# proc-macro2-diagnostics   [![crates.io]][crate] [![docs.rs]][docs]
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Diagnostics for stable and nightly proc-macros!
## Usage
1. Depend on the library in your proc-macro.
```toml
[dependencies]
proc_macro2_diagnostics = "0.10"
```
2. Import `SpanDiagnosticExt` and use its methods on a `proc_macro2::Span` to
create `Diagnostic`s:
```rust
use syn::spanned::Spanned;
use proc_macro2::TokenStream;
use proc_macro2_diagnostics::{SpanDiagnosticExt, Diagnostic};
fn my_macro(input: TokenStream) -> Result<TokenStream, Diagnostic> {
Err(input.span().error("there's a problem here..."))
}
```
3. If there's an error, emit the diagnostic as tokens:
```rust
extern crate proc_macro;
pub fn real_macro(tokens: proc_macro::TokenStream) -> proc_macro::TokenStream {
match my_macro(tokens.into()) {
Ok(tokens) => tokens.into(),
Err(diag) => diag.emit_as_expr_tokens().into()
}
}
```
This does the right thing on nightly _or_ stable.
### Caveats
On stable, due to limitations, any top-level, non-error diagnostics are
emitted as errors. This will abort compilation. To avoid this, you may want
to `cfg`-gate emitting non-error diagnostics to nightly.
### Colors
By default, error messages are colored on stable. To disable, disable
default features:
```toml
[dependencies]
proc_macro2_diagnostics = { version = "0.10", default-features = false }
```
The compiler always colors diagnostics on nightly.
## License
Licensed under either of the following, at your option:
* Apache License, Version 2.0, ([LICENSE-APACHE](LICENSE-APACHE) or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
* MIT License ([LICENSE-MIT](LICENSE-MIT) or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)