Help referencing external crates in the documentation

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1

So using this for lib.rs:

extern crate iron;

use iron::Request;

/// ```
/// use iron::Request;
///
/// fn handle(req : &mut Request) {
/// }
///```
pub fn handle(req : &mut Request) {

}

When i run "cargo test" I get:

<anon>:2:10: 2:14 error: unresolved import `iron::Request`. Maybe a missing `extern crate iron`? [E0432]
<anon>:2      use iron::Request;
                  ^~~~

If I update the code to:

extern crate iron;

use iron::Request;

/// ```
/// extern crate iron;
/// use iron::Request;
///
/// fn handle(req : &mut Request) {
/// }
///```
pub fn handle(req : &mut Request) {

}

"cargo test" gives me:

<anon>:3:10: 3:14 error: unresolved import `iron::Request`. Did you mean `self::iron`? [E0432]
<anon>:3      use iron::Request;
              ^~~~

So obviously I'm missing something, but I can't figure out what.

2

Is iron listed in dev-dependencies?

3

It wasn't. I added it but that didn't seem to make a difference. My Cargo.toml now is:

[package]
name = "test"
version = "0.0.1"

[dependencies]
iron = "*"

[dev-dependencies]
iron = "*"

Seemed like a reasonable idea, but I still get the same error as before if I include the extern crate or not.

4

You don't need to list it twice. The example needs to do the extern crate iron; thing itself.

5

Uhm that's when I get:

---- handle_0 stdout ----
<anon>:2:10: 2:14 error: unresolved import `iron::Request`. Maybe a missing `extern crate iron`? [E0432]
<anon>:2      use iron::Request;
                  ^~~~
error: aborting due to previous error
thread 'handle_0' panicked at 'Box<Any>', ../src/libsyntax/errors/mod.rs:527

as an error for the code:

extern crate iron;

use iron::Request;

/// ```
/// use iron::Request;
///
/// fn handle(req : &mut Request) {
/// }
///```
pub fn handle(req : &mut Request) {
}

Or did I misunderstand what you were saying?

6

Well it looks like I figured it out, it's the function that is screwing things up. If I do:

/// ```
/// # extern crate iron;
/// use iron::Request;
/// # fn main() {
/// fn handle(req : &mut Request) {
/// }
/// # }
///```

It tests fine and produces documentation that is mostly fine. This produces:

use iron::Request;
fn handle(req : &mut Request) {
}

Apparently I can't add a blank line after "use iron:Request" or the HTML only includes the first line, likewise if I add a blank line inside the function, everything after the blank line is removed.....seems odd, but I can move forward.