How do you get a Golang program to print the line number of the error it just called?

Question

I was trying to throw errors in my Golang program with log.Fatal but, log.Fatal does not also print the line where the log.Fatal was r

Answer 1

Short version, there's nothing directly built in, however you can implement it with a minimal learning curve using runtime.Caller

func HandleError(err error) (b bool) {
    if err != nil {
        // notice that we're using 1, so it will actually log where
        // the error happened, 0 = this function, we don't want that.
        _, fn, line, _ := runtime.Caller(1)
        log.Printf("[error] %s:%d %v", fn, line, err)
        b = true
    }
    return
}

//this logs the function name as well.
func FancyHandleError(err error) (b bool) {
    if err != nil {
        // notice that we're using 1, so it will actually log the where
        // the error happened, 0 = this function, we don't want that.
        pc, fn, line, _ := runtime.Caller(1)

        log.Printf("[error] in %s[%s:%d] %v", runtime.FuncForPC(pc).Name(), fn, line, err)
        b = true
    }
    return
}

func main() {
    if FancyHandleError(fmt.Errorf("it's the end of the world")) {
        log.Print("stuff")
    }
}

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