With mongodb-go-driver how do I get the inner exceptions

Question

When I insert into a collection with the new MongoDB Go driver I get a duplicate exception that I can see when spewing it. (mongo.WriteException) multiple write errors:

[{write errors: [{E11000 duplicate key error collection: fhir.documents index: enterprise_id_1 dup key: { : "Cache-37", : "102" }}]}, {}]

How do I get to that inner error to programatically know that it was a duplicate key and I can handle it?

score 22 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 21 '20 at 18:56

You saved me a headache with this. Building on from your own answer I made a helper function that imitates mgo.IsDup() using errors.As and looping over the WriteErrors to find code 11000.

func IsDup(err error) bool {
    var e mongo.WriteException
    if errors.As(err, &e) {
        for _, we := range e.WriteErrors {
            if we.Code == 11000 {
                return true
            }
        }
    }
    return false
}

I have it in my database package so I can just call db.IsDup(err)

I suppose if I need it i'll just abstract the loop to check for more error codes but at least this way I can migrate from mgo with a little less trouble.

score 14 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 17 '19 at 00:09

I finally found out how. It should be much simpler to get the basic error codes! Given an error, I check for the number of errors found and currently only care about the first one. Even though the initial error says multiple errors, it only has one. This is really only looking for Insert failures of duplicate or Find errors of not found. If there is an easier way, I would like to know. Until then this is what I am using and it works fine. Duplicate by the way is 11000.

"Insert with session failed: multiple write errors: [{write errors: [{E11000 duplicate key error collection: test.users index: roi_id_1 dup key: { : \"1\" }}]}, {}]\n"

        var merr mongo.WriteException
        merr = err.(mongo.WriteException)
        log.Errorf("Number of errors: %d", len(merr.WriteErrors))
        errCode := merr.WriteErrors[0].Code

@Haifahrul, if errCode == 11000 { fmt.Println("Duplicate found") } — Tomi, Apr 09 '20 at 13:16

score 6 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 27 '21 at 12:37

Nowadays in mongo-driver@v1.5.2 we have the following function defined in mongo/errors.go:

// IsDuplicateKeyError returns true if err is a duplicate key error
func IsDuplicateKeyError(err error) bool {
    // handles SERVER-7164 and SERVER-11493
    for ; err != nil; err = unwrap(err) {
        if e, ok := err.(ServerError); ok {
            return e.HasErrorCode(11000) || e.HasErrorCode(11001) || e.HasErrorCode(12582) ||
                e.HasErrorCodeWithMessage(16460, " E11000 ")
        }
    }
    return false
}

So we can rely on the mongo-driver implementation.

With mongodb-go-driver how do I get the inner exceptions

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