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Automatic Migration

The err2 package will offer auto-migration scripts until version 1.0.0 is published. That means that you can safely use the package even the API is not yet 100% stable. We have used that approach for our production code that uses err2 and it works very well. Over 100 KLOC Go code has been auto-migrated successfully from type variables (see below) to Go generics API.

This readme will guide you to use auto-migration scripts when ever we deprecate functions or make something obsolete.

Auto-Migration of v0.9.40 & v0.9.41

The version 0.9.40 is a major update because of the performance and API change. We have managed to eliminate defer slowdown. Our benchmarks are 3x faster than previous version and about equal to those function call stacks (100 deep-level) that don't use defer. We are exactly at the same level of performance with those functions that use deferred function that accept an argument. Transporting an argument to deferred function seems to be slower than functions that don't. And because try.To is already as fast as if err != nil we reached our goal for speed!

Because all of the error handler function signatures are now:

	ErrorHandler = func(err error) error

and the old one was func() relaying closures. And because we have dynamic signatures on err2.Handle and err2.Catch, we cannot use compiler (Go lacks the function overloading) for type checking, which makes this migration so important but difficult. The err2 package writes fatal error: ... to stderr because it cannot panic in middle of the panicking.

Note. This is only a legacy code problem. We are in the migration as you can see :-)

You have two (2) options for migration for v0.9.40:

  1. (Semi)-Automatic Migration
  2. Manual migration using (vim/nvim) location lists or similar

(Semi)-Automatic Migration

Follow these steps:

  1. Set up Migration Environment
  2. Make sure that you haven't uncommitted changes in your repo and that you are in the branch where you want to make the changes.
  3. Execute following command in your repo's root directory: 
    migr-name.sh -n repl_handle_func repl_catch_func
  4. Then continue with build, test, lint, etc. And don't stop yet.
  5. Use git diff or similar to skimming that all changes seem to be OK. Here you have an opportunity to start use new features of err2 like logging.
  6. You are ready to commit changes.
  7. Problem solving tip. Use following command to search helper functions: 
    migr-name.sh -h todo_catch
migr-name.sh -h repl_catch

Manual Migration With a Location List

Follow these steps check do you have migration needs for v0.9.40:

  1. Set up Migration Environment
  2. Execute following command in your repo's root directory: 
    migr-name.sh -n todo_handle_func todo_catch_func

Tip. If your repo is large and you have many migration changes see the next semi-automatic guide.

Tip. You can execute that command from e.g. nvim/vim and you get your fix list.

migr-name.sh todo_handle_func todo_catch_func > todo_list
nvim -q todo_list

Or depending on your current shell:

nvim -q <(migr-name.sh todo_handle_func todo_catch_func)

assert.SetDefaultAsserter -> assert.SetDefault and others in v0.9.1

Because direct renaming causes braking changes remember add -x flag to your migration command but other follow the instructions below:

Example of -x flag:

migrate.sh -x

Use the following commands because

err2.NotFound, err2.NotExist and other sentinels are renamed in v0.9.0

Their names follow Go idiom even the err part is two times here: err2.ErrNotFound.

Please follow the same steps presented for v0.8.10 below to automatically refactor all references to these error values in your repos. But add the flag -x to call. Example:

migrate.sh -x

err2.Return[f/w] will obsolete in v0.9.0

Please follow the same steps as the next chapter.

err2.Annotate and err2.StackTraceWriter are obsolete in v0.8.10

Please follow these guides to automatically replace all obsolete err2.Annotate functions and err2.StackTraceWriter variable set with proper API:

  1. Set up migration environment
  2. Execute following command to replace all err2.Annotate(w) with proper err2.Returnf/w function: migrate.sh -o or migrate.sh -o YOUR-OWN-BRANCH-NAME

Type Variables Are Obsolete

The err2 doesn't have type variables (err2.Int.Try(), err2.Bool.Try(), etc.) since Go generics. They have been deprecated as of version 0.8.0. Now they are removed from the repo as obsolete. Similarly err2.Check() is replaced by try.To()

If your projects and repos are using err2 version before Go generics, you can migrate them automatically. Just run the migrate.sh bash script. It will do it for you, and it's safe. It uses git for undo buffer. It stores all successful migration steps to git in its own working branch.

First, to make the use of it more convenient:

Set up Migration Environment

  1. Clone the err2 if you don't already have it:

    mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/github.com/lainio/
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/lainio/
git clone https://github.com/lainio/err2

  2. Use set-path.sh to add scripts directory to path:

    cd err2/scripts
source ./set-path.sh

    or this works as well:

    source <RELATIVE_PATH_TO>/err2/scripts/set-path.sh

Second, to update your repo for latest err2 interface.

Automatic Version Migration

Go to your repo's root directory (NOTE, if you have sub-modules read the Sub Modules In The Repo first!) and enter the following command:

migrate.sh

It will create a new err2-auto-update branch from your current branch and change and commits several files to git. If you want to squash separated commits after everything is done, you have to do it manually after auto-refactoring. When each changed file is committed separately, it will offer better problem-solving capabilities for manually fixing things. NOTE: Don't worry; scripts will change all files successfully, and no manual work is needed, or it's very minimal.

If the migrate.sh script cannot change all the files successfully, it leaves those files in the git staging area, and you must fix the compilation errors by yourself. After that, you should run:

migr-name.sh todo # if there is still some basics to migrate like err2.Check(err)
migr-name.sh todo2 # if there is still some complex multiline migrations

If there still is something to do, check them manually. They usually are false positive where the error value has been checked by hand in the old code. At last step still check that everything compiles:

migr-name.sh build_all # checks that your package builds

Before you create a PR, you should run linters and tests. Naturally, you can diff the migration branch to the original to see what's been happening. That is an excellent point to check if there is opportunity to use try.Is to simplify code.

Sub Modules In The Repo

If your git repo has multiple Go modules aka sub-modules, it's recommended that you start with them. Go to the directory where their go.mod files is and run:

migrate.sh -s err2-select-your-migration-branch-name

Do that to each of the sub-modules with the same branch name each time before returning back to the root directory. In the root directory enter the command once again with the same branch name:

migrate.sh err2-your-previously-selected-branch-name

Migration Options

Both tools migrate.sh and migr-name.sh take flags. You can see the usage by:

migrate.sh -h

For example, you can give the migration branch an argument to the migrate.sh branch. You could add conversions to the migrate.sh script if you have generated your type variables before running it. The file itself has TODO tags for that.

For debugging and starting some specific migration separately, there is a migr-name.sh helper script that's a starter script that helps you to run all of the functions in the functions.sh script.

We currently support only the bash version, which is relatively modern. Also script automatically checks that all of the needed tools are installed like: ag, perl, git, etc.

Please let us know what you think, and give us feedback at GitHub Discussions.