{"record":{"id":"45f4387a2e669e24","repo":"DioxusLabs/dioxus","slug":"couldn-t-retrieve-cargo-metadata","errorCode":null,"errorMessage":"Couldn't retrieve cargo metadata: {:?}","messagePattern":"Couldn't retrieve cargo metadata: (.+?)","errorType":"exception","errorClass":"anyhow::Error","httpStatus":null,"severity":"error","filePath":"packages/cli/src/cli/create.rs","lineNumber":155,"sourceCode":"        .file_name()\n        .context(\"Current path does not include directory name\".to_string())?\n        .to_str()\n        .context(\"Current directory name is not a valid UTF-8 string\".to_string())?\n        .to_string())\n}\n\n/// Post-creation actions for newly setup crates.\npub(crate) fn post_create(path: &Path, vcs: &Vcs) -> Result<()> {\n    let metadata = if let Some(parent_dir) = path.parent() {\n        match cargo_metadata::MetadataCommand::new()\n            .current_dir(parent_dir)\n            .exec()\n        {\n            Ok(v) => Some(v),\n            // Only 1 error means that CWD isn't a cargo project.\n            Err(cargo_metadata::Error::CargoMetadata { .. }) => None,\n            Err(err) => {\n                anyhow::bail!(\"Couldn't retrieve cargo metadata: {:?}\", err)\n            }\n        }\n    } else {\n        None\n    };\n\n    // 1. Add the new project to the workspace, if it exists.\n    //    This must be executed first in order to run `cargo fmt` on the new project.\n    let is_workspace = metadata.is_some();\n    metadata.and_then(|metadata| {\n        let cargo_toml_path = &metadata.workspace_root.join(\"Cargo.toml\");\n        let cargo_toml_str = std::fs::read_to_string(cargo_toml_path).ok()?;\n        let relative_path = path.strip_prefix(metadata.workspace_root).ok()?;\n\n        let mut cargo_toml: toml_edit::DocumentMut = cargo_toml_str.parse().ok()?;\n        cargo_toml\n            .get_mut(\"workspace\")?\n            .get_mut(\"members\")?","sourceCodeStart":137,"sourceCodeEnd":173,"githubUrl":"https://github.com/DioxusLabs/dioxus/blob/24f6a829df0dfa203961a98ea4cae21c2ff27e28/packages/cli/src/cli/create.rs#L137-L173","documentation":"Raised in post_create (called from create) when cargo_metadata is asked for the workspace metadata of the newly created project's parent directory and returns an Err that is not merely 'CWD is not part of a cargo workspace'. This is an external tool failure around `cargo metadata` — the debug-formatted error describes why metadata extraction failed, e.g. an unreadable manifest or broken workspace.","triggerScenarios":"Thrown at packages/cli/src/cli/create.rs:155 when the library encounters an invalid state.","commonSituations":"See trigger scenarios.","solutions":["cargo metadata failed. Ensure cargo is installed and the workspace Cargo.toml is valid."],"exampleFix":null,"handlingStrategy":"try-catch","validationCode":null,"typeGuard":null,"tryCatchPattern":null,"preventionTips":[],"tags":[],"backgroundTag":null,"analyzedSha":"24f6a829df0dfa203961a98ea4cae21c2ff27e28","analyzedAt":"2026-08-23T07:10:14.078Z","contentChangedAt":"2026-08-23T07:10:14.078Z","schemaVersion":2},"datasetVersion":"2026-09-23T08:17:48.524Z"}