Struct eyre::Report

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pub struct Report { /* private fields */ }
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The core error reporting type of the library, a wrapper around a dynamic error reporting type.

Report works a lot like Box<dyn std::error::Error>, but with these differences:

  • Report requires that the error is Send, Sync, and 'static.
  • Report guarantees that a backtrace is available, even if the underlying error type does not provide one.
  • Report is represented as a narrow pointer — exactly one word in size instead of two.

Display representations

When you print an error object using “{}” or to_string(), only the outermost underlying error is printed, not any of the lower level causes. This is exactly as if you had called the Display impl of the error from which you constructed your eyre::Report.

Failed to read instrs from ./path/to/instrs.json

To print causes as well using eyre’s default formatting of causes, use the alternate selector “{:#}”.

Failed to read instrs from ./path/to/instrs.json: No such file or directory (os error 2)

The Debug format “{:?}” includes your backtrace if one was captured. Note that this is the representation you get by default if you return an error from fn main instead of printing it explicitly yourself.

Error: Failed to read instrs from ./path/to/instrs.json

Caused by:
    No such file or directory (os error 2)

Stack backtrace:
   0: <E as eyre::context::ext::StdError>::ext_report
             at /git/eyre/src/backtrace.rs:26
   1: core::result::Result<T,E>::map_err
             at /git/rustc/src/libcore/result.rs:596
   2: eyre::context::<impl eyre::WrapErr<T,E,H> for core::result::Result<T,E>>::wrap_err_with
             at /git/eyre/src/context.rs:58
   3: testing::main
             at src/main.rs:5
   4: std::rt::lang_start
             at /git/rustc/src/libstd/rt.rs:61
   5: main
   6: __libc_start_main
   7: _start

To see a conventional struct-style Debug representation, use “{:#?}”.

Error {
    msg: "Failed to read instrs from ./path/to/instrs.json",
    source: Os {
        code: 2,
        kind: NotFound,
        message: "No such file or directory",
    },
}

If none of the built-in representations are appropriate and you would prefer to render the error and its cause chain yourself, it can be done by defining your own EyreHandler and hook to use it.

Implementations§

Create a new error object from any error type.

The error type must be threadsafe and 'static, so that the Report will be as well.

If the error type does not provide a backtrace, a backtrace will be created here to ensure that a backtrace exists.

Create a new error object from a printable error message.

If the argument implements std::error::Error, prefer Report::new instead which preserves the underlying error’s cause chain and backtrace. If the argument may or may not implement std::error::Error now or in the future, use eyre!(err) which handles either way correctly.

Report::msg("...") is equivalent to eyre!("...") but occasionally convenient in places where a function is preferable over a macro, such as iterator or stream combinators:

use eyre::{Report, Result};
use futures::stream::{Stream, StreamExt, TryStreamExt};

async fn demo<S>(stream: S) -> Result<Vec<Output>>
where
    S: Stream<Item = Input>,
{
    stream
        .then(ffi::do_some_work) // returns Result<Output, &str>
        .map_err(Report::msg)
        .try_collect()
        .await
}

Create a new error from an error message to wrap the existing error.

For attaching a higher level error message to a Result as it is propagated, the WrapErr extension trait may be more convenient than this function.

The primary reason to use error.wrap_err(...) instead of result.wrap_err(...) via the WrapErr trait would be if the message needs to depend on some data held by the underlying error:

use eyre::Result;
use std::fs::File;
use std::path::Path;

struct ParseError {
    line: usize,
    column: usize,
}

fn parse_impl(file: File) -> Result<T, ParseError> {
    ...
}

pub fn parse(path: impl AsRef<Path>) -> Result<T> {
    let file = File::open(&path)?;
    parse_impl(file).map_err(|error| {
        let message = format!(
            "only the first {} lines of {} are valid",
            error.line, path.as_ref().display(),
        );
        eyre::Report::new(error).wrap_err(message)
    })
}

An iterator of the chain of source errors contained by this Report.

This iterator will visit every error in the cause chain of this error object, beginning with the error that this error object was created from.

Example
use eyre::Report;
use std::io;

pub fn underlying_io_error_kind(error: &Report) -> Option<io::ErrorKind> {
    for cause in error.chain() {
        if let Some(io_error) = cause.downcast_ref::<io::Error>() {
            return Some(io_error.kind());
        }
    }
    None
}

The lowest level cause of this error — this error’s cause’s cause’s cause etc.

The root cause is the last error in the iterator produced by chain().

Returns true if E is the type held by this error object.

For errors constructed from messages, this method returns true if E matches the type of the message D or the type of the error on which the message has been attached. For details about the interaction between message and downcasting, see here.

Attempt to downcast the error object to a concrete type.

Downcast this error object by reference.

Example
// 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),
}

Downcast this error object by mutable reference.

Get a reference to the Handler for this Report.

Get a mutable reference to the Handler for this Report.

Trait Implementations§

Converts this type into a shared reference of the (usually inferred) input type.
Converts this type into a shared reference of the (usually inferred) input type.
Formats the value using the given formatter. Read more
The resulting type after dereferencing.
Dereferences the value.
Mutably dereferences the value.
Formats the value using the given formatter. Read more
Executes the destructor for this type. Read more
Converts to this type from the input type.
Converts to this type from the input type.
Converts to this type from the input type.

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Mutably borrows from an owned value. Read more
Converts to this type from the input type.

Returns the argument unchanged.

Calls U::from(self).

That is, this conversion is whatever the implementation of From<T> for U chooses to do.

Converts the given value to a String. Read more
The type returned in the event of a conversion error.
Performs the conversion.
The type returned in the event of a conversion error.
Performs the conversion.