Trait Debug

1.0.0

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

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,
)");

Debug

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§Stability

§Examples

Required Methods§

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

§Errors

§Examples

Implementors§

impl Debug for GameResult

impl Debug for CastleRights

impl Debug for BoardStatus

impl Debug for Infallible

impl Debug for timecat::Ordering

impl Debug for Position

impl Debug for VarError

impl Debug for Pyo3Error

impl Debug for TimecatError

impl Debug for timecat::fmt::Alignment

impl Debug for DebugAsHex

impl Debug for Sign

impl Debug for timecat::fs::TryLockError

impl Debug for TryReserveErrorKind

impl Debug for AsciiChar

impl Debug for FromBytesWithNulError

impl Debug for c_void

impl Debug for Locality

impl Debug for AtomicOrdering

impl Debug for SimdAlign

impl Debug for IpAddr

impl Debug for Ipv6MulticastScope

impl Debug for core::net::socket_addr::SocketAddr

impl Debug for FpCategory

impl Debug for IntErrorKind

impl Debug for GetDisjointMutError

impl Debug for SearchStep

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

impl Debug for BacktraceStatus

impl Debug for SeekFrom

impl Debug for std::io::error::ErrorKind

impl Debug for Shutdown

impl Debug for AncillaryError

impl Debug for BacktraceStyle

impl Debug for RecvTimeoutError

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

impl Debug for bincode::error::ErrorKind

impl Debug for Endian

impl Debug for binread::error::Error

impl Debug for binread::io::error::ErrorKind

impl Debug for colored::color::Color

impl Debug for Styles

impl Debug for EventListenerPhase

impl Debug for FileReadError

impl Debug for AnyHistory

impl Debug for HistoryError

impl Debug for gloo_net::error::Error

impl Debug for EventSourceError

impl Debug for gloo_net::eventsource::State

impl Debug for Message

impl Debug for gloo_net::websocket::State

impl Debug for WebSocketError

impl Debug for StorageError

impl Debug for DIR

impl Debug for FILE

impl Debug for timezone

impl Debug for tpacket_versions

impl Debug for PrefilterConfig

impl Debug for _PyStatus_TYPE

impl Debug for PySendResult

impl Debug for PyGILState_STATE

impl Debug for ElementType

impl Debug for CompareOp

impl Debug for Category

impl Debug for Value

impl Debug for serde_urlencoded::ser::Error

impl Debug for BinaryType

impl Debug for ReferrerPolicy

impl Debug for RequestCache

impl Debug for RequestCredentials

impl Debug for RequestMode

Trait Debug