fix(errors5): improve exercise instructions

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Noah Cairns 2 years ago committed by mokou
parent 582320aded
commit 5e1ca4b995

@ -1,7 +1,17 @@
// errors5.rs
// This program uses a completed version of the code from errors4.
// It won't compile right now! Why?
// This program uses an altered version of the code from errors4.
// This exercise uses some concepts that we won't get to until later in the course, like `Box` and the
// `From` trait. It's not important to understand them in detail right now, but you can read ahead if you like.
// In short, this particular use case for boxes is for when you want to own a value and you care only that it is a
// type which implements a particular trait. To do so, The Box is declared as of type Box<dyn Trait> where Trait is the trait
// the compiler looks for on any value used in that context. For this exercise, that context is the potential errors
// which can be returned in a Result.
// What can we use to describe both errors? In other words, is there a trait which both errors implement?
// Execute `rustlings hint errors5` for hints!
// I AM NOT DONE
@ -11,7 +21,7 @@ use std::fmt;
use std::num::ParseIntError;
// TODO: update the return type of `main()` to make this compile.
fn main() -> Result<(), ParseIntError> {
fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn ???>> {
let pretend_user_input = "42";
let x: i64 = pretend_user_input.parse()?;
println!("output={:?}", PositiveNonzeroInteger::new(x)?);

@ -619,22 +619,17 @@ name = "errors5"
path = "exercises/error_handling/errors5.rs"
mode = "compile"
hint = """
There are two different possible `Result` types produced within
`main()`, which are propagated using `?` operators. How do we declare a
return type from `main()` that allows both?
Another hint: under the hood, the `?` operator calls `From::from`
on the error value to convert it to a boxed trait object, a
`Box<dyn error::Error>`, which is polymorphic-- that means that lots of
different kinds of errors can be returned from the same function because
all errors act the same since they all implement the `error::Error` trait.
There are two different possible `Result` types produced within `main()`, which are
propagated using `?` operators. How do we declare a return type from `main()` that allows both?
Under the hood, the `?` operator calls `From::from` on the error value to convert it to a boxed
trait object, a `Box<dyn error::Error>`. This boxed trait object is polymorphic, and since all
errors implement the `error:Error` trait, we can capture lots of different errors in one "Box"
object.
Check out this section of the book:
https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch09-02-recoverable-errors-with-result.html#a-shortcut-for-propagating-errors-the--operator
This exercise uses some concepts that we won't get to until later in the
course, like `Box` and the `From` trait. It's not important to understand
them in detail right now, but you can read ahead if you like.
Read more about boxing errors:
https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/rust-by-example/error/multiple_error_types/boxing_errors.html

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