I am wrapping errors per this Rust By Example page: Wrapping errors - Rust By Example Currently my code contains a lot of boilerplate: #[derive(Debug)] pub enum Error { JsonError(serde_json::Error), YamlError(serde_yaml::Error), IOError(String), // ... } impl fmt::Display for Erro…

I checked out thiserror , and liked some things about it, but I ultimately went with error chain . This is what my new error.rs file looks like: use std::path::Path; mod error { error_chain! {} } error_chain! { foreign_links { Clap(::clap::Error); Yaml(::serde_yaml::Error); …

How to reduce boilerplate when wrapping errors

ethanabrooks March 14, 2020, 1:47pm 6

Wow this is great. Wish I had seen this before jumping on the error-chain boat. At some point I will probably refactor with one of these more recent libraries. Thanks for the info!

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