Last week I signed up for an issue in Hurl, an HTTP request client and testing tool written in Rust.
--cookie-jar FILE doesn't work if intermediate directories don't exist
Harnessing the power of Generative A...hallucinations
jcamiel
posted on Jan 24, 2025
When exporting cookies from a run to SOME_FILE export is failing if SOME_FILE has non-existing directory:
$ echo 'HEAD https://hurl.dev' | hurl --cookie-jar /tmp/a/b/c/out.txt
error: Issue writing to /tmp/a/b/c/out.txt: Os { code: 2, kind: NotFound, message: "No such file or directory" }
--cookie-jar should works like --curll which create intermediate directories:
$ echo 'HEAD https://hurl.dev' | hurl --curl /tmp/a/b/c/out.txt
Note: we could try while fixing this bug to mutualize the code that create a file and it's indermediate directories:
// We ensure that parent folder is created.
if let Some(parent) = filename.parent() {
match std::fs::create_dir_all(parent) {
Ok(_) => {}
Err(err) => {
return Err(ReportError::from_error(
err,
filename,
"Issue writing TAP report",
))
}
}
}
let mut file = match File::create(filename) {
Ok(f) => f,
Err(e) => {
return Err(ReportError::from_error(
e,
filename,
"Issue writing TAP report",
))
}
};
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I needed to fix a command that accepted a file path so that it would create the parent directories in the path if they didn't exist.
My knowledge of Rust is rudimentary at best - if you asked me a week ago I would've told you it was nonexistent. When I started working on this my immediate thought process was to go and "learn Rust" - as in go read the Rust book. I was in the middle of reading what an integer was when I realized it probably wasn't the best use of my time.
Thinking back to my previous experience working in unfamiliar languages and with unknown technologies, I figured I probably don't necessarily need to "know Rust" to be able to contribute. I worked with Go a little bit last year without needing to go read the Go documentation, so I figured I might as well do what I did last time and just jump in.
Once I started actually reading the code, I was able to leverage fundamental programming concepts - I could look at the code and understand I was looking at a function, with type annotations for return types. I could understand I was looking at error handling logic, even though the syntax was quite different from what I'm used to in JavaScript-land, where I usually live.
Even though my first reaction was "Why did I sign up for this?", with that approach, the linter, the unit tests, and some pointers from one of the maintainers, I was able to get the job done.
Create parent folders if missing when using --cookie-jar FILE
Quordle today – hints and answers fo...28 (game #916)
uday-rana
posted on Feb 03, 2025
Fixes Harnessing the power of Generative A...hallucinations
Please let me know if there's anything I could improve. Thanks.
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In addition to the fix, the maintainer also asked me to do some refactoring by extracting the parent directory creation logic into a util function and replacing the existing logic with that function throughout the source code. They helped me out by providing some code snippets, and by this point I was a little bit more comfortable reading and writing Rust, so it was fairly easy.
Would I feel confident putting Rust on my resume? Probably not (yet). But it was fun to explore nevertheless. I guess this was a nice reminder that programming is less about knowing every detail of a language and more about problem-solving.
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--cookie-jar FILE doesn't work if intermediate directories don't exist
Harnessing the power of Generative A...hallucinations
jcamiel
posted on Jan 24, 2025
When exporting cookies from a run to SOME_FILE export is failing if SOME_FILE has non-existing directory:
$ echo 'HEAD https://hurl.dev' | hurl --cookie-jar /tmp/a/b/c/out.txt
error: Issue writing to /tmp/a/b/c/out.txt: Os { code: 2, kind: NotFound, message: "No such file or directory" }
--cookie-jar should works like --curll which create intermediate directories:
$ echo 'HEAD https://hurl.dev' | hurl --curl /tmp/a/b/c/out.txt
Note: we could try while fixing this bug to mutualize the code that create a file and it's indermediate directories:
// We ensure that parent folder is created.
if let Some(parent) = filename.parent() {
match std::fs::create_dir_all(parent) {
Ok(_) => {}
Err(err) => {
return Err(ReportError::from_error(
err,
filename,
"Issue writing TAP report",
))
}
}
}
let mut file = match File::create(filename) {
Ok(f) => f,
Err(e) => {
return Err(ReportError::from_error(
e,
filename,
"Issue writing TAP report",
))
}
};
View on GitHub
I needed to fix a command that accepted a file path so that it would create the parent directories in the path if they didn't exist.
My knowledge of Rust is rudimentary at best - if you asked me a week ago I would've told you it was nonexistent. When I started working on this my immediate thought process was to go and "learn Rust" - as in go read the Rust book. I was in the middle of reading what an integer was when I realized it probably wasn't the best use of my time.
Thinking back to my previous experience working in unfamiliar languages and with unknown technologies, I figured I probably don't necessarily need to "know Rust" to be able to contribute. I worked with Go a little bit last year without needing to go read the Go documentation, so I figured I might as well do what I did last time and just jump in.
Once I started actually reading the code, I was able to leverage fundamental programming concepts - I could look at the code and understand I was looking at a function, with type annotations for return types. I could understand I was looking at error handling logic, even though the syntax was quite different from what I'm used to in JavaScript-land, where I usually live.
Even though my first reaction was "Why did I sign up for this?", with that approach, the linter, the unit tests, and some pointers from one of the maintainers, I was able to get the job done.
Create parent folders if missing when using --cookie-jar FILE
Quordle today – hints and answers fo...28 (game #916)
uday-rana
posted on Feb 03, 2025
Fixes Harnessing the power of Generative A...hallucinations
Please let me know if there's anything I could improve. Thanks.
View on GitHub
In addition to the fix, the maintainer also asked me to do some refactoring by extracting the parent directory creation logic into a util function and replacing the existing logic with that function throughout the source code. They helped me out by providing some code snippets, and by this point I was a little bit more comfortable reading and writing Rust, so it was fairly easy.
Would I feel confident putting Rust on my resume? Probably not (yet). But it was fun to explore nevertheless. I guess this was a nice reminder that programming is less about knowing every detail of a language and more about problem-solving.
More...