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Go module with set of core packages every Go project needs. Minimal API, battle-tested, strictly versioned and with only two transient dependencies-- davecgh/go-spew and google/go-cmp.

Maintained by experienced Go developers, including author of the Efficient Go book.

Import it using go get github.com/efficientgo/core@latest.

This module contains packages around the following functionalities:

NOTE: Click on each package to see usage examples in pkg.go.dev!

Error Handling

  • github.com/efficientgo/core/errors is an improved and minimal version of the popular pkg/errors package (archived) allowing reliable wrapping of errors with stacktrace. Unfortunately, the standard library recommended error wrapping using %+w is prone to errors and does not support stacktraces. For example:
var (
	err     = errors.New("root error while doing A")
	wrapped = errors.Wrap(err, "while doing B")
)  
func CloseAll(closers []io.Closer) error {
	errs := merrors.New()
	for _, c := range closers {
		errs.Add(c.Close())
	}
	return errs.Err()
}
func DoAndClose(f *os.File) (err error) {
	defer errcapture.Do(&err, f.Close, "close file at the end")

	// Do something...
	if err := do(); err != nil {
		return err
	}

	return nil
}   
func DoAndClose(f *os.File, logger logerrcapture.Logger) error {
	defer logerrcapture.Do(logger, f.Close, "close file at the end")

	// Do something...
	if err := do(); err != nil {
		return err
	}

	return nil
}   

Waiting and Retrying

  • github.com/efficientgo/core/runutil offers Retry and Repeat functions which is often need in Go production code (e.g. repeating operation periodically) as well as tests (e.g. waiting on eventual results instead of sleeping).
// Repeat every 1 second until context is done (e.g. cancel or timeout) or
// function returns error.
err := runutil.Repeat(1*time.Second, ctx.Done(), func() error {
	// ...
	return err // Ups, error - don't repeat anymore!
})

// Retry every 1 second until context is done (e.g. cancel or timeout) or
// function returns nil.
err := runutil.Retry(1*time.Second, ctx.Done(), func() error {
	// ...
	return nil // Done, no need to retry!
}) 

Testing

  • github.com/efficientgo/core/testutil is a minimal testing utility with only few functions like Assert, Ok, NotOk for errors and Equals. It's an alternative to testify project which has a bit more bloated interface and larger dependencies.
func TestSomething(t *testing.T) {
	got, err := something()
	testutil.Ok(t, err)
	testutil.Equals(t, expected, got, "expected different thing from something")
}

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