// Copyright 2011 The Go Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. // Package errors implements functions to manipulate errors. // // The New function creates errors whose only content is a text message. // // The Unwrap, Is and As functions work on errors that may wrap other errors. // An error wraps another error if its type has the method // // Unwrap() error // // If e.Unwrap() returns a non-nil error w, then we say that e wraps w. // // Unwrap unpacks wrapped errors. If its argument's type has an // Unwrap method, it calls the method once. Otherwise, it returns nil. // // A simple way to create wrapped errors is to call fmt.Errorf and apply the %w verb // to the error argument: // // errors.Unwrap(fmt.Errorf("... %w ...", ..., err, ...)) // // returns err. // // Is unwraps its first argument sequentially looking for an error that matches the // second. It reports whether it finds a match. It should be used in preference to // simple equality checks: // // if errors.Is(err, fs.ErrExist) // // is preferable to // // if err == fs.ErrExist // // because the former will succeed if err wraps fs.ErrExist. // // As unwraps its first argument sequentially looking for an error that can be // assigned to its second argument, which must be a pointer. If it succeeds, it // performs the assignment and returns true. Otherwise, it returns false. The form // // var perr *fs.PathError // if errors.As(err, &perr) { // fmt.Println(perr.Path) // } // // is preferable to // // if perr, ok := err.(*fs.PathError); ok { // fmt.Println(perr.Path) // } // // because the former will succeed if err wraps an *fs.PathError. package errors // New returns an error that formats as the given text. // Each call to New returns a distinct error value even if the text is identical. func New(text string) error { return &errorString{text} } // errorString is a trivial implementation of error. type errorString struct { s string } func (e *errorString) Error() string { return e.s }