src/libstd/io/error.rs

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use boxed::Box;
use convert::Into;
use error;
use fmt;
use marker::{Send, Sync};
use option::Option::{self, Some, None};
use result;
use sys;

/// A type for results generated by I/O related functions where the `Err` type
/// is hard-wired to `io::Error`.
///
/// This typedef is generally used to avoid writing out `io::Error` directly and
/// is otherwise a direct mapping to `std::result::Result`.
#[stable(feature = "rust1", since = "1.0.0")]
pub type Result<T> = result::Result<T, Error>;

/// The error type for I/O operations of the `Read`, `Write`, `Seek`, and
/// associated traits.
///
/// Errors mostly originate from the underlying OS, but custom instances of
/// `Error` can be created with crafted error messages and a particular value of
/// `ErrorKind`.
#[derive(Debug)]
#[stable(feature = "rust1", since = "1.0.0")]
pub struct Error {
    repr: Repr,
}

#[derive(Debug)]
enum Repr {
    Os(i32),
    Custom(Box<Custom>),
}

#[derive(Debug)]
struct Custom {
    kind: ErrorKind,
    error: Box<error::Error+Send+Sync>,
}

/// A list specifying general categories of I/O error.
///
/// This list is intended to grow over time and it is not recommended to
/// exhaustively match against it.
#[derive(Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Clone, Debug)]
#[stable(feature = "rust1", since = "1.0.0")]
pub enum ErrorKind {
    /// An entity was not found, often a file.
    #[stable(feature = "rust1", since = "1.0.0")]
    NotFound,
    /// The operation lacked the necessary privileges to complete.
    #[stable(feature = "rust1", since = "1.0.0")]
    PermissionDenied,
    /// The connection was refused by the remote server.
    #[stable(feature = "rust1", since = "1.0.0")]
    ConnectionRefused,
    /// The connection was reset by the remote server.
    #[stable(feature = "rust1", since = "1.0.0")]
    ConnectionReset,
    /// The connection was aborted (terminated) by the remote server.
    #[stable(feature = "rust1", since = "1.0.0")]
    ConnectionAborted,
    /// The network operation failed because it was not connected yet.
    #[stable(feature = "rust1", since = "1.0.0")]
    NotConnected,
    /// A socket address could not be bound because the address is already in
    /// use elsewhere.
    #[stable(feature = "rust1", since = "1.0.0")]
    AddrInUse,
    /// A nonexistent interface was requested or the requested address was not
    /// local.
    #[stable(feature = "rust1", since = "1.0.0")]
    AddrNotAvailable,
    /// The operation failed because a pipe was closed.
    #[stable(feature = "rust1", since = "1.0.0")]
    BrokenPipe,
    /// An entity already exists, often a file.
    #[stable(feature = "rust1", since = "1.0.0")]
    AlreadyExists,
    /// The operation needs to block to complete, but the blocking operation was
    /// requested to not occur.
    #[stable(feature = "rust1", since = "1.0.0")]
    WouldBlock,
    /// A parameter was incorrect.
    #[stable(feature = "rust1", since = "1.0.0")]
    InvalidInput,
    /// The I/O operation's timeout expired, causing it to be canceled.
    #[stable(feature = "rust1", since = "1.0.0")]
    TimedOut,
    /// An error returned when an operation could not be completed because a
    /// call to `write` returned `Ok(0)`.
    ///
    /// This typically means that an operation could only succeed if it wrote a
    /// particular number of bytes but only a smaller number of bytes could be
    /// written.
    #[stable(feature = "rust1", since = "1.0.0")]
    WriteZero,
    /// This operation was interrupted.
    ///
    /// Interrupted operations can typically be retried.
    #[stable(feature = "rust1", since = "1.0.0")]
    Interrupted,
    /// Any I/O error not part of this list.
    #[stable(feature = "rust1", since = "1.0.0")]
    Other,

    /// Any I/O error not part of this list.
    #[unstable(feature = "std_misc",
               reason = "better expressed through extensible enums that this \
                         enum cannot be exhaustively matched against")]
    #[doc(hidden)]
    __Nonexhaustive,
}

impl Error {
    /// Creates a new I/O error from a known kind of error as well as an
    /// arbitrary error payload.
    ///
    /// This function is used to generically create I/O errors which do not
    /// originate from the OS itself. The `error` argument is an arbitrary
    /// payload which will be contained in this `Error`. Accessors as well as
    /// downcasting will soon be added to this type as well to access the custom
    /// information.
    ///
    /// # Examples
    ///
    /// ```
    /// use std::io::{Error, ErrorKind};
    ///
    /// // errors can be created from strings
    /// let custom_error = Error::new(ErrorKind::Other, "oh no!");
    ///
    /// // errors can also be created from other errors
    /// let custom_error2 = Error::new(ErrorKind::Interrupted, custom_error);
    /// ```
    #[stable(feature = "rust1", since = "1.0.0")]
    pub fn new<E>(kind: ErrorKind, error: E) -> Error
        where E: Into<Box<error::Error+Send+Sync>>
    {
        Error {
            repr: Repr::Custom(Box::new(Custom {
                kind: kind,
                error: error.into(),
            }))
        }
    }

    /// Returns an error representing the last OS error which occurred.
    ///
    /// This function reads the value of `errno` for the target platform (e.g.
    /// `GetLastError` on Windows) and will return a corresponding instance of
    /// `Error` for the error code.
    #[stable(feature = "rust1", since = "1.0.0")]
    pub fn last_os_error() -> Error {
        Error::from_raw_os_error(sys::os::errno() as i32)
    }

    /// Creates a new instance of an `Error` from a particular OS error code.
    #[stable(feature = "rust1", since = "1.0.0")]
    pub fn from_raw_os_error(code: i32) -> Error {
        Error { repr: Repr::Os(code) }
    }

    /// Returns the OS error that this error represents (if any).
    ///
    /// If this `Error` was constructed via `last_os_error` then this function
    /// will return `Some`, otherwise it will return `None`.
    #[stable(feature = "rust1", since = "1.0.0")]
    pub fn raw_os_error(&self) -> Option<i32> {
        match self.repr {
            Repr::Os(i) => Some(i),
            Repr::Custom(..) => None,
        }
    }

    /// Returns the corresponding `ErrorKind` for this error.
    #[stable(feature = "rust1", since = "1.0.0")]
    pub fn kind(&self) -> ErrorKind {
        match self.repr {
            Repr::Os(code) => sys::decode_error_kind(code),
            Repr::Custom(ref c) => c.kind,
        }
    }
}

#[stable(feature = "rust1", since = "1.0.0")]
impl fmt::Display for Error {
    fn fmt(&self, fmt: &mut fmt::Formatter) -> fmt::Result {
        match self.repr {
            Repr::Os(code) => {
                let detail = sys::os::error_string(code);
                write!(fmt, "{} (os error {})", detail, code)
            }
            Repr::Custom(ref c) => c.error.fmt(fmt),
        }
    }
}

#[stable(feature = "rust1", since = "1.0.0")]
impl error::Error for Error {
    fn description(&self) -> &str {
        match self.repr {
            Repr::Os(..) => "os error",
            Repr::Custom(ref c) => c.error.description(),
        }
    }
}

fn _assert_error_is_sync_send() {
    fn _is_sync_send<T: Sync+Send>() {}
    _is_sync_send::<Error>();
}