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Hide details of error implementation, to not make changes into breaking changes #57

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@faern faern commented Apr 2, 2024

As discussed in the office. Having errors simply be public enums with associated data makes the implementation details part of the public API. Then almost all changes to the error are breaking changes. Here I show two potential ways to implement errors so that their internals are hidden, but it's equally easy to match for a library consumer.

This is currently split into two commits, one per proposed solution. So view it per commit if you want to compare them. I personally like the second solution the best. That error implementation could fairly easily be generated by a macro. I'm sure we are not the first people to come to this conclusion, maybe there is such a macro crate on crates.io already?


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hulthe commented Apr 2, 2024

I like 2 as well. Took the liberty of mocking up a solution that involves more macros (here).
Sadly this adds 2 more dependencies (thiserror and strum), but could be worth exploring.

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Reviewed 1 of 1 files at r2, 1 of 1 files at r3, 1 of 1 files at r4, all commit messages.
Reviewable status: :shipit: complete! all files reviewed, all discussions resolved (waiting on @faern)

@faern faern merged commit 75eb1fd into main Apr 11, 2024
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@faern faern deleted the hide-error-impl-details branch April 11, 2024 11:42
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