Go — handling multiple errors elegantly?

Put the result in a slice instead of variables, put the intial values in another slice to iterate and return during the iteration if there's an error.

var result [][]byte
for _, item := range []interface{}{a, b, c, d, e, f, g} {
    res, err := json.Marshal(item)
    if err != nil {
        return err
    }
    result = append(result, res)
}

You could even reuse an array instead of having two slices.

var values, err = [...]interface{}{a, b, c, d, e, f, g}, error(nil)
for i, item := range values {
    if values[i], err = json.Marshal(item); err != nil {
        return err
    }
}

Of course, this'll require a type assertion to use the results.


var err error
f := func(dest *D, src S) bool {
    *dest, err = json.Marshal(src)
    return err == nil
} // EDIT: removed ()

f(&aJson, a) &&
    f(&bJson, b) &&
    f(&cJson, c) &&
    f(&dJson, d) &&
    f(&eJson, e) &&
    f(&fJson, f) &&
    f(&gJson, g)
return err

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