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package multierror
// Append is a helper function that will append more errors
// onto an Error in order to create a larger multi-error.
//
// If err is not a multierror.Error, then it will be turned into
// one. If any of the errs are multierr.Error, they will be flattened
// one level into err.
// Any nil errors within errs will be ignored. If err is nil, a new
// *Error will be returned.
func Append(err error, errs ...error) *Error {
switch err := err.(type) {
case *Error:
// Typed nils can reach here, so initialize if we are nil
if err == nil {
err = new(Error)
}
// Go through each error and flatten
for _, e := range errs {
switch e := e.(type) {
case *Error:
if e != nil {
err.Errors = append(err.Errors, e.Errors...)
}
default:
if e != nil {
err.Errors = append(err.Errors, e)
}
}
}
return err
default:
newErrs := make([]error, 0, len(errs)+1)
if err != nil {
newErrs = append(newErrs, err)
}
newErrs = append(newErrs, errs...)
return Append(&Error{}, newErrs...)
}
}