better error handling

Cargo.lock

@@ -2008,6 +2008,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "clap",
  "futures",
  "lan-mouse-ipc",
+ "thiserror 2.0.0",
  "tokio",
 ]
 

lan-mouse-cli/Cargo.toml

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ repository = "https://github.com/feschber/lan-mouse"
 futures = "0.3.30"
 lan-mouse-ipc = { path = "../lan-mouse-ipc", version = "0.2.0" }
 clap = { version = "4.4.11", features = ["derive"] }
+thiserror = "2.0.0"
 tokio = { version = "1.32.0", features = [
     "io-util",
     "io-std",

lan-mouse-cli/src/lib.rs

@@ -2,17 +2,23 @@ use clap::{Args, Parser, Subcommand};
 use futures::StreamExt;
 
 use std::{net::IpAddr, time::Duration};
+use thiserror::Error;
 
 use lan_mouse_ipc::{
-    connect_async, ClientHandle, FrontendEvent, FrontendRequest, IpcError, Position,
+    connect_async, ClientHandle, FrontendEvent, FrontendRequest, ConnectionError, IpcError, Position,
 };
 
+#[derive(Debug, Error)]
+pub enum CliError {
+    /// is the service running?
+    #[error("could not connect: `{0}` - is the service running?")]
+    ServiceNotRunning(#[from] ConnectionError),
+    #[error("error communicating with service: {0}")]
+    Ipc(#[from] IpcError),
+}
+
 #[derive(Parser, Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
-#[command(
+#[command(name = "lan-mouse-cli", about = "LanMouse CLI interface")]
-    name = "lan-mouse-cli",
-    about = "LanMouse CLI interface",
-    flatten_help = true
-)]
 pub struct CliArgs {
     #[command(subcommand)]
     command: CliSubcommand,
@@ -66,12 +72,12 @@ enum CliSubcommand {
     RemoveAuthorizedKey { sha256_fingerprint: String },
 }
 
-pub async fn run(args: CliArgs) -> Result<(), IpcError> {
+pub async fn run(args: CliArgs) -> Result<(), CliError> {
     execute(args.command).await?;
     Ok(())
 }
 
-async fn execute(cmd: CliSubcommand) -> Result<(), IpcError> {
+async fn execute(cmd: CliSubcommand) -> Result<(), CliError> {
     let (mut rx, mut tx) = connect_async(Some(Duration::from_millis(500))).await?;
     match cmd {
         CliSubcommand::AddClient(Client {

lan-mouse-ipc/src/connect_async.rs

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 use crate::{ConnectionError, FrontendEvent, FrontendRequest, IpcError};
 use std::{
     cmp::min,
-    io,
     task::{ready, Poll},
     time::Duration,
 };
@@ -47,7 +46,7 @@ impl Stream for AsyncFrontendEventReader {
 }
 
 impl AsyncFrontendRequestWriter {
-    pub async fn request(&mut self, request: FrontendRequest) -> Result<(), io::Error> {
+    pub async fn request(&mut self, request: FrontendRequest) -> Result<(), IpcError> {
         let mut json = serde_json::to_string(&request).unwrap();
         log::debug!("requesting: {json}");
         json.push('\n');

src/main.rs

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ use lan_mouse::{
     service::{Service, ServiceError},
 };
 use lan_mouse_ipc::{IpcError, IpcListenerCreationError};
+use lan_mouse_cli::CliError;
 use std::{
     future::Future,
     io,
@@ -31,6 +32,8 @@ enum LanMouseError {
     Capture(#[from] InputCaptureError),
     #[error(transparent)]
     Emulation(#[from] InputEmulationError),
+    #[error(transparent)]
+    Cli(#[from] CliError),
 }
 
 fn main() {