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golang error wrapping
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err_array.go
package main
import (
"errors"
"fmt"
)
var (
Err1 error = errors.New("Err1")
Err2 error = errors.New("Err2")
Err3 error = errors.New("Err3")
Err4 error = errors.New("Err4")
)
func getSumErr() []error {
return []error{
Err1,
Err2,
Err3,
Err4,
}
}
func checkForErrors(theErr error, allErrors []error) {
fmt.Printf("Final error: %v\n", theErr)
for _, ae := range allErrors {
if errors.Is(theErr, ae) {
fmt.Printf("Found %v\n", ae)
} else {
fmt.Printf("Did NOT find %v\n", ae)
}
}
}
func method1() {
sumErrs := getSumErr()
genErr := fmt.Errorf("My final error. verr: %w", sumErrs)
checkForErrors(genErr, sumErrs)
}
func method2() {
sumErrs := getSumErr()
genErr := fmt.Errorf("My final error")
for _, se := range sumErrs {
genErr = fmt.Errorf("%v: %w", genErr, se)
}
checkForErrors(genErr, sumErrs)
}
func main() {
fmt.Println("Method 1")
method1()
fmt.Println("Method 2")
method2()
}
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output.txt
Method 1
Final error: My final error. verr: %!w([]error=[0xc000010250 0xc000010260 0xc000010270 0xc000010280])
Did NOT find Err1
Did NOT find Err2
Did NOT find Err3
Did NOT find Err4
Method 2
Final error: My final error: Err1: Err2: Err3: Err4
Did NOT find Err1
Did NOT find Err2
Did NOT find Err3
Found Err4
Program exited.
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BenjamenMeyer commented Jun 28, 2022

NOTE: Consider that the code receiving genErr doesn't know anything about the code that's generated Err1, Err2, and Err3 but the code generating Err4 noted their existing in its documentation. This could be for multiple reasons - Err2 could be a File not opened type error with Err3 and Err4 providing more details. The handler may or may not be able to do something about Err2 but it has to be able to detect it first. This promotes error re-use:

var ErrSomeErr error = errors.New("some error")
...
return fmt.Errorf("%w: some detail", ErrSomeErr)
...
return fmt.Errorf("%w: some more details", wrappedErrSomeErr)
...
return fmt.Errorf("%w: some other detail", wrappedWrappedErrSomeErr)

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