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<a class="header" href="#a-note-about-error-handling" name="a-note-about-error-handling"><h1>A note about error handling</h1></a>
<p>Error handling in Rust is robust when done correctly, but in today's
Rust it requires a fair bit of boilerplate. Because of this one often
sees Rust examples filled with <code>unwrap</code> calls instead of proper error
handling.</p>
<p>Since these recipes are intended to be reused as-is and encourage best
practices, they set up error handling correctly, and when necessary to
reduce boilerplate, they use the [error-chain] crate.</p>
<p>The code for this setup generally looks like:</p>
<pre><code class="language-rust">#[macro_use]
extern crate error_chain;
mod errors {
error_chain! {
foreign_links {
Io(::std::io::Error);
}
}
}
use errors::*;
fn main() { run().unwrap() }
fn run() -&gt; Result&lt;()&gt; {
use std::io::Write;
let ref mut stdout = ::std::io::stdout();
writeln!(stdout, &quot;hello, world&quot;)?;
Ok(())
}
</code></pre>
<p>This is using the <code>error_chain!</code> macro to define a custom <code>Error</code>
and <code>Result</code> type, along with an automatic conversion from
the common <code>::std::io::Error</code> type. The automatic conversion
makes the <code>?</code> operator work</p>
<p>For more background on error handling in Rust, read [this page of the Rust book][error-docs] and [this blog post][error-blog].</p>
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