Always had the problem that if I wanted to just log an error, rather than bubble it all the way up to main(), that you wouldn’t get a stacktrace. You could iterate the source chain and plug the stacktrace together yourself, but it’s rather complex code.

Now I realized, you can do this to get a stacktrace:

let error = todo!("Get an error somehow...");
let error = anyhow::anyhow!(error); //converts to an `anyhow::Error`
eprintln!("Error with stacktrace: {error:?}");

For converting to an anyhow::Error, it often also makes sense to use anyhow::Context like so:

use anyhow::Context;
let error = error.context("Deleting file failed.");
  • Ephera@lemmy.mlOP
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    1 day ago

    Other useful Debug implementations:

    • PathBuf and Path will give you the path with quotes and I believe, it escapes any non-UTF8 characters.
    • std::time::Duration will give you reasonably formatted output, like Duration::from_millis(54321) will format as 54.321s, whereas Duration::from_millis(321) will format as 321ms. Not appropriate for every situation, but works pretty well for logging.