omit errors received by the server via configuration 🍪 | requested by https://github.com/kataras/iris/issues/668

relative link: https://github.com/kataras/iris/issues/668


Former-commit-id: 6491abd68b74e18bf4ed0b32406e67597c9b55a9

core/errors/errors.go

@@ -37,6 +37,16 @@ func New(errMsg string) Error {
 	}
 }
 
+// NewFromErr same as `New` but pointer for nil checks without the need of the `Return()` function.
+func NewFromErr(err error) *Error {
+	if err == nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	errp := New(err.Error())
+	return &errp
+}
+
 // Equal returns true if "e" and "e2" are matched, by their IDs.
 // It will always returns true if the "e2" is a children of "e"
 // or the error messages are exactly the same, otherwise false.
@@ -123,6 +133,17 @@ func (e Error) With(err error) error {
 	return e.Format(err.Error())
 }
 
+// Ignore will ignore the "err" and return nil.
+func (e Error) Ignore(err error) error {
+	if err == nil {
+		return e
+	}
+	if e.Error() == err.Error() {
+		return nil
+	}
+	return e
+}
+
 // Panic output the message and after panics.
 func (e Error) Panic() {
 	_, fn, line, _ := runtime.Caller(1)

core/errors/reporter.go

@@ -106,12 +106,12 @@ func (r *Reporter) Describe(format string, err error) {
 
 // PrintStack prints all the errors to the given "printer".
 // Returns itself in order to be used as printer and return the full error in the same time.
-func (r Reporter) PrintStack(printer func(string, ...interface{})) error {
+func (r *Reporter) PrintStack(printer func(string, ...interface{})) error {
 	return PrintAndReturnErrors(r, printer)
 }
 
 // Stack returns the list of the errors in the stack.
-func (r Reporter) Stack() []Error {
+func (r *Reporter) Stack() []Error {
 	return r.wrapper.Stack
 }
 
@@ -127,12 +127,12 @@ func (r *Reporter) addStack(stack []Error) {
 }
 
 // Error implements the error, returns the full error string.
-func (r Reporter) Error() string {
+func (r *Reporter) Error() string {
 	return r.wrapper.Error()
 }
 
 // Return returns nil if the error is empty, otherwise returns the full error.
-func (r Reporter) Return() error {
+func (r *Reporter) Return() error {
 	if r.Error() == "" {
 		return nil
 	}