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- Package warnings implements error handling with non-fatal errors (warnings).
- import path: "gopkg.in/warnings.v0"
- package docs: https://godoc.org/gopkg.in/warnings.v0
- issues: https://github.com/go-warnings/warnings/issues
- pull requests: https://github.com/go-warnings/warnings/pulls
- A recurring pattern in Go programming is the following:
- func myfunc(params) error {
- if err := doSomething(...); err != nil {
- return err
- }
- if err := doSomethingElse(...); err != nil {
- return err
- }
- if ok := doAnotherThing(...); !ok {
- return errors.New("my error")
- }
- ...
- return nil
- }
- This pattern allows interrupting the flow on any received error. But what if
- there are errors that should be noted but still not fatal, for which the flow
- should not be interrupted? Implementing such logic at each if statement would
- make the code complex and the flow much harder to follow.
- Package warnings provides the Collector type and a clean and simple pattern
- for achieving such logic. The Collector takes care of deciding when to break
- the flow and when to continue, collecting any non-fatal errors (warnings)
- along the way. The only requirement is that fatal and non-fatal errors can be
- distinguished programmatically; that is a function such as
- IsFatal(error) bool
- must be implemented. The following is an example of what the above snippet
- could look like using the warnings package:
- import "gopkg.in/warnings.v0"
- func isFatal(err error) bool {
- _, ok := err.(WarningType)
- return !ok
- }
- func myfunc(params) error {
- c := warnings.NewCollector(isFatal)
- c.FatalWithWarnings = true
- if err := c.Collect(doSomething()); err != nil {
- return err
- }
- if err := c.Collect(doSomethingElse(...)); err != nil {
- return err
- }
- if ok := doAnotherThing(...); !ok {
- if err := c.Collect(errors.New("my error")); err != nil {
- return err
- }
- }
- ...
- return c.Done()
- }
- Rules for using warnings
- - ensure that warnings are programmatically distinguishable from fatal
- errors (i.e. implement an isFatal function and any necessary error types)
- - ensure that there is a single Collector instance for a call of each
- exported function
- - ensure that all errors (fatal or warning) are fed through Collect
- - ensure that every time an error is returned, it is one returned by a
- Collector (from Collect or Done)
- - ensure that Collect is never called after Done
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