Trait Debug

1.0.0 · Source

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

Expand description

? formatting.

Debug should format the output in a programmer-facing, debugging context.

Generally speaking, you should just derive a Debug implementation.

When used with the alternate format specifier #?, the output is pretty-printed.

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

This trait can be used with #[derive] if all fields implement Debug. When derived for structs, it will use the name of the struct, then {, then a comma-separated list of each field’s name and Debug value, then }. For enums, it will use the name of the variant and, if applicable, (, then the Debug values of the fields, then ).

§Stability

Derived Debug formats are not stable, and so may change with future Rust versions. Additionally, Debug implementations of types provided by the standard library (std, core, alloc, etc.) are not stable, and may also change with future Rust versions.

§Examples

Deriving an implementation:

#[derive(Debug)]
struct Point {
    x: i32,
    y: i32,
}

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

assert_eq!(
    format!("The origin is: {origin:?}"),
    "The origin is: Point { x: 0, y: 0 }",
);

Manually implementing:

use std::fmt;

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

impl fmt::Debug for Point {
    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
        f.debug_struct("Point")
         .field("x", &self.x)
         .field("y", &self.y)
         .finish()
    }
}

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

assert_eq!(
    format!("The origin is: {origin:?}"),
    "The origin is: Point { x: 0, y: 0 }",
);

There are a number of helper methods on the Formatter struct to help you with manual implementations, such as debug_struct.

Types that do not wish to use the standard suite of debug representations provided by the Formatter trait (debug_struct, debug_tuple, debug_list, debug_set, debug_map) can do something totally custom by manually writing an arbitrary representation to the Formatter.

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

Debug implementations using either derive or the debug builder API on Formatter support pretty-printing using the alternate flag: {:#?}.

Pretty-printing with #?:

#[derive(Debug)]
struct Point {
    x: i32,
    y: i32,
}

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

let expected = "The origin is: Point {
    x: 0,
    y: 0,
}";
assert_eq!(format!("The origin is: {origin:#?}"), expected);

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::Debug for Position {
    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
        f.debug_tuple("")
         .field(&self.longitude)
         .field(&self.latitude)
         .finish()
    }
}

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

assert_eq!(format!("{position:#?}"), "(
    1.987,
    2.983,
)");

Dyn Compatibility§

This trait is dyn compatible.

In older versions of Rust, dyn compatibility was called "object safety".

Debug

Trait Debug Copy item path

§Stability

§Examples

Required Methods§

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

§Errors

§Examples

Dyn Compatibility§

Implementors§

impl Debug for PathResolveContext

impl Debug for PathResolveMethod

impl Debug for ShapelibConfig1

impl Debug for otter_support::imports::BigEndian

impl Debug for otter_support::imports::ErrorKind

impl Debug for otter_support::imports::IpAddr

impl Debug for otter_support::imports::LittleEndian

impl Debug for otter_support::imports::Ordering

impl Debug for otter_support::imports::SocketAddr

impl Debug for VarError

impl Debug for otter_support::imports::fs::TryLockError

impl Debug for SeekFrom

impl Debug for FchownatFlags

impl Debug for ForkResult

impl Debug for LinkatFlags

impl Debug for PathconfVar

impl Debug for SysconfVar

impl Debug for UnlinkatFlags

impl Debug for Whence

impl Debug for AncillaryError

impl Debug for PacketFrameReadError

impl Debug for PacketFrameWriteError

impl Debug for otter_support::progress::Value

impl Debug for otter_support::slotmap_slot_idx::Error

impl Debug for otter_support::toml_de::Error

impl Debug for Void

impl Debug for otter_support::prelude::fmt::Alignment

impl Debug for DebugAsHex

impl Debug for Sign

impl Debug for DecodeErrKind

impl Debug for TryReserveErrorKind

impl Debug for AsciiChar

impl Debug for CharCase

impl Debug for Infallible

impl Debug for FromBytesWithNulError

impl Debug for c_void

impl Debug for Locality

impl Debug for AtomicOrdering

impl Debug for SimdAlign

impl Debug for Ipv6MulticastScope

impl Debug for FpCategory

impl Debug for IntErrorKind

impl Debug for core::slice::GetDisjointMutError

impl Debug for core::sync::atomic::Ordering

impl Debug for BacktraceStatus

impl Debug for std::net::Shutdown

impl Debug for BacktraceStyle

impl Debug for std::sync::mpsc::RecvTimeoutError

impl Debug for std::sync::mpsc::TryRecvError

impl Debug for AhoCorasickKind

impl Debug for aho_corasick::packed::api::MatchKind

impl Debug for aho_corasick::util::error::MatchErrorKind

impl Debug for Candidate

impl Debug for aho_corasick::util::search::Anchored

impl Debug for aho_corasick::util::search::MatchKind

impl Debug for StartKind

impl Debug for Colour

impl Debug for Stream

impl Debug for Tz

impl Debug for Colons

impl Debug for Fixed

impl Debug for Numeric

impl Debug for OffsetPrecision

impl Debug for Pad

impl Debug for ParseErrorKind

impl Debug for SecondsFormat

impl Debug for chrono::month::Month

impl Debug for RoundingError

impl Debug for chrono::weekday::Weekday

impl Debug for Key

Trait Debug