John, As a participant on both sides of the discussion (pkg/errors and go-kit/log) I want to thank you for taking the time to put this package together, (with a great README file!!!) and present it to the community. I will definitely carve out some time to check it out and provide feedback.
Chris On Tuesday, October 11, 2016 at 11:34:48 PM UTC-4, John Jeffery wrote: > > I have been following the progress of package github.com/pkg/errors, and > have put it to much use. Thanks very much to Dave Cheney and the other > authors. > > A few months ago an interesting issue was raised along the lines of being > able to attach arbitrary data to the error ( > https://github.com/pkg/errors/issues/34). Some interesting discussion > ensued, and in the end Dave decided not to add this feature to the package, > and gave some very good reasons for his decision. This is all good and I > think I learned a lot from the discussion. > > All the same I became quite interested in the idea that, if key/value > pairs of information could be attached to errors as they "bubble up" the > stack, then this could provide an alternative to passing a logger down > through the call stack, adding context along the way until something > actually has to be logged. > > So given that the github.com/pkg/errors package was not going to include > the feature, I decided to have a go at building an errors package that > provides a minimal API for programs that make use of structured logging. > The result is at https://github.com/jjeffery/errors. The API has a very > small surface area, and I have found it pleasant to use in my own projects. > > Of course there are many other popular error handling packages, and > github.com/pkg/errors combines the best ideas of many of them. I think it > is a stated goal that github.com/pkg/errors be considered for inclusion > in the standard library at some point. I just have not seen structured > key/values integrated into error handling in quite the same way before, and > thought I'd mention this work and ask for community feedback. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
