go-ricochet/utils/error.go

package utils

import "fmt"
import "log"

// RecoverFromError doesn't really recover from anything....see comment below
func RecoverFromError() {
	if r := recover(); r != nil {
		// This should only really happen if there is a failure de/serializing. If
		// this does happen then we currently error. In the future we might be
		// able to make this nicer.
		log.Fatalf("Recovered from panic() - this really shouldn't happen. Reason: %v", r)
	}
}

// CheckError is a helper function for panicing on errors which we need to handle
// but should be very rare e.g. failures deserializing a protobuf object that
// should only happen if there was a bug in the underlying library.
func CheckError(err error) {
	if err != nil {
		panic(fmt.Sprintf("%v", err))
	}
}