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Both of these functions call If
which does a traversal of the causal chain, it does not traverse the full tree. Specifically, If
internally calls UnwrapOnce
and doesn't handle the multi-error case, whereas functions like Is
and As
separately handle the multi-error case.
This leads to counter-intuitive behavior; you can have a value x
of type T
, and errors.Is(err, x)
may be true, but errors.HasType(err, T{})
may fail.
I noticed this behavior while trying to add property-based tests to better understand the behavior of HasType
here. https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/62992
It would be valuable to either:
- Change the implementation of
If
to traverse the full tree - OR Add a separate function which does a tree traversal (not just the "causal chain") and use that from
HasType
andHasInterface
- OR Add a cautionary warning to
HasType
andHasInterface
's docs which describe the behavior in the presence of multi-errors.
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