Lib.rs

Usage

You can also use the Untyped variant of GenericError if that suits your needs better.

There are also extension traits for convenience:

Also, for types that don't implement Debug, there are methods to suit your needs, e.g. GenericError::from_non_err. Only exports extension traits without polluting your namespace

Generic Error

A simple utility to convert any error type that isn't clonable into one that is, while preserving source information providing Serialize and Deserialize functionality. Magic?

How it works

The GenericError<E> wrapper type just stores the Display and Debug implementations of the wrapped type, which is now always clonable and will serialize just fine. The GenericError<E> type kinda looks like this:

#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Clone)]
pub struct GenericError<T>
{
  display: String,
  debug: String,
  source: Option<GenericError>,
}

.. although many details have been omitted for brevity

See docs or the examples dir for usage