From 095409eb0421f0f970c246b371b39dab2ff912aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jimmi Holst Christensen
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2025 10:44:11 +0200
Subject: feat: Add `Diagnostic.reportToFile`

The code for reporting errors became quite verbose after writegate.
Reporting to stderr is very common, so this wrapper provides a default,
buffered way to report to a file.
---
 example/subcommands.zig | 11 +++--------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

(limited to 'example/subcommands.zig')

diff --git a/example/subcommands.zig b/example/subcommands.zig
index 644e371..7d9f5f1 100644
--- a/example/subcommands.zig
+++ b/example/subcommands.zig
@@ -41,10 +41,8 @@ pub fn main() !void {
         // not fully consumed. It can then be reused to parse the arguments for subcommands.
         .terminating_positional = 0,
     }) catch |err| {
-        var buf: [1024]u8 = undefined;
-        var stderr = std.fs.File.stderr().writer(&buf);
-        try diag.report(&stderr.interface, err);
-        return stderr.interface.flush();
+        try diag.reportToFile(.stderr(), err);
+        return err;
     };
     defer res.deinit();
 
@@ -79,10 +77,7 @@ fn mathMain(gpa: std.mem.Allocator, iter: *std.process.ArgIterator, main_args: M
         .diagnostic = &diag,
         .allocator = gpa,
     }) catch |err| {
-        var buf: [1024]u8 = undefined;
-        var stderr = std.fs.File.stderr().writer(&buf);
-        try diag.report(&stderr.interface, err);
-        try stderr.interface.flush();
+        try diag.reportToFile(.stderr(), err);
         return err; // propagate error
     };
     defer res.deinit();
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