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error-stack

error-stack is a context-aware error-handling library that supports arbitrary attached user data.

Read our announcement post for the story behind its origins.

The library enables building a Report around an error as it propagates:

use std::fmt;

use error_stack::{Context, IntoReport, Report, Result, ResultExt};

#[derive(Debug)]
struct ParseExperimentError;

impl fmt::Display for ParseExperimentError {
    fn fmt(&self, fmt: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
        fmt.write_str("invalid experiment description")
    }
}

impl Context for ParseExperimentError {}

fn parse_experiment(description: &str) -> Result<(u64, u64), ParseExperimentError> {
    let value = description
        .parse()
        .into_report()
        .attach_printable_lazy(|| format!("{description:?} could not be parsed as experiment"))
        .change_context(ParseExperimentError)?;

    Ok((value, 2 * value))
}

#[derive(Debug)]
struct ExperimentError;

impl fmt::Display for ExperimentError {
    fn fmt(&self, fmt: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
        fmt.write_str("Experiment error: Could not run experiment")
    }
}

impl Context for ExperimentError {}

fn start_experiments(
    experiment_ids: &[usize],
    experiment_descriptions: &[&str],
) -> Result<Vec<u64>, ExperimentError> {
    let experiments = experiment_ids
        .iter()
        .map(|exp_id| {
            let description = experiment_descriptions.get(*exp_id).ok_or_else(|| {
                Report::new(ExperimentError)
                    .attach_printable(format!("Experiment {exp_id} has no valid description"))
            })?;

            let experiment = parse_experiment(description)
                .attach_printable(format!("Experiment {exp_id} could not be parsed"))
                .change_context(ExperimentError)?;

            Ok(move || experiment.0 * experiment.1)
        })
        .collect::<Result<Vec<_>, ExperimentError>>()
        .attach_printable("Unable to set up experiments")?;

    Ok(experiments.iter().map(|experiment| experiment()).collect())
}

fn main() -> Result<(), ExperimentError> {
    let experiment_ids = &[0, 2];
    let experiment_descriptions = &["10", "20", "3o"];
    start_experiments(experiment_ids, experiment_descriptions)?;

    Ok(())
}

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