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Commit 5d06c23d authored by Lang Hames's avatar Lang Hames
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[Error] Add a handleExpected utility.

handleExpected is similar to handleErrors, but takes an Expected<T> as its first
input value and a fallback functor as its second, followed by an arbitary list
of error handlers (equivalent to the handler list of handleErrors). If the first
input value is a success value then it is returned from handleErrors
unmodified. Otherwise the contained error(s) are passed to handleErrors, along
with the handlers. If handleErrors returns success (indicating that all errors
have been handled) then handleExpected runs the fallback functor and returns its
result. If handleErrors returns a failure value then the failure value is
returned and the fallback functor is never run.

This simplifies the process of re-trying operations that return Expected values.
Without this utility such retry logic is cumbersome as the internal Error must
be explicitly extracted from the Expected value, inspected to see if its
handleable and then consumed:

enum FooStrategy { Aggressive, Conservative };
Expected<Foo> tryFoo(FooStrategy S);

Expected<Foo> Result;
(void)!!Result; // "Check" Result so that it can be safely overwritten.
if (auto ValOrErr = tryFoo(Aggressive))
  Result = std::move(ValOrErr);
else {
  auto Err = ValOrErr.takeError();
  if (Err.isA<HandleableError>()) {
    consumeError(std::move(Err));
    Result = tryFoo(Conservative);
  } else
    return std::move(Err);
}

with handleExpected, this can be re-written as:

auto Result =
  handleExpected(
    tryFoo(Aggressive),
    []() { return tryFoo(Conservative); },
    [](HandleableError&) { /* discard to handle */ });

llvm-svn: 311870
parent 00b760ed
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