From 591aa261d17e60619708b48b312b5db6ed64df10 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Niall Sheridan Date: Sun, 29 May 2016 02:13:00 +0100 Subject: Switch from json to hcl configs This is backward-compatible with the JSON config format - this is a non-breaking change. HCL treats config blocks as repeated fields so the config has to be unmarshalled into a struct comprised of []Server, []Auth, []SSH first. --- .../github.com/hashicorp/go-multierror/README.md | 91 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 91 insertions(+) create mode 100644 vendor/github.com/hashicorp/go-multierror/README.md (limited to 'vendor/github.com/hashicorp/go-multierror/README.md') diff --git a/vendor/github.com/hashicorp/go-multierror/README.md b/vendor/github.com/hashicorp/go-multierror/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e81be50 --- /dev/null +++ b/vendor/github.com/hashicorp/go-multierror/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,91 @@ +# go-multierror + +`go-multierror` is a package for Go that provides a mechanism for +representing a list of `error` values as a single `error`. + +This allows a function in Go to return an `error` that might actually +be a list of errors. If the caller knows this, they can unwrap the +list and access the errors. If the caller doesn't know, the error +formats to a nice human-readable format. + +`go-multierror` implements the +[errwrap](https://github.com/hashicorp/errwrap) interface so that it can +be used with that library, as well. + +## Installation and Docs + +Install using `go get github.com/hashicorp/go-multierror`. + +Full documentation is available at +http://godoc.org/github.com/hashicorp/go-multierror + +## Usage + +go-multierror is easy to use and purposely built to be unobtrusive in +existing Go applications/libraries that may not be aware of it. + +**Building a list of errors** + +The `Append` function is used to create a list of errors. This function +behaves a lot like the Go built-in `append` function: it doesn't matter +if the first argument is nil, a `multierror.Error`, or any other `error`, +the function behaves as you would expect. + +```go +var result error + +if err := step1(); err != nil { + result = multierror.Append(result, err) +} +if err := step2(); err != nil { + result = multierror.Append(result, err) +} + +return result +``` + +**Customizing the formatting of the errors** + +By specifying a custom `ErrorFormat`, you can customize the format +of the `Error() string` function: + +```go +var result *multierror.Error + +// ... accumulate errors here, maybe using Append + +if result != nil { + result.ErrorFormat = func([]error) string { + return "errors!" + } +} +``` + +**Accessing the list of errors** + +`multierror.Error` implements `error` so if the caller doesn't know about +multierror, it will work just fine. But if you're aware a multierror might +be returned, you can use type switches to access the list of errors: + +```go +if err := something(); err != nil { + if merr, ok := err.(*multierror.Error); ok { + // Use merr.Errors + } +} +``` + +**Returning a multierror only if there are errors** + +If you build a `multierror.Error`, you can use the `ErrorOrNil` function +to return an `error` implementation only if there are errors to return: + +```go +var result *multierror.Error + +// ... accumulate errors here + +// Return the `error` only if errors were added to the multierror, otherwise +// return nil since there are no errors. +return result.ErrorOrNil() +``` -- cgit v1.2.3