errors when passing converting from BaseArmy to Army. I tried writing a From impl, but it wasn't working (and I'm not even sure if it's the approach I should be taking).

So should I:

1. Have multiple different types to handle these kinds of cases
2. Have just one type somehow where I add properties to it? If so, how? I recently tried using Options for the fields that are not initially available, and that seems to be working but it feels weird.

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My program is small enough that in TS/JS I'd normally just store the data in some global variable to be access from whatever elsewhere in the app. But with Rust from what I can tell this doesn't seem to be a common practice. How should i handle this?

More specifically, I need to:

1. program start, fetch data from my db (DONE)
2. store this data somehow somewhere
3. access said data (for read only in this use case)

Thanks for any insights here!

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