Go panic() recover() and defer()
How to use panic, recover, and defer in Go for error handling, including recovering from panics in deferred functions.
This program covers Go’s panic, recover, and defer mechanisms. A panic immediately stops the current function and begins unwinding the stack. A defer statement schedules a function to run just before the surrounding function returns, even during a panic. The recover function, when called inside a deferred function, captures the panic value and allows the program to continue running instead of crashing.
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package main
import (
"fmt"
// "strconv"
// "math"
// "reflect"
"net/http"
"log"
)
func simplePanic() {
a, b := 1, 0
ans := a/b
fmt.Printf("ans: %v\n", ans)
}
func usePanic() {
fmt.Printf("start\n")
panic("something bad happened")
fmt.Printf("end\n")
}
func panicInWebAPP() {
http.HandleFunc("/", func (w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
w.Write([]byte("Hello Go!"))
})
err := http.ListenAndServe(":8000", nil)
if err != nil {
panic(err.Error())
}
}
func deferIsExecutedBeforePanic() {
fmt.Printf("start\n")
defer fmt.Printf("this was defered\n")
panic("something bad happened")
fmt.Printf("end\n")
}
func xdeferIsExecutedBeforePanic() {
fmt.Printf("start\n")
defer func() {
if err := recover(); err != nil {
log.Printf("Something bad happended error: %v\n", err)
// if the error is so bad
// simply use:
// panic("I cannot handle it anymore :)")
}
}()
panic("Panic something bad happened\n")
fmt.Printf("end\n")
}
func main() {
// simplePanic()
// usePanic()
// panicInWebAPP()
xdeferIsExecutedBeforePanic()
fmt.Printf("end\n")
}
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