Rename package srverrors to httperror

- Package names are preferred to be in singular form¹.
- Since errors are just for HTTP and not generic, I changed the base name to
'http'.
- I didn't name it simply 'error', because it would then conflict with the
- standard 'error' interface.

¹: https://rakyll.org/style-packages/
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pancho horrillo
2019-11-20 07:49:38 +01:00
parent 0d66fe9963
commit 206aac5747
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package httperror
import (
"encoding/json"
"net/http"
)
// A ServerErrMessage represents the reason why the error happened
type ServerErrMessage struct {
Reason string `json:"reason"`
}
// ErrorJSON writes the provided error as a JSON body to the provided
// http.ResponseWriter, after setting the appropriate Content-Type header
func ErrorJSON(w http.ResponseWriter, error string, code int) {
body, _ := json.Marshal(
ServerErrMessage{
Reason: error,
},
)
w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=utf-8")
w.WriteHeader(code)
_, _ = w.Write(body)
}