# actix-web-error
Error responses for [actix-web](https://actix.rs) made easy.
This crate will make it easy implementing [`actix_web::ResponseError`](https://docs.rs/actix-web/latest/actix_web/trait.ResponseError.html) for errors
by providing a `thiserror`-like API for specifying an HTTP status.
It's best used in combination with [thiserror](https://docs.rs/thiserror).
Currently, only a JSON response is supported.
Thanks to the aforementioned [thiserror](https://github.com/dtolnay/thiserror) project,
I used the core structure and core utilities.
## Error Responses
- `Json` will respond with JSON in the form of `{ "error": <Display representation> }` (`application/json`).
- `Text` will respond with the `Display` representation of the error (`text/plain`).
## Example
```rust
#[derive(Debug, thiserror::Error, actix_web_error::Json)]
#[status(BAD_REQUEST)] // default status for all variants
enum MyError {
#[error("Missing: {0}")]
MissingField(&'static str),
#[error("Malformed Date")]
MalformedDate,
#[error("Internal Server Error")]
#[status(500)] // specific override
Internal,
}
#[derive(Debug, thiserror::Error, actix_web_error::Text)]
#[error("Item not found")]
#[status(404)]
struct MyOtherError;
```
This will roughly expand to:
```rust
use actix_web::{ResponseError, HttpResponse, HttpResponseBuilder, http::StatusCode};
#[derive(Debug, thiserror::Error)]
enum MyError {
#[error("Missing: {0}")]
MissingField(&'static str),
#[error("Malformed Date")]
MalformedDate,
#[error("Internal Server Error")]
Internal,
}
#[derive(Debug, thiserror::Error)]
#[error("Item not found")]
struct MyOtherError;
impl ResponseError for MyError {
fn status_code(&self) -> StatusCode {
match self {
Self::Internal => StatusCode::from_u16(500).unwrap(),
_ => StatusCode::BAD_REQUEST,
}
}
fn error_response(&self) -> HttpResponse {
HttpResponseBuilder::new(self.status_code())
.json(serde_json::json!({ "error": self.to_string() }))
}
}
impl ResponseError for MyOtherError {
fn status_code(&self) -> StatusCode {
// With at least opt-level=1, this unwrap will be removed,
// so this function will essentially return a constant.
StatusCode::from_u16(404).unwrap()
}
}
```