Exun

There are many errors we don't expect to occur. But what if we're wrong? We don't want our programs to panic because of that. We also don't want to spend so much time handling unexpected errors. That's what this crate is for. You keep your unexpected errors, and don't worry about them until later.

• This crate works in no-std. Some extra features come if alloc or std is used.

• Exun is an error type. It'll hold on to your Unexpected error if you have one, so you can figure out what to do with it later. If the error is Expected, then it'll hold onto that too.

• RawUnexpected bottles up all of your unexpected errors. There's also UnexpectedError, which implements Error.

• Expect is a type alias for Exun<E, RawUnexpected>.

• Clearly mark errors that you don't expect to occur by calling Result::unexpect. If the error type doesn't implement Error, you can still use Result::unexpect_msg, as long as it implements Debug + Display + Send + Sync + 'static.

Usage

The only pre-requisite is Rust 1.41.1.

For standard features:

[dependencies]
# ...
exun = "0.2"

The following features are enabled by default:

• std: This automatically enables alloc. It's used for the standard library's Error type. Using this type allows more errors to be converted into Exun and RawUnexpected errors automatically, and it's needed for Result::unexpect.

• alloc: This is needed for RawUnexpected and UnexpectedError to hold string messages. This can be done with Result::unexpect_msg. Without this, only the equivalent of Result::unexpect_none can be constructed.

To disable these features:

[dependencies]
# ...
exun = { version = "0.2", default-features = false }

If you'd like to use alloc but not std:

[dependencies]
# ...
exun = { version = "0.2", default-features = false, features = ["alloc"] }

Examples

use exun::*;

fn foo(num: &str) -> Result<i32, RawUnexpected> {
    // we use `unexpect` to indicate that we don't expect this error to occur
    let num = num.parse::<i32>().unexpect()?;
    Ok(num)
}

use exun::*;

fn first(list: &[i32]) -> Result<i32, RawUnexpected> {
    // for options, the `unexpect_none` method can be used
    let num = list.get(0).unexpect_none()?;
    Ok(num)
}

use std::error::Error;
use std::fmt::{self, Display};

use exun::*;

#[derive(Debug)]
struct NoNumberError;

impl Display for NoNumberError {
    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
        write!(f, "no number provided")
    }
}

impl Error for NoNumberError {}

fn foo(num: Option<&str>) -> Result<i32, Expect<NoNumberError>> {
    let num = num.ok_or(NoNumberError)?; // we expect that this may return an error
    let num = num.parse::<i32>().unexpect()?; // but we think the number is otherwise parsable
    Ok(num)
}

use std::error::Error;
use std::fmt::{self, Display};
use std::num::ParseIntError;

use exun::*;

#[derive(Debug)]
struct NoNumberError;

impl Display for NoNumberError {
    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
        write!(f, "no number provided")
    }
}

impl Error for NoNumberError {}

fn foo(num: Option<&str>) -> Result<i32, Exun<&str, ParseIntError>> {
    // we expect it possible to not get a number, so we handle it as such
    let num = match num {
        Some(num) => num,
        None => return Err(Expected("no number provided")),
    };

    // however, we expect that the number is otherwise parsable
    match num.parse() {
        Ok(int) => Ok(int),
        Err(e) => Err(Unexpected(e))
    }
}