Add "PrintErrorWithCauses" cmdutil helper

This patch adds a new helper function to cmd/util/helpers.go that
handles errors containing collections of causes and prints each cause in
a separate newline.
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juanvallejo
2016-09-19 11:51:47 -04:00
parent e6b5b076b8
commit 643649113f
2 changed files with 25 additions and 0 deletions

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@@ -255,6 +255,26 @@ func MultilineError(prefix string, err error) string {
return fmt.Sprintf("%s%s\n", prefix, err)
}
// PrintErrorWithCauses prints an error's kind, name, and each of the error's causes in a new line.
// The returned string will end with a newline.
// Returns true if a case exists to handle the error type, or false otherwise.
func PrintErrorWithCauses(err error, errOut io.Writer) bool {
switch t := err.(type) {
case *kerrors.StatusError:
errorDetails := t.Status().Details
if errorDetails != nil {
fmt.Fprintf(errOut, "error: %s %q is invalid\n\n", errorDetails.Kind, errorDetails.Name)
for _, cause := range errorDetails.Causes {
fmt.Fprintf(errOut, "* %s: %s\n", cause.Field, cause.Message)
}
return true
}
}
fmt.Fprintf(errOut, "error: %v\n", err)
return false
}
// MultipleErrors returns a newline delimited string containing
// the prefix and referenced errors in standard form.
func MultipleErrors(prefix string, errs []error) string {