errs

A Go package which allows you to attach stack traces to errors.

Example

Simply create the initial error with the NewStackError() function and then use the Wrap() function each time you want to add a new error to the error on the way back up the stack. Finally when you are ready to log the error you can use the ErrorWithStack() function to get the full error message with the stack trace.

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"github.com/alekLukanen/errs"
)

func FuncA() error {
	return errs.Wrap(
		FuncB(),
		fmt.Errorf("received error from FuncB()"),
	)
}

func FuncB() error {
	return errs.NewStackError(fmt.Errorf("error in FuncB"))
}

func main() {
	err := FuncA()
	ErrStack := errs.ErrorWithStack(err)
	fmt.Printf(ErrStack)
}

Running the above example:

$ go run -trimpath cmd/example/main.go
Error Messages
- [0 | main.FuncB:16] error in FuncB
- [1 | main.FuncA:9] received error from FuncB()
Primary Stack Trace
main.FuncB()
	./main.go:16 +0x2b
main.FuncA()
	./main.go:10 +0x13
main.main()
	./main.go:20 +0x13

Because this package uses the runtime stack function you should always run your program with the -trimpath build option set so that the file paths are removed from the stack trace.