ceph-csi/vendor/github.com/hashicorp/errwrap/README.md
Niels de Vos 91774fc936 rebase: vendor dependencies for Vault API
Uses github.com/libopenstorage/secrets to communicate with Vault. This
removes the need for maintaining our own limited Vault APIs.

By adding the new dependency, several other packages got updated in the
process. Unused indirect dependencies have been removed from go.mod.

Signed-off-by: Niels de Vos <ndevos@redhat.com>
2020-11-29 04:03:59 +00:00

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# errwrap
`errwrap` is a package for Go that formalizes the pattern of wrapping errors
and checking if an error contains another error.
There is a common pattern in Go of taking a returned `error` value and
then wrapping it (such as with `fmt.Errorf`) before returning it. The problem
with this pattern is that you completely lose the original `error` structure.
Arguably the _correct_ approach is that you should make a custom structure
implementing the `error` interface, and have the original error as a field
on that structure, such [as this example](http://golang.org/pkg/os/#PathError).
This is a good approach, but you have to know the entire chain of possible
rewrapping that happens, when you might just care about one.
`errwrap` formalizes this pattern (it doesn't matter what approach you use
above) by giving a single interface for wrapping errors, checking if a specific
error is wrapped, and extracting that error.
## Installation and Docs
Install using `go get github.com/hashicorp/errwrap`.
Full documentation is available at
http://godoc.org/github.com/hashicorp/errwrap
## Usage
#### Basic Usage
Below is a very basic example of its usage:
```go
// A function that always returns an error, but wraps it, like a real
// function might.
func tryOpen() error {
_, err := os.Open("/i/dont/exist")
if err != nil {
return errwrap.Wrapf("Doesn't exist: {{err}}", err)
}
return nil
}
func main() {
err := tryOpen()
// We can use the Contains helpers to check if an error contains
// another error. It is safe to do this with a nil error, or with
// an error that doesn't even use the errwrap package.
if errwrap.Contains(err, "does not exist") {
// Do something
}
if errwrap.ContainsType(err, new(os.PathError)) {
// Do something
}
// Or we can use the associated `Get` functions to just extract
// a specific error. This would return nil if that specific error doesn't
// exist.
perr := errwrap.GetType(err, new(os.PathError))
}
```
#### Custom Types
If you're already making custom types that properly wrap errors, then
you can get all the functionality of `errwraps.Contains` and such by
implementing the `Wrapper` interface with just one function. Example:
```go
type AppError {
Code ErrorCode
Err error
}
func (e *AppError) WrappedErrors() []error {
return []error{e.Err}
}
```
Now this works:
```go
err := &AppError{Err: fmt.Errorf("an error")}
if errwrap.ContainsType(err, fmt.Errorf("")) {
// This will work!
}
```