errors, fmt: add support for wrapping multiple errors

An error which implements an "Unwrap() []error" method wraps all the
non-nil errors in the returned []error.

We replace the concept of the "error chain" inspected by errors.Is
and errors.As with the "error tree". Is and As perform a pre-order,
depth-first traversal of an error's tree. As returns the first
matching result, if any.

The new errors.Join function returns an error wrapping a list of errors.

The fmt.Errorf function now supports multiple instances of the %w verb.

For #53435.

Change-Id: Ib7402e70b68e28af8f201d2b66bd8e87ccfb5283
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/432898
Reviewed-by: Cherry Mui <cherryyz@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>
Run-TryBot: Damien Neil <dneil@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Joseph Tsai <joetsai@digital-static.net>

1 files changed, 51 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/errors/join.go b/src/errors/join.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..dc5a716aa6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/errors/join.go
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+// Copyright 2022 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+package errors
+
+// Join returns an error that wraps the given errors.
+// Any nil error values are discarded.
+// Join returns nil if errs contains no non-nil values.
+// The error formats as the concatenation of the strings obtained
+// by calling the Error method of each element of errs, with a newline
+// between each string.
+func Join(errs ...error) error {
+	n := 0
+	for _, err := range errs {
+		if err != nil {
+			n++
+		}
+	}
+	if n == 0 {
+		return nil
+	}
+	e := &joinError{
+		errs: make([]error, 0, n),
+	}
+	for _, err := range errs {
+		if err != nil {
+			e.errs = append(e.errs, err)
+		}
+	}
+	return e
+}
+
+type joinError struct {
+	errs []error
+}
+
+func (e *joinError) Error() string {
+	var b []byte
+	for i, err := range e.errs {
+		if i > 0 {
+			b = append(b, '\n')
+		}
+		b = append(b, err.Error()...)
+	}
+	return string(b)
+}
+
+func (e *joinError) Unwrap() []error {
+	return e.errs
+}