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| This library provides [`anyhow::Error`][Error], a trait object based error type |
| for easy idiomatic error handling in Rust applications. |
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| [Error]: https://docs.rs/anyhow/1.0/anyhow/struct.Error.html |
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| ```toml |
| [dependencies] |
| anyhow = "1.0" |
| ``` |
| |
| *Compiler support: requires rustc 1.39+* |
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| <br> |
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| ## Details |
| |
| - Use `Result<T, anyhow::Error>`, or equivalently `anyhow::Result<T>`, as the |
| return type of any fallible function. |
| |
| Within the function, use `?` to easily propagate any error that implements the |
| [`std::error::Error`] trait. |
| |
| ```rust |
| use anyhow::Result; |
| |
| fn get_cluster_info() -> Result<ClusterMap> { |
| let config = std::fs::read_to_string("cluster.json")?; |
| let map: ClusterMap = serde_json::from_str(&config)?; |
| Ok(map) |
| } |
| ``` |
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| [`std::error::Error`]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/error/trait.Error.html |
| |
| - Attach context to help the person troubleshooting the error understand where |
| things went wrong. A low-level error like "No such file or directory" can be |
| annoying to debug without more context about what higher level step the |
| application was in the middle of. |
| |
| ```rust |
| use anyhow::{Context, Result}; |
| |
| fn main() -> Result<()> { |
| ... |
| it.detach().context("Failed to detach the important thing")?; |
| |
| let content = std::fs::read(path) |
| .with_context(|| format!("Failed to read instrs from {}", path))?; |
| ... |
| } |
| ``` |
| |
| ```console |
| Error: Failed to read instrs from ./path/to/instrs.json |
| |
| Caused by: |
| No such file or directory (os error 2) |
| ``` |
| |
| - Downcasting is supported and can be by value, by shared reference, or by |
| mutable reference as needed. |
| |
| ```rust |
| // If the error was caused by redaction, then return a |
| // tombstone instead of the content. |
| match root_cause.downcast_ref::<DataStoreError>() { |
| Some(DataStoreError::Censored(_)) => Ok(Poll::Ready(REDACTED_CONTENT)), |
| None => Err(error), |
| } |
| ``` |
| |
| - If using Rust ≥ 1.65, a backtrace is captured and printed with the error if |
| the underlying error type does not already provide its own. In order to see |
| backtraces, they must be enabled through the environment variables described |
| in [`std::backtrace`]: |
| |
| - If you want panics and errors to both have backtraces, set |
| `RUST_BACKTRACE=1`; |
| - If you want only errors to have backtraces, set `RUST_LIB_BACKTRACE=1`; |
| - If you want only panics to have backtraces, set `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` and |
| `RUST_LIB_BACKTRACE=0`. |
| |
| [`std::backtrace`]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/backtrace/index.html#environment-variables |
| |
| - Anyhow works with any error type that has an impl of `std::error::Error`, |
| including ones defined in your crate. We do not bundle a `derive(Error)` macro |
| but you can write the impls yourself or use a standalone macro like |
| [thiserror]. |
| |
| ```rust |
| use thiserror::Error; |
| |
| #[derive(Error, Debug)] |
| pub enum FormatError { |
| #[error("Invalid header (expected {expected:?}, got {found:?})")] |
| InvalidHeader { |
| expected: String, |
| found: String, |
| }, |
| #[error("Missing attribute: {0}")] |
| MissingAttribute(String), |
| } |
| ``` |
| |
| - One-off error messages can be constructed using the `anyhow!` macro, which |
| supports string interpolation and produces an `anyhow::Error`. |
| |
| ```rust |
| return Err(anyhow!("Missing attribute: {}", missing)); |
| ``` |
| |
| A `bail!` macro is provided as a shorthand for the same early return. |
| |
| ```rust |
| bail!("Missing attribute: {}", missing); |
| ``` |
| |
| <br> |
| |
| ## No-std support |
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| In no_std mode, almost all of the same API is available and works the same way. |
| To depend on Anyhow in no_std mode, disable our default enabled "std" feature in |
| Cargo.toml. A global allocator is required. |
| |
| ```toml |
| [dependencies] |
| anyhow = { version = "1.0", default-features = false } |
| ``` |
| |
| Since the `?`-based error conversions would normally rely on the |
| `std::error::Error` trait which is only available through std, no_std mode will |
| require an explicit `.map_err(Error::msg)` when working with a non-Anyhow error |
| type inside a function that returns Anyhow's error type. |
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| <br> |
| |
| ## Comparison to failure |
| |
| The `anyhow::Error` type works something like `failure::Error`, but unlike |
| failure ours is built around the standard library's `std::error::Error` trait |
| rather than a separate trait `failure::Fail`. The standard library has adopted |
| the necessary improvements for this to be possible as part of [RFC 2504]. |
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| [RFC 2504]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/2504-fix-error.md |
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| <br> |
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| ## Comparison to thiserror |
| |
| Use Anyhow if you don't care what error type your functions return, you just |
| want it to be easy. This is common in application code. Use [thiserror] if you |
| are a library that wants to design your own dedicated error type(s) so that on |
| failures the caller gets exactly the information that you choose. |
| |
| [thiserror]: https://github.com/dtolnay/thiserror |
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| <br> |
| |
| #### License |
| |
| <sup> |
| Licensed under either of <a href="LICENSE-APACHE">Apache License, Version |
| 2.0</a> or <a href="LICENSE-MIT">MIT license</a> at your option. |
| </sup> |
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| <br> |
| |
| <sub> |
| Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted |
| for inclusion in this crate by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall |
| be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions. |
| </sub> |