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| ## Context and Problem Statement | ||
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| The tool we use to produce language bindings for bdk-ffi libraries is [uniffi]. While the library is powerful, it also comes with some caveats. Those come into play when attempting to expose Rust errors; we must choose between simple enums that have variants but not data associated with them (for example a `TxidError` would not be able to return the specific txid that triggered the error), or more complex objects that do have data fields, but no ability to control the error message returned to the user. What's more, while Kotlin and Java users expect a `message` field on an `Exception` type, this field becomes an empty string if the object has no data, and just a strignified version of the fields if it does have any. |
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| The tool we use to produce language bindings for bdk-ffi libraries is [uniffi]. While the library is powerful, it also comes with some caveats. Those come into play when attempting to expose Rust errors; we must choose between simple enums that have variants but not data associated with them (for example a `TxidError` would not be able to return the specific txid that triggered the error), or more complex objects that do have data fields, but no ability to control the error message returned to the user. What's more, while Kotlin and Java users expect a `message` field on an `Exception` type, this field becomes an empty string if the object has no data, and just a strignified version of the fields if it does have any. | |
| The tool we use to produce language bindings for bdk-ffi libraries is [uniffi]. While the library is powerful, it also comes with some caveats. Those come into play when attempting to expose Rust errors; we must choose between simple enums that have variants but not data associated with them (for example a `TxidError` would not be able to return the specific txid that triggered the error), or more complex objects that do have data fields, but no ability to control the error message returned to the user. What's more, while Kotlin and Java users expect a `message` field on an `Exception` type, this field becomes an empty string if the object has no data, and just a stringified version of the fields if it does have any. |
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| Some options were considered and explored in detail in [issue #509]. Some aspects of this decisions include: |
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| Some options were considered and explored in detail in [issue #509]. Some aspects of this decisions include: | ||
| - Expectations from devs using the libraries in different languages (for example Kotlin users expect a `message` field on the exception, whereas Swift users do not) |
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| - Expectations from devs using the libraries in different languages (for example Kotlin users expect a `message` field on the exception, whereas Swift users do not) | |
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| Some options were considered and explored in detail in [issue #509]. Some aspects of this decisions include: | ||
| - Expectations from devs using the libraries in different languages (for example Kotlin users expect a `message` field on the exception, whereas Swift users do not) | ||
| - Ease of maintaining the errors as they evolve and we expose more and more of the Rust BDK ecosystem |
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| - Ease of maintaining the errors as they evolve and we expose more and more of the Rust BDK ecosystem | |
| - Ease of maintaining the errors as they evolve, and we expose more and more of the Rust BDK ecosystem |
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| We have decided to leverage two different approaches that uniffi offers for exposing errors, and using the most appropriate one for each situation. | ||
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| In the case where errors do not require passing back data, we opt for the simpler to maintain option, which provides better, costumized error message with a `message` field provided by the `thiserror` library. Those errors cannot have fields. For example: |
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| In the case where errors do not require passing back data, we opt for the simpler to maintain option, which provides better, costumized error message with a `message` field provided by the `thiserror` library. Those errors cannot have fields. For example: | |
| In the case where errors do not require passing back data, we opt for the simpler to maintain option, which provides better, customized error message with a `message` field provided by the `thiserror` library. Those errors cannot have fields. For example: |
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| ### Rust |
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| In the case where errors do not require passing back data, we opt for the simpler to maintain option, which provides better, costumized error message with a `message` field provided by the `thiserror` library. Those errors cannot have fields. For example: | ||
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Great idea. I'm going to ruminate on this a bit over the next week (and add comments/thoughts as needed) |
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| The tool we use to produce language bindings for bdk-ffi libraries is [uniffi]. While the library is powerful, it also comes with some caveats. Those come into play when attempting to expose Rust errors; we must choose between simple enums that have variants but not data associated with them (for example a `TxidError` would not be able to return the specific txid that triggered the error), or more complex objects that do have data fields, but no ability to control the error message returned to the user. What's more, while Kotlin and Java users expect a `message` field on an `Exception` type, this field becomes an empty string if the object has no data, and just a strignified version of the fields if it does have any. |
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if you want to touch on swift real quick here we can add something like this at the end of the Context and Problem Statement section:
"Swift, in contrast, can optionally leverage something like the LocalizedError protocol to provide custom and localized descriptions."
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| - Expectations from devs using the libraries in different languages (for example Kotlin users expect a `message` field on the exception, whereas Swift users do not) |
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"whereas Swift users do not" could be "whereas Swift users do not expect message but might expect localizedDescription"
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verbiage on this suggestion might change now with mozilla/uniffi-rs#2116
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| Returning meaningful errors is important for users of our libraries. The Rust bitcoin ecosystem uses descriptive and data-driven errors, and we would like to stay as close to them as possible when building language bindings for these libraries. | |||
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what do you think of something like this for this section, it includes what you already have but just sandwiches some extra "error handling philosophy" in between:
Returning meaningful errors is important for users of our libraries. Libraries return errors and applications decide if and how those errors are formatted and displayed to users. Our goal as a library is to produce meaningful and structured error types which allows applications to easily differentiate various error cases. The Rust bitcoin ecosystem uses descriptive and data-driven errors, and we would like to stay as close to them as possible when building language bindings for these libraries.
This PR is very much up for review and discussion. I figured that a good way to lay out correctly a solution would be to write it out. We can hash out the specifics directly on this PR.