I'm bad at macros, really bad

help
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Hi,

I'm trying to do a simple macro (well I though it would be simple):

but it's failing and I don't have the slight idea on what's going on :-/

Thanks for any insight

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It works fine like it is, you just forgot to actually use the argument in the message. Try

fn main() {
    let value = 42;
    info!("message {key}", key = value);
    //             ^^^^^ this part
}

At least this way it compiles for me.

Edit: If you wanted to pass one of the key/value pairs that aren't part of the actual message, I believe those come before the format string, but it's been a while since I used tracing.

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Thank you for your answer :slight_smile:

I don't get it: What is this "{key}"?

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formatting docs

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Some additional context to what @H2CO3 pointed out quicker than me: The tracing::event! macro delegates to the same string formatting and interpolation machinery that std Rust uses. So the syntax your macro takes in and passes on is the same as you'd use for println!, format! and friends.

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If you want key = value to be interpreted as a tracing field rather than as a string formatting argument, it has to go before the message string in the call to tracing::event!

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I understand better now, thanks all!

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