Mastering Go - Second Edition

Error handling in Go

Errors and error handling are two very important Go topics. Go likes error messages so much that it has a separate data type for errors, named error. This also means that you can easily create your own error messages if you find that what Go gives you is not adequate.

You will most likely need to create and handle your own errors when you are developing your own Go packages.

Please note that having an error condition is one thing, but deciding how to react to an error condition is a totally different thing. Putting it simply, not all error conditions are created equal, which means that some error conditions might require that you immediately stop the execution of a program, whereas other error situations might require ...