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1 files changed, 14 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/internal/gtserror/error.go b/internal/gtserror/error.go
index 6eaa3db63..85dc0d54c 100644
--- a/internal/gtserror/error.go
+++ b/internal/gtserror/error.go
@@ -40,26 +40,35 @@ const (
TypeSMTP ErrorType = "smtp" // smtp (mail)
)
-// Unretrievable ...
+// Unretrievable checks error for a stored "unretrievable" flag.
+//
+// Unretrievable indicates that a call to retrieve a resource
+// (account, status, etc) could not be fulfilled, either because
+// it was not found locally, or because some prerequisite remote
+// resource call failed, making it impossible to return the item.
func Unretrievable(err error) bool {
_, ok := errors.Value(err, unrtrvableKey).(struct{})
return ok
}
-// SetUnretrievable ...
+// SetUnretrievable will wrap the given error to store an "unretrievable"
+// flag, returning wrapped error. See "Unretrievable" for example use-cases.
func SetUnretrievable(err error) error {
return errors.WithValue(err, unrtrvableKey, struct{}{})
}
-// WrongType ...
+// WrongType checks error for a stored "wrong type" flag. Wrong type
+// indicates that an ActivityPub URI returned a type we weren't expecting:
+// Statusable instead of Accountable, or vice versa, for example.
func WrongType(err error) bool {
_, ok := errors.Value(err, wrongTypeKey).(struct{})
return ok
}
-// SetWrongType ...
+// SetWrongType will wrap the given error to store a "wrong type" flag,
+// returning wrapped error. See "WrongType" for example use-cases.
func SetWrongType(err error) error {
- return errors.WithValue(err, unrtrvableKey, struct{}{})
+ return errors.WithValue(err, wrongTypeKey, struct{}{})
}
// StatusCode checks error for a stored status code value. For example