Crate macrofied_toolbox

This library provides an ergonomic experience of adding debugging messages to rust’s Result<T,E> and Option<T> patterns

Just like the cli-toolbox crate, that the debug logic is based on, this is not a logging alternative; it’s intended to produce debugging output to be used during application development.

Although the macros were designed to make debugging more ergonomic, they include variations that do not include debugging to provide coding consistency, so you have the option use the same syntax consistently throughout your crate.

Result<T,E>

use std::fs::File;
use std::io;
use std::io::{BufWriter, Write};

use macrofied_toolbox::result;

#[cfg(debug_assertions)]
use cli_toolbox::debug;

fn main() -> io::Result<()> {
    let file_name = "foo.txt";

    // attempts to create a file
    result! {
        WHEN  File::create(file_name);
        // if the file is successfully created, write some content
        OK    file; {
            let mut out = BufWriter::new(file);

            writeln!(out, "some content")?;
            writeln!(out, "some more content")?;
        }
        // if an exception occurs output debug message to stderr
        DEBUG "problem creating file: {:?}", file_name

        // * debug messages are conditionally compiled
        //   and do not output anything in release builds
        // * exceptions are appended to the debug message
    };

    Ok(())
}

Option<T>

.
.
.

* the macros are automatically generated with custom build scripts, including their docs and tests

Macros

result

The result! macro provides ergonomic handling of debug messages when dealing with Result<T,E> return values.