bugreport

bugreport is a Rust library that helps application developers to automatically collect information about the system and the environment that users can send along with a bug report (similar to git bugreport or ffmpeg … -report).

Note: This library is in an early stage and the API may change in the future.

Example

The following code

use bugreport::{bugreport, collector::*, format::Markdown};

fn main() {
    bugreport!()
        .info(SoftwareVersion::default())
        .info(OperatingSystem::default())
        .info(CommandLine::default())
        .info(EnvironmentVariables::list(&["SHELL", "EDITOR"]))
        .info(CommandOutput::new("Python version", "python", &["-V"]))
        .info(CompileTimeInformation::default())
        .print::<Markdown>();
}

generates bug report information that looks like this.

Collectors

• Crate information (name and version)
• Operating system (type, name, version)
• Command line (including all arguments)
• Environment variables (e.g. SHELL, PATH, …)
• File contents (e.g. config files)
• Command output (e.g. bash --version)
• Compile time information (profile, target, architecture, cpu features, etc.)
• Current working directory
• Date and time
• User defined collectors

Features

• Markdown export
• Auto-detect --diagnostic command-line option or environment variable (like --diagnostic)
• Open report output in editor (instead of printing to stdout, see git bugreport)
• Ask user for permission to gather information?
• Automatic anonymization of information? (e.g.: remove /home/username from paths)
• JSON export (?)

Use cases / prior art

• ffmpegs -report option
  • Interesting: "Setting the environment variable FFREPORT to any value has the same effect."
  • see also: https://ffmpeg.org/bugreports.html
• git bugreport
  • https://git-scm.com/docs/git-bugreport
  • git version --build-options
• grails bugreport
  • http://docs.grails.org/3.1.1/ref/Command%20Line/bug-report.html