prov_graph/error.rs
1//! Error and result types.
2
3use std::path::PathBuf;
4
5use thiserror::Error;
6
7/// Errors produced by prov.
8#[derive(Debug, Error)]
9pub enum Error {
10 /// The embedded-metadata backend (`fig`) failed to parse or serialize.
11 #[error("metadata error: {0}")]
12 Meta(#[from] fig::Error),
13
14 /// A structural invariant was violated (e.g. malformed frontmatter fence).
15 #[error("{0}")]
16 Structure(String),
17
18 /// A document a workspace operation names is not on disk — the typed form of
19 /// the many "X does not exist" guards the mutation ops make before touching a
20 /// document (`reparent`, `rename`, `duplicate`, `register`, …). A caller can
21 /// tell a genuinely-missing target from a malformed one by matching the
22 /// variant, rather than sniffing the message text.
23 #[error("{0} does not exist")]
24 NotFound(PathBuf),
25
26 /// A workspace operation would create a document where one already exists, and
27 /// refused rather than overwrite it — the typed form of the "X already exists"
28 /// guards in `create`/`rename`/`attach`. A destination collision is a distinct
29 /// outcome from a missing source, and now distinguishable as one.
30 #[error("{0} already exists")]
31 AlreadyExists(PathBuf),
32
33 /// The storage backend failed.
34 #[error("io error: {0}")]
35 Io(#[from] std::io::Error),
36
37 /// The `twig` body parser failed — see `content.rs`.
38 #[error("content error: {0}")]
39 Content(String),
40
41 /// A record store — the id registry, the recycle-bin index, or a flat
42 /// vocabulary — was found in a **markdown** carrier (fenced frontmatter)
43 /// rather than a whole-file config document (`.yaml`/`.json`/`.figl`). prov
44 /// imposes a sorted, one-record-per-line layout on these stores (DESIGN §5),
45 /// so a prose carrier has no stable home for its records and is refused. Make
46 /// it a bare config file. See [`crate::document::require_whole_file`].
47 #[error(
48 "record store must be a whole-file config document (.yaml/.json/.figl), \
49 not markdown frontmatter: {0}"
50 )]
51 MarkdownStore(PathBuf),
52
53 /// A path handed to a workspace read or write resolved *outside* the
54 /// workspace root — an absolute path, or one that climbs above the root with
55 /// `..`. prov clamps every I/O to the tree it was pointed at (a link
56 /// target is data, and data must never be able to name `/etc/passwd` or a
57 /// sibling repo), so such a path is refused rather than followed. See
58 /// [`crate::link::escapes_root`], the guard at `prov`'s `Workspace`'s `load`
59 /// and `prov`'s `ChangeSet::apply`.
60 #[error("path escapes the workspace root: {0}")]
61 Escape(PathBuf),
62
63 /// A `prov`'s `ChangeSet` was applied while a previous change's
64 /// write-ahead journal was still on disk — an earlier mutation was
65 /// interrupted (a crash) and never recovered. Landing this set would
66 /// overwrite that journal and lose the record needed to complete the
67 /// interrupted change, so the apply refuses: run recovery
68 /// (`prov`'s `journal::recover`, which `prov check` performs) first, then
69 /// retry.
70 #[error(
71 "a previous change was interrupted and not yet recovered (found {0}); \
72 recover it first (run `prov check`), then retry"
73 )]
74 StaleJournal(PathBuf),
75
76 /// An apply could not deliver either of its durable answers — see
77 /// `prov`'s `ChangeSet::apply`. The classic case: a staged write failed
78 /// *and* the rollback that should have undone it also failed. Since
79 /// fs-transaction 0.2 the same shape also covers a rollback or a
80 /// completed apply whose certification (or journal retirement) could not
81 /// be made durable. In every case prov cannot stand behind a clean
82 /// endpoint, so it says exactly that instead of reporting the original
83 /// failure as if the workspace were untouched — and `prov check`'s
84 /// recovery is what resolves the workspace to a nameable state.
85 #[error(
86 "{cause}; and rolling back failed too: {rollback}. \
87 The workspace may be partially written — run `prov check`."
88 )]
89 Torn {
90 /// The failure that triggered the rollback.
91 cause: String,
92 /// The failure the rollback itself hit.
93 rollback: String,
94 },
95
96 /// A mutation's reading of the workspace went stale before its writes
97 /// landed: between an op computing its edits and applying them, something
98 /// else — another process, a sync daemon — wrote to this path. The op
99 /// stages what it read as an expectation on its `prov`'s `ChangeSet`
100 /// (`ChangeSet::expect` / `expect_absent`), and the apply refuses the whole
101 /// set rather than land edits computed from a reading that no longer holds:
102 /// nothing was written, journaled, or unwound. Unlike
103 /// [`AlreadyExists`](Self::AlreadyExists) (the same fact caught while
104 /// computing), this is retryable as-is — re-run the operation and it
105 /// recomputes over the fresh state.
106 #[error(
107 "{0} changed under this operation — something else wrote to the \
108 workspace after it was read; nothing was written, so re-run the \
109 operation to recompute over the current state"
110 )]
111 Drifted(PathBuf),
112
113 /// An operation would have registered an ID across a registration the index
114 /// already holds — see [`Collision`](crate::index::Collision). Refused rather
115 /// than resolved, because the displaced document still spells the ID in its
116 /// own frontmatter and only its author can say which one should keep it.
117 #[error("{0}; refusing to displace it")]
118 Collision(crate::index::Collision),
119}
120
121impl From<crate::index::Collision> for Error {
122 fn from(collision: crate::index::Collision) -> Self {
123 Error::Collision(collision)
124 }
125}
126
127/// Convenience alias for results in this crate.
128pub type Result<T> = std::result::Result<T, Error>;
129
130/// Carry a transaction failure into prov's own error vocabulary.
131///
132/// [`fs_transaction`] phrases its errors for a generic tree of files, since
133/// it knows nothing about workspaces. The variants map one-to-one onto prov's,
134/// which restate them in terms a prov user can act on — naming `prov check` as
135/// the recovery step, and a workspace root as the boundary that was crossed.
136impl From<fs_transaction::Error> for Error {
137 fn from(e: fs_transaction::Error) -> Self {
138 use fs_transaction::Error as Tx;
139 match e {
140 Tx::Io(e) => Error::Io(e),
141 Tx::Escape(path) => Error::Escape(path),
142 Tx::StaleJournal(path) => Error::StaleJournal(path),
143 Tx::Drifted(path) => Error::Drifted(path),
144 Tx::Torn { cause, rollback } => Error::Torn { cause, rollback },
145 // The three that have no prov-level counterpart: a journal prov
146 // cannot read, a replay it cannot finish, and a path it could not
147 // encode. All are structural failures of the on-disk state, which
148 // is what `Structure` names.
149 Tx::NonUtf8Path(path) => {
150 Error::Structure(format!("cannot journal non-UTF-8 path: {}", path.display()))
151 }
152 Tx::Corrupt(what) => Error::Structure(format!("journal is corrupt: {what}")),
153 Tx::Recovery(what) => Error::Structure(format!("journal replay: {what}")),
154 // `fs_transaction::Error` is `#[non_exhaustive]`: a variant added
155 // upstream must not silently become a compile error here, but it
156 // must not be mistaken for a prov-level failure either.
157 other => Error::Structure(other.to_string()),
158 }
159 }
160}