bugreport

bugreport is a Rust library that helps application developers to automatically collect information about the system and the environment that users can send along with a bug report (similar to git bugreport or ffmpeg … -report).

Note: This library is in an early stage and the API may change in the future.

Example

The following code ```rust use bugreport::{bugreport, collector::*, format::Markdown};

fn main() { bugreport!() .info(SoftwareVersion::default()) .info(OperatingSystem::default()) .info(CommandLine::default()) .info(EnvironmentVariables::list(&["SHELL", "EDITOR"])) .info(CommandOutput::new("Python version", "python", &["-V"])) .info(CompileTimeInformation::default()) .print::(); } ``` generates bug report information that looks like this.

Collectors

• [x] Crate information (name, version, git hash)
• [x] Operating system (type, name, version)
• [x] Command line (including all arguments)
• [x] Environment variables (e.g. SHELL, PATH, …)
• [x] File contents (e.g. config files)
• [x] Command output (e.g. bash --version)
• [x] Compile time information (profile, target, architecture, cpu features, etc.)
• [ ] Current working directory
• [ ] Date and time
• [x] User defined collectors

Features

• [x] Markdown export
• [ ] Open report output in editor (instead of printing to stdout, see git bugreport)
• [ ] Ask user for permission to gather information?
• [ ] Automatic anonymization of information? (e.g.: remove /home/username from paths)
• [ ] JSON export (?)

Use cases / prior art

• ffmpegs -report option
  • Interesting: "Setting the environment variable FFREPORT to any value has the same effect."
  • see also: https://ffmpeg.org/bugreports.html
• git bugreport
  • https://git-scm.com/docs/git-bugreport
  • git version --build-options
• grails bugreport
  • http://docs.grails.org/3.1.1/ref/Command%20Line/bug-report.html