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1 go-errors/errors 2 ================ 3 4 [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/go-errors/errors.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/go-errors/errors) 5 6 Package errors adds stacktrace support to errors in go. 7 8 This is particularly useful when you want to understand the state of execution 9 when an error was returned unexpectedly. 10 11 It provides the type \*Error which implements the standard golang error 12 interface, so you can use this library interchangably with code that is 13 expecting a normal error return. 14 15 Usage 16 ----- 17 18 Full documentation is available on 19 [godoc](https://godoc.org/github.com/go-errors/errors), but here's a simple 20 example: 21 22 ```go 23 package crashy 24 25 import "github.com/go-errors/errors" 26 27 var Crashed = errors.Errorf("oh dear") 28 29 func Crash() error { 30 return errors.New(Crashed) 31 } 32 ``` 33 34 This can be called as follows: 35 36 ```go 37 package main 38 39 import ( 40 "crashy" 41 "fmt" 42 "github.com/go-errors/errors" 43 ) 44 45 func main() { 46 err := crashy.Crash() 47 if err != nil { 48 if errors.Is(err, crashy.Crashed) { 49 fmt.Println(err.(*errors.Error).ErrorStack()) 50 } else { 51 panic(err) 52 } 53 } 54 } 55 ``` 56 57 Meta-fu 58 ------- 59 60 This package was original written to allow reporting to 61 [Bugsnag](https://bugsnag.com/) from 62 [bugsnag-go](https://github.com/bugsnag/bugsnag-go), but after I found similar 63 packages by Facebook and Dropbox, it was moved to one canonical location so 64 everyone can benefit. 65 66 This package is licensed under the MIT license, see LICENSE.MIT for details. 67 68 69 ## Changelog 70 * v1.1.0 updated to use go1.13's standard-library errors.Is method instead of == in errors.Is 71 * v1.2.0 added `errors.As` from the standard library. 72 * v1.3.0 *BREAKING* updated error methods to return `error` instead of `*Error`. 73 > Code that needs access to the underlying `*Error` can use the new errors.AsError(e) 74 > ``` 75 > // before 76 > errors.New(err).ErrorStack() 77 > // after 78 >. errors.AsError(errors.Wrap(err)).ErrorStack() 79 > ``` 80 * v1.4.0 *BREAKING* v1.4.0 reverted all changes from v1.3.0 and is identical to v1.2.0 81 * v1.4.1 no code change, but now without an unnecessary cover.out file.