Samarthya

GoLang doesn’t have a try and catch like the popular C++ or Java languages, what it has is panic-recover.

Non critical errors are returned as normal values and for the critical ones, panic is used

func myFunc(myvalue string) (string, error)

Creating Error

• errors.New()
• fmt.Errorf()

func throwError() (string, error) {
	return "", fmt.Errorf("I am an simple error")
}

func main() {
	_, err := throwError()

	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(" catch error...." + err.Error())
	}
}

catch error....I am an simple error

Recover

Recover is a built-in function that allows the regain of control from a panicking goroutine. For the normal flow of execution, a call to recover will return nil and will have no effect.

For a panicking gomodule, call to recover will capture the value given to panic and resume normal execution.

func throwPanic() {
	fmt.Println("I will throw panic after few seconds.")
	defer func() {
		if r := recover(); r != nil {
			fmt.Printf(" Caught Panic: %v\n", r)
		}
	}()
	panic(fmt.Errorf("%s", "Panic has struck...."))
}

func main() {
	fmt.Println("main function")
	throwPanic()
	fmt.Println("I will now print...")
}

main function
I will throw panic after few seconds.
 Caught Panic: Panic has struck....
I will now print...

You can now see that in function throwPanic() we have defined a deferred function invocation in which the recover function will be invoked to see what error has happened and finally the normal flow resumes and hence the “I will now print” is returned.

Help

• https://blog.golang.org/defer-panic-and-recover