loading workspace failed: cargo metadata failed: invalid type: null, expected a string at line 1 column 236445

[bjorn3]

ERROR [ra_lsp_server::main_loop] loading workspace failed: cargo metadata failed: invalid type: null, expected a string at line 1 column 236445

While working on cranelift

[matklad]

That's a, um, well, disagreement between cargo-metadata, cargo, and cargo.

Commenting this line out should help:

https://github.com/CraneStation/cranelift/blob/ccc309fc6686b2ddbc98bd03749b101be5e9ecf2/Cargo.toml#L26

(cranelift-serde is a library-less package, and dependency on such pacakges causes problems)

See rust-lang/cargo#6534

[matklad]

(I probably should say that it was my idea to allow null in the metadata instead of skipping thouse deps 😭 )

[bjorn3]

Thanks that worked!

[matklad]

I'll close this issue then, since it's Cargo's problem!