Trait Display

1.0.0 · Source

pub trait Display {
    // Required method
    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> Result<(), Error>;
}

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Format trait for an empty format, {}.

Implementing this trait for a type will automatically implement the ToString trait for the type, allowing the usage of the .to_string() method. Prefer implementing the Display trait for a type, rather than ToString.

Display is similar to Debug, but Display is for user-facing output, and so cannot be derived.

For more information on formatters, see the module-level documentation.

§Completeness and parseability

Display for a type might not necessarily be a lossless or complete representation of the type. It may omit internal state, precision, or other information the type does not consider important for user-facing output, as determined by the type. As such, the output of Display might not be possible to parse, and even if it is, the result of parsing might not exactly match the original value.

However, if a type has a lossless Display implementation whose output is meant to be conveniently machine-parseable and not just meant for human consumption, then the type may wish to accept the same format in FromStr, and document that usage. Having both Display and FromStr implementations where the result of Display cannot be parsed with FromStr may surprise users.

§Internationalization

Because a type can only have one Display implementation, it is often preferable to only implement Display when there is a single most “obvious” way that values can be formatted as text. This could mean formatting according to the “invariant” culture and “undefined” locale, or it could mean that the type display is designed for a specific culture/locale, such as developer logs.

If not all values have a justifiably canonical textual format or if you want to support alternative formats not covered by the standard set of possible formatting traits, the most flexible approach is display adapters: methods like str::escape_default or Path::display which create a wrapper implementing Display to output the specific display format.

§Examples

Implementing Display on a type:

use std::fmt;

struct Point {
    x: i32,
    y: i32,
}

impl fmt::Display for Point {
    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
        write!(f, "({}, {})", self.x, self.y)
    }
}

let origin = Point { x: 0, y: 0 };

assert_eq!(format!("The origin is: {origin}"), "The origin is: (0, 0)");

Required Methods§

1.0.0 · Source

fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> Result<(), Error>

Formats the value using the given formatter.

§Errors

This function should return Err if, and only if, the provided Formatter returns Err. String formatting is considered an infallible operation; this function only returns a Result because writing to the underlying stream might fail and it must provide a way to propagate the fact that an error has occurred back up the stack.

§Examples

use std::fmt;

struct Position {
    longitude: f32,
    latitude: f32,
}

impl fmt::Display for Position {
    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
        write!(f, "({}, {})", self.longitude, self.latitude)
    }
}

assert_eq!(
    "(1.987, 2.983)",
    format!("{}", Position { longitude: 1.987, latitude: 2.983, }),
);

Implementors§

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Display

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§Completeness and parseability

§Internationalization

§Examples

Required Methods§

fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> Result<(), Error>

§Errors

§Examples

Implementors§

impl Display for batch_mode_3p::ErrorKind

impl Display for FilePurpose

impl Display for JsonRepairError

impl Display for batch_mode_3p::JsonValue

impl Display for OpenAIError

impl Display for Role

impl Display for AsciiChar

impl Display for Infallible

impl Display for FromBytesWithNulError

impl Display for IpAddr

impl Display for SocketAddr

impl Display for core::slice::GetDisjointMutError

impl Display for VarError

impl Display for std::fs::TryLockError

impl Display for std::sync::mpsc::RecvTimeoutError

impl Display for std::sync::mpsc::TryRecvError

impl Display for AudioResponseFormat

impl Display for TimestampGranularity

impl Display for ChatCompletionRequestMessageContentPartRefusalBuilderError

impl Display for DallE2ImageSize

impl Display for ImageModel

impl Display for ImageResponseFormat

impl Display for ImageSize

impl Display for ComputerUsePreviewArgsError

impl Display for FunctionArgsError

impl Display for WebSearchPreviewArgsError

impl Display for ParseAlphabetError

impl Display for DecodeError

impl Display for DecodeSliceError

impl Display for EncodeSliceError

impl Display for RoundingError

impl Display for chrono::weekday::Weekday

impl Display for Shell

impl Display for crossbeam_channel::err::RecvTimeoutError

impl Display for crossbeam_channel::err::TryRecvError

impl Display for httparse::Error

impl Display for GetTimezoneError

impl Display for InvalidStringList

impl Display for icu_collections::codepointtrie::error::Error

impl Display for icu_locale_core::parser::errors::ParseError

impl Display for PreferencesParseError

impl Display for DataErrorKind

impl Display for IpNet

impl Display for json5::error::Error

impl Display for log::Level

impl Display for log::LevelFilter

impl Display for rand::distr::bernoulli::BernoulliError

impl Display for rand::distr::uniform::Error

impl Display for rand::distr::weighted::Error

impl Display for rand::distributions::bernoulli::BernoulliError

impl Display for WeightedError

impl Display for StartError

impl Display for regex_syntax::ast::Ast

impl Display for regex_syntax::ast::Ast

impl Display for regex_syntax::ast::ErrorKind

impl Display for regex_syntax::ast::ErrorKind

impl Display for regex_syntax::error::Error

impl Display for regex_syntax::error::Error

impl Display for regex_syntax::hir::ErrorKind

impl Display for regex_syntax::hir::ErrorKind

impl Display for regex::error::Error

impl Display for reqwest_eventsource::error::Error

impl Display for rustls_pki_types::pem::Error

impl Display for webpki::error::Error

impl Display for EarlyDataError

impl Display for EncodeError

impl Display for EncryptError

impl Display for CertificateError

impl Display for rustls::error::Error

impl Display for ExtendedKeyPurpose

Trait Display