Panic on errors in format! or <T: Display>::to_string

… instead of silently ignoring a result.

`fmt::Write for String` never returns `Err`,
so implementations of `Display` (or other traits of that family)
never should either.

Fixes #40103
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Simon Sapin 2017-02-26 19:42:11 +01:00
parent 44e9e0a6cf
commit f2017f4561
3 changed files with 16 additions and 2 deletions

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@ -1888,13 +1888,20 @@ pub trait ToString {
fn to_string(&self) -> String;
}
/// # Panics
///
/// In this implementation, the `to_string` method panics
/// if the `Display` implementation returns an error.
/// This indicates an incorrect `Display` implementation
/// since `fmt::Write for String` never returns an error itself.
#[stable(feature = "rust1", since = "1.0.0")]
impl<T: fmt::Display + ?Sized> ToString for T {
#[inline]
default fn to_string(&self) -> String {
use core::fmt::Write;
let mut buf = String::new();
let _ = buf.write_fmt(format_args!("{}", self));
buf.write_fmt(format_args!("{}", self))
.expect("a Display implementation return an error unexpectedly");
buf.shrink_to_fit();
buf
}