TIL you can debug-format anyhow::Error to get a stacktrace

Always had the problem that if I wanted to just log an error, rather than bubble it all the way up to main(), that you wouldn't get a stacktrace. You could iterate the source chain and plug the stacktrace together yourself, but it's rather complex code.

Now I realized, you can do this to get a stacktrace:

 rust

    
let error = todo!("Get an error somehow...");
let error = anyhow::anyhow!(error); //converts to an `anyhow::Error`
eprintln!("Error with stacktrace: {error:?}");

  

For converting to an anyhow::Error, it often also makes sense to use anyhow::Context like so:

 rust

    
use anyhow::Context;
let error = error.context("Deleting file failed.");