failure 0.1.0

use core::fmt::{self, Display, Debug};

use core::mem;
use core::ptr;

use Fail;
use backtrace::Backtrace;
use context::Context;
use compat::Compat;

/// The `Error` type, which can contain any failure.
///
/// Functions which accumulate many kinds of errors should return this type.
/// All failures can be converted into it, so functions which catch those
/// errors can be tried with `?` inside of a function that returns this kind
/// of Error.
///
/// In addition to implementing Debug and Display, this type carries Backtrace
/// information, and can be downcast into the failure that underlies it for
/// more detailed inspection.
pub struct Error {
    pub(crate) inner: Box<Inner<Fail>>,
}

pub(crate) struct Inner<F: ?Sized + Fail> {
    backtrace: Backtrace,
    pub(crate) failure: F,
}

impl<F: Fail> From<F> for Error {
    fn from(failure: F) -> Error {
        let inner: Inner<F> = {
            let backtrace = if failure.backtrace().is_none() {
                Backtrace::new()
            } else { Backtrace::none() };
            Inner { failure, backtrace }
        };
        Error { inner: Box::new(inner) }
    }
}

impl Error {
    /// Returns a reference to the underlying cause of this Error. Unlike the
    /// method on `Fail`, this does not return an Option. The Error type
    /// always has an underlying failure.
    pub fn cause(&self) -> &Fail {
        &self.inner.failure
    }

    /// Get a reference to the Backtrace for this Error.
    ///
    /// If the failure this wrapped carried a backtrace, that backtrace will
    /// be returned. Otherwise, the backtrace will have been constructed at
    /// the point that failure was cast into the Error type.
    pub fn backtrace(&self) -> &Backtrace {
        self.inner.failure.backtrace().unwrap_or(&self.inner.backtrace)
    }

    /// Provide context for this Error.
    ///
    /// This can provide additional information about this error, appropriate
    /// to the semantics of the current layer. That is, if you have a lower
    /// level error, such as an IO error, you can provide additional context
    /// about what that error means in the context of your function. This
    /// gives users of this function more information about what has gone
    /// wrong.
    ///
    /// This takes any type that implements Display, as well as
    /// Send/Sync/'static. In practice, this means it can take a String or a
    /// string literal, or a failure, or some other custom context
    /// carrying type.
    pub fn context<D: Display + Send + Sync + 'static>(self, context: D) -> Context<D> {
        Context::with_err(context, self)
    }

    /// Wrap `Error` in a compatibility type.
    ///
    /// This type implements the `Error` trait from `std::error`. If you need
    /// to pass failure's Error to an interface that takes any `Error`, you
    /// can use this method to get a compatible type.
    pub fn compat(self) -> Compat<Error> {
        Compat { error: self }
    }

    /// Attempt to downcast this Error to a particular `Fail` type.
    ///
    /// This downcasts by value, returning an owned `T` if the underlying
    /// failure is of the type `T`. For this reason it returns a `Result` - in
    /// the case that the underlying error is of a different type, the
    /// original Error is returned.
    pub fn downcast<T: Fail>(self) -> Result<T, Error> {
        let ret: Option<T> = self.downcast_ref().map(|fail| {
            unsafe {
                // drop the backtrace
                let _ = ptr::read(&self.inner.backtrace as *const Backtrace);
                // read out the fail type
                ptr::read(fail as *const T)
            }
        });
        match ret {
            Some(ret) => {
                // forget self (backtrace is dropped, failure is moved
                mem::forget(self);
                Ok(ret)
            }
            _       => Err(self)
        }
    }

    /// Returns the "root cause" of this error - the last value in the
    /// cause change which does not return an underlying `cause`.
    pub fn root_cause(&self) -> &Fail {
        ::find_root_cause(self.cause())
    }

    /// Attempt to downcast this Error to a particular `Fail` type by
    /// reference.
    ///
    /// If the underlying error is not of type `T`, this will return `None`.
    pub fn downcast_ref<T: Fail>(&self) -> Option<&T> {
        self.inner.failure.downcast_ref()
    }

    /// Attempt to downcast this Error to a particular `Fail` type by
    /// mutable reference.
    ///
    /// If the underlying error is not of type `T`, this will return `None`.
    pub fn downcast_mut<T: Fail>(&mut self) -> Option<&mut T> {
        self.inner.failure.downcast_mut()
    }
}

impl Display for Error {
    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter) -> fmt::Result {
        Display::fmt(&self.inner.failure, f)
    }
}

impl Debug for Error {
    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter) -> fmt::Result {
        if self.inner.backtrace.is_none() {
            Debug::fmt(&self.inner.failure, f)
        } else {
            write!(f, "{:?}\n\n{:?}", &self.inner.failure, self.inner.backtrace)
        }
    }
}

#[cfg(test)]
mod test {
    fn assert_just_data<T: Send + Sync + 'static>() { }

    #[test]
    fn assert_error_is_just_data() {
        assert_just_data::<super::Error>();
    }
}