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pounce_qp/
error.rs

1//! Error and status types for the QP solver.
2
3use std::fmt;
4
5/// Terminal status of a QP solve.
6#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
7pub enum QpStatus {
8    /// KKT residual and feasibility within tolerance.
9    Optimal,
10    /// Phase-1 elastic mode certified the QP as infeasible
11    /// (residual elastic slacks are nonzero at the elastic
12    /// solution).
13    Infeasible,
14    /// Descent direction of unbounded length found (only possible
15    /// when the reduced Hessian is indefinite or negative semi-
16    /// definite along a feasible ray).
17    Unbounded,
18    /// Iteration limit reached before convergence.
19    MaxIter,
20    /// Solver detected numerical breakdown (e.g., factor failure
21    /// not recoverable by inertia correction).
22    NumericalError,
23}
24
25impl fmt::Display for QpStatus {
26    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
27        match self {
28            QpStatus::Optimal => write!(f, "optimal"),
29            QpStatus::Infeasible => write!(f, "infeasible"),
30            QpStatus::Unbounded => write!(f, "unbounded"),
31            QpStatus::MaxIter => write!(f, "max-iter"),
32            QpStatus::NumericalError => write!(f, "numerical-error"),
33        }
34    }
35}
36
37/// Hard errors โ€” problems the solver cannot return any meaningful
38/// solution for. Soft outcomes (max-iter, infeasible, unbounded) are
39/// reported via [`QpStatus`] inside a successful
40/// [`crate::QpSolution`].
41#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
42pub enum QpError {
43    /// Problem-data dimensions disagree (e.g., `g.len() != n`).
44    DimensionMismatch(String),
45    /// A bound vector contains `bl > bu` for some index.
46    InvertedBounds(String),
47    /// Warm-start working set has the wrong length for the problem
48    /// dimensions.
49    WarmStartDimensionMismatch(String),
50    /// Linear-solver backend reported a hard failure that cannot be
51    /// recovered by the inertia / refactor logic.
52    LinearSolverFailure(String),
53    /// Feature required by this QP is not yet implemented in the
54    /// current crate phase (e.g., one-sided inequality constraints
55    /// before the working-set machinery lands).
56    UnsupportedFeature(String),
57}
58
59impl QpError {
60    /// True when this is a linear-solver failure that the ยง4.5
61    /// inertia-control loop may recover from by shifting the Hessian
62    /// diagonal โ€” i.e. a singular factor or a wrong-inertia report.
63    ///
64    /// Centralizes the recoverability decision so the retry loops in
65    /// `solver.rs` and `schur.rs` don't each re-implement a fragile
66    /// substring test. The match is **case-insensitive**: some failure
67    /// messages embed the backend's `Debug`-formatted `ESymSolverStatus`
68    /// (`Singular` / `WrongInertia`, capitalized โ€” produced by
69    /// `LinearSolver::resolve`'s catch-all `"resolve backend status:
70    /// {status:?}"`), which a bare lowercase `contains("singular")` /
71    /// `contains("inertia")` would silently miss, so those failures would
72    /// propagate as unrecoverable instead of triggering a shift retry
73    /// (L14).
74    pub fn is_recoverable_factorization_failure(&self) -> bool {
75        match self {
76            QpError::LinearSolverFailure(msg) => {
77                let m = msg.to_ascii_lowercase();
78                m.contains("inertia") || m.contains("singular")
79            }
80            _ => false,
81        }
82    }
83}
84
85impl fmt::Display for QpError {
86    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
87        match self {
88            QpError::DimensionMismatch(s) => write!(f, "dimension mismatch: {s}"),
89            QpError::InvertedBounds(s) => write!(f, "inverted bounds: {s}"),
90            QpError::WarmStartDimensionMismatch(s) => {
91                write!(f, "warm-start dimension mismatch: {s}")
92            }
93            QpError::LinearSolverFailure(s) => write!(f, "linear solver failure: {s}"),
94            QpError::UnsupportedFeature(s) => write!(f, "unsupported feature: {s}"),
95        }
96    }
97}
98
99impl std::error::Error for QpError {}