[codec] allow accessing error source chain #1402
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codex::Error
in its current form does not allow thethiserror::Error
proc macro to establish a source-chain. TheDisplay
impl generated by it will only emit the top level error and drop all underlying errors.To allow it to establish a source chain the field needs to be either tagged
#[source]
or the field namedsource: UnderlyingError
. (or tag it[#from]
, but the very desirablecontext
info does not allow for that)I have opted to tag the field
#[source]
to mimimize churn. TheSource({1})
was also removed because the intended way to access the underlying information is viastd::error::Error::source
. And because havingSource({1})
would yield to duplicate messages both at error levels 0 and 1.