rust - How to implement a custom 'fmt::Debug' trait?

Question

I presume you do something like this:

extern crate uuid;

use uuid::Uuid;
use std::fmt::Formatter;
use std::fmt::Debug;

#[derive(Debug)]
struct BlahLF {
    id: Uuid,
}

impl BlahLF {
    fn new() -> BlahLF {
        return BlahLF { id: Uuid::new_v4() };
    }
}

impl Debug for BlahLF {
    fn fmt(&self, &mut f: Formatter) -> Result {
        write!(f.buf, "Hi: {}", self.id);
    }
}

...but attempting to implement this trait generates:

error[E0243]: wrong number of type arguments
  --> src/main.rs:19:41
   |
19 |     fn fmt(&self, &mut f: Formatter) -> Result {
   |                                         ^^^^^^ expected 2 type arguments, found 0

However, that seems to be how other implementations do it. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

According to the example from the std::fmt docs:

extern crate uuid;

use uuid::Uuid;
use std::fmt;

struct BlahLF {
    id: Uuid,
}

impl fmt::Debug for BlahLF {
    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter) -> fmt::Result {
        write!(f, "Hi: {}", self.id)
    }
}

The part to emphasize is the fmt:: in fmt::Result. Without that you're referring to the plain Result type. The plain Result type does have two generic type parameters, fmt::Result has none.