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    Go by Example: Recover

    Go by Example : Recover

    Go makes it possible to recover from a panic, by using the recover built-in function. A recover can stop a panic from aborting the program and let it continue with execution instead.

    An example of where this can be useful: a server wouldn’t want to crash if one of the client connections exhibits a critical error. Instead, the server would want to close that connection and continue serving other clients. In fact, this is what Go’s net/http does by default for HTTP servers.

    package main
    import "fmt"

    This function panics.

    func mayPanic() {
    panic("a problem")
}

    recover must be called within a deferred function. When the enclosing function panics, the defer will activate and a recover call within it will catch the panic.

    func main() {

    The return value of recover is the error raised in the call to panic .

        defer func() {
        if r := recover(); r != nil {
                fmt.Println("Recovered. Error:\n", r)
        }
    }()
        mayPanic()

    This code will not run, because mayPanic panics. The execution of main stops at the point of the panic and resumes in the deferred closure.

        fmt.Println("After mayPanic()")
}
    $ go run recover.go
Recovered. Error:
 a problem

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