Go Error Reporting

This project contains a Go-Builder for Exasol error messages.

Usage

Including Go Error Reporting

Add this to your go.mod:

require (
    github.com/exasol/error-reporting-go v0.1.1
)

Then import the library in your .go files:

import (
    "github.com/exasol/error-reporting-go"
)

Simple Messages

renderedString := exaerror.New("E-TEST-1").Message("Something went wrong.").String()

Result: E-TEST-1: Something went wrong.

Error Identifiers

The error identifier (E-TEST-1 in the previous example) uniquely identifies the error and consists of three parts:

• Severity: E = Error, F = Failure, W = Warning
• One or two tags separated with a dash - that identify the application or module, e.g. MYAPP or MYAPP-MOD1
• An integer as index

Error Identifiers must be unique.

See the Error Code Model and the Error Code Crawler for details.

As native go error

err := exaerror.New("E-TEST-1").Message("Something went wrong.")
fmt.Println(err)  // fmt package can print errors automatically
fmt.Println(err.Error())  // Print error message explicit via Error() function

Result: E-TEST-1: Something went wrong.

Parameters

You can specify placeholders in the message and fill them up with parameters values:

renderedString := exaerror.New("E-TEST-2").Message("Unknown input {{input}}.").Parameter("input", "unknown").String()

or inline

renderedString := exaerror.New("E-TEST-2").Messagef("Unknown input {{input}}.", "unknown").String()

Result: E-TEST-2: Unknown input 'unknown'.

ParameterWithDescription(name, value, description) method also gets a parameter description which will be used to generate a parameter description for the error-catalog.

The builder automatically quotes parameters with single quotes. If you want to avoid quotes, use the |uq suffix in the correspondent placeholder:

renderedString := exaerror.New("E-TEST-2").Message("Unknown input {{input|uq}}.").Parameter("input", 2).String()

result: E-TEST-2: Unknown input 2.

Mitigations

The mitigations describe those actions the user can follow to overcome the error, and are specified as follows:

renderedString := exaerror.New("E-TEST-3").Message("Too little disk space.").Mitigation("Delete something.").String()

Result: E-TEST-3: Too little disk space. Delete something.

Additional Resources

• Changelog
• Dependencies