Initial implementation of required functionality

.github/workflows/go.yml

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+name: Go
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - '*'
+  pull_request:
+    branches:
+      - '*'
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        go: ['stable', 'oldstable']
+        os: ['ubuntu-latest']
+
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+
+    name: Go ${{ matrix.go }} in ${{ matrix.os }}
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - uses: actions/setup-go@v5
+        name: Install Go
+        with:
+          go-version: ${{ matrix.go }}
+          check-latest: true
+          cache: true
+
+      - name: Go Environment
+        run: |
+          go version
+          go env
+
+      - name: Get dependencies
+        run: go get -v -t -d ./...
+
+      - name: Run Fmt
+        run: go fmt ./...
+
+      - name: Run Vet
+        run: |
+          go vet -stdmethods=false $(go list ./...)
+          go mod tidy
+          if ! test -z "$(git status --porcelain)"; then
+            echo "Please run 'go mod tidy'"
+            exit 1
+          fi
+
+      - name: Run Lint
+        uses: golangci/golangci-lint-action@v3
+        with:
+          version: latest
+          only-new-issues: true
+          skip-pkg-cache: true
+
+      - name: Run Staticcheck
+        run: |
+          go install honnef.co/go/tools/cmd/staticcheck@latest
+          staticcheck ./...
+
+      - name: Run Test
+        run: go test -race -coverpkg=./... -coverprofile=coverage.txt ./...

README.md

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+# Usage:
+
+## Creation
+When creating an error, we can use one of the following ways. All errors created this way will capture the current line and filename.
+
+```go
+    // Creation of error with some message.
+    someError := errkit.New("Sample of std error")
+
+    // Creation of error with some additional details
+    anotherError := errkit.New("Some error with details", "TextDetail", "Text value", "NumericDetail", 123)
+```
+
+Sometimes it could be useful to create predefined errors. Such errors will not capture the stack.
+```go
+var (
+    ErrNotFound := errkit.NewSentinelErr("Not found")
+    ErrAlreadyExists := errkit.NewSentinelErr("Already exists")
+)
+
+func Foo() error {
+    ...
+    return ErrNotFound
+}
+```
+
+## Wrapping
+
+### Adding stack trace
+If you are interested in adding information about the line and filename where the sentinel error happened, you can do the following:
+```go
+func Foo() error {
+    ...
+    err := errkit.WithStack(ErrNotFound)
+    return err
+}
+
+func Bar() error {
+    err := Foo()
+    if err != nil && errkit.Is(err, ErrNotFound) {
+        fmt.Println("Resource not found, do nothing")
+        return nil
+    }
+    ...
+}
+```
+
+### Adding error cause information
+Sometimes you might be interested in returning a sentinel error, but also add some cause error to it, in such cases you can do the following:
+```go
+func FetchSomething(ID string) error {
+    err := doSomething() // Here we have an error 
+    if err != nil { // At this step we decide that in such a case we'd like to say that the resource is not found
+        return errkit.WithCause(ErrNotFound, err)
+    }
+
+    return nil
+}
+
+func FooBar() error {
+    err := FetchSomething()
+    if err == nil {
+        return nil
+    }
+
+    if errkit.Is(err, ErrNotFound) {
+        return nil // Not found is an expected scenario here, do nothing
+    }
+
+    // Errors other than NotFound should be returned as is
+    return err
+}
+```
+
+### Wrapping an error with a high-level message
+Sometimes you might want to add some high-level information to an error before passing it up to the invoker.
+```go
+func LoadProfile() error {
+    err := makeAnApiCall()
+    if err != nil {
+        return errkit.Wrap(err, "Unable to load profile")
+    }
+    return nil
+}
+
+```
+
+### Unwrapping errors
+If needed, you can always get the wrapped error using the standard errors.Unwrap method, it also has an alias errkit.Unwrap
+```go
+    var (
+		ErrSomething = errkit.NewSentinelErr("Some error")
+    )   
+
+    wrappedError := errkit.Wrap(ErrSomething, "Wrapped error")
+
+    err := errors.Unwrap(wrappedError)
+    if err != ErrSomething {
+        return errors.New("Unable to unwrap error cause")
+    }
+```
+
+### Matching an errors
+You can use standard errors matching methods like errors.Is and errors.As, they also have aliases errkit.Is and errkit.As
+```go
+    // testErrorType which implements std error interface
+    type testErrorType struct {
+        message string
+    }
+
+    var (
+        ErrTestType = newTestError("Sample error of custom type")
+    )
+
+    wrappedTestError := errkit.Wrap(ErrTestType, "Wrapped TEST error")
+    if !errors.Is(wrappedTestError, ErrTestType) {
+        return errors.New("error is not implementing requested type")
+    }
+
+    var asErr *testErrorType
+    if !errors.As(origErr, &asErr) {
+        return errors.New("unable to cast error to its cause")
+    }
+```

error_details.go

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+package errkit
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+)
+
+const (
+	noVal  = "NOVAL"
+	badKey = "BADKEY"
+)
+
+type ErrorDetails map[string]any
+
+// ToErrorDetails accepts either an even size array which contains pais of key/value
+// or array of one element of ErrorDetails type.
+// Result of function is an ErrorDetails
+func ToErrorDetails(details []any) ErrorDetails {
+	if len(details) == 0 {
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	if len(details) == 1 {
+		if dp, ok := details[0].(ErrorDetails); ok {
+			// Actually we have ErrorDetails on input, so just make a copy
+			errorDetails := make(ErrorDetails, len(dp))
+			for k, v := range dp {
+				errorDetails[k] = v
+			}
+			return errorDetails
+		}
+	}
+
+	// It might happen that odd number of elements will be passed, trying our best to handle this case
+	if len(details)%2 != 0 {
+		details = append(details, noVal)
+	}
+
+	errorDetails := make(ErrorDetails, len(details)/2)
+	for i := 0; i < len(details); i += 2 {
+		name := details[i]
+		nameStr, ok := name.(string)
+		if !ok {
+			nameStr = fmt.Sprintf("%s:(%v)", badKey, name)
+		}
+
+		errorDetails[nameStr] = details[i+1]
+	}
+
+	return errorDetails
+}

error_details_test.go

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+package errkit_test
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	qt "github.com/frankban/quicktest"
+	"github.com/kanisterio/errkit"
+)
+
+type testStruct struct {
+	Foo string
+	Bar int
+	Baz *testStruct
+}
+
+func TestToErrorDetails(t *testing.T) {
+	cases := []struct {
+		testName string
+		args     []any
+		expected errkit.ErrorDetails
+	}{
+		{
+			testName: "ErrorDetails as an argument",
+			args:     []any{errkit.ErrorDetails{"key": "value"}},
+			expected: errkit.ErrorDetails{"key": "value"},
+		},
+		{
+			testName: "Sequence of keys and values of any type",
+			args:     []any{"string_key", "string value", "int key", 123, "struct key", testStruct{Foo: "aaa", Bar: 123, Baz: &testStruct{Foo: "bbb", Bar: 234}}},
+			expected: errkit.ErrorDetails{"string_key": "string value", "int key": 123, "struct key": testStruct{Foo: "aaa", Bar: 123, Baz: &testStruct{Foo: "bbb", Bar: 234}}},
+		},
+		{
+			testName: "Odd number of arguments",
+			args:     []any{"key_1", 1, "key_2"},
+			expected: errkit.ErrorDetails{"key_1": 1, "key_2": "NOVAL"},
+		},
+		{
+			testName: "Argument which is supposed to be a key is not a string",
+			args:     []any{123, 456},
+			expected: errkit.ErrorDetails{"BADKEY:(123)": 456},
+		},
+	}
+
+	for _, tc := range cases {
+		t.Run(tc.testName, func(t *testing.T) {
+			c := qt.New(t)
+			result := errkit.ToErrorDetails(tc.args)
+			c.Assert(result, qt.DeepEquals, tc.expected)
+		})
+	}
+}

error_list.go

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+package errkit
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"strconv"
+)
+
+type ErrorList []error
+
+var _ error = (ErrorList)(nil)
+var _ json.Marshaler = (ErrorList)(nil)
+
+func (e ErrorList) String() string {
+	sep := ""
+	var buf bytes.Buffer
+	buf.WriteRune('[')
+	for _, err := range e {
+		buf.WriteString(sep)
+		sep = ","
+		buf.WriteString(strconv.Quote(err.Error()))
+	}
+	buf.WriteRune(']')
+	return buf.String()
+}
+
+func (e ErrorList) Error() string {
+	return e.String()
+}
+
+// As allows error.As to work against any error in the list.
+func (e ErrorList) As(target any) bool {
+	for _, err := range e {
+		if errors.As(err, target) {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+// Is allows error.Is to work against any error in the list.
+func (e ErrorList) Is(target error) bool {
+	for _, err := range e {
+		if errors.Is(err, target) {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+func (e ErrorList) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
+	var je struct {
+		Message string            `json:"message"`
+		Errors  []json.RawMessage `json:"errors"`
+	}
+
+	switch len(e) {
+	case 0:
+		// no errors
+		return []byte("null"), nil
+	case 1:
+		// this is unlikely to happen as kerrors.Append won't allow having just a single error on the list
+		je.Message = "1 error has occurred"
+	default:
+		je.Message = fmt.Sprintf("%d errors have occurred", len(e))
+	}
+
+	je.Errors = make([]json.RawMessage, 0, len(e))
+	for i := range e {
+		raw, err := json.Marshal(jsonMarshable(e[i]))
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+
+		je.Errors = append(je.Errors, raw)
+	}
+
+	return json.Marshal(je)
+}
+
+// Append creates a new combined error from err1, err2. If either error is nil,
+// then the other error is returned.
+func Append(err1, err2 error) error {
+	if err1 == nil {
+		return ErrorList{err2}
+	}
+	if err2 == nil {
+		return ErrorList{err1}
+	}
+	el1, ok1 := err1.(ErrorList)
+	el2, ok2 := err2.(ErrorList)
+	switch {
+	case ok1 && ok2:
+		return append(el1, el2...)
+	case ok1:
+		return append(el1, err2)
+	case ok2:
+		return append(el2, err1)
+	}
+	return ErrorList{err1, err2}
+}