github.com/hobbeswalsh/terraform@v0.3.7-0.20150619183303-ad17cf55a0fa/helper/multierror/error.go (about)

     1  package multierror
     2  
     3  import (
     4  	"fmt"
     5  	"strings"
     6  )
     7  
     8  // Error is an error type to track multiple errors. This is used to
     9  // accumulate errors in cases such as configuration parsing, and returning
    10  // them as a single error.
    11  type Error struct {
    12  	Errors []error
    13  }
    14  
    15  func (e *Error) Error() string {
    16  	points := make([]string, len(e.Errors))
    17  	for i, err := range e.Errors {
    18  		points[i] = fmt.Sprintf("* %s", err)
    19  	}
    20  
    21  	return fmt.Sprintf(
    22  		"%d error(s) occurred:\n\n%s",
    23  		len(e.Errors), strings.Join(points, "\n"))
    24  }
    25  
    26  func (e *Error) GoString() string {
    27  	return fmt.Sprintf("*%#v", *e)
    28  }
    29  
    30  // ErrorAppend is a helper function that will append more errors
    31  // onto an Error in order to create a larger multi-error. If the
    32  // original error is not an Error, it will be turned into one.
    33  func ErrorAppend(err error, errs ...error) *Error {
    34  	if err == nil {
    35  		err = new(Error)
    36  	}
    37  
    38  	switch err := err.(type) {
    39  	case *Error:
    40  		if err == nil {
    41  			err = new(Error)
    42  		}
    43  
    44  		err.Errors = append(err.Errors, errs...)
    45  		return err
    46  	default:
    47  		newErrs := make([]error, len(errs)+1)
    48  		newErrs[0] = err
    49  		copy(newErrs[1:], errs)
    50  		return &Error{
    51  			Errors: newErrs,
    52  		}
    53  	}
    54  }